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Updated by one of our Haiku users and one of it's developers Alexander V. Wolf, Stellarium 25.2 for 64bit Haiku.

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#HaikuOS #haikuports #Stellarium #software

@catsalad Lemmy is in rust and I'm not a fan of that language.
Also pixelfed is a divine product, like litteraly made by a self proclaimed god

@pete @ploum fixed it for you, nothing prevents in some years for Signal to take the same path, it is time to realize once and for all that the problem is centralization instead of jumping from one centralized silo to the next until it also becomes a shitshow

Hey Germans, please come up with a word that means "the fear of typing `return` vs `shift-return` because you don't know which inserts newline and which sends the message"

"Internet is becoming more and more centralized in the hands of a few evil tech companies. Our project aims to change that! Join our discord and…"

:blobcatgiggle:

@zeh @madkiwi @brazel totally fine to disagree on what we posted. We found it sufficiently remarkable, but you don't. However, there is also not much point in discussing much about it.

"This is open-source software written by hobbyists, maintained by a single volunteer, badly tested, written in a memory-unsafe language and full of security bugs. It is foolish to use this software to process untrusted data. As such, we treat security issues like any other bug. Each security report we receive will be made public immediately and won't be prioritized."
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/issues/913

"Maddie Hall, who worked on special projects at OpenAI, founded Living Carbon. This public benefit company aims to combat climate change by genetically enhancing trees to capture and store more CO2. Living Carbon has raised $36 million from Felicis."

everythingstartups.com/article

Or you could, you know, just put all that money into getting more trees planted. Setting up local nurseries for eco-sourced varieties, acquiring marginal land for reserves, etc.

#GE #GMO #GeneticModification #LivingCarbon

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@11220 All valid points, but progress would look like adding that extra functionality for the same compute, not exponentially increased compute cost for the equivalent service (in this case base OS).

Also, I'm guessing a bunch of that 2GB of memory in constant use is spying on me, on behalf of Goggle and the OEM. I presume you're not counting that as ...

> doing work we’ve come to expect, invisibly

My Android has 8GB of memory. That should be enough for a small server. More than 2GB of that is running Android itself, and a bunch of other background stuff that's always on.

Not so long ago I was running laptops with 2GB total system memory. The OS used about 2GB of hard disk, and far less memory while running.

Is this supposed to represent progress? The more compute you use to do essentially the same job, the better it is?

#Android

I don't contribute to @haiku at the moment, but one of the most important things I have taken from that project is that "breaking the monotony of the competition" is arguably a goal that is just as valid as becoming mainstream or useful.

Isolated containers for executing untrusted code are called sandboxes because CPUs are made of sand.

@drewdaniels No, it's just BBB, it never upgrades gracefully. I wonder how many ancient, insecure BBB systems are out there just because their admins have learned that updating them always breaks things...
Oh and one more thing! Modern Linux, which is to say Fedora 41, has an issue with runaway repeat keystrokes. It loses the key-up events or whatever, resulting in a stuck repeat. It's probably something software related in the department of @whot, but the Steelseries aggravated it significantly. I replaced it with an old Dell PS/2 with ancient USB adapter, and the symptom still happens, but very rarely now. This suggests that I may be able to find a keyboard that protects me from a Linux bug. That would be ideal in addition to the 100% pitch.
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@Zykino They primarily do it because they can and don't need to pay - totally independently of if they are small players or giant corporations.

And they're right. The can and are legally allowed to.

"Nah, surely someone else will sponsor the project. We certainly don't want to. We never did. It's still here and works well after decades, which proves us right."

/ almost every company

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