spixy

225 karma · joined February 6, 2020

spixy··on UK Weather: Flooding in London after heavy rain

Thames Barrier should be enough at least till 2030.

spixy··on Dutch crime reporter dies after being shot

Murder of journalist led to protests and resignation of prime minister and change of some part of government 2 years ago in Slovakia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_J%C3%A1n_Kuciak

spixy··on A bitter pill for Microsoft Copilot

It is GitHub Copilot, not Microsoft Copilot...

I understand that it may feel good to be mad at large corporations but GitHub Inc. is still independent from MS.

spixy··on Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting

You just mentioned 2 pinned issues out of 203 open ones and 558 closed ones.

spixy··on Audacity fork without any sentry telemetry or crash reporting

May I have a source for this anti-correlation please?

spixy··on GitHub scraped your code. And they plan to charge you

afaik GitHub Inc is still independent company and independent from Microsoft

spixy··on Introducing Windows 11

source?

spixy··on JetBrains community Slack pings members who use non-inclusive language

It is Czech company.

spixy··on AMD Demonstrates Stacked 3D V-Cache Technology: 192 MB at 2 TB/SEC

Yes, kind of. It is called Data-oriented design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design

spixy··on Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks (2014)

Try but since its more of them that devs have to support (Flatpak, Snap, AppImage...), problem is still the same.

spixy··on It's your device, you should be able to repair it

I am OK with everybody paying +3% more than few unlucky ones paying another 100% because they received faulty pieces. In EU there is mandatory 2 year warranty for everything (with exceptions like food etc) and maybe extending to at least 3 years could be fine compromise.

spixy··on The Rise of North Korea's Hacking Army

For US citizen it may be 300-500k, but for people from some other country 50k could be enough.

spixy··on 5G: The outsourced elephant in the room

Ok, but what about SMS, MMS, phone calls, getting your approximate position, ...? What if they decided to shut down the whole network because of some reason? Then https wont help you.

spixy··on You Don't Need a GUI

A nitpick, you cannot (easily) restore files deleted with Shift+Delete, but yeah I agree with the rest.

spixy··on You Don't Need a GUI

Creating new folder or moving/copying files can be done in two clicks with ribbon buttons.

spixy··on The Case of the Extra 40ms

> The integrator back-ported the patch (linked above) to L. It is literally only a few lines so this was straightforward. Some of the hardest problems take 1 or 2 lines to fix :)

spixy··on Olbers' Paradox

yes: https://github.com/spixy/NoMoreMobile

spixy··on Stupid mistakes I made while building my first startup

Maybe in US there are not many hardware startups, but look at Shenzhen/China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY

spixy··on YouTube-dl is now part of GitHub/dmca.git

Why Microsoft? github.com is managed by GitHub, Inc. (that is owned my Microsoft). It is like complaining to Volkswagen if your Porsche gets broken.

spixy··on Wikipedia is getting a new look

I made extension that does exactly that if you want

https://github.com/spixy/NoMoreMobile/blob/master/README.md

spixy··on Scrollbar Blindness

you can easily remap keys with PowerToys...

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys