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Palomides··on Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9
modern tls libraries on classic macs has been available for at least 6 years, and was pretty easily possible sooner if anyone bothered, no AI needed
Palomides··on The death and rebirth of my home server
I work on embedded linux machines that go a decade plus in active use with micro sd cards, it's not a problem at all
Palomides··on Judge a book by its first pages
you're attributing a lot of intent to the details of a site that is almost certainly 100% AI generated
Palomides··on Benchmarking 15 “E-Waste” GPUs with Modern Workloads
for some of these gpus you can set a very reduced power limit for modest reduction in performance, tdp is not the full story
Palomides··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
you can install openwrt on basically any x86 mini-pc, works fine
Palomides··on Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own
modos has a 6" kit and a 13" monitor, but not aware of any 10" screens

https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-paper-monitor/#...

https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-flow#products

Palomides··on Open Source Low Tech
I dunno, saying they don't have a use for a computer seems incorrect to me, even in the poorest parts of the world today, a substantial minority have acquired their own computer that's cheap, small, efficient, has a built in long distance radio, can run arbitrary software, doesn't require reliable electricity (I mean cell phones)

obviously it's a different technological and economic today compared to 2005, but still, "the global poor don't need computers" is questionable just based on the fact that they are spending their own money to get them

Palomides··on Open Source Low Tech
it's very easy to verge into OLPC type thinking with this, you probably should just give them normal bikes instead of trying to come up with some bespoke DIY-able system
Palomides··on The Doorman's Fallacy in action
if we had a standardized way to deliver packages like we do mail (the heavily regulated mailbox!) this would not be a problem, it's a phenomenal waste of human effort to navigate this uniquely for every location

it's not like a doorman where there's useful social interaction

Palomides··on Is it time for a new Embedded Linux build system?
I'm not very familiar with nix, how well does it do with cross compiling? is anyone actually using it for yocto sorts of domains?
Palomides··on Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers
have you tried OpenTabletDriver?
Palomides··on Why Drawing Tablet Brands Won't Collaborate on Linux Floss Drivers
quite happy with huion on linux
Palomides··on Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further
I think licensing anything from wacom or samsung is a big ask for a two person(?) project that's making a very small run of open source/open hardware devices
Palomides··on The UK's Teen Social Media Ban Is Political Theater, Not Child Safety Policy
what a wild comparison, millions (billions?) of humans have died from food-borne disease, and yet we do in fact still let people very casually sell food to the public (even unpasteurized milk in the US)
Palomides··on A whale necropolis has been found
funny that this summary is paywalled but the actual article is open access

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10546-z

Palomides··on Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? (2014) [pdf]
considering this is a review aggregating a bunch of small n studies from before we acknowledged the replication crisis in psychology, I'm going with "no"
Palomides··on Linux/M68k
yes, you can still run current debian on a 68k machine
Palomides··on I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)
most of the same obligations exist in the US, OP is probably just completely noncompliant
Palomides··on I made a million dollar product from my dorm room (2025)
neat product, but where's the FCC ID for an intentional radiator on it? your million dollar product can afford the legally required testing, right?
Palomides··on Photo GIMP – A Patch for GIMP 3 for Photoshop Users
the only possible lesson from blender I see is "receive millions of dollars a year from corporations"
Palomides··on MNT Reform is an open hardware laptop, designed and assembled in Germany
other than maybe some RAM related blobs I believe the mnt stuff is completely open in both ways

framework stuff is generally neither open hardware nor open software, intel and AMD don't permit it

Palomides··on Initial mainline video capture and camera support for Rockchip RK3588
I really feel like that should be table stakes if your entire business is making chips to run Linux, though

after working professionally with their stuff I'm really not a fan of Rockchip

Palomides··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
I meant something in-vehicle for ground vehicles, like an extremely simple extrapolation of current velocity and the extremely predictable trajectory of a plane, instead of depending on going back and forth over radio asking a very busy fallible human, but sure

even my cheap car has geofencing and automatic braking

I've worked on avionics professionally and I haven't crashed any of my planes yet...

Palomides··on Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia
an automated system that could check if a plane is about to land on a runway and show some kind of alert or red light is hardly a stretch of the imagination
Palomides··on Mayor of Paris removed parking spaces, reduced the number of cars
france has a really strong tradition of comics, it's not just manga
Palomides··on Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act
this position assumes the surveillance state or megacorps would be satisfied with a zero knowledge proof based ID/age verification system, which is not at all obvious to me

meta could spend their billions lobbying for that, if they wanted to

edit: to be clear, I do think a government developed and maintained ZKP ID/age system is the best possible compromise, I just don't think we have any chance of getting it

Palomides··on Universal vaccine against respiratory infections and allergens
calling the immune system simple and mechanical is completely wild, like half of americans have some kind of medically diagnosable immune dysfunction
Palomides··on No leap second will be introduced at the end of June 2026
you can use TAI (international atomic time, basically UTC without leap seconds) if you want to be serious about it

I'm a fan but it's rare for anyone else to agree!

Palomides··on Every single board computer I tested in 2025
not GP but I've found the install and upgrade experience for OpenWRT on larger machines is not great compared to the alternatives and normal Linux distros, everything is biased towards the use case of occasionally flashing/configuring little systems

I still use it though, can't complain in terms of actual routing/switching

Palomides··on Greg Kroah-Hartman Stretches Support Periods for Key Linux LTS Kernels
there's basically zero intersection between mainline linux version support timelines and android kernels as deployed on phones
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