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bamboo,

A non-disruptive protest just gets ignored. You need to impact people’s daily lives to make them think why the problem arose in the first place.

bamboo,

I mean, is a major highway in the second largest city of the primary colonial sponsor a bad place? I guess if we had free teleportation they might find marginally better success in DC or Tel Aviv, but if you’re located in LA I can see why you’d choose to protest there and not somewhere else.

New Yorkers march on Wall St. to demand an end to US funding of Israel : Peoples Dispatch (peoplesdispatch.org)

People in New York City once again took to the streets to demand a permanent ceasefire in Israel’s war on Gaza and an end US aid to Israel. Protesters marched from Foley Square to NYC City Hall, Wall Street, and Washington Square Park to raise their demands. The protest took place as the United Nations Security Council was...

bamboo,

Turkey isn’t a reliable ally in the same way Israel is. Turkey is a relatively large country that has the capacity to act fully independently of any great power, and occasionally does. Israel is much smaller and can only sustain itself with US and EU support. A sanctions package like what has been applied to Russia would likely cripple Israel and see it wiped off the map rather quickly, so they have no choice but to stay on side.

bamboo,

Unlikely as they both have their own kernels.

Edit: actually raspberry pi uses a 6.1 kernel it seems so this might affect them. But they aren’t using the Debian package directly.

bamboo,

I’m learning swift and I actually just discovered ?? today. Am I missing out in other languages?

bamboo,

Does anyone have one of these that could confirm if that’s realistic? I’ve seen many laptops with similar specs and claims that come out to significantly lower battery life unless you do nothing but stare at an empty desktop.

bamboo,

The optimization might just be the rather large battery. Usually laptops with U-series processors have 40-60Eh batteries, the spec sheet shows a 73Wh battery in there.

bamboo,

It was originally designed for massive storage servers (“zettabyte” file system) rather than personal laptops and desktops. It was before the current convergence trend too, so allocating all of the system resources to the file system was considered very beneficial if it could improve performance.

bamboo,

In the immediate aftermath of the Nakba, they didn’t want to make the refugees status permanent because they expected the refugees to someday be able to return to their land. In more modern times, Lebanon has a (largely unsuccessful) balance of power between the Christians, Sunnis, and Shias. Making the refugees position permanent would significantly upset that balance by shifting the population in favor of the Sunnis.

bamboo,

Wine is much, much better at this point. In particular, Darling doesn’t have much support for GUIs yet, so unless it is a command line tool you probably want to stick with Wine.

bamboo,

It’s not quite the same though. With a custom android ROM, you can be pretty confident that everything kernel-and-up is not spying on you. On iOS and macOS, you don’t have the same level of verifiability, as the OS could just circumvent any VPN/firewall you might have configured. They might pinky promise not to, but without running another external firewall it’s not really verifiable.

bamboo,

It’s mass slaughtering by Israel like this that causes people to support Hamas. They’re the only ones truly fighting back, and Israel has shown time and time again that it has no interest in a peaceful resolution, so there are no real other options.

bamboo,

I thought maybe Minecraft would run faster on it. It didn’t, but it kicked off a learning process.

bamboo,

If the problem is “large number of citizens are negatively effected by excessive smog levels”, it does fix the problem.

bamboo,

The IDF has killed more than 10x the number of civilians and has caused suffering to way more. And that’s crediting Hamas with 1200 deaths, half of which were probably also the IDF based on recent reports. Sure people can criticize Hamas, but they’ve done considerably less damage in this conflict.

bamboo,

It doesn’t matter. I choose to criticize based on reality rather than hypothetical. If reality were different, then the criticisms would of course be different. In reality Israel has caused immense pain and suffering, choosing to carpet bomb civilian neighborhoods and prevent civilians from accessing food, medicine, and water. These are war crimes, and hugely disproportionate to the few hundreds of people killed by Hamas on October 7th.

bamboo,

Human shields is a weak argument, especially in a dense urban area. Of course there are going to be civilians around, they have no where else to go. It’s just a cheap excuse.

I also don’t actually agree with the why part of Israel’s actions here. They claim they want to get rid of Hamas and eventually promote peace, but their actions consistently have been against peace for decades, and the amount of genocidal rhetoric has only increased. If Israel wanted to promote peace, they’d be actively trying to improve overall prosperity and integrate the Palestinians into Israeli civil society. Grant first-class citizenship, voting rights, promote economic opportunities and celebrate their culture alongside Israeli culture. But they’re not doing any of that because that isn’t their goal, it’s to eradicate the Palestinians so the land can be re settled by Jewish Israelis. They need low level hostility from groups like Hamas to continue, because they need an excuse to continue their war, and so their war tactics are chosen to maximize causalities and radicalization of Palestinians while avoiding international intervention.

bamboo,

It really depends on the game. If the game was truly native, usually the Rosetta performance is good. A lot of games though are JIT, and running a JIT inside a JIT is terrible for performance. The good news is that a game already being JIT is probably easier to patch to be native, for example people have had success replacing the mono runtime used by terraria with a native one and seeing good performance improvements, or running Minecraft on a native JVM. The bad news is it doesn’t necessarily mean the developers will actually update the thing, and mods like this are unlikely to appeal to the vast majority of people.

bamboo,

Easier said than done, it’d take a large engineering team and a decade just to catch up with existing implementations. And in doing so you’ll probably stumble through all the same issues Mozilla has and end up as a large morally compromised nonprofit on the other end.

bamboo,

Messaging apps are useless if the people you want to message don’t have the same one.

bamboo,

At the same time they seem fine letting Israelis die if it means they can kill more Palestinian civilians.

bamboo,

Yes, Israel holds vastly more hostages than Hamas ever has.

bamboo,

It’s the most widely used platform that the most people are familiar with that they get to use likely for free. Newer projects of theirs are also hosted there. Why would you say it makes no sense?

bamboo,

It’s rather bold of many of the commenters in this thread to assume they know the needs of Mozilla and their developers rather than those people themselves. GitHub makes complete sense, even if it doesn’t live up to some people’s desires for free software purity.

bamboo,

GitHub has an option when merging a PR to “squash and merge”. This option squashes all of the commits on the PR branch into a single commit and cherry-picks it on top of the base branch. We use this by default in our open source projects at work. Most people are not gonna go through the effort of making a well defined patch series the way it would be required for a Linux kernel contribution. Most changes aren’t that big though and so it doesn’t really matter. Send as many commits as you want in the PR, I’ll just review the diff as a whole and squash it when I’m done. Workflows should adapt to user preference, not the other way, and this is a good example of that.

bamboo,

Well squash and merge isn’t default or pushed in any way. It’s an option, and we chose to enable it ourselves because that’s what works best for us. It’s what works well for many other projects too, which is why many choose to enable it instead of the default merge commit.

bamboo,

I think the idea here is that reviewing individual commits is irrelevant if the plan is just to squash it all down. Each PR corresponds to a single change on the main branch in the end, the fact there was a main commit followed by a half size “fixed typos” and “fixed bug” commits doesn’t actually matter since it will be blown away in the end. The process results in the same clean history with good individual commits on the main branch, just as if the user squashes those commits locally before pushing it up to the code review platform.

bamboo,

I agree, and GitHub allows choosing how to merge each PR individually if you need to do something different for a specific PR. Large PRs like that are at most 1% of our total PRs, and we review those more per-commit and use a merge commit instead of a squash. By default we optimize for the other 99%.

Warplanes strike Gaza refugee camp as Israel rejects US push for a pause in fighting (apnews.com)

Palestinian health officials say Israeli warplanes struck a refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, killing at least 40 people and wounding dozens. Sunday's strike came as Israel vowed to press on with its offensive to crush the territory’s Hamas rulers, despite U.S. appeals for a pause in fighting to get aid to civilians....

bamboo,

Interesting observation that this refugee camp has been a more or less permanent home for its inhabitants since 1948. It might be interesting to think about where those refugees came from, why they had to flee their homes, and what has prevented them from returning for 75 years.

bamboo,

I use rectangle for window snapping. It supports basic side snapping, more advanced layouts, and configurable keyboard bindings. It’s open source and you can install it from their website, it’s just a .app. I think I installed it via brew cask but that was just because it’s convenient.

github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle

bamboo,

Add the Logitech unifying receiver to this list. It cuts out constantly with the dock model most people use at my work, and I have to put it on a dongle or extension cable to fix it.

bamboo,

No pro and air models use the same chassis.

bamboo,

Oh I see, I misunderstood your comment.

bamboo,

The vast majority of the code is WebKit, which is the same across platforms. The UI is a small amount of code compared to WebKit, and even then I’m sure there is a lot of sharing between the iOS and iPadOS versions.

bamboo,

Like the other guy said, it is indicator of new account age. I think there is a setting to turn it off if you dislike it.

bamboo,

If I understand correctly it’s not intrinsic to the DOCSIS standards, it’s just how more or less every cable company chooses to allocate channels. Think like a cable company has 100 channels they may be able to use on a given line, and they choose to put 90 of them on download and 10 on upload (numbers are made up to convey idea). Now they have only a small amount of available upload bandwidth and lots of download, but they could have set it up to be 50/50 to have it be equal.

bamboo,

I have Verizon 5g with the ultra wideband service. Tower is on a light post on the street corner, speeds max out around 700/70 for me. 400/400 sounds like Fios which is a fiber service.

bamboo,

If congress passes a bill to improve internet infrastructure, it will be a 10s of billions hand out to ISPs that in turn will do little to nothing to actually improve their infrastructure. Just like when they did it in the 90s to get fiber to most Americans.

bamboo,

We did that in the 90s. We gave ISPs billions to deploy fiber everywhere. It was mostly squandered and 25 years later most Americans still don’t have fiber access.

bamboo,

Over the long term, unifying cables reduces e-waste. In the short term it does not.

bamboo,

I have an mx keys mini at work and an mx mechanical mini at home. Highly recommend both keyboards! The mx mechanical in particular has a 10 month battery life if you don’t use the backlight.

bamboo,

Today I sat in a meeting I didn’t care much for and was able to run my project’s unittests. They take a long time to run, like an hour and a half if run on a single thread. But with an M2 Max I can run it all in ~10 minutes or so, and the power efficiency is such that I don’t have to worry about it. I previously had an XPS 15, and it both took longer and also I could kill it in an hour doing this, so any intensive tasks like this were only for when I had wall power.

It’s definitely not necessary for casual use, but there are definitely use cases that benefit from having a ton of power in a laptop.

bamboo,

That’s not even what 12ft.io was. It wasn’t scraping anything, it was just a redirect to the google web cache. Importantly, it was also accessible, something that anyone could use without installing anything.

bamboo,

I mean it already is, Linux gamers play with their windows/mac friends. The alternatives aren’t as easy to use.

bamboo,

And requires setting up and managing a server, which costs time and money and requires a certain degree of expertise. Also it can’t really be used as a primary chat app, so you still have to use another app for that. It also doesn’t support features like livestreams so that’s another application you may need.

bamboo,

Group voice is discord’s biggest feature, but also general messaging (both direct/group as well as communities), video streaming, and file sharing.

Element might be a viable alternative, I’ve used it for chat where it certainly is, I haven’t used voice but I’ve heard some people say that video has a very high delay. My friends and I will often share screens for one reason or another and I’m not sure that the experience would be comparable in Element yet.

Mumble isn’t comparable because it doesn’t implement any of the same features other than voice, it doesn’t have persistant logins, etc.

bamboo,

Xbox specifically could be broken up into studios, publishers, and consoles.

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Offline speech recognition is a thing on the Apple Watch. It’ll process Siri requests locally, and if the request can be fulfilled without contacting the internet, it will be.

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