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dingdingdang··on Brother refutes "false claims" that it bricked printers using third-party ink
Rossmann also wholesale recommends LibreWolf as a replacement for Firefox with full calm assurance despite the maintainer(s) obviously being anonymous and unvetted and there being no organisation behind the fork to serve as a legal entity.

A prior time he did this was with GrapheneOS which ended in tears when he had epic fallout with the primary maintainer and withdrew all support because.. no surprise.. all the security of that fork is in the pocket of a single individual who may or may not, as according to Rossmann, be stable any given day of the week.

We all make mistakes and I hope he will retract if needed but the attention economy is clearly an -attention- economy, not a truthful-content economy..

dingdingdang··on NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to “use Apple encryption”
Surely Apple's lawyers can use this information in court - the fact that the government itself is relying on, and recommending, citizens and (presumably) intelligence assets to use Apple's encryption technology abroad makes it VERY clear that outlawing said technology will systematically weaken ALL UK information infrastructure and make it 110% easier for foreign powers to exploit and sabotage the UK as whole.

edit: removed political quip since, as evidenced by sub-comments, it too easily derails from the primary discussion point, excuse-moi.

dingdingdang··on The weird Hewlett Packard FreeDOS option (2022)
The real pertinent question here is:

Can I install Win311 on it!?

dingdingdang··on How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps
My exact thought as well, simply point the user to a well established and proper channel for auto updates and then the dev simply needs to upload/release to said repos when a new version is put out. As an aside: Chocolatey is currently the only (stable/solid) way to consistently keep things up to date on the Win platform in my book.
dingdingdang··on Show HN: One year of bewCloud (a simpler Nextcloud alternative)
By all means prefer native rendering if possible
dingdingdang··on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
The /s is strong with this one.
dingdingdang··on Show HN: One year of bewCloud (a simpler Nextcloud alternative)
Any and all activity in this domain is appreciated! I used to run Nextcloud for a few companies but.. it's just subpar and like OP rightly states the complexity inherited is out of this world.
dingdingdang··on Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
I totally agree, I have long since accepted that this is how things are but.. that doesn't mean it's right.. it feels like browsers are overtly obstructing the use of the local system as a development platform and local-hosting option. This also includes base-line features like the JS localStorage API that only works when connected to a domain name (localhost is a no-go). That last one in particular just feels perverse to me - in NO WAY should that require a domain name, it feels anti-democratic and clunky as can be. It also 100% stops webapps from being local-first (i.e. I save an HTML/JS bundle to a folder and run the "app", it's automatically isolated to said folder) with network connectivity as a secondary option. If browsers could do the latter then it would be a death-blow to a lot of remaining platform-specific apps.
dingdingdang··on LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
Did the same back in the day with OpenOffice. MS Word would crash ad-hoc past a certain page count plus the auto-indexing feature of OO actually worked and was predictable. Also.. the styling was, if clunky, at least workable! Actually think the later versions of LibreOffice have started going down hill, heavier (initially the libre fork prided itself on being light-weight afair) and still as ugly as ever.
dingdingdang··on LibreOffice still kicking at 40, now with browser tricks and real-time collab
Congrats Adobe, you lost? (guess it depends on the pov, although I do think overall it's primarily a loss when a product is such a pain in the arse that ppl can't even be arsed to pirate it)
dingdingdang··on DeaDBeeF: The Ultimate Music Player
Can vouch for Audacious, clean straight-forward UI and neat plugin functionality if needed (along with equaliser functionality which is what originally got me on board). Bit of a heavy feel from QT backend though so I might try out DeaDBeeF..!
dingdingdang··on I still like Sublime Text
I'm aboard for sure!
dingdingdang··on I still like Sublime Text
I am in the exact opposite boat - AI is significantly improving my programming flow and having to use VSCode (well, VSCodium in my case) rather than something lightweight like Sublime is suboptimal - I would love a good plugin for LLM integration ala Cody and frankly that's the only way I could see myself as a paying customer.
dingdingdang··on Poland fumes over US block on AI chips
Could you elaborate on these tendrils (?) - I haven't looked at the Romanian situation from that vantage point.
dingdingdang··on Higher potassium intake at dinner linked to fewer sleep disturbances – study
Eloquent truth pointer right there! ;)
dingdingdang··on Show HN: Compile C to Not Gates
It always amazes me that this is possible (to some extend anyway, I mean, the base layer is binary so obviously simpler higher-end CPU instructions are possible!)

Is there any potential performance win in this? What I mean is; since this general direction could, in principle if not in practise, enable the targeting of say, the 5-10 most efficient CPU instructions rather than attempting to use the whole surface area... would this potentially be a win?

dingdingdang··on Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
> I love the EU but it certainly has its idiosyncrasies.

That is an acceptable position and you will likely nor require further investigation as long as the criticism remains vague and is offset by positive sentiment. I too love the EU.

dingdingdang··on TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona
Agree with this take. Additionally it brings geopolitical stability by not putting the onus on just one-to-two countries (Taiwan, US) to produce the majority of the worlds info-tech infrastructure. A 16nm process is still very very modern in the grander scope of things.

Be interesting to see if there's integration with research environments within the EU.. otherwise it could fizzle in terms of it's true potential positive impact.

dingdingdang··on TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona
Indeed, Apple* seem to be one of the only companies with the long term vision to integrate vertically and improve industry as a result. The short term pennies-on-the-dollar of outsourcing is just brain-dead and non-innovative.

*this is an observation from someone who has never bought a new apple product due to their increasingly closed eco-system

dingdingdang··on Uv's killer feature is pulling in local dependencies
Super neat re Willison article.. would something like this work under powershell though?!
dingdingdang··on Scanning ultrasound removes amyloid-β, restores memory in Alzheimer mouse model (2015)
Any indication of what frequencies are at play here? A regular ultrasound baby monitor is set at either 3Mhz or 2Mhz scan frequency and those have already been shown to induce stimulating effect when used on the head/brain afaicr.
dingdingdang··on Show HN: Tramway SDK – An unholy union between Half-Life and Morrowind engines
Are there any Godot FAQs or documentation with "blessed" paths for the various mainstay gamedev needs?!
dingdingdang··on Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths
"In Christianity life is about suffering. You're basically earning heaven points." I think you're conflating WoW with other people's faith somehow. YMMV
dingdingdang··on Yi Peng 3 crossed both cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke
Boarded according to: https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1859132263746744367
dingdingdang··on Russian family lived alone in the Siberian wilderness for 40 years (2013)
This story sure has done the rounds. I like it both in the particular and thematically speaking so perhaps there's a good non-tragic variation* on it out there to be found..?
dingdingdang··on Trump wins presidency for second time
"and I fear more wall building." - more wall building was instigated under Biden, this is practical reality rearing it's head not the political left/right.

*https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-67015137

dingdingdang··on Is the Q source the origin of the Gospels?
Yes, exactly this. Shutting down faith based by replacing it with another faith does not even satisfy basic "rational-lens" observation.

We are dealing with something that needs our attention (i.e. the origin and meaning of existence) not something that needs to be shut down by what is essentially even more religious (than religion itself!) behaviour. We have come a long way since Galileo and few, if any, of the major religions are themselves "anti-science" at this point so it's almost humorous that now is the time that science starts becoming faith based when it should by all means stick to Karl Poppers fundamental falsification thesis.

dingdingdang··on Is the Q source the origin of the Gospels?
Thanks for sharing your experience.. I do find that it's a lot of negativity expressed against Christians supposed lack of intellectual curiosity though. Especially given that this is off the back of a fairly* well written article concerning the origin of the gospels.

My own experience is completely opposite in that I grew up in a completely secular atheist environment and found it direly lacking in spiritual and philosophical enquiry and have later in life found faith. The type of Christianity I'm exposed to (ranging all the way from the Jesuit Teilhard de Chardin to modern day Baptism) is, and has been, a fresh breath of life for me and has lend me far more zest for science and life in general than atheism ever did. The caveat here is of course that I never attended a faith based university - I may well have ended up writing a very different comment!

*actually feel it's got a touch of GPT here and there..!

dingdingdang··on The Crisis in String Theory Is Worse Than You Think
Been following this via proxy, i.e. Sabine Hossenfelder, for a few years. The charges are very solid afaict.
dingdingdang··on Net 9.0 LINQ Performance Improvements
OK, so since I've never actually bothered to look at what LINQ actually is.. there may be others in the same boat: "LINQ allows you to query any enumerable collections such as List<T>, Array, or Dictionary<TKey,TValue>.". Got to admit I still find the LINQ to DB passtru rather opaque even after reading up on it: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30716776/passing-a-query...

Basically allowing for a uniform way to query data which is reminiscent of a more modern version of SQL (in my optics anyway). Does anything library wise come close to this within the Golang ecosystem?

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