ozymandias117

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ozymandias117 ,

It’s also that “Shutdown” doesn’t shut the computer down. It puts it into a sleep mode so it will “boot” faster next time

The hibernation mode has more wake up sources than if it was actually off

ozymandias117 ,

It depends on the wake up source you’re talking about, but, yes

Your BIOS can configure the hardware, then Windows gets to modify parts of the configuration through ACPI

ozymandias117 ,

Most companies group MENA separately. They must sell so few devices there that they don’t want to show the numbers separately

ozymandias117 ,

I can’t speak for Apple, but every company I’ve worked for has split their region reporting as soon as one of the traditionally smaller regions gets big enough

It creates hype and a boost to their stock price

ozymandias117 ,

Sanspants is a pretty good coop, too

ozymandias117 ,

If it used to be a valid website, and is now a scam, that’s a mole worth whacking - even if they’ll try again with a previously unknown url

ozymandias117 ,

It’s ubiquitous because it was added for free to Office 365, so companies would use it instead of its competitors

Microsoft changed that for new customers a couple weeks ago and it’s now a separate subscription

The standard make it free until it’s ubiquitous then start charging for it

ozymandias117 ,

The push towards large vehicles was due to the fact that they used a truck chassis, and were exempt from safety and emissions requirements of a “car”

ozymandias117 ,

The one they use at my work is extra silly, as it adds an extra email header saying it’s coming from a phishing campaign

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

ozymandias117 ,

As bad as Epic is, probably worse…

Even though Bandcamp was profitable the new CEO said this after buying it

the financial state of Bandcamp has not been healthy

So they’re probably looking for any way to cut costs.
They fired half of the staff on day 1, including anyone who tried to unionize

ozymandias117 ,

fast.com is pretty good, too.
No nonsense, and run by a company renowned for server throughput optimization, so it should rarely be on their end if it’s a slow result

ozymandias117 ,

If it increases in pressure every time, I’m now curious how many times you need to close the trunk to cut a finger off

ozymandias117 ,

Is anyone familiar with what they define as “exercising their freedom of expression”?

With the total number of people imprisoned globally for exercising their freedom of expression estimated to be at least 339

339 globally sounds extremely low to me

ozymandias117 ,

The quote of “removing RISC-V from generic kernel images” makes a lot of sense

It only kind of works on arm64 right now, trying to add a whole new ISA seems rushed

If they make exceptions for customized kernels for other architectures for now, that seems fine

ozymandias117 ,

They made so much more that they can afford to keep spending their lawyers time on it

All three major carriers vowed to appeal the fines after they were announced today

ozymandias117 ,

It’s been known for a long time that they cheat on benchmarks

https://www.anandtech.com/show/7384/state-of-cheating-in-android-benchmarks

They specifically detect benchmarking tools and run at a frequency they can’t maintain for the length of the benchmark

ozymandias117 ,

Gnome and KDE had this feature LONG before Microsoft, so they have prior art to prove it’s an invalid patent

ozymandias117 ,

Yeah, I meant it’s unlikely Microsoft would try to sue Gnome or KDE for it, because they’d likely lose the patent

ozymandias117 ,

I believe you’re thinking of trademarks

ozymandias117 ,

As long as they’re happy, it’s perfect

ozymandias117 ,

Are the on-device pinyin keyboards unusably bad at typing?

I know it’s complex to get the right meaning with the English alphabet, but I’m surprised at cloud-based keyboards

ozymandias117 ,

“Generic system images”

Since device manufacturers don’t support their hardware, Google has tried adding another layer of abstraction between hardware and the Android UI

ozymandias117 ,

portableapps.com/apps

ozymandias117 ,

It’s also always been strange to me, because the default response to any issue with Windows when I used it was “just reinstall”

Even at work, my laptop got kicked off of Active Directory - they tried to fix it for a couple days and ended up with“we have to reimage it”

ozymandias117 ,

I was curious too, so I tried it in a virtual machine

It half installed sysvinit, systemd failed to get fully removed, and apt gave up due to too many post-install errors

The reboot threw me into an init that asked for me to specify the runlevel (since there wasn’t anything in init.d)

I guess they didn’t understand the difference between that question and a logged in shell

My guess before trying it was that they somehow got stuck in Grub’s shell

ozymandias117 ,

(As the tester above) It is a broken state

It failed to install the initscripts package because apt bailed out

apt —fix-broken install got you a little closer, but the screenshot didn’t say they tried that

My bet is this worked when systemd was first introduced, but since there’s not much use for it now, and sysvinit is deprecated, it just doesn’t accidentally work anymore

ozymandias117 ,

You can’t - it’s just asking what runlevel to launch, and there are no files for any runlevel

You’d need to add init=/bin/sh through grub at that point

ozymandias117 ,

I didn’t after breaking it and rebooting

I restored the snapshot from before breaking the system and tried to see what would happen if I didn’t just reboot after apt bailed out

ozymandias117 , (edited )

As much as I love openSUSE, and reproducible builds are a core requirement for trusted computing…

reproducible builds were reported as being useful

Really buries the lede of the xz attack results

either both are trojaned, or none

Edit: It is very useful for the first half - to ensure new packages extracted by a compromised xz weren’t modified during the extraction.

It’s just that reproducing the build of the tampered xz would still produce a bit-for-bit identical compromised version due to the way it modified the build system

ozymandias117 ,

You should look into unattended-upgrades

ozymandias117 ,

Yeah, I can’t stop laughing at

If you can’t parse tabs, you can’t have page sizes.

It’s like how I’d admonish my pet

ozymandias117 ,

There’s been an experimental HTTP response to support that for a long time, but no one has decided on a standardized way to collect the micro payments

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/…/402

ozymandias117 ,

Presumably. The company was made by an ex-Apple designer

On Being an Outlier ( www.goethe.de )

Proponents of AI and other optimists are often ready to acknowledge the numerous problems, threats, dangers, and downright murders enabled by these systems to date. But they also dismiss critique and assuage skepticism with the promise that these casualties are themselves outliers — exceptions, flukes — or, if not, they are...

ozymandias117 ,

I understand this is partially because I have the mindset of the programmer they’re referring to, but this sounds really interesting

Rather than looking to big data for solutions to hegemonically defined problems, what if we used it to find the catalysts of inequality themselves

…

What are the conditions in which the outlier is culled? What if we used AI to identify the pruning mechanism and dismantle it?

Using more in depth analysis of what gets pruned to understand why it’s being pruned is a very interesting concept to find marginalized groups

I don’t know how to fix those underlying problems, but identifying them and showing that data to leaders seems like a really good endeavor

ozymandias117 ,

after you’ve controlled for all the things that cause the gender pay gap

Isn’t that a continuation of “why the outlier was culled”?

More emphasis on how the data set is selected (while hard) is very useful

ozymandias117 ,

Maybe it’s a crude interpretation, but over controlling for all the the cause of a change, and removing outliers in your data that is training these AI models seem like similar issues when trying to actually understand the data

ozymandias117 ,

You are pointing out specific biases that we already know about. The article you posted seems to posit using the data to find the unknown biases we have as well

ozymandias117 ,

For an example from the other poster’s explanation:

lwn.net/Articles/249460/

This was pre c++11 - not sure if he’s changed his mind at all with more modern c++

ozymandias117 ,

There’s assembly and makefiles too

Less of a joke answer, there has been work to allow Rust bindings for drivers.

ozymandias117 ,

That’s my guess, but there was a conversation on the mailing list a few months ago that wasn’t just immediately shut down, even by other prolific developers

Ts’o seems skeptical, but is at least asking whether c++ has improved

lore.kernel.org/…/[email protected]…

ozymandias117 ,

In that post, his critiques were around the problems with the STL and everyone using Boost. The STL has improved significantly since then, and it would be a limited subset of c++ if it was ever allowed

There have been mailing list conversations earlier this year, citing that clang/gcc now allowing c++ in their own code might mean they’ve taken care of the issues that made it unusable for kernel code

lore.kernel.org/…/e5949a27-999d-4b6e-8c49-3dbed32…

I’m not saying it will happen, but it’s not being shot down as an absolute insanity anymore, and I wouldn’t have expected Rust to be allowed in the kernel, either

ozymandias117 ,

That doesn’t really surprise me, as most of those are the same requirements from any embedded development use case using c++ that I’ve worked on

4 and 5 are the only ones stricter than I’m used to

ozymandias117 , (edited )

Vtable equivalents are used extensively in the kernel

You’ll find structs all over the place setting them up, e.g. every driver sets up a .probe function that the core will call, since it doesn’t know what driver it’s loading

ozymandias117 ,

Bookworm looks to be on version 122, so as downstream distros update to newer Debian versions, it should be updated now

ozymandias117 , (edited )

Ubuntu 22.04 is long before Bookworm

It looks like Ubuntu pulled in Bookworm’s version in 23.10

If Mint is sticking to LTS Ubuntu versions, it will get it whenever it rebases on top of Ubuntu 24.04

Edit: Debian (Bookworm) polkitd version 122: packages.debian.org/bookworm/polkitd

Ubuntu 22.04 polkitd version 105: packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/polkitd

Ubuntu 24.04 pre-release polkitd version 124: packages.ubuntu.com/noble/polkitd

ozymandias117 ,

Yeah, Ubuntu pulls in the development version of Debian

“Sid” is the unstable name for Debian - where packages are being tested for the next release

Debian Bookworm was released 2023

Ubuntu LTS and Debian have tended to release on a two year cadence offset by a year

  • Debian Stretch (2017)
  • Ubuntu 18.04 (2018)
  • Debian Buster (2019)
  • Ubuntu 20.04 (2020)
  • Debian Bullseye (2021)
  • Ubuntu 22.04 (2022)
  • Debian Bookworm (2023)
  • Ubuntu 24.04 (2024)
ozymandias117 ,

After the workers tried to unionize, Epic sold it off to another company

sfgate.com/…/bandcamp-layoffs-oakland-songtradr-e…

Despite bandcamp being profitable at the time, the new owner said “the financial state of Bandcamp has not been healthy”

So I wouldn’t expect that for now to continue

ozymandias117 ,

The ext4 driver can read ext2/ext3 partitions while supporting the 2038 time issue

The only change here is the driver loading the filesystem

Ext3 support is already only available through the ext4 driver

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