Next step: Apple removes hardware from box and ships aspiration only.
Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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Next step: Apple removes hardware from box and ships aspiration only.
It absolutely is.
It’s possibly also how they’ll get broken up by the DoJ.
I think that every single provider tracks your activity and the vast majority of them use it to optimise their service income from you, either by giving you better engagement, ie. making you use the service more - endless searching for content for example, or by selling the captured tracking data to the highest bidder.
I experienced this crazy onslaught of advertising to the point of reducing how much I watched YouTube. I was pretty upset and not at all inclined to pay, especially since YouTube was even putting ads on my own videos without me seeing a single cent, because my channel is too small.
Then my partner bought me a few months of a Premium Subscription as a Christmas gift.
It was pointed out to me that I watched more YouTube than any other streaming service which I was paying for.
Combined with background music on mobile, it’s changed my life.
I’m still unimpressed with the business model, but the alternative is so far worse.
Find me a self publishing video platform with the reach of YouTube that doesn’t require self hosting and I’ll happily move my content there.
A.I., Assumed Intelligence
Bruce Perens is currently working on a new licensing model called Post Open requiring that business with sufficient revenue to pay up.
In my opinion it’s criminal just how often this happens. Big business making obscene profit off the back of volunteer work like yours and many others across the OSS community.
A.I. or Assumed Intelligence
Is it just me who is sceptical about anything new from Intel at the moment?
Mind you, this is not the first time that this feeling has existed, there was a standing joke amongst IT professionals in the mid 1990s that the sticker “Intel Inside” was actually a warning label, referencing the Pentium FDIV bug.
So, a profitable half and the one that will go bankrupt?
And many of them are heading to BlueSky…
It’s staggering to me the number of black cars being sold in hot countries like Australia. Not to mention just how hard they are to see against the background of a bitumen road.
My first recommendation is to become familiar with one flavour of Linux. Debian is a solid choice and it will give you a good understanding of how a great many derivatives operate.
The command line is a tool to get things done, it’s not an end to itself. Some things are easier to do with a GUI, many things are easier to do with the command line interface or CLI.
Many Linux tools are tiny things that take an input, process it and produce an output. You can string these commands together to achieve things that are complex with a GUI.
Manipulation of text is a big part of this. Converting things, extracting or filtering data, counting words
For example, how many times do you use the words “just” and “simply” in the articles you write?
grep -oiwE "just|simple" *.txt | sort | uniq -c
That checks all the text files in a directory for the occurrence of either word and shows you how many occurred and what capitalisation they used.
In other words, learning to use the CLI is about solving problems, one by one, until you don’t have to look things up before you understand why or how it works.
Yeah, good luck with that. In Australia they stopped paying and now the media organisations that relied on this income are pretty much stuffed.
This reads like an ignorant rant about a transient fault at Google.
At what point does Microsoft Windows become illegal to install on your computer?
I find myself censoring my own commentary in relation to organisations I rely on for the functioning of my online activities.
The command you’re looking for is tape archiver, cunningly called tar
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If you’re not a programmer, then what you’re saying sounds reasonable, but if you are, it’s not.
Different operating systems use different ways to interact with the outside world, in fact, it’s pretty much the only thing an operating system does.
Consider for example responding to a mouse click.
Each operating system handles this differently, sometimes within the same OS it’s different depending on what else is happening, (Linux X11 vs Linux Wayland).
A mouse is pretty trivial on the face of it, but the operating system needs to be able to track each pulse from a mouse and respond to that and then it needs to tell your program about it. In other words, it needs to interrupt your program, deal with the pulse, update the relevant information, then resume your program.
The same is true for the screen, disk storage, keyboard, memory and even the CPU itself.
Even if the various operating systems use the same CPU, and these days they mostly don’t, running the same program in multiple places is extremely rare, and that’s for companies who have the source code to the software they sell.
Some programs are more universal, because they’re written in a language like python that’s compiled when you launch it, but dig inside and you’ll find code specific to each operating system.
Source: I’ve been writing software for over 40 years.
It is again beginning to feel rather dysfunctional…