Nibodhika

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[–] Nibodhika 7 points 1 month ago

That is a very logical way of replying to someone telling you you're the sort of person to flip a turtle. In other words, found the replicant.

[–] Nibodhika 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Imagine you're interviewing for an Architect position at a company that's designing a hotel, and your take home assignment is to design a hotel.

[–] Nibodhika 3 points 1 month ago

Uhh, that's interesting, I miss that feature a lot, but the plugin is always out of date.

[–] Nibodhika 2 points 1 month ago

No, from Supernatural. I don't remember Crowley from Good Omens claiming to be bad

[–] Nibodhika 2 points 1 month ago

Not all of them do, I've seen that in America data limits on home internet is common, and here in Europe unlimited phone data is common.

[–] Nibodhika 1 points 1 month ago

Of course you can complain, I pay less than half what you do for unlimited cellular data.

[–] Nibodhika 23 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Character that insist is evil but clearly isn't: Crowley from Supernatural.

But I think that character that is actually evil but still charming is more interesting, and for that I bring forward Baal from Stargate.

[–] Nibodhika 43 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It's not about nationality. Here are the facts:

  1. LF is USA based (headquarters in California), as such they're subject to USA law
  2. USA imposed sanctions on companies that are directly involved in supplying Russia with weapons.
  3. To have business, including receiving help, from those companies would open LF to legal repercussions in the country where they're based.
  4. Baikal Electronic JSC is on the sanctioned list.
  5. Serge Sermin public GitHub profile listed Baikal as their employer

Therefore to not remove Serge from the maintainers would open LF to legal repercussions.

You might not agree with what was done, I certainly don't, but I understand it.

[–] Nibodhika 58 points 1 month ago

The code is there, yes, but it's skipped entirely, so the binary size stays the same, but it's faster because it skips parts. The big brain on the person that wrote that must also tell him that skipping a scene on a movie means the movie takes the same time because it's the entirety of the movie plus the skipping of the scene.

[–] Nibodhika 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

While I agree with you and understand that perfectly, slack doesn't have that remote management thing, so far I've only seen that Microsoft apps.

[–] Nibodhika 1 points 1 month ago

So? What's your point? All of those are open specifications.

Next you'll tell me that Linux is not open source because Debian, Fedora, Arch, Gentoo, Slackware, X32, X64 architectures, server and home versions. Not even counting the various distros derived from any of them nor the different kernel versions.

[–] Nibodhika 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

USB is absolutely not a standardized connector,

USB is absolutely standardized, I even sent you the 2.0 spec, you can get the spec for the other versions on the same website.

otherwise it would only be one type of connector, not the dozen or so they've made over the decades.

Different versions/connectors have different specs, all of them open, otherwise different manufacturers wouldn't be able to create devices that use it.

There's nothing universal about it.

That's ridiculous, first of all the name relates to the fact that it can be used for any data transfer as long as it's serial. Secondly the sheer amount of different devices from different manufacturers that can be plugged via USB should give you a hint of just how universal and open the standard is.

And if it was open source, then why doesn't VirtualBox release the source code for their USB extension package?

The standard is open, implementations of it are not, it's like OpenGL or Vulkan.

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