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Renaming pools is not related.

Specifying devices to `zpool create` as path vs uuid vs partlabel vs partuuid makes absolutely no difference to the end result of what is written to the devices, and never did. ZFS does not rely on device paths to identify vdevs (that would be nuts if you consider ever trying to move pools between machines).

However it used to make a difference to the /etc/zfs/zpool.cache [0] which records the current imported pools for the OS. AFAIU the problem used to be that this cache would inherit device specifications from the zpool import command (or implicit import from a zpool create command), and this is what got people got into trouble when device path enumeration is not deterministic across boots, thus the advice to avoid device paths during zpool create arose, but was only really applicable to zpool import ... This was never a permanent issue for the pool, you could always simply re-import it with UUIDs etc to rebuild the cache in a reliable way.

This was patched way back in 2016, to make sure the cache never uses /dev/sdx alone... Although it's kind of buried in a commit at the end of a semi-related PR [1]:

Fix 'zpool import' blkid device names

When importing a pool using the blkid cache only the device
node path was added to the list of known paths for a device.
This results in 'zpool import' always using the sdX names
in preference to the 'path' name stored in the label.

To fix the issue the blkid import path has been updated to
add both the 'path', 'devid', and 'devname' names from the
label to known paths. Sanity check is done to ensure these
paths do refer to the same device identified by blkid.

You can cat your zpool.cache and see those three identifiers in the ASCII parts for yourself.

TL;DR you are free to specify devices using /dev/sdx

This is the same problem I mentioned in my other comment, the current quantity of ZFS myths and outdated advice on the web is substantial and takes a lot of navigating or investigating - The best you can do for now is never accept any advice without proof, and test, always test.

[0] https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Project%20and%20Commu...

[1] https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/4523/commits/73abf3a8634...
Comonicon.jl – CLI Generator in JuliaLang
Postman is moving more and more from a local tool tp a cloud-based tool under the company's control.

Exporting your data from Postman has been made more difficult over the last few releases and now the local scratchpad is about to be removed in favor of using the free account in two weeks time.

These actions make me worry that Postman will soon no longer be a free tool or will use my collections and data for their own purposes (e.g. AI training).

I need an alternative, and maybe RecipeUI can fill that gap. Or I will be stuck on Insomnia.
> All but two of the 25 car brands we reviewed earned our “ding” for data control, meaning only two car brands, Renault and Dacia (which are owned by the same parent company) say that all drivers have the right to have their personal data deleted. We would like to think this deviation is one car company taking a stand for drivers’ privacy. It’s probably no coincidence though that these cars are only available in Europe -- which is protected by the robust General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy law.

I think legislations does cover these(at least to some extent), but the industry chose to play ignorant.
Isn't a "chiptune" specifically not using sample snippets (like Amiga MODs) but synthesized audio by a specialized audio chip (like a SID or AY) - and thus the name chiptune?

I'm no retro-audio afficionado, but that's what I would think of when when hearing the term (of course there's a grey area like the Namco WSG audio chip which uses small wavetables usually stored in ROM with 32 4-bit samples each).
He's a character, to be sure.

He's also requested to be added as a codefendent to at least one of Donald Trumps prosecutions .. the thing about these requests is they can be easily refused by the presiding judge who has no obligation to recognise any particular single voice or chorus of "I'm Sparticus too!".

"The Government" (which isn't a monolith and doesn't think as one) doesn't have to tyrannise an old man here (and likely won't) and gains | loses nothing by his refusal to add more documents to his site.

Pretty much the only real act here is raising awareness of the Assange case within the Cryptome readership and motivating them to do something if they wish service to resume.

They may even be a touch of "I'm getting too old for this sh*" going done and this is as good a way as any to take a vacation :)
I went to a tech presentation by Barrick and got the impression that gold price is set by their fixed costs and operation costs. If the price goes up they turn up their operations. I am sure this isn't a controlling factor as demand could outstrip their operation size. But it does set a soft ceiling when demand is low, and it is.
Just to be clear, I am trained as a physicist and I am not criticizing the thermodynamics as incorrect but rather insufficient.

It is also incorrect, which is to say that there is only a vague relationship between the kilocalories reported on the side of the box and the actual marginal energy absorbed into your body. This is due to multiple factors. The most basic is measurement methodology: “count up the carbs in grams and multiply by 4 because this one ancient paper claimed that was the right fudge factor to average all carbohydrates with”; then there is the reality that the carbs described as “dietary fiber” on the label should never have been counted in the first place; add to this that the fudge factor for protein is also 4 kcal/gr even though it is known that proteins require twice the energy input from your body to be metabolized. If you're a physicist you're hoping for very clean simple measurements, “we put this into a calorimeter and burned it, or maybe we let some bacteria rot the thing in a sealed jar and monitored the oxygen in there” or something. The nutrition facts are nothing of the sort! (Related: the scale llliiieeesss, it lies, liar liar pants on fire how it lies.)

However the bigger problem is that it is insufficient. For instance if you are worried about health outcomes, like diabetes risks, it turns out that calories in minus calories out doesn't predict those well. Both Omega-3 fats and trans fats are given the same fudge factor of 9 kcal/gr, but one is significantly less healthy than the other.

It's not even terribly helpful to understand the full context of weight gain. Did you know that before our species grew up in Africa, our ape ancestors actually grew up in Europe? During this process they lost the ability to make an enzyme called uricase, which helps most other mammals eliminate a waste product called uric acid from the body. The loss of this enzyme is usually chalked up to, “those apes needed to put on a lot of weight really fast at harvest time before the winter came up”—google «uricase evolution» to learn more. So we actually have a hardwired tendency which most mammals do not have, to consume fructose and not consciously register those kilocalories as satiety signal, and instead we pack on those kilocalories as fat because of our artificially high uric acid levels. Wild stuff.

The physics curriculum does touch on this but in a strange place: it's the courses where we teach kids to analyze circuits made with nonlinear components like op-amps and transistors. So there's the thermodynamic fact of calories in, calories out... but it also comes with a sales pitch which is trying to provide a simple answer that would work for a linear system, “just perturb this input a little bit and you will get the corresponding output.” But nonlinear systems don't work that way!
They still do for many of them, but it depends how much force is expected on the part. The one that broke on mine would normally see very little force, but it must have been hit on a weird angle while moving. Not a big deal since I just got a new one for free.
I don’t doubt that Airbnb has had some effect on housing prices in many cities, but I suspect the effect of STRs isn’t quite as strong as people think it is.

Desirable places like NYC have always been competitive markets to rent in, and we know that there’s a long term trend of migration toward population centers which is slowly making things worse.

But there’s another factor that seems like it isn’t getting it’s fair share of blame - the accelerant that is social media. There’s been a huge rise in micro-influencers showing us what the good life looks like in desirable places, whether we are talking about a neighborhood of NYC or a western mountain town. A decade or two ago, these desirable places were on the radar of a small number of people (relative to today) as viable places to build a life in, now the pool is much larger.

Airbnb deserves some criticism, but it certainly seems like short term rentals are getting more than their fair share of blame because they are a convenient boogeyman to point at. The end result is that we see regulations like this one that are more punitive than effective.
It's a repeat of what Elasticsearch did to their community. Basically, their product got forked (Opensearch) and the fork is now popular. Result: access denied on a sizable percentage of new users that start off using the fork and will likely never transition to the closed source thing.

As a sales strategy it's dumb. I see this as an Elasticsearch/Opensearch consultant. A lot of people reaching out to me for help with that, seem to now default to starting with opensource, i.e. Opensearch. And since a lot of them are in Amazon (who created the fork) they make that really easy. Those are people who will likely never become Elastic customers.

The same will happen with Teraform. Many new users will default to the open fork. A lot of existing users might migrate to that.

There are some other examples:

- Oracle lost control of Hudson when it became Jenkins. Hudson is now a footnote in history.

- Likewise with OpenOffice, which now rots away at the Apache Foundation. LibreOffice is the main product now.
Code Vulnerabilities Leak Emails in Proton Mail
Basically, copyright is not too different from other paper assets like publicly traded stocks. There is little intrinsic moral imperative for profit-seeking entities to make filings based on government mandated accounting principles and to not engage in insider trading schemes. Other systems, such as partnerships and private ownership, exist concurrently.

Copyrights are transferable intangible assets created by the legal instruments of the capitalist system. If you were to buy the copyright to the Metallica catalog, you can license that catalog for a return on your investment. It would be an asset of your estate like any other paper investment.
> if we want to keep the nice things we better start coming up with alternative solutions to the real problem

Indeed. To state the obvious: the real problem are bad actors - no matter if they are nation states, cybercriminals or people running compromised devices - and their accomplices such as ISPs not responding to abuse reports.

As long as we don't get that under control (say, by threatening to cut offender countries and ISPs from the Internet and SS7 phone networks) we'll have to continue whack-a-mole'ing.
It’s a great way to learn - so challenge. There’s neither fame nor money here I think.

At least in the 90s there were lots of tutorials to learn how to crack/reverse engineer, from +orc’s documentation to fravia ´s fortress of reverse engineering - I’d expect similar tutorials to still be around.

Reverse engineering also happens to be a very useful skill as a regular software engineer ( debugging compiler bugs, figuring out why software X is behaving strangely and what it is doing etc ).
I don't love gasoline. I'm just observing that the rethoric and timeline of phasing out ICEs does not match the reality of what is happening on the ground in terms of required infrastructure upgrades.
I didn't know that any serious non-Hashicorp backends for Terraform existed before this scandal and I wouldn't have considered anything other than Terraform Cloud. The scandal has soured me on Hashicorp and made me aware of the alternatives. I doubt I'm the only one.
Just got this blocking modal. In mine, the title says “Turn on an ad privacy feature”. That is misleading to say the least. This is a privacy-invading feature, leaking summaries of my browsing history to anyone who wants to have a look. What’s worse, the modal completely blocks the UI, so you can’t even search for it to understand more.

Why am I even using this browser anymore?

EDIT: Note this section about privacy goals, from the draft proposal by two Googlers: “Users should be able to understand the API, recognize what is being communicated about them, and have clear controls. This is largely a UX responsibility but it does require that the API be designed in a way such that the UX is feasible.” [1]

I guess it’s just a little oopsie that made the people responsible for the UX present it to the user through misleading copy.

1: https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics
MemoryPack seems like a great format for IPC.
I don’t think Poland is doing ok. Inflation has screwing people over, and rents are absurdly high.
Pity ... RISC-V is so much better perspective ... and free.
UK Air Traffic Control failure postmortem
This is a privacy nightmare and I can't believe it's being built by neurodivergent people. I wonder if they know history, and how much.

I'm out about being ND at work, but being out to people at a startup is not the same as having my diagnosis on a database somewhere. This information will almost certainly be sold.

The people building this are either naive (most likely) or malicious, and the people signing up have got to be either naive or desperate.

Not surprised Sam Altman is backing this.
Thanks! It's loosely based on Expo's readme: https://github.com/expo/expo
Are you really sure of this? I can take any detergent for my dishwasher, any pots for my stove, plug any device into the sockets on my walls. I can continue this into eternity, you get the idea.

There are so many industries that really rely on interoperability and have been for so long, it’s so natural to you you don’t even notice it.

So, going back to your argument: it’s like Doctorov says - the phase of immense oligopolies right now is not the natural state of the web, and something we’ve seen with other industries in the past. We can do something about this.
In Europe hotels which include a larger space and a small kitchen are called apartments hotels or apart-hotels.

They're more or less common in different countries, and sometimes are fairly pricy, although perhaps not compared to several hotel rooms. I've seen them most often in places you'd expect families to visit, like non-city tourist destinations.
Because getting a high resolution, oled, good aspect ratio, fast refresh rate display is much easier and more affordable on a tablet? Sure, even with a kickstand it is not quite as "lapable", but the screens are nice.

On a related note, when is pkvm supposed to be available outside pixel devices? Getting a proper linux or windows VM on one of the bigger samsung tablets + keyboard just might replace my laptop (yeah, remote stuff works, but offline on device would be much more convenient, e.g. on trains).
Whole market funds, but preferably multi market funds. Basically VT. But you can foray into VFIAX.
I'd add that ADHD hyperfocus is focusing on one thing but that the thing is not necessarily what you want it to be. For example, I've become obssessed for a few weeks on boardgames, to the exclusion of everything else but after that I had no interest whatsoever. Sometimes, it can be useful when I'm focusing on something actually relevant to my career, life. Sometimes, like with boardgames, it can lead to me buying 80 board games, and wasting my time on something completely useless...

As regarding to medication, I seldom use my ADHD medication (concerta makes me way too sleepy if I'm sleep deprived and I have a toddler so I'm always mildly sleep deprived) but when I did, it actually stopped the hyperfocus in that it allowed me to think of something else besides my obsession du jour.
Not really, if you are a consultant or external business you account for your own hours - you set a budget and then hand in a timesheet either weekly or monthly, then send an invoice at the end of each month.
Least-bad DIY disposal method for Li-ion laptop battery?
I have an old laptop battery I need to dispose of, but I'm currently in a developing country and it seems there is no responsible / official way to do so.

What's the least-bad DIY method I can use?

I asked in local computer stores about the old battery. None of them could help, none had any suggestions, one said they just put their batteries in the trash.

In case it matters: The battery model number is 6GTPY, 97Wh, from a Dell XPS-15 9560, with about 50% of its new capacity, 6 cells, all swollen, some badly, and I forgot to discharge it before removing it.
IP reputation doesn't seem to be much of a thing right now, but it might be the only way forward for a spyware-free web.

You can have a group of people sharing a block and collectively responding to abuse reports to slightly improve privacy. That at least shields you somewhat from the big tech firms.

Essentially a large number of virtual private micro-ISPs.
The mindset of sacrificing computing freedom for user convenience and corporation profitability. We should be absolutely uncompromising on this one value. The alternative is the destruction of everything the word "hacker" ever stood for.

> nothing but an endless digital mall to browse

Funny, that's essentially what the web feels like to me in 2023. Escaping it is the number one reason why I visit HN nearly every day. It's like the only sane website left. I don't even open the links posted here anymore, websites are just unbearable these days even with uBlock Origin turned up to the max. I just assume whatever's important enough will be directly quoted in the comments.

The "static web" you and the commenter below mentioned? I actually kind of want it.
A 1992 retro UI would use a silver-grey background with 3D bevels and rainbow color details in 320x200 or 320x256 pixels (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protracker#/media/File:Protrac...)
Full report link: https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/NERL%20Major%20Incident...
This is cruel, but fair.
Then they have to acquire the rights to do so for of all components before they use those components.
Relevant Quake engine trivia, for those that are interested:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_inverse_square_root
> It’s been decided you want a perfect track record, as close to flawless - to appease regulation bodies.

This is why I feel China will be the first to have unlimited self-driving. They would be able to treat self-driving cars the way that we treat trains: liability on the person hit by the train, so long as the train was functioning properly.
The people who would be buying the chips from Apple are the same one who are buying them from Samsung or Qualcomm.

Those companies will basically sell them to anyone willing to place a volume order, and if there was any demand for it they'd be selling them retail on Newegg. (There isn't because they don't use sockets and there aren't enough individual customers with the equipment to solder it to a logic board, but an individual can get one of their CPUs on a single board computer.)

Amazon doesn't sell Gravitron separately but they also don't sell it whatsoever. I don't know what to call that but it's not what's happening with Apple.
I wonder if there is a diagnosis available for people that need frequent, in-person, validation from others as that seems to be a main source of distraction in offices (open or otherwise).
This isn't a security issue though. It's just annoying. It also requires physical proximity.

We do live in a world where expecting people around you to not be arseholes is a reasonable strategy.

The only real difference here between this and people playing loud shitty music on their phones or whatever is that it's harder to locate the source.
This is confusing correlation with causation. You can look at this data and say "Apple has the best customers" or you can look at this data and say (less sensationally) "Apple doesn't sell phones for people with little disposable income". In fact, the more accessible the Android platform is to low-income people, the more "valuable" Apple customers will appear by this logic.

I very much believe that, if you control for income and other demographic factors, you will find that Apple customers are willing to spend more on apps. And probably in many cases it can make good business sense to make iOS-first or iOS-only apps. But this data is insufficient to make any conclusions about that.
This was posted last week. It still reads like an ad and it very likely is one.
Most of those car brands can disable the sim module at special request, it usually costs to do so and is a physical hw disable.

Speaking to a friend who works at a dealership this is usually most seen in cars spec'd for celebs and politicians.
All tech companies need to do is pursue some niche hobby or game modding/speedrunning/hacking forum, it's the low hanging fruit of neurodivergent savants, most of whom are likely significantly smarter than most engineers at any non-FAANG tech company, just without the necessary social skills for the hiring game.
No idea if Mozilla checked the US or EU. But even in the EU car makers seem to collect, and use, excesive amounts of data. There is some EU legislation in the works so right now. Which is good.

I do not have issues with collecting data for crash investigation and such. And that your on board gps is collecting GPS data is somewhat normal. What I do not see any justification for is:

- sharing said data with manufacturers, instead of just saving it locally

- collecting data from phones or even passangers

- allowing manufacturers to analyse, use and sell sid data

- allow Apple and Google access to OBD data (that's why I just use bluetooth to stream music, but eho knows...)

- why a car has to be connected to the cloud to begin with

- why the infotainment system has access at all to OBD data (exception: data used for navigation, and that should only be used when needed and then deleted by the GPS)

Well, if I leave my phone at home, my car from 1982 seems to be save so. Now if I could just afford to use it as a daily... Well, no, too uncomfortable. But still. Anyway, time to remove the SIM that came with our latest used car bought directly from an official brand dealership. Assuming it is the only one, which it most likely isn't since the car has an emergency button, the deffinetly needs some for of connection I cannot control.
The story-fication of everything continues.
I think the parent is claiming that whistleblower protections don't apply to Snowden. A vigilante's actions can be both morally right and blatantly illegal. There are people that are glad he did what he did, but also believe in the rule of law, and feel his actions might have carried more weight if he turned himself in and accepted the legal repercussions.

Personally, if I were the judge I'd give him a light slap on the wrist because of how hard he worked to bring the information to light in a responsible manner so nobody got hurt. It's hard for me to imagine him not getting absolutely fucked in a real court of law however, and I'm certainly not going to judge him and say, "You should have been willing to throw your whole life away over this, or not done it at all."
very good article, nice and practical

An alternative is also Babashka which is excellent for this !
https://github.com/babashka/babashka
Are they saying housing supply matters? Why not allow more housing to be built by upzoning?
I guess we would have to look at the slice of the population that is active as far as furniture purchases and churn go. Presumably, owners don't shop for furniture that much once it's done. I have no data though.