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by bionsystem | 2025-11-30 12:05:21+00:00
Funny I've been poking with the latest ISO last night in a VM. ZFS on root with mirroring and boot environment is seamless, which to me is a huge enabler for a rolling release with fast update cycle, so I want to try it deeper. Currently on fedora kde spin which has a lot of quircks, with Cosmic coming out soon I'll probably switch.
by wronex | 2025-11-30 12:05:41+00:00
Huu. I had the opposite experience almost. I’m a complete Linux noob. Could not get Bazzite to work as expected. Had much better luck with Arch though the install was a bit archaic. Managed to get a desktop and Steam installed with all drivers on the second attempt (which wasn’t to bad since Arch is a fast install.) It has worked flawless since. Absolutely zero bloat.
by Dumblydorr | 2025-11-30 12:05:58+00:00
I’m in data analytics for government. It’s got a ton of meaning, tons of ceiling for skill and talent, and very dedicated kind colleagues. No rat race except who can help people the most, not a legit title haha, but there are 2X analysts that inspire me. We also need DBA and tech team to power up our systems :)
by bostik | 2025-11-30 12:06:05+00:00
Elasticsearch comes to mind.[0]

The docs state that is query is in the URL parameters, that will be used.I remember that a few years back it wasn't as easy - you HAD to send the query in the GET requests body. (Or it could have been that I had a monster queries that didn't fit through the URL character limits.)

0: https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/operation/...
by Veserv | 2025-11-30 12:07:01+00:00
No, I was referencing the example in the article in literally the very first section showing and explaining how POST endpoints are used for fetching data when GET endpoints are too limited. This is literally their motivating impetus for the QUERY request type.

When considered abstractly, POST is just a request body and a response body. This is obviously powerful enough to define any behavior you want; it is just a channel flowing a nearly arbitrary amount of opaque data between the client and server.

However, this kind of sucks because it does not define or constrain the behavior of the client or the server. QUERY says that the server is intended to interpret the request body as fetch parameters and return a response body as the fetched data, and further guarantee that the fetch is safe/idempotent. This is very useful.

My disagreement is that there is no good reason for the client request format to care. You should “POST” to a “QUERY” endpoint. The fact that this endpoint guarantees QUERY behavior is just part of the documented server interface in the same way that certain endpoints may not support PUT. This is a server constraint, not a client constraint so should not change the client transport format.

Requiring a new Client request type to agree with a new Server endpoint type is just unnecessary and mixes up server versus client responsibility and interface design.
by anonyfox | 2025-11-30 12:07:11+00:00
Seeing the other comments I feel like the luckiest moment of my life was meeting my future wife when I was at school with 16 and having been together since for 20+ years, through higher education and kids and house mortgage and all. Zero drama, mutual respect and affection, both still preserving some independence to maintain a „self“, good double income.

Might sound stupid, but this major life area being just a rock solid fundament frees up so much energy my peers still struggle with nowadays quite often it’s insane in hindsight. Everyday life costs are lower, some risk taking is possible when someone has your back unconditionally and even supports it (as long as not going reckless), and a secure home base to return to is something I guess even money can’t easily buy. Short of being born already rich I guess that’s a cheat code with similar small odds, and I appreciate it.

Then the „business opportunities“ become just something way more relaxed. Not identity level validation attempts or despair to get into a better life. Which again allows better judgement calls and reintroduces more fun and creativity into many things.

Just my 2c for perspective
by kokada | 2025-11-30 12:07:55+00:00
At least for Bazzite, Nobara and CachyOS, there is the SteamOS desktop option that boots directly to Steam's Big Picture that is quite unconventional in some ways (e.g. this desktop mode kinda also acts as a display manager, so there is the option to boot to your desktop from Big Picture mode and this option is generally broken without specific integration with the session manager).

Sure this could probably be a package in a more "traditional distro", but I'm almost sure most people don't expect their Display Manager to be replaced with Steam when they install a package.
by bsagdiyev | 2025-11-30 12:08:51+00:00
Just an anecdote but I've been running it for a few months now and at least for gaming it works well. Arc Raiders plays fantastically. There is an issue with one of my headsets that when you get in game the audio quality drops to dogshit but I think that's a bigger issue with the headset on Linux and not particular to Cachy.
by mlrtime | 2025-11-30 12:09:21+00:00
One can make the argument that certain religious practices would help a person realize what OP is feeling all the time about morals, not just in front of their death bed.

Lots of replies here about after life, and just doing the right thing because you're supposed to or "empathy", yet there are a set of people like OP who only observe this when their life is put in front of them for review, maybe they do need religion?
by smokel | 2025-11-30 12:10:32+00:00
Interestingly, this comment gets a lot of downvotes.

If you don't want to help improve the world, then how are you expecting things to become better?

I understand that people don't like it that this will give Google an advantage. But what is the proper alternative? We have no non-profit organizations who could muster the money to build these systems. I suppose those who are critical of large companies would also be critical of governments building these systems.

So is what you (downvoters) propose here to just complain and do nothing about it? I'd be curious to hear what alternatives you propose.
by rco8786 | 2025-11-30 12:12:47+00:00
> No, the tech-illiterate gravitate towards the path of least resistance, which just means the platform defaults.

The path of least resistance is by way of brand recognition.

> OpenAI doesn't control the platform

OpenAI has 800mm MAUs on their own platform that they control, assuming we trust their reporting. They own chat.com, all of our grandmothers know ChatGPT - they don't know Gemini...I'm not even sure how OpenAI could have lost to Apple or Microsoft in the AI race. Those are nonsensical comparisons.

> Sony absolutely annihilated Nintendo in the home console market for the decade between 1995 and 2005

Yes you're right. If we shift the comparison window by a full 50% the numbers do favor Sony.

My point is not that OpenAI is infallible or that a competitor couldn't also be successful. Only that brand recognition is a legitimate and important factor.
by stareatgoats | 2025-11-30 12:12:55+00:00
The Grok calls Hitler literally "Führer und Reichkansler" in an otherwise English language article, so the most lnient interpretation is that Grok is simply not that well adapted to translation. One normally don't use use the original language words ("Statsminister" or "Rey" anyone?) when describing state officials when there are English translations, unless you have an agenda. The translation to English is straight forward: "leader and Chancellor of Germany".
by zbzdrol | 2025-11-30 12:13:17+00:00
> A high fraction of college attendance is better correlated with the 21st century decline in America's situation.

You’re basically arguing that having more uneducated people is better. If that were the case, why did most of the world bend western and American in the latter 20th century culturally?

The problems now are that we have a super-old man and a bunch of others with super-old ideas at the helm, and as a whole none are both wise and caring. I say this as a middle-aged gen-X’r.

The missing ingredient is that no one fucking cares about anyone other than themselves. It’s not a problem that we need to solve by dumbing people down. I’d argue that we’re not educated enough.
by jamesbelchamber | 2025-11-30 12:13:27+00:00
Trade-offs in the default load-out, essentially - some of the things you want for games can bloat out the standard build, compromise the "license integrity" of the base repositories, make system instability more likely etc etc.

There is unlikely to be a time that "things stop moving" enough to make all these trade-offs go away, but you can pretty much just add all this stuff to the base distro yourself anyway if you want to (I still play games on vanilla Silverblue, for example).
by dgfl | 2025-11-30 12:13:42+00:00
This is precisely the picture that I seemed to get when looking at this in depth some time ago. Most meta-reviews highlight a correlation between _number of blistering sunburns_ and melanoma. Not between actual amount of UV exposure. You may think that they’re the same, but they’re not. In fact, the same meta-review was noticing weak anti-correlation between chronic sun exposure and melanoma, I.e. people who work outside shirtless actually have better odds than baseline.

Most risk seems to come from occasional exposure to extremely strong sunlight compared to your day-to-day baseline. Practically speaking, if your skin is able to tan, absorbing as much sunlight as your environment allows for most of the year, with the intrinsic gradual build-up over spring, should be harmless if not even beneficial.

Of course, this highly depends on your genetics and your location. Avoid sunbathing around the equator regardless. And if you’re physically unable to tan, as some people do, then this might not be true either. I couldn’t determine that as easily.
by thelastgallon | 2025-11-30 12:14:00+00:00
FSD will abruptly break at almost every flying leaf that blows on the street in front of the car: https://www.reddit.com/r/TeslaFSD/comments/1ouk886/flying_le...

When driving in harsh, raking light, the car perceives shadows of trees and telephone polls as barriers and either brakes hard or, worse, pulls to one side. I was driving a few days ago on a country road under these conditions and the car twice tried to pull me into oncoming traffic. Since Musk's genius decision to do away with radar / lidar, the car has no way of rectifying this problem with its solely visual orientation:https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/fsd-will-never-fix-t...
by kokada | 2025-11-30 12:14:03+00:00
I don't think it is only for bragging rights, while in a vacuum the mainline kernel should be good enough for gaming, it is not really good when there are multiple tasks competing for the CPU attention (and this is especially bad for gaming because this can create a frame spike, ruining the game experience especially for multiplayer games). I think fixing this particular issue is one of the reasons Bore scheduler was created.
by GermanJablo | 2025-11-30 12:14:15+00:00
Hi Seph, great to hear from you! I emailed you about a week ago with a private beta to thank you for your contributions (you’re in the acknowledgements section [1]) and to ask for your feedback. I’m not sure if I got your email right.

The tradeoffs I mention mostly concern metadata: insert (OriginLeft, OriginRight), delete (tombstones), and moving (a full topic, you know what I mean).

I know that with eg-walker you managed to reduce those costs by loading metadata into memory only when required. Still, I believe that for me, and for many others, a central server makes more sense, since P2P is a requirement for very few.

DocNode isn’t traditional OT. It’s ID based instead of positional. I essentially started from a CRDT and stripped out the compromises that come with supporting P2P.

That said, CRDT trade-offs weren’t my only motivation for building DocNode. Even if I had gone with a “classic” CRDT, I wanted a different API and a new approach to type safety.

On top of that, I also have a non-mainstream stance regarding text CRDTs. I wrote a blog post explaining it, and I mention you there as well [2].

I'd love to hear your feedback!

[1] https://docnode.dev/docs#credits--acknowledgements [2] https://docnode.dev/blog/text-conflicts
by gaigalas | 2025-11-30 12:14:39+00:00
> The company will still be on the ground in some country

But the data won't. That is literally how people launder money. They live in one country and keep their money in another with laxed laws and enforcement. Those people get away a lot.

> it has to connect to the Earth internet

Why? This is only true if the datacenter is directly serving people. As I mentioned previously, I don't believe space datacenters will be serving React apps or anything like that. Those will be weird, non-typical servers.

Want some zero internet use cases?

- Training a cyber-ops LLM without poking eyes and reduced risk of leaks.

- Illegal data-heavy research (bio, weaponry).

- Storing data for surveillance satellites.

All of those can use private links, can be built by private companies under classified contracts, and you would not dare attack an NRO-launched satellite.
by pfdietz | 2025-11-30 12:15:36+00:00
Strategic motivation? If one assumes the US is going to be globally involved, yes, but that's begging the question.

Economic motivation? Not so much now, with the US being a dominant oil producer, and with petroleum itself losing importance. Even then, it's questionable if this could justify the full cost of the US military.

I think the original motivation was two fold: it was a combination of some sort of moral obligation to defend the "free world" from authoritarians, and (after WW2) a desire to keep small countries (and recent WW2 enemies) from deciding their only option for defense was their own nuclear deterrent.
by constantcrying | 2025-11-30 12:15:51+00:00
People need to stop making Meme distributions. There will be so much grief once people figure out that what they wanted is a good, stable operating system and what they got is a franken Arch, which will inevitably fail in unpredictable ways and for which there is miniscule support.

The Arch forums rightfully warn against this and do not want users of these distros, since all these distros are inevitably broken in their own weird ways.

There are multiple very reasonable distros. There is absolutely no need to make these forks.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-11-30 12:16:25+00:00
Information is not culture. Universities teach culture - moral attitudes. They don't just transfer information.

This applies to science and engineering as much as it applies to the arts, but you need a good education to understand what "morality" means in this context.

The collapse of the West started when the old Enlightenment morality - education of all kinds as a collective good - was replaced by the MBA culture of greed and vapid narcissism.

DEI was a weak and ineffectual response to that. The dysfunction goes far deeper, and universities are now a vector of it rather than a bulwark against it.
by dijit | 2025-11-30 12:17:38+00:00
I always believed thermal conductivity to be one of the hardest problems in space.

Today the way we diffuse temperature is via the air itself, and without air to carry heat away from components we don’t really have very much to work with.

I know space is cold, but diffusing the cold onto the warm is an ongoing problem as far as I understood it.

Which is why for example of nuclear submarines would not bode well in space, the internal temperature would just continue to rise until eventually the thing will become an oven floating through the solar system.
by watwut | 2025-11-30 12:18:16+00:00
This is not true. Whole conservative departments do well and exist. Moreover, whole ideologically pure christian conservative universities exist. Literally kicking off students for "infractions" that go against evangelical orthodoxy.

Some people got off due to sexual harassment not being as cool as before, history and sociology started to study women and minorities. The problem is that conservatives see that just existing as a threat. If the history is not biased their way, they feel like victims.
by habbekrats | 2025-11-30 12:18:35+00:00
its kind of funny to say: "A official c library doesn’t exist yet unfortunately, but there’s several out there you can try." if its litterally in the standard library...

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/landlock.7.html

But i suppose i am missing somehting then people would like...

What would you want an library to do here? abstract over it to make it easier? (relatively simple api already)

legit question, not trying to poke anyone here.. trying to find out what ppl expect from libraries which wrap around these syscalls or stdlib things.
by necovek | 2025-11-30 12:18:42+00:00
When that happens, most VPN providers will face similar destiny.

Which means that we'll all have to run our own VPNs, possibly masquerading as HTTPS traffic, if that remains viable against government interference (eg. they might ask to re-encrypt all traffic by ISP-level certs, and block any traffic unreadable by them).

Internet as we know it is fading away.
by tonyedgecombe | 2025-11-30 12:19:01+00:00
>While it's true that it was possible to support a family on a single unskilled laborer income in the '50s

I'm not even sure that is true. Poverty in the US was higher in the fifties and sixties.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States#/...
by MonkeyClub | 2025-11-30 12:20:51+00:00
> Russia will conquer Ukraine

Perhaps the objective isn't to conquer the whole of the Ukraine, but only most of it, leaving the western parts independent.

This seems to be pushed as the right approach wrt the Ukraine in Alexander Dugin's Foundations of Geopolitics, which apparently is used as the source for Russia's current "Eurasianist" geopolitical doctrine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
by Rochus | 2025-11-30 12:21:00+00:00
> One could argue that Modula-2 was an attempt to fix Pascal for the industry

There is no evidence that Wirth e.g. ever directly or specifically rebutted Kernighan's famous paper, nor that Modula-2 was a response to it. Modula-2 was a child of the ivory tower (PARC), not industry. Wirth was rather an "escapist" who built his own worlds rather than fixing the real one. He saw Parnas' concepts "in action" during his sabbatical at Xerox. He didn't create Modula-2 to help industry; he created it because he wanted to replicate the Alto workstation experience (which became the Lilith) for his own use and for his students at ETH. Wirth was a brilliant "synthesizer" of academic ideas (Parnas, Hoare, Mesa) who built beautiful, self-contained gardens for himself and his students. He was never the "industrial repairman" that later apologists tried to paint him as.
by zbentley | 2025-11-30 12:21:39+00:00
Selection bias.

Science is very very very rarely disrupted by a small group of visionaries in the same way business or technology are.

Substitute “perpetual motion machines” for “datacenters in space”. For very Heisenberg and Einstein there are thousands of crackpots who wasted huge amounts of (often other people’s) money trying to build perpetual motion machines. None of them were remembered.

The overwhelming majority of real scientific advancement is slow, grinding, difficult, incremental, and group-based.
by tclancy | 2025-11-30 12:22:18+00:00
My indulgent aunt once let me get a five pound bag of them from one of those Scoop Your Own candy stations. I left them in the rear window of her VW Rabbit for the better part of a summer day and they melted into a horrible blob that scarred me for life. Not sure why this Gummi Bear post is giving me flashbacks to that.

But yes, those folks. Check the product shot in the article for their logo.
by bergie | 2025-11-30 12:23:14+00:00
We're using Meshtastic quite extensively for communication on our boat. Each crew member carries a mobile waterproof node (Seeed T1000e), the boat itself has a node, and we also have a Meshtastic tracker for the dinghy.

We often sail in places where there's no communication infrastructure, or it is prohibitively expensive. With Meshtastic we can talk when somebody goes ashore, and the boat can send telemetry and alerts to the remote crew.

Some of our buddy boats also have Meshtastic on board so we can text chat with them instead of using VHF.

Here's a story describing this: https://blog.noforeignland.com/off-grid-boat-communications-...
by blandflakes | 2025-11-30 12:23:20+00:00
Yeah, I think with a community as small as Scala's, you can't really afford:

a. fragmentation of the ecosystem b. repeated shuttering/abandonment of some of the most popular options (Lift, Play, Akka) c. splitting the language in two

The perception within and without my own employer (which heavily invests in Scala) swapped from "acceptable" to "this ecosystem is a dead-end and we need to get out" with the launch of Scala 3. It's possible they would have reached the same conclusion, but I don't think breaking every industry engineer's development tools for years is a good strategy.
by firesteelrain | 2025-11-30 12:23:24+00:00
This is a false equivalence. The United States was not trying to “conquer” those countries in the territorial sense that Russia attempted with Ukraine. Those conflicts were limited political or counterinsurgency objectives fought under strict constraints, often without public support, and with no intention of annexation. Comparing that to a conventional invasion aimed at seizing and absorbing a neighbor’s territory is analytically inaccurate.

US did defeat Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq. And indirectly Syria by supporting the insurgency (and we had bases in that Country). It is also worth noting that the US and South Vietnam had effectively contained the North by 1973. The Paris Peace Accords ended direct US involvement and the North violated those terms two years later when it launched a full-scale conventional invasion. South Vietnam collapsed only after the US withdrew military support. Same with Afghanistan. Iraq is flourishing without Saddam and without war. It toppled Saddam’s regime in weeks, and the country now has an elected government, functioning institutions, and no US occupation. Whatever its internal challenges, Iraq is not a case where the US attempted and failed to annex territory. It demonstrates that these were limited political interventions, not conquest wars.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-11-30 12:24:41+00:00
Being interested is not the same as being competent.

Conservatism is not a doctrine of competence. Experience shows time and again that conservatives can't think, can't plan, and can't govern. They act in emotional and purely self-interested ways to promote rigid hierarchies, and are reliably surprised by consequences that are obvious and predictable to rational educated actors.

Brexit. Anti-vax campaigns. Anti-masking. Racism. "Lowering corporate taxes makes everyone richer."

All delusional, all emotionally motivated, all predictable failures with terrible consequences.
by teekert | 2025-11-30 12:24:42+00:00
Having a great showcase distro can be a very nice way into Linux in general. Don’t be so negative. IMHO the Linux life style also means exploring, being more aware of data/OS separation, a deeper understanding of computing in general. It’s alle achieved with these boutique distros which may display the best that’s out there.

FOSS is about freedom, freedom works best with options to apply to. Nobody is forcing you to do anything with these options.
by mindcrash | 2025-11-30 12:25:07+00:00
For those of you who are a little bit more adventurous - The custom CachyOS kernel is also available within a Portage overlay:

https://github.com/Szowisz/CachyOS-kernels

Which enables you to run a Gentoo based system on the kernel modified by the CachyOS kernel team through a ebuild for the official sources on GitHub.

When emerging it deals with all necessary dependency flags and configuration for you, just a little bit tinkering with USE flags required.