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I t's a bit like using c# or powershell on Linux… but I wouldn't consider it a first class citizen.
C# is very very much a first class citizen on Linux. It may not be native, but you can run binaries on Linux without needing the runtime when you compile it to target the platform.
I wrote a couple of monoservices on my Mac using c# which ran perfectly on my Microk8s cluster on Linux.
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Or just using a laptop or a desktop pc…
And when the other 2 are blocked…?
Not sure $12.00 a month for a spinnable VM on top of my other AI costs is worth it myself.
Would like something where I pay for my own architecture.
This is about the Thundermail service - not the email client.
Is it just me, or is Sandstorm just not maintained any more?
The most recent closed issues were self closed rather than as the result of development, while meanwhile the open issues continue to pile up with virtually no code changes made to the tree…
It’s a shame because it seems like it could have been a thing. Sadly though it’s hard to justify time investment into a platform like this if you know there’s little to no chance of getting any issues fixed.
More like Meta’s demands are unworkable.
However, Clegg said that their demands to make technology companies ask permission before using copyrighted work were unworkable and “implausible” because AI systems are already training on vast amounts of data. He said: “It’s out there already.”
In other words, “we’ve been stealing everything and built our business on that theft, it would hurt Meta if they were held to accountable for all that theft”.
Neither solution is guaranteed to stick around for 20 years.
As we’ve seen before, it takes one VC investment to change a source available license into something not so friendly and forks are never guaranteed.
You could make the same argument for Bernie Madoff, who probably isn't a danger to society considering his fraud is out in the open.
Pretty sure Madoff isn’t currently a danger to society because he’s been dead for almost 4 years now.
I’m simply stating that for something to be objective it has to be an absolute irrefutable fact.
Anything else is subjective.
A UI can never be objectively bad because it is based upon how someone sees it.
For me, Gimp has a subjectivity bad UI because I’ve never been able to get my head around it.
Other people find it’s perfect and that it’s really easy to use.
Both statements are subjective.
“Objective” and “subjective” are both words that have well defined accepted dictionary definitions.
When designing readable interfaces for different vision capabilities, the WCAG guidelines recommend the following contrast ratios
So, they’re recommendations, not facts.
A fact is not a recommendation.
You can cling to this until the cows come home, but anything visual is dependent on the viewer. It’s not a fact. It’s subjective.
“minimum ratio”
Which is what? Is it a well defined fact?
“objectively bad”
No, it’s subjectively bad for you.
It really grinds my gears when people use “objectively” when being objective is to deal purely in unbiased observable, repeatable facts.
Your justification starts first with screen contrast - something that is truly in the eye of the beholder.
Then you go on about “finger gymnastics” for shortcuts - again something that you (and yes I don’t disagree others as well) suffer from.
Neither are issues that have bothered me one iota - so much so that your mention is really the first time I’ve thought about either.
However you then compare this to another app that also has many detractors thus creating an instant bias.
It’s hard to feel enthused by this when there’s been no traction for nearly a year now on the project.
PG17 support was promised last July but has yet to materialize.
I know OSS authors owe us nothing and it’s their choice to do what they will, but it does make it hard for others to want to embrace these projects when they stagnate.
Not to be pedantic, but…
Acorn Computers started off much earlier (I owned an Acorn Atom when it was released) which begat the Electron, then the BBC Micro and then the Archimedes.
At that time ARM was just an architecture owned by Acorn. They created it with VSLI technology (Acorn’s Silicon partner) and used the first RISC chip in the BBC Micro before then pivoting it to the Archimedes.
Whilst Acorn itself was initially purchased by Olivetti, who eventually sold what remained years later to Morgan Stanley.
The ARM division was spun off as “Advanced RISC Machines” in a deal with both Apple, and VSLI Technology after Olivetti came onto the scene.
It is this company that we now know as Arm Holdings.
So it’s not entirely accurate to claim “they had a full computer system” as that was Acorn Computers, PLC.
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which, for most of the SMS services, is a strike against the spammer
Citation needed.
All the vendors we use have STOP functionality baked in as it’s the correct way to ensure we can unsubscribe folk.
Even the FCC[1] seems to agree.
[1] https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-24-24A1.pdf?bcs-...
That was only because Elon wanted to get his billion dollar payday.
Owned by Yipit - a credit card data analytics company.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/free-email-apps-spying-on-yo...
Can’t vouch for the veracity of this[1] but, if true, it’s a pretty damning indictment on the Cyber Truck’s popularity.
Just watched one YouTube video where the hosts daughter was bemoaning that they were no longer the only Cyber Truck in the neighborhood and that there were now two more owners and how much this lessened her happiness in the thing.
That’s what happens when people buy into an ideal that’s in reality just an expensive toy.
[1] https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/only-2-5-of-cybertru...
When you get Karma of 501 or more…
Dupe of your post 12 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41797428
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I gave up on this method because the system rejected every single photo attempt, even though I met all the requirements.
Ended up going to AAA for the photo and 10 minutes later at my local USPS my application was done.
I quite honestly spent less time doing it the old fashioned way than I’d spent trying the new online method.
Eventually I think this will be a useful method, but right now it was a real PITA for me.
Good luck finding speed limit signs in the USA.
I’ve lost track the number of times I’ve exited a construction and not known what the hell the speed limit is because previously it changed somewhere within the zone before the construction started.
Or worse, a total lack of signs on rural roads.
Just had a case today in WI where I left one road at 55 MPH onto a county road, and had no idea that the new limit was 45 until we checked Google Maps.
Is it, really?
With Windows you can just download an app.
With MacOS you sometimes need to pick between Intel or Apple Silicon.
For Linux you invariably have to navigate list of Deb or RPM, perhaps TarGz files, maybe a torrent or two.
Sticking with apt can lead to a list of issues of ensuring you have the right dependencies.
Let’s start before that : With Windows the OS usually comes pre installed, with Macs, always.
Linux - with one to pick? Ubuntu, PopOS, Elementary?
Oh, so you picked Ubuntu - congratulations - now which DE? Or should you pick a derivative such as Mint first?
I’m a huge fan of Linux servers - I think they’re so easy to work with on a server level even with many of the same issues I described above and I’m actively ripping out every Windows server in our environment and replacing it with Linux.
But I still, after all these years, can’t seem to pick a Desktop Linux platform that I feel comfortable with. And this after 40 years in the industry.
Whilst effort in this space is to be congratulated, a job board is only as good as the quality and quantity of the roles offered.
What makes your site any better than the other numerous boards out there?
Why would Acme Inc be drawn to posting jobs with your site and why would Jane Appleseed want to go there to find a new job?