Another view might be that they've taken it upon themselves to change the night sky for probably billions of people... just because. And whilst I know this isn't permanent, and whilst I kind of think it's a cool thing, I also kind of feel that maybe it's a bit of a fucking liberty really and perhaps also a bit narcissistic.
So I'm torn. But it's not a permanent thing... so providing we don't end up with other "stars" sponsored by whoever, then I guess I can just put up with this one experiment.
I understand the sentiment, it's just not a professional way of handling the situation.
Linus always tells it like it is, which you can either view as professional or not. But from an engineering perspective, it seems better to do that than just say something polite so you don't upset people.
It appears to me he's directing his displeasure at Intel management/legal/marketing making decisions where really they shouldn't.
And how does excluding 80-90% of the installed user base help Linux exactly?
I very much doubt he's going to do anything of the sort. I would suggest the exact opposite in fact; he wants the best solution for all and is complaining that Intel's patches are constructed for their own benefit (legal/ass-covering), rather than that of their customers.
They probably do think that. But I'm hoping that AMD will seize upon the opportunity to post real world comparative figures, with the newly patched kernels. Presumably, for certainly workloads, AMD silicon will utterly spank Intel for performance.
...because nobody in their right mind does online banking on a RasPi.
Those SD cards will go corrupt if you just look at them!
They're fine for the most part (SD-cards in R-Pi's). And Raspbian being basically Debian, is totally solid. The only thing that would concern me with regards to online banking would be that the version of Chromium they ship tends to be a few versions out of date.
Aside from that, it's probably safer than most Windows boxes for online banking and almost certainly safer than using a smart-TV.
No shit. When was the last time that a new UI actually improved a product? Pro tip to UIX folk: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
As much as I worry the update will be worse, the current UI is pretty hateful. Take "Message Filters" for example... it is *really* not a well designed interface.
If Mozilla had been the least bit contrite, I might have forgiven this.
Really, this.
I get that the concept would've seemed like a great idea, and there may have been a way to make this work, but not by installing anything uninvited. I don't get why they didn't do something on their "new tab" page - yeah some people will have customised that so they wouldn't see whatever, but at least that way it's not actively pushing unexpected code.
Not in a malicious way, but I do think someone who made this decision at Moz needs to at the very least, take a little break from their position because this really was a terrible decision.
So if I understand this correctly, I can't use.dev internally even if my local DNS resolves a domain because Chrome will want a cert?
Okay... I understand using.dev maybe wasn't the best idea. So what's the alternative?
.test
use my own domain
Is using.test a drop in replacement? Basically I'd like something that can't accidentally leak requests on the Internet. And I *DO NOT* want to use HTTPS/certs internally for development because it's a pain in situations where I'd currently resort to Wireshark to diagnose a problem. Plus, really, I don't need it.
I could go with using my own domain name, but I'd prefer not to because, frankly, I really like having a shorter domain name for testing with! (zaiffurgulbungerenterprisesinternational.com is a bit too long!!)
Also, voice-child-interface-latency aside, TV channel changes where *INSTANT*.
None of that waiting a second in case you're typing a multi-digit channel number; which was bad enough...
And none of that taking for f-u-c-k-i-n-g E-V-A-H HDMI/HDCP/whatever-it-is negotiation/hand-shaking.
Bloody modern technology! Back in my day... etc... we may have only had three TV channels to choose, and even those only transmitted during the day... but we was happy then!
Mind you when people use ancient rasbian os and make 'secure' email servers on port 26 and then get called out for issues it is good to see that somebody is using them properly instead of poorly.
You know Raspbian is basically Debian? So it's pretty solid for the most part.
Do they mean (obv. I didn't read TFA) code is duplicated in non-forked code, or are they just observing that lots of projects will be forked by other users in order that they can play with it and post their pull requests to them?
'cos if it's the latter, then that's kind of obvious isn't it?
Well almost... but I've only just started trying FF57 in the last few hours, but it is massively more responsive now and could quite easily win me back from Chrome.
Not just for news headlines, but also service status for a bunch of stuff. Honestly, it's the easiest thing for "providers" of any type to support given that it's just HTTP so even if a very small number of "users" actually use it, it's still prolly worth it.
In fairness, the first and second positions are occupied by PC and Mac which are kind of board categories themselves, especially PC! In fact, I think since Apple switched to Intel, those should really be counted as PCs and therefore the Mac number, whilst still undoubtedly huge, should remain static, and possibly passable by Rasp-pi some time in the future. Not sure the top position would ever be achievable though!
I'm all for electric vehicles, but the US has much lower population density. An electric vehicle only works as a primary vehicle if you rarely leave a major metro area. Unless they become cheap enough that it can be a second or even third household vehicle, it's simply not feasible for a lot of Americans.
I've been wondering if hybrids couldn't say, have the electric motor handle most of the bits that require torque, and use internal combustion for range. In that situation, you could have a smaller engine and have it tuned for fuel-economy rather than performance. So acceleration would be largely driven by the electric side of things, whereas motorway cruising would be largely internal combustion.
Would that work out less polluting than existing hybrids? I appreciate it would probably be much more complex to develop... and I guess if you're a car manufacturer, you don't want to over invest in internal combustion right now.
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Another view might be that they've taken it upon themselves to change the night sky for probably billions of people... just because. And whilst I know this isn't permanent, and whilst I kind of think it's a cool thing, I also kind of feel that maybe it's a bit of a fucking liberty really and perhaps also a bit narcissistic.
So I'm torn. But it's not a permanent thing... so providing we don't end up with other "stars" sponsored by whoever, then I guess I can just put up with this one experiment.
I understand the sentiment, it's just not a professional way of handling the situation.
Linus always tells it like it is, which you can either view as professional or not. But from an engineering perspective, it seems better to do that than just say something polite so you don't upset people.
It appears to me he's directing his displeasure at Intel management/legal/marketing making decisions where really they shouldn't.
And how does excluding 80-90% of the installed user base help Linux exactly?
I very much doubt he's going to do anything of the sort. I would suggest the exact opposite in fact; he wants the best solution for all and is complaining that Intel's patches are constructed for their own benefit (legal/ass-covering), rather than that of their customers.
They probably do think that. But I'm hoping that AMD will seize upon the opportunity to post real world comparative figures, with the newly patched kernels. Presumably, for certainly workloads, AMD silicon will utterly spank Intel for performance.
...because nobody in their right mind does online banking on a RasPi. Those SD cards will go corrupt if you just look at them!
They're fine for the most part (SD-cards in R-Pi's). And Raspbian being basically Debian, is totally solid. The only thing that would concern me with regards to online banking would be that the version of Chromium they ship tends to be a few versions out of date.
Aside from that, it's probably safer than most Windows boxes for online banking and almost certainly safer than using a smart-TV.
No shit. When was the last time that a new UI actually improved a product? Pro tip to UIX folk: "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."
As much as I worry the update will be worse, the current UI is pretty hateful. Take "Message Filters" for example... it is *really* not a well designed interface.
If Mozilla had been the least bit contrite, I might have forgiven this.
Really, this.
I get that the concept would've seemed like a great idea, and there may have been a way to make this work, but not by installing anything uninvited. I don't get why they didn't do something on their "new tab" page - yeah some people will have customised that so they wouldn't see whatever, but at least that way it's not actively pushing unexpected code.
Not in a malicious way, but I do think someone who made this decision at Moz needs to at the very least, take a little break from their position because this really was a terrible decision.
Okay... I understand using
Is using .test a drop in replacement? Basically I'd like something that can't accidentally leak requests on the Internet. And I *DO NOT* want to use HTTPS/certs internally for development because it's a pain in situations where I'd currently resort to Wireshark to diagnose a problem. Plus, really, I don't need it.
I could go with using my own domain name, but I'd prefer not to because, frankly, I really like having a shorter domain name for testing with! (zaiffurgulbungerenterprisesinternational.com is a bit too long!!)
Whichever of us kids was closest to the TV.
Also, voice-child-interface-latency aside, TV channel changes where *INSTANT*.
None of that waiting a second in case you're typing a multi-digit channel number; which was bad enough...
And none of that taking for f-u-c-k-i-n-g E-V-A-H HDMI/HDCP/whatever-it-is negotiation/hand-shaking.
Bloody modern technology! Back in my day... etc... we may have only had three TV channels to choose, and even those only transmitted during the day... but we was happy then!
Lawn etc etc.
Mind you when people use ancient rasbian os and make 'secure' email servers on port 26 and then get called out for issues it is good to see that somebody is using them properly instead of poorly.
You know Raspbian is basically Debian? So it's pretty solid for the most part.
Do they mean (obv. I didn't read TFA) code is duplicated in non-forked code, or are they just observing that lots of projects will be forked by other users in order that they can play with it and post their pull requests to them?
'cos if it's the latter, then that's kind of obvious isn't it?
You you don't don't say say.
You're forking kidding me!
... from consulting firm Deloitte, consumers are uneasy about being watched
Yeah, because when it comes to security advice, Deloitte are the go-to-guys for that!
Well almost... but I've only just started trying FF57 in the last few hours, but it is massively more responsive now and could quite easily win me back from Chrome.
ORLY is a world-famous internet owl!
Yes, I still use RSS!
Not just for news headlines, but also service status for a bunch of stuff. Honestly, it's the easiest thing for "providers" of any type to support given that it's just HTTP so even if a very small number of "users" actually use it, it's still prolly worth it.
Additional apps (ARM-native binaries are excluded) can be installed via adb.
What about if my Linux was running on an ARM cpu, e.g. on a Raspberry Pi?
In fairness, the first and second positions are occupied by PC and Mac which are kind of board categories themselves, especially PC! In fact, I think since Apple switched to Intel, those should really be counted as PCs and therefore the Mac number, whilst still undoubtedly huge, should remain static, and possibly passable by Rasp-pi some time in the future. Not sure the top position would ever be achievable though!
Well... I like it!
It's a good logo.
Why would you use combustion for cruising on the highway over just a motor?
Almost certainly you're right and this is the answer. Thanks! :D
I'm all for electric vehicles, but the US has much lower population density. An electric vehicle only works as a primary vehicle if you rarely leave a major metro area. Unless they become cheap enough that it can be a second or even third household vehicle, it's simply not feasible for a lot of Americans.
I've been wondering if hybrids couldn't say, have the electric motor handle most of the bits that require torque, and use internal combustion for range. In that situation, you could have a smaller engine and have it tuned for fuel-economy rather than performance. So acceleration would be largely driven by the electric side of things, whereas motorway cruising would be largely internal combustion.
Would that work out less polluting than existing hybrids? I appreciate it would probably be much more complex to develop... and I guess if you're a car manufacturer, you don't want to over invest in internal combustion right now.
Sharpen the knees too?
Yep. They should be asking for a "no kill" switch. These people are FOOLS!!!
*bat-shit even!
I'm still giggling over Trumps letters regarding that wind farm: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-38397644
The guy is absolutely bad-shit insane! lol!!
Nothing! Apparently.