I'm still pissed about the Windows key...

In Louis Rossmann's "right to repair revolution". Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... We can all be clippy now.

No, in fact "right to repair" *perfectly* fits this situation, and Louis Rossmann published a video just a week ago which makes a strong argument for why we need to re-frame the argument and the terminology involved to stop getting screwed like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Basically, the gist is that the owner of the Echelon bike had a perfectly working product, at which point the manufacturer *broke* it by forcing defective firmware onto the device, and the owner thereby needs a legal means of recourse to "fix" it by removing the defective firmware.

I pre-ordered one months ago. It looks like it's going to have great hardware and a completely open software stack. What's not to like about that? It probably won't be "mass market" and sell millions of units, but that doesn't bother me at all. I'd rather have something uncommon for which I can write my own software; that's a win/win.

You clearly didn't read the papers. He's claiming that the genetic structure of the SARS-COV-2 virus DNA shows signs of synthetic manipulation, and that a researcher at the Wuhan facility had suggested doing exactly this kind of manipulation in a grant request from 2018. It seems to me that if this is true, then anybody who's relatively skilled in the art would be able to download the (openly published) DNA code of the virus and verify this for themselves. You wouldn't have to rely on other people saying they did or didn't do this or that investigation, if the evidence is in the DNA.

The other day a friend sent me this link to some guy on the internet who has put together what seems to be very large amount of circumstantial evidence suggesting that it was a lab leak:

https://alexwasburne.substack.com/p/the-short-case-for-a-lab-origin

https://alexwasburne.substack.com/p/the-case-for-a-lab-origin-of-sars

Does anyone have any rebuttal or counterpoint to the information he presents here? It seems quite persuasive. The technical details of the gene insertion markers. The early shutdown of the lab, as shown by cell phone location data. The defective HEPA filters.

Real programmers only use text editors. I've interviewed a number of candidates who cannot write code on a whiteboard because it doesn't have google. Sorry but that's a fail.

For me, graphics got "good enough" with the Dreamcast. Each generation prior to that was a quantum leap improvement over the last, but once you have decent trilinear filtering you're on the long tail part of the curve and each improvement becomes much hard for a smaller incremental improvement.

But there's a thing that can kill enjoyment of a game with the absolute best graphics, and that's crappy gameplay. Poor storytelling, bad controls, annoying mechanics. And Nintendo really understands this and puts lots of effort into the gameplay, which is why the churn out amazing games, even if they don't have the best graphics in the industry.

It's a database! Does it store your data without corrupting it? Can you give it SELECT and UPDATE and DELETE commands? Move on with your life. I don't think anyone needs these new features. If you really want to support open source software, abandon Oracle and switch to MariaDB instead.

I am a serious collector and enthusiast of vintage computing systems, but I do have to say that the words "beloved Windows XP" have never come out of my lips. :)

I have a bunch of Sonos speakers and I love them for playing my music. The incessant upgrading is very frustrating for me. Why do I need to log in? I don't use any streaming; all of my media is sitting in files on a server on my LAN. All Sonos needs to do is 1) play the files, and 2) not change. It did #1 when I bought everything years ago, but they seem to be unable to do #2. Do they want me to pay subscription fees for the hardware that I bought years ago? Why is it necessary for Sonos to walk the path of enshittification?

The Qt6 binaries are built with support for "Apple Silicon" ARM CPUs; Qt5 are not.

Those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it... poorly.

We are witnessing the iPhone-ification of Linux. Good thing I still have Gentoo.

> You can select from Snap, Flatpak, and AppImages (or all three). I read that as: "yes we play all 3 kinds of music here: country, western, AND rap". Really?