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> The best thing they could do to new PLC's would be to have the src code live alongside the firmware inside. So any new person would be able to open it and reason about it. This i…

Great look! Do you plan ISO layout as well (German, French, etc)?

I'm happy with my Fairphone FP4 with LineageOS, but that just one datapoint.

Currently Google is planning to lock down the Android platform to only Google Play store software repository. See https://keepandroidopen.org/ for more info.

The H2O model is water tight. Is there anything about seal on the outer shell to take care of?

> - I'm itching at the chance to build my own phone operating system, and there must be thousands of others who want to do the same. Maybe look into contributing to existing altern…

The oldest `editions` idea I know of, is with Perl. For 20 years it was already common to write `use 5.18` to activate multiple options. https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/use

I've often read on church in Flander "onze lieve vrouw", but I had read that there is no word in Dutch for love. Instead, one would say "ik hou van jouw" which I translate as "I'm …

Come now to south of Germany. We are in the middle of a 10 days heatwave at 35 degC on average.

For this very simple relay, there are lightweight alternative like msmtp. https://packages.debian.org/trixie/msmtp

I've read some people replace notepad with Notepad2e [1]. I personally use vim as my text editor. [1] https://github.com/ProgerXP/Notepad2e

> This is patently false, the latest Kobo Libra Color is using secure boot which completely locks out custom development: > > https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=363…

Now with Webxxx, the user needs to make sure that it is the right URL, not a fake teanns instead of teams, so he is unsure every time he has to use it. Some random download, once i…

Sane works out of the box on Linux (at least in my limited experience). There are front ends for Windows and MacOS [1]. No need for a browser in the loop. The browser is becoming m…

> SEPA Instant Payments also solves that. Even more than now there is a QR code format for SEPA Instant Payments. Some invoice have a QR code and when it is scanned with a bank app…

In that video over Madagascar, the lowest tier jobs on AI tagging is at 1 €/3h of tagging, beating the Kenyan price.

Oh no! The ones working at 120€/month are the happy few. This is above mid range income in Madagascar. I just wanted to point out that this is not all automated running on GPUs. Th…

By coincidence, I've looked yesterday a small documentary [1] about the people tagging all those invoices to train theses models. For 120 €/month they are reading about 1000 to 400…

There is already some trash flying around in space from decommissioned satellites. Reentering the atmosphere needs some energy to initiate the process and that was/is not always pl…

> Docker Engine includes an experimental feature that can automatically switch to the containerd image store under certain conditions. This feature is experimental. It's provided f…

Older Thinkpad were made without the sharp edge. I love the edge on the X230 and I've been wondering why no designer has taken a look at these to make new laptop. https://external-…

At some sites, the methane is burned in gas engine to generate electricity. Some sites build a CHP and resales the heat for district heating. The engines may need more maintenance …

Great story, and I believe you. I go through similar slope to work, 5 to 15%, 120 m altitude difference. Doing it daily since Covid has improved my fitness a lot. I fully believe t…

The wiki page explains that as from Freecad 1.0, the work done by Realthunder in the topological naming problem has been merged into Freecad. Not that everything is solved. Just to…

This is described in the wiki page, at the section solution.