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Re:We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng on Monday August 17, 2026 @03:29PM (#49336367)
Next generation I guess.
Re:Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @04:51AM (#48567615)
"They're trashing! They're trashing our rights!"
Re:I built a Game Boy emulator in F# on Friday May 01, 2026 @03:26AM (#47972102)
... while live streaming actually earns the money :-P
Re:Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business on Monday February 16, 2026 @07:18AM (#47034106)
They have the ServerReady compliance program for servers[0], but not for the plethora of SoC boards out there.

[0] https://developer.arm.com/community/arm-community-blogs/b/ar...

They are a significant actor in the market, and as a non-pc-gamer I am glad that their business goals align with Linux users. I don't believe that they do it out of kindness, but that's actually a good thing for a long term investment.
Fun fact: The Norwegian wine monopoly is rolling out exactly this to prevent scalpers buying up new releases. Each online release will require a signup in advance with a verified account.
Re:Mandelbrot in x86 Assembly by Claude on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @05:41AM (#44441744)
Maybe it would have generated with floats if it was prompted for a generator in x87 assembly? It did originate as an extension to x86 on a separate chip, so it could explain the AI sticking to integers.
Re:Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s on Monday January 13, 2025 @03:49AM (#42681401)
My father installed it on our family mac. I somehow discovered that by quickly rebooting twice, it would start the usual Finder shell instead, albeit in English instead of the configured Norwegian. Fun times.
When Google contribute to open source, they often do it to scratch their own itch. That's how most open source organizations works. What Automattic wants from WPE as laid outs in their term sheet is to dictate what WPE contributes and audit their accounting. Not exactly on the same playing field as other corporate contributions to open source projects. Not to mention the non-forking clause.

Maybe setting up a proper independent governance of the WordPress project would encourage more independent contributions.

Not to mention the required maintenance of said parts.
Re:On commercial forks FOSS projects on Saturday December 18, 2021 @07:19AM (#29603932)
It's also quite prominently displayed on https://streamlabs.com/
Re:Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with on Sunday February 28, 2021 @04:22PM (#26297189)
But why would the code quality suck if features or maintenance of supported systems was prioritized ahead of arcane architectures? Time is a limited resource, so why should extreme portability be considered the holy grail?
Re:AArch64 Boards and Perception on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @04:47PM (#26256491)
Imho the most important part of the x86 standardization is the IBM pc platform. Arm boards doesn't have an equivalent platform to standardize on, so everybody does their own thing.
Re:Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library on Monday December 28, 2020 @08:49AM (#25559129)
I guess it's a ROI issue. Low effort answers to many easy questions gets you many points, while novel questions which requires thorough understanding is high effort and few points.
Re:AirPods Max on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @08:49AM (#25344978)
> AirPods Max require Apple devices running iOS 14.3 or later, iPadOS 14.3 or later, macOS Big Sur 11.1 or later, watchOS 7.2 or later, or tvOS 14.3 or later.

Not even standard bluetooth.

Re:Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS on Tuesday September 29, 2020 @04:58AM (#24625431)
mjpeg is a normal, albeit very simple video stream. While you could certainly squeeze the counter in less bytes by using a more advanced codec with interframe coding, it would be overkill for this poc.
Qubes is for end user desktop/laptop usage, not service hosting.
Re:Lego IKEA Bygglek – First Look on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:18AM (#24303956)
Re:ARM Mac Impact on Intel on Monday June 22, 2020 @04:24AM (#23598245)
Like Meltdown and Spectre?
The vietnamese way aligns nicely with nature. It might not matter much if you are legally right if you get maimed in a traffic accident.
We still need an incentive to invent today to gain the necessary technology for tomorrow.
Another curious situation drm-demanding publishers have created for themselves is the lack of control and leverage against the stores. With the closed Kindle ecosystem in such a major position, Amazon (with its poor drm) has tremendous leverage over the publishers.
Re:Leveraging A Poor Memory In Engineering on Saturday March 30, 2019 @10:37AM (#19529608)
I also use MDN as my primary source for js documentation. However, the answer is often easy available by just prodding a bit in the devtools console. Live coding keeps the flow :)
Re:Call for testing: OpenSSH 8.0 on Friday March 29, 2019 @08:40AM (#19521078)
And that was in 2012. I reckon everybody who cares knows that openssh config uses ~/.ssh, and those who do not care will not cry if they accidently delete it.
Re:RemoteMac.io – Dedicated Mac mini on Thursday November 08, 2018 @05:51AM (#18405481)
Not to mention that the "it just works" experience is much easier to provide when you control both software and hardware. No driver mess for the end user.
Re:Why touchscreens in cars don’t work on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @04:06AM (#17599002)
Stovetops with capacitive buttons are much nicer than the cheaper resistive buttons. Never had any problems with the two inductive stovetops I have owned, but vacation homes with cheaper electric stovetops with resistive buttons is more hassle. The flat surface of both variants makes them easy to keep clean and child lock.
Re:Linux kernel maintainer says no to AMDGPU patch on Friday December 09, 2016 @08:51AM (#13138713)
They ignored feedback from february[0]. How can that be "doing their job"? Do you think Ms would sign drivers that did the opposite of their guidelines?

[0] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-Februa...

Re:Linux kernel maintainer says no to AMDGPU patch on Friday December 09, 2016 @03:31AM (#13137480)
Most work on Linux is paid[0]. However, asking paid people to do work that does not align with their employers interest nor the project maintainers, is on par with what you're asking.

[0] 4.5 Development statistics https://lwn.net/Articles/679289/. Just google lwn Development statistics for more.

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