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HobbitFoot
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•How would you like to pay your NaN pounds?English
7·3 months agoIs it garlic NaN?
Did your mom teach you? Because she’s really talented.
How is he doing that with his mouth?
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Linux@lemmy.ml•Is the "Year of Linux" actually a trap?English
3·6 months agoThe issue with Linux is going to be if there will be a single distro that dominates or if it will be more distributed. Right now, it looks like Google and Valve are the closest to making dominant distros, but I can see at least one EU government one being created as well. If there are few distros, then I can see development getting locked to those distros rather than across all Linux.
The same thing happened with Android, Google ended up controlling Android so the open source side got hollowed out and the closed source side controlled by Google became necessary to running Android.
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Linux@lemmy.ml•France Just Created Its Own Open Source Alternative to Microsoft Teams and ZoomEnglish
71·8 months agoThis wasn’t built to be a great service, it was built to be a French controlled one.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•I still haven't figured out how to do thisEnglish
2·8 months agoAdditional pages that go before and after the edited text.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•I still haven't figured out how to do thisEnglish
8·8 months agoMy worst experience in Word has been adapting a state based Word document to municipal use. The state knows what it is doing and uses styles as a great way to organize the document to provide direction.
Then the fucking county had a 60 year old secretary create a wrapper for that document and it fucking breaks everything.
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Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•Norway discovers that its Chinese electric buses can be remotely disabledEnglish
232·11 months agoSimilar backdoor control capabilities, usually at least officially frowned upon in Western tech companies, weren’t found in buses bought from Dutch company VDL.
Looks like that was discussed in the article.
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Cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works•Norway discovers that its Chinese electric buses can be remotely disabledEnglish
603·11 months agoKillswitches may be common, but it is major security implications if infrastructure is sold with them without the buyer knowing about them, which appears to the case here.
It also makes a case to not buy hardware from China if their manufacturers install these killswitches and don’t notify their owners.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgotEnglish
3·11 months agoThere are studies showing that LLM AI is competitive against human C suite managers. When issues like AI hallucinations are brought up, it turns out that human C suite managers also make shit up all the time.
One interesting thing they found was that AI doesn’t do as well if there is a shock to the economic system like Covid.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgotEnglish
4·11 months agoIt depends, though.
There are cases where parts of a struggling company is worth less than the sum of its parts. At that point, the fiscally prudent option is to sell it off, either in one piece or multiple pieces. There are plenty of cases in American corporate history where the best option is to cut losses and leave a market.
That being said, I’m surprised that private equity is still allowed to be a thing given the massive disparity shown in how a lot of financial disparity in how a lot of private equity companies run their companies against their fiduciary responsibilities to their companies’ stockholders and bondholders.
Linux keeps getting more development because it is the cheapest way to develop a platform. It is the reason why almost all servers are Linux and it was used as the basis for Android.
That said, Steam is a wildly profitable company that is self aware enough to not kill its golden goose.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Still relevant, just substitute for win 11English
2·2 years agoI’m expecting that Steam on Linux is going to be what drives it.
The Steam Deck can be used as a Linux computer and almost a turnkey way for a manufacturer to build a Steam computer without Windows.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Still relevant, just substitute for win 11English
8·2 years agoI thought 10 was an improvement on 8, in part because they walked back some changes to 8.
I have yet to hear of a reason to go to 11.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•Baby wake up, Jia Tan's identity just droppedEnglish
181·3 years agoThe Internet is just screenshots of social media on other social media.
ChromeOS is listed in a separate category.
Growth is being driven a lot by the Steam Deck.
HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubtodatahoarder@lemmy.ml•Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limitsEnglish
0·3 years agoUnlimited* plans are always sold on the idea that a sizeable part of the user base aren’t going to use an actual unlimited amount of the resource.
Unless there is a contract regarding a fee over a period of time, there isn’t that much that users can do to compel a service to offer a service they no longer want to offer.
It will be like Android. You have to use their app store to install new programs.