binomialchicken @ binomialchicken @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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"Boy-racer" is a term I wish I had known years ago to refer to some acquaintances. Seems much less offensive than what I was using.

Care to elaborate or point to a reliable source?

I was really disappointed that I didn't get to go a second time, during a maintenance a few years ago that had the entire Canadian side blocked dry. Would have been so cool to see how the rock has been shaped.

Niagara Falls isn't too far out of your area, 9 hours for the American side, maybe 10 for Canadian. Walking on the pier under the Canadian side is incredible, if you are willing to pay for the ferry ride.

I've been outside. It was awful.

Says who?

Is fiber really worth the extra complexity and expense? It's strength is in longer distances with mostly straight runs. When you are doing short distances with multiple turns, copper is much easier and more forgiving. Splicing fiber is difficult if something breaks during or after installation, on top of the expense and skill needed for proper termination. Tools and hardware for copper are cheap, easy to use, and ubiquitous.

They are this thing that loves you no matter what and if you are a good parent you do not take that for granted and give it all you got.

Even if that were true, it makes parents sound like they have a god complex that needs to be validated.

640K ought to have been enough for anybody, except this guy's dad apparently

Epic has donated a sizable amount to fund Godot Engine, and other FOSS projects. UE4 and UE5 can both be built from source to run on Linux natively. They are not smothering FOSS or Linux.

Nope, unfortunately now the car has been magnetized, and that would swap the polarity, making it move in the opposite direction, which is reverse again.

Simple. The magnet weighs less than the car, so the magnet is going to be moving to the left. If the force is going to the left, that means the car can only go in reverse.

The university was set up in the same manner as one that holds accreditation and takes smaller fees than actual tuition would cost, so that immigrants can claim they are students for a fraudulent student visa. ICE claims that these students were obviously interested in this arrangement, and not a legitimate education, because the university didn't even have classes that students could sign up for and the students stayed enrolled. However, it is clearly entrapment as the university had been validated by the government publicly, and some students who were tricked into enrolling had later tried to transfer out to a real university, but were still arrested regardless.

So I got that first part down, 100%. I didn't read the rest, but I assume it all came together, and proved this is McCarthyism.

That doesn't make sense to me. But, then again, you are very small.

I think of a "mobile device" as a phone, tablet, and smartwatch, but those latter two categories are dwarfed by the market for phones, so I think they can be ignored. Laptops are dominated by Windows and macOS (BSD/Unix descendant, not Linux), so that can also be ignored. A few sites of questionable reputation put the global market share of iOS at around 30%, but let's suppose it's only 20%. In order for 99% of all mobile devices to be Linux-based, then only 1% of the total could be an iOS device, and roughly another 4% of the total is every other (presumably) Linux-based phone. That leaves 95% of the "mobile device" market for non-phone devices, which seems unrealistic, even accounting for industrial and commercial devices.

What's the biggest code base you have ever reviewed? What's the most recent TLS vulnerability you have encountered, as opposed to the last vulnerability in other parts of your OS? Code being swapped by the server, maybe, but are you saying you do a code review every time you update a package or dependency of some other project? This is only less secure in some inconceivably convoluted chain of events that no practical person could enact. No sane person does what you're saying. Everyone has to trust someone else with code blindly at some point.

Let me get this straight, you think running something in a browser with its sandboxed design, is somehow less secure than downloading executables off of GitHub?

It's depressing that no other devices are getting SteamOS yet, either as out-of-the-box or at least supported fully day one. Here is why I suspect we are watching it die a second time.

• Valve hasn't released it standalone, which is probably making these manufacturers nervous
• If Valve is even offering it to the manufacturers, money is probably flowing one way or another, as professional service fees to Valve, or ransom demands from manufacturers entrenched with Windows
• Microsoft might still be doing their usual anticompetitive crap, offering incentives to keep SteamOS off of as many devices as possible

We are going to be held hostage on Windows for years to come because this is delaying the critical mass for adoption. Even though there are all the other viable community distros, we need the brand to keep things moving.

Sadly her educational background looks like that of a typical lawyer, so it might just be plain old corruption. She is returning a favor for her most recent appointment.