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First, i wonder if Nvidia's proprietary drivers are the root cause of all those tearing complaints and whatsnot that gets attributed to X11. Been running X for years with no indication of tearing, without a compositor and using open source AMD Radeon drivers. Second, do not blame the wider...

The most basic form, if you trust the kernel to maintain privilege separation is to basically set up a second user, and run a vnc server as that user. That would isolate the browser from both X and your larger file system, unless the attacker comes swinging a privilege escalation attack right...

On that note, i found myself reminded of Scala and their software. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scala_%28company%29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k20Wvlqb96g Not the same as Video Toaster, but still about using the Amiga for TV production.

Occam's razor, Google released a product prematurely. Has happened before, will happen again. This because the company has ingrained the web development ethos "release early, release often". That works when you are dealing with websites and can simply point the load balancer at a new server...

The Linux ecosystem seems to have this thing where every 5 years or so there is a massive rework. I suspect it happens because at that point the new stuff is mature enough that developers are facing the prospect of doing code janitorial duty, and so they start major rewrites to reset the clock...

Mossberg is at Verge now? Sounds like a match made in heaven. After all, he has been Apples media preacher for a couple of decades.

At the same time the unchanged equations do a much better job than Newton of explaining the behavior of the solar system. While at the same time Newton did a damn good job at describing the behavior of gravity down here on the planet. Meaning that Einstein expands on Newton, much like Newton...

Maybe more, maybe less. I sometimes feel that the instant nature of our present day means that we do not spend as much time properly preparing our arguments.

Article like this one makes it feel as if time has stood still for the last century. In large part because mass media keep harping over the same topics from the time period.

Micro-usb had its issues as well, but none of them were in the cable in the sense that this is.

Actually, 2.4A is not in any official USB spec. It is something Apple concocted on their own, that is confusingly similar to the USB Battery Charging spec. USB BC tops out at 2A, because that is basically what the basic design of the A and B plugs have as their limit. BC use a simple short on...

Frankly between the existing Battery Charging spec, and the newer Power Delivery spec, having this 3 tier resistor system in the type-C spec seem redundant to say the least.

The reason zombies get so much attention is that some see it as an euphemism...

When writers stop bringing up brand names, people will stop "hating".

The cloud is for airheads (and webdevs, but then the correlation is massive).

Society is also changing. Jobs that allowed someone with social impairments to work while not interacting much socially have been automated away (often by automation developed by the very same people). End result is a society that puts increasing focus on "face time", and thus any kind of...

Bah, the present Android could be updated just as often as ChromeOS without a rewrite. The "rom" issue is related to how drivers are done in Linux, and the only reason it is "different" in ChromeOS is because Google has grabbed the reins there but left them in the hands of the OEMs with...

That image needs to be updated to represent a Mexican standoff...

It has already had a couple. Like when they went from the tree map to the current circles of circles stuff (groan), or replaced flat menus with the interior of a small space ship. They just seem to end up with stuff that works better with a gamepad (and a TV) than with mouse and keyboard.

I have two issues with this game. 1. you run into a brick wall of progress without a clan all too soon. 2. the networking is shaky to say the least. These two regularly combine to make playing a downright mess.