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egil··on We Are Forking dotenvy into dotenv-ng
Next generation I guess.
egil··on Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time
"They're trashing! They're trashing our rights!"
egil··on I built a Game Boy emulator in F#
... while live streaming actually earns the money :-P
egil··on Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business
They have the ServerReady compliance program for servers[0], but not for the plethora of SoC boards out there.

[0] https://developer.arm.com/community/arm-community-blogs/b/ar...

egil··on Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm
They are a significant actor in the market, and as a non-pc-gamer I am glad that their business goals align with Linux users. I don't believe that they do it out of kindness, but that's actually a good thing for a long term investment.
egil··on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?
Fun fact: The Norwegian wine monopoly is rolling out exactly this to prevent scalpers buying up new releases. Each online release will require a signup in advance with a verified account.
egil··on Mandelbrot in x86 Assembly by Claude
Maybe it would have generated with floats if it was prompted for a generator in x87 assembly? It did originate as an extension to x86 on a separate chip, so it could explain the AI sticking to integers.
egil··on Microsoft Bob: Microsoft's biggest flop of the 1990s
My father installed it on our family mac. I somehow discovered that by quickly rebooting twice, it would start the usual Finder shell instead, albeit in English instead of the configured Norwegian. Fun times.
egil··on Wordpress.org Login: "I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way"
When Google contribute to open source, they often do it to scratch their own itch. That's how most open source organizations works. What Automattic wants from WPE as laid outs in their term sheet is to dictate what WPE contributes and audit their accounting. Not exactly on the same playing field as other corporate contributions to open source projects. Not to mention the non-forking clause.

Maybe setting up a proper independent governance of the WordPress project would encourage more independent contributions.

egil··on The unintentional dystopian beauty of oil rigs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condeep
egil··on Toyota plug-in hybrids to offer 124-mile electric-only range
Not to mention the required maintenance of said parts.
egil··on On commercial forks FOSS projects
It's also quite prominently displayed on https://streamlabs.com/
egil··on Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with
But why would the code quality suck if features or maintenance of supported systems was prioritized ahead of arcane architectures? Time is a limited resource, so why should extreme portability be considered the holy grail?
egil··on AArch64 Boards and Perception
Imho the most important part of the x86 standardization is the IBM pc platform. Arm boards doesn't have an equivalent platform to standardize on, so everybody does their own thing.
egil··on Cosmopolitan Libc: build-once run-anywhere C library
I guess it's a ROI issue. Low effort answers to many easy questions gets you many points, while novel questions which requires thorough understanding is high effort and few points.
egil··on AirPods Max
> AirPods Max require Apple devices running iOS 14.3 or later, iPadOS 14.3 or later, macOS Big Sur 11.1 or later, watchOS 7.2 or later, or tvOS 14.3 or later.

Not even standard bluetooth.

egil··on Stupid solutions: Live server push without JS
mjpeg is a normal, albeit very simple video stream. While you could certainly squeeze the counter in less bytes by using a more advanced codec with interframe coding, it would be overkill for this poc.
egil··on Bottlerocket, an open source Linux distribution built to run containers
Qubes is for end user desktop/laptop usage, not service hosting.
egil··on Lego IKEA Bygglek – First Look
Such as the Lack Rack :) https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
egil··on ARM Mac Impact on Intel
Like Meltdown and Spectre?
egil··on A “bike platform” that temporarily swaps one car parking space for ten bicycles
The vietnamese way aligns nicely with nature. It might not matter much if you are legally right if you get maimed in a traffic accident.
egil··on Fighting climate change may be cheaper and more beneficial than we think
We still need an incentive to invent today to gain the necessary technology for tomorrow.
egil··on When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear too
Another curious situation drm-demanding publishers have created for themselves is the lack of control and leverage against the stores. With the closed Kindle ecosystem in such a major position, Amazon (with its poor drm) has tremendous leverage over the publishers.
egil··on Leveraging A Poor Memory In Engineering
I also use MDN as my primary source for js documentation. However, the answer is often easy available by just prodding a bit in the devtools console. Live coding keeps the flow :)
egil··on Call for testing: OpenSSH 8.0
And that was in 2012. I reckon everybody who cares knows that openssh config uses ~/.ssh, and those who do not care will not cry if they accidently delete it.
egil··on RemoteMac.io – Dedicated Mac mini
Not to mention that the "it just works" experience is much easier to provide when you control both software and hardware. No driver mess for the end user.
egil··on Why touchscreens in cars don’t work
Stovetops with capacitive buttons are much nicer than the cheaper resistive buttons. Never had any problems with the two inductive stovetops I have owned, but vacation homes with cheaper electric stovetops with resistive buttons is more hassle. The flat surface of both variants makes them easy to keep clean and child lock.
egil··on Linux kernel maintainer says no to AMDGPU patch
They ignored feedback from february[0]. How can that be "doing their job"? Do you think Ms would sign drivers that did the opposite of their guidelines?

[0] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-Februa...

egil··on Linux kernel maintainer says no to AMDGPU patch
Most work on Linux is paid[0]. However, asking paid people to do work that does not align with their employers interest nor the project maintainers, is on par with what you're asking.

[0] 4.5 Development statistics https://lwn.net/Articles/679289/. Just google lwn Development statistics for more.

egil··on Young voters wanted Brexit the least – and will have to live with it the longest
Yes, for binary decisions. Otherwise, negotiating a larger majority is a possibility.
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