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by whalesalad | 2025-09-10 13:41:01+00:00
I built a beast of a workstation in '23 and it's had like 5 collective minutes of downtime since. Debian 12, KDE, 13900K, 128GB ram, 2x2TB nvme disks for my home dir in a btrfs mirror, a 4TB /var disk for containers, psql, etc. It's such a stable and consistent workhorse. Slack, Spotify, vscode, sublime, 1password, screen sharing, google meet, everything works great. Using Libreoffice/Onlyoffice in lieu of MS stack has not been an issue, even when doing extensive document comment reviews with financial companies etc who live on Microsoft tooling.

The irony is that I am using this with a 5K Apple Studio Display, lol. The webcam and other onboard goodies do not work (can't control brightness) but the picture quality sure is good.

The Linux desktop is 100% here.
by throw0101d | 2025-09-10 13:41:04+00:00
The linked paper is too involved for me to really parse/grok, but I'm curious to know if the study(s) cited occurred before or after the introduction of skin-toned variations.

If there was only one colour available, and everyone knew there was only one option, would that lead people to think it was more neutral? Or, if the study(s) were post-variance introduction, people came to think the supposedly-neutral colour is 'actually' white.

Did the introduction of variations also introduce the idea of non-neutrality?
by kelipso | 2025-09-10 13:41:10+00:00
We do need to worry about people losing trust in science because science depends on public funding.

And it’s not about complete certainty. It’s that it actually is very difficult to prove genetic heritability vs effects in the womb because you can’t do twin studies, going back to my original comment.

Pretending to be more certain about it than reality IS misinformation. When you lie, people believe you less. They don’t want to give you money anymore. As we are finding out currently. I think “pro-science” liars are much more harmful than whatever “science skeptics” they find online.
by ioands | 2025-09-10 13:41:20+00:00
That said, I did just spend almost half a day trying to debug why SuSE couldn’t see my NVIDIA card. After giving up on that, I tried Fedora which forces Wayland on me and was stuttery for no obvious reason. Finally I tried Arch and it seems to work fine without much fiddling about.

Meanwhile I can buy a Mac and use it immediately, and Windows is a pain but I never have to try 100 solutions before it works.

That’s on me for using NVIDIA though, I’m sure it’s much smoother with Intel and AMD hardware.
by betaby | 2025-09-10 13:41:23+00:00
> traveling to Europe and being able to walk in cities

All of Greece is car oriented. Of course if you stay near Acropolis you get the impression of walk-ability. Spain outside of the historic city centers is car oriented. Average mileage traveled by car per person in Germany is about the same as is in Canada.

I can continue your generalization about my home city - Montreal. Which is walk-able .. but not really, see the second part here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yDtLv-7xZ4
by AlexandrB | 2025-09-10 13:41:55+00:00
Yes, this is absolutely true! But if you make transit convenient without addressing the crackhead in the back, the first time someone tries it will probably be their last and we're back to "nobody uses it, so we're cutting the schedule to save money".

Fundamentally it's a competition between public transit and the alternatives (usually cars). Cities can influence both ends - make driving less pleasant by cutting road infrastructure, parking, add fees for driving into the city, etc and make transit more pleasant by improving schedules, cleaning, etc. I'm a big fan of the latter instead of the former because the former often pisses voters off and leads to a backlash that sets progress back instead. Unfortunately, the latter often costs more as well.
by daveguy | 2025-09-10 13:42:08+00:00
I used Linux as a daily driver in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Then switched back to Windows for work convenience. For the first time in about 20 years I have switched back to Linux as the daily driver. I have a windows 11 VM, in case I run into an xlsx file that libre office can't handle (rarely). Linux is just so much faster and cleaner that the convenience factor has shifted.
by probotect0r | 2025-09-10 13:42:09+00:00
As the other user said, it doesn't scale. I'll give you my personal experience. I have been living in the greater Toronto area for 23 years, having moved here when I was 9. I live in one of the "cities" surrounding Toronto. This city was initially just a suburb of Toronto, that people moved to because houses were bigger and cheaper. Now it is a "city" of more than 700,000 people, in part because everyone moved here from Toronto, and in part due to high immigration in recent years. I put city in quotes because it's not really built like a city, it's still developed like a suburb with a large dependence on cars and poor public transport. All the good jobs are still in Toronto, so people still commute to Toronto for work. Before COVID and wfh, it used to take me 1.5 hours to commute to Toronto (one way), and I still had to drive to the train station. Forget driving to Toronto, it would take you just as long, if not longer, and parking costs are ridiculous. As this city grew, everyone wanted to move here for the same reason as you, bigger and cheaper houses. Now the houses are still bigger, but definitely not cheaper, and it takes forever to get anywhere. There are also less things to do because everything depends on cars.

I am writing this comment from a Italo Treno train, having been in Paris, Switzerland, Milan and Venice over the past week and half, so I have now seen the other side of this conversation.

The only freedom that cars bring is when travelling out of the city to remote places. Switzerland's inter-city rail service is so good I would never want to drive between cities if I lived there.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-09-10 13:42:14+00:00
While you are not totally wrong, it's very true that car centric society has enabled the sprawling suburbs iconic of America (a large home and yard for everyone), from a sustainability standpoint, freely developed heavily packed cities win hands down. It's so much easier and more efficient to take care of everyone in one spot rather than sprawled out all over the place.
by avian | 2025-09-10 13:42:15+00:00
I've been using tarsnap for years and am in the process of migrating away from it.

Things that are not cozy:

1) There's no way to monitor your monthly spend per host/credit left on the account/etc. apart of logging into your account in a browser and manually keeping a spreadsheet. There's no web API to do it. You get an email warning when you have about 7 days of credit left. That's it.

2) Nothing is "a precious few megabytes" anymore. What seems like a negligible monthly spend at first can quickly grow up on you and soon you're spending highly non-trivial amounts. Which you might not notice due to 1) unless you are diligent in your accounting.

3) tarsnap restores are slow. Really really slow. A full restore can take days if you have non-trivial amounts of data (and make sure you have enough credit in your account to pay for that server-to-client bandwidth!) My understanding is that throughput is directly related to your latency to the AWS datacenter where tarsnap is hosted. Outside of north America you can be looking at nearly dial-up speeds even on a gigabit link.

Again, a problem that can surprise you at the most inconvenient time. Incremental backups in a daily cronjob tend to transfer very small amounts of data, so you won't notice the slowness until you try to do a full restore. And you generally don't test that very often because you pay for server-to-client transfers.

There are some workarounds for 3) and there's a FAQ about it, but look at the mailing list and you'll see that it's something that surprises people again and again.
by HelloMcFly | 2025-09-10 13:42:29+00:00
> They're not watching Netflix in their underwear.

I'm sure leaders believe this, I'm even sure it happens. Yet despite how obviously and deleteriously widespread this phenomenon is, isn't it amazing that we still can't seem to quantify notable efficiency and effectiveness gains from RTO mandates? And that's setting aside whether any hypothesized (at best) productivity gains are sufficiently high enough to justify the expense of office space rentals and office maintenance.

Let's also remember that the typical RTO experience is one where members of a geographically distributed team are RTO'd so they can remain geographically distributed, just working out of company owned or rented spaces instead of their homes.
by storus | 2025-09-10 13:42:33+00:00
My 32-core Threadripper can't run Windows 11 and my HP Reverb G2 VR headset can no longer run Windows 11 after they removed WMR still present on Windows 10. The only advantage of Windows was backward compatibility, now some smart heads at MS decided to get rid of it to some extent. Also the byzantine mashup of UI styles makes it look like some ancient Linux distro.
by andrewla | 2025-09-10 13:42:43+00:00
This is not true. None of the Apple cases (or third party cases) give a flush finish to the entire phone. They just add a new, bigger, larger bump below the camera bump which lets the phone basically lie flat. It does not make it easier to smoothly fit into a pocket or anything like that, and the phone is still wobbly while placed face-up on a surface.
by dathinab | 2025-09-10 13:42:47+00:00
it's expensive but it doesn't have a monthly base cost, doesn't require you to run a server etc.

through you want at least one backup of yours to be off site, and your want your backups robust, so comparing hard drive cost seem strange as if you run the backup server yourself you need a decent raid and for the offline backup you need to compare with idk. S3 storage cost or similar

it's still more expensive but if you only need to backup some folders of documents or similar it might anyway be the simpler and cheaper solution

if you want to backup huge photo/video/vm image collections it probably isn't the best choice for you

but if you need to backup you photo
by ARandumGuy | 2025-09-10 13:42:52+00:00
The main hurdle for Linux gaming right now is kernel-level anticheat. Kernel-level anticheat is increasingly common in multiplayer games, and it does not play well with Linux. This makes it difficult to play new multiplayer games on Linux.

Of course it's easy to argue that kernel-level anticheat gives way too much system access for a simple video game. But it's currently the most effective form of anticheat, and I don't see it going away anytime soon.
by gruez | 2025-09-10 13:43:21+00:00
Yet, shares in commercial property firms has rallied recently. The article says this is due to dwindling supply and a shift to PE financing.

>this quarter is the first since the start of the pandemic when America’s five biggest commercial-property firms—cbre, Colliers, Cushman & Wakefield, jll and Newmark—have lifted their earnings outlooks simultaneously. The share prices of the five are up by between 23% and 45% so far this year, and several have hit records.

https://archive.is/X4muY
by alex-a-soto | 2025-09-10 13:43:27+00:00
Yes, that’s the mental model I’ve been working from. Variable refresh tied to user input makes a lot of sense: short bursts of speed for navigation or editing, then settling into a low-power static state.

Part of the challenge is deciding what belongs in hardware and what should sit higher up in the OS or software stack.

Hopefully, as more people get the kits and the community grows, we’ll be able to think through these questions together and explore where the right balance between hardware and software should be.
by throw0101d | 2025-09-10 13:43:42+00:00
> But this does also fall a little into the LEGO trap of claiming that ‘the yellow doesn’t specify any specific race so it can represent any of them!’ Which maybe held water right up until they wanted to make a Lando Calrissian minifigure and it became extremely obvious that he couldn’t be yellow […]

If there was only one colour available, and everyone knew there was only one option, would that lead people to think it was more neutral? Did the introduction of variations also introduce the idea of non-neutrality (of yellow)?
by EvanAnderson | 2025-09-10 13:43:59+00:00
Microsoft is also guilty of reading the market and keeping up compatibility to make their products remain relevant. Prof. Green makes sweeping statements about how Microsoft should break compatibility to remove these vulnerabilities, but he doesn't have the market pressures that Microsoft does.

Could Microsoft work harder on this? Sure. Do they have to worry about keeping their Customers happy? Absolutely.

The corporate IT market moves at a glacial pace. Hopefully the rise of IT security issues having actual business consequences will change that, but that's not Microsoft's problem. That's the ecosystem they live in.

Were bad protocol / design decisions made in the past? For sure. Microsoft has been working on this (see Managed Service Accounts and Group Managed Service Accounts). It takes time for corporate customers to adopt these new versions.

Corporate IT won't forklift out old systems without business justification. Maybe the pressure from the insurance industry will help. Pressure from the ransomware industry is a certainly helping, too.
by naravara | 2025-09-10 13:44:09+00:00
The screens could definitely break, they were just very small so the likelihood that they would suffer an impact that would break them was comparatively small. In fact, the reason for the flip form factor was to protect the increasingly fancy displays when it’s in your pocket. They also didn’t weigh very much so they didn’t fall as hard.

Modern phones are extremely sturdy, people are just more precious about them because they’re much fancier and more expensive and more of a requirement for everyday life.
by blacklion | 2025-09-10 13:44:25+00:00
I'm privileged enough to work in places where my managers understand that life is life and sometimes you need to be at home but don't want to take full day-off because you still work even before COVID and externally (government) enforced full-remote.

Managers trusted us (engineers) that we will not abuse this system. It was always like social contract: engineers doesn't complain about occasional crunches and overtimes (not like game industry where it is norm, but may be once a month), managers lets people stay home for a day if they needed without additional paperwork.

Of course, when KPI is enforced by automatic clocks-in system or doors logs it is another story.

On the other hand, we all are very privileged compared to industrial workers, builders, retail workers, etc. Not only in salary, but in our schedules too.
by harmon | 2025-09-10 13:44:31+00:00
This article is somewhat incorrect. Kerberoasting abuses Ticket Granting Service tickets (TGSs, which are used to request access to a registered service in Active Directory), not Ticket Granting Tickets (TGTs, which are used to prove identity to a Domain Controller and request TGSs). However, the general attack described is still correct.

TGS are (AES or RC4) encrypted with the NT password hash of the service account they are associated with. If you have a weak service account password, then TGS can be cracked to obtain the service account's password. A lot of times admins will create service accounts that have way more permissions than required (e.g. they make them a DA) which can lead to an immediate privilege escalation. Sometimes they also use regular user accounts for service registration instead of designated service accounts, and user accounts tend to have weaker passwords. To make it worse, any low privilege Active Directory account can request a TGS for any service, even if they are not allowed to access that service.

Even if the service account is lower privilege, this can enable a silver ticket attack. https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/cybersecurity-101/cyberatt...

There are multiple mitigations for this:

1. Use managed or group managed service accounts instead of manually managed ones where possible. This ensures that account passwords are long, strong, and rotated regularly. If you are going to provision service accounts manually, give them very strong passwords.

2. Apply the principle of least privilege and only assign service accounts the privileges they need. Avoid placing them in high privilege groups.

3. Disable RC4 in your environment if possible via Group Policy.

4. Monitor for RC4 ticket requests. AES-encrypted tickets are the default these days. https://adsecurity.org/?p=3458

5. Create a honeypot service account: https://adsecurity.org/?p=3513

There is a somewhat similar attack against TGTs called ASREPRoasting: https://book.hacktricks.wiki/en/windows-hardening/active-dir...
by eigenhombre | 2025-09-10 13:44:37+00:00
> I basically want to build a custom e-reader with a RasPi Zero for learning/home use, 8-10inches would be great.

Though smaller than your target size, I did[1] something similar, and it was great fun. I believe there are still Waveshare hats with larger display sizes.

[1] https://johnj.com/posts/e-paper-rpi-display/
by lan321 | 2025-09-10 13:44:37+00:00
I'm talking strictly about RTO as a layoff alternative and even more specifically about the perception that it'll lead to the best workers leaving.

Having a bunch of people leave due to RTO is different than having seemingly random colleagues laid off.

Both are not nice, RTO is more voluntarily and more avoidable since you can sometimes bargain for remote work to be a part of your contract and not just an oral agreement.

It's morally questionable to call for RTO only to get rid of people without technically having layoffs, but in countries like the US getting laid off is probably worse than having working conditions degrade to where you just find another job of your own volition since there's less urgency.
by hagbard_c | 2025-09-10 13:44:45+00:00
Well, he is right so it should not be in the Onion. He does not say the USA has not fought any major wars, just that it hasn't won any. If anything the name Department of War is far more honest about the purpose of the institution, namely fighting and - presumably - winning wars. The Fire department is called so because it is tasked with fighting fire, it is not called the Protection from Incendiary Hazards department for a reason.

Will this name change suddenly make the USA any more successful in winning wars? That is doubtful at best but I do prefer the lack of euphemism in this new old name. War is dirty business and the more this is made clear the better it is.
by wpm | 2025-09-10 13:45:00+00:00
WebObjects was from NeXT. The Xserve saw regular updates until 2010. Mac OS Server was a GUI for a bunch of open source tools, and where it wasn’t (Workgroup Manager), they replaced with the MDM.

Apple had more money when they killed these than they did when these products were introduced. It’s not a resources issue. It’s a care issue. Same reason they fired the Mac OS Automation team. Same reason their documentation sucks hot diarrhea and all their good stuff is in the “documentation archive”. Penny pinching. “Shareholder value”. New blood destroying shit they didn’t understand.
by sylware | 2025-09-10 13:45:28+00:00
Oh, regarding GPUs, AMD started to experiment on userland _hardware_ ring buffers... I don't know how they will handle their scarse VM id resources... the kernel may end up "only" mmaping event/command ring buffers and data dma/doorbells buffers with an "IRQ" event file descriptor.

We are talking a "near 0-driver"... but they will have to be very confident in their GPU robustness to do that, not to mention 3D pipeline programming from those userland _hardware_ buffers will have to be really simple and directly "ready" to work.
by genmon | 2025-09-10 13:45:41+00:00
The reason I ask: there's a story about a physicist who was so kinaesthetic in his thinking that somebody walked into his office to find him rolling around on the floor, trying to embody rotations from the point of view of a particular system or something...

I can't say that my own subjective feelings while coding are so useful! But I like to imagine that they're a meaningful contributor to my "taste" of what good/bad looks like

(Wish I could track down the reference)
by mmsimanga | 2025-09-10 13:45:49+00:00
This! From a hardware perspective I do not see any reason to upgrade. I have a gen 7 i5 processor and 16GB or RAM and I have no issues with my current device. I am not sure that Microsoft thought that part through. The problem Microsoft has is that Windows 10 has not slowed down unlike with older Android phones which tend to become rather slow and left behind in terms of apps and so on. With Windows 10 everything still works fine, VLC, Firefox, VS Code.
by eutropia | 2025-09-10 13:46:22+00:00
I built a newish gaming PC on AMD components and flashed SteamOS onto it. It just works out of the box, although it does sort of think that it's an oversized steamdeck.

My previous gaming PC was a 2016-vintage windows machine with a very hacked and lobotomized win10, so nvidia graphics drivers were starting to become a problem what with the lack of windows update and all that...
by stephen_g | 2025-09-10 13:46:29+00:00
They’re flexible (don’t need to rip up rails to change routes) but they cost a lot more to run (tyres, fuel, maintenance, staffing cost) to carry fewer people. A tram can carry three, five or even more passengers with the same one driver, and are way more energy efficient to boot.

Then there’s ride quality (much smoother) and psychological differences - e.g. you can run them through pedestrianised areas because people know exactly where they are going to be - a bus can possible swerve and hit you but the tram will always be on its tracks so people feel (and are) much safer sharing space with them. And just because they feel more ‘premium’ than busses people seriously are more likely to use them.
by matheweis | 2025-09-10 13:46:29+00:00
The problem is that the cancerous cells are themselves descended from healthy cells; other than the small differences that make them cancerous, they are in fact the same thing.

Many of the cutting edge immunotherapies for cancer essentially teach the immune system to target the cancerous cells.

However, in combination with an autoimmune disease like Chrons where the immune system has already learned to react to healthy cells, there is a much higher chance that an immunotherapy intended to target only cancerous cells also causes the immune system to target more healthy cells.
by vid | 2025-09-10 13:46:41+00:00
Sometimes if you walk to a previous stop or come in from a different line you can find a seat more easily. If it makes sense you could even go a couple stops "backwards" if the train reverses at that point. Shifting your schedule might be another option. At one phase I took standing as a challenge and drastically improved my balance over a couple of years, though it's not fun when the car is really crowded.
by adrian17 | 2025-09-10 13:46:54+00:00
> From a quality of life point of view

The only thing that makes my occasional commute to office or distant family not a complete waste of time, is that I can read something or do a ton of language flashcards on the way. (plus a tiny small health benefit that like 20% of the commute is spent on foot.) In a car, even that would be taken away, with me being forced to focus on the road instead.

> I need that little bubble that separates me from other people. I don't even like walking on sidewalks in busy metropolitan areas because of the amount of other people and the "over stimulation".

Funnily, that's kinda how I feel about being in a car, having to constantly keep some level of awareness of others moving around.

For the record, I had a driver's license. I used it so little that I let it expire and I'm not in a rush to renew it.