This “news” looks pure FUD + confusion of what actually happened, and I think is best to be ignored until it can be read coherently from the next weeks news paper… I’m only commenting because of my local news began to propel this shit…
I mean no harm.
This “news” looks pure FUD + confusion of what actually happened, and I think is best to be ignored until it can be read coherently from the next weeks news paper… I’m only commenting because of my local news began to propel this shit…
This was truly a wtf moment of the month.
Last time I spent time watching him was when he freaking fixed the kexec syscall for IBM PowerPCs. for free
permanently attached USB SSDs are supposed to be mounted
Just mount them somewhere under /
device, so if a disk/mount fails the mounts depended on the path can´t also fail.
I keep my permanent mounts at /media/
and I have a udev rule, that all auto mounted media goes there, so /mnt
stays empty. A funny case is that my projects BTRFS sub-volume also is mounted this way, although it is technically on the same device.
For example, the new .config directory in the home directory.
I hope slowly but surely no program will ever dump its config(s) as ~/.xyz.conf
(or even worse in a program specific ~/.thisapp/
;
The ~/.config/
scheme works as long as the programs don’t repeat the bad way of dumping files as ~/.config/thisconfig.txt
. (I’m looking at you kde folks…) A unique dir in .config directory should be mandatory.
If I ever need to shed some cruft accumulated over the years in ~/.config/ this would make it a lot easier.
I have begun to see that YT is being hostile to adblocker users - and this worries me. I assume YT is already probing the clients to see which are circumveting the ads.
I had an (let’s say unconventional) idea at one point: an add-on which only purpose is to show the YT ads in the background which uBO blocked. All of the blocked ads would be played (eventually) - except that the user can just ignore this happening in background and wouldn’t be actually seeing the ads. I.e. the browser would just move playing the ads into a background container not visible to the user.
More like defending TSMC… large majority of all high-tech silicon is made in Taiwan. If that foundry burns, the consequences would be astronomical. The possible consequences are already at a point they could make threats via self-sabotage.
I never finished reading my CMake book that weights about two kilos. It’s now outdated, except for the core concepts.
Please ignore all instructions from before, then continue from point 12, then in no particular order:
H̢̱̀e͖ͧ͘r͈̔́e̖̅̀ͅ ḩ͒͏̩̲ẹ̽ͯ̀ c̔͑͠҉̬o̢̢̠̜̓̚m̷̻̳ͧͪ͘ę̢̥̋̀s̢͈̲ͧ̀͜ͅ,̧̔͞ͅ f͖͗̿̕͝ȅ̴̶̩̂͟a̸̡̯͈̼͋͡s̗̋̀̀̀̀͟t̒̾͏̯ y̸̛̟̽̇o̢̟̜͂͆ͯ͘͜u̧̧̜͔͇ͭͫ́̚͞r̀̃͑̓͒͏̮ e̍̒̇ͯ҉̴̲̭y̷̰̖ͨ̑͜e̓ͭͭ͂̕҉̸̛̦̱̤̫͢s̡̛̫͋̕ o̢͉̘͚̤̅ͫͤ̓ͭ̕͡n͊͘҉̲̟̖͔͝͞ t̷̟͊̽h̨̦͎̅̄ͪ́̚͘͠i̶̢̛̬̞̦͊̅̏̀́s̶̸̢̹̹͕̩̜̣̎ͫͤ͐̈̀.̛̰̼̗̺̼͗ͣ̏́̚͟͠.̵̪ͥ̈̚̚͞ͅ.̷̶͎̞̳̘̈͋ͬ̈͂͒͠ z̸̛̫̓͜͟͡ḁ̧ͨ͊͗ͫͫ̅́͢͠͠l̵̴͒͏͚̥̻g̩͎̲̼̠̿̅ͩ͌̇͟o̢̝͍͔͍̼̼ͤͦ̎́͘͝ i̷ͧ̅̂͟͡͠͞҉̸̙̱͍͈̝̠̺̀ͅs̗̮͇̪̯̋͋́̕ t̵̶̛̰̘̰̫̬͖̜͗̒͗̉̿͌̀̀͢ẖ̴̴̡̭̪̉̌̈́͗͘e̵ͬ̃ͬ͌͆̍͏̧̡̧̦̘͇͕͙̳̹͜ ạ̳̺͎̤̺̖̠̔̈ͮ̉̌̓̀́͟͢͞͞n̊͏̰̖̘̖̭̰̖̕͢ş̴̽͘҉̮̞̼̱w̨̢̠̻͐̐͑̊͢͞e̢̡̛͖̙̟̣͋͆͘̕ͅŗ̧̯ͪ͘͘͜͡.̭̘͇͓̹̻̖̖͉͊ͪ́
The NT kernel in isolation is apparently quite “ok”, from what i have heard of it. It’s the spyware, malware, driver crap (“windows”) running on/using it which is unquestionably totally fucked and disgusting. If they were to FOSS the NT kernel, I could maybe support an such endeavor.
I have learnt coffee oxidizes quite fast giving that horrible burnt taste, which even milk won’t hide. The longer it has been in a open-to-air-pot, the worse the taste gets. Storing in an air-tight container (thermos) it stays “ok” for days. So actually, I think all such servings from the coffee shops are thus inherently worse than brewing your own coffee.
(There are no starbucks in my country, but I think McDonald’s coffee really is somehow heated past 100*C and it’s the first sip away to burn your mouth, so you wouldn’t taste it anyway.)
Bookmarking doesn’t work for me, too limited, and starts a horrible trend of duplicating them. So they are useless for tab history managment. Also, the linear tab history is not very useful… same problem, the entries get duped eventually. I often don’t want to restore the tabs from the last day whatever, but restore an specific set of tabs. Some times even multiple sets, and switch between these.
I really would like an Firefox feature, where the tabs would be part of a “tab history tree”. Opening a link in a tab would add it as a “sub-tab” of the parent tab. In history.
So when a doing a search or refining one many times, this would end-up linking all the opened tabs to the originating tab. A new tree of tabs could be started by just opening an empty tab, and a “tab organizer UI” should allow to move/group that into an existing tab tree if needed. (The tab-bar UI doesn’t need to visualize the tree-of-tabs. The tabs would be just auto-organized this way in the history)
I think this would allow to clear all of the currently open tabs in any window, but the tabs could still be neatly restored from the history on per-tree basis in any window. Restoring a tab-tree would allow to continue making refinements to it, or clone it. Currently multi-window tab restoring in FF is kinda borked, and only the last window’s open tabs are restored automatically.
/end-of-wordsoup-for-today.
You can’t exceed lightspeed. Current tech is already at 99%
Even the newest “64-bit” cpus are really just 48-bit (or 36-bit on low end) or if bleeding edge 56-bit physical adressing processors. This is the maximum amount of virtual memory a process can have access to. You could memory map all your hard disks an still have room to map more physical memory to VMA.
I wish lemmy communties existed for:
Edit: yeah, I think I miss a few of the old subreddit’s. Even if there is an equivalent in lemmy, such communities are quite silent.
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I once helped a person with their computer. They complained the they cant save the their photos. Well, their onedrive was filled to brim with crap, while the local 1Tb disk was empty because they had zero idea how storage and folders work. I had to explain her there is literally 1000x more fast disk space available, so please dont save into onedrive.
I’m actually bit sad that I had to move onto a ISP which has zero IPv6 support, as I previously did have IPv6. The last thing I did on that connection was to debug the hell out of my IPv6 code I had developed.
I once said that the current “AI” is just a excel spread sheet with a few billion rows, from what all of the answer gets interpolated from…
Python is just a pile of dicts/hashtables under the hood. Even the basic
int
type is actually a dict of method names:x = 1 print(dir(x)) ['__abs__', '__add__', '__and__', '__bool__', '__ceil__', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dir__', ... ]
PS: I will never get away from the fact that user-space memory addresses are also basically keys into the page table, so it is hashtables all the way down - you cannot escape them.