The world would be a better place if we just completely abolished the patent system. There is no need to come up with convoluted new schemes, just delete it, done. The resulting progress will be incredible.
Readit Newsandersa commented on Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead? josefprusa.com/articles/o... · Posted by u/rcarmo
But... Debian is also a rolling release distro. Just use the "testing" or "unstable" suite. I am using Debian unstable on my main desktop since 1999, and had very little issues with it. The testing suite is the one which filters out most bugs found in unstable, and is something you can definitely use as a regular user.
Can confirm, have been using Debian testing branch on my local server for AI experiments for a year and it works great. Never hit any major issues, always have (reasonably) up to date software.
andersa commented on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet nytimes.com/2025/08/11/bu... · Posted by u/situationista
Had a similar experience. I grew up in a rural area and broadband penetration was late. Later when I bought a house I was lied to by comcast about availability and ended up dialup again. (My fault for believing them tbh) Most of the tricks I used to make the most out of a dialup connection (disable images, disable flash player, load multiple pages so they could be browsed offline) didn't make a difference anymore. In the case of loading multiple pages, lazy loading meant this didn't really work. It was a much more brutal experience than the first go around.
The worst part was how little actual content actually makes up the bloat. Sure video was right out, but I was often struggling to load pages that were mostly text.
The only other option at the time was Hugesnet. After doing the math I determined the data caps were so low dialup was actually cheaper at MBs/month and had less latency issues. Realistically the next best available step up wasn't Hughesnet it was shotgunned 56K.
I feel like finding out a house you bought doesn't actually have internet after the fact makes it worthless in the modern world and should be a valid reason to reverse the purchase.
The entire premise is stupid. No theft occurred at any point, the original authors still have their creations.
andersa commented on The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report issues.chromium.org/issue... · Posted by u/alexcos
He had a pretty reliable exploit on the most used browser, pretty sure it he could have gotten more tax free on the black market.
Now, with EDR widely deployed it's likely that the exploit usage ends up being caught sooner than later, but pretty sure some dictatorship intelligence agency would have found all those journalists deep compromise worthwhile...
What if people start asking questions where you got the million dollars from? I've never understood how those presumably illegal markets can function with such large sums involved.
I've been using the Debian trixie branch for about a year now on my local server, never once had a real issue with anything. Very impressive.
andersa commented on MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems julsimon.medium.com/why-m... · Posted by u/yodon
This is no different than the argument that C is totally great as long as you just don’t make mistakes with pointers or memory management or indexing arrays.
At some point we have to decide as a community of engineers that we have to stop building tools that are little more than loaded shotguns pointed at our own feet.
It's clearly a much better design if the shotguns are pointed at someone else's feet.
Why is it that every bit of news that comes out of some western country is now some form of shit-headedness?
I thought it used to be that parents were responsible for their kids - that's not even a thing now?
And as if this will make any difference to anything?
I think one day the Chinese will be saying "at least we're not living in the west"
What makes you think they're not saying that already?
My understanding is that China doesn’t care about abusing patents they don’t own. Is this incorrect? Do they value patents only when they hold them and enforce them?
Asking sincerely.