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  • Google Is ‘Thinking Through’ How to Make the Pixel Watch Repairable

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  • We'll have a timeline for the plan to make the plan by next quarter

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  • Was actually considering buying premium now that I use YouTube for music more than Spotify, but then the ad stuff happened and now this. Going to avoid it out of principle now.

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    Internet Alternative?

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  • Sounds like it would specifically be APRS if they were. Neat protocol. Unfortunately no encrypted traffic was allowed last time I looked into it.

  • What comes to mind?

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  • What comes to mind?

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  • What are some open source projects that had substantial initial releases or updates that seemingly came out of nowhere?

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  • I agree limiting application scope is useful for multiple reasons, however Jellyfin started as a fork of Emby which already had music support. I have yet to find a standalone application that has enough features to sway me from just utilizing the existing media server functionality.

  • What are some open source projects that had substantial initial releases or updates that seemingly came out of nowhere?

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  • Finamp's current alpha was a huge surprise to me. I stopped looking at development for a few months and in that time they completely reworked it

  • Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months

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  • K1 Acquires Mariadb

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  • Wordpress

  • Kernel Maintenance By a Novice.

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  • Ah, so the kernel actually uses mailing lists. You need to use the get maintainers Perl script to get the people you need to send the email TO and then send it to them with the dri-devel list CC'd.

  • Kernel Maintenance By a Novice.

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  • That wouldn't be accepted as is, but those sound like tunables. They could be exposed as kernel parameters. May be worth submitting the patch as an RFC just to call attention to it.

  • Kernel Maintenance By a Novice.

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  • What modifications were required? The good part of a rolling release is that upstreaming things means you only have to deal with manual fixes for like 2 or 3 updates.

  • Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates

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  • Dude tried doing that at the Dallas airport recently as well. I do believe they should be getting a larger cut but it's sketchy as hell to not have anything backing the ride.

  • Problems with Arch upgrade

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  • They'd update it, but they are afraid it would no longer work as well

  • Any AI tool to analyse a git repo for malicious code?

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  • You would first need to define malicious code within the context of that repo. To some people, telemetry is malicious.

  • YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers

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  • I want the statistic on how many Google employees use ad blockers now. It's basically a necessity.

  • Why don't cell phones have BIOS?

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  • Because ARM was built to be cheap.

    BIOS nowadays is basically a bootloader shim in EEPROM. The majority of the ARM ecosystem wanted flexible and cheap devices. This promoted the use of a small ROM loader burned into the device and a removal of basically all EEPROM from the SoC.

    The flexibility came back through the use of a secondary bootloader layer normally stored in the devices primary storage. Most manufacturers use u-boot or coreboot on an SD card or eMMC. Android standardized this as part of their partitioning scheme. All devices have a dedicated bootloader partition housing the secondary bootloader and any additional boot artifacts.

    Then phones became wildly expensive and invalidated most of this.

    Also, do you think it's possible that this way of doing things will come to the computer, with ARM hoping to gain a good share of the market and all?

    It already has. Most of what ARM is doing to be cheap was already pioneered by PowerPC.

    ARM EBBR specifications attempt to standardize this boot flow somewhat, introducing a standard EFI shell in u-boot. This does not solve the dependency on the secondary bootloader, and it doesn't prevent people from shooting themselves in the foot. It just makes distro interactions with the secondary bootloader more standardized.

  • AMD lawyers claw back CUDA compatibility layer ZLUDA

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  • This is a short term loss for a potential long term improvement. By eliminating dependency on translation APIs they can force the use of more open solutions like oneAPI which is even getting buy-in from companies like Imagination.

    Keeping cuda alive is a bad idea.

  • GitHub Profile Roast - roasts you based on what's in your profile.

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  • The bot avoids roasting torvalds but will roast maintainers. That's a little odd, but I guess it keeps it out of the news.