Feels like this is a reasonable compromise for them. They can release the source for their machines while still remaining in enough control to allow them to stay in business. It's similar to the Business Source licenses that we have seen from software companies recently. Not Open Source or Free but better than a lot of other manufactures. Does this leave the Voron as the only Open and Free design that is being built in quantities?
Yeah, I'm curious how Prusa will go about enforcing this license and how it will play out for them overall, especially more that they're pursuing patents.
Voron isn't quite the only open printer. There are some others that are loosely based on/related to Voron, like Micron and Salad Fork, plus Ratrig which has a very different lineage.
So the argument is, we have manufactured something to create a noxious goop that we would like to inject into the ground at high pressure. Why are people so scared that this is going to have a long term impact our company has a short term profit to deliver to shareholders.
My understading is that the hackers had a copy of the source code for their app so they had to patch all their outstanding CVE that they where sitting on so the DOJ let them hold back until that was ready. It's not ideal but I suppose there is at least something people can do right now. Feels like they could have been a bit quicker with some of the information though.
They have a post about some of the reasons that the 5 was sustainable. It's not just the repair and modular parts but the whole supply chain.
It' rarely gets talked about here as this is a mostly tech audience who focus on features, which are important, but Fairphone is more focused on the impact of the manufacture.
> So, for every Fairphone 5 we make, we responsibly collect and recycle 212 grams of electronic waste. And a lot of that waste is taken from countries where e-waste recycling is not a reality yet.
It does not seem like they are buying offsets. Also why would Fair materials mean nothing?
I think there has been a big uptake in things you don't see like embedded or FPGA cores but as a general CPU it's nowhere near as efficient as ARM/x86 right now is my understanding. So it might be running in the SSD and the Fan controller but not as the CPU.
I think a large part of the cost of a CPU core is not the instruction set but the optimisation of the CPU and ARM/Intel/AMD are still way ahead in those. And so it needs people to optimise the cores, which when they have done that they charge for being a better CPU.
Gnome dropped status icon support as they think it's more consistent for the user to have a window for interacting with the application and do notifications via the notifications system.
I can see how people like a "dropbox" icon, especially Dropbox, as it makes them stand out but also I can see how it does not fit with the Gnome idea of consistency.
I used to be conditioned to using certain apps via their status icon as that was the only way to interact with them but as a long time user of Gnome I don't miss them now and use apps like syncthing-gtk via the app and notifications just fine. So for me, if I was a dropbox user, this would feel like a step backwards.
I really dislike the idea of having to have a window for everything I want to interact with. It feels cluttered and messy - not everything needs to have a whole damn window imo.
Too bad, because I like a lot of the rest of the Gnome UI. But this pattern is the wrong way to go imo.
With syncthing-gtk, how do you quickly pause/continue sync for example? Do you need to open the whole damn thing just to do one simple action?
> we would like to give your child something that we think will lower their intelligence
“The association between drinking carbonated drinks, eating chips and intelligence level was significant (P= 0.043, 0.001) and prevalence odds ratio of 1.5 and 2.4 respectively” [1].
Anyone arguing this is about childhood IQ and wouldn’t similarly ban (not stop mandating, ban) soft drinks, chips and fast food for kids, they’re signalling this is about something other than kids’ health.
(Note: this isn’t my mole hill. I think communities should have the right to make this call on their own. And the cited study quality is just as good as the fluoride causes autism ones.)
Note that you are making a casual claim (that junk food lowers intelligence in children) but the paper you cite provides no evidence of causation, only a statistical association between diet and intelligence scores. Further, this association could be caused by the well known fact that parents who are more focused on their child’s well being are not only more likely to provide a diet more in line with health recommendations (less junk) but also more likely to invest in their child’s educational outcomes.
The parent comment is not making a causal claim. They're pointing out a double standard: "Anyone arguing this is about childhood IQ and wouldn’t similarly ban (not stop mandating, ban) soft drinks, chips and fast food for kids, they’re signalling this is about something other than kids’ health."
In other words, if these people are anti-fluoride because it's supposedly bad for children's IQ, they should also oppose bad food for the same reason. If they don't, the supposed (unproven) health effects are not the reason. That's the point that is made, at least.
Yup. We don't have causal studies on fluoride's effects on intelligence, to my knowledge. This is so obviously not about kids' health, but like MMRs, partisan/social identity signalling.
Even if you believed that to be the case, you could choose an area that had high natural fluoride in the water, provide gravity filters and then double-blind supplement fluoride at a moderate level for one group.
It is certainly more ethical than saying "we are definitely going to let your children's teeth rot because some people think, on the basis of circumstantial evidence, it might have approximately the same effects as not having children's books in the home."
What's the point of JSON output anyway? UNIX filenames can contain arbitrary sequences of bytes except NUL and /, they can't be represented as JSON strings.
They showed a video at the end of their broadcast last night comparing what the raw microphone hears and what comes out of the XMOS chip and you can hear a much clearer voice all the time even when there is noise or you are far away from the device. It is also used to cancel out the music if you are using it's speaker output.
I don't think it's doing any voice processing but it's cleaning up the audio a lot which makes the job of the wake word processor and the speach to text a lot easier. Up until now this was missing from a lot of the home made voice assistance and I think why Alexa can understand you from the next room but my home made one struggles with all but quiet conditions.
Alexa Echo Dot has 6 or 7 microphones. I'd expect that makes it much easier to filter out voices directionally than only the 2 microphone this hardware has. I hope they release a version with more microphones.
