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bythe_womble
2024 @01:06PM
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Attached to: Linux App Store Flathub Now Has Over One Million Active Flatpak App Users
One of the advantages is that it provides some isolation which is an extra layer for security that is particularly useful for internet facing apps like Thunderbird and Firefox.
its not the only way to do it, but it is the most user friendly way and integrated with GUI package managers.
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bythe_womble
r 01, 2023 @04:48AM
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Attached to: Google Registry Launches<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.ing Domains, Begg.ing For Wordplay
Transnational is not the biggest problem. .org, .com, .net and sometimes even .edu are used as generics, not as US domains. e.g. there are a not of British businesses that use .com domains.
The problem lies in the history of .us which was not taken up very much IIRC the problem was that the subdomains were based on states rather than purpose. Most other countries either allowed a set of subdomains by purpose (e.g. .co.uk and .ac.uk) or just allowed people to register domain just under the TLD.
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bythe_womble
22, 2023 @06:10AM
(#63868255)
Attached to: DuckDuckGo CEO Says It Takes 'Too Many Steps' To Switch From Google
I think that reflects the very poor UI that mobile devices present in terms of allowing change and customisation.
Its probably easier to switch to a different home screen/launcher. There are quite a few good ones (e.g. KISS launcher)
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bythe_womble
r 02, 2023 @03:46PM
(#63817622)
Attached to: Nissan Begins Repurposing Leaf Car Batteries As Portable Power Stations
I was wondering about that.
What does that imply about the life of the car? It sounds like it is limited to the life of the battery, or less if " many of the individual cells are still in good shape when the vehicles are discarded"
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bythe_womble
r 02, 2023 @03:38PM
(#63817594)
Attached to: Population Collapse Almost Wiped Out Human Ancestors, Say Scientists
People have been saying the same thing since Malthus.
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bythe_womble
2023 @05:16AM
(#63622922)
Attached to: Discord Is Opening the Monetization Floodgates
4. Platform operators knew all along that shit costs money but knew they had to wait until they had users sufficiently reliant on their platform.
5. If they get the timing wrong or the charges wrong they lose users, if not profit!
Its a bait and switch that sometimes works.
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bythe_womble
2021 @10:04AM
(#61872489)
Attached to: Intel Not Considering UK Chip Factory After Brexit
So does Brexut explain the hortage of HGV drivers in Poland as well?
Intel is not cancelling a chip factory, they are removing one potential site from a list of 70.
Giving EU drivers visas will not help as there is an EU wide shortage - does importing drivers from countries that themselves have shortages help?
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bythe_womble
2021 @06:33AM
(#61662913)
Attached to: Wealthy People Are Renouncing American Citizenship
I read an article in a British accountancy magazine about other "accidental americans", some of who got into quite a lot of trouble with US authorities. Some never realised they were US citizens until the IRS prosecutd them.
Boris Johnson was a dual national (born in the US to British parents) and renounced his US citizenship AFTER having to pay US tax on property he inherited in the UK.
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bythe_womble
019 @12:42PM
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Attached to: Facebook-Driven Area 51 Storming May Be Countered With Force, Says US Air Force
The problem is the its perfectly possible that a mob of idiots who do take it seriously would turn up. If only one in a thousand are stupid enough, a mob of 300 could assemble.
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bythe_womble
019 @12:40PM
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Attached to: Facebook-Driven Area 51 Storming May Be Countered With Force, Says US Air Force
They do not claim Area 51 does not exist. Its not its official name, and they certainly do not admit to keeping aliens or flying saucers there.
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bythe_womble
2019 @10:07AM
(#58860924)
Attached to: Amount of Floating Antarctic Ice Plunges To Record Lows
The problem is that if you have a complex model (i.e. lots of assumptions) you can tune it until it (over)fits the data. When you has lots of possible models the same problem applies.
This is why lots of people will show you stock picking models that back-test will that lose you money.
How complex is CIMP5? How many variants were tried before one that worked that well was found?
If its too tunable, testing it on just 40 years of data means accuracy is the result of over-fitting rather than good modelling.
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bythe_womble
4, 2019 @06:54AM
(#58482100)
Attached to: Is The Linux Desktop In Trouble?
Now throw GPLv3 in and you throw a monkey wrench in. You only see GPL software on techies machines because they know what the consequences are.
Most users are not even aware of GPL. To most people the only distinction is between software they pay for, and software they do not pay for (which includes Windows because it came on their PC).
Businesses might be slightly more sophisticated because they deal with things like site licenses, but all they will care abut the GPL is whether they have to pay for it.
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bythe_womble
4, 2019 @06:51AM
(#58482080)
Attached to: Is The Linux Desktop In Trouble?
I use KDE, because I like a number of KDE apps (file managers, especially) so it makes sense to use it. It is set up to look very like I had XFCE set up when I used it (two panels, one vertical on the side with icons of running apps, one small one over part of window title bar at the top with system tray and some applets).
My wife uses XFCE, and is quite happy with it, and does not care what she uses.
My older daughter uses XFCE because Gnome was heavy on her laptop.
My younger daughter uses KDE because she likes the desktop cube and other eye-candy.
I do not think any of us want to use the same "standard" desktop as the others.
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bythe_womble
4, 2019 @06:41AM
(#58482040)
Attached to: ICANN Proposes Allowing Unlimited Fee Increases For<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.Org Domain Names
What is the purpose of limiting domain name increases? They are all sold on the secondary market anyway, where these rules do not apply
Not true. I own multiple domains, and have owned many more over the years. None were bought on the secondary market.
Of the many I no longer own, I sold exactly one - a three letter .com just got too good a price to keep. No speculative domain at all - it was formed from the first, middle and last letters of my surname and used for years for a personal site.
None of my customers (I have done a lot of web site and web app development for SMEs over the years) has bought or sold a domain that I know of.
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bythe_womble
4, 2019 @05:35AM
(#58481838)
Attached to: ICANN Proposes Allowing Unlimited Fee Increases For<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.Org Domain Names
That is free market capitalism.
What we have is an economy that is a mix of free market capitalism and rentier capitalism.
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