zoobab

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by zoobab 3d ago
We need to free up Bosch systems. They use lots of open source libs, but they close the whole chain (like spare batteries) so that you cannot plug external batteries from other suppliers.
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by zoobab 4d ago
GDPR is forcing them to detail which private data they collect.
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by zoobab 4d ago
I propose an amendement with Death Sentence with Lethal injection, 20 years in jail is not enough if we follow the gradation of sentences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lethal_injection
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by zoobab 5d ago
It's a sarcastic joke, similar to what the lobby managed to put in the head of our politicians with social networks being "harmful" for kids.
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by zoobab 5d ago
Vibecoding is harmful for kids, especially when they grow up. Well done Claude, will use Chinese models instead! And i won't give you my ID card.
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by zoobab 6d ago
Preparing for the 10 years anniversary of Pieter Hintjens's disseapearance, the main author of Zeromq: http://hintjens.com/blog:125
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by zoobab 8d ago
I saw my personal website nearly dissapear from Google, because it is hosted on wikidot: http://zoobab.wikidot.com Before my pages had a high ranking in Google.
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by zoobab 8d ago
"getting access to the JTAG pins" I have seen some of the boards being reflashed with DirtyJTAG and openfpgaloader. JTAG pins might dissappear from the board? There is a video here "Pico-DirtyJTAG: Cheap JTAG Programmer! Rasp
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by zoobab 8d ago
Still no training data in sight. Maybe we need to abolish copyright?
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by zoobab 9d ago
I always complained about the lack of displays at the tram stops, now it's getting better.
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by zoobab 14d ago
What do you expect from running on "someone else computer?"
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by zoobab 15d ago
Well, i emailed the DMA team at the European Commission, they don't plan to do anything to Keep Android Open. Apple moved first with making a special 'sideloading' case for apps not under their control, Google is just copying
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by zoobab 15d ago
From bad to worse.
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by zoobab 15d ago
"pay the relevant Play service fee" We were promised alternative app stores in the EU, but the European Commission does not stop them.
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by zoobab 16d ago
We need some laws to tag which code has been produced or not by an AI. For the AI Act, it is the case for images and videos, don't know about code.
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by zoobab 17d ago
Not a victory, Android is still covered.
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by zoobab 18d ago
Did some loadtests on vllm, managed to crash it :-)
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by zoobab 18d ago
So much for 'open'.
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by zoobab 20d ago
Let's file an antitrust complain. Not just on this HF acquisition, but on the whole ecosystem monopoly.
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by zoobab 20d ago
an FTP server delivering tarballs.
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by zoobab 22d ago
Tarballs over FTP was better.
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by zoobab 22d ago
If you are interested in the EU killing small companies and economic suicide: https://ffii.org/unified-patent-court-is-100x-more-expensive... This is an article from 2021, but in the meantime, after the complaints of small
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by zoobab 22d ago
Been to Santa Cruz visiting the bike factory, went to the bar next door to drink with some mountain bikers. They had 'Brussels IPA' and 'Belgian IPA', I ordered those beers coming from Brussels and did not knew those bee
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by zoobab 22d ago
"Also there are thousands of lobbyists fighting for small businesses." I don't know on which world you live, but it's the opposite. Big business buys influence, including buying the opinion of small companies. And big bu
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by zoobab 26d ago
FTP mirrors is all you need to "scale". Unfortunately, Git is not as distributed as it claims to be.
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by zoobab 29d ago
European Commission caved in, developers lost.
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by zoobab 29d ago
GitTorrent
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by zoobab 1mo ago
"Protocols" now that everything has been moved to a master-slave protocol (HTTP), we are all slaves of the masters.
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by zoobab 1mo ago
So much for "git is decentralized" lol
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by zoobab 1mo ago
"logging solutions" In 2005, FFII predicted that the Data Retention directive would not pass the Courts. It just took 10 years for the CJEU to strike down the measure, as it is "mass surveillance". Logging everything you

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