everslick

Re:FFmpeg 6.0 on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @05:44AM (#34967880)

Not really. Tivoisation is the process of locking your device down with hardware (or other means), so it will only run software signed with your keys.

So the end user can have all the source code they want and still be helpless.

That issue with the GPLv2 was fixed with V3.

Re:My Mega65 has arrived on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:33PM (#31613944)

Actually it is a recreation of the C65. (Which happened to have a C64 mode) Running 3rd party cores is possible though.

Re:My Mega65 has arrived on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:29PM (#31613875)

It's on GitHub.

Re:FalsiScan: Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned on Friday January 21, 2022 @05:01PM (#30030537)

Because in some countries it is/was rather common to receive payments (most often pension payments) in cash that where delivered by the postman. That's why it makes sense in a way.

Re:A comprehensive guide to 50 years of evolution of strict C programming on Friday November 26, 2021 @03:50AM (#29348475)

that exact example is given in the document and presented as 1 of 2 possible solutions. I believe, the critique in the parent comment was unwarranted, but I thought I maybe missed something.

Re:A comprehensive guide to 50 years of evolution of strict C programming on Friday November 26, 2021 @02:57AM (#29348247)

what's wrong with that?

Re:How Finland plans to implement the first nation-wide basic income i... on Friday November 13, 2015 @03:12AM (#10558590)

An aspect greatly overlooked in this discussion here is, that an UBI would rid us from a ton of bullshit jobs people are currently forced to do, just to get by. So in a way, an UBI can lead to degrowth eventually, which decreases pollution, traffic jams, energy consumption, waste a.s.o.

I'm looking forward to see what people are going to do with the spare time.

Ask HN: What Can Distributed Software Development Teams Learn from FLOSS?

Posted by everslick on Friday March 13, 2015 @05:25AM
from the ask-hn dept.

As a long time free software proponent and team lead of a small development team (10+ ppl) in a midsized company I always try to intercorporate my experiences from both worlds. Lately I was confronted with the need to accept new team members from abroad working on the same codebase and I expect to have even more [http://www.helpscout.net/blog/virtual-teams/ and...

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Re:Ask HN: How old were you when you wrote your first program? on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:13AM (#8989263)

10 or 11, Sinclair ZX Spectrum, BASIC. most likly i started by typing in the examples from the book, working from there. changing lines of code, see what it does to the program. some two years later i got a c64. the basic was a lot worse, but it was the machine i got around my head to assembler, or at least machine code - because i did'nt understand the concept of the assembler, but i very well understood the machine-code-monitor in the final cartridge.

but rasterbars, and softscrollers with (stolen) musik and sprites on the bottom/top border, was as far as i ever got.

Re:Is FB deliberately slowing deletes? on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:05AM (#8989242)

yeah, but then of course you are gone completely. that's not what i want (for now). i want to keep my profile and friendlist. every other content should be purged.

Re:Is FB deliberately slowing deletes? on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:03AM (#8989239)

yeah, something like that. facebook makes it quite hard to do that, because the delete is in a popup menue and even that is different from item to item. sometimes it's "delete" you have to click, sometimes it's "unlike" sometimes the best one can do is select "hidden from timeline" ...

for me it's quite clear: facebook does not want you to purge something, ever. if you dare to, you should suffer.

Re:Is FB deliberately slowing deletes? on Monday February 02, 2015 @12:36PM (#8985407)

I'm not talking about deletes becoming "visible" on the timeline after a delay, I mean that the browser is completely blocked and unresponsive for 4-5 seconds (not minutes!). That makes deleting by hand lots of posts and likes a total PITA.

Is FB deliberately slowing deletes?

Posted by everslick on Monday February 02, 2015 @11:13AM
from the self-post dept.

I try to clean up my FB profile, that means I delete everything I posted, commented, shared and liked. There are two tools that should be able to automate this, but both failed on me (i.e. 'Absterge' and 'Facebook Time Line Cleaner').Additionally i have the feeling FB is making the delete function of posts deliberately slow, introducing a aproximatly 5 second delay on each mouse click.Anybody...

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Re:How do you get to write so well in HN? on Thursday October 30, 2014 @03:04PM (#8535065)

I want to add: I love to watch English movies (and TBBT) with English caption also (Austrian-German is my native Tongue). This allows me to fall back to the English written word should I have missed the spoken one. The meaning of single words is usually easily deducible from context. It also helps to correct my pronunciation of words I use to pronounce incorrectly.