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Nithanim

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  • Why's everyone freaking out about Firefox Terms of Service? Isn't it Open Source?

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  • I would like to point out that they are free to modify the source code before building the binary they distribute. Being open source does not mean protection from secretly stealing data.

    With chrome it is obvious because the closed part is called chrome and the open is chromium. But it is certainly possible to not make "stealing" magic on top public.

  • Trump berates Danish PM over Greenland in ‘horrendous’ phone call

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  • What do I need to know about trouble shooting windows games on linux?

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  • One very simple things I try is updating the glorious eggroll proton version and force-use that. Changing the proton version sometimes (especially switching to an older one) requires deleting the compatdata (wineprefix folder) of the game.

  • Trump says he will seek to eliminate daylight saving time

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  • Well, in essence yes. But I have seen enough mishandling and homegrown stuff of custom date-time calculations that this could get interesting. I suspect that there are a lot of systems where the TZ database is never updated which at least will result in shifted displayed local time.

    Also, it is fun to get data from old programs and also from userinput where the actual offset has to be guessed from the timezone. And if that conversion data is old, fun is had. It does not matter how time is represented internally in this case.

  • Trump says he will seek to eliminate daylight saving time

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  • Every time this topic comes up I wonder how many computer systems this will break. Maybe we find out soon if this is really realized.

  • Bullets used to kill UnitedHealthcare CEO had words written on them, law enforcement official says

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  • For some very weird reason it never crossed my mind, and I really do not know why, that I could invest in a huge healthcare corporation whose target it is to provide as little healthcare as possible. But your comment made me think about that that is possible to do.

  • In case Copilot was too much work

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  • Because you can does not mean you should.

  • Just donated to KDE and adopted Okular, their really nice PDF reader, which I use on a daily basis <3

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  • I do hate that they made me donate twice by adding other apps later 😅

  • Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

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  • It's cool but as soon as I need to move I am out. Moving is inconvenient at best and nausiating at worst (for me). So that does not leave me with a lot of possible games. Edit: I am sure that is the same for most people.

  • Games that restore faith in the industry?

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    • Timberborn
    • Talos Principle (2)
    • Shapez 2
    • Astroneer
    • ...

  • The best security minds in the nation at one convention!

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  • I did not have this on my radar, sadly. On the one hand, I somewhat was there via livestream which make me happy but on the other hand I am so sad that I missed it.

  • Dropping Cellular for VoIP? Daily Phone use.

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  • My EU bank never ever used my phone number to verify anything. They only used it to contact me on some occasions. 2FA is done through their app.

  • Docker Raises Prices Up to 80 Percent | ServeTheHome

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  • I am exposing docker via tcp in wsl and set the env var on the host to point to it. A bit more manual but if you don't need anything special, it works too.

  • AI's take on XML

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  • We slowly need to interface with an app at work that uses fixed-width too. It does not sound that bad if you hear it but it sucks to figure out where you are missing whitespace when most fields are not used and therefore all whitespace. Oh, and of course there are a lot of fields, also are aligned/formatted differently based on their type and has thin/no/wrong documentation. And I have yet to find a simple but decent "debugger".

  • Linux Scores A Surprising Gaming Victory Against Windows 11

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  • To add a more technical explanation, the main point is about the expectation on how it behaves and not what it really does. To get windows to do something, you read the specification (interface) and make a call against it. Windows interprets your request and does what you wanted. You do not care how it works but just that it works. As a developer, you can also switch to the other side and make your own program that interprets these calls and translates, them for linux.

    Legally (I am not a lawyer), the specification is a fair game. The spicy part is how it is done and copying that gets you in trouble.

    Of course, this is also extremely simplified since linux and windows differ wildly in many regards. Also a "specification" is often incomplete or the implementaion bleeds into the real world use. This makes it not reliable to look at it alone and so, often the "original" implementation has to be observed on how it behaves.

    As a more relatable example, think about websites. On the one hand, it does not matter which browser you use. It "just" has to display the page and act accordingly. On the other side, it does not matter what server sends you the page. It could be a pre-computed static page, served via a proxy server or dynamically generated by any of the different programming languages.

    Edit: grammar

  • Linux Scores A Surprising Gaming Victory Against Windows 11

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  • One I quickly gave up on trying recently was Star Citizen. Failing myself with dumb errors I found out that you need to follow a rather elaborate tutorial. I decided that it was very much not worth it. Not sure how it is possible to fuck it up that badly.

    The other I am bummed about is Talos Principle 2. Last time I played at release it worked perfectly. Now it runs so slow that it takes like 10 minutes to even get to the main menu. In the realm of tens of seconds per frame and I am at a loss how to even debug that.

    One dumb thing for native (!) Unity games (at least Valheim and Shapez 2) is that they disrespect the default audio output device.

    Otherwise, plug and play. It's so nice!

  • US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she’d died

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  • This reminds me of the spongebob episode where krabs was in hospital and, because of money, was moved out before the vending machine, then to the parking place, and finally kicked down the hill. Back then it was funny but being reminded of it by the real world feels very much... not good.

  • Why does my calculator need a privacy policy? It's a calculator!

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  • Personally, I find the wording "We value your privacy" even better. It carries more connection to money.

  • Fedi design needs to evolve for privacy -- for anonymous posting

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