alonely0

@alonely0@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't cell phones have BIOS?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re an embedded device, plain and simple. Among other things, this means that there’s not a layer that handes off the hardware in a ready state to the OS, and not even an ACPI to tell them what and where the hardware is, the OS needs to already know via a device tree.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dropped a paperclip on my laptop and it landed like this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope, not that close to the edge, and especially not in this laptop cuz it must have them firing down. It’s the hall effect sensor of the lid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wrote a program for my boss. How legal is to to write the program again and make it FOSS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Fixed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wrote a program for my boss. How legal is to to write the program again and make it FOSS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  – Not legal advice-- If you have evidence that it got scrapped for good, even if it’s copyright infringement, they can’t claim any damages. They, at best, can DMCA GitHub, but you’re VERY unlikely to get sentenced guilty in a trial.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wrote a program for my boss. How legal is to to write the program again and make it FOSS?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  –Not legal advice-- Except he can’t do clean-room development because copyright is viral. If he had access to the copyrighted source, any code he writes on the matter, if it coincides with the copyrighted one to some extent, can be pursued for copyright claims (IBM v. Microsoft). For example, when there’s a leak of Windows source, ReactOS devs get super scared, because it really puts them on the line. Another example is Nouveau, which can’t accept anyone who has worked at NVIDIA. That being said, the company was not intending to do anything with it, so they can’t claim damages; ergo, he’s completely safe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Gen Z, I mourned Reddit for 30 seconds. Now I’m here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A publicly traded company is legally obligated to be evil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok Lemmy Rorschach test time. Tell me what you see.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One of eevees’ evolutions (glaceon, the fairy one, or the grass one) in a symmetry axis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨internet points⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called ArXiv.