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by arthurfirst | 2025-12-01 00:00:09+00:00
Regularly (every 3 years or so) had 1000+ days of uptime with FreeBSD rack servers on Supermicro mobos.

I built the servers myself and then shipped to colo half way around the world.

I got over 1400 once and then I needed to add a new disk. They ran for almost 13 years with some disk replacements, CPU upgrades, and memory additions
by p_l | 2025-12-01 00:00:29+00:00
The incident report on the 2008 case specifically mentions SEU for memory - certain level of EDAC techniques is applied on the whole unit, but one area that was not covered was the possibility of non-catastrophic (in terms of operation) failure of memory module with a bitflip.

An under-appreciated thing is also that the devices in question used to be rebooted pretty often which triggered self-test routines in addition to the run-time tests - something that didn't trigger anything in case of A330 in 2008, but was impactful in risk assessments missing certain things with 787 some years later (and newer A380/A350 recently).
by _mocha | 2025-12-01 00:00:31+00:00
I'm a top 5% contributor to SO with around 300-400 answers (haven't actively answered a question in a while). One of the highlights of my career was seeing people benefit from those answers, post commentary, and update my answers. In the last year, there's actually been 0 engagement on all of my questions. One of the rare/sad aspects of how ChatGPT has impacted our community.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-12-01 00:00:49+00:00
> Judges don't know anything about running power plants, hiring employees, or really anything on that matter.

This is why both parties hire the best lawyers they can, and the best expert witnesses, to make the case for their side. We cannot require that every decision in the world be made by experts in the decision domain - sometimes they have to be made by people we've entrusted to make decisions (and in particular, decisions intended to be guided by the law).
by ants_everywhere | 2025-12-01 00:01:27+00:00
That's a pretty extreme definition in my opinion.

Google played a role in popularizing the microservice approach.

When I was at Google, a microservice would often be worked on with teams of 10-30 people and take a few years to implement. A small team of 4-5 people could get a service started, but it would often take additional headcount to productionize the service and go to market.

I have a feeling people overestimate how small microservices are and underestimate how big monorepos are. About 9 times out of ten when I see something called a monorepo it's for a single project as opposed to a repo that spans multiple projects. I think the same is true of microservices. Many things that Amazon or Google considers microservices might be considered monoliths by the outside world.
by movedx | 2025-12-01 00:02:38+00:00
Linux is OK. It’s a mess compared to BSD, but it’s OK. It’s the lazy man’s solution. It’s mainly for people who only want to “docker compose up” and walk away. The art of the OS has been lost. People think the OS is something to be abstracted away as much as possible and it’s evil and hard to secure. Shame.
by IgorPartola | 2025-12-01 00:03:33+00:00
This is perfect! I have had such a time with Nano Banana asking it to generate some very simple pixel art. One of the worst things is that it cannot seem to generate transparent backgrounds or even solid ones. It’s always some blotchy cloud of off-white pixels or a simulated fuzzy grid that shows up in some places. I will need to give this a try to clean up some of what I had to try by hand.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-12-01 00:03:53+00:00
> if that's the case, why is US' peace proposal favorable to Russia?

Because Trump wants to end the war to get a Nobel peace prize and Russia can plausibly unilaterally deliver that. What that means for Ukraine or Europe or frankly American strategic interests is not being considered because MAGA voters aren't exactly your internationally literate types. (Which is fine.)

> US should be laughing at Russia's puny attempts to breach their invincible defenses

Nobody is ever laughing in war. But to the extent we've had martial hilarity in the last few years, it's been in Russia mangling their elite forces in the failed sacking of Kyiv; Moscow almost getting bulldozed by Prighozin, a disaster stopped only because Belarus bailed Putin out; and potentially Indian warplanes' confused radio calls while Pakistan's integrated air defences potted them.
by Nextgrid | 2025-12-01 00:03:56+00:00
> I don't want to have to take a graduate-level course on the CAP theorem

It would be a blessing if people actually did that, because then they'd avoid useless distributed systems.

> using gRPC to poorly and unnecessarily communicate

At least you've had the blessing of it being gRPC and not having to manually write JSON de/serializers by hand.

> Kubernetes isn't doing anything your operating system can't do

Kubernetes is good if you need to orchestrate across multiple machines. This of course requires an actual need for multiple machines. If you're doing so with underpowered cloud VMs (of which you waste a third of the RAM on K8s itself), just get a single bigger VM and skip K8s.
by p_l | 2025-12-01 00:04:22+00:00
For the same reasons that Honeywell is building new devices with AMD 29050 CPUs today[1] - by sticking with the same CPU ISA, they can avoid recertifying portion of the software stack.

[1] Honeywell actually bought full license et al from AMD and operates a fabless team that ensures they have stock and if necessary updates the chip.
by mk_stjames | 2025-12-01 00:04:31+00:00
So you're telling me that simply walking out to the car and hitting a button inside the car is just too much of an "inconvenient experience"?

You know we used to have to drive the car... sometimes many miles... to a station, get out, and fill it up with a liquid fuel that costs many times more, and then drive home...

Seriously now- The perceived 'inconvenience' you have is the reason that so many of these connected features are being pushed and then the because the ability is there the business types can't resist the data gathering that became possible because of all the antennas, etc.
by rdtsc | 2025-12-01 00:06:04+00:00
> Java could do it 20+ years ago, just upload your .WAR files to an application server.

Erlang could do it almost 40 years ago.

It can be used to upgrade applications at runtime without stopping the service. That works well in Erlang, it’s designed from the ground up for it. I know of a few places that used that feature.
by gaigalas | 2025-12-01 00:06:55+00:00
It's fine to say that behavior can emerge from complex systems, but if you go beyond that and actually try to explain how, then you are screwed.

That's why consciousness, how the brain works, etc never moves on. Something always drags it down and force it to be "complex emergent behavior we cannot explain, and damn you if you try!".

So, it's particles that act funny, and we are that as well. Because "it can't be anything other than that". If it's not that, then it's souls, and we can't allow that kind of talk around here.

Until we can safely overcome this immaturity, we will never be able to talk about it properly.

The "space of minds" is an ideological minefield spanning centuries. It was being probed way before we invented machines.
by to11mtm | 2025-12-01 00:07:02+00:00
I mean sure but one could also argue that VB6 can do the same analogue of Java so long as ASP is involved... And yes I've seen it done; you have a basic interface similar to an actor, but really more like a 'Take a key-value in for input, do processing on it, return a key-value to go to the next stage' and then the other necessary glue to handle that. The way the glue worked, it was minimal ceremony to get a new module in.

NGL It was clever enough that every few years I think about trying to redo the concept in another language....
by gishh | 2025-12-01 00:07:24+00:00
Umm. I guess not?

> Six years ago, I wrote that it was a terrible idea for LEGO to acquire Bricklink and revisiting some of my thoughts I expressed then, it sure seems like there’s some dodgy stuff happening behind the scenes.

> To be fair, I acknowledge that there may be compliance challenges operating in some of these countries, where things like local laws, logistics, import restrictions etc may make it difficult for LEGO/Bricklink to do their business there, but surely there could’ve been a better way to communicate this, or invite community feedback instead of turning the whole site off in 2 weeks.
by exomonk | 2025-12-01 00:07:55+00:00
Easy: https://www.kratosspace.com/constellations/articles/data-cen...

SDA’s “Battle Management Layer will provide automated space-based battle management through command and control, tasking, mission processing and dissemination” to support time-sensitive kill-chain closure. https://www.sda.mil/battle-management

Golden Dome and future missile tracking and ISR will depend on real -time insights, which requires Edge Computing on orbit, running advanced AI/ML algorithms.” https://unibap.com/news/defense-in-the-foreground

sorry can't help you with your user feuds
by therealpygon | 2025-12-01 00:08:17+00:00
That seems a lot like corpo- excuse making about adjusting usage to compensate for the fact that a product someone purchased has been changed, and broken, in order to be forced into agreement for a contract. That is called coercion in many places, but it seems like your recommended solution is that people accept getting screwed just so corporations can make more money when people complain…is that correct?
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-01 00:08:38+00:00
To be honest there are some countries I'd love to be able to block myself. There's only criminal shit coming from them. All the scams, hacks, the "hello sir I'm calling from Microsoft" or the "We are looking for likes for $500 per day" crap.

But the bigger problem is that it won't work. They'll just set up PoPs in country. The law has never stopped criminals. They are criminals after all, breaking the law is a given.

If it did work a ban would give those countries a big kick up the ### to actually do something about it. Many countries just let it happen because of corruption. Sometimes something is done like recently in Myanmar but it's very rare and usually just for show.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/22/un_asian_scam_calls/
by sellmesoap | 2025-12-01 00:09:20+00:00
I'd say with modern hardware, like the xe Intel iGPUs on 11th gen Intel and up got driver attention quickly. Some things like realtek 2.5gb NICs took a little while to integrate but I think realtek offered kernel modules. I remember NIC compatibility was sparse when I started playing with it around 1999-2000. What trips me up is command flags on gnu vs freebsd utils, ask me about the time I DOSed the Colo from the jump machine using the wrong packet argument interval.
by arthurfirst | 2025-12-01 00:09:45+00:00
ZFS is amazing and while there are many would be clones there is only one ZFS.

I used (and pushed) it everywhere I could and first encountered on Solaris before FBSD. Even had it on my Mac workstation almost 18 years ago (unsupported) -- aside I will never forgive that asshole Larry Ellison for killing OpenSolaris. NEVER.

Systemd is the worst PoS every written. RCs are effective and elegant. Systemd is reason enough to avoid Linux but I still hold my nose and use it because I have to.
by ZordonShumway | 2025-12-01 00:10:23+00:00
You are aware that old consoles still play games, right? My PS4 still plays all my PS4 games and lets me stream PS5 games to from my living room to my bedroom. My Xbox 360 still plays games just fine last time I checked (last June or so). Getting rid of old consoles doesn’t make sense unless you absolutely have to have the latest tech and also don’t have much storage space.
by to11mtm | 2025-12-01 00:11:57+00:00
IMO, Engineering mindset is a huge challenge when it comes to 'do you do microservices'

And by that, I mean that I have at times seen and/or perhaps even personally used as a cudgel - "This thing has a specific contract and it is implicitly separate and it forces people to remember that if their change needs to touch other parts well then they have to communicate it". In the real world sometimes you need to partition software enough that engineers don't get too far out of the boundaries one way or another (i.e. changes inadvertently breaking something else because they were not focused enough)
by serf | 2025-12-01 00:12:13+00:00
>It's funny your warning about QR codes goes onto warn about PDF exploits. Yet you clicked the link to this article, by your own definition opening you up to "a whole different world of possible exploitations via whatever file is being returned". It's the nature of the internet to follow links, but our updated browsers keep us safe from exploits.

you really don't know what they did.

In the time of containerized OSs and virtualized-everything it's silly to guess.
by Philpax | 2025-12-01 00:13:09+00:00
SO has been in decline for many years now; there's not much they could do to stop it now. Even if they could, it's hard to say whether that would be a net good for SO; part of what drove people to it in the first place was its steadfast dedication to maintaining a curated knowledge base, even with the impact that would have on long-term community health.
by callc | 2025-12-01 00:13:27+00:00
A bit more nuanced: nobody is using tools that have a perceived negative value.

People pushing AI desperately want to convince us the value is positive. 10x productivity! Fire all your humans!

In reality, depending on the use-case, the value is much smaller. And can be negative thinking about the total value over long term (incomprehensible shoddy foundations of large / long running projects)
by Bender | 2025-12-01 00:13:32+00:00
Any time there is something new everyone will sign up to try it out. Give it time. Once there are enough intrusive ads, or subtle ads shimmed into answers, social manipulation and political bias once it hits critical mass, rewriting of history, squeezed rate limits, more cost for less rate limits that number will drop if they are honest and/or deleting inactive accounts. The negative features will not creep in until they believe they have achieved critical corporate capture and dependency.
by splintersio | 2025-12-01 00:13:35+00:00
Hey josephcsible, thanks for the reply, i think you can share your answer UUID and we can see all this (I think this is you, https://lolwifi.network/quiz/58efbbca-9b4d-4825-adb7-0e98133...) you've mentioned a well-configured device, the point the site is leading too isn't 'can a well configured device survive on a hostile network' but 'do you think it's reasonable for all devices (old, new, basic, lowered, highered posture) to join an untrusted network?' and if so why ?
by talys_cat | 2025-12-01 00:14:37+00:00
not an author, but in same league (have to keep dual boot because of photo editing)

neither nautilus nor nemo provides you convenient way to navigate, to check free disks space, to check photos in an album view, to see all the file properties and customize table views.

if you don't have this usage scenarios, it doesn't mean its a ragebait.

and btw, your attitude is one of the reasons people don't want to move to linux. One more toxic community? Naah, I'm good.
by fragmede | 2025-12-01 00:14:39+00:00
and some simple math says that 10-15 minus 5-7 still leaves Kodak in the lurch. But it's now 2025, and Kodak the corporation is still around, so I don't know that my supposition: Kodak would be doing better today if they'd gone all in on digital camera sensor technology, is disproven by that fact.
by vdupras | 2025-12-01 00:15:23+00:00
Ok, so it's the peace prize. I don't have deep knowledge about this issue, so I guess you're right.

This makes me have funny thoughts. You know, we're all heavily influenced by propaganda. We have american propaganda, they have russian propaganda, they have chinese propaganda, etc.

So here it's the peace prize, and over there it's their super mega unstoppable missiles. There might be a day when foreign propaganda explains the reality that americans can observe in a manner that is more straightforward than their own nation's propaganda. That would be a fun day.
by 8organicbits | 2025-12-01 00:16:35+00:00
Then what? The user presumably sees TLS certificate warnings since you don't have valid certicates. HSTS would prevent downgrades to plain HTTP and is pretty common on sensitive websites.

Isn't the better advice to avoid clicking through certificate warnings? That applies both on and off open wifi networks.

There is a privacy concern, as DNS queries would leak. Enabling strict DoH helps (which is not the default browser setting).
by jchw | 2025-12-01 00:17:03+00:00
Does Secure Boot with NixOS even make sense? In an ordinary Secure Boot setup, you get the kernel/initrd/etc. with signatures from a trusted vendor, but with NixOS it is going to obviously sign everything locally. That means that you are not protected against bootkits and a root compromise is still just as bad as ever.

I suppose in combination with LUKS you could at least prevent evil maid attacks, to the extent that your machine's firmware is actually secure, but it seems like a lot of work for just that...
by Razengan | 2025-12-01 00:18:28+00:00
> I know that I am unable to single-handedly compete with Godot

You could package your language as a GDExtension for Godot.

I'm planning my fantasy language from the top-down, syntax first: how it would look like to users/developers to use it, then think about how to implement that language if ever :')

Right now I'm just fiddling with a extension for VSCode/ium to syntax highlight the hypothetical language, then I'll put it up on a brainstorming repository on GitHub.
by Herring | 2025-12-01 00:18:45+00:00
Idk man, I'm pretty sure there's more going on than that. Look at this study for example https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-024-10000-8

Normal people would become more liberal.

Or look at how badly teachers are treated https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/interactive/te...

Or look at the way Americans punished Democrats really hard after Obamacare https://www.quorum.us/data-driven-insights/under-obama-democ... Democrats won't make that mistake again of listening to Bernie any time soon.

Or look at how bad the coronavirus response was, for such a rich country.

Something's deeply wrong with American political culture, like from watching too much Game of Thrones or something. It’s not just being misled, it’s ingrained.

I think for many Cruelty <=> Power. Like how guns make them feel powerful. I wasn't born here originally so I don't really get it (thank god). It won't end well.
by yearolinuxdsktp | 2025-12-01 00:18:50+00:00
> The old release 25.05 “Warbler” is now officially deprecated and will reach its end-of-life and stop receiving security updates after 2025-12-31.

What, one month to upgrade to keep receiving security updates? How can you force 1-month upgrade windows every 6 months and who would go for that?
by stormking | 2025-12-01 00:18:51+00:00
AmigaOS supported both. Each drive and in addition each medium had it's own name. If GAMEDISK was in floppy 0, you could reference it either as DF0: or as GAMEDISK:

You could even reference media that was not loaded at the time (e.g. GAMEDISK2:) and the OS would ask you to insert it into any drive. And there were "virtual" devices (assigns) that could point to a specific directory on a specific device, like LIBRARIES:
by AlexCoventry | 2025-12-01 00:19:08+00:00
Interestingly I can't get ChatGPT to help me find a video showing me how to disable the cellular modem on my Subaru 2024 Crosstrek. Time to do some old-fashioned research, I guess...

https://chatgpt.com/share/692cde57-0930-800e-b45f-7a41ca5c8e...
by CodeIncept1111 | 2025-12-01 00:19:13+00:00
Update post-launch: Cisco & UCSB’s May 2025 entanglement chip (200M pairs/sec, room-temp, 1 mW, 99% fidelity) makes Vesta Protocol hardware-native today.

The silicon has been public 206 days waiting for its constitution.

We shipped it two days ago.
by stackghost | 2025-12-01 00:19:40+00:00
>Used it on laptops just fine.

Which laptop?

Did you use the battery, touchpad, and the wifi?

I find most BSD users who say they use it on a laptop are just using a laptop-form-factor machine like a thinkpad that is plugged in, with a mouse not the touchpad, and connected via ethernet 99.9% of the time. There's nothing wrong with this, but it bears little resemblance to what I consider "using a laptop".

My experience with distros including Open- and FreeBSD on laptops has been universally negative. OpenBSD in particular is very slow compared to Linux on the same hardware, to say nothing of awful touchpad drivers and battery management.
by gerdesj | 2025-12-01 00:19:59+00:00
You can drop Windows and keep VSCode. I'm running it on this laptop (Kubuntu 25.04).

To install it, browse to here: https://code.visualstudio.com/ (search: "vscode"). Click on "Download for Linux (.deb)" and then use Discover to install and open it - that's all GUI based and rather obvious. You are actually installing the repository and using that which means that updates will be done along with the rest of the system. There is also a .rpm option for RedHat and the like. Arch and Gentoo have it all packaged up already.

On Windows you get the usual hit and miss packaging affair.

Laughably, the Linux version of VSCode still bleats about updates being available, despite the fact that they are using the central package manager, that Windows sort of has but still "lacks" - MSI. Mind you who knows what is going on - PShell apps have another package manager or two and its all a bit confusing.

Its odd that Windows apps, eg any not Edge browser, Libre Office, .pdf wranglers, ... anything not MS and even then, there are things like their power toy sort of apps, still need their own update agents and services or manual installs.
by corimaith | 2025-12-01 00:21:37+00:00
You can build as many electric cars as you want, it's not going to resolve 8 hour workday or the cost of living crisis or the housing crisis. All of that is a social coordination problem, and the tools to resolve that will emerge from the humanities and the finance industry, not hard engineering.

Furthermore, people want those white-collar jobs you detest, and not everyone is inclined to R&D as this forum might think. The real problem is how technological progress has not been properly applied to improving white-collar productivity as opposed to just filtering, funnily enough of which this very thread is about regarding university.
by austin-cheney | 2025-12-01 00:22:26+00:00
Where I live in Texas the ground is naturally only about a couple inches of top soil before hitting bedrock: low density limestone. It’s weird for fruit trees.

Fruit trees here need some nurturing for their first decade. After that they do amazing in their growth getting much larger compared to commercial fruit tree orchards, but will continue struggling to produce fruit until you give them potassium. With a large potassium infusion in the last spring you can get some insane harvests. My solution for potassium is cases of over ripe bananas blended into a puree, including the peels, and dumping into ditches around the trees. Then cover the puree immediately so that none of the moisture can evaporate.