ozymandias117

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Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform (www.engadget.com)

The long fight to make Apple’s iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Union’s Digital Market Act (DMA), according to the Financial Times. The law, which goes into effect in 2024, requires...

ozymandias117,

It will be an easier sell if Google manages to get their proprietary extensions to RCS into RCS version 10, rather than only being supported in Google Messenger

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Which makes Meta’s entire business illegal in the EU, thus the lawsuits and bans

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Do people ever avoid hospital visits

At least in my experience, we’ll generally be able to go to the hospital

Do hospitals put people on a payment plan

Generally, I’ve just seen the debt transferred to a debt collection agency afterwards, since there’s no money for them to take. They’ll harass you, and it affects your credit score, but they can’t send you to jail

ozymandias117,

Depends on the severity of the issue.

For a life threatening emergency, no

For like pain relief, yes

ozymandias117,

Yeah, just the American version

It affects where you can rent housing, what houses you can buy, whether you can get a car, etc

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My credit score wasn’t good enough, so I had to show the last place I rented 6 months of my employers payments to rent

I’ve never missed a payment, nor do I have any debt. I just don’t exist in the system enough to rent

ozymandias117,

Maybe? Cars in the US kill like 40,000 people a year; mosquitoes kill like 725,000 people a year

ozymandias117,

Interesting. That was more than I expected when looking at like China/India/US

That looks like the official number, though. I thought mosquito deaths were being underestimated

ozymandias117,

Aeon’s confuses me - an hourglass is well known as a “busy” or “wait” symbol

I’m not sure I’d want that as my branding for an OS

ozymandias117,

The primary reason the company I work for is using a QC chip over any other ARM offering is the GPU they bought from ATI. The CPU cores aren’t particularly interesting

If AMD or nVidia release a SoC, it would likely be a strong contender for our next design

Samsung joins Google in RCS shaming Apple (www.theverge.com)

Samsung has released a new video in support of Google’s #GetTheMessage campaign which calls for Apple to adopt RCS or “Rich Communication Services,” the cross-platform protocol pitched as a successor to SMS that adopts many of the features found in modern messaging apps… like Apple’s own iMessage.

ozymandias117, (edited )

iMessage is only E2E encrypted if both users have iCloud disabled or have gone into their iCloud settings and enabled “Advanced Data Protection”

ozymandias117, (edited )

“Enable” is incorrect, and why I was warning you about it. It’s on by default, so you need to “disable” it if you want E2E encryption

A blue bubble is unlikely to mean a message is E2E encrypted. That may not matter for your threat model, but Apple almost certainly has the decryption keys for your messages

ozymandias117,

Hamstrung in different ways?

RCS predates iMessage, but it was never widely adopted. Google has been running with it, but it’s been with Google-specific changes to the protocol

If they can get others to adopt their extensions as a standard and offer an open source example implementation, it could probably be better than iMessage

Google has a problem getting other people to use standards they work on because they drop support for them all the time, though

ozymandias117,

It’s pretty simple… removing apps a country doesn’t want people to have access to doesn’t meaningfully affect Apple’s revenue

Allowing you to install things outside of their control does affect their revenue

Of course the first is less difficult for them

ozymandias117,

The apps getting removed weren’t popular apps there in the first place

The most popular apps here have never been the most popular apps there

Yes, the CCP is trying to cut them off before they become popular, but it’s better for Apple to get money from the currently popular apps there

ozymandias117,

Every RFP/RFQ/RFI I’ve seen had no basis to what the customer actually wanted or what the firm could actually provide

Automating that part of the response seems trivial, since it’s already rushed with half answers

ozymandias117,

Both vehicles started moving after traffic lights turned green

How was either vehicle going so fast that “breaking aggressively” wasn’t enough to stop them immediately after accelerating from a red light….?

This makes no sense without a video

ozymandias117,

It has security fixes, so it’s probably a bad idea to skip it

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Primarily in regions where subscription price was lower, though.

Their revenue didn’t really go up much compared to the number of new subscribers they showed off to investors afterwards

www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NFLX/…/revenue

ozymandias117,

Ignore all the “this distro is the best”

Just use Ubuntu to start until you know what you wish was different

ozymandias117,

It’s what proprietary software tends to target, so for someone just coming from Windows, it’s a decent first choice.

OpenSUSE/Fedora don’t support media codecs without knowing you need to add Packman/RPMFusion

Debian just released Bookworm, so it might be an okay recommendation for now, but as a general rule it’s probably not the best first distro

For someone used to Windows staying the same for years, jumping straight to a rolling release like Arch or its derivatives is a massive change

NixOS is too much configuration for a first time user

Linux Mint is maybe a better first recommendation, but it’s still downstream of Ubuntu (I wouldn’t recommend LMDE for a first time Linux user)

Your response is exactly why people find it so difficult to pick a distro to start. Ubuntu may not be the perfect distro for you or I, but there’s a decent reason it’s one of the biggest, and it has conservative defaults

Until that user knows what things bother them about it or what more they need, we’d just go back and forth all day about upsides and downsides of each distro

Apple blames iOS 17 bugs and apps like Instagram for making iPhone 15s run hot (www.theverge.com)

Apple has acknowledged user complaints that iPhone 15 and 15 Pro phones are overheating, reports Forbes, but said that contrary to speculation, it has nothing to do with the phone’s hardware design. Forbes noted an update to Instagram has already rolled out with version 302, released September 27th, to address some of the...

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That implies a problem with Apple’s scheduler and/or thermal management

The kernel should never allow a user space processes to overheat the hardware

Did we kill Linux's killer feature?

A few years ago we were able to upgrade everything (OS and Apps) using a single command. I remember this was something we boasted about when talking to Windows and Mac fans. It was such an amazing feature. Something that users of proprietary systems hadn’t even heard about. We had this on desktops before things like Apple’s...

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The primary init manager for Linux is removing support for separating them later this year

lists.freedesktop.org/archives/…/048352.html

ozymandias117,

Yeah… Google also wrote toybox to get away from the GPL’d busybox, uses a libc based off BSD, and is trying hard to get their own kernel written in the Fuschia project that isn’t GPL…

Apple A17 Pro SoC Within Reach of Intel i9-13900K in Single-Core Performance (www.techpowerup.com)

An Apple "iPhone16,1" was put through the Geekbench 6.2 gauntlet earlier this week—according to database info this pre-release sample was running a build of iOS 17.0 (currently in preview) and its logic board goes under the "D83AP" moniker. It is interesting to see a 16-series unit hitting the test phase only a day after the...

ozymandias117,

The alternatives kind of need to support ACPI, or some similar standard

DeviceTree works for embedded devices, but it’s not great for end users who are trying to get interoperability between suppliers

ozymandias117,

One of the selling points Jason had for WireGuard is that it’s less likely to be misconfigured

I’d probably argue WireGuard is security first, and can be used for privacy

IIRC the saving of IP addresses in memory is part of the design to allow you to keep connected to the VPN even if your network connection changes, e.g. when switching from WiFi to 5G

Not to say there aren’t any downsides, just that you already need to implicitly trust your VPN provider either way

The UDP only issue is really unfortunate for networks that try to block anything not HTTP

ozymandias117,

The only way nVidia works well with Wayland is with nouveau

Their proprietary drivers still don’t work. They announced plans to make them work better, but they haven’t put in the work to merge them yet

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It’s difficult to trust them when they’re also the largest adtech business

No third party cookies is a good thing. It’s very unclear whether this new tracking technology should exist at all

ozymandias117,

Kodi on a raspberry pi supports “CEC” so your TV remote “just works” to go through the menus

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HRBlock is the same.

I refused to use them ever again after they tried to charge me $300 when it was listed as “free”

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Only because larger media outlets use it as “news”

Twitter has always been one of the smaller “social media” giants

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The fun part is that websites that do this are illegal in the EU

They need to start flexing that 4% revenue / year fines

ozymandias117,

No? If a website refuses to load because you refused tracking cookies, it’s still illegal under GDPR

ozymandias117,

OpenQA and BTRFS with Snapper by default w/ support in GRUB is the main selling point for most users

The lack of debug packages in Arch is what drove me away as a developer

OpenSUSE supports debuginfod which is so nice when developing locally

I’d argue Arch is designed to be easy for package management on x86. If that’s your use case, it is quite easy

ozymandias117,

I suspect they meant “Hardware Abstraction Layer” for “HAL”

ozymandias117,

I’m assuming it’s a complaint about how low level ALSA is compared to the, E.G. Audio HAL in Android

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There’s still a fine line to draw between usability and performance

ALSA is too low level for musicians to reasonably understand

Having something like PipeWire to make it easier to configure isn’t a bad thing

ozymandias117,

That’s another nice thing about PipeWire.

It supports configuring JACK for you if you need low latency

ozymandias117,

You lost track of the conversation. That was about ALSA

Rant about Nvidia related updates on Linux (kbin.social)

There are many reasons to dislike Nvidia on Linux. Here is a little thing that bugs me all the time, the updates. Normally the system updates would be quick and fast, but with the proprietary drivers of Nvidia involved, it gets quiet slow process. And I am not even talking about any other problem I encounter, just about the...

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That’s how Flatpak works…

Flatpak applications will use the graphics library installed from Flatpak

If you have an nVidia card, you’ll need the nVidia Flatpaks to run applications

If you have Intel/AMD, you’ll get a Mesa Flatpak

ozymandias117,

Intel has the best software support - AMD just has more powerful hardware and good enough software support

nvidia has the best hardware on paper, but no software support

A large number of games support Linux natively thanks to Valve’s pushes, and use OpenGL

DXVK (directx to vulkan) is one of the more popular translation layers for other games

Intel also uses DXVK on Windows to help with older versions of DirectX (primarily DX9 afaik) on their ARC cards

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Idk if they’ll be any good, but I thought this was interesting as a manual car driver when I saw it.

Toyota, however, has patented a way to provide the look and feel of a manual transmission in an electric car. … The car’s torque and performance will be altered as you “shift” to provide the feel of a gas-powered vehicle.

cars.usnews.com/…/electric-manual-transmission

I’d still switch to an EV either way once I have a way to charge it at home

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And yet it’s been proven they’ve been doing it anyway with no real changes or outcry afterwards

Why are people hyped about RSS regaining relevance? (lemmy.world)

According to Google Trends, during the past few years, there has been nothing but a few minor bumps that faded away as quickly as they came. I love RSS because i do not have to scroll through dozens of different news sites all day and i would love it to return....

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What are the compelling features compared to e.g. newsboat?

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Wefwef so far because it looks like Apollo

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As someone currently actively supporting two commercial products, one using OpenRC and one using systemd to meet different requirements for different projects

Functionally absolutely the same

Makes it blatantly obvious you have no idea what you’re saying

ozymandias117, (edited )

Sure - it’s primarily the way systemd uses cgroups

For example, systemd’s use of cgroups for process monitoring makes it trivial to support setting resource limits for us

One of the major issues we’re having with systemd, and the reason we’re using OpenRC on a different project, is the way Before and After with targets still cause all the services to start at the same time, causing resource contention

An alternative we’ve used once is to create a special target for the services that had to start early, even if the entire boot took longer, and use a process to then request new targets be started by systemd

This project we found it simpler to use OpenRC, though

Calling them “functionally the same” without taking into account how process monitoring works on different init systems is disingenuous

ozymandias117,

One of the big issues with process monitoring, in the general sense, is how PID 1 checks on processes

The cgroups usage lets them make use of a very powerful Linux-specific feature. Some competitors such as Upstart tried to use ptrace for this, but that causes services to run slower

“Is a process running” I think is a harder question than you realize. systemd also offers the ability to ask “is a process running correctly” through watchdogs, and “is a process using too much memory” or “is a process using too much CPU” and offer corrective action if they are

The systemd.target issues I mention are related to different design goals. Systemd tries to start as many services as possible at once, but we need some services up within 1 second, and the rest can take longer

One option I offered was a modification to systemd so that targets could handle Before/After during our design, but the maintenance of porting it over for each update versus using OpenRC was decided to be too much effort

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