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I think the point being made here is not against you, but against the privilege that professional athletes in Western countries enjoy
It is normal for them to exist in a space where they can say very basic things about human rights
And yet, it is normal for others (e.g. citizens of Qatar, but also billions of other humans on earth) to exist in spaces where human rights are not allowed to be discussed
Iâve been using https://github.com/TrackerControl/tracker-control-android which is effectively the same thing, just open-source (thereâs an F-Droid link there if you donât like Google Play)
I think Poetteringâs assumption here, which I agree with, is that itâs difficult to produce software without bugs, and itâs even difficult to patch those bugs without ever introducing new bugs
But, letâs pretend that weâve accomplished this and never have to fix any bugs: weâll still have to update firmware and other software components when a new CPU or other device needs to be supported
Although, admittedly, a user might not decide to install a hardware-enablement update if they know in-advance that theyâll never upgrade their hardware or plug in a new device
Itâs mostly a certification thing (which is performed by Intel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)#Royalty_situation
According to that, anyone can make the standalone chips now regardless of CPU (although most of them are still made by Intel, I think)
Thunderbolt 4 is not exclusive to Intel, only 1-3
Iâve just ordered parts for a new AMD system with Thunderbolt 4 (transferring some parts from an older machine): https://pcpartpicker.com/user/jokeyrhyme/saved/dLCRVn
Microsoft posses a vast corpus of code that they unambiguously own the copyright over: their own private code for Windows, Office, Visual Studio, etc, plus all of their open-source stuff
Itâs pretty telling that the models were not trained using Microsoftâs own code, but everyone elseâs instead
They canât even get their own staff to use it: https://www.thestreet.com/investing/meta-employees-kind-of-hate-facebooks-metaverse
Garage leverages the theory of distributed systems, and in particular Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs in short), a set of mathematical tools that help us write distributed software that runs faster, by avoiding some kinds of unnecessary chit-chat between servers.
Huh, âavoiding some kinds of unnecessary chit-chatâ is the weirdest benefit of CRDTs to mention here (and Iâm not sure it actually is a benefit)
I would have pointed out that they help multiple devices safely synchronise copies of data, or something đ¤ˇ
The word âefficientâ doesnât even appear in the main part of the Wikipedia page (just once in the footnotes): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type
If the USA and itâs allies were truly enthusiastic about human rights and democracy, then they should find out how much a company saves by having supply chains with worse human rights protections, and tax them some portion (Iâd say at least half) of that saving
To encourage them to employ more expensive staff in countries with decent democracy and human rights laws
(And encourage other countries to transition to better human rights frameworks)
I wonder if the monitor for an output/sink is enabled as an input/source? Using a pulseaudio control panel like pavucontrol
might show you more information? Most distributions provide pulseaudio/pipewire as a useful layer on top of ALSA, so pure-ALSA tools like alsamixer
might not be showing you the whole picture
never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
In theory, a government is democratically-elected, and courts are democratically-controlled, so isnât a corporation obeying laws and courts exactly what we want here?
Iâm not sure we can expect them to go above and beyond what is legal, no matter how much we might wish them to do so, they simply wouldnât exist for very long otherwise
We hated them (and they hated it, too) when they extra-judiciously blocked traffic they didnât agree with in the past, so surely requiring laws/courts to do so in future is better?
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