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New comment by VladStanimir in "The RAM shortage could last years"

VladStanimir — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 14:22:28 +0000

I don't think its from the ML collapse FUD, its most likely from the multiple time's in the past when they overbuilt and it resulted in a memory oversupply and price collapses. The 1985–1988, 1993–1994, 1998–2002 and the post pandemic oversupply. These were all cases where shortages followed by over corrections caused oversupply, financial losses due to low prices and fewer surviving companies. I think they're taking their time and are cautiously adding more capacity in such a way that prices won't end up collapsing again. Regardless, the result is still that we the consumers have to pay more.

New comment by VladStanimir in "The RAM shortage could last years"

VladStanimir — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:54:13 +0000

They won't be, prices are high because they are refusing to build capacity for demand that may evaporated by the time they are done. They are holding back and building only enough so when the bubble pops they will be fine.

New comment by VladStanimir in "The Seasons Are Wrong"

VladStanimir — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 12:23:01 +0000

This article does not take into consideration seasonal lag, where temperature trails behind sunlight by 4 to 8 weeks. So while the solstice in June is peak sunlight August is peak temperature, so summer being mid June to mid September with august being the hottest time of year makes sense.

New comment by VladStanimir in "Systemd BirthDate Merge: Conflicts of Interest"

VladStanimir — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:42:12 +0000

I don't see the problem with the systemd DOB merger, the DOB will have to be stored somewhere and systemd already has a place where user information is securely stored so they added a new field to the user database.

The alternative is not that no DOB will be stored is that it will end up stored in 20 different locations on the filesystem.

New comment by VladStanimir in "KDE's new Plasma Login Manager is tightly bound to systemd"

VladStanimir — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:10:04 +0000

I think there is a fundamental misunderstanding here.

A multiuser system is a system where multiple users are logged in at the same time and ussing the computer.

So a multi-user desktop Linux would be a computer where multiple people are logged in each with their own desktop session on the same machine.

That was the way unix was first used, a big computer somewhere with multiple client terminals connected to it all doing their own thing. This is the environment x11 came about as well.

Nowadays even if the computer is shared by multiple people each with their own account only one of them is using it at a time.

New comment by VladStanimir in "Microsoft's Azure Linux"

VladStanimir — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:16:19 +0000

Is this available for wsl? Is there there a site that documents what packedges are available? Is this purely a cli distro or does it have a graphical environment?

New comment by VladStanimir in "Devuan – Debian Without Systemd"

VladStanimir — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 18:24:04 +0000

From the project documentation: "The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System." The application does not require xorg it requires an x11 server.

It just so happens that until recently xorg was the only game in town as far as Linux x11 servers are concerned.

New comment by VladStanimir in "EU chief says EU should abandon caution after Bessent calls Denmark 'irrelevant'"

VladStanimir — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 12:18:04 +0000

Unfortunately Greenland as a whole has 50.000 people in total of which 20.000 live in largest city and the rest scattered across 19 others. Thats about the size of a small town in the US, the country may be big in territory but not in population.

New comment by VladStanimir in "Why Prefer Textfiles? (2010)"

VladStanimir — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:40:54 +0000

This site is being deliver over HTTP instead of HTTPS, that is why it appears as insecure.

New comment by VladStanimir in "Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)"

VladStanimir — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 08:29:03 +0000

The thing about having morality-based restrictions to the license is that there is no well defined legal standard for good and evil.

Creating such license will indeed discourage lawful corporations from making use of it because of the legal uncertainty.

It will discourage open source projects for making use of it because it's not open source and it's incompatible either from a legal or philosophical standpoint.

The only ones who would not discourage would be the ones you actually want to prevent using it since they would likely not care about the license terms at all and just use it regardless.

The end result would be essentially a dead project that would be either ignored by the programmer community if it started out with this license or be forked like what happened when other open source projects switched licenses example redis being replaced by valkey.

New comment by VladStanimir in "A theoretical way to circumvent Android developer verification"

VladStanimir — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 09:31:27 +0000

I am not a app developer however from what I read on the android developer site you just need to provide some form of id, the singing key and the app id.

You don't have to distribute via the app store, you dont have to get Googles permission to publish the app or have them sign it.

This looks like purely app validation, we only run apps we can prove originate from the author.

New comment by VladStanimir in "Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?"

VladStanimir — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 14:15:55 +0000

I tried with copilot and got this answer: Nope—there is no official seahorse emoji, and there never has been one. It’s one of those quirky cases of the Mandela Effect, where tons of people (and even some AI models!) are convinced they’ve seen or used it before. Some remember it being blue, orange, or facing a certain direction, but it’s all collective misremembering.

Interestingly, a seahorse emoji was proposed to Unicode but got rejected back in 2018. So if you’ve ever tried to send one and ended up with or instead… you’re not alone.

Would you like to see what a custom seahorse emoji might look like? I could help you imagine one.

New comment by VladStanimir in "The Gold Card"

VladStanimir — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:16:47 +0000

Does not sound that differend from the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Visa the US already has except for the fact that you gift the money to the feds instead of investing it in a company with 10 employees.

New comment by VladStanimir in "No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search"

VladStanimir — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 16:45:45 +0000

I use copilot for search, in one of two ways. The first is as an advanced search where i use the answer to gauge if it found what i am looking for then follow the links for details. The second is when i am looking for some information i once knew and i remember some details, like the title of a book i remember the plot points too, then when i find it i go do something with that information.

New comment by VladStanimir in "Third party cookies must be removed"

VladStanimir — Fri, 02 May 2025 12:34:56 +0000

You are correct, although its more correct to say there a only 3 major browser engines, Blink (used by all chromium derivatives), WebKit (used by Safari and some minor browsers), Gecko (used by Firefox and its derivatives). Creating a browser engine is hard, so hard that even a multi billion dollar company like Microsoft gave up on doing it. And we may soon witness Gecko going away as a side effect of the Google antitrust lawsuit.

New comment by VladStanimir in "Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty"

VladStanimir — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 13:51:43 +0000

Speaking as someone from Europe i remember the time we switched from a local social media site to Facebook on mass because Facebook was a better experience.

So a better platform is a must have if the EU wants the digital sovereign social media to have any traction. Most people just don't care enough about abstract concepts like digital sovereignty to move to a worse platform.

New comment by VladStanimir in "Google Being Forced to Sell Chrome Is Not Good for the Web"

VladStanimir — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 11:39:26 +0000

What do you mean? I have the new version of Tampermonkey installed and after turning on developer mode in the extensions section all my scripts work perfectly. https://www.tampermonkey.net/faq.php?locale=en#Q209

New comment by VladStanimir in "Mercedes-Benz Drives Toward Solid-State EV Batteries"

VladStanimir — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 13:01:15 +0000

I remember watching a video 3 years ago by Tom Scott about trucks with overhed power like trains have. https://youtu.be/_3P_S7pL7Yg

New comment by VladStanimir in "DOJ: Google must sell Chrome, Android could be next"

VladStanimir — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 21:04:57 +0000

The big question is, would it keep that market share without Google. The big selling point of Google Chrome is the seamless integration with all the other Google services.

New comment by VladStanimir in "Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?"

VladStanimir — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 10:51:46 +0000

There are 3 major web browser engines out there atm, WebKit, Blink and Gecko. Gecko is developed by Mozilla, Blink by Google and WebKit by Apple. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#WebKit-...