The paranoid in me wonders though… can DRAM be backdoored? I’d bet ‘yes’, and this would be a perfect opening to introduce a huge amount of compromised hardware to the world market…

Cloudflare has caused too much of the internet to be centralized under their whims. There need to be more alternatives for DDoS protection; I don’t use any at all for my self-hosted site, but if I ever do, it won’t be Cloudflare.

Thank you for linking via xcancel.com rather than to that service directly. Wish more posters would do this.

Reddit API apocalypse and their plan to IPO to sell everyone’s posts for data.

Qualcomm has historically been one of the most closed chip vendors. Unless they publish full specs, datasheets and open drivers, that’ll be a hard ‘no’ for me.

Guess Trump will be abducting Carney and ‘running Canada’ like Venezuela now, since we apparently have pissed off the Dept. of War for sending buttplugs to Bahrain. What a world.

Soldered in, or upgradeable at least? The former would be a huge reason to never buy the newest gen of laptops.

EDIT: Missed in article, yeah this would suck if they stick to soldered RAM for ultra-thins.

Another problem manufacturers face is with notebooks that ship with soldered DRAM. In particular, ultrathin designs would need to be revamped to modify their configurations.

And soon you’ll have to agree to not criticize members of the Saudi Royal Family or disparage their name…

This is really wholesome, good on that other dev!

I recently heard a saying which I’m still trying to take to heart and apply to my own troubles working on creative pursuits: “Comparison is the thief of joy”.

We’re all so connected and online these days, it’s all too easy to see the work of others, and either feel “it has all been done before, what’s the point?”, or “this other person is so good I’ll never reach their level”.

To the Great White North! Take off, it’s a beauty way to go

Anti-<topic> Billionaires Have Always Been Able to Control What People in General See.

We don’t need/want a huge TV, so we just use a monitor with an external speaker and dedicated media box.

Smart TVs these days are just too invasive to even consider in my home.

Mandatory overtime? The games industry is slavery, unionize NOW for fuck’s sake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaqFkFExi3M

Thanks, will check it out. I agree it should be the client/user’s choice. I guess I would just like awareness of xcancel to get out there so people know about it as a way to avoid giving that site any more traffic.

This really is a new front in the war on general-purpose computing for regular people. The EU or some entity big enough that’s outside of the US needs to fund new memory fabs ASAP and get this industry out of the hands of the present cartel.

Nooooooooooo :)

Well at least it’s an option, not mandatory.

Please, leave the UI theme alone. No ribbons, no ultra-low contrast borderless buttons/textareas.

Good. The more projects that move off of github, the better. It’s a dangerous dependency-sinkhole at this point, and has been for some time. De-centralize!

Well that could be considered the point where we lost our innocence, yeah. :(