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creatonez
·قبل 22 يومًا·discuss
There's nothing to fear about these locations unless you are heavily disturbing the soil
creatonez
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
The modern desktops seem to have some way to jam themselves if the lock screen fails.

For example, KDE: https://preview.redd.it/plasma-lock-screen-messed-up-v0-zx7h...

GNOME: https://forums.freebsd.org/attachments/index-jpeg.8571/

I think this only works because there is top-down integration between the different parts. The compositor knows when it's supposed to be locked. Whereas the old screen lockers were just very aggressive Xorg apps that suffer from "What if two programs did this?" problems (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20110310-00/?p=11...)
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
The removal of dictionary definitions from google search (even if you use "define") is absolutely infuriating. Dictionary definitions are written with the exact amount of precision/broadness needed for each particular word, compared to AI output which is just wrong most of the time.
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Can't they just compete in separate categories? People have been making high-level computer mods years before even ComputerCraft, RedPower, or OpenComputers existed. And people will continue to make pure-redstone computers far into the future. Neither category is replacing the other :)
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Not sure if uBlock Origin has a checkbox to turn off <noscript> globally, but since it is an ad blocker, you could just manually add a global filter on all <noscript> tags. Or you could rely on the community's filter lists to remove specific instances of bullshit found in popular websites.
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Indeed, <noscript> doesn't show just because the page didn't properly load the scripts in the page. It's not a fallback for errors, it's a fallback to serve users who deliberately disabled Javascript. This is a rare scenario these days, but it does get displayed when you disable JS in Tor Browser, use the disable Javascript button in uBlock Origin (I personally use this to whitelist javascript per-domain), or use various other extensions like NoScript. This is dependent on the implementation, though. In theory some crappy browser extension could provide JS disabling functionality otherwise identical to tor/ublock/noscript but forget to display <noscript>s, but I haven't heard of implementations that are like this.

Either way, make sure you have something sensible to display for all scenarios, even if it's just an error page. Mysterious blank pages are not fun.
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
> And even for background tasks shouldn't it be better to have them complete faster for less power

Race to idle is only clearly beneficial for tasks that have a clear start and end. If a background task is sustained, responds to unpredictable events, or does small amounts of work and wakes frequently, the CPU's boost logic won't solve your energy usage problem.

> To say nothing about what if they have different features. what happens when a process that wants to use cpu feature X(avx512?) gets scheduled on a cpu without X

This idea has been proposed in the past, but isn't actually used on x86-64 or ARM. E-cores have the same instruction set as P-cores, so there's no risk of running into an invalid CPU instruction.

Truly heterogeneous instruction sets may come back in the future, though. So be on your toes.
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
> "query strings are horrible"

That's not at all what the article says. You're responding to a weird strawman that doesn't resemble the article's actual point.
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
It is. Your ad blocker is removing it, so it doesn't trigger the error page.
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
For proprietary software, sure. But open source projects rarely ever work like this.

Especially for a project like the kernel, there's no reasonable way to decide who out of thousands of interested parties should have access first.

Android is a rare exception, as of a few years ago they started a program where phone manufacturers get very favorable early access to AOSP code 4 months ahead of public release.
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
In this case, no insiders broke the embargo. It was reverse engineered from the patch by an unrelated third party and a proof of concept immediately came out of it. At that point, it's kinda fair game.
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Cloudflare seems to be on a streak, boasting about new capabilities that are only useful for mass spam. When can we start blocking them for deliberately harboring spam?
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Delaware is quite literally a tax haven set up to assist in evading as many local laws as possible. Do we just excuse it because it's a US state and speaks English?
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
If the only shell(s) for a business are in a completely different jurisdiction with no connection whatsoever to any of the humans involved in operating the organization... yes. It's an outrageous way to escape the force of the law that has been rubber stamped by corrupt politicians.
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
For-profit companies jurisdiction shopping without any physical presence is so clearly sketchy that it's wild anyone could see it otherwise. I can't imagine a normal person not being shocked in disbelief when they first learn about the concept of tax havens.
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
It is indeed already normal for rich people to do things that are sketchy as hell.

Maybe let's make it not normal?
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Browser agents / vision agents are a menace and ISPs should outright ban subscribers who run them on the public internet.
creatonez
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Having posted rules on a forum/mailing list/bug tracker is only done to cause trouble? Really?

Codes of conduct exist because the alternatives are either arbitrary punishment for arbitrary infractions, or complete spamfest anarchy. It baffles me that a crowd that previously preached netiquette are now so against clarity and healthy community. (Though on second thought, maybe this is a Goomba fallacy and the folks that have so much disdain for CoCs are the people who constantly spewed flame wars and spam on 1990s usenet)
creatonez
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
Flock is engaged in pedophilic snooping and is actively helping a terrorist militia commit racial pogroms. Crime has gone way up, Flock are the criminals.
creatonez
·قبل 3 أشهر·discuss
> "Hairdryer sometimes get pointed at the weather sensor" and "Government sometimes fudges jobs/CPI data" are more or less the same thing. Build it into your model.

Is this comment satire? Bet on things being intentionally and secretly manipulated by people you will never meet? In what direction? This just sounds like a recipe for participating in the most financially dangerous questions.