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bpfrh··on Whirlpool Washer Transmission Repair (2007)
I think the idea is that most people have more space vertically than horizontally and like to stack appliances, e.g. washer on the bottom, dryer on top
bpfrh··on Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded
Carbon credits where open to any companies, so it wasn't a unfair subsidy.

EV incentives where also not limited to us companies.

bpfrh··on ChatGPT Desktop (Codex Desktop) for Linux
I mean there is the no true linux argument, but covering the main stream desktops you basically have kde which is written with qt(so qt is native) or gnome which is written with gtk and both frameworks/DEs do implement other things besides "just" the gui, so you are native.
bpfrh··on Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users
Really, how?

At some point someone will need to issue a key, which at some point will need to be verified against known good signatures.

These signatures will also need to be kept in case of lawsuirs/enforcement, so if somebody gets access they will know you visited that site

bpfrh··on ATMs didn't kill bank teller jobs, but the iPhone did
Something that only came with the banking apps was opening of accounts via camera based identification and other security critical stuff, like 2fa for transfers, resetting card pins and setting other security features.

It's also easier to scan payments via app than go to the bank, something that is only possible via native like apps

bpfrh··on Understanding the bin, sbin, usr/bin, usr/sbin split (2010)
Ironically using "modern" filesystems like zfs or btrfs you can do that if they are on the same disk
bpfrh··on Backing up Spotify
Quboz, bandcamp, etc.
bpfrh··on What we talk about when we talk about sideloading
Depending on your app this is not all.

If i send a golang binary to someone with a mac via signal or other mediums, apple simply displays a dialog that the app is damaged and can't be run.

You need to use chmod to manually remove the quarantine flag to run it.

That for me is something that should be fined ad infinitum, because it is clearly designed to disallow non technical people to run custom apps.

bpfrh··on Enough AI copilots, we need AI HUDs
I think the major different between that and KI is that the the Night-Vision is mostly static and knowable through experience/teaching, while KI is an ever moving target where you experience is zero on every new display/question.

I think the idea of an hud is better than the current paradigm, but it doesn't solve the fundamental problem.

bpfrh··on Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops
If the metallic frame is on fire and the circuit breaker doesn't trigger when you turn on, then the manufacturer has some explaining to do.
bpfrh··on Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops
Don't know, I just make sure there is no power.
bpfrh··on Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops
Screw in a light bulb and you work with 230V and we still allow people to screw in their own light bulbs
bpfrh··on Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice
The licenced design seems to include the front part of the car per the above comment, that would mean creating seperate models for EOL games.
bpfrh··on EU rules for durable, energy-efficient and repairable smartphones and tablets
I mean it kinda is already with android being made by google.

The hard problem is not even necessarily building android, the hard problem is afaik the custom firmwares needing a very specific kernel version to work with and having security issues of their own.

If you then want to decouple software completly form any hardware chip it get's complicated fast, are usb ICs software?

Do all ic manufactures now need to hire external companies for their firmware?

bpfrh··on Wayland is growing up. and now we don't have a choice
Isn't libwayland-client the replacement?

E.g. you now use the wayland calls instead of x11 calls

bpfrh··on Google restricts Android sideloading
I installed fdroid on a friends phone and they use it install newpipe and keep it up to date, without having a tech savy friend around to download the apk relase from github.
bpfrh··on University of Texas-led team solves a big problem for fusion energy
Not really in the sense that the owning company has managed to survive without the state stepping in and give them money.

Most reactors are old and in need of repair, most of these earlier than planned afaik.

There is also the bigger issue that some reactors are shut down in the summer because cooling water would leave the reactor so hot that it would be a danger to the animals living in the river.

bpfrh··on The Policy Puppetry Prompt: Novel bypass for major LLMs
Yes, if your comment is strictly read, you are right that your are allowed to scream fire in a crowded space

I think that the "you are not allowed to scream fire" argument kinda implies that there is not a fire and it creates a panic which leads to injuries

I read the wikipedia article about brandenburg, but I don't quite understand how it changes the part about screaming fire in a crowded room.

Is it that it would fall under causing a riot(and therefore be against the law/government)?

Or does it just remove any earlier restrictions if any?

Or where there never any restrictions and it was always just the outcome that was punished?

Because most of the article and opinions talk about speech against law and government.

bpfrh··on The Policy Puppetry Prompt: Novel bypass for major LLMs
>...where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action...

This seems to say there is a limit to free speech

>The act of shouting "fire" when there are no reasonable grounds for believing one exists is not in itself a crime, and nor would it be rendered a crime merely by having been carried out inside a theatre, crowded or otherwise. However, if it causes a stampede and someone is killed as a result, then the act could amount to a crime, such as involuntary manslaughter, assuming the other elements of that crime are made out.

Your own link says that if you yell fire in a crowded space and people die you can be held liable.

bpfrh··on For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids
The problem of rural communities having no power is, I think mostly a non issue across most of europe.

Having most of the electrical grid already it makes no sense to scale it back or not connect the few not connected communities

I'm not arguing against renewable I'm arguing against the idea that in most of europe it would be better to use small grids instead of an european wide big grid.

Hydrostorage is cheap if it provides enough energy for more than one small community, having the ability to balance energy production and needs across europe is easier than being at the mercy of local weather.

A good example for that is austria, where the grid has a problem where a better connection between east and west is not finished/buid because of discussions about environmental impact.

This leads to overproduction in one place which can't be transferred to places that need electricity.

https://kommunal.at/wir-haben-ein-strom-problem

bpfrh··on For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids
sorry my bad for formulating it badly: less solar and now wind means days or even weeks with no solar and no wind aka "dunkelflaute"

In germany a week long dukelflaute occurs every 2 years.

bpfrh··on For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids
sorry my bad for formulating it badly: less solar and now wind means days or even weeks with no solar and no wind aka "dunkelflaute"

In germany a week long dukelflaute occurs every 2 years.

You don't need 30% more panels, you need to store energy for the all usage for about a week.

bpfrh··on For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids
The problem is not necessarily day/night but summer with solar+and possible wind and winter with less solar and possible no wind.

So you need to store energy for more than a few hours or generate it from something else.

You then have the choice to use batteries(costly for megwatts as of now), things like hydrostorage, fossil fuels(gas/coal/oil) or hydrogen generated from renewable sources.

If you need big energy storages anyway, it makes more sense that communities pool their money together and invest in something like hydrostorage, but then you need a grid to connect the communities and if you do that, you might as well connect everything in the country so the grid is better at balancing.

bpfrh··on Minuteman III test showcases readiness of U.S. nuclear force's deterrent
Depends on the nato country, but most only use if attacked, which makes perfect sense as these where times where the most dangerous country was the udssr for them.

If you where a nato country you had the problem that by the time reinforcment from the usa could arrive, the udssr could potentially be in control of most if not all of europe.

While the udssr didn't really had that concern, as they had more than enough room to retreat, reform and defend.

In such a scenario it's very easy for the udssr to have a no first strike policy when there was simply no way for any european country to invade them, while smaller countries would have had a real concern that they either use their weapons to the full effect or have no chance to do so.

IMHO there is also the substantial benefit that the udssr now knew that any attack meant that they would trigger a war without winners, e.g. they couldn't fight and then retreat to safe bases deep in their territory

bpfrh··on Boring tech is mature, not old
I think a good example of boring vs old is wireguard.

Wireguard is a pretty simple vpn to setup, has a very predictable and stable behaviour which makes it boring, but it's fairly new compared to other vpn software.

bpfrh··on An analysis of deepseek's R1-Zero and R1
Isn't "code compiles" an insufficient criteria?

e.g you would need to prove that for all inputs the code produces the correct output which would in turn make the problem way more complex

bpfrh··on Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion
I mean most of the things are the fault of a badly designed or non existent protocols:

-Problems with non western input systems

-Accessibility

-Remote control(took around 2 years to be stable I think?)

-Bad color management

Then there's the things that did work in x11 but not in wayland:

-Bad support for keymapping(the input library says keymapping should be implemented by the compositor, gnome says not in scope, so we have a regression)

-bad nvidia support for the first two years? three years?

While these things are compositor/hw vendor faults, the rush to use wayland and nearly every distro making it as default, forced major regressions and wayland kinda promised to improve the x11 based experience.

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bpfrh··on XiangShan – Open-source high performance RISC-V processor
I don't see that much opensource coming from china.

For example the popular arm rockchip offerings are so bad at contributing to mainline linux or even sharing documentation that the single person supporting them dropped it due to lack of fund and being unable to get any contact to share documentation.

IMHO, chinese opensource does at best the same thing many western companies do:

Opensource the things that are not you secret sauce/income, or things which would benefit you if people adopt them.

With the added caveat that china in generally is notorious for not abiding by patent laws and copying.

bpfrh··on Does current AI represent a dead end?
There is a vast difference between arguments like "Phones have been accused of ruining romantic interaction and addicting us to mindless chatter" and "current AI has problems generating accurate information and can't replace researching things by hand for complicated or niche topics and there is reason to believe that the current architecture may not solve this problem"

That aside optimist are also not always right, otherwise we would have cold fusion already and have a base on mars.

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