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lproven
8,777karma·4,928submissions·December 30, 2013
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Tall dark black-clad atheist skeptic biker SF fan; writes, mainly about computers, for a living.
# Work
Currently the FOSS & cloud correspondent for the Register.
https://www.theregister.com/Author/Liam-Proven
Work email: lproven+hn@sitpub.com
# Personal
Comments here (or anywhere else, unless otherwise stated) are personal opinion and not on behalf of any employer.
Based in Douglas, Isle of Man.
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recent activity (4,928 total)
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In my testing I find the exact reverse. I much prefer snap to flatpak.
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> How does growing crops work when it's dark 6 months a year? Have you noticed that all broadleaved trees and shrubs lose their leaves for half the year in temperate zones already? Did you not…
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> I'm in western Europe Me too. > and really hope the AMOC will not collapse. It absolutely categorically will, probably in a decade or two. However, as the rest of the planet rapidly warms…
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Short term (low single-digit decades): rapid sealevel rise. When (not "if") the Thwaites Glacier goes and the West Antartic Ice Sheet floats (not melts, just gets seawater underneath it) the…
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Then you haven't been listening, because it's been widely discussed and well publicised. My personal two favourite piece on Brave are these... 2023: «
Stop using Brave Browser Seriously. Cor…
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opens link... ... it's not about OS/2 3 or 4, but some AI thing, and apparently feels no need to disambiguate or even acknowledge the prior usage of its name ... closes tab
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I wouldn't know. Like I said: never been there. Not American, never lived in America. (Current location: Douglas, Isle of Man, 4370 miles away.) I specifically said that I was talking of the orig…
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Some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921079
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> (which is incorrect, it's Coherent, not QNX). I think that was my mistake, when I posted this to Lobsters. Sorry about that.
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OIC.
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Oh, yes, me too! Something I really missed in a decade living in Czechia. It's odd how in other countries it is mostly baked goods that have deep differences and leave whole much-loved categori…
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> I'm guessing you have touchpad corners enabled. Er, no. As I said: Usually I leave the trackpad disabled. I don't like gestures and multi-finger taps much so I prefer to just turn it of…
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> You clearly missed the "Texas kolaches" Why would you even think that, let alone say it? I didn't miss it. I wasn't talking about Texan food. I clearly said, and you quoted …
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I often hear things like this, but I never encounter them myself. I've run every single version of Ubuntu ever released. Work machines stay on LTSes, testbeds run interim versions. After the 22.0…
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Yes. Linux Mint, Zorin OS, Linux Lite, Pop OS, and several less famous distros are all based on Ubuntu. New versions of all of them will follow this new LTS release in time. Mint forked GNOME 3 to mak…
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This is not correct. Snap is preinstalled on all official Ubuntu graphical editions. However, Xubuntu's _Minimal_ install does not include any snap packages at all, not even a browser. This m…
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No way, José. From where I sit I have 5 Thinkpads set up within reach, and I have a few more in other rooms. They are by far my preferred laptop. Most run Ubuntu as their default OS, most have the tra…
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Yup. And this is no bad thing.
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This isn't true any more, and hasn't been for some years, you know. It was true but times change. Microsoft chose to kill off Windows 10, which it once promised would be the last desktop W…
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Correct. Pork pies even have a protected geographic designation now: https://www.mmppa.co.uk/ Scotch eggs are a common, if old fashioned, pub snack and are sold in supermarkets. Jelli…
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I've never been to Texas in my life, but I did live in Czechia for 9 years and my wife is Czech. A Czech koláč is always sweet, with no exceptions. I Googled the foods you and the previous commen…
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> I haven't lived in Liverpool for 25 years now, but sad to hear Sayers is no more. Same, except it's just over 50 years for me. This story was quite a nostalgia trip for me – I immediate…
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From TFA: > Our approach comes from two convictions: Uhuh. > that AI cannot replace human insight, creativity, and ingenuity Sure, agreed, no dispute. > and that these tools, used well, can h…
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An interesting point on OSnews: https://www.osnews.com/story/144803/nationwide-bill-to-put-a... «
Still, if passed, the bill would require actual age verification, instead…
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To quote the comment from higher on the page – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47818363 – «
Oh, and don't be fooled by the archived status - it moved to https://c…
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These tools are no more truthworthy than any other LLM slop-extruder.
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> I think this should not be underestimated. You're right but it's broader than "C folks like terseness." C is famously hard to read. Before Perl we used to joke that C is a wri…
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It is an OS. And it is also a programming language, which can run on other OSes as well as on its own native one. Here's a Windows version: https://blackboxframework.org/ Her…
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I absolutely agree. It's all tradeoffs all the way down, like the rest of 21st century computing. The thing is that there is a widespread mindset of "hey look, this family of distros has bee…