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erwan ,

No it’s not, anyone can get a license to create an ARM chipset but you do need to pay for a license.

erwan ,

It’s neither. It’s a specification that you can use to build your own chip.

So it’s more like MPEG where you can read the doc and create your own implementation.

erwan ,

How can you have a preference if you don’t understand?

erwan ,

Yes, on the licensing front RISC-V is better.

I banned my daughter from using the iPhone she bought. It made her a better person | Em Rio (www.theguardian.com)

I think its not just kids anymore, it’s adults too. Everyone is glued to their screens these days. But kids are more vulnerable to influences from “social” media and don’t have any defences to the psychological warfare going on. Of course they feel like shit.

erwan ,

Read the article. Her mom agreed to it, and they set rules. It’s after that that it went bad.

erwan ,

This is only useful if you’re not using your own cable. Otherwise you can simply use a “power only” cable.

erwan ,

I thought the Apple network and the new Android network work together? Meaning it just work just as well as an apple tag

erwan ,

Just read to the top comment saying it’s profitable to replace them anyway.

erwan ,

It’s still a good joke!

erwan ,

The title is wrong. It’s not about proving that the owner is dead (which is easy, you get a death certificate when a relative dies).

It’s about proving that the person requesting access of the dead person account is actually the person legally receiving the dead person’s possessions (or GOG account specifically).

erwan ,
  • In the 90’s: Slackware, then RedHat, then Debian, then Progeny (Debian based), then shortly Mandrake (RedHat based)
  • Early 2000’s: RedHat Japanese edition, TurboLinux (because I was in Japan and Japanese IME was almost impossible to get working on non-Japanese distributions)
  • Then I had fun with Gentoo looking at my terminal compiling stuff everyday and fixing broken package because I followed advices to activate crazy compilation flags
  • 2004: Ubuntu, that I used for nearly 20 years
  • Last year: switched to Fedora
erwan ,

It just works, just like Ubuntu before they started pushing snap down everyone’s throat (which is what made me switch eventually.)

I had a bad image of RedHat/Fedora’s package management from the time deb was much superior, but no they caught up and are on the same level (I know, it’s probably been a while).

I also like how they mostly package upstream without too many changes. When Ubuntu started upstream was a bit lacking so making changes was necessary to get something that looks like a consistent OS rather than a patchwork of packages, but now it’s no longer needed. Ubuntu is no longer the only distribution with that level of polish.

erwan ,

Nothing in particular, for the past few years I didn’t like the direction Ubuntu was taking but I stayed because I was too lazy to switch and it didn’t feel that bad.

So I’m not sure exactly what was the last straw, maybe part of it was me getting a Steam Deck, discovering flatpak and understanding how bad snap was compared to it.

erwan ,

The hardware in an arcade cabinet is either a raspberry pi or a regular desktop PC.

erwan ,

It’s a bad idea because you can get a regular laptop and AR glasses just as light as those. Check nreal, rokid…

This way you can use the laptop as a regular laptop and the glasses with other devices.

erwan ,

There is xreal, nreal, rokid… Plenty of manufacturers to pick with, and you can spare money for a regular laptop.

erwan ,

You can deploy open source software or your own apps even on big tech infrastructure, on your own domain.

The problem isn’t infrastructure, it’s that access to content isn’t decentralized any more. Access to content is reliant on Google search or social media algorithms (who decide what to promote).

erwan ,

If she’s been flagged as shoplifter she’s probably black!

erwan ,

Because the algorithm trying to identify shoplifters is probably trainer on biased dataset

Any suggestions for cheap but decent laptops for coding?

I’m currently learning how to code (currently Python, then maybe JavaScript), but I’m not always around my desktop, and learning on my phone is not always an option (also, it can be quite cumbersome at times). Therefore, I’m looking into purchasing a laptop just for learning how to code and stuff....

erwan ,

For a desktop yes. You can dock it and forget that it’s not a regular Linux desktop. Especially if it means Python and JS, you don’t need much power for that.

For a laptop not so much, because you’ll need to bring screen+keyboard+mouse and everything to plug them so the portability aspect seriously suffers.

erwan ,

You don’t inherit debt but they’re paid on the estate before inheritance.

So you can’t get just debt as inheritance, but debt are only lost for the creditor if the person who died had a negative net worth.

erwan ,

In France there is a limit, about 30k every 15 years. It’s not messed up, it’s necessary if we want inheritance taxes to have any weight.

erwan ,

It’s still a lot of work, for what value compared to an OS based on AOSP?

erwan ,

I’m not sure what “the Linux community” really means but I would bet that pure open source Android based on AOSP are more popular than the non-Android Linux mobile OS combined.

Linus Tech Tips (LTT) release investigation results on former accusations (x.com)

There were a series of accusations about our company last August from a former employee. Immediately following these accusations, LMG hired Roper Greyell - a large Vancouver-based law firm specializing in labor and employment law, to conduct a third-party investigation. Their website describes them as “one of the largest...

erwan ,

I just don’t like Linus because he’s annoying and abuses clickbait thumbnails and titles.

Some of their videos (from other people than himself) are good, but usually I’ll avoid LTT content all together.

For that reason I’m not really sure what happened, and I don’t really care.

erwan ,

Maybe, whatever. It’s just too annoying for me to click on that shit.

erwan ,

Selling a new one

erwan ,

And it was overpriced. I can see people buying a useless toy for 50 bucks, but not for $700.

erwan ,

10 years ago it was “how do we convince Google to buy this company?”

iPhones And Androids Can Now Warn You of 'Secret Trackers' (www.ibtimes.co.uk)

In a collaborative effort, Apple and Google have developed an industry-standard detection feature called “Detecting Unwanted Location Trackers” (DULT) for Bluetooth trackers. This standard allows users on iOS and Android devices to be alerted if an unknown Bluetooth tracker is monitoring their location.

erwan ,

Yes that part is clear, but the question is about the collateral damage on legitimate usage.

erwan ,

In some languages (like French) “I wonder” is said like “I ask myself”. So I think it’s a translation mistake.

erwan ,

Especially coming from Google, who was one of the good guys pushing open standards and interoperability.

erwan ,

There is also the issue of determining if a given image is real or AI. If AI were legal, that means prosecution would need to prove images are real and not AI with the risk of letting go real offenders.

The need to ban AI CSAM is even clearer than cartoon CSAM.

erwan ,

Crypto means cryptography, stop using it to talk about cryptocurrency.

erwan ,

Crypto currencies doesn’t mean “hidden currency”, it means currency based on cryptography.

erwan ,

IANAL but probably not

erwan ,

They want us to believe it was by accident but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t.

erwan ,

They asked her already and she refused.

erwan ,

It worked because the web was much smaller.

erwan ,

Simple example: installing stuff. Much faster and simpler to type “install foo” in cli than open a gui, searching for it, finding the right one, clicking install.

Same for updating: it takes me 2s to type the command to update all packages, that’s less than the time I need to move my mouse to the icon of the package manager.

erwan ,

I agree that GUI are better at discoverability.

However once you’re up to speed with CLI, it becomes much simpler and faster. While a GUI will still be more steps even after you become expert at using that GUI.

erwan ,

You don’t need man, just type the command with no arguments and you’ll get the help message.

erwan ,

That’s because in the 80’s you had to know computers to use them, and most people never touched them. Only geeks like you and me.

Now everyone uses a computer (at least the screen-only computer in their pocket) without knowing anything about it.

It doesn’t mean there are less people who really know how computers work. Just that now even clueless people use them.

erwan ,

That’s typical clickbait: give a vague title to make people click.

erwan ,

It’s just because it’s the most used in this case

erwan ,

The population in rural areas is so low that no matter how you induce demand, it won’t work.

erwan ,

Let’s call people who grow up with X the “X gen”.

erwan ,

Just because it’s not a completely new concept doesn’t mean it’s stupid.

It can bring value even if it’s a small iterative innovation over existing buses.

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