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Sun's hardware business is mostly irrelivant, and both IBM and HP are in the process of switching away from providing hardware (Especially IBM). SPARC was already mostly dead by th…

I doubt it would have met with long term success, Sun played a lot of the same stupid liscening games they did with Java.

WORKS4ME, bug report marked CLOSED

so we shouldnt care then either obviously.

Maybe there is a startup opportunity to sell spare kidneys, and even lungs and liver-halfs too! Maybe even a cash-for-corpses business, we need to get rid of these ridiculous self-…

heat is exsausted out the connector side on modern GPUs, placing that facing downward is an excellent recipie for a cooked GPU.

That speaks more to the insanity of the Node ecosystem than anything else.

polyfills in general are a really awful user experience. They are typically pushed by people who use the latest chrome, so they have an excuse not to care about other browsers. The…

This is when somebody gets the bright idea to block all protocols other than TCP and UDP. Hey you can just tunnel via udp right??

I fail to see how subscription vs one time purchase costs are any way related to how much a customer costs to support, both situations have edge cases of demanding customers eating…

My linux install does not have "telemetry" (which is really just a polite word for what people used to call "spyware").

Stuff like this is fundamentally unworkable when the people pushing software updates are your adversaries. They already do stuff like ignore DNS settings and firewall rules to send…

irssi is as much a TUI as weechat

That is not what airgapped means.

arc4random uses chacha20 on openBSD now, has for several years, OSX and FreeBSD are yet to update...

_something_ about the browser (either chrome or firefox, fresh profile, no extensions) is eating ungodly amounts of ram however, and it tends to be at its worst with JS heavy sites…

In a _single_ 100% synthetic benchmark. The apple chip preforms so much better than other comparable arm cores (3-4x faster) on this benchmark I view it with a lot of suspicion. I …

you are overstating things significantly, ARM is still way behind (an order of magnitude or more) on single thread preformance. Nobody cares about preformance per watt if it means …

Nobody is even close to touching intel in its niche of high single chip preformance at reasonable power usage. PPC was way way behind when it got replaced.

its perfectly rational if it increases sales, there are indications this is the case with PC piracy, especially with titles that would otherwise lack exposure. Its also rational if…

There is plenty of blame to go around, people running data broker services are far from blameless.

The only thing you do by "taking away their choice" is to force them to use alternatives that are not Google Chrome.

It is the reality of the situation in a vast amount of companies.

I think you are misunderstanding the point that is being made. The point is that inheritance belongs to everyone NOT just a single family. Its not about forcing everyone to begin a…