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Ironic, considering the content.

Your posts are very much like "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which this margin is too narrow to contain". If a definitive answer on this topic was known then i…

Neither you nor any of the other people making confident takes in either direction actually know . You're just guessing.

It does, but only for chats between two specific devices. Multi-device support is one of its best features that you lose with E2E. Key distribution is just too hard. I think we won…

EWM implements a Wayland compositor as a native thread spawned by a dynamic module in Emacs, it's a full compositor within the Emacs process: https://codeberg.org/ezemtsov/ewm So i…

It is probably country and language dependent, I think. I don't know anyone under 40 who doesn't write in cursive (in Russian), and for other languages I personally also write in c…

Okay, so which hardware are you buying that isn't using any Chinese components?) I don't think the empire can make this kind of hardware from scratch without China at the moment.

Killing off free repos is not going to happen. That would be a suicide move on the level of the Digg redesign, or Tumblr's porn ban. It kind of would be good for everyone if they d…

People go through all this trouble to host convoluted chat systems, and all this time IRC is right there. There's modern servers like Ergo and modern clients like Halloy (or for th…

These weird anti-Graphene posts confuse me. I use GrapheneOS, fwiw, and I believe some things the project does (like its attacks on F-Droid) are misguided for orthogonal reasons. H…

I've only seen the carrier locked phones and long-term contracts in a handful of countries. I've lived in a lot of countries on three continents. In many places the default is prep…

Haskell has exceptions, so dependencies can still do plenty of harmful stuff ;)

The "assistant" is a personality that the "entity" (or model) knows how to perform as, it's strictly a subset. The best article on this topic is probably "the void". It's long, but…

No. It was obvious from the title that this was about the UK, and also why should they - American sites don't indicate this either, and they have no monopoly on the language.

Huh? Clearly writing it is not easy, as per your own comment

Does anyone know of active work happening on such a license?

Xiaomi, Honor and Huawei make ARM-based notebooks like that. The closest to your description is probably the Qingyun line of laptops.

I'm not in the US. I spent some time on Google Maps, and the furthest spot I managed to find from a town was about 35km. Note that I didn't say anything about supermarkets - this i…

Haha, how far is the middle of nowhere from the nearest town in Scotland? A few dozen kilometres?

The EU is entirely dependent on US services, which don't much care about a fringe phone OS some fraction of people in the EU use. It's like adding duck/egg, crow/egg and other simi…

You can sell the phones alright, and they might even work, but the fact is that participation in society - especially if you live in a city - will be much harder without Android/iO…

You mean there doesn't seem to be any English non-US resource.

My current take is that if you start an open-source project now, you should go full AGPL (or similar copyleft license), and require a CLA for contributors. If your thing ends up ac…

I regularly take the train between Moscow and Kazan. It's 12 hours, you can get on in the evening, have dinner on the train and then get a decent 8 hours of sleep before getting up…

You don't need to. This is the first generation where there's millions of hours of online podcasts with tech bros for them to enjoy. In general, we're a uniquely well-documented se…