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  • We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why

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  • See things is, I'm a Brit. Water and rail are going to be brought back under groverment control because running them privately has failed. Buses are another one where when the local government has taken back over, services have improved. Partly because they are run providing a service, not a profit.

    Certain bit of society's infrastructure is better run at a loss for the better running of the wider economy. If every bit is run at a profit, the whole can be less profitable. Most countries don't have all private road system. France has lot of private motorways, which are strangely empty, because the local avoid them because of cost. Like the M6 Toll in the UK.

  • Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades

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  • I have lived quite happily, on pretty much only open source for over 12 years now. Professionally and at home (longer at home). Debian I put with Wikipedia as an example of what humans can be.

    There is no gate keepers in who can do what where. Only on who will accept the patches. Projects fork for all kinds of reasons, though even Google failed to fork the Linux kernel. If there is some good patch to extend the filename limit, it will get in. Enough pressure and maybe the core team of that subsystem will do it.

    Open source already won I'm affriad. Most of the internet, IoT to super computers, runs open source. Has been that way for a while. If you use Windows, fine, but it is just a consumer end node OS for muggels. 😉

    If you setup a new install, and say you want encryption, LUKS is what you get.

  • "In The Beginning Was The Command Line" An essay by Neal Stephenson that talks about proprietary operating systems and FOSS operating systems. Written in 1999.

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  • That's not fair. Multiple books of his books are award winning. Even if you only like one, the critics rate him. Other writers, rate him.

  • "In The Beginning Was The Command Line" An essay by Neal Stephenson that talks about proprietary operating systems and FOSS operating systems. Written in 1999.

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  • That's the sequel to Ender's Game. It is good, but it is Orson Scott Card.

  • People Ask Why Some Root Their Device and For Me This is Why

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  • Didn't when I tried when on LineageOS. I needed that bank app for work, so got a Pixel and switched to GrapheneOS. The bank app works, and it is useful to be able to on and off Google Maps (because of traffic routing and search, when compared to Organic Maps). But LineageOS worked better. GrapheneOS has more bugs and a small community.

  • Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades

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  • Linus's VFS is where the 256 limit is hard. Some Linux filesystem, like RaiserFS, go way beyond it. If it was a big deal, it would be patched and widely spread. The magic of Linux, is you can try it yourself, run your own fork and submit patches.

    LUKS is the one to talk about as the others aren't as good an approach in general. LUKS is the recommended approach.

    Edit: oh and NTFS is 512 bytes. UTF16 = 16bit = 2 bytes. 256*2 = 512

  • We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why

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  • You prefer your monopolies to not be democratically accountable?

    I prefer no monopolies, but if it's something that is a natural monopoly, I certainly don't want it by a for profit foreign company.

    Maybe the answer is to split these guys up by country and each government decides what they do with their chunk. We'll see which works best.

    Independent not for profits, straight up nationalised, private still(baby Bell), publicly owned and privately run, etc etc.

  • "In The Beginning Was The Command Line" An essay by Neal Stephenson that talks about proprietary operating systems and FOSS operating systems. Written in 1999.

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  • It's a good read, but he then back on it all and went all Apple. So it's a bit bitter sweat. Snow Crash is probably better.

  • Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades

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  • Of course UTF8 is Unicode. The cool thing about UTF8 is that is ASCII, until it isn't. It cover all of Unicode, but doesn't need any bloat if you are just doing latin characters. Plus UTF8 will seamless go through ASCII code and things that understand it do, others just have patches of jibberish, but still work otherwise. It's a way better approach. Better legacy handling and more efficient packing for latin languages. Which is why it "won" out. UTF16 pretty much only exists in Windows because it's legacy it will be hard for it to escape.

    LUKS is by far the most common encryption setup on Linux. It's done at block layer and the filesystem doesn't know about it. No effect of filename length, or anything else.

  • Microsoft boosts Windows’ FAT32 partition size limit after nearly three decades

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  • NTFS also has a 255 limit, but it's UTF16, so for unicode, you will get more out of it. High price to pay for UTF16. Windows basically is moving stuff between UTF16 and ASCII all the time. Most apps are ASCII but Windows is natively UTF16. All other modernly maintained OS do UTF8, which "won" unicode.

    The fact that all major Unix (not just Linux) filesystems are to 255 bytes says it's not a feature in demand.

    I'd much rather have COW subvolume snapshotting and incremental backup of btrfs or zfs. Plus all the other things Linux has over Windows of course.

  • Justice Department considering push for historic break up of Google after landmark antitrust ruling: report

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  • May I recommended watching "The YouTube Effect" if you don't see the problem with big tech companies.

  • Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens

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  • The app will almost certainly mostly be just wrapping a web interface. But this dedicated browser can provide the site with all the access of an app. The idea will be only this browser can be trusted to access this site and can check the run environment before connects. I'm they'd do the same on the desktop, if they thought it would be swallowed.

  • Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens

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  • I do blame Google. It's their platform. They could mandate upstream kernels.

    They could define auto discoverablity for their platform hardware. Then it would be possible for generic ROMs to boot on any Android phone.

  • 3D printer maker Bambu Lab faces patent infringement lawsuits that could threaten hobbyist 3D printing in general

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  • These patents seam trivial obvious ones. Hope they get knocked down during the case.

  • Custom ROMs have had just about enough of being Android's second-class citizens

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  • Why does this call the problem by it's name, monopoly.

    Android is another area Google are abusing their monopoly. Sure the phone market is a duopoly, but that doesn't help. Apple is even more locked down and user abusing.

    Lots of app companies, like bank apps, think locking their apps to only work on official Android is best for security, but that compounds the monopoly. It's also arguably less secure!

  • Woman 'who first shared lies that sparked UK riots' arrested

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  • It has many appliances and no doubt many names. But it's easy to work out on first principals. Without a system of enforced rules, ass holes take over and ruin it for everyone (including themselves). Places without law and order are a mess and normally end up with laws set by war/drug lord. Until they are murdered and the next one takes over.

  • Woman 'who first shared lies that sparked UK riots' arrested

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  • I think it's also regulation and a legal system. Anarchy doesn't work. It's a Tragedy Of The Commons problem. It's always ruined by a few ass holes. The Commons need a mechanism to weed itself. I.e. Rules and enforcement of those rules.

    Problem is Xitter is a centralized closed monopoly thing owned by a crazy near trillionaire. The Commons has no control of it. It's a diseased setup.

  • Cannabis: Drug production booming in UK's empty high streets

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  • It is worse still. Gifting such a lucrative market to the criminal underground, funnels a lot of money to organized crime. Wouldn't surprise if they are influencing to keep the status quo.

  • US Court Rules Google a Monopoly in 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century'.

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  • 'Biggest Antitrust Case of the 21st Century' so far...

  • Thames, Yorkshire and Northumbrian Water face £168m fines for sewage spills

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  • Renationalise and sue the old owners and management for as much as we can claw back. It's been a complete con.