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johnlorentzsonon 'It's hard to find maintainers': Linus Torvalds ponders Linux's future

"rescuing"

johnlorentzsonon A Few More Reasons Rust Compiles Slowly

Some things are best optimized by the actual compiler.

johnlorentzsonon Dangerzone: Convert potentially dangerous PDFs, documents, or images to safe PDF

This kind of makes me wonder why PDFs can even act maliciously in the first place. Why does it have the ability to do these things?

johnlorentzsonon GuiLite: Small, cute GUI effects you can reuse

There's quite a bit of engrish on that page. That combined with the logo doesn't really give a good first impression. That aside, it looks pretty interesting.

johnlorentzsonon Emulation of Unix V6 on a PDP-11 with an emulated teletype

UNIX and everything surrounding it is built around the shell though.

johnlorentzsonon Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018)

Because it's become a standard that almost everyone is expected to use.

johnlorentzsonon Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018)

The tickets have no way of identifying you unless you register on their website. You could always just get rid of your card and get a new one when you want to.

johnlorentzsonon Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning

Ah, right. I don't know how I forgot about cache and RAM.

johnlorentzsonon Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning

Forgive me if this should be obvious, but why would a simple read from a pointer take so many cycles?

johnlorentzsonon Smart Algorithms beat Hardware Acceleration for Large-Scale Deep Learning

It can be simplified as "than is a comparison between two things, then is for referring to a time".

johnlorentzsonon Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018)

Looks like I know where I'm going if Sweden turns to shit.

johnlorentzsonon Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018)

I never thought I'd see "IBM" and "holocaust" in the same sentence, but here I am.

johnlorentzsonon Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018)

Swish and its identification system "Bank ID" are both owned and operated by for-profit companies. The clients only run on certain operating systems and they're actively preventing custom clients.

An app on your phone is not an alternative to handing a bill to someone.

johnlorentzsonon Swedes rebelling against a cashless society (2018)

I'm Swedish and this stuff makes me really worried. Especially since the main way for two people to exchange small amounts of money is through a proprietary app that uses a proprietary ID system (owned by a for-profit company) that only runs on iOS, Android, Windows and Mac.

I really hope this trend dies off, a cash-less society is a terrible idea.

I will say, however, that buses not taking cash is perfectly fine. They use NFC/RFID ticket cards which can't identify you. Not being able to buy tickets with cash is a little less fine.

johnlorentzsonon Show HN: HiddenVM – Use any desktop OS without leaving a trace

If you go so far as to modify the hard drive firmware, you probably already use full-disk encryption.

johnlorentzsonon CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line

Genera runs best inside a virtual machine of an old version of Ubuntu. I was able to install it when I followed this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12USa3gU_oU.

johnlorentzsonon CLUI: Building a Graphical Command Line

This reminds me a bit of the Dynamic Lisp Listener from Symbolics Genera-based Lisp machines.

johnlorentzsonon Cloud Vision API will not return gendered labels such as 'man' and 'woman'

Automatic gender detection should certainly not be used for data entry where the data is of any real consequence (even if we ignored trans/non-binary people), simply due to the fact that it can't be proven to be perfect.