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mnd999
·7 months ago·discuss
Why does a robotic vacuum cleaner need to connect to the internet at all? Mine doesn't (Neato Botvac D85) and it works fine.
mnd999
·3 years ago·discuss
Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.
mnd999
·3 years ago·discuss
Also https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/-/issues/159
mnd999
·3 years ago·discuss
My latest Wayland issue is devices that generate a lot of input events causing apps to crash.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1743144
mnd999
·3 years ago·discuss
Notepad on NT4 could edit files as large as you had memory. I never used 3.5 but I guess they must have made that change in NT4.
mnd999
·3 years ago·discuss
LLMs are not the most important breakthrough in AI ever, in the same way the NFTs are not the most important breakthrough in digital commerce ever. It's just a load of hype to generate big funding rounds. At least there's no cartoon apes this time around.
mnd999
·4 years ago·discuss
For me, from the UK, jaywalking is a strange law, we’ve never had it and I don’t really know why it exists elsewhere. It makes streets more pedestrian friendly and encourages drivers to look out for them.
mnd999
·4 years ago·discuss
I have a lot more hate for bicycles since I stopped driving and started walking as it turns out.
mnd999
·5 years ago·discuss
If it’s his project, as far as I’m concerned he’s within his rights deciding to make it do something different to what it did before, even if that is malicious. There is precedent for this with Chrome addon devs selling their addons to malware companies on the quiet.

That said, it is an attack on his users and it’s a shitty thing to do. He’s likely ended his career as an open source developer, and likely a paid developer as well.
mnd999
·5 years ago·discuss
It’s a racket essentially, they make up a certification sell it to people buying software. Those buyers force it on their suppliers and they can charge for auditing and compliance. Not much you can do though, just have to grit your teeth and get on with it and try and avoid the most bureaucratic parts that slow down you ability to execute.
mnd999
·5 years ago·discuss
Brexit taught us people will vote for a much smaller pie if they think it will make others slices smaller and closer to theirs.
mnd999
·5 years ago·discuss
NNTP is a standard. I use eternal-september.
mnd999
·5 years ago·discuss
It’s pretty depressing, particularly in light the current clamour for decentralisation. Everything new is old I guess.
mnd999
·5 years ago·discuss
I guess I’m getting old but I’m always amazed when people don’t know what Usenet is. Or at least aren’t able to spot a Usenet group by name.
mnd999
·5 years ago·discuss
Unless you have nVidia graphics, sway is probably a drop in replacement for you, with minimal changes from your i3 config. You can literally cp ~/.config/i3/config ~/.config/sway/config and it will work.

If you have nVidia, you're outta luck.
mnd999
·6 years ago·discuss
I always get downvoted for saying this but anyway. Wayland needs the Nvidia problem to be solved. I don't see how it's sustainable to have to build everything for GBM and EGLStreams.
mnd999
·6 years ago·discuss
You could have stopped at logging passwords.
mnd999
·8 years ago·discuss
Usenet had plenty of ads, I’d still prefer it to reddit though.