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You are asking if a partnership with Fairphone would bring in revenue for GrapheneOS. Fairphone would need to design a new phone with hardware that meets the security requirements …

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One of the routing options in CoMaps is "avoid stairs". Not enabled by default. See ≡ → Settings → Routing Options. (CoMaps is the open-source, non-profit community fork of Organic…

GrapheneOS already has their own attestation API that verifies the app is running on GrapheneOS. Since GrapheneOS is more secure than stock Android, security conscious apps like ba…

The ability to fake the location on a per-app basis is called "location scopes". It is being worked on, as mentioned here: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27926-per-profile-locati…

Zed already had terms of use that forbid "reverse engineering" (ie looking at the GPL source code). Gram is a hard fork that removes the TOS, telemetry and AI, and turns Zed into j…

GNOME OS and KDE Linux are both specialized distros that primarily exist to test GNOME and KDE. They aren't for general users, and both web sites warn you not to rely on them. And …

I think that what you are calling "immutable pass by reference" is what the OP is calling "pass by value". See, when used abstractly, "pass by value" means that the argument is pas…

I am unable to extract any meaning from your post. You appear to be making a general claim: it is impossible to design a programming language where everything is a value. You at le…

This is Trump's MAGA diet, a replacement for the lame liberal DEI diet of the Biden administration. Not hyperbole, the web site states all this explicitly if you click through to t…

Yah, I read that and thought "this seems like gibberish: maybe I am reading LLM slop".

Yes, it was vibe-coded, and the author says they still haven't learned Prolog yet. https://www.reddit.com/r/livecoding/comments/1pmabwv/dogalog... >

Lisp has had arbitrary precision arithmetic since the early 1970s. So did dc on Unix, also in the early 1970s. ABC didn't arrive until 1987.

no, they are talking about high performance desktops, mostly. They link to the Framework desktop, which has 256 GB/s memory bandwith. For comparison, the Apple Mac Pro has 800 GB/s…

what ginger bill actually said was > I’d argue that actual closures which are unified everywhere as a single procedure type with non-capturing procedure values require some form of…

This song and video, Ice Resurfacing Machine, is popular with a young boy I know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqci9VCugLs

The long correspondence that you describe (from the 40's to the 60's) was with Gordon Mosley of the BBC, and not with Oswald. The only letters that Russell personally wrote to Oswa…

from the grammar: > pointer_type = "^" type.

Didn't Lisp solve this problem in the 1980's with generic functions and multiple dispatch? I'm referring to the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS), and its predecessors, New Flavors …

> Netherlands-based Elsevier bans the use of such tools, citing the "risk that the technology will generate incorrect, incomplete or biased conclusions." That's for peer reviewers,…

If the coyotes breed, then attacks on humans will begin as the coyotes will instinctively defend their cubs from humans who get too close to the den, even unwittingly. It would be …

The quality of your water varies with the district you live in. My municipal water provider puts chloramine in the water to kill bacteria. Occasionally we get high levels of chlora…

Advertising was originally illegal on the internet. It was for non-profit activities only (university and industrial research and educational activities). When the world wide web f…

The page is archived, and it is a fun read: https://web.archive.org/web/20111229065146/http://www.latera...