jamespo

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jamespo··on A spider web unlike any seen before

glass and piece of card, come on!

jamespo··on I program on the subway

How are you defining often there?

jamespo··on Windows 11 surges among PC gamers on Steam as Linux stalls

No, that was a single journalist's article on how Linux is working for him gaming-wise.

jamespo··on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder

Netflix did not kill piracy

jamespo··on GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder

No, paying nothing is very compelling for a lot of consumers, you can see this in many other areas of content as well.

jamespo··on UK accounting body to halt remote exams amid AI cheating

No, because allowing remote online exams is a relatively new thing

jamespo··on I program on the subway

What's the source for this "successful interventions often lead to prosecutions"?

jamespo··on I program on the subway

There is software to shutdown/lock based on removal of a usb device that you have looped onto your wrist.

jamespo··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

"oh look, my browser doesn't work with Facebook, any Google sites and most of the web"

jamespo··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

Charging for a browser died with Netscape in 1998

jamespo··on Roomba maker goes bankrupt, Chinese owner emerges

There's a nice list of substandard products.

jamespo··on IBM to acquire Confluent

Linux on the desktop isn't a lucrative business

jamespo··on Proximity to coworkers increases long-run development, lowers short-term output (2023)

Would you be saying that if you agreed with the findings?

jamespo··on APT Rust requirement raises questions

Neither of those vulnerabilities look like rust would necessarily help however

jamespo··on APT Rust requirement raises questions

You mean typescript?

jamespo··on Mozilla says it's finally done with Onerep

Would they otherwise? Unlikely, the internet is a moocher's paradise

jamespo··on I have recordings proving Coinbase knew about breach months before disclosure

lol monero in username

jamespo··on AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem

Hail Corporate indeed

jamespo··on Steam Machine

Most people consume like this, but some like the warm fuzzies that hoarding gives them.

jamespo··on End of Japanese community

Seems to me that percentage is commensurate with the "peanuts" figure Google pay them, vs their annual revenue.

jamespo··on End of Japanese community

Source for this conjecture?

jamespo··on End of Japanese community

Yes, they pass a fraction down to other companies that generate traffic for them, it's a little known model.

jamespo··on Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control

It was a Yoga Slim 7 Pro X 14 direct from lenovo. About 18 months ago.

Not quite ThinkPad level, but the keyboard, pad, screen etc are very good and it runs Linux well.

jamespo··on Microsoft's lack of quality control is out of control

I bought a Lenovo AMD laptop a year or two back with 32GB RAM & 1TB HDD for around £650. The upgrade cost alone for that RAM/storage is £600 for a macbook air.

jamespo··on AI isn't replacing jobs. AI spending is

FAANG may offer those devs more than your company will in India but I'd be very surprised if they offer them similar compensation to FAANG devs in the West and specifically the US.

jamespo··on Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window

"roman soldier" indeed

jamespo··on Parents say ChatGPT encouraged son to kill himself

No it isn't just like that

jamespo··on End of Japanese community

They generated that money.

jamespo··on JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart

imapgoose which was recently featured here I think is another option: https://whynothugo.nl/journal/2025/10/15/introducing-imapgoo...

jamespo··on MinIO stops distributing free Docker images

maybe they got paid in exposure

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