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savant2··on Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2
The Switch 2 screen is way better than Switch 1 non-OLED.
savant2··on Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell
This knob isn't KASLR, it just enables ASLR for ELF binaries.
savant2··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
Google did this in 2023, and this blog was a good PR move to make people think they are still doing this today.
savant2··on France's homegrown open source online office suite
For layouts and opening docs from other suites, it seems they rely on OnlyOffice, as listed on the marketing page of their Google Drive equivalent [1]. OpenDesk from ZenDiS (German counterpart to this project, also collaborating on La Suite) seems to rely on Nextcloud and Collabora Online for that [2]. Collabora and OnlyOffice are also present in Lasuite Drive's development environment [3].

Docs and Drive aren't the only products in this suite: they also provide alternative for Meet, Chat, GMail or Sheets. I have no doubt that Microsoft and Google products offer more features but my point still stands: a lot of employees (like myself) need productivity tools but only need the core features.

[1] https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/produits/fichiers

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDesk

[3] https://github.com/suitenumerique/drive/blob/46c9730d1b6d5c4...

savant2··on France's homegrown open source online office suite
Genuine question: why do you consider it to be nowhere near an "Office suite"? It seems to me it fits the definition given by Wikipedia [1]. I guess it is less advanced than Google Workspace or Microsoft Office but it would cover all of my needs at work.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_software#Office_s...

savant2··on Macron says €300B in EU savings sent to the US every year will be invested in EU
How many percentage of GDP is healthcare in the US? 10, 20%?

Healthcare is almost entirely public in France (pension also mostly are), so I'm not sure that your comparison makes sense.

savant2··on HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden
So Trump can support war criminals like Netanyahu, but when someone says Israel shouldn't colonize Palestine and practice appartheid, she becomes a mouthpiece of Hamas? Get your facts together.
savant2··on Luigi's Manifesto
This is fake. The domain name was bought 2 days ago. NBC and TMZ confirmed the short manifesto, you can also see it here: https://www.commondreams.org/news/luigi-mangione-manifesto
savant2··on Broadcastarr: Stream web content through your Jellyfin instance
This code seems to be aimed at pirates selling access to Jellyfin instances. It allows them to restream video feeds through Jellyfin with a control plane over a Discord bot.
savant2··on Debian has not fixed CVE-2021-44142
Debian stable repositories currently serve version 4.13.13. Multiple security releases have been issued by samba since then: from 4.13.14 to the recent 4.13.17 which fixes CVE-2021-44142 [1].

It seems the current maintainer does not have any more time to work on the package [2].

[1] https://www.samba.org/samba/history/security.html

[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814382

savant2··on Xiaomi becomes number two smartphone vendor for first time ever in Q2 2021
I have LineageOS on my Xiaomi phone and the only hassle is contactless payment. Spotify works fine and I did not try Netflix.
savant2··on The damaging effects of 'boreout' at work
My previous position was sold to me as requiring lots of low-level skills and I was actually doing only few trivial tasks each week. I left this job after almost two years and have virtually done nothing ever since. Boreout created very hard to get around mechanisms in my brain.
savant2··on Gnuplot is not GNU
Funnily they refer to some people wrongly using "Gnuplot" instead of "gnuplot" yet they use "Gnuplot" 23 times in this FAQ.
savant2··on The Byte Order Fiasco
The article explicitly shows that the provided macros are very efficient with a modern compiler. You can check on godbolt.org that they emit the same code.

Though the article only mentions bswap64 and mentioning __builtin_bswap64 would be a nice addition.

savant2··on Coronavirus: Dexamethasone proves first life-saving drug?
> The amoebic dysentery answer in this exchange⁽⁵⁾ indicates the confusion with hydroxyquinoline

Why would this answer indicates such a confusion ?