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  1. Comment on What is your personal online "tech stack"? How do you like it? in ~tech

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    sigh Fine, I'll bite. What exactly is in "tax_sounds.db"? There's so much interesting stuff in this thread, but your post in particular is going to take a while on it's own to parse. I still don't...

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    Fine, I'll bite. What exactly is in "tax_sounds.db"?

    There's so much interesting stuff in this thread, but your post in particular is going to take a while on it's own to parse. I still don't quite understand what exactly you are doing with music and it fills me with a vague sense of dread lol.

    5 votes

  2. Comment on A deep dive into open chat protocols in ~tech

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    I got blocked by Anubis, I know it sort of defeats the point but could you summarize? I've been away from XMPP for a while and might spin up a server again, but as far as I can tell Matrix seems...

    I got blocked by Anubis, I know it sort of defeats the point but could you summarize? I've been away from XMPP for a while and might spin up a server again, but as far as I can tell Matrix seems to have significantly more active communities these days - at least surrounding software projects.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on China massively overbuilt high-speed rail, says leading economic geographer in ~transport

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    It might be an "If you build it, they will come" situation. See examples of overcapacity infrastructure build outs in authoritarian central asian and middle eastern countries, now underutilized....

    It might be an "If you build it, they will come" situation. See examples of overcapacity infrastructure build outs in authoritarian central asian and middle eastern countries, now underutilized.

    Edit: And isn't housing supply in a similar situation for China?

    10 votes

  4. Comment on systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success in ~comp

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    You could not have shared this at a better time. Thank you!

    You could not have shared this at a better time. Thank you!

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Peertube (federated video streaming platform) crowdfunding it's mobile app in ~tech

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    That is a lot older than TLoZ It's reasonably clearly IMO another logo mimicking a play button while still giving cues to the peer-to-peer aspect of their platform.
    1. That is a lot older than TLoZ
    2. It's reasonably clearly IMO another logo mimicking a play button while still giving cues to the peer-to-peer aspect of their platform.
    5 votes

  6. Comment on Climbing the Skyfrost Nail (a piece about jury service, essay collections, and Genshin Impact) in ~games

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    Thinking about submitting this anywhere? Seems publishable, and I imagine everyone likes a nice little impromptu poetry without elitism in their videogame nonfiction.

    Thinking about submitting this anywhere? Seems publishable, and I imagine everyone likes a nice little impromptu poetry without elitism in their videogame nonfiction.

    7 votes

  7. Comment on Thanks to recent US law, Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets in ~transport

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    When you become a kajillionaire please give us all some money!

    When you become a kajillionaire please give us all some money!

    4 votes

  8. Comment on The failure of the land value tax in the UK in ~humanities.history

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    I'm curious how Denmark's LVT is assessed. If it cost as much as the UK's (more than the tax procured), it would not be in place and for apparently a limited portion of government revenue. All I...

    I'm curious how Denmark's LVT is assessed. If it cost as much as the UK's (more than the tax procured), it would not be in place and for apparently a limited portion of government revenue. All I could find out was that it applies to any unrented land. Tax is collected from land being rented directly from the owner's business in that case.

    5 votes

  9. Comment on Holotypic Occlupanids - How the internet invented bread clip science in ~science

  10. Comment on Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead in ~comp

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    I haven't followed the project or the developers past the first year, but if Marcan says he's been stalked etc lately I believe him and can't help but feel sorry he's reached a breaking point on a...

    I haven't followed the project or the developers past the first year, but if Marcan says he's been stalked etc lately I believe him and can't help but feel sorry he's reached a breaking point on a project he cared so much about.

    The other thing I believe is that kernel devs on lkml will never cease to act in bad faith and get away with it by demonstrating that they can become the biggest possible pain to deal with.

    14 votes

  11. Comment on Framework (2nd gen) event: 25th February in ~tech

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    I feel like this would be better as a post in the last framework thread instead of a new topic.

    I feel like this would be better as a post in the last framework thread instead of a new topic.

  12. Comment on State of emergency declared on Santorini after earthquakes shake island in ~enviro

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    It did mention concerns of a tsunami if there is a stronger earthquake, although I don't know if a tsunami poses a risk to Santorini itself or other parts of Greece. It also touched on rockslides...

    It did mention concerns of a tsunami if there is a stronger earthquake, although I don't know if a tsunami poses a risk to Santorini itself or other parts of Greece.

    It also touched on rockslides and seeing as the houses are on fairly sheer slopes I suppose that could be risky.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on Right to root access in ~tech

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    Certainly. And while I don't personally expect technical support for those situations, seeing as I do have a grudge that you've given me the perfect opportunity to air, I will say that carriers...

    Certainly. And while I don't personally expect technical support for those situations, seeing as I do have a grudge that you've given me the perfect opportunity to air, I will say that carriers should provide technical support for their own bad firmware, and at bare minimum provide A/B images on devices whose hardware supports it!

    As it is, I mostly meant that updates and firmware should be provided for offline download like pc drivers and firmware images, not locked behind janky ota updates.

    2 votes

  14. Comment on Right to root access in ~tech

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    Hm, but I think "rooting voids your contract" would also need to be contested, similar to "removing this sticker voids your warranty". Rooting a phone for example should not preclude you from...

    Hm, but I think "rooting voids your contract" would also need to be contested, similar to "removing this sticker voids your warranty". Rooting a phone for example should not preclude you from receiving however many years of OS and security updates were promised. I don't want laws to try and get specific about what contracts can be voided by accessing which areas of your device.

    edit: or cellular service contracts for that matter. Every cell network operator agreeing that a rooted phone voids a cell service contract and is not allowed on carrier networks would, in a very warped sense, make a messy case in court that would probably stand seeing as what stands now. But it absolutely would be circumventing the spirit of opening hardware/software access, and just gross as well.

    3 votes

  15. Comment on Right to root access in ~tech

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    The author carved out specific exclusions for certain critical devices, e.g. some medical equipment. It seems unlikely greater access (or even auditing as it were) to the non-critical devices...

    The author carved out specific exclusions for certain critical devices, e.g. some medical equipment.

    It seems unlikely greater access (or even auditing as it were) to the non-critical devices would ever be considered. Medical equipment manufacturers would all to easily present a sufficiently confusing case about the supposed risks and dangers, considering the current situation where most things I feel patently obviously should be accessible are not.

    I'm more hopeful for some success in the repair rights.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on T1: a RISC-V Vector processor implementation in ~comp

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    I've been trying to keep tabs on implementations of RISC-V's vector extensions, especially the smaller Zve32x. This project looks promising but I haven't seen any sort of discussion around it, not...

    I've been trying to keep tabs on implementations of RISC-V's vector extensions, especially the smaller Zve32x.

    This project looks promising but I haven't seen any sort of discussion around it, not that I would know where to look.

    How does one get a good measure of open source hw like these? Do you whip out an fpga and boot it? Skim through the source files like any other software repo?

    It's tough for me to evaluate. What I can say is, this project has fun with the readme :)

    Are there other interesting open source accelerators flying under my radar?

    2 votes

  18. Comment on US CIA now favors lab leak theory to explain Covid’s origins in ~health

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    I get what you're going for, but it's probably worth pointing out that the arctic circle (siberia) is known to have many frozen bodies of reindeer contaminated with Anthrax, and which have...

    It should be going on in antarctica.... where the bugs (and any escaped animals) die rapidly in the outside environment and have nothing around the site to infect in the first place

    I get what you're going for, but it's probably worth pointing out that the arctic circle (siberia) is known to have many frozen bodies of reindeer contaminated with Anthrax, and which have infected humans as the region warms as of late. It has survived in the corpses for more than 70 years and can still be lethal.

    7 votes

  19. Comment on Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform in ~comp

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    You can always brute force a check on which caches are hot, which doesn't require a resource you own, although it's a pretty terrible attack, presumably requiring many rounds with different resources.

    You can always brute force a check on which caches are hot, which doesn't require a resource you own, although it's a pretty terrible attack, presumably requiring many rounds with different resources.

    1 vote

  20. Comment on Unique 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord and hundreds of platform in ~comp

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    It's a nice write up, but am I crazy for finding nothing novel here? We've known about rough geolocation via CDNs and VPNs for years, and that's pretty much where the story ends. I guess the...

    It's a nice write up, but am I crazy for finding nothing novel here? We've known about rough geolocation via CDNs and VPNs for years, and that's pretty much where the story ends. I guess the awareness of platforms' push notifications and attitudes is always helpful though.

    22 votes