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rottingleaf

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  • Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse

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  • But!.. Sun Java included internationalized set of Lucida fonts with proper hinting. Oracle removed that for whatever reason.

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    X launches E2E encrypted Chat

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  • There wasn't any in the first place, fundamentally.

  • Forced E-Waste PCs And The Case Of Windows 11’s Trusted Platform

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  • I'm not sure this is anywhere near what a security comparison would look like.

    And the fact that the traditional Unix security model is being augmented with ACLs and selinux and what not hints, that it's not sufficient. And what these things are being used for is, well, similar to Windows security model.

  • Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users

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  • So you pay taxes to Putin. Good to know who actually helps funding the regime.

    I suggest you go someplace else.

    I won't take this from a jerk from likely one of the countries buying fossil fuels from said regime, that have also supported it after a few falsified elections starting in 1996, which is also the year I was born.

    And of course "paying taxes to Putin" can't be even compared to what TG is doing, so just shut up and go do something you know how to do, like I dunno what.

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  • It wasn't "half the internet unusable". I live in Russia, please stop dramatizing.

    It was blocked well enough, but Russian state officials had their unofficial channels there for all that time.

    Considering "the founder's" history, I'd assume Telegram to be Russian government-compromised by default.

    Also it's not a source of news at all. That's like calling "the Internet" your source. It's a crowd. Some channels are better than others, but ultimately it can be compared to Facebook.

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  • FreeBSD has stable ABIs (inside one major version).

    Anyway, this is not an answer, NVidia drivers had a binary part and a part compiled during installation for the specific kernel version, that's one possible solution. Linux developers are ideologically against this, yes, and don't want binary drivers to be first-class citizens.

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  • It's not PoS. At its core Windows NT is very cool, and the Windows subsystem for it is not terrible.

    What's PoS is that the only way you get it is with such a heap of garbage, that you can't see the good parts behind it.

    And even its developers seem to have forgotten those good parts, I wonder if they ever change anything there other than "closing" vulnerabilities with yet another condition in some long-long switch ... case ... statements.

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  • If it's not "any game of a list of 200 and it must run without effort", then most games can be made to work either with a certain version of Wine and winetricks settings, or with a certain version of Proton, and there are many things to consider trying.

    I once couldn't play X-Wing Alliance under FreeBSD because of joystick not being visible, so I went as far as patching Wine's winmm (I think) to make it work, and carrying that patch around when upgrading Wine or installing someplace new. Glad to report that now one doesn't need it.

    That's more than most things require, and some can't be made work with just one simple patch, but the point is - a lot of games work.

    And once you've made it work, no additional effort is needed. Just having, maybe, a script setting the right environment variables and launching the game.

    A lot of games will just run.

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  • That reminds me that now in the office we’re dealing with windows machines where the network card just stops working, drivers are suddenly gone. Don’t ask, it’s windows, it’s Microsoft abd this is just considered normal. If a Linux machine has a bug it’s “oh my god Linux sucks sooo hard, it’s impossible to get it to work!” but this Microsoft bullshit just gets handwaved away with “well computers are complicated, let’s just reinstall this”

    Ah, yes, that. I switched in 2011 and the first impressions were about how flawless everything is compared to Windows.

    the plain security nightmare of having a windows machine…

    Eh, about that - Linux really isn't immune to that. Just right now Windows is still by far the more profitable target.

  • Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users

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  • That's the only important advantage over anything else.

  • Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users

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  • Not true. There was a period it wasn't possible to use Telegram without VPNs. That's in the past.

    What shows their alignment best is that Russian state propaganda feels right at home in TG, while counterpropaganda channels from time to time get banned without explanation.

    YouTube just plainly doesn't work in Russia, its pages load, videos don't.

    The reason they say stuff about "degrading caching servers" and whatever other bullshit they say is to reduce visibility of their actions from the general population. It's smart, not stupid. I thought it's dumb that they always lie this way, until I realized that most of said lie sticks subconsciously, and the saved expenses at controlling the population add up. It's like saving every dime being virtuous in the Protestant approach to life.

    They could ban it completely.

    than look like fools while blocking 1% of all IPv4 addresses (im not kidding) with no result.

    They did look like fools, but the "no result" part is just not true, the result was achieved. Telegram didn't evolve, it works the same as before, a typical client-server application.

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  • Yes, I mean it wouldn't change anything if Grok were a premium-only feature, apparently this was about ability to turn it off, ok fine.

  • Telegram partners with xAI to bring Grok to over a billion users

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  • Ah, so you mean Grok service just being available from TG UI without any authentication from TG being used?

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  • Well if anything such obviously advertising him as a fighter against the regime, while Telegram is not banned in Russia, is definitively certain for you - just go on.

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  • Not certain and doesn't make him an angel.

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  • Your non-premium account tries to use a feature available to premium and that doesn't work. Where does the GPL come into equation?

    Also they can detect alternative clients and ban them.

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  • Weird comparison.

    WhatsApp is a kinda secure messaging app - small groupchats and personal chats first.

    Signal is a secure messaging app - small groupchat and personal chats only.

    TG is an app for big groupchats and channels, with dozens of people writing to one chat simultaneously, discussing big posts etc. It's, once again, like IRC, just proprietary, with history and sharing files. Or like a social network without friends and feeds.

    Honestly I can't even blame TG for enshittificatory practices, because it gives so much more freedom to use it however one wants than the others. Even though I prefer to blame everything. All these things have taken a lot of work to create.

  • Spread of sexual deepfake images created by generative AI growing in Japan

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  • I unironically had that

  • Trump State Department official has called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’

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  • That's why I specifically addressed food. "Mouths to feed" is a small problem.

    If the results of automation allowing more output are somehow distributed to people without buying ability anymore, then it's not yet a problem. If they are not, then other people, not as productive as said automation, have a market for their work. That's what I meant.

    Psychological toll ... yeah, that's where, again, something like Soviet ideology would be of some use. And some kind of more even distribution of work. As in - labor is virtuous, but it's a good thing when you can do less labor for the same result.

    BTW, all those people whining about oh holy Stalin, oh beautiful USSR, we were not good enough to have you, they ignore the obvious fact that what's been done once can be done again, especially with technological means better fit for it. Maybe they were onto something, who knows. Not just Soviet ideologists, but a certain Norbert Wiener predicted a moment when the problems will have to be solved in ways different from now.

    Bigger population means bigger cultural space. It is important. There are many things machines can't do.