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tinus_hn
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
Even if you limit it to the US, they have 56% which is only a very small majority. Are you trying to argue that that 44% of users not on iOS can’t message others because of that terrible Apple monopoly? Frankly, that’s just ridiculous and your fantasy case is so hopelessly going nowhere nobody is going to even start it.
tinus_hn
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
If you only have friends that also have iOS devices, you can create an iMessage group and send messages in it. I don’t know how that works in the US but apparently it’s really popular.
tinus_hn
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
You wonder how anyone survives in all of the world where nobody uses iMessage (which is everywhere except the US). How do people even manage to open WhatsApp? How do people survive this horror!
tinus_hn
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
A case against a monopoly with a minority market share. Good luck with that!
tinus_hn
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Of course the HackerNews hive mind can’t stand for this! But when someone pops up to complain about his essential social network account being banned on some flimsy pretext everyone agrees that that shouldn’t be legally possible!
tinus_hn
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
Any unsigned OS perhaps but they could still run the signed operating systems they can now no longer run, like the Ubuntu releases.
tinus_hn
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
> UEFI didn't kill the freedom to run any OS on your PC.

With the new Secure Boot rules this ‘goal’ is ever closer. By default, new computers must now only boot the Microsoft boot loader, which can only boot Windows.

https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/60248.html
tinus_hn
·4 jaar geleden·discuss
In my opinion it’s just a matter of timing and sentiment; when Putin annexed Crimea nobody did anything.
tinus_hn
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
True, similarly I’ve always wondered whether DJ mixing tools directly decode the mp3s at the pitch they are going to play. No idea if that is practical though.
tinus_hn
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Where is the contradiction?

As far as the theory goes, the transform using the DCT is lossless apart from rounding errors. The quantization step just rounds more roughly. Which is where the lossy compression happens.

Basically you’re not removing the high frequencies because they carry little information, you remove the information they carry.

If you just remove the high frequency you end up with a blurred, smooth picture that doesn’t look like the original. But if you quantize the strength you get a pretty similar looking picture, apart from the degenerate case of sharp edges in a drawing.
tinus_hn
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Why, they also have no evidence now!
tinus_hn
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Really? A user interface annoyance is a mostly incurable deadly disease?
tinus_hn
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
> "that's a compositor problem!"

Then why not include an example compositor that solves these issues?
tinus_hn
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
So they can say:

Connect the modem we gave you with our settings, and if it works using that it’s not our problem.

It’s not that hard.
tinus_hn
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Insanely wasteful
tinus_hn
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Clearly packages like MySQL and PostGreSQL made sure they work on NFS or they would very clearly tell you not to use it because they’d know it’s a recipe for disaster. The issues I am referring to typically are with things like homegrown shell scripts or research software.
tinus_hn
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
If you think applications work on NFS by just expecting general Unix filesystem semantics you’re in for a surprise.

The fact you’re not having trouble just means either the application writers put in the effort to properly support it, or your use case is simple enough not to run into problems.
tinus_hn
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
> The concept of an application 'supporting a (specific) file system' sounds slightly ridiculous to me.

Clearly you weren’t around in the days when NFS was a thing.
tinus_hn
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
So instead of not using the MAC address in the IPv6 (which any reasonably modern OS does because this problem is old, well known and trivially solved) you get rid of MAC addresses altogether? Just so you can have some illusion of privacy while sending your traffic through a supposedly compromised network?

This is paranoia about all the wrong things, focusing on irrelevant details and ignoring what’s important.
tinus_hn
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Privacy from what? MAC addresses are not used on the internet, only on the local network