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csdreamer7··on Vitamin D and Depression (2020)
> was given 50,000 IU a week vitamin D to get it up.

It should have gone up significantly. I wonder if your body has a problem with Vit D absorption. I was put on the same dose of vit d for a treatment and I felt it within 20 minutes.

csdreamer7··on Hiring discrimination: a problem for men in female-dominated occupations
> "all the girls that should be in CS are going to math instead, they think CS is a boys' club"

One of my female classmates who took an intro CS as an elective hated how the class was run. Essentially half the class was already proficient in programming and were expected to solve the problems on your own without talking. This was different than my math classes which were more likely to have female teachers and we were to work in groups to solve problems (this was how precalc was done).

She said she felt scared by the expectation to already know these things before the class begun and all the silence while working.

csdreamer7··on Framework Laptop Mainboard
> Maybe for Alder Lake, but Zen 3 has been around for an eternity

5000 series Zen 3 has on desktop. Zen 3 based 6000 series laptops with RDNA2 graphics are still newish and a little difficult to get. Even from tier-1 brands.

AMD was also a little late to getting Linux support into these computers. 5.17 (released a few weeks ago and is what Fedora 36 will release with) just got support into the Ethernet driver.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5....

Mobile Alder Lake just launched (in Feb?). Don't confuse the desktop with the mobile variants-especially when you are considering driver support.

csdreamer7··on Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
> Question: what is the share of software products released and used under GPL? What good do they do exactly to non-technical users, compared e.g. to Apache license or commercial no-cost licenses?

Apache and commercial no-cost is not the same. If the vendor decides to cut support for a piece of software and introduce something new, bloated and costs more. I have the choice to hire a programmer to maintain the current thing with GPL and Apache if it is worth it. That is a very important benefit, I have the choice, many business owners do not understand that, but the IT people they hire do and can use that to protect their employer (and their jobs) from exploitative practices. The GPL ensures it stays that way years down the road while Apache suffers from the MIT issue Stallman had when he maintained a Lisp system on his own. His competitor took his MIT licensed code and did not give back.

Those 'no-cost' licenses often become cost and very-costly in the future if they become popular enough with future versions.

As for the software products: they are still very common. Look at Flatpak or Snap stores. Krita made quite a bit of money on the Microsoft store believe it or not. Paid for and free Linux distro products dominate the server market that run Linux and GPL userland tools. Some Apache licensed web components (Grafana) is moved over to the AGPL.

csdreamer7··on Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
Around the 8 and 9 min mark RMS talks about old hardware losing software support, like 32 bit systems. I am a kernel developer and the kernel removes code for a lot of older systems all the time (often lesser known 32bit ARM systems).

Phoronix reported that 5.18 removed the Andes NDS32 CPU arch code. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux-51...

The reason they do this is because a lot of these systems can break as the internal kAPIs change all the time and the users will not know since the embedded custom distro of software + kernel is not upgraded. Support can be broken for these arches for years until someone gets these systems second hand and posts about them, but may not care to fix it or it is cheaper to replace it.

RMS calls this a major issue, specifically 32-bit support in Ubuntu. I do not agree. My last 32 bit computer died a long time ago after the battery died years ago. It was a Gateway so getting replacement parts would be difficult. I also was never able to get it to run Linux. Aside from my brother-in-law finding his old laptop no one I know uses 32 bit computers (well except for myself with my Pi Zero: ARM v6, which I used once).

It just feels like the wrong battle to pick when Linux's biggest competitor is forcing practically all PCs to use a bootloader signed with their key. Major vendors can choose to refuse to allow users to install their own key. They are already locking CPUs (Ryzens) to their brand of motherboards with a builtin fuse provided by AMD. He of course talks about it-it just feels like the 32 bit part distracts from it.

csdreamer7··on Richard Stallman – The state of the Free Software movement
Indeed, my job is partially thanks to the GPL.
csdreamer7··on Show HN: My website, hosted on a 386 25 MHz, 4 MiB of RAM, 38400 baud internet
What is the power consumption? Curious how it compares against a Raspberry Pi Zero.
csdreamer7··on Ask HN: Has anyone successfully renegotiated an AWS non-compete?
Amazon (and Microsoft) already sues former cloud employees. The question is not "is this enforceable?". The real question is "can you afford the legal fees?".

'Amazon is suing a cloud employee who left for Google, rekindling the debate over non-compete agreements' https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/11/aws-case-against-worker-who-...

csdreamer7··on A PCIe network interface card that adds full router capabilities to your servers
> I may have been involved with those guys at some point…

I would be interested to hear more.

csdreamer7··on F-Droid – alternative to Google Play store
+1 for Aegis. Can't recommend it enough.
csdreamer7··on Full consensus for disconnecting Russia from SWIFT achieved, process has begun
To keep people from selling the ruble and buying dollars and euros because they fear their money will become worthless.

If Russians stop accepting rubles and use foreign currency for transactions, the Russian govt stockpile of rubles, and it's ability to print more rubles, becomes worthless. They will need foreign currency to pay people.

csdreamer7··on Is C++ Doomed?
GTK and the Linux kernel too.
csdreamer7··on Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringement lawsuit
A side question: is there anything licensed AGPL that AWS uses? Either AWS releases the code or found a way around the license?
csdreamer7··on FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity and lifecycle (2012)
Am I understanding this correctly? FreeBSD y releases (x.y) are not snapshots of CURRENT, but rather are backports that are maintained separately from the really LTS x release?

I always assumed FreeBSD had a major release and then minor releases that were snapshots of CURRENT like Ubuntu's non-LTS releases were of Debian Unstable.

csdreamer7··on SUSE announces Liberty Linux, new distro for those who miss the old CentOS
If an org has that kind of risk, shouldn't they be paying for their OS?
csdreamer7··on Ask HN: Why do new browsers use Chromium instead of Firefox as their base?
As others have said; Gecko and Servo are not easily embeddable.

That was Apple's reported reason for using KHTML and making WebKit which Google used for Chrome and forked eventually. They wanted something light and embeddable. Don't blame them. Also, that software was LGPL.

I was always hoping that Microsoft or Apple would fund the Mozilla Foundation to keep a competitive web engine afloat and prevent Google Chrome engineers from dominating the web. They can take the Firefox code for their closed source software under the MPL.

Really doubt MS is going to do that these days. Kinda hoping Apple does since Safari is often the last to support new web standards. It would take very little of their profit and yet keep a big competitor from dominating a critical function of their most profitable products. This is regardless if they actually use Gecko or Servo.

csdreamer7··on Forced to sell chipless ink cartridges, Canon tells customers how to bypass DRM
How good are the drivers with Linux?

A family member bought both an Epson and a large flatbed HP printer in the past few years. Neither of them work (recognized, but do not print) while my much older (over a decade and a half) HP printer does work including scanning.

csdreamer7··on Ask HN: Building a Desktop App in 2022
Yes, you can charge for it.

What you probably are really asking is do I need to release the source code? As long as you are not statically linking an LGPL library... which last I checked a few years ago... mobile required that but not desktop.

Just have the separate qt libraries in the same directory and I believe you should be good.

csdreamer7··on Ask HN: Please recommend a router without need for a cloud account
I bought a tplink wifi repeater years ago and it definitely required a cloud account to use. There may be a way to set it manually, but it was not obvious to me.
csdreamer7··on New York City bans natural gas in new buildings
Huh, I was going to write about what I heard about the natural gas pipelines freezing, but it turns it out they do not actually do that due to being buried at least 3 feet underground.

https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/202...

However, the multi-stage above ground pipes that carry oil and natural gas were compromised as well as refining stations for the natural gas due to the lack of power leading to a possible shortage of natural gas that did not happen that winter in Texas.

Learned something new.

Been considering going all electric for my future home with a heat pump as Mr Money Mustache did. Reading about the freeze in Texas and how even coal piles froze; it felt like relying on solar panels and batteries seemed safer. This will change my calculus a little.

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2021/10/05/diy-heat-pump/

csdreamer7··on “Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)
I did misread it, my bad.
csdreamer7··on “Autism is a spectrum” doesn’t mean what you think (2019)
> because the people around them dismissed it or didn’t support them because their difficulties were not so visible.

Not to downplay any difficulties you or someone else may have had, but a counter to this I am seeing some people claim on twitter that they should just be able to state their diagnosis without getting one and want accommodations for it because of poverty or family would look down on it.

This is very dangerous. People just assume they see a characterization on TV and assume they have that. Symptoms can be shared between different classes of syndromes. ADHD and High Functioning Autism both can share, on the surface, similar sensory processing issues, anxiety, and obsessive thinking in my experience; but I imagine the therapy and day to day accommodations that one with ADHD needs is much different that one with Autism (honestly I barely remember the therapy I got in school and I am hoping more people can chime on this).

csdreamer7··on Ask HN: Remotely helping elderly parents?
ChrisLAS/Linux Unplugged/Jupiter Broadcasting and the AskNoah show do talk about remote IT support. Like them, I prefer open source solutions.

RustDesk (yes, remote IT software written in Rust) is one option I hear a lot about.

https://rustdesk.com/

csdreamer7··on Django 4.0 release candidate 1 released
As a former Rails dev, my two cents is that the language keeps breaking.

The small changes in 2.7 were understandable, but quiet a few gems that I used broke in 2.4, and in 2.5. It was a pain to fix, some were never updated.

Much how people complain that changing strings in Python 2->3 hurt adoption; we have had breaking changes that can break gems almost every release.

Ruby is a great language, but Python is so much less stressful, easier to find working libraries, and easier to find jobs. The last reason is likely because of the first two.

It is fine to add things, but when you keep changing the language and breaking things; people hesitate to write software in it. There is a reason the Linux kernel has a rule about (almost) never breaking user-space.

csdreamer7··on A German State Is Saying Goodbye Windows, Hello Linux
OnlyOffice is pretty good these days. Also AGPL.

Install with the snap:

sudo snap install onlyoffice-desktopeditors

csdreamer7··on System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop
Screen recording does not work well in Wayland. Black screen with the mouse cursor. Keeps breaking in Chrome and not even working in FF for me with Google Meet. Haven't used Zoom in a while, but prob still broken.

On Gnome Wayland, if you play Sonic Mania, you can feel the latency from when you push a button and Sonic jumps. From what I hear on Linux Unplugged, the latency also exists in other games. KDE Wayland is too broken to try.

csdreamer7··on Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro
Probably because of the 'provide the keys' and not sue for any anti-circumvention tech in the GPL v3. The anti-tivo provision. Not sure if it applies to standalone system utilities, but I bet it is an internal blanket ban on the GPL v3.

Apple is very fond of locking down their hardware. Google took a very strong stance against the AGPL-even banning it from their own public code repo service before they shut it down.

csdreamer7··on Memory leaks are crippling my M1 MacBook Pro
As someone who hasn't been in the Mac ecosystem since his and his mom's iMac both broke in the same way in high school, how does the Mac ecosystem lock you in?
csdreamer7··on Apple silently fixes iOS zero-day, asks bug reporter to keep quiet
My first thought would be that the team within Apple may worry the researcher may resell the vulnerability to an exploits site.

Not part of the security industry so not sure what is common or not, but I would understand Apple being worried about sharing too much with a researcher they may not be familiar with.

I would also understand the researcher's point of view that this fell through the cracks or Apple is not willing to fix; and is likely what happened.

csdreamer7··on Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today?
Hi dang, thank you for what you do.

Do you (or anyone else) have an article on HN's infrastructure? Would like to read more about this.

Tried to Google it but was filled with links to other people's infra on HN.

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