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    22 days ago

    I read about a psychology study where they analysed how many people can link their own actions to effects. A large number of people made the same mistakes multiple times because they didn’t connect the cause. After being told what the cause is, most changed their behaviour, but a significant portion of people still didn’t “get” it and continued making the same bad inputs.

    Edit: See my comment below for the Are Technica story where I read this





  • The FSF has an ass-backwards approach to firmware, leading to only these distros fulfilling their requirements.

    Their preference for firmware is as follows:

    1. Firmware that’s open source (fair enough)
    2. Firmware that can’t be updated (i.e. devices that are flashed once at the factory)
    3. Firmware that can be updated (CPU microcode, firmware for GPUs, SSDs, etc)

    As Linux includes patching of CPU microcode on boot (to fix security vulnerabilities and bugs) the default build of Linux doesn’t fulfill those requirements.