Has any software ever entered the public domain through copyright expiration? I think software at least 70 years old (125 years for corporate created) when its copyright expires prevents it from being any benefit at all.
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Technology@lemmy.world•This long-term data storage will last 14 billion yearsEnglish
8·1 month agoRemember Memristors? They’re commercially available today, at 200 EUR per bit.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAMEnglish
1·1 month agoThree years ago, I replaced a failing SATA SSD in my personal laptop with a new SATA SSD. That laptop had plenty of power, and I’d still be using it today if the keyboard still worked, and the screen hinges weren’t cracked. It had no NVME slots.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 DaysEnglish
2·2 months agoThe usual way for me is to give certbot write access to a directory in the HTTP root, so the server can keep running.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 DaysEnglish
1·2 months agoFor internal stuff, it may be easier to set up your own CA.
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Technology@lemmy.world•China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUsEnglish
41·3 months agoThey used to use analog computers to solve differential equations, back when every transistor was expensive (relays and tubes even more so) and clock rates were measured in kilohertz. There’s no practical purpose for them now.
In cases of number theory, and RSA cryptography, you need even more precision. They combine multiple integers together to get 4096-bit precision.
If you’re asking about the 24-bit ADC, I think that’s usually high-end audio recording.
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Technology@lemmy.world•China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUsEnglish
142·3 months agoThe maximum theoretical precision of an analog computer is limited by the charge of an electron, 10^-19 coulombs. A normal analog computer runs at a few milliamps, for a second max. So a max theoretical precision of 10^16, or 53 bits. This is the same as a double precision (64-bit) float. I believe 80-bit floats are standard in desktop computers.
In practice, just getting a good 24-bit ADC is expensive, and 12-bit or 16-bit ADCs are way more common. Analog computers aren’t solving anything that can’t be done faster by digitally simulating an analog computer.
It would be a more meaningful discussion if the government wasn’t controlled so much by large corporations and oligarchs.
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Technology@lemmy.world•I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business InsiderEnglish
4·3 months agoInkjet printers are good for furry artists who sell prints at conventions. Hmm… that’s actually so specific that it reinforces your point.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunchEnglish
21·3 months agoEveryone already had the choice to use this before. You can visit any site with a search box, and add that site as a search engine to Firefox.
This is forcing it down people’s throats.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunchEnglish
7·3 months agoHow do I prevent new antifeatures from being added? How do I even know about the new antifeatures as they are added? Does Mozilla publish an RSS feed of each antifeature like this that they add, that gives a quick explanation of how to undo it?
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Technology@lemmy.world•Qualcomm to Acquire Arduino—Accelerating Developers’ Access to its Leading Edge Computing and AIEnglish
16·4 months agoQualcomm won’t send you a datasheet unless you can promise an order of 100,000. Arduino has always been open specification, and this is totally incompatible with Qualcomm.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest UpdateEnglish
6·4 months agoI would never subscribe to Crunchyroll, because they use DRM.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Have you tried self-hosting your own email recently?English
4·4 months agoI have self hosted my email since 2006. I gave up on self hosting outgoing mail in 2021, but I still keep the server up for incoming mail, and still set up throwaway accounts on there.
The hard part of hosting email is getting Google and Microsoft to accept outgoing mail. Tons of businesses that do not have visibly outlook .com or gmail .com addresses are still hosted by those servers.
I had SPF, DKIM, and a static datacenter IP address with no reputation problems. I still couldn’t get through to Microsoft, not even in people’s junk mail directory, until they manually whitelisted my address. Microsoft didn’t allow them to whitelist a whole domain. Google was a little easier, but they added new demands monthly.
In 2025, I can’t get reliable delivery to gmail .com addresses even sending from a hotmail .com address in the outlook .com web interface.
Not sure how much you’re paying for your VPN, but a virtual private server can be had for about $5 per month. You’ll get a real IPv4 address just for you, so you won’t have to use non-standard port numbers. (You can also use the VPS as a self-hosted VPN or proxy.)
$5 per month doesn’t get you much processing power, but it gets you plenty of bandwidth. You could self-host your server on your home computer, and reverse-proxy through your NAT using the VPS.
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Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?English
12·5 months agoCloudflare has IP banned me before for no reason (no proxy, no VPN, residential ISP with no bot traffic). They’ve switched their captcha system a few times, and some years it’s easy, some years it’s impossible.
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Technology@lemmy.world•It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong SometimesEnglish
15·5 months agoGive Microsoft some credit! Excel has been able to come up with wrong answers for decades. For example, reporting 1900 as a leap year.
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Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appealEnglish
13·6 months agoWhat alternative do you recommend that won’t be blocked by Google and Microsoft? I hate Microsoft, but I can’t even sign up for a Google account, and everywhere else I’ve tried is blocked by Google, Microsoft, or both.
I self-hosted my email from 2006-2021, and do not have the stamina to do that any more.

How do you get this? My company has the Enterprise version, but when they forced me to switch to a new Windows 11 laptop (same model and specs as my old one which couldn’t be upgraded to Windows 11 for some reason), it came with all the crap in the article. Ads in the start menu and everything.