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Well, it's bad in most places in the world. Fewer contacts, lower compensation being offered, more candidates for a job, generally worse conditions at current jobs because competition is down and companies know that.
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I agree, that's why I am daily driving Samsung Galaxy S10 (exynos version) on LineageOS.

I miss 2010-2015 smartphone market, it was much more innovative than it's now :(
I really have no problem imagining an antivirus company convinced the bootloader needs an upgrade =)
We have Crowdstrike on our Linux fleet. It is not merely a malware scanner but is capable of identifying and stopping zero-day attacks that attempt local privilege escalation. It can, for example, detect and block attempts to exploit CVE-2024-3094 - the xz backdoor.

Perhaps we need to move to an even more restrictive design like Fuschia, or standardize on an open source eBPF based utility that's built, tested, and shipped with a distribution's specific kernel, but Windows is not the issue here.
Some cultures are more prone to vigilantism than others. Absence of vigilantism in one country is only very weak evidence that it wouldn't occur in another if their government stopped punishing criminals.

Particularly, America has a culture that puts relatively high value in individualism, and I think that would make vigilantism, individuals meting out their own brand of justice, common if not for the perspective that the government will dole out harsh punishments without the victims needing to do it themselves. We aren't Norway, and the delta between the present status quo in both countries is itself evidence of this cultural difference.
Is the current dark layout with papyrus icons (or how they are called) not looking great?
"The Soviet Union never developed a legal theory of racial superiority because it had a theory of political superiority from the very beginning, which it could conveniently apply along ethnic lines."

That was rich.
Ok, so what was that "theory of political superiority" and how, as you allege, it was applied to Kalmyks?

Anyway, the conversation seem to have drifted quite a lot from the topic of 'colonization' of Moldova. Tell me, was its population enslaved, put into reservations or exploited? Was it robbed of its resources? Wasn't its industry developed?

What gives you any basis for spreading the narrative of 'colonization'?
Presumably this wouldn't work in areas that flood, but Fresno isn't one of them. I also wondered about earthquakes, which are a risk in some parts of CA.
Not to be rude, but if that's the case, and you're unwilling to use "random" translation tools like Google Translate, what is the point of this comment? Not everyone in the world speaks English. Do you want them to learn English and post bug reports in English for you?
CRP, Calprotectin are easily measurable, not so sure TNF-Alpha and Interleukins?
It could be as simple as cosmic radiation that flipped a bit (it has happened before: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/subatomic-particl...), or as sophisticated as an adversarial hacking.
But then it'd be putting all eggs in the Linux pc basket, wouldn't it? I think they point was that more heterogeneity would make this not be a problem. If all your potatoes are the same potato it only takes one bad blight epidemic to kill off all farmed potatoes in a country. If there's more heterogeneity things like that doesn't happen.
No, it'd boot up just fine without a network connection (as long as it didn't have this borked update).
Raynaud Syndrome
How about the option to totally remove google without installing a custom rom.

you start your brand new phone and a pop up appears:

Would you like to remove google and all the other bloatware to start with a blank phone and choose to install exactly what you need and want.

Please click here.

I would then seriously consider buying a new phone instead of slightly older phones I can install custom roms on.

now that would be a thing.

In a perfect world

I have an old Samsung S4 2013 (android 11) and an old Motorola G3 (android 11). I keep the G3 to listen to FM radio as modern phones dont have the FMradio.

My main phone is a onplus 5T with android 14. A superb phone, 8 years old and still runs better than any modern phone my friends own. Cost me £75
because it took down half the world?
For our entertainment in times like this, of course!

grabs a bucket of popcorn and takes cover
Talk about demand generation!
How about a try-catch block? The software reading the definition file should be minimally resilient against malformed input. That's like programming 101.
While I won't discount it entirely, I think the people acting like this (alone) implies malice are being very silly.
The Mac predates Windows.
If you're looking for a specific word: umwelt.
If the music was actually really good and people liked it then the money would be there.

Maybe Bach style music isn’t really a good as modern music.
closed source will always fuck you in the ass
No. Misremembering naming and product changes from over 30 years ago.

Remember that OSF/1 was an attempt to win the UNIX wars.

The later versions of ULTRIX had lots of BSD4.3 features that really made the move to ACP based systems feel more like a silicon change than a new OS from an admin perspective, even if not mach based.

Anything that ran bind and pop was running a later version with the bsd4.3 TCP/IP stack.
oh thats a shame - i quite liked that piece of trivia :(
Anyone copy the original text? Now getting:
> Hmm...this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else
It is not a human error, it is a process that has to be improved. Humans make mistakes, that is why we have processes in place.
None. There are a bunch of folks here who clearly haven’t spent a day in enterprise IT proclaiming Linux would’ve saved the day. 30 seconds of research would’ve lead them to discover crowdstrike also runs on Linux and has created similar problems on Linux in the past.
Someone on the Fediverse conjectured that it might have been down to the Azure glitch earlier in the day. An empty file would fit that if they weren't doing proper error checking on their downloads, etc.
There's a better joke, Crowdstrike sponsors the Mercedes Formula 1 team and in 1955 Mercedes was involved in the worst motorsport accident ever, killing over 80 people watching from the stands when parts of the cars flew off and... striked the crowd...
I like the fact that you're proposing a visual update to a Linux distro. We need more "visual" people in this sphere, and more attention to aesthetics.

I like the general style you're aiming for. Though I'm worried that the green could be a little bit too intense for UI elements. Current accent color options on Mint are softer colors.

I don't like the logo. The lower square containing the L has waaay too much empty space in it, and the empty space is all concentrated on the superior-right side of the square, making it look very unbalanced. On the other hand, the square containing the M has little padding. These two things combined make the logo look unbalanced at two levels: one square with a lot of empty space vs one square with barely any empty space; the left square has all the empty space on one side of it.

Icons look great. However, what's going to happen when some application has an icon that doesn't adjust to your expectations of style and shape? Will it look good, or will it look very out of place? Mint's current answer to this is "we'll just make our own icons for every app", which I don't think is the right way to do it, for many reasons.
"Antifragile" is even more focused around this.
xD

In all seriousness though, you do hit a great point. The moment you stop being embarrassed about your mistakes and set your ego aside, is the moment that you can truly start learning from those same mistakes. At some point it even becomes the only way you can move forward, unless you want to stay boxed inside a niche of expertise defined by your own self-set boundaries.
Randomize the Running Function When It Is Disclosed [pdf]
There is hardly a better time if you write software to watch - "The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

I am not sure in which one of his talks he briefly mentioned that one of his concerns is that we are basically building a digital Alexandria library, and if it burns, well ...

Even more devastating events like this will happen in the future.

We stand on the shoulders of giants and yet we learned nothing.
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Why make something like that executable in the first place? I like the Unix model where things that should be executable are marked so. I know bad parsers and format decoders can lead to executable exploits, but I've always felt uncomfortable with the windows .exe model. Also VBA in excel, word... I believe a better solution would be to have a minimal executable surface than invasive software.
Which private data would a computer need to operate a lift?
Never Update Anything
T→[CO2] Causal relationship in climate since Phanerozoic
And this is the situation when you talk to people about what they need but they're not actually in the power to make any decisions. I'm not sure what your product is but often times asking potential customers about what they want it's not a great way to make a product because people tend to only think in the terms that they already know. The best products are ones that reimagine a situation. The even better products learn from someone else's reimagination and do it better.

So in this situation I would say you wildly misjudged who your customer actually was. Because the people you're talking to aren't your customer and they aren't even potential customers. We can know this fact because they don't have any decision making power and they are also not in a position where they believe they could even recommend a product to their management.

If you believe that you have a viable product that solves a problem in the industry and it is good enough to present to someone you presented to the management directly. The key thing is getting your thing in front of decision makers and having it be something the decision makers can understand. This may mean you need a bit more polish or you may need to collaborate with someone who is better at sales and marketing. That's really your next step if you have something that you believe will solve a problem. Alternatively you could reach out to more technical people who are comfortable bringing this up to their management chain and getting it in front of real decision makers.
I'm assuming that in most cases they'll just make these act as RGB displays, either by sequentially tuning the wavelength of each pixel to red, green, blue in a loop, or by assigning each pixel to be red, green, or blue and just having them act as subpixels.
> So this "one weird trick" will disappear without any special measures.

> Better training, larger models, and larger datasets

But "better training" here is a special measure. It would take a lot of training effort to defeat this check. For example, you'd need a program or group of people who would be able to label training data as realistic/not based on the laws of physics as reflected in subjects' eyeballs.
Regarding Koko, it isn't really clear if she really was able to have complex dialogues, or if that was wishful thinking on the part of her trainers.

In general, I don't think there are any animals that are as intelligent as adult humans. After all, if there's nothing special about human intelligence, why are we the most dominant species on the planet? It's not like other animals had the opportunity to take over and rejected it.
He’ll reply to known blatant racists on X with “interesting” and similar tactics.
So why don’t we have Sketchpad on our iPads today?
This is not a good Show HN comment. There's nothing these people can do with this feedback, and it's litigating a tired internet trope. It's 2024, people overwhelmingly use HTML email, and this is not a thread intended to investigate whether that's a good thing or not.
"We must hang together, or we will all hang separately" is a lesson that I don't think programmers will ever learn.
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At least it compressed well, which must have saved network resources during the update. :)
I keep a RedHat developer account active for their documentation. I didn't notice.

I did find these related forum/reddit threads:

https://forums.rockylinux.org/t/crowdstrike-freezing-rockyli...

https://www.reddit.com/r/crowdstrike/comments/1cluxzz/crowds...

Good to see Rocky keeping their promise of bug for bug compatibility.
I wouldn't say fresh pasta is better, it's different. Sometimes you want fresh, sometimes dried.
some tab viewers do have the rhythm shown as well, just connected to a tab number. Though it might get confusing a bit but more than sheet music imo.
Note to self: on Monday, add a null character check to pre-commit hooks, and add the same check to pipelines.
Only use ublock origin
Kirsten has a way of bringing out the enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and happy in people she interviews.

A rare gift that she combines with superb editing.
There were a lot of contributing causes, but it wouldn't have happened if not for the fact that Tenerife North airport was massively overcrowded due to Gran Canaria airport being suddenly closed (for unrelated reasons) and flights forced to divert.

The issue wasn't with landing specifically; I'm just using it as a general example of issues caused by havoc situations in aviation.
I really like her content, especially the earthship videos. The 'home engineering' that goes into these buildings is awesome. Though I'll probably never get to build one, would happily play a game based on this (like some sort of physics based survival game? Is this a thing?)
Greatly appreciate the suggestion! but I recently joined another YC backed Gen AI startup in the fine-tuning space (OpenPipe) :-D

Speaking of, there's a good chance fine tuned models will be a component of your fully-optimized codebase -> wiki automation process at some point in the future. Likely to increase consistency/reliability of LLM responses as clear patterns start to emerge in the process. If y'all decide to layer that on or even explore it as an optimization strategy hit us (or me directly) up. We love collaborating w/ engineers working on problems at the edge like this, aside from how engaging the problems themselves are, it also helps us build our best possible product too!

Very excited to follow your journey! just sent you a LI request.

Thanks again so much for sharing your wisdom!
So ... the checksum of all the Seinfeld episodes?
I think you have to look beyond the company. In my experience, even the people implementing these tools hate them and rarely have some evil desire to spy on their employees and slow down their laptops. But without them as part of the IT suite, the company can't tick the EDR or AV box, pass a certain certification, land a certain type of customer, etc. It is certainly an unfortunate cycle.
I've not seen that at my fortune 100. I found other's willing to agree and we walked it up to the most senior evp in the corporation. Got face time andbwe weren't punished. Just, nothing changed. Some of the directors that helped walk it up the chain eventually became more powerful and the suggested actions took place about 15 years later.
It's perfectly normal for binary artifacts to contain null bytes, even long runs of them.
This isn't really a good faith response. This prevention of functionality during a critical period while forcing an update would be like if a modern car refused to drive during an emergency due to a forced over the air update that paused the ability to drive till the update was finished.
Texas, where software goes to die. Or maybe that is where killer software is developed?
> Hypothetically, there's an optimal level of inflammatory response.

Surely this is directly dependent on the context of the organism.
Pretty sure the cost wasn't hidden
ublock origin is what you want to be using. ublock was the original project and the maintainer gave up maintenance to someone else. It didn't work out, so he came back and forked it as ublock origin. If you are having problems with ublock origin, read the troubleshooting section of the docs (or whatever they call it)
Why would I have any reason to believe your post was written by a piece of software? What a horrible "conversation" this has been. The point is to give fair readings to other posters here. Not whatever it is you are doing here.
I think various auditing standards are forcing it, regardless of whether you think its a good thing or not.
Installing software is painful- some of this is perhaps related to how the IT group has restricted so much for us, can't even change my screen saver, and weirdness like bizarre pop ups asking for your password from time to time. It just doesn't belong on a developer machine.
While I agree that sheet notation is superior, it actually is fairly common to indicate duration and articulation in tablature, especially classical. See many of the tabs on classtab.org: https://www.classtab.org/tabbing.htm#key

Surprisingly (to me), tablature is apparently older than sheet music. Tabs are also pretty nice when you're dealing with non-standard tunings.

Lastly, even with standard notation, guitar music is often "unnecessarily" annotated with numbers for left hand fingering, roman numerals for barres, "pima" for the right hand, diamonds for harmonics, etc.
They don't have a legal duty to maximize profits, they have a legal duty to represent the fiduciary interests of the shareholders. If the company doesn't make as much profit next quarter but it will be healthier in the long run for it, that is perfectly OK.
> showing everyone where and how I was wearing a money belt

I only fly once every couple years, but I really hated emptying my pockets into those bins. The last time I went through, the agent suggested I put everything in my computer bag. That worked a lot better.
The Linux kernel predates Windows 95 (as do the first distributions). GNU predates even the first version of Windows.
His example actually had 2 parts. One RH bricking the OS, the other one with a commercial vendor creating software with separate auto update.

You've only addressed the RH OS angle.
Somebody upthread pointed out that it installs a root CA and forces all of your HTTPS connections to use it. I verified that he's correct - I'm on Hacker News right now with an SSL connection that's verified by "ZScaler Root CA", not Digicert.
Incapacitation is only one of the reasons we imprison people, albeit the most important reason and the most easily defensible. Murderers who are unlikely to reoffend are still put into prison because our prisons are also for punishing people who do things we think are worthy of punishment. There's no contradiction here, prisons simultaneously serve several purposes.
It demonstrates terrible QC.
I think its by design. I can't imagine any other reason for Amazon to show me "Will arrive tomorrow via prime shipping" on the item page and then, only when it is in the cart showing me actual delivery being 4+ days.

I am guessing that since it is such a hassle to go back to the cart, pull the item with the false shipping dates, and then find another similar item with good shipping dates, add to cart, go through checkout, find out that shipping is actually 4+ days, rinse and repeat until you either get lucky or give up, they're probably not going to fix it because it makes them more money to keep you frustrated.
The minimum power supply is dimensioned to allow for USB powered peripherals.

The idle power consumption of such a SBC like Radxa X4 must be significantly below 5 W, probably around 2 to 3 W.

That is still too high for standard AA batteries, but rechargeable batteries should work.

If a long battery life would be needed, it is likely that one can shut down the N100 CPU and wake it up either periodically or on USB activity caused by the RP2040 MCU. That should reduce the average power consumption to fractions of a watt.
Then you end up like some of our customers with log4j. We are consultants and notice that a cave for log4j comes out. We inform our customers that we have detected an issue under active exploit, and we performed an update to non vulnerable versions and want to deploy. Customer waffles for days and gets exploited before he decides to upgrade.
Threats are often only minutes away. We are currently away to slow and manual updates are slowing you down even more.
Now imagine the base level of your universal machines is opaque proprietary code, its necessity enforced by cryptographic signature. Imagine that the processes putting that code there, which you can't touch because intellectual property rentier reasons, are varying degrees of what we see here today with Crowdstrike, and suddenly it makes more sense to ensure total and complete owner sovereignty over his universal machines so owners can implement diversification strategies.
Marcan is an beast, this guy really loves to go down the rabbit holes.
To ensure that we are on the same page, describe for me what you are looking at. Does it appear to be a human, or does it appear to be software?
That’s not a lathe nor a CNC system. Again, which CNC manufacturers are installing windows + crowdstrike on their machines just so they can spy on their customers? You’re all just spreading conjecture. This attitude isn’t at all as widespread (nor profitable) in low(ish) volume B2B hardware sectors.

These industries have terrible track records wrt security and even software robustness, but they don’t routinely spy on their customers for weird marketing reasons. If there’s remote connectivity it’s for real reasons (eg remote maintenance, updates etc).

The suggestion that CNC machines run internet connected windows+crowdstrike just so the manufacturer can spy on their customers strikes me as pretty ridiculous and your garage door story doesn’t really relate. Much more likely that they do it for (possibly bad) non-malicious reasons.
Something like

zero_output_file(fh, len(file))

flush()

fill_output_file(fh, data)

with an oops in line 3?
Funny, many news agencies blamed Microsoft for this.
So, having a walled garden like on android or on iOS is beneficial for google/apple. Where regular developers cannot release unverified software or software which work at the kernel space.
> The problem here would be that there's not enough people who can provide the level of protection a third-party vendor claims to provide, and a person (or persons) with comparable level of expertise would be much more expensive likely.

Is that because of economies of scale or because the vendor is just cutting costs while hiding their negligence?

I don't understand how a single vendor was able to deploy an update to all of these systems virtually simultaneously, and _that_ wasn't identified as a risk. This smells of mindless box checking rather than sincere risk assessment and security auditing.
This should not have passed a competent C/I pipeline for a system in the critical path.

I’m not even particularly stringent when it comes to automated test across-the-board but for this level of criticality of system, you need exceptionally good state management

To the point where you should not roll to production without an integration test on every environment that you claim to support

Like it’s insane to me that this size and criticality of a company doesn’t have a staging or even a development test server that tests all of the possible target images that they claim to support.

Who is running stuff over there - total incompetence
Again, as I feel I must every time Connections is mentioned: That series is an unmitigated masterpiece. It really is ...
Love it! Great quote and very on point.

As for Heraclitus vs. Plato, I think the lesson I’m trying to teach is to not pick a side until you understand each position’s implications and which of those might be more beneficial to the problem at hand ;)