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LaggyKar

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  • Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books

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  • The problem is some authors signing exclusivity deal with Amazon, which means breaking the DRM and converting it is the only way to read it on a different e-reader.

  • Have you been exposed to an IPv6 address at work?

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  • It is a single address with an associated subnet mask, indicating what subnet the address is in.

    The subnet would be 3fff:a1:1ab:bc67::/64, for the top one.

  • I must have died and gone to heaven [nushell]

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  • Looks like it's taken a page from PowerShell in passing structured data rather than just text.

  • AI Coding

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  • but it is a task of a programmer to review it before publishing it.

    By contrast however, the programmer does not generally need to review the machine code produced by their compiler when coding in C.

  • AI Coding

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  • It's not though. Programming languages, like assembly before them, are deterministic. If you run the same C code again the same environment, it will do the same thing, and altering the code will alter the behaviour correspondingly. It's possible to reason about it. The same does not apply to LLMs. You can't reason about their behavior, when means you can't build anything non-trivial with them. All that is mentioned in the article.

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  • What do you mean? That's literally just using the service as intended.

  • What's your mnemonic for pwd?- OMG it means print working directory. My mind instantly goes to password every time. I had to reach puddle wuv dud levels of autism before thinking otherwise. I shame my

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  • I find it weird when you get "pwd" as a variable

  • Automated Sextortion Spyware Takes Webcam Pics of Victims Watching Porn

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  • The same thing spam e-mails have claimed to have done for ages

  • Are those of us who grew up on older games more attuned to latency?

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  • When did they have games on tape?

  • CGNAT version 2

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  • OK, bad examples. On the other hand e.g. X, GitHub, Pornhub, PSN, Steam or Discord do not support IPv6.

  • CGNAT version 2

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  • I know this is humor, but for the record this wouldn't work. Each simultaneous TCP connection needs a unique four-tuple (source address, source port, destination address, destination port). If a lot the people behind the NAT try to connect to the same place (destination address and port) at the same time (something popular like Google, YouTube or Netflix), and their source address is the same, the source port needs to be different for each connection. So after at most 65535 connections within a short time the NAT would run out of ports and no one behind the same NAT would be able to open new connections to the same place until the NAT mapping expiries.

    So you could have at most tens of thousands of people behind the same NAT, maybe even fewer to make it reliable.

  • PNG is back!

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  • Lossless WebP is still gets way better compression than PNG though, this doesn't change that. Although they mention they're looking to improve it in the next version, so we'll see then.

  • Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers

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  • This article really needs some illustration of what the new UI looks like, and what the old one looks like for comparison

  • POV: Automatic Driver installation for Linux

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  • Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems

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  • If you're running Wine on a case-sensitive file system, and you it tries to open a file, it would first try to open a file whose case matches exactly. But if it doesn't find one, it would then need to list all the files in the directory, normalize their case, and go through them all to see if there is a file with the given name but in a different case. That can take some time if there is a lot of files in the directory.

    But if you're on a case-insensitive filesystem, the FS can keep case-normalized names of all files on disk, so you can do a case-insensitive open just as fast as you can do a case-sensitive open.

    BTW, another application that can benefit from this is Samba, since SMB is case-insensitive.

  • Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems

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  • It does, but having case insensitivity in the file system can get you better performance.

  • Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems

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  • It isn't normally, but it, like e.g. Ext4, allows case insensitivity mostly for the sake of Wine.

  • Calibre 8.2 Brings New Kobo and Kindle Features

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  • Kobo store, Google Play Books, and various other places (here in Sweden for example we have Bokus and Adlibris) have Epub downloads. Usually with Adobe Digital Editions DRM (which you can get rid of pretty easily with DeDRM, or alternatively Kobo tablets support Digital Editions), but some books are sold DRM free, or with LCP DRM which I don't have experience with. Something I've noticed at least on Bokus is that many books in Swedish are sold as DRM free Epubs with watermarks, even if they're translated from an English version which is sold with DRM on the same store, though that's probably not relevant for people in other regions.

  • ParticleOS: Systemd's Very Own Linux Distro in Making

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  • It's not a daemon