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Osiris

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Author of BatteryBar, which aims to be the best battery meter available. http://batterybarpro.com
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Osiris··on FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems
Or of just a power outage or driver causing a loss of write back cache.

95 and 98 and ME crashed on a regular basis. I specifically remember upgrading from ME to XP and being so happy with the massively improved stability of the NT kernel over the 9x kernels.

If you think that's 9x was stable and reliable, you may be thinking very nostalgicly.

Osiris··on Kagi Reaches 50k Users
I've been a paying member for a while now. I'm happy to support a company that isn't Google or Microsoft for search.
Osiris··on Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo
Use the GitHub CLI.

You can do nearly everything the website does entirely in the terminal.

Osiris··on Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds
The 180-page injunction outline the reason for it and the goals of the injunction. They knew the court ruled against them for specific reasons but came up with a solution that didn't take into account any of the stated goals into account.

Their solution didn't address any of the goals of the injunction.

IANAL.

Osiris··on Apple violated antitrust ruling, judge finds
At some point it has to be documented as to the decisions made and the reasoning.

If there is literally no documentation up until the final moment, doesn't that itself act as evidence that they were consciously and deliberately not wanting their reasoning documented?

Why not just do the right thing. Damn.

Osiris··on Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
The end of the order says that they are referring the issue to the DoJ for criminal charges, which is where a fine would be issued if found guilty.
Osiris··on Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
The breach being that they offered a payment method outside of Apple Pay. That's exactly what he said.
Osiris··on Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
Fauci? What does he have to do with Apple?
Osiris··on Judge rules Apple executive lied under oath, makes criminal contempt referral
Given that the CFO encouraged Cook to violate the court order tells me that they calculated that

1. Any fines for not complying would be less than what they would lose by complying

2. That no individual would suffer any consequences for blatantly disobeying a court order.

In my opinion, the whole concept that a company can break the law but no human can be held responsible is insane.

I really hope that criminal charges are brought against those involved in making a conscious choice to both lie to the court and ignore the court order. Hopefully that will make other executives think twice when put in the same situation.

Osiris··on Redis is open source again
My guess is most people are using Redis via cloud providers. Did any cloud providers switch away from Redis?
Osiris··on Writing "/etc/hosts" breaks the Substack editor
I understand applying path filters in URLS and search strings, but I find it odd that they would apply the same rules to request body content, especially content encoded as valid JSON, and especially for a BLOG platform where the content would be anything.
Osiris··on Pipelining might be my favorite programming language feature
It was also replaced with the Composite proposal, which is similar but not exactly the same.
Osiris··on Layered Design in Go
What do you mean by "can't"?

"Can not" means "not possible", but it's clearly possible.

Osiris··on Gumroad’s license wouldn’t meet the widely regarded definition of open source
It seems to me what they are really doing is offering a free self-hosting license to businesses that make less than a given amount in sales.

This allows them to offer a free "plan" without incurring the hosting costs of providing the service.

Osiris··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
Clearly not ALL users are happy because users of non-Apple watches are unhappy that their watch can do things with Android it's not allowed to do on iOS.

It's not reasonable to make a blanket absolutist statement like that.

Osiris··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
And yet Apple has shown many times a willingness to use vague language of their rules to block apps they don't want. Past behavior can't predict future behavior.
Osiris··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
The reason is irrelevant. Apple watches can do things that Apple doesn't allow other non-Apple devices to do.

The law doesn't care why they choose to do it. The result of the decision is what constitutes illegal monopoly behavior.

Osiris··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
Really? Did you have to pair your Apple watch? Did Apple sign the software on the watch? Did Apple build special APIs and tools into iOS to support certain features of the Apple Watch?

Apple is demonstrating here that they can control every aspect of what you can do with your phone, including not allowing Pebble to work.

Apple doesn't even allow you to replace broken parts in your phone unless it has an Apple approved signature that can be validated.

Osiris··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
Source? What data do you have that "prohits unsafe choices" is the only or #1 reason that people buy an iPhone over an Android?
Osiris··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
Microsoft absolutely got in trouble for purposefully making other Office suites not work correctly on Windows, for using private Windows APIs in Office that other companies didn't have access to, etc.

If Apple makes a watch that can receive and send iMessages then there is no reason any other device shouldn't be able to use the same APIs that Apple uses.

It absolutely creates a system where competitors literally cannot compete with the same features.

Osiris··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
Wouldn't "see my text messages on my watch" be included in "works pretty well?"
Osiris··on Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones
I get plenty of spam texts on iMessage. Can you elaborate on what you mean by "cesspit"?
Osiris··on The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time
Looking at the top end chart, which flat lined, it seems that the biggest contributor would be a slower release cycle of the most performant chips. It looks like the score of the top end chips were dragging up the average. With the top spot not changing, the average is falling.

I'm curious what median and std dev look like.

Osiris··on The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time
The GPU being a bottleneck over the CPU is only in very specific scenarios.

Can you be more specific about what message you're trying to convey?

Osiris··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
But now they are breaking the law by turning it back on.
Osiris··on University of Alabama Engineer Pioneers New Process for Recycling Plastics (2024)
Yeah, we're not going to build car parts, laptops, phones, keyboards, etc. out of glass. Plastics are in everything.
Osiris··on Do Kwon pleads not guilty to US fraud charges in $40B crypto collapse
Give it to all the people that lost money in the scam? Isn't that generally what those settlements are for?
Osiris··on From where I left
I look at bun in the JS ecosystem like this. They are open source for now but also backed by VCs. They will have to make money at some point.

I have no interest in engaging with that product just to have a new pricing model thrown my way and disrupt everything.

Osiris··on Show HN: A macOS app to prevent sound quality degradation on AirPods
This is really a Bluetooth issue. The same happens with any headphones that have a mic on any OS.

When Bluetooth mode is switched from Headphones to Headset (with mic), only much lower quality audio codes are used.

Does anyone know if Bluetooth 6 adds support for higher quality codes for Headset?

It's a big issue, in my opinion.

Osiris··on Removing stuff is never obvious yet often better
How did you reach the conclusion that the company has too many employees from that one sentence?
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