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docker is too heavy handed for me. And I’m a long term fan of wine. The primary usecase is Darwin -> Linux cross compilation.

It does supposed xeyes and similar via XQuartz; I gave up trying to make xmms work though. That would have been some fun.

C’mon now, we know that’s TempleOS, not Debian!

GHC uses self hosted gitlab for its source hosting and review. The gitlab-runners are largely provided by the mentioned support in the announcement, including anonymous and in-kind contributions. The ZW3RK stake pool provides 7 linux, 2 windows, and 3 mac builders.

I only see two directly related supporters? IOG and the stake pool?

Technically it’s running a proof-of-stake stake pool and using the operational rewards to fund CI hardware for GHC. It currently provides 7 Linux, 2 windows and 3 m1 macs as well as covers the maintenance for them.

Thus by staking ada (cardano) with the stake pool, one can “earn” a competitive rate (~4%) of stake return as well as support GHCs CI indirectly as the excess operational rewards from running the pool are put towards running CI machines for GHC.

To compare this to some non-blockchain scenario:

Depositing money at a bank will yield some interest, but also provide the bank with some operational return (they usually don’t provide you a savings account due to altruistic reasons); and the operational rewards the bank would use to run CI machines for GHC.

I hope this makes sense, and explains the concept of how this works in principle.

How do they obtains the mac/ios/... SDKs? I thought they were packed with Xcode, and it wasn't permissible to extract them?

tweag is funding Asterius.

Bike sharing company in Singapore. Initially collected a S$49 to use its service. With the deposit paid you were entitled to rent their bikes at S$0.5/15min.

Bike were almost everywhere. Initially they had lots of free ride promotions.

A few days ago, they claimed that they ceased operations due to newly imposed government restrictions. (To prevent bikes from lying/standing around just about everywhere and have them be rented/returned at designated parking areas)

A while ago I think they dropped the deposit requirement, as other competitors did not have the deposit requirement. You could ask for your deposit to be returned. This would take up to 30days, but apparently took much longer, according to some comments on Facebook.

They also offered a VIP subscription for 3years or so for S$49, which would entitle you to a certain amount of free rides per month, I think.

All in all, I don’t know how I feel about my deposit. I’m pretty sure it’s gone. On the other hand I’ve used the bikes a few times with all the “free”/promotional rides, without giving them any additional money. After all I got some value for the S$49. Did I ride for 25hs in total? I doubt it.

I guess the ICO stuff is just trying to draw a parallel defrauding scheme?

This is probably (and sadly) the same conclusion I came to.

According to the nytimes it looks like the following right now:

- President: Democrats (72%), - Senate (76%) and House (>95%): Republicans

Is this a good outcome for a democracy? And if so, why? Wouldn't this mean that the system is effectively gridlocked?

It feels to me as if GitLab is pushing (major) security updates very often. Now there are two reasons I can think of this happening:

- They are very open about security vulnerabilities and fix them fast.

- There are some inherent defects in their software that cause these security vulnerabilities to come up so frequently.

I'd like to believe it's the first.

EDIT: formatting.

Same here. Even though my current location frees me of the need of a car (public transport is ubiquitous in this city state) BMW has been the make that provided the cars I liked driving short and long distances most. While I'd certainly look at BMWs offering of cars if I ever need one again, right now I'm quite sure I'd opt for a Tesla, as I don't see BMW having a proper contender.

This is going to be interesting! Germany has had The Home Banking Computer Interface (HBCI, now FinTS) for years. I'm really looking forward how this pans out and if the protocol will be as convoluted.

Having these kinds of threads, I think, is very important for the community. On a related note, there has been quite some fallout from the haskell compilation times got worse thread, which resulted in the development of tooling around improving the situation.