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Ubuntu on the ThinkPad X13s Review
> To my surprise the fingerprint reader works well and I can enroll my fingers! It even unlocks the system the system at the login screen too!
well, shit, that's better than my Thinkpad X1 on Ubuntu where they never worked
I actually came very close to getting that exact same setup (from the Amazon Refreshed store) but waved it off because I could not get Chrome (not -ium, I mean the real one) nor Zoom which for doing worky stuff is "well, good luck". Yes, I'm aware one can join zoom meetings from the browser but with eyes toward that "chromIUM" part I felt it would be really, really rolling the dice, and that's before I knew that the webcam doesn't work
there have been a few other threads on this, but it's great to have a more recent version: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=thinkpad+x13s
You may already be aware of this, but the T14s is "just another" Intel box, whereas the X13s is Snapdragon/arm64. I despise the random nomenclature of their product lines for that very reason. But IMHO a blog post about Ubuntu on more Intel stuff would not make the front page versus "here's the current state of arm64 on the desktop" is something I have keen interest in. I still have high hopes someone is going to have better luck with Microsoft's Dev Kit since it comes with a lot more ram (recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35757277 et al https://hn.algolia.com/?query=windows%20dev%20kit )
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Ask HN: What are some not widely-known computer programming publishers?
Self publishing is free. If you’re talking about getting printed copies in bookstores, you’re technically correct about their being better at marketing but believe me, they expect you to do the bulk of that too.
Take a look at some of these articles:
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Ask HN: Why no browser-based E2E encryption?
Perhaps search hnn for "cryptocat" which was an attempt to do e2e chat through a website a dozen years ago. It was somewhat controversial at the time.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=cryptcat
The author gave up on it after a while and the website stopped working.
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Stashpad launches Google Docs alternative you can use without any login
There once was an incredibly nice product like this called hackpad. It even had a similar theme IIRC. It was a yc company, lovely polished product, and the folks I was founding a startup with loved it with zero effort spent on convincing them.
10 years ago Dropbox bought it and shut it down.
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DBOS Operating System
look, I know this thing is obviously the second coming, or new sliced bread or something, but the dupes are just out of control: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=dbos and that's not even counting the submissions of blog posts about their hot new thing from the employees
We got it, it's awesome, stop making NEW THREADS where everyone who wasn't in the first 500 of these submissions posts the same things
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The GIL can now be disabled in Python's main branch
Further context on noGIL in general: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
- Show HN: Hatchet – Open-source distributed task queue
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Tal is the programming language for the Uxn virtual machine
Using a stack as input and a stack as output reminds me of the POP-11 language.
A high level value stack available as an input is a truly different way to code.
See other Hacker News articles https://hn.algolia.com/?q=pop-11
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Don't Use Discord for FOSS
Using this site, I created a custom range search.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=custom&page=1&prefix=true&...
For comments less than 1 month, I see the option to upvote, for older comments I don't.
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JavaScript News and Updates of January 2022
Early this month, the malicious attack on free-to-use libraries, namely color.js and faker.js, created a real uproar in the development community. These tools are used in thousands of projects and their downloading rate from npm is estimated in millions per week. To everyone’s surprise, it turned out to be an inside job. Marak Squires, the creator of these libraries, intentionally committed malicious code to his projects and published updated codebases on GitHub and npm. It is said that this sabotage was caused by unsuccessful attempts of Mr. Squires to monetize his projects. Fortunately, malicious packages were quickly removed and the attacker’s account was suspended. The story sparked a new wave of discussion in the development community on possible steps to make the development and maintenance of open-source projects more sustainable.
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Unofficial Faker.js fork positions itself as official successor and assumes name and Open Collective sponsors
For anyone else curious about the allusion to Aaron Swartz, it can be found here and reads (as of posting):
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Is there something wrong with OpenSource model?
So people, I've been reading the news regarding some great packages on GitHub, like the Colors and the Faker. I understand that this isn't related entirely with the linux community, but it is something that we should pay attention.
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Re: the faker.js debacle: A daily reminder that htmx & hyperscript are dependency free
A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “faker.js” and “colors.js” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer.
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Open source developer corrupts widely-used libraries, affecting tons of projects
I mean he also maliciously changed all of the links on a faker.js issue to point to conspiracy theories (which I am pretty sure is against Github's TOS): https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/pull/2
- What happened with fakerjs
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The EndGame - Fakerjs
About Four (4) Days Ago, the Author of Fakerjs a popular JavaScript library with more than 2 million weekly Download from NPM Deleted the repository and replaced it with one that only has the modified ReadMe "What really happened with Aaron Swartz?" and no content, and pushed an empty package to npm as the latest version (6.6.6).
- Marak, creator of faker.js who recently deleted the project due to lack of funding and abuse of open source projects/developers pushed some strange Anti American update which has an infinite loop
- Marak adds infinite loop test to popular colors.js
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Marak’s GitHub account suspended after he deleted FakerJS
The repo is up though: https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/
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