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nix23··on Another Round of Layoffs at Meta
>It feels like Windows Mobile.

Wow, that's actually a really good comparison!

nix23··on The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web
>How so? You're just retrieving the data and displaying it.

Yeah displaying data...that cant be dangerous ;)

>There are many ISP's that use NAT to save IP addresses, hence an IP is not really an identifier.

Do you really think your argumentation is good?

nix23··on The FBI now recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web
>Using an ad blocker extension can also cause security issues,

But loading ad's are the much greater security issue.

And if you care about "uniqueness" you have that already with your IP, so you should start there with yourOwnVPN, TOR etc.

nix23··on I created an eBay account and bought an item, today I got indefinitely suspended
>>Thank you for choosing eBay

>>Take care bye

>>>I am sorry it was not appealed.~Olga

I love it, it's like a Monty Python Movie :)

nix23··on Mercedes-Benz previews its operating system MB.OS
>They pay really well for German standards and have access to a large talent pool of people that would like to live in Germany.

But they don't pay well for IT standards, German standards (IT) are lower (sometimes a lot) then polish ones.

>large talent pool of people that would like to live in Germany.

From Hungary, Romania or Turkey? Because no one else in Europe would like to work in Germany (in the IT industry). A bit of reality salt would be better for the German IT-Industry.

nix23··on Mercedes-Benz previews its operating system MB.OS
Yep QNX and VxWorks, for smaller stuff RTEMS and FreeRTOS are just everywhere.
nix23··on Italian prosecutors probe Meta for '870Ms EUR tax evasion'
>How the hell are they "probing" for stuff that happened 7 years ago?

Even if it's your neighbor, it's still Italy!!

Something like that would never happen in another neighbor like Switzerland....no wait let me make another example...i meant Austria...oh wait...damn i stop here.

nix23··on Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak
And not to forget the Amazon flavored Searchbar ;)
nix23··on Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak
I start/restart steam to update it.
nix23··on Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak
>Ubuntu has been making some interesting choices lately.

Interesting like the Chinese Curse...true ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_you_live_in_interesting_ti...

nix23··on Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak
Well Red Hat goes it's own way, i am not always a big fan of it, but at least everything they buy and create gets opensource'd.

So yeah totally on your side here.

nix23··on Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak
>is wallet-garden a play on words having to do with financial schemes and open source?

No it means a ->approximation<- of what Google and Apple is doing -> Snapstore/Appstore

nix23··on Ubuntu Flavors Agree to Stop Using Flatpak
Ubuntu ~always (around 12 years ago) try's to make a proprietary wallet-garden, and fail every single time.

It's ridiculous and the complete wrong way to survive in the the Opensource space. The only thing they have at that point is the name Ubuntu.

nix23··on Fastbook: Listen to audiobooks faster (2020)
You are the perfect customer for AI generated books....i love it.
nix23··on France goes 31 days without rainfall, unprecedented in winter
If you have no rainfall you have nothing to store, but i know what you mean and you are right.

Being from Switzerland we have already massive natural stores of water (Glaciers), but if it gets warmer we will loose them, and our alps would look like the Atlas Mountains in Maghreb, still water but nothing that could fill Lakes.

Not even talking about permafrost and falling-apart mountains.

nix23··on Databricks counts being laid off as “red flag”
Because that's "just" unprofessional or what?
nix23··on Databricks counts being laid off as “red flag”
>and that I should watch out because there are lots of lay offs happening.

Wow what a nice place, that's the mindset i want from my future employer. A truly nice place for builders i see... ;)

nix23··on University administrators used ChatGPT to write email following mass shooting
Sorry but no, Data (without emotionchip) is a much better choice, Picard is already borg-tainted.
nix23··on Intuit pouring money into lobbying amid push for free government-run tax filing
>This kind of illegal influence should cost... at least $100M?

A you not on the complete wrong way to equality and same rights for everyone? ;)

nix23··on NetHack 3.6.7
I add "Caves of Qud" and "Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead" to the list.
nix23··on Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta
I have the fairphone 4 with divestOS:

https://shop.fairphone.com/

https://divestos.org/pages/devices#device-fp4

Super happy with it, but yeah no headphone jack, but i have it with the usb-c convertor.

nix23··on Real-time Ubuntu is now generally available
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing#Criteria_f...
nix23··on Linode rebranded as Akamai’s cloud computing services
If i need a UK host i always jump to Mystic-beasts. They are great, i use them even for Colo.

https://www.mythic-beasts.com/servers/virtual

nix23··on Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is? (2015) [video]
>"frequency" or "light" or any other thing we invented to describe red.

You really don't know how science works do you? Bye roger, i am out.

nix23··on Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is? (2015) [video]
>There is no concept of frequency in the color red

>>Red light has relatively long waves, around 700 nm long

Those 700 nm or ~428274 gigahertz is the frequency of red (as a human eye normally sees color) light waves.

https://scied.ucar.edu/learning-zone/atmosphere/visible-ligh...

>>Frequency is a measure of how often a given event repeats itself. In physics, it is commonly used to describe waves.

https://www.translatorscafe.com/unit-converter/en/frequency-...

>>Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency

You can scroll down and you will find "Light" and "Sound"

This is "our" visible spectrum, to the left increased frequency to the right increased wavelength:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency#/media/File:EM_spect...

>the concept of "waves" and come to the conclusion that these are waves you are looking at.

It's not a concept but:

>>a wave is a disturbance or variation which travels through a medium.

https://www.acs.psu.edu/drussell/demos/waves-intro/waves-int...

And stop with you wannabe philosophical BS, it sounds just uneducated even borderline clownish.

nix23··on Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is? (2015) [video]
>Sound/color is the reality.

Have you ever had an argument with a bee if that flower is red? Or a blue-wale how Mozart sounds for him? Are waves on a body of water an abstraction?

But your obviously a troll so i stop here.

nix23··on Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is? (2015) [video]
>The better answer is to agree on how 'sound' should be defined, which would dissolve the question.

No it's not because now you just define what sound is for humans. Pressure waves in the right frequency is interpreted as sound for humans. Same with colors, for most humans red is red.

Frequencies are the reality, but sound/color is just a interpretation.

nix23··on Donald Hoffman: Do we see reality as it is? (2015) [video]
It's the old "Is a falling tree creates a sound if no one hears it".

The simple answer is NO, because there is no "compatible ear" that interprets those "sound"-waves, as sound.

The reality is, it always creates waves but not sound.

nix23··on Creator of Linux virtual assistant blames 'patent troll' for project's death
>especially when huge countries like China completely ignore them.

Excellent point, and it's the same with some proposed AI Laws.

nix23··on U.S. FAA closes some airspace in Montana for Defense Department activities
It's a balloon with instruments, not a human.

You are comparing two completely different games and you know it.

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