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What do you think the flagship product is? It’s not Windows, if we are ranking by revenue, it’s barely hanging in third place.
I don’t think it’s too shocking when you consider that most of the Office products need to developed and compiled for other operating systems, and obviously Azure is not Windows dependent.

Culture has changed, nobody cares if you use a Mac. Hell I bet half the employees are taking Teams meetings on their iPhones.
Weak grindset.
Who the heck do you use as an alternative? Paypal is worse in almost every way. Adyen requires huge volumes and is only fit for massive companies.

Who else are there to pick from? Airwallex is supposed to launch something but it's probably years away.
Interesting. I do have a decent subwoofer, so maybe that's done more than I was thinking.

That being said, there's no way I'd do away with the subwoofer. That has turned out to be the #1 best sound upgrade I've done thus far. :)
They are, their distro is their own - this is them announcing a RHEL fork as well as their in-house distro.

You'll find SUSE Linux Enterprise in quite a few places in Europe but their penetration in the US has always been kinda pants, so providing a compatible alternative to RHEL will hopefully be a net win for them commercialy as well as a net win for the community.
Ironically, the thing we actually created (LLMs) is much more poorly understood than the one we haven't (solar system). We do have centuries of data and a great assortment of really well understood models of how the solar system works, and we understand the math really well. There are no mysteries in orbital mechanics and we can foresee sunrises for the next few billion years.

You're muddying the waters willingly. This is intellectually dishonest.
Where do the eggs come from when you cut a cake?
The 'stable version but we backport patches' mantra

Just because Redhat handles this poorly (like pretty much everything), does not make the model bad.

For example, almost every single security update on Debian, is backported when not handled by upstream. And there is a lot of that.

You lose so much stability, if you track all-new. In fact, you literally spend more time chasing underlying bugs, instead your bugs, and dealing with api changes, if your stack is bleeding edge.
> MMDDYYYY

People who use this notation (and its derivatives) are committing crimes against humanity.
>If you are taking a couple of pictures a day, you only need to run this service for a couple of minutes per day, the rest is wasted.

You can configure your server to sleep (scheduled or use WoL), which will halve (or more) that carbon emission number.

Speaking of which, individual action will never approach the level that corporate action could. Take a look at the practice of gas flaring (2022 estimate of ~357 million tons CO2) which is about ~45kg/person on earth. Changing flaring to capture will have a bigger impact than a minisucle fraction of the population not running a server.

But profits trump everything, so I guess we're stuck shaming individuals instead.
there's a very nice video I saw posted a while back where a graphic designer talks about how he'll charge different amounts for a logo for different customers - a small mom and pop shop will pay much less than a large multinational.

You price the customer, not the service.
This is going to sound very unsympathetic, because it is, but: I feel some pour decisions were made for you to end up with 150k locked in Stripe for them to be able to hold.
Thank you. That tip might lessen my need to use Brave for sites only working in Chrome.
a colleague got a treadmill that he uses when he's in meetings. It's not ideal for when you type.
I did art and I wasn't brave enough to try and publish, so now I'm paying an artist on fivver to refine my works for publishing, will do the same with the texts once the artworks are done.

But I guess that's not the same for written documentation. I'd think you could dictate and then give it to someone for transcription?
This is what I do. Use Spotify and YouTube Music (but mostly Spotify) for discovery, keeping up with releases and previewing music, while actual listening happens locally with files purchased from Bandcamp et al. Artists that don't sell their music in this way tends to get a skip.
Render speed of browser engines is really good these days on mobile phones. Getting fluid animations is maybe even easier and faster with css than with the Android sdk or ios. Plenty of frameworks out there to create nice SPAs.
Some parts still have to be native like Auth, billing etc. But majority of the app can be web.
1. If SUSE wants to preserve choice, it should offer a systemd-free distribution.

2. Agree with silisili's bafflement at how corporations are sticking to RHEL.
Take a page from other minorities/activists work and push for affirmative action for Linux in schools, universities and workplaces. If a place uses another OS, that means Linux users are being discriminated against.
Photo Management
> zfs is for when you want RAID and snapshots but are prepared to have it blow up every now and then.

> "professional Sysadmin"
I'm not talking about fixes or alterations. I'm talking about running an exact copy of the ROM, to play exactly as it did on the console it was released for.

Unintended emulation inaccuracies are a different matter, but (1) they are addressed with 1:1 hardware emulation (if you so wish), (2) where you don't want that (for the sake of speed, say) the fixes are only there to make the game run as it did anyway
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Red Hat offers corporate support contracts, while other distros have community or consultant support at best. This is attractive to executive managers in corporations, as they can be seen as investing into a mature technology, and the systems are contractually guaranteed to keep running by a 3rd party, so shifting blame is easy.
If we want to save the planet, the future of food is insects (2021)
200? You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket.
I guess thats only an issue when you import photos though. Once they're indexed, it should run fine.
Great advice thanks - I have taken some steps to mitigate that (snapshotting, and a manual weekly USB backup) but you're right, this is an area I should look at more closely.
They should also offer a Linux-free distribution, and a GNU free distribution, and a glibc free distribution.

Fuck it, let's make a cpu-free distribution whilst we're at it.
>Windows, on the other side, has a basically monolithic environment in the name of ... dunno what.

macOS does it, too. Android does it, too. Basically any os that cares about human interaction.
> > I never claimed to be funny

> You literally used the word "comical" in the previous post. English is not my language, but if I search for a definition, I get: "comical: arousing or provoking laughter".

One can make an attempt at humour without the whole audience necessarily finding it funny. I was not confused by SubzeroCarnage's wording at all.

You call them out for lacking communication skills and being offensive, but if anything you're the one with lacking English comprehenshion, lashing out because of a misunderstanding on your part.
I don’t understand this. Won’t that hurt their progress on GPT-5?
Thought good business was a positive sum game...
> Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, CEO of SUSE, said,

According to LinkedIn Dirk-Peter started at Suse 3 months ago as CEO and worked for Red Hat for 18 years and was a Senior VP at Red Hat.

I think this move of Suse could be a credible threat to IBM / Red Hat's RHEL.
No, incredibly disingenuous would be:

1. Ukrainian military age males, legally required by their government to serve in the armed forces, fleeing
2. AND THEN insisting the war not end while their countrymen are dying on their behalf

I might assume you were trolling but instead I'll assume you don't understand what a Ukrainian draft dodger / deserter is in this situation.
The realpolitik of warfare treaties tends to be much more about "What will blunt my potential enemy's strength more than mine?" than ethics.
Doug Adams would've had so much fun these days.
>> We'll keep the science a secret and try to pressure the government into making it illegal for you to compete with us.

Just to be clear, there's no science being kept secret because there is no science being done. OpenAI's is a feat of engineering, borne aloft by a huge budget supporting a large team whose expertise lies in tuning neural net systems, and not in doing science.

Machine learning, as it is practiced today, is not science. There is no scientific theory behind it and there is no scientific method applied. There are no scientific questions asked, or attempted to be answered. There is no new knowledge produced other than how to tune systems to beat benchmarks. The standard machine learning paper is a bunch of text and arcane-looking formulae around a glorified leaderboard: a little table with competing systems on one side and arbitrarily chosen benchmark datasets on the other side; and all our results in bold so everyone knows we're winning. That's as much doing science as is racing cool-looking sports cars.
It seems there is no cost to those who repeatedly implement these illegal frameworks. A modest proposal: Jail-time of twice their duration (from implementation to judicial strikedown) for the EU negotiators involved.
True, but increasingly marginal. Many schools have adopted Chromebooks (Linux in disguise) and even the MS Office suite has largely moved online.
The time (some years back now, it was a 5.10 patch and a 5.8 rpm) they mis-backported a perl patch to work around a bug in a deprecated CPAN module for one of their enterprise customers and in the process caused a 2x-30x slowdown of lots of other newer code (including the library that had replaced it in the majority of production environments by that point) was 'fun'.

Took me a couple years to get together a coalition of commercial support customers to apply sufficient pressure that they'd listen when I got the original author of the patch to break out the small words and crayon drawings and explain what they'd done wrong and how to backport it properly.

Happily, they now generally snapshot Fedora's perl builds pretty directly and the current Fedora team have been fantastic to work with as a downstream but it was a spectacular mess at the time and there are plenty of people out there who still haven't forgiven them (I think I try to act -as if- I've forgiven them but I'm not sure I actually have).
Russia is blocked as well
This is amazing! I'd only wish there was a control to scale the distances to their actual values - things are way too close to each other.
To add to this from personal experience; we sell proprietary software that runs on multiple platforms. Our market is broadcasters, CDNs, telcos, media companies.

We target Ubuntu and Alpine, but also ship CentOS/Rocky/RHEL/Oracle/Alma and Windows. Even though customers rarely ask for the latter targets, we need to offer those simply because we wouldn't be taken seriously if this major market segment were absent on our website.
To be fair, a desktop tower computer is not usable without using an external keyboard and mouse either.
> stings a bit doesn't it :).

Not even a slight itch.

What do I care how many people use the thing I do? The only thing that matters to me is how good the toys I get to use are.

> See over there, in that one space, you're a weakling.

A lot more people eat fast food that gourmet food. I wonder if the people who can afford gourmet food feel like weaklings because of that. My guess is: No they don't.
To me that sounds more like bad software dev/test procedures at MS than anything intentionally uncompetitive. For example, maybe they don’t keep their Firefox support up to date because not enough Teams users use Firefox to warrant the effort, but maybe Firefox is increasingly Chrome-compatible. Firefox is not popular enough for MS to intentionally cripple.
I can tell you how much it is in 40000 requests from a "national representative sample" in the Netherlands obtained in the last 6 months: 393 user agents specify Linux without Android. That's just under 1%. Firefox is 2395, or 6%.
Where do you think our ancestors got their linoleic acid intake?
An idle server still consumes energy. Energy consumption increases with CPU load, RAM consumes the same regardless of the usage.

When Google manages your pictures, they don't have idle servers for each users. This is the main reason their service is more sustainable.
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https://tldr.tech/

https://www.pythonweekly.com/

https://codingwithintelligence.com/ (my own ^^)
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What I've done is to leave a Windows VM running which has both the iCloud Photos app, as well as Syncthing, both pointing at same directory. This then works as an iCloud/syncthing bridge, letting my iPhone sync with my linux machines.
Come on, you know what is implied. The summary is intentionally riffing on American ideological battlegrounds.

Even I find that unpalatable because well, it doesn’t make much sense. Most of nature can’t be sexist. That’s a sociological term meaning prejudice on the basis of sex. Most species have neither society nor prejudice so the whole concept doesn’t apply. Same for gender as a social construct. What does it even mean for a wild animal to have a gender?
> Services are defined as units of software with well-defined API interfaces, called endpoints ( in Figure 1). Each service satisfies a specific business use case (e.g., cachinga photo feed). There is significant room for interpretation
in defining the scope of a business use case...

It seems to me the problem with the microservice concept does not come from the decomposition of a monolith into well defined stateful/stateless services but indeed the lack of further principles and tools for doing so in an optimal way.

Imagine a decision process that would ingest some quantitative details (including a topology of dependencies) and volumes of information flow and computation etc and spitting out an architecture. In many cases the outcome might be "monolith".

While fads and bandwagons promising utopia are prevalent in tech as in almost all other domain, there usually is a core truth that activates them.
Maybe my "liked" playlist is not too big in Spotify, but if I paid $4 for each song, that'd be ~$2400, not at all unreasonable considering that's songs collected since 2015 (so 75 songs per year or ~$300 per year).

Of course, it's OK not to want to own the music you listen to. Personally, after 8 years of trying to use Spotify (and lately YouTube Music), the amount of graveyard playlists I now "posses" made it so I basically had to revert to buying music again as I want to be able to listen to the playlists I create years in the future too.

Quick look (~20% of my total playlists), around 10% of my playlists contain more than half songs that are no longer available. That's just unacceptable in my personal case.
Or ever?
Considering an effort to buy a copy of the constitution raised almost $47M, I wouldn't be so sure. [^1]

Worth noting, though, that it isn't just the computing budget that's missing here - it is also (and perhaps even more importantly) the high quality data to actually train the model.

[^1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConstitutionDAO
Hmm “Sam Altman won't tell you that GPT-4 has 220B parameters and is 16-way mixture model with 8 sets of weights” George Hotz said this in his recent interview with Lex Fridman. It looked like Lex knew this to be true by the way he reacted.
Me/CFS guidance that discourages exercise is flawed, say researchers
Mailgun: Public Security Disclosure
TLDR: Inbound email routes don't have SPF/DKIM/DMARC protection, meaning any inbound email sent to a webhook can be trivially spoofed / phished.
Mailgun describe inbound routes as:

"complex incoming messages are simplified and parsed into all of the data you need with Inbound Routes." [1]

Mailgun refers to DKIM/SPF/DMARC with:

"Mailgun leads the charge in email authentication by requiring DKIM and SPF records by default before you can begin sending." [2]

However, nowhere does it say that Mailgun does not provide SPF or DKIM validation checks on inbound emails. Confusingly, these headers appear only for a subset of inbound emails.

Attack scenario:

1) Pick any domain using mailgun for inbound email processing (trivially found via MX records).

2) Spoof an email from any address you want to impersonate (eg. security@mailgun.com).

If that address is handled via an inbound route to a webhook (eg. CRM system / other), then it will appear as from the spoofed sender without any DKIM/SPF flags. This makes phishing via Inbound Routes trivial.

Requested fix:

Include SPF (X-Mailgun-Spf), DKIM (X-Mailgun-Dkim-Check-Result), and Spam Assassin headers (eg. DMARC_QUAR / DMARC_REJECT / DMARC_NONE / DMARC_MISSING) headers for ALL inbound routes to a webhook. The application can then decide what to do.

Mailgun Response:

"Our security team has confirmed that our routes act as an open relay and that this is not considered a security vulnerability with Mailgun."

Nowhere in the Mailgun documentation / sales pages are inbound routes described like this, and in fact, they pretend to have protection as headers are sometimes present!

Note A: Using throwaway to not give information away for our own exposed systems.

Note B: The spoofed email must not trigger above a certain spam assassin threshold (this is fairly trivial to do and openly testable by any attacker), otherwise it might get blocked by higher level Mailgun spam handling.

[1] - https://www.mailgun.com/products/send/inbound-routing/

[2] - https://www.mailgun.com/blog/deliverability/implement-dmarc/...
MS is on a mission to go after schools that have adopted Chromebooks. If your school is using Chromebooks you can expect all kinds of stick-and-carrot tricks to try to get you to switch (back).
Picasa was veeery fast on my dual core, 4gb ram, spinning rust laptop from 15 years ago. I’m trying to remember if I was using the laptop I got in 2006 which only had 2gb of ram or it was the upgraded one I got a few years later with 4gb, but either way it was incredibly fast on machines we would laugh at today.
Other videos on his channel is also quite interesting
I think it's unreasonable to assume the vast, vast majority of users, including technically literate ones, are likely to have an in detail understanding of any specific software's installation.

Requiring a few hoops - and it sounds like e.g. requiring a developer edition sounds like such a hoop - to ensure a likely misconfiguration was actually intentional and the user is capable of dealing with the consequences is not a bad idea.

In particular, debugging when things go wrong can be an insurmountable task.

Better isolation of software components has been a trend for decades; to the point where I think we can safely say that the old unix and windows model of permissions was a fundamentally insufficient idea. Devs flock to using VMs and containers precisely because uncontrolled interaction between stuff even controlled by the same nominal "user" is a huge pain - and that's before malware and privacy concerns come in.

Were software more isolated by default, and interaction more controlled and/or explicit, then indeed I think the argument against this kind of controlling-the-"user" features would be stronger. But as is? The alternative is clearly much, much worse.

After all, certainly here and often in other cases too - it's not like it's actually impossible to circumvent these restrictions. It's simply technically inconvenient in a way that happens to also prevent many unintentional bugs and some malware vectors.

In an ideal world, a devs for a piece of software would be hard-pressed to even do this, let alone feel the need to do it. But that's just not the world we live in; we're not even really close yet - except on really locked down platforms that go much further than needed to prevent the risks, and into the territory of quite openly restricting the user, not the software.
What kind of fats do you think your ancestors have eaten for hundreds of thousands of years?
IMHO, this is more a choice overload [1] than a technical problem. You can pick whatever distro (another choice overload) and start using the default desktop environment, which is more than enough. Qt vs. gtk for desktop development? Use whatever you think will work for you, they are stable enough, and you can use almost any (even remotely popular) language under the sun for development. Java/Scala/Kotlin + Swing (or SWT) will also do the job (and let's put aside that Swing looks "old"; when you know what you are doing, you can make a modern looking-app with JVM stack as well, e.g. IntelliJ).

On Windows and macOS, you don't have any choice, so people usually see that as good enough because they can't compare it against alternatives on the same platform.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overchoice
So, it's similar to NextCloud, but only for multimedia?
> 2. AND THEN insisting the war not end while their countrymen are dying on their behalf

I wish the war ended as soon as possible too and that no one dies anymore. Most of those fighting on the front want to stop this war as soon as possible so that they don't die (if they wanted to die, they could just storm Russian positions without weapons). Ukraine giving up doesn't look like a valid answer. They gave up some territories in 2014 but Russia still came with tanks and started shooting at everything and killing (often in gruesome ways) civilians.

I bet that if Russians could just go home, this war would be stopped pretty soon, but alas they don't want to go home. Why?
Can someone give me recommendation?

I'm using Samsung Galaxy phone, photos auto sync to nextcloud... but I DO NOT WANT EVERY SINGLE PHOTO TO BE SYNCED. I'd rather tap "favorite" that would somehow put that photo in an album/path that gets synced/backed-up.

Does anyone have a solution? That is, I want a single tap on photo that I consider worth backing up. Or it can work other way around - single tap to exclude from sync.
> So does Microsoft Word. Both require a human to tell the software what to output.

Clippy does what now?

Or do you mean "I can type", because if so you're minimising the very same capabilities that you're later describing as a miracle and saying belongs to us all.

> Tech oligarchs are provably not more responsible than the rest of us, and do not deserve to lock us out of the garden whose fruit they seek to pick.

"No more responsible than the rest of us" is a dangerously low standard.

The rest of us, collectively rather than each and every one of us, play lotteries, drive dangerously, addict ourselves to drugs, pickle our livers, and win Darwin awards.

For all our sophistication and sophistry, we're all just fancy balding primates with fairly similar tribal attitudes and motivations.

> YOU are not allowed to build the same robot to help boost your own income

Yes, obviously, with literal robots there are countless examples of public liability insurance and health & safety legislation. With computers, likewise, because they're connected to stuff.
The Deck can be compared to a laptop computer with specialized controls and a touch screen. It runs a desktop OS, with desktop programs and games. You can use it as a normal desktop computer, connected to a screen and peripherals, and this is by design.

The same can't be said of the PS; the PS isn't a desktop computer.
This article itself states that this is the widely accepted explanation before attempting to question it:

"A widely accepted explanation for this peak in coal production is a temporal lag between the evolution of abundant lignin production in woody plants and the subsequent evolution of lignin-degrading Agaricomycetes fungi, resulting in a period when vast amounts of lignin-rich plant material accumulated."

So this theory is generally considered correct with some people thinking it might not be.