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VladStanimir

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VladStanimir··on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
What do you mean force to use ai overview? AI overview is just the 1st result, you just scroll down and the legacy search results are still there.
VladStanimir··on The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart
Involution in the context of China laying flat means you work harder and harder only to stay in place with no chance of getting ahead. In China they work 12h day 6 day a week and still have 0 change to buy a home, start a family, etc. The lying flat movement is about giving up on the rat race and working just enough to get by because going above and beyond only get you working yourself to death for no tangible benefit.
VladStanimir··on I changed my license
You can't be stealing what is given away for free. Developers that choose copileft license want to see al changes shared under the same license. Developers that choose permissive want their code to be of use to as many developers as possible for whatever they want to use it for.
VladStanimir··on The RAM shortage could last years
I don't think its from the ML collapse FUD, its most likely from the multiple time's in the past when they overbuilt and it resulted in a memory oversupply and price collapses. The 1985–1988, 1993–1994, 1998–2002 and the post pandemic oversupply. These were all cases where shortages followed by over corrections caused oversupply, financial losses due to low prices and fewer surviving companies. I think they're taking their time and are cautiously adding more capacity in such a way that prices won't end up collapsing again. Regardless, the result is still that we the consumers have to pay more.
VladStanimir··on The RAM shortage could last years
They won't be, prices are high because they are refusing to build capacity for demand that may evaporated by the time they are done. They are holding back and building only enough so when the bubble pops they will be fine.
VladStanimir··on The Seasons Are Wrong
This article does not take into consideration seasonal lag, where temperature trails behind sunlight by 4 to 8 weeks. So while the solstice in June is peak sunlight August is peak temperature, so summer being mid June to mid September with august being the hottest time of year makes sense.
VladStanimir··on Systemd BirthDate Merge: Conflicts of Interest
I don't see the problem with the systemd DOB merger, the DOB will have to be stored somewhere and systemd already has a place where user information is securely stored so they added a new field to the user database.

The alternative is not that no DOB will be stored is that it will end up stored in 20 different locations on the filesystem.

VladStanimir··on KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd
I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding here.

A multiuser system is a system where multiple users are logged in at the same time and ussing the computer.

So a multi-user desktop Linux would be a computer where multiple people are logged in each with their own desktop session on the same machine.

That was the way unix was first used, a big computer somewhere with multiple client terminals connected to it all doing their own thing. This is the environment x11 came about as well.

Nowadays even if the computer is shared by multiple people each with their own account only one of them is using it at a time.

VladStanimir··on Microsoft's Azure Linux
Is this available for wsl? Is there there a site that documents what packedges are available? Is this purely a cli distro or does it have a graphical environment?
VladStanimir··on Devuan – Debian Without Systemd
From the project documentation: "The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System." The application does not require xorg it requires an x11 server.

It just so happens that until recently xorg was the only game in town as far as Linux x11 servers are concerned.

VladStanimir··on EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'
Unfortunately Greenland as a whole has 50.000 people in total of which 20.000 live in largest city and the rest scattered across 19 others. Thats about the size of a small town in the US, the country may be big in territory but not in population.
VladStanimir··on Why Prefer Textfiles? (2010)
This site is being deliver over HTTP instead of HTTPS, that is why it appears as insecure.
VladStanimir··on Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)
The thing about having morality-based restrictions to the license is that there is no well defined legal standard for good and evil.

Creating such license will indeed discourage lawful corporations from making use of it because of the legal uncertainty.

It will discourage open source projects for making use of it because it's not open source and it's incompatible either from a legal or philosophical standpoint.

The only ones who would not discourage would be the ones you actually want to prevent using it since they would likely not care about the license terms at all and just use it regardless.

The end result would be essentially a dead project that would be either ignored by the programmer community if it started out with this license or be forked like what happened when other open source projects switched licenses example redis being replaced by valkey.

VladStanimir··on A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification
I am not a app developer however from what I read on the android developer site you just need to provide some form of id, the singing key and the app id.

You don't have to distribute via the app store, you dont have to get Googles permission to publish the app or have them sign it.

This looks like purely app validation, we only run apps we can prove originate from the author.

VladStanimir··on Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
I tried with copilot and got this answer: Nope—there is no official seahorse emoji, and there never has been one. It’s one of those quirky cases of the Mandela Effect, where tons of people (and even some AI models!) are convinced they’ve seen or used it before. Some remember it being blue, orange, or facing a certain direction, but it’s all collective misremembering.

Interestingly, a seahorse emoji was proposed to Unicode but got rejected back in 2018. So if you’ve ever tried to send one and ended up with or instead… you’re not alone.

Would you like to see what a custom seahorse emoji might look like? I could help you imagine one.

VladStanimir··on The Gold Card
Does not sound that differend from the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa the US already has except for the fact that you gift the money to the feds instead of investing it in a company with 10 employees.
VladStanimir··on No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
I use copilot for search, in one of two ways. The first is as an advanced search where i use the answer to gauge if it found what i am looking for then follow the links for details. The second is when i am looking for some information i once knew and i remember some details, like the title of a book i remember the plot points too, then when i find it i go do something with that information.
VladStanimir··on Third party cookies must be removed
You are correct, although its more correct to say there a only 3 major browser engines, Blink (used by all chromium derivatives), WebKit (used by Safari and some minor browsers), Gecko (used by Firefox and its derivatives). Creating a browser engine is hard, so hard that even a multi billion dollar company like Microsoft gave up on doing it. And we may soon witness Gecko going away as a side effect of the Google antitrust lawsuit.
VladStanimir··on Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty
Speaking as someone from Europe i remember the time we switched from a local social media site to Facebook on mass because Facebook was a better experience.

So a better platform is a must have if the EU wants the digital sovereign social media to have any traction. Most people just don't care enough about abstract concepts like digital sovereignty to move to a worse platform.

VladStanimir··on Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web
What do you mean? I have the new version of Tampermonkey installed and after turning on developer mode in the extensions section all my scripts work perfectly. https://www.tampermonkey.net/faq.php?locale=en#Q209
VladStanimir··on Mercedes-Benz Drives Toward Solid-State EV Batteries
I remember watching a video 3 years ago by Tom Scott about trucks with overhed power like trains have. https://youtu.be/_3P_S7pL7Yg
VladStanimir··on DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next
The big question is, would it keep that market share without Google. The big selling point of Google Chrome is the seamless integration with all the other Google services.
VladStanimir··on Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?
There are 3 major web browser engines out there atm, WebKit, Blink and Gecko. Gecko is developed by Mozilla, Blink by Google and WebKit by Apple. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#WebKit-...
VladStanimir··on Microsoft Publisher will no longer be supported after October 2026
I think Scribus was mentioned as an alternative to MS Publisher.
VladStanimir··on Global sales of combustion engine cars have peaked
The problem with electric cars is charging infrastructure in cites. An electric bike or scooter can be brought indoors to charge.
VladStanimir··on The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks
And its not like confiscating his property would do much. Like most billionaires his wealth is almost entirely stocks which while theoretically liquid would loose most of its value if you tried to sell it all at once.
VladStanimir··on Why I quit: kernel developer Con Kolivas (2007)
I am rearely involved in ops, however from what i have gathered i think its killer feature is the exact thing most people complain about when talking about it.

Systemd is not an init system, its an entirely system layer that does a lot of things of which init is just one piece.

However since there is a unified vision, all the things are controlled and configured the same way. This combined with its near universal adoption makes ops realy easy to do.

VladStanimir··on Windows 365 Link: The New Device That Imprisons Users in Microsofts Cloud
The cost of 30 to 300 is the cost of the cloud pc, with or without this device. The device just provides a secure way to access it.

For context

For 30 you get 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM,64 GB Storage. For 300 you get 16 vCPU,64 GB RAM, 1 TB Storage.

https://www.microsoft.com/en/windows-365/enterprise/all-pric...

VladStanimir··on Mozilla: Proposals in US vs. Google threaten vital role of independent browsers
Honestly with out Google's money i think Mozilla is more likely then not to drop Firefox development in favor of ads and AI.
VladStanimir··on Ask HN: Does retro computing make you feel younger or older?
For me retro computers mean pc runing ms dos or windows 3.1 or 95/98, and they make me feal nostalgic.

Anything before that makes me younger, in a look at the neat things the old people used to use.

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