News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

mfritsche

Well yeah. Don't wait for Boeing supply to be replaced by AliExpress orders.
Re:Raspberry Pi CM5 seen in the wild on Monday May 13, 2024 @03:40PM (#40347450)
Something which would most likely to be too niche of a market but which I would spend almost unreasonable money on would be a framework like laptop which one could upgrade by popping in a new cm every other year.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Daughters_of_Eve a few of the seven mothers of Eve seem to have lived around the same time. Just an observation.
Re:Hardest Problem in Computer Science: Centering Things on Thursday April 18, 2024 @01:05AM (#40073135)
Seeing the example of "Berliner Fernsehturm" I was reminded of https://twitter.com/dw_culture/status/1166657103332872197
Re:Software Jailbreak for Any Kindle on Sunday May 01, 2022 @01:01AM (#31222326)
... but will it allow me to turn my Kindle off?
Look for kmonad on GitHub - it's not hardware, but works well on (at least) linux, where I am using it.
Re:Have the Tables Turned on NoSQL? on Saturday January 16, 2021 @04:36AM (#25801196)
But if you don't control the client, you will now have to deal with client side migration and server database version management. If you create an additional v3, you will need to decide to either keep v1->v2->v3 code or v1->v2, v1->v3. Also, reporting.
Re:The Perfect Media Server on Sunday January 03, 2021 @08:28AM (#25621646)
I am using raid5 for data for some years now. Not using raid5 for meta data though, as that isn't recommended.
Information is dark matter. Absence of information is dark energy. A shower thought of mine...
It's one of sixteen states. Office 365 (and Windows 10) have been identified as not being able to be used in accordance with data privacy laws in Germany time and time again. So far, nobody got fined for using either software yet.
Re:Please don't theme our apps on Friday May 24, 2019 @04:42PM (#20005103)
Maybe an open letter to Gnome 3 devs to support theming properly would be more helpful.
Re:Will A.I. Ever Be Smarter Than a Four-Year-Old? on Thursday February 28, 2019 @09:04AM (#19271352)
Betteridge's law of headlines.
Re:It’s probably never going to work in German on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @02:28AM (#19261576)
Microsoft seems to increasingly use machine translation for their user interfaces (really caught my eye in Azure DevOps). It mostly works... until it doesn't, and the translation gives a word that's close, but not right in context. It's annoying and makes me feel like they just didn't care enough. Frankly, I'd prefer an English user interface over one that tells me "Yeah, we checked the box, but couldn't care less!"
Re:Systemd as tragedy on Tuesday January 29, 2019 @10:12AM (#19026891)
> Well, this boils down to: in a modern operating system, is it good design that an unprivileged user who logs in once can consume arbitrary runtime resources uncontrolled, unbounded forever, even after logout just because they decided to mask SIGHUP?

This was well known and accounted for where necessary. You considered everyone else to be wrong about the issue and went ahead and fixed it according to your opinion. Don't be surprised that a considerable portion of "everyone" doesn't agree with you.

Re:The Machine Fired Me on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @04:11AM (#17353463)
"That was something that Sobol knew, wasn't it?" "What's that?" "That people will do whatever a computer screen tells them. I swear to god, you could run the next Holocaust from a fucking fast-food register." He pantomimed aiming a pistol. "It says I should kill you now." -- Daniel Suarez, Freedom
Re:Original Windows File Manager with enhancements on Monday April 09, 2018 @10:42AM (#16793339)
Even nowadays Excel is not fully SDI - if you do VBA or work with 3rd party add ins, there is a whole bunch of stuff that goes wrong since Excel is a SDI interface put on top of a MDI program.
Re:Facial Recognition Is Accurate, If You’re a White Guy on Monday February 12, 2018 @03:36AM (#16357339)
Caucasian skin type reflects more light.