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gyger··on Flathub prohibits AI-generated code
It states: Exceptions may be granted for mature, well-maintained projects.
gyger··on The locals don't know
There is one tourist trap I have seen often, and that is thinking one needs to do a certain list of things to see everything in your one visit of the place.

Check the lists of tourist traps, see what interests you and fill your day there with whatever excites you.

gyger··on Pylance Now Default Language Server for Python in Visual Studio Code
While the product is excellent, it is a closed-source product that is no tightly bundled with the Opensource Python Extension. The whole situation reminds of the days before Microsoft embraced open-source. See also the bug report [1].

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/pylance-release/issues/4

gyger··on Products vs. Protocols: What Signal got right
The only anectotal experience I have with Matrix and with XMPP, there is always some message that does not immediately arrive at the recipient on mobile. Signal works just as reliable as WhatsApp in that regards.
gyger··on GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked
Although this rant complains a lot, the programmers in the bug report acknowledge that they like this fixed, but also explain that there is architectural debt in the code that makes it hard to implement. Being a user in Gnome, I have to say would be nice if it is there, but this will not break my whole experience.
gyger··on A Swedish doctor's perspective on Covid
Also Stockholm in summer is empty. People leave the town and go on holiday, retract to the country side.

I also don't understand when he says there is/was no social distancing. That is totally not my experience here, a lot of people were working from home and commuter trains were quite empty.

gyger··on Apollo – Funding for Moonshots
I agree, coops are the way to go with housing. They can be supported by the state in terms of low cost land rental or tax benefits. I am always wondering why not more businesses are structured around coops and the state is not pushing this more.
gyger··on Corundum: Open-source, high performance, FPGA-based NIC
What are the losses between ports that you are experiencing and what is the crosstalk between ports that are not connected?
gyger··on [dead]
Thanks. Sad that it is retracted the silent way, seems to just fuel more conspiracy theorists.
gyger··on [dead]
This is the strange thing about this book. There was content before: https://de.scribd.com/document/420577417/Fleming-RJ-2019-The...

I don't know how this was published and can be taken down without any comments by the editor. Springer Book is one of the main scientific books publishers on the market.

gyger··on [dead]
I stumbled across the book and was surprised to see a peer-reviewed book with this opinion. Seems it is retracted now, although without any clear comment on the page.

Does anybody know more how this happened?

gyger··on Mark Text: Simple and Elegant Markdown Editor Focused on Speed and Usability
MarkText is opensource too.
gyger··on Wayland misconceptions debunked
I never understood this complains? The main use cases work, I have almost never found a Linux user that was unhappy with Wayland. Once a while a power user, but that one is smart enough to install X if he needs a special functionality.

I never had a problem, and if you upgrade the next time, check the hardware compatibility and buy what you need. Till then, just run a X stack.

gyger··on Visual Quantum Physics
I am still a big fan of this book.

https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Computation-Information-10th-...

It exists also as a digital version.

gyger··on Maskless photolithographic system using low-cost projector and microscope (2005) [pdf]
There is a company selling a similar hardware called smart print: http://www.smartforcetechnologies.com/products/smartprint
gyger··on Ask HN: PhD in the UK or US?
Be aware that the UK is currently planning to leave the European Union, where a lot of high quality funding for projects is coming from. The next few years are a little bit unclear in that regard.
gyger··on Helm: Personal Email Server
I guess, you are glad leaving in Germany. A country with a bad state in terms of Internet.
gyger··on Major Hacker Conference Organizers Accused of Ignoring Harassment
I like the article of the zeit.

http://www.zeit.de/kultur/2016-08/jacob-appelbaum-rape-sexua...

gyger··on An Update on Firefox Containers
I am still missing a sync between different computers of the containers.
gyger··on The new contribution workflow for Gnome
Awesome work done by the community and the Flatpak/Builder guys
gyger··on You can’t buy Congress’s web history – that's not how any of this works
One should check out the talk of 33c3, where a group of german journalists bought this type of data and deanonymized some users.

https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8034-build_your_own_nsa

gyger··on Why I Stopped Using Multiple Monitors
Having used only one monitor for every and only recently bought a second one, I feel different. It's not about two equal monitors, but one for all the stuff that is static. A paper to be read, a formular to be used or just the notes that were taken before and are now used for implementation.
gyger··on Isso: A Commenting Server Similar to Disqus
Unfortunately it is a policy decision to not use gravatar or Facebook. But a phenomenal tool.
gyger··on I’ll never bring my phone on an international flight again
I suggest mentioning in the title that it concerns the US-border, I travelled across a lot of international borders, that didn't care. Only some international borders are a problem, one of these, the US one.
gyger··on Show HN: Magnetissimo – Self-hosted torrent search engine written in Elixir
It does support GPL, at least in the tech "bubble". I agree with movie copyrights, but not longer than 10 years and perhaps 25 for music/texts.

The industry has lobbied so hard that the good will of the younger generation is gone. (It gets better now with Netflix and offers like this). But I don't feel that somebody broke the law when he downloaded music/videos and I am part of this younger generation that grew up like this.