Tell me you’ve never worked on a farm without telling me that you’ve never worked on a farm.

The thumbnail photo is extreme, yes. But white farm workers still get sunburns.

You don’t need to provide root access just because you used GPL code, you just have to follow the GPL.

Well, to follow version 3 of the GPL, you do actually need to provide effective root access.

Specifically, version 3 of the GPL adds language to prevent Tivoization.

It’s not enough to just provide the user with the code. The user is entitled to the freedom to modify that code and to use their modifications.

In other words, in addition to providing access to the source code, you must actually provide a mechanism to allow the user to change the code on the device.

The name “Tivoization” comes from the practice of the company TiVo, which sold set-top boxes based on GPL code, but employed DRM to prevent the user from applying custom patches. V3 of the GPL remedies this bug.

For Zulip, I’ve only used it on the web. Apparently they have iOS, Android, Desktop, and Terminal clients.

For Matrix, there are many clients on all platforms, but none have ever stood out to me. Element is the official client, and it’s… fine I guess.

I love this, especially the criticism of the FSF.

For coms, Zulip seems OK. I would really like Matrix to take off, but I honestly don’t really like any of the clients.

Someone told me that Goldeneye actually supported dual stick controls if you plugged in two controllers. And Perfect Dark is the same engine.

I need to try that out on real hardware…

This is a good book on how Google treats production environments at their scale.

Cattle, not pets.

Google operates on a trunk model, according to this:

https://dev.to/tbodt/comment/1j4e

If caching is properly configured, the cache (Cloudflare) will see thousands of requests, but the VPS should only see one request.

Just put the site behind a cache, like Cloudflare, and set your cache control headers properly?

They mention that they are already using Cloudflare. I’m confused about what is actually causing the load. They don’t mention any technical details, but it does kinda sound like their cache control headers are not set properly. I’m too lazy to check for myself though…

The entire TotT series is pretty good.

Fair. That was overgeneralizing German bureaucracy to the entire EU.

But I think the point that tech companies in Europe rarely survive still stands.

The EU is terrible at maintaining good tech companies.

Like, they have some really important and innovative consumer protection regulations, but they are really shooting themselves in the foot with this one…

Good poet, terrible vocals?

That’s like every Dylan track…

Agreed. He’s like a Canadian Bob Dylan in that sense.

All Star got radio play where I grew up.

Hallelujah didn’t.

At least in 2001. No idea if Hallelujah got air play in the 80s; I wasn’t there.

I’m 31, and Shrek was where I first heard this song. I would have been 9 years old.

Obviously it’s an amazing song with a rich history and many covers. But I’ll bet that most folks my age heard it first in Shrek.

Gen Z probably (hopefully) doesn’t associate the song with Shrek as strongly as millennials.

My favorite cover is the one by Jeff Buckley. Though the John Cale (Shrek film) and Rufus Wainwright (Shrek soundtrack) covers are both great. Honestly, I think the original by Leonard Cohen is the least good (but still good).

No, I’m talking about exponential search which is like binary search but unbounded end.

OP has implemented an exponential search.

I do wonder if jumping back by twice as much is optimal.

It is. This is called exponential search, which maintains the O(log(n)) time complexity of binary search.

(Where n is the position of the commit you are searching for.)

How does Kodi compare to Jellyfin?

I use Android TV and Chrome on macOS as my primary clients, and Arch on my server with an Nvidia 1080Ti for transcoding.

And my example of knowing critical systems for the web written in Python is somehow different from your argument?

What a joke