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lamarkia··on Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS
Ubuntu phone is still on.
lamarkia··on Canonical and partners announce Nextcloud Box – personal private cloud/IoT
It is great to see end-user products!
lamarkia··on Map-dl: Download Google Maps
Very handy!
lamarkia··on Scientists Have Found Another Species of Crow That Uses Tools
If humans were to grow up without social structure or education, they would not be very effective at survival. It is due to learning skills through education, etc that makes humans effective.

What we have here is specific populations of corvid species that grew up in relative isolation/protection that enabled them to have social structure to exist between generations.

It should be feasible to influence other corvid populations to show such remarkable feats. As long as there is no big mortality, the younger birds should learn from the older.

lamarkia··on The MI6 Spy Who Perfected the Art of the 'Honey Trap'
Looks like she found in MI6 the justification to a life of affairs.
lamarkia··on Contemplating the possible retirement of Apache OpenOffice
Some AOO developers appear to have a superiority complex. It is visible in the discussion.
lamarkia··on The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement
Thanks for the clarification.
lamarkia··on The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement
It becomes obvious from the discussion that Linus is specifically focused on those cases that companies became Linux-friendly after long-term encouragement. He probably took part in such cases.

In addition, he has in mind that companies can abuse the GPLv2 and just do code dumps.

It makes sense what he has in mind but his attitude is too much drama.

lamarkia··on The kernel community confronts GPL enforcement
It looks like a simple issue that transformed into drama due to the attitudes on the lkml.

It is obvious that there will be cases that the GPL will have to be enforced. Was accepted by the other side in the end.

The SFLC will only undertake a case if they have the support of copyright owners, not on their own volition.

lamarkia··on Bertrand Russell, Donald Trump, and Archimedes
Trump and his media people want to get their opponents to become uncomfortable, stressed and start making mistakes. It is a strategy that worked too well in the primaries and they want to repeat in the election.
lamarkia··on Why bad-tempered people earn more and live longer
The article is a hodgepodge of anecdotes. Does not make an effort to attach some science to it.
lamarkia··on Climate Change Is Hell on Alaska's Formerly Frozen Highways
An increase of 1C globally means that the planet gets hotter by a gazzilion of Watts.

Imagine how much energy is needed to increase the temperature of a glass of water by just 1C. Then, a swimming pool. Finally, a planet.

lamarkia··on [dead]
Softballing, because it will take place on /r/The_donald instead on /r/IAMA
lamarkia··on Highly Available Block Storage
I benchmarked the new block storage and it is not that faster than the virtio disk.
lamarkia··on Ubuntu Unity running on Windows 10
The purpose of WSL is to bring back developers to Windows. It is more efficient than Wine and is more useful to Microsoft to get almost native Ubuntu containers than some way to run Windows GUI apps on Linux.
lamarkia··on Genetic evidence for natural selection in humans in the contemporary USA
In modern societies, kids tend to get little quality time with their parents. In addition, they tend not to grow up in a relaxed carefree environment.

I see kids today with mobile phones, playing addictive games and being unable to focus on a single thing for more than a few moments.

It is tough to make multiyear controlled experiments on such things. I would discount heredity for now.

lamarkia··on Microsoft’s attempt to recruit interns is a barrel of cringe
Regarding the cringiness. The mail should have started with 'fam', not 'bae'. 'bae' is babe and definitely unacceptable, either to men and women!
lamarkia··on Microsoft’s attempt to recruit interns is a barrel of cringe
Does not look like INTERNAL when it is sent to 'bay area interns'.
lamarkia··on Bulgaria Passes a Law Requiring Open Source
It mentions "OpenOffice", which is now defunct.

In any case it is good. Future procurements will show how well the law is applied.

lamarkia··on Genetic link between family SES and children's educational achievement
It is annoying how such studies presume that genetics are a factor in academic achievement.

They can be evidence that social mobility is not happening and that academic achievement requires a certain attitude by the parents and their social class.

lamarkia··on Open hardware RISC-V microcontroller, pin-compatible to the ATmega32
Poorly documented campaign!

AVOID

lamarkia··on Back door found in Allwinner Linux kernels
Really, espionage?

The hardware is used in lowcost tablets...

lamarkia··on Back door found in Allwinner Linux kernels
This is a search on the github issues, and not on the source code.
lamarkia··on Back door found in Allwinner Linux kernels
It was a debug feature that was left enabled in the kernel source for H3 and newer cpus.

They should have done #ifdef DEBUG in the kernel source...

lamarkia··on Back door found in Allwinner Linux kernels
That Occam razor says that it was a debug feature that they forgot to disable.
lamarkia··on Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux’s bleeding edge
For most games, amdgpu is ok. If your game requires fglrx, then stick to 14.04 or 15.10.

fglrx does not work on 16.04 and all resources from AMD now go to amdgpu so it gets fully useful by the end of 2016.

lamarkia··on Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux’s bleeding edge
The shadows are quite subtle. How does it annoy you?

You can disable through 'compizsettings'.

lamarkia··on Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux’s bleeding edge
That is an upstream issue. I do not see a link to bugzilla.gnome.org on launchpad.
lamarkia··on Ubuntu 16.04 proves even an LTS release can live at Linux’s bleeding edge
You should read the release notes for 16.04. It covers some issues that will be rectified soon. Including that of the software centre.
lamarkia··on Ubuntu LTS: many vulnerabilities despite long-term support
Not so much actual worry. Such panic articles appear regularly.

If you stick with official packages, you are fine. It is the front-facing services that are important, and these are updated for security issues.

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