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egil

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    Comment #48567615

    "They're trashing! They're trashing our rights!"

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    Comment #47972102

    ... while live streaming actually earns the money :-P

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    Comment #47034106

    They have the ServerReady compliance program for servers[0], but not for the plethora of SoC boards out there. [0] https://developer.arm.com/community/arm-community-blogs/b/ar...

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    Comment #46145654

    They are a significant actor in the market, and as a non-pc-gamer I am glad that their business goals align with Linux users. I don't believe that they do it out of kindness, but t…

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    Comment #44969815

    Fun fact: The Norwegian wine monopoly is rolling out exactly this to prevent scalpers buying up new releases. Each online release will require a signup in advance with a verified a…

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    Comment #44441744

    Maybe it would have generated with floats if it was prompted for a generator in x87 assembly? It did originate as an extension to x86 on a separate chip, so it could explain the AI…

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    Comment #42681401

    My father installed it on our family mac. I somehow discovered that by quickly rebooting twice, it would start the usual Finder shell instead, albeit in English instead of the conf…

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    Comment #41790897

    When Google contribute to open source, they often do it to scratch their own itch. That's how most open source organizations works. What Automattic wants from WPE as laid outs in t…

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    Comment #35726767

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

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    Comment #35537288

    Not to mention the required maintenance of said parts.

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    Comment #29603932

    It's also quite prominently displayed on https://streamlabs.com/

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    Comment #26297189

    But why would the code quality suck if features or maintenance of supported systems was prioritized ahead of arcane architectures? Time is a limited resource, so why should extreme…

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    Comment #26256491

    Imho the most important part of the x86 standardization is the IBM pc platform. Arm boards doesn't have an equivalent platform to standardize on, so everybody does their own thing.…

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    Comment #25559129

    I guess it's a ROI issue. Low effort answers to many easy questions gets you many points, while novel questions which requires thorough understanding is high effort and few points.…

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    Comment #25344978

    > AirPods Max require Apple devices running iOS 14.3 or later, iPadOS 14.3 or later, macOS Big Sur 11.1 or later, watchOS 7.2 or later, or tvOS 14.3 or later. Not even standard blu…

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    Comment #24625431

    mjpeg is a normal, albeit very simple video stream. While you could certainly squeeze the counter in less bytes by using a more advanced codec with interframe coding, it would be o…

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    Comment #24351236

    Qubes is for end user desktop/laptop usage, not service hosting.

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    Comment #24303956

    Such as the Lack Rack :) https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

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    Comment #23598245

    Like Meltdown and Spectre?

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    Comment #20409528

    The vietnamese way aligns nicely with nature. It might not matter much if you are legally right if you get maimed in a traffic accident.

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    Comment #20401485

    We still need an incentive to invent today to gain the necessary technology for tomorrow.

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    Comment #19569532

    Another curious situation drm-demanding publishers have created for themselves is the lack of control and leverage against the stores. With the closed Kindle ecosystem in such a ma…

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    Comment #19529608

    I also use MDN as my primary source for js documentation. However, the answer is often easy available by just prodding a bit in the devtools console. Live coding keeps the flow :)