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mackalon Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public License of Mastodon

Just because he's a "politician" doesn't mean he can violate the license.

mackalon “looks like Firefox quietly added ads into the address bar”

Google removed a feature I was using daily and replaced it with a different method that was 100% incompatible with my use case. Firefox works how I want with this, so I use Firefox.

mackalon Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC

Last time I participated in a discussion about adding a CoC to a project it boiled down to people just not liking that it's called a Code of Conduct. They agreed that we needed a basic set of rules etc for moderation purposes but opposed having a CoC, but they were fine as long long as it wasn't called a CoC. I neglected to point that out to them.

mackalon Imgur Acquired by Medialab

Imgur jumped the shark long ago.

mackalon Glenfiddich will use its own whisky waste to fuel its trucks

All the US legal documents spell it whisky.

mackalon Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge

lol, just got installed on my tablet. Wasn't there earlier.

mackalon Massachusetts health notifications app installed without users’ knowledge

This speculation is 100% wrong. I checked for this app after seeing this and had it listed under updates available (it was installed already)

So I decided to check if I was in fact opted in and I was not opted in. Everything was off and this app was still installed without my consent. I do have automatic UPDATES turned on, but that shouldn't tell Google to just push whatever they want to me. You should probably edit your post saying your speculation is wrong.

I don't know what kind of proof you want, but I 100% never opted in.

mackalon Firefox Release 89.0

New tabs are gross. Wastes so much space. Luckily there is that Firefox-UI-Fix linked elsewhere in this thread. Pretty much wanted to complain after upgrading and found that repo, which fixed most my complaints. Sadly I now have to make sure I keep that maintained ...

I'm really unhappy with the UI changes.

mackalon Scientists rediscover lost coffee species suited to a warmer climate

I don't think it was in the article, but apparently it has a lower yield and smaller berries. So basically economics caused it to stop being commercially cultivated.

mackalon Linux Hypervisor Setup (Libvirt/QEMU/KVM)

When I started using virt-manager I started there because I was specifically looking to replace Virtual box due to having kernel modules for VB sometimes block kernel upgrades. So I guess I was looking for a GUI since I was on a desktop anyways. (Just have some dev VMs so I don't have to clutter my desktop with running MySQL etc for some projects and so I can match the distro of the production server)

So I guess, it worked, didn't look into raw qemu. I also use it infrequently enough that I would have to relearn the CLI all the time.

mackalon All C++20 core language features with examples

I actually extremely dislike language specific package managers. I'm on Linux, the packages should be in my package manager. I don't want to maintain multiple package managers. nmp is actually the worst here.

mackalon Most loved programming language Rust sparks privacy concerns

So does MSVC and GCC and clang ...

mackalon Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay

Banning of the books is consistent with eBay's TOS. This is basically "eBay is enforcing it's TOS WRT Dr Seuss books" kind of story.

mackalon Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming

Fun fact, this is how Crunchyroll started. Illegal for-profit streaming site which eventually turned legal. And now Funimation is set to buy the site for $1.175b from AT&T.

mackalon Apple M1 vs. Ryzen 3900X vs. Intel I9 in Software Development

I still don't understand why people can't get that not all i9s are the same. That's literally what this title is implying ... Which isn't even the article's title ... Maybe someone will edit it so people stop assuming they mean the i9-10900k ...

mackalon YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-1...

EFF did file a counter-notice

mackalon Time for a WTF MySQL Moment

Which MySQL still isn't safe for :P (2038 that is, for where they use it)

mackalon Cloudflare was down

I noticed discord being down, so I went to check downforeveryoneorjustme, also down. So I figured I'd check NANOG mailing list, also down :P

mackalon EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3

https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL

EA has a few things open sourced.

mackalon AMD Claims World’s Fastest Per-Core Performance with New EPYC Rome 7Fx2 CPUs

You can get fast and good latency 32 GB DIMMs now. G.Skill has 4x32GB 3600 18-22-22-42, timings not the best, but tighter timings always get harder at higher speed and chips. The 3200 kits are 16-18-18-38.

Edit: Corsair also offers 3200 kits I'm pretty sure, too lazy to look up their exact specs

mackalon Intel is changing the future of power supplies with its ATX12VO spec

1 pin is called PS_ON, this shorting to ground turns it on. 1 called PWR_OK which says everything is working in some way I don't want to research. 1 +12V for stand by. 1 +12V sense for detecting voltage drop or something. And then 2 normal +12V and 3 ground. There is 1 reserved pin as well (rectangle connector so needs even pin count)

mackalon Studio Ghibli suddenly makes 38 albums of anime music available for streaming

They no longer have a partnership or whatever their relationship was. GKids now distributes and dubs Ghibli movies for US, but Disney is still the distributor in some regions.

mackalon Please make your products work with URLs

Pretty sure they stopped shipping ads enabled by default a while ago. Pretty sure both of the Samsung smart TVs in the house didn't have them enabled out of the box.

mackalon 64-bit unix timestamp is not supported in MySQL functions (2005)

Ran into this issue on a project I work on :P

mackalon Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything

LG and Samsung use Linux. Might be some fun to had analyzing any source code releases.

mackalon Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything

LG and Samsung both use Linux for their Smart OS and there are a few Android TVs.

Also, fun fact, my cable boxes from Verizon also run Linux :P

mackalon Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast

Maybe if the devs stopped hating on end users, people would stop hating on GNOME.

mackalon AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Review

The issue sems to be that the max advertised boosts is based on the number the plug into the boost algorithm. (I say based since some of them, especially higher end chips are 25-75 MHz higher than advertised boosts, a BIOS Dev posted them somewhere that I can't find :/)

There is an issue when the chips don't really hit it.

mackalon Microsoft explains the lack of Registry backups in Windows 10

GNOME used to have GConf, which is basically the same thing as Windows Registry. GNOME 3 replaced that with dconf/gsettings which serves very similar purposes.

mackalon Google to restrict modern ad blocking Chrome extensions to enterprise users

Mute Tab and the place I was modifying to restore Ctrl+shift+q was removed. It was too much effort to maintain these features.