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xtf··on How solid is Tim’s plan to redecentralize the web?
I would be happier in a decentralized network staying connected with other sheeple and have my own options of sharing information.

This is an attempt to doom it before it was even tried.

xtf··on Commons Clause
https://xkcd.com/927/

I am pretty happy with GPL, MIT/BSD, Apache because I have learned it. Another nice way is Creative Commons, especially because they are modular and are mostly translated and therefor applicable in most other laws.

Edit: also you can - always write your own, but people like to read the acronyms and know what they are confronted with - go the Carmack way, last gen open source.

xtf··on Pixelblaze V2 – An advanced LED pattern development engine and controller
This is a nice project made with FastLED:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zQ8qC1KQgU

Next step: Warp Core

xtf··on Where Vim Came From
How old are regular expressions, when the predecessor of `ed` already got it?

Edit: Found it[0]

Regular expressions originated in 1951, when mathematician Stephen Cole Kleene described regular languages using his mathematical notation called regular sets.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression#History

xtf··on Freeing the Web from the Browser
Most documents are linked regarding the topic. If you go on a math page, you've got math links. Ancient and holy texts could be referenced in multiple ways, because it could be interpreted in multiple ways (or the correct way is unknown), but not something like guides. If a guide is written in more than one meaning, it is not a good guide. Learning should be more seen like a tree, you go down the route of branches and specialize more in the directions of it and the branches lead the references. At the beginning you learn the language, later you know it, otherwise every word needs to be linked.
xtf··on The intolerable rise of perfectionism
I've seen "What Happens When A Night Owl Is Forced To Live Like An Early Bird"[0] yesterday and wonder how it correlates with this.

It basically says that 27% of the population are night owls and are in an evolutionary sense our natural night watch and when forced into a daytime schedule, always tired.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kZVbE_coSA

xtf··on An entomologist rates ant emojis
Sites have to work without.
xtf··on Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager
Seriously? A password manager where the desktop app is build ontop of unsecure electron.
xtf··on Stopping the RSI pain that almost destroyed my programming career (2016)
Roberts Space Industries was more known to me then Repetitive-Strain-Injury and fits too.
xtf··on AT&T updates firmware to block access to 1.1.1.1
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1.1.1.1#Criticism_and_problems :

Technological websites noted that by using 1.1.1.1 as the IP address for their service, Cloudflare created problems with existing setups. While 1.1.1.1 was not a reserved IP address, it was and is used by many existing routers (mostly those sold by Cisco Systems) and companies for hosting login pages to private networks, exit pages or other purposes, rendering the use of 1.1.1.1 as a manually configured DNS server impossible on those systems. Additionally, 1.1.1.1 is blocked on many networks and by multiple ISPs because the simplicity of the address means that it was previously often used for testing purposes and not legitimate use. These previous uses has lead to a huge influx of "garbage" data to Cloudflare's servers.

xtf··on BPF comes to firewalls
Where is the difference between BSD pf and Linux BPF implementation? eBPF aside
xtf··on Show HN: Ecoji, a new base1024 emoji encoding
Base 64 = 256 Ascii represented in 64. Base64 < 256 Base 1024 = ?

Wouldn't "A" be "A", because it is a subset of 1024? Looks more like obfuscation code for me.

xtf··on Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe
Consequences?
xtf··on PWA Coming to Chrome for Desktop
This is at least since the last 3 versions of chrome around. Firefox added it on android since v58, desktop pending.
xtf··on What If GPS Stood for “Galactic Positioning System”?
Had to enable too much 3rd party scripts and other resources to read it.

htetm;dr? Had to enable too much; didn't read?

xtf··on How Stylo Brought Rust and Servo to Firefox
Thanks Mozilla Going to donate
xtf··on 4MB Laptop How-To: How to put a “grown-up” Linux on a small-spec laptop (2000)
Our laptops (have a T520) got 8MB of BIOS Flash-ROM alone

https://www.coreboot.org/Board:lenovo/x220#Flashing

xtf··on SourceTree for Windows 2.0
When it will be available for Windows 3.11? SCNR
xtf··on CSS Reminification: A crazy idea that worked
And then HTTP/2 helps more, because it does not open a new connection for each file.
xtf··on TensorFlow 1.0 Released
They don't want you to go there. Remind who started the latest big AI Projects (Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook) and I don't think the will stop grabbing data.

I think they'll develop a hivemind, where mobile adds to the pool. In short Skynet ;)

xtf··on What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border?
This means I have to install a blank Custom ROM before I travel to the land of the free™
xtf··on FreeBSD 11.0 Now Available
The image is from 29th september, is this the updated version?
xtf··on The AMDGPU Additions for Linux 4.7 Are Enormous
Direct Rendering Mode, yes
xtf··on FreeBSD 10.3
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_%28computing%29#1:1_.28...: 1:1 (kernel-level threading)

Threads created by the user in a 1:1 correspondence with schedulable entities in the kernel[10] are the simplest possible threading implementation. OS/2 and Win32 used this approach from the start, while on Linux the usual C library implements this approach (via the NPTL or older LinuxThreads). This approach is also used by Solaris, NetBSD, FreeBSD, OS X, and iOS.

xtf··on FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking
Cats will love it. Thats why the first ultrasound remote never became standard
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