Posts by patrick@georgi.family
(DIR) Post #ALRfgOaXG3jT3AgVv6 by patrick@georgi.family
2022-07-13T09:51:18.264198Z
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When does anything in computing become "retro"? I've recently started working on a code base that lay dormant for over 15 years.Was the C64 already retro in 1997? Does the "event horizon" shift as computing itself grows older?
(DIR) Post #AMJJV4bZeTFqkALkMy by patrick@georgi.family
2022-08-08T07:03:38.114420Z
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@codewiz @globalc It takes somebody willing to work with UEFI enough to make it all work. The UEFI efforts in coreboot-land are rather barebones because nobody _wants_ to deal with that mess created by a committee of architecture astronauts.
(DIR) Post #AN0xWFPNJe0ep6NHQe by patrick@georgi.family
2022-08-29T06:48:55.358917Z
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@codewiz @loke Not even jwz: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/very-much-do-not-have-my-emacs-setup-just-how-i-like-it/
(DIR) Post #AN0xWGMvkDeFnoEqG0 by patrick@georgi.family
2022-08-29T07:10:28.259304Z
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@loke It's over two years old so maybe he already fixed it. It just supports @codewiz's claim that XEmacs has no advocates anymore when even jwz went to GNU Emacs.
(DIR) Post #ANEbYjsmO7jeK0v5FI by patrick@georgi.family
2022-09-04T22:09:54.049441Z
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@codewiz Those Nest things are supposed to be "smart" so they might not only have temperature curves (to figure out how the building heats and cools) but also behavioral/location data of you to make guesses when to pre-heat so the home is comfy right when you get there?But since you're downloading the data, you could take a look ;-)
(DIR) Post #ANYqkbfnpVlAnFb8DI by patrick@georgi.family
2022-09-14T06:34:00.650732Z
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@vandys @Salaru According to https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/coronavirus-impfungen-zahlen-101.html (public broadcaster) we currently have about 20k vaccinations per day (excluding weekends), see the chart below "Wie entwickelt sich die Nutzung der Impfstoffe pro Tag?" ('how does the usage of vaccinations develop per day?'), of which about 18k are BioNTech's (what you know as Pfizer).It was about 30k/day until recently, probably currently down because everybody's waiting for the BA.1 and BA.5 adaptations which are supposed to be available AnyDayNow[tm], with various national and EU regulatory bodies taking a different amount of time to put their approval stamp on some slip of paper.We stopped using the AstraZeneca vaccine sometimes in June 2021 due to concerns about blood clots, and apparently the J&J vaccine (same technology) was pretty much retired about the same time. (see the chart below "Welche Hersteller haben wie viel Impfstoff geliefert?", 'which vendor sent how much vaccine?')
(DIR) Post #ANgeS9uwRXsWjwYbtg by patrick@georgi.family
2022-09-16T20:17:14.619200Z
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@MatejLach That number confused me as well...Steady is a German startup with a somewhat similar business which started operating in public in 2017. According to Wikipedia they were 32 people in total last year (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steady_(Website) ), which is closer to what I expected either company could reasonably employ.
(DIR) Post #ANiYWEwvSvDs60y4y8 by patrick@georgi.family
2022-09-19T08:46:19.800374Z
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@davidrevoy Depending on culture, various behaviors are highly politicized (or not). So things that may be neutral or at best friendly courtesy for you can be (to cut it short a bit) a tribal sign elsewhere, and if you're (not) doing certain things, you're mistaken to be part of the "enemy tribe".While I agree that this seems childish (I'm probably closer to your culture than to @Elfie@bae.st's), maturity seems to be an insufficient perspective: we probably have similar signals that look obvious and important for us while others just roll their eyes at our sensibilities and are shocked or even appalled by our strong reactions.
(DIR) Post #ANiYWFt3ylj90KAVaS by patrick@georgi.family
2022-09-19T09:08:52.295199Z
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@davidrevoy I don't agree with attributing the conduct to immaturity ("remember this message"). Elfie might be just a teenage edgelord who needs to grow up, but sadly that isn't a given - there are grown, well-established people who'd feel justified acting just the same (and using the same choice words).But props to you for assuming the least worst reason for the behavior :-)
(DIR) Post #AOy4S2au8GoR3yc5Sq by patrick@georgi.family
2022-10-26T18:45:09.631313Z
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@vertigo @xerz I wonder if they shoehorn Microsoft coding style and naming conventions into rust, or if they adopt the somewhat more unixish rust style (and if that'll effect future Windows APIs)
(DIR) Post #AP3MJGkgtViTKdxQY4 by patrick@georgi.family
2022-10-29T07:40:44.803691Z
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@mikka @bfdi Der Betrieb von social.bund.de ist (mutmaßlich) datenschutzkonform. Wer sich seine tägliche Dosis Fediverse bei AWS abholt, ist schlechter dran, ja. Aber im Gegensatz zu zentralisierten ausländischen Diensten gibt es überhaupt eine Wahl.Könnte die Formulierung vorsichtiger sein? Bestimmt. Ich weiß nur nicht, ob so eine pampige Kommunikation diesen (wichtigen) Punkt ausreichend hervorhebt.
(DIR) Post #AP6mGsSBRevjfthVWC by patrick@georgi.family
2022-10-30T15:30:04.183815Z
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In 30 years: "A rapidly spreading invasive species endangers what is left of the LA ecosystem. Historical records show that some '@codewiz@mstdn.io' may have brought it in." 🤪
(DIR) Post #APKmKItsAPhI1EMTAG by patrick@georgi.family
2022-11-05T10:41:05.611883Z
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Rechnergehäuse mit Power/Reset-Buttons ungesichert auf der Oberseite sind ein eindeutiges Zeichen dafür, dass im Designteam keiner war, der eine Katze hat. Und wo krieg ich nun einen katzensicheren Tower her? *grumpf*
(DIR) Post #APzdhQopR2zvKcwPJo by patrick@georgi.family
2022-11-26T10:20:02.327030Z
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@codewiz @MarvinFreeman They probably own the place (and probably for generations), at least that's how the tiny shops in my area can survive.
(DIR) Post #AQ44LB2gsyR5QSsSbA by patrick@georgi.family
2022-11-28T13:50:46.337610Z
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@codewiz Is that the Snooping Security Super Special?
(DIR) Post #AQ81EKcvKX5RtUi1PE by patrick@georgi.family
2022-11-28T18:34:07.447417Z
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Only saw that now, might be very old news, nevertheless:That open source privacy champion "Signal" asks for legal information (name, address, phone number, email address) before you get to contribute: https://signal.org/cla/(It also requires a copyright license covering all their uses of your code under an "OSI-approved open source license", so the terms of the GPLv3 apply for you but not for them.)
(DIR) Post #AS6KJSRznhhdM6XPW4 by patrick@georgi.family
2023-01-28T11:29:39.443679Z
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@julienxx I have similar issues with an older intel wifi chipset. For me the problem is that the driver runs into timeouts in its init. /boot/system/var/log/syslog had a few clues in that direction but I didn't manage to make progress on that yet.
(DIR) Post #ASAv0sp402Lya6Aobo by patrick@georgi.family
2023-01-30T17:05:06.706617Z
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@vertigo @xerz inertia, but also random issues like seamless interaction with old x11 apps, accessibility, internationalization (e.g. pinyin input), input devices beyond basic keyboard and mouse, ...All that stuff that was worked into xorg for the last 25 years and now had to be rediscovered one by one.Every time somebody runs in some issue (no matter how minor) that resets the clock for large distros to switch over. It's only recently that some decided to go all.
(DIR) Post #AXRsE6TG2yzE4lRDsW by patrick@georgi.family
2023-07-05T16:14:16.162369Z
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Lindner fieberträumt gerade davon, dass das Budget 2024 25% größer sei als das von 2019 ("vor den Krisen").Erstens sind wir über die Krisen 2024 noch lange nicht hinweg, von daher: keine Überraschung.Zweitens hat dieser "wir können Wirtschaft"-Spezialist die Inflation vergessen:Laut destatis komme ich für 2019-2022 auf ungefähr 12.6% Inflation. Wenn ich das 2019er Budget auf "Ende-2022er Euros" normalisiere, ist der Anstieg "nur" noch 10,8%.Nun muss man 2023 auch noch mit Inflation rechnen. Das ifo Institut schätzt für 2023 insgesamt 5,8%.Damit komme ich auf lediglich 4.76% Wertsteigerung des Bundesbudgets 2024 gegenüber 2019.In 4,8% eine anteilige Mitfinanzierung der Verteidigung eines Landes mitzufinanzieren, das sich im Krieg befindet, kommt mir doch recht günstig vor.
(DIR) Post #AYswZ0RgLNgR6b5ioC by patrick@georgi.family
2023-08-18T14:57:32.360490Z
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@awai LTE modems: If they're part of the SoC, they run the show. If they're not, they're ordinary USB devices. In either case, they add to the list price due to license fees, and noticeably so.What _would_ be interesting in my opinion: a slot for such extensions set up in a way that it doesn't stick out. But I guess that's framework's territory, not Starlabs'.