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Greg K-H is one of the original author of OHCI implementation, and the current USB subsystem maintainer. Another USB subsystem maintainer told me he won't merge the code without Greg's appro…

The patch removes this latency and improves transfer speed, without any drawbacks.

Why should it be? It has low rating (yet).

That's right, it's easier to setup such MiTM using an intermediate server, because only getting the private key of the certificate won't get you the user's traffic due to PFS. You …

Bad at translation, at least to Russian. Very fast though, about 2x faster than Gemma 4 e2b on my CPU.

On GitHub, if anyone makes an MR which changes the name of existing GitHub Actions, it will be instantly renamed. The web interface will show redefined name, even if the MR comes from new contributor …

You're biased. AI was trained on a well-written professional texts which used these phrases and speech patterns, it was very common before the AI-generated texts. These speech patterns especially…

I can't understand why people defend improper typography. If you're writing a proper, professional-looking blog post, they think you now should use double-minus -- instead of em-dash to make…

Any airprint/mopria certified devices don't need drivers to work on Linux, Windows, Android or macOS. https://mfi.apple.com/account/airprint-search https://m…

See above, that's my mistake.

Sorry, it's me who needs a reading comprehension lessons. I've read back in printervention website and now again that you didn't open the code that you HAVE to. Because you're apol…

It's a great concept, but you haven't open-sourced the previous code, as the license requires, and you're yet again apologizing in this project as well, without any code. Pretty sure yo…

Linux kernel contribution policy required sending patches under real name, but that policy have been lifted about 2 years ago. Now they allow pseudonym contributions. https://git.kernel.org…

It's a part of PDF, so if there's a PDF renderer which makes preview, it supports G4 and JBIG2.

That's why LLM will eventually be used only for initial interaction between the user in their language, to prepare the data to a specialized model. Imagine face recognition to work like a text ch…

Denuvo is owned by Irdeto, a digital rights management company in a broad sense. They not only do software and hardware DRM, but also work as a watchdog for movie and music companies to claim DMCA vio…

>there are only a few licenses approved by OSI that are not also considered Free Software This is what I'm trying to conterpoint: you're thinking of "Free software" as in legal …

The only instance of social contract I know is Debian's, initially from 1997. https://www.debian.org/social_contract >I wonder if this always used to be the case As written in…

The article recalls people that open-source software is not necessary created for the community, but rather by the author, for the author oftentimes. The "support" is not only the mainte…

- FOSS applications don't have to be distributed publicly — that's only the common social expectation - FOSS does not imply that the code should be available for non-customers. The de…

And what puzzles me all the time is why the programmer chooses the licenses which permit this exact behavior, and become pissed when this happens? You explicitly told everyone that you can do that, …

> Sometimes I wonder if FOSS projects should start as paid Why only start? Moreover, you're encouraged to sell other's people free (as in beer) software, if you want to. https:/…

These are my thoughts on this aspect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988108

Allow me to auto-translate my comment which initially was a response to "How can an ordinary developer get involved in the open source community, and is it worth it?" article (in Russian), b…

The document is about the social aspect of the _most common_ open-source code model, and social pressure of the _most common, unspoken expectations_ of the developers and the users. Could we maybe inv…

>Those tickets would not be "unreliable" but simply "broken" with a "Won't fix" status. Check the Wi-Fi tickets, they are sitting without any replies from the RPi…

>software support is fantastic. Unreliable USB: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/3259 Unreliable Wi-Fi: * https://github.com/raspberrypi&#…