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Kukumber··on US Government demands direct police access to European biometric data [pdf]
They'll accept and they'll give them the keys, oh wait, Microsoft already has it all
Kukumber··on 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
Your points doesn't make sense since you expect Linux to be Windows, it is not Windows

If you need Windows you use Windows

If you need an OS that is configurable and open, you use Linux

If you don't like to configure your OS, then you don't use Linux

That's not "elitism", that's respecting the work done by countless people to offer a free and configurable OS without strings attached

There is FUD in OP's comment since my original reply to tell people to use what empowers them got downvoted, -3 pts right now

"FUD: Fear, uncertainty and doubt is a propaganda tactic used in sales, marketing, public relations, politics, polling and cults. FUD is generally a strategy to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information and a manifestation of the appeal to fear."

Kukumber··on 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
> On laptops I’ve repeatedly failed to get the correct battery life

You have to configure for it https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management

Linux doesn't know nor care about what machine you use, it could be a microcontroller without battery to a datacenter to a laptop to a console, configure for what you use, it's not "windows for Intel PCs, RISC? what is that? fuck off"

> I’ve also struggled with audio working correctly and reliably.

That is very hard to believe, my bluetooth headset worked out of the box

> with the exception of steam deck and switch that have a carefully tuned and tightly controlled OS distribution for a carefully chosen hw configuration

That exactly prove my point, users usually misconfigured their OS, the moment you configure your Linux OS, just like Valve did, with your distro of choice to suit your HW, then everything works as expected, that's a one time job

If that workflow doesn't suit you, then linux is not for you, and that's ok

> Pointing the finger at the user is emblematic of the problems Linux has when people say it isn’t suitable for the desktop (and these days they mean laptop).

Because that's the reality of it, the problem is the user who expect things to work for him while ignoring its dimensional capabilities

That's not a linux problem, that's a user problem, it's arrogant and selfish to expect "Linux" to work just for your specific HW and specific usecase and all of the effort should be dedicated to you, just you, for your own sake

Do like valve did with steam deck and configure your Linux OS for your HW, if you are not ready for that, then use windows or macos

Kukumber··on Microsoft accidentally revealed a UI design prototype for the next Windows
always more and more vertical space wasted

16:9 is the most popular aspect ratio on desktop, there is no valid reason to waste more vertical space

that's poor UX

Kukumber··on 2022 was the year of Linux on the Desktop?
Bugs? sounds like they misconfigured their OS

Linux is not a commercial product that'll suit everyone all at once, you need to learn about its components, linux is just a kernel

If your argumentation is "various linux bugs", then you should stick to Windows, it has nice "various windows bugs", or macos, it has nice "various macos bugs"

There must be a reason why linux empowers the world from micro controllers to datacenters as well as the Steam Deck and the nintendo switch for its FreeBSD variant

Use what empowers you, no need to spread FUD

Kukumber··on Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation
Nice use of low altitude satellites to track individuals and sniff telecoms all over the world

This decompiled object class also spy on the grid network, that's quite interesting and very clever

I never knew we could also lobby governments to push for some office and cloud software full of spyware, even France had to ban them! [1]

This TikTok app is very dangerous!

Of course /s

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33686599

Kukumber··on Iran’s Online Crackdown Prompts Smuggling of Starlink Kits
When Starlink works in close relationship with the US army, one can suspect some military purposes [1, 2, 3]

Specially when they get caught red handed like in Ukraine

They then quickly pushed the smoke narrative wich consist of: "US gov please help us fund Starlink to help Ukrainians keep access to the internet, why do you refuse"

Some interesting food: https://www.nytimes.com/1979/08/30/archives/a-scramble-for-t...

[1] - https://www.ft.com/content/df032357-51e7-4635-baaa-f053dcc0c...

[2] - https://spacenews.com/spacex-l3harris-win-space-development-...

[3] - http://www.stdaily.com/English/BusinessNews/202206/4dfa8c1ad...

Kukumber··on TSMC said to be considering first European semiconductor plant
> A TSMC plant in the EU would be a boon for Germany, which already has an Intel plant planned in Magdeburg. But the chip giant is said to be delaying construction in order to seek further public subsidies for the project, citing increased costs as one reason for the rethink.

Germany should build their own industry instead of giving away their money, you didn't become Germany by subsidizing Ford or Toyota

Kukumber··on DuckDuckGo Will Automatically Block Google’s Sign-In Popups
Funny coming from the people who helped spread Bing trackers for years
Kukumber··on Web IDE Beta
Oh, people are free to like what ever they want

Specially the people who have a short memory and forgot about the recent Python extension controversy

Screw them!

Considering we were warned already from that company, remember dotnet hotreload?

https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/microsoft_net_hot_rel...

When your sole choice becomes their sole product, one should have reacted in the past

Kukumber··on Web IDE Beta
That's a very bad signal..

Where did all the investor money go? just to slap vscode?

I sincerely hope Sublime Text open sources its editor so the community can hack together a WASM version of ST..

Things are not looking great

Kukumber··on Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
all my work is open source, so i don't mind the licence, it's dual licensed if i remember correctly, GPL or commercial

thanks for letting me know about civetweb, looks like it is based on a very old version?

Kukumber··on Istanbul mayor jailed for 'insulting' officials ahead of 2023 election
Now you rewrite what i wrote, i suggest you read again my original message, and follow the source

> admitted you have no evidence

forget about me, i am a nobody, i'm not a judge or a CIA agent, maybe you are, good for you

Here some evidence: https://www.ahaber.com.tr/gundem/2017/11/11/15-temmuzun-kili...

And here some lecture: http://repository.bilkent.edu.tr/bitstream/handle/11693/3259...

Kukumber··on Istanbul mayor jailed for 'insulting' officials ahead of 2023 election
I'm not a CIA agent, why would i have secret and confidential information?

Turkey's intelligence has, read the source

Kukumber··on Mozilla to explore healthy social media alternative
The sad fate of mozilla, they are reaching new lows trying to find room by surfing on the buzz
Kukumber··on Ask HN: Resources for Building a Webserver in C?
For embedded: https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/
Kukumber··on WebAssembly and its platform targets
wrong, there is no complexity

    clang --target=wasm32
That's it, you target WASM

People somewhere decided that it was too easy and went ahead to bloat everything with Emscripten, WASI and the like

Here is all you need to know to target WASM: https://schellcode.github.io/webassembly-without-emscripten

The only target for WASM is the browser, everything else is just bloat and a waste of energy

Kukumber··on TikTok’s Secret Sauce
blatant lie

Tate and Rogan and the likes all originate from Youtube/Instagram, Youtube is known for tasteless prank videos, it's full of politic content

On TikTok it's people dancing, DIY tutorials, travels, cooking stuff and cats

Send me a screenshot of your TikTok homepage vs your Youtube trending homepage ;)

Kukumber··on Istanbul mayor jailed for 'insulting' officials ahead of 2023 election
Follow the source, and do research on the different protagonists, it's quite obvious, it's quite similar with a recent event in Iran, there were legitimate protests against an evil regime, i don't deny that and i support the protests, Iranians deserve a better future and an independent sovereign revolution, but there were help from the west, one of them, France, got caught [1], they probably have been tortured and manipulated to lie, but their presence there is already suspicious

It's similar to the position in Ukraine, officially Israel is not there, but when you dig through the propaganda, you find some gems [2]

[1] - https://www.thelocal.fr/20221006/iran-state-tv-airs-alleged-...

[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhXevYcytRc&t=30s

I should conclude with:

don't get me wrong, i support the mission and the goal, i just question the methods and i challenge the dogma

Kukumber··on Honey consumption improves blood sugar and cholesterol levels, study suggests
title: "honey consumption improves.."

content: "honey consumption MAY improve"

".. when consumed within a healthy dietary pattern"

let's share this article!

Kukumber··on TikTok’s Secret Sauce
> Tiktok just wanted your data for the CCP

Is it?

Now that YouTube copied them with Shorts, shouldn't we be worried about YouTube having an influence over our youth with their secret algorithm too?

Considering Google's origin partly lies within the CIA/NSA which is basically the US government [1]

[1] - https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-ci...

Kukumber··on Lichess gets a big upgrade. It doesn't go as planned
The power of open source!

Congrats to lichess and everyone involved who helped!

Kukumber··on XFCE 4.18
Issues i have with the path bar (from the top of my head)

1. it is not permanent, it disappears and never remember anything

2. it doesn't respect the paths (can't navigate)

3. i don't want to play a keyboard shortcuts game

That's just one of the issues i have with the Gnome Filepicker, there is also the mounted disks that appears like it's a mobile UX, and many more, i have a document with everything that i hate about it, but i'm not on my PC to share it, it is an UX disaster

I wish i could use Thunar as a filepicker, that would be perfect

Kukumber··on Istanbul mayor jailed for 'insulting' officials ahead of 2023 election
Made up coup?

There was clear signs of both CIA/Mossad involvement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Turkish_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

Kukumber··on XFCE 4.18
It is in my favorite Desktop Environment

I moved to XFCE when Canonical announced going back to Gnome 3

I wish they'd replace the Gnome filepicker too, that is the worst piece of garbage i ever seen, you can't even manually type a path!!

Kukumber··on Elon Musk Sells at Least $3.58B Worth of Tesla Shares
I thought the current events would lead him to take Tesla private, so that move is surprising

Unless that move is to further drop the price of $TSLA so he can buy it all many months later for a discount and then make it private

Yeah i think i'm into something nasty ;)

Kukumber··on JetBrains AppCode being sunsetted
AppCode i can understand, but the Swift plugin for CLion too? That's surprising, considering Apple is now maintaining a full featured LSP server implementation, so now VSCode users can do Swift dev

They have Fleet wich should support LSP, but i'm not sure if that product will be successful, they have a lot of work to do with regard to performance (cpu/memory), and based on the recent public preview, it's built with the wrong foundation for that matter

Kukumber··on Consoles and competition
You know this article is bullshit when they don't mention xbox exclusives in their illustrations

That's clearly a pro-microsoft PoV doing a subjective analysis of the situation

Kukumber··on US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved
> it seems like a stretch to attribute the innovation to the milk, rather than to the mind of the individual who may or may not have been fueled by milk?

What ever it been fueled with, knowledge wasn't created at an individual's birth, it's an accumulation of a collective and shared effort

The point i was trying to make in my post is; it always starts from the people, for the people to continue, for the people to achieve a civilizational ascension

If we build the means to generate infinite energy for free, then we'll have to ask ourselves if giving that much power to the individual a safe endeavor, or if we should make sure the prospect is for the collective to ascend

Thanks to this achievement, many will learn from it and acquire knowledge to pursue that goal, would it be the case if it was a solo for profit effort? i doubt it greatly

The open source tech industry thrives because it's a collective and shared effort, funding issue persists but that's due to us, individuals, living civilization's transition, it'll be a solved problem shortly

Kukumber··on US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved
Without the accessibility of their public library, and public workers to guide them, they would have never been able to acquire the required knowledge in aeronautics
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