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csdreamer7··on VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
emacs specifically is not legal to distribute those plugins because of the GPL. Yes, you can be sued over this, likely won't, but you can be.
csdreamer7··on VSCode’s SSH agent is bananas
> VSCode is an IDE designed to suffocate the open source alternatives, so that they retain full strategic control

What open source alternatives? Atom was a mess that kept breaking. LSP plugins are now used in almost every featureful editor and have really made editing a lot better. You spent more time configuring Vim and Emacs than they saved you. Microsoft made a really good code editor that set a standard and likely took market share from their own (mostly Windows) Visual Studio.

I do not use it anymore because of the creep of closed source plugins (+ they keep breaking my workflow) but I still think it is a great improvement.

> I wish software was secure by design, like browsers are.

Someone does not remember (or was not around) for the ActiveX or Flash days.

csdreamer7··on We've not been trained for this: life after the Newag DRM disclosure [video]
> There must be a clear intent to defraud the EU fund (defrauding others is not enough).

Saying defrauding others does not seem right to me. If you defraud a distributor of EU funds, that may have impacted EU funds; they would have a claim.

Do you have a source for your assertion?

csdreamer7··on Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
Disable ublock origin on Youtube, or pay for Youtube.

As for artificial lag, I suspect it is because it using the web standard version of Youtube. Had this issue with Google Sheets where paste did not work correctly (forget exactly what it is) and it did work on Chrome. Google uses non-standard things to optimize the experience.

It is not acceptable, but it is also an issue that will go away once more people go back to the fox.

csdreamer7··on Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported
I was never able to leave the Firefox revolution. Chrome kept syncing my bookmarks out of order. I have never had it happen on Firefox.
csdreamer7··on Uber will need to fingerprint drivers in California to transport teens
An Uber driver told me about this. A lot of parents violate the TOS and have their kids take Uber. The drivers can usually tell because they are asked to pick up near a school. He stopped taking kids and the app would normally penalize him for refusing too many rides.

But, he was the one of the few drivers in that region during the daytime so the app warns, but does nothing.

Not sure of penalties, but I know one of the food delivery apps promotes you in tiers based on how many good delivers you do within a time frame.

csdreamer7··on Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger
> What the EU gonna do then?

Seize or terminate their patents and copyrights. Issue arrest warrants for criminal evasion. Compulsory licensing of x86 to a European design firm immunized by EU law.

> Perform rapid continental ARM transition

Yes.

Windows is on ARM. Apple is on ARM. AWS and Ampere make decent ARM servers. You have decent x86 user-space compatibility on ARM laptops. That is all users want.

I doubt it will cost 'mythical amounts of money'. Most users use a web browser and an office suite. I doubt they will know a difference for a while.

csdreamer7··on Intel announces retirement of Pat Gelsinger
Pretty much fair game for speculation. The only way this is not bad for the tech industry was if he resigned due to medical or age reasons. That would not be unexpected.

Doubtful that is the issue with Intel's track record. Curious when we will know if 18A is competitive or not.

> If 18a is not ready I think the best case scenario for Intel is a merger with AMD. The US Govt would probably co-sign on it for national security concerns overriding the fact that it creates an absolute monopoly on x86 processors. The moat of the two companies together would give the new combined company plenty of time to ramp up their fabs.

No way other countries would allow that. If A-tel (Amd-inTEL) can not sell to the EU the merger will not happen.

csdreamer7··on What will enter the public domain in 2025?
> While I agree with you, I'm struggling to find a good argument why intellectual property should be treated differently from physical property

1) First reason, it is not physical property.

2) Second, many of the creators who lobbied for longer copyright terms benefited from a rich public domain when they did not have anything. In the case of Walt Disney, he made a film series based on Alice in Wonderland, which never had copyright protection in the US, and it's copyright expired in the UK in 1907.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney#Early_career:_1920...

csdreamer7··on Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta
> Yes, this is the practical reality of the law. What the law says on paper that isn’t enforced isn’t relevant to one’s day to day experience of it.

You can say that about any law. It is a negative argument. The law not being enforced has no relevance to my earlier statement; you incorrectly arguing employees have far fewer rights over consumers.

> The point is as a consumer various public bodies will do this for you. As an employee (or investor) you have to do it for yourself.

Once again, not true. Investor protection is literally the job of the SEC. OSHA protects employees from hazard workplaces. Every state has an agency that investigates wage theft. Many states governments make most of their money from personal incomes-they have an incentive to prevent wage theft.

Honestly, I would argue consumer protection is the weakest in the US of the three.

csdreamer7··on Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta
> Legally, yes. Practically, many employers bounce paycheques and get away with it. It’s tedious to enforce worker rights in a way it isn’t for consumers. (In most states, you can get the AG basically working for you by copying their office on a complaint to the company.)

Not sure what the point of your argument is. Many employers get away with bouncing paychecks but you can get the state AG working for you by CCing them on email? The above comment claimed the law favored consumers and investors over employees and I gave a common case where they are not. Not the practicality of enforcing the law.

The same goes for employers too where employees steal or skip work and they are just fired instead of paying a lawyer (if they are incorporated a small business the owner can not represent the company usually) or going through the hassle of collecting proof, filing a factual police report and showing up in court to testify.

Doesn't change what the law is when it is worth it to pursue, and it was worth it to pursue against Meta for withholding material info to investors.

csdreamer7··on Supreme Court allows multibillion-dollar class action to proceed against Meta
> Broadly speaking, our post-War system of laws puts consumers at the top. Right below them, investors. Way below them, workers.

That is not true. Failure to pay employee salaries is a very easy way to pierce the corporate veil. It is not just you become another creditor like a consumer or a supplier would be.

csdreamer7··on My company has banned the use of Jetbrains IDEs internally
I mostly use kickstart.nvim in Neovim. I really like using mnemonic key bindings (which do show a menu) with the functionality above. One real issue was the lack of a telescope competitor (and I noticed you did not mention one above). I really like the quick overlay for those actions is how Telescope in kickstart is programmed. I really do not like the results smushed at the bottom of the screen like how Doom handles it.

Spacemacs got me into mnemonic key bindings, but it was too buggy and development had slowed. I got some things working with Doom Emacs, but it had a lot of bugs as well. Part of that reason is projectile also seemed to no longer be worked on. They were converting over to project.el but that seems to be slow.

csdreamer7··on My company has banned the use of Jetbrains IDEs internally
I struggle to find good bundles for Emacs. Doom Emacs is struggling with migrating their plugins. Most programmers I know use Emacs with few plugins and not the better IDE like plugins in Neovim.
csdreamer7··on My company has banned the use of Jetbrains IDEs internally
Strongly disagree, but I am in a niche field, Linux kernel development. Emacs is really struggling with it's tools. But for Neovim: the plugins and good keycombos are absolutely essential to get certain functionality for my productivity.

* rg with telescope window to quickly find text in very large code basis is essential.

* Pressing spc, spc, to bring up a telescope window of my open buffers and typing in text to narrow them, very important.

* To date I still struggle to get the LSP to work the Linux kernel on VSCode, but on Neovim I got it working.

IDE's have a lot of menu clutter that I struggle to make good use of-most programmers working on user-space apps, it is likely fine, but for the kernel, we often need more control.

csdreamer7··on Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
> Chinese social media is pretty vibrant with the exception that you can’t agitate for the fall of the government.

Just because one criticizes or expresses anger at the central government does not mean that they want to induce mobs that will topple it like in Ukraine. I sincerely doubt China's future history books will talk about the Pooh Bear mobs that brought down Xi's government. More likely to complain about housing or jobs.

csdreamer7··on Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
That is fair.
csdreamer7··on Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
> Chinese social media is pretty vibrant with the exception that you can’t agitate for the fall of the government.

Or Pooh Bear.

Or South Park entirely after one episode of joking about China influencing Disney about Pooh Bear.

Or failures of the central government.

There are a lot of things banned online in China; this is so not true.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China

csdreamer7··on Trudeau government bans TikTok from operating in Canada
> What’s crazy is few people even talk about who currently owns major US news networks and what their motives might be.

People talk about Rupert Murdock and Jeff Bezos all the time. Who else do you feel we should talk about? There is that one conservative owner of most radio stations in the US.

> People don’t like Musk owning Twitter/X, that’s a start

After Elon took over, he deleted my Twitter account. Still not sure why, but it happened around the time reporters who retweeted #Elonjet had their accounts deleted. And I did retweet it.

Media consolidation is an issue, but Musk with Twitter is so petty, racist, and blatantly self serving. I refuse to be associated with it.

> but start reading about who owns the rest (especially traditional media).

traditional media != social media. The potential for manipulation is much greater with social media.

csdreamer7··on No More Layoffs with a Payoff: It's Time to Freeze CEO Salaries
While CEO pay may not be that material to the total revenue or total employee salaries; many shareholders (and the governments these companies seek bailouts and grants for) must ask if their poor performance even comes close to justifying their pay while tanking morale among employees with layoffs and RTO mandates to get employees to quit.

Intel's and Boeing's past CEOs and arguably Google's current CEO for example did not justify their pay by any stretch of the imagination while their company's fundamentals tanked. Like many CEOs they coast on brand and monopoly effects. Google used to be seen as the AI leader for example. Intel's and Boeing's decline is becoming a national security concern for USA.

csdreamer7··on More than a quarter of all new code at Google is generated by AI
> One thing that worries me about AI-generated code is that if there's an obscure bug that pops up later, there's no engineer to think "ok hang on, I remember something strange happening when I first wrote that code... let me have a look." Instead, there are only engineers who reviewed the code, which is of course a lot different from writing it.

I feel this is a very weak argument against AI. Professional software development rarely values crafting good code. You get it in to meet a deadline to make management that is technologically clueless happy. Even orgs that value good code have people leave because of the take a new job merry-go-round to get a good pay raise of years past. One of the reasons open source surpasses most closed source software despite a lack of funding is you a variety of individuals with different goals that are focused on making a maintainable and usable solution.

csdreamer7··on CHP seizes cars after Bay Bridge sideshow with Flock Security data
That is very vague and one sided. If they shut it down for political reasons that can be, and have, been sued for it. They often shut it down because of a serious accident or some other kind of disaster. In southern California it would be mud slides.
csdreamer7··on All software in EU under product liability from 2026
This is an absolutely terrible argument. So much shrinkwrapped software phones home these days well before this law. MS Office has required it for years! Look up MS Office XP (2001).
csdreamer7··on Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency
> For example, there are no drivers for a pretty common steering wheel (Logitech G923).

This is a nice, specific detail. Most of these comments are very vague.

> There is a driver for an older version of the wheel that kind of works

Do you mean an out of tree driver?

Would you test this and post back? The 6.3 kernel they mentioned 3 months ago is very old and likely a forked kernel.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/vb0b37/g29g92...

I am new to steering wheels-not sure if this is the exact version because they mention xbox)? Try a distro with a very recent kernel (6.11; like Nobara for a gaming focused distro).

> I also noticed that games from Steam end up taking up substantially more disk space to the point where I can have only a few games installed on Linux.

Shouldn't be substantially more disk space. Would you provide stats?

Proton makes a Windows environment for each game as it installs those 3rd party libraries in the environment and that is used for disk calculations, while on Windows those libraries may be installed directly to the OS. Each 3rd party library and the shader cache is stored separately. This is my guess-I do not work on Proton.

> And even the games without any special hardware dongles don't work so well as you imply.

Anticheat and a few obscure Windows libraries are an issue. River City Girls needs some media foundation library or it does not show cutscenes. Valve is working on them.

csdreamer7··on Python 3.13.0 Is Released
> The language itself is (more than) complex enough already - I hope this focus on implementation quality continues.

As do I.

csdreamer7··on Apple mobile processors are now made in America by TSMC
> The US was a shipbuilding superpower because it had what Europe did not, access to vast untapped timber. It wasn't until globalization that the US lost its shipbuilding industry.

Where did you get this information? The Spanish-American war wasn't considered much of a war by Americans at the time since the American fleet had been built with steel vs the Spanish that still used wooden ships. Those ships were run on coal. The US lost its shipbuilding industry because of cheaper competition from Japan and S. Korea in the civilian sector and Congress favors aircraft carriers over smaller ships like frigates and destroyers from what I read.

csdreamer7··on DOJ claims Google has "trifecta of monopolies" on Day 1 of ad tech trial
> It’s about building something better for the people. Focus on that, and the rest will follow.

Strongly disagree with this part. The courts have adopted a very narrow view of anti-monopoly law focused on monopolies that increase prices. Politicians have yet to correct the courts on this. This would be a losing strategy for the executive branch.

csdreamer7··on FutureRack: Server racks are everywhere. Now you can find them in your home
The cat rack has it's uses since cats love sitting on warm computers and damaging them with fur.
csdreamer7··on Elasticsearch is open source, again
> According to a quick search, there are 33M "users" of Linux (I suspect that number is way too low). Only 15k have contributed to the kernel. That's an "exploitation" rate of well over 99.9%.

This is very misleading. There is a lot more code than just the kernel for the Linux operating system. If you ran the numbers for a default install of Ubuntu or RHEL that would be far more useful. The Linux kernel requires far deeper skills than a lot of user-and development so it is going to have fewer contributors per year on average.

Source: I am a Linux kernel engineer.

csdreamer7··on Telegram boss banned from leaving France in criminal probe
> actually an attempt by a NATO state at securing information about adversaries

Or disrupt their communications and cause chaos in their command structure. If Russia had to actually build it's own app; the corruption in the Russia state would give as strong of a showing as it's broken tanks.

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