Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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2·3 hours agoUnfortunately they’ve been saying on and off that they plan to slowly open source more of it literally since they first started… which was [checks calendar] now 20 years ago. So, I lost my optimism that they would ever finish opening it quite a while ago.
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i suspected this was slop so i did a reverse image search...
…and found a better image of this painting (from 2005, by Braldt Bralds, appeared on the cover of Der Spiegel) which is higher res and has more color:
and we’ll open source the hardware and software interface specs so anyone can design, 3D-print, or produce their own modules
oh cool, people can make open source “other half” add-ons for the proprietary “first half” of the phone itself 🙄
i wonder what percentage of jolla customers still mistakenly believe SailfishOS to be open source? (most of the ones i’ve met did…)
4·12 hours agoI doubt it; it would be odd if they were named after a fictional Dutch-American :)
Dutch is the adjective for things from the Netherlands, and also the demonym for people from there. The demonym for Denmark is Dane and the adjective is Danish.
1 reason it’s wrong to me: https://nosystemd.org/
Under “Notable bugs and security issues” there is a big list of issues which were all (afaict) fixed many years ago.
There have been reasonable philosophical objections to systemd, some of which are still relevant, and as that site shows there are still many distros without it, but for the vast majority of desktop users who want something that JustWorks… using a mainstream distro with systemd is the way to go.
This blog post from pmOS covers some of the pain of trying to use KDE or GNOME without it.
3·16 hours agoi guess “bring your watch” implies a lack of good tools for profiling C++ on Linux?
1·1 day agoMicrochess was first commercially available in 1976, but chess software was being published long before that.
See also: https://www.chessprogramming.org/History#Famous_Historic_Computers_and_Programs
the years for norris facts and rickroll are correct, but all your base was a meme by 2000 and Leeroy Jenkins happened in 2005.
8·2 days agoIt’s because it’s got Roman in the name, isn’t it?
also Calibri is a humanist sans-serif font
10·2 days agoIn Starship Troopers “service guarantees citizenship” but in the US it does not.
It is the direct descendant of Nokia’s OSSO (“Open Source Software Operations”) division, both in terms of people and software.