Natanael

Tech recruiters are the worst, almost nobody actually understands technology so they just pick based on the fanciest education and whatnot because they don’t understand how to judge experience

You could import fabric physics and just have it lie there, but that’s going to be a bigger hit on performance than you possibly can imagine and it will move weirdly (in large part becomes we’re not modeling wind, just fabric in a vacuum) and the model features it will lie on top of won’t deform accurately from the simulated weight, etc…

Your capacitance is probably weird. Are FM radios you tuned also very likely to go to static when you walk away? (also possible the cause was something you were wearing or carrying)

Make sure to hit the Ballmer’s peak

Android too runs on Linux

Same. While I don’t necessarily do anything to actively avoid branding, I won’t wear anything where it’s prominent.

Bonus point if you bring stuff mainly from bankrupt companies

You’ll quickly learn which software trusts extensions and which uses MIME type detection

Sprinklers and all kinds of stuff are more efficient with sensors and electronic regulators

The API has the wrong abstraction and the type definitions fail to capture necessary information (such as in which year you were of the given age) and thus conversions can not be guaranteed to be correct

How to we know what to test? Maybe with some kind of specification?

To be pedantic, it’s trademarks you have to actively defend. With copyright and patents there’s different exceptions, but you can usually sue for at minimum expected license fees (although sometimes you give up the possibility to sue for willful infringement & additional damages if you wait)

It’s kinda comparable in terms, but because both licenses have comparable copyleft “no rights may be removed and no terms added” restrictions they conflict and can’t be merged.

CDDL came after GPL, and I’m not convinced by the arguments for why it was used (to make some kind of development with commercial modules easier, but this could’ve been done with GPL + exceptions)

That license plus patents (which only are freely licensed to the CDDL implementation specifically) means you can’t just rewrite it for Linux either. You’d have to wait for the patents to expire and then do clean room reverse engineering.

It does this by encrypting the OS separately from apps and user data. The OS is auto unlocked (usually using a hardware TPM chip).

The boot order of the component which handle encryption has an effect on which other system components which reliably can be scripted to automate stuff with that data.

Tldr if it’s just for your documents, sure. If you’ve got sensitive program data / config there, it makes it harder to autostart them because now you have to wait.

Of course a group of people could use violence to oppress other people. But then you no longer have anarchy.

The irony is that the amount of coordination needed to protect anarchism would no longer be called anarchism

You will always end up recreating some form of organizations to manage resources. The best you can do is ensure those organizations are structured with accountability to make sure they’re fair to everybody

If you’ve already noticed incoming traffic is weird, you try to look for what distinguishes the sources you don’t want. You write rules looking at the behaviors like user agent, order of requests, IP ranges, etc, and put it in your web server and tells it to check if the incoming request matches the rules as a session starts.

Unless you’re a high value target for them, they won’t put endless resources into making their systems mimic regular clients. They might keep changing IP ranges, but that usually happens ~weekly and you can just check the logs and ban new ranges within minutes. Changing client behavior to blend in is harder at scale - bots simply won’t look for the same things as humans in the same ways, they’re too consistent, even when they try to be random they’re too consistently random.

When enough rules match, you throw in either a redirect or an internal URL rewrite rule for that session to point them to something different.

The trick is distinguishing them by behavior and switching what you serve them

The steam controller didn’t really fail, but the patent fight was a mess that took way too long (much too late disqualified patent over paddle buttons). That sucked a lot of energy out of the project. Don’t forget the steam deck kept those touch pads (although with a different design)!

Steam Link IMHO also wasn’t bad, but there didn’t seem to be much interest in it then. (interestingly enough I think it could be recreated today in a Chromecast-like form factor)

Stream machines was definitely a big mess however, there just wasn’t enough interest, too limited compatibility, the machines just wasn’t versatile enough for average Joe to pay for one.

“yes”? He’s definitely not building any significant fraction himself, but if he didn’t care for these things he wouldn’t let the company put so much resources into them.

Credit for the things built goes to the people building them. Credit for it being possible to build goes to the people who founded and funded the teams