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  • Petition to formally recognize open source work as civic service in Germany

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  • In Germany there is a legally recognised form of volunteering called Ehrenamt (honorary office), mostly used by non-profit organisations. It has benefits for taxes, gaining public funding, and such. E.g. if you are the primary caretaker of an elderly family member you can get unemployment benefits without having to look for work, since it is recognised as a public good.

    The petition aims to recognise work on Open Source software as such an honorary office.

  • Linux terminal with text selection

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  • AutoHotKey replacement

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  • I found AutoKey but that seems more focused on Text Input and doesn’t seem to support launching scripts individually (altouigh it has a Window Filter).

    I'm not sure what exactly you mean by this, but AutoKey has Python scripting built in and an extensive API:

    https://github.com/autokey/autokey/wiki/Scripting

    And from a Python script you can launch any other script/program you want with a subprocess library call.

  • Ok, I need to scream into the void. I have questions.

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  • a low latency kernel (whatever that means. I’ll get there to figure it out eventually)

    It's a kernel with real-time process scheduling enabled by default.

    In normal kernels a process can theoretically block all other processes from running for up to several seconds, which is obviously bad for time sensitive things like audio recordings or controlling a CNC-machine for example.

    In real-time scheduling all processes are guaranteed time slices in more regular intervals. This is good for time sensitive things like audio recording, but since there is some scheduling overhead it's bad for single resource intensive processes or process trees like video games.

    You can read more about the difference between a real time and low latency kernel here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/RealTimeKernel

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    Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks

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  • Humanity will likely survive climate change, but the vast majority of humans won't.

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  • Why are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese?

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  • When people ask how your plan for life is going...

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  • Not familiar enough with this particular project to know, but a quick glance at the commit log shows some overlap in commit authors, so I guess there is at least some level of sharing happening, probably just not through merges.

    But being familiar with this kind of project in general, the branches will probably never be fully merged even in the future, just doesn't make much sense because they are server software targeting very different versions of a game client. There are also two other branches, but they "only" diverged by like one or two thousand commits so far.

  • Programmer Humor @lemmy.ml
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    When people ask how your plan for life is going...

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • I'm gonna be real with you, I don't know who or what that is and I deliberately chose to ignore the likely sarcasm, but feel free to enlighten me.

  • Just felt like reposting this today, no particular reason...

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  • Like I agree it is a better message in the edit, but I fear a lot of people are not ready to hear that yet and still need to work through the original before coming around to this... Still stuck in denial and whatnot.

  • Communism in theory vs in practice

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  • So.. "man doesn't exploit man"? Sounds good!

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Just felt like reposting this today, no particular reason...

  • What is the minimum number of words needed to communicate

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  • For many European languages and some non-European ones there is the CEFR, so you could look for an "A1" or "A2" level language course in whatever you want to learn. They aim to establish exactly this basic level of communication.

  • Mozilla drops new Privacy Note and Terms of Service; People are saying it is Bad News

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  • Read the policies yourself

    I suggest reading this diff to the FAQs instead, paints a much clearer picture:

    https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e

    Basically removes all the language about not selling data and some about privacy. Down in the comments someone argues this is due to a narrow legal definition of that language in certain jurisdictions, but that couldn't sound more like an empty excuse if they tried. Actually all the reactions from Mozilla I have seen on this so far sound like pure corpo PR bullshit to me.

  • What's your go-to long form Youtuber?

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  • Seconded, best history channel on Youtube that I know of. Only downside is that there are months between episodes, which isn't surprising though given the in-depth analysis presented in each.

  • Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching

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  • In these kind of tech forums, I found that a lot of users don’t truly grasp how tech illiterates can be

    And of course there is an XKCD about this: Average Familiarity (2501)

    Title text:

    How could anyone consider themselves a well-rounded adult without a basic understanding of silicate geochemistry? Silicates are everywhere! It's hard to throw a rock without throwing one!

  • Nearly half of Steam's users are still using Windows 10, with end of life fast approaching

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  • TPM is the Trusted Platform Module, a security chip in computers that can be used to verify the integrity of the boot process. Windows 11 requires a TPM 2.0 chip, which many older computers do not have. Windows 11 non-TPM is a pirated version with this requirement hacked out.

  • 'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

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  • You and i read different things.

    Apparently we did.

    I hated how he worded them, but his arguments at greppable and understandable are valid arguments that go beyond rust and if he can read it or not or refuses to.

    I'm failing to see how Rust code is not greppable unless you don't speak Rust.

    Mixing languages in a part of a project brings complexity and is often a huge ass nono because it makes things unreadable and hard to manage on a large scale.

    An argument which I would acknowledge, but if the decision to do this has been made by the group it still is weird to see it blocked by an individual.

    He also argues that a c interface exists to connect 2 parts of a system. The person that changes the interface should not have to alter the users of that interface, [...] So if he changes the interface, the rust team will need to fix it, specially since they are the minority.

    Nobody asked Hellwig to do this, in fact Krummrich said several times they would maintain the interface consuming the C code themselves. They just want one common interface for all Rust drivers, instead of replicating the same code in each driver. Which Hellwig never gives a substantial reply to.

    That also doesnt mean he can change it in whatever way without worry, it is an interface change, that needs discussions and approvals ahead of time ofc.

    Again not how I'm reading that thread. As Krummrich put it:

    Surely you can expect maintainers of the Rust abstraction to help with integrating API changes -- this isn't different compared to driver / component maintainers helping with integrating fundamental API changes for their affected driver / component, like you've mentioned videobuf2-dma stuff.

  • 'Maybe the problem is you' ... Linus Torvalds wades into Linux kernel Rust driver drama

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  • How do you figure?

    The only two "technical" arguments I could see were firstly that code should

    [remain] greppable and maintainable

    which unless I'm missing something boils down to "I don't speak Rust", and secondly that

    The only reason Linux managed to survive so long is by not having internal boundaries, and adding another language complely breaks this

    which unless I'm missing something boils down to "I don't speak Rust", because ain't nobody trying to add any other languages to the Linux code base.

    Surely this can't be the "decent technical reasoning" you are referring to? I have to admit I don't follow kernel development that closely, but I was under the impression that integrating Rust into the code base was a long discussed initiative having the "official" blessing of the higher ups among the maintainers by now, so it seems odd to see it opposed in such harsh terms by a subsystem maintainer here:

    I absolutely support using Rust in new codebase, but I do not at all in Linux.

  • Hulu quizzing about the ads played

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  • Not what OP said over on the (now deleted) Reddit post:

    So the ad was supposed to play in that black box and this is a bug?

    I had Bob's Burgers on in the background but was playing a game with my kid. The silence caught my attention, but not at first. At first I assumed it was a, "choose your commercial" thing.

    After some more time I thought maybe it was asking if I was still watching, that's when I looked up to see this

    I waited, nothing. I made a verbal comment and the whole family started looking. We waited, nothing.

    I grabbed my phone, snapped the pic, made the post (but didn't actually post it), and it was still sitting there.

    I guessed an answer, got it right, and the show came back

    Then I hit "post" to actually make the post.

    Some people say it went away on its own. Others say, like me, they had to answer, and others said even after answering it didn't go away

    I've had Bob's Burgers on all morning and I've yet to see this again

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    It has already been removed again

  • linuxmemes @lemmy.world
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    What launching Battle.net through Steam feels like

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    But this... does put a smile on my face

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    Open Source Showerthoughts #0