HarriPotero

Why does a 13-year-old have access to guns?

I'm a unix-guru.

If I were to shave I'd get a -5 penalty on my bash magic.

If I skip showers for a month I can interface directly with any device in /dev

It depends on how far down the rabbithole you go.

I switched to Linux 27 years ago. My wife asks me to help her with her Windows computer every now and then, and I can't really do it for more than a few minutes before my blood pressure is in the risk zone.

Looks like France is enforcing chat control 2.0 a bit prematurely.

The EU council is meeting to discuss it again on October 10. A new vote is likely in mid-December. Many parties and countries have turned their coat to support the proposal.

The fight is not over.

On the other hand.. consider if your cat had walked over the keyboard before it rebooted and replaced it all with hhhhgggggggggggggggggggghgf before it auto saved and replaced the document. Would you still be an advocate for auto save?

It sucks to lose work, but this is clearly a user error.

I thought it was an ncurses multiplayer tetris-clone.

We have all universally adopted Rich Communication Services, which is an open standard.

Well, except for Apple. They haven't adopted it.

Additionally, chat monitoring would not apply to accounts used for national security, investigations, or military purposes.

Why do they want to protect the pedophiles working for nations and militaries?

I do the opposite.

• "I'm thinking to go shop for new winter boots on Saturday"

• "I'll allow it."

People sometimes do this to scout easy targets to rob.

If it didn't move until their next burglary spree, you probably haven't been home since they planted it.

Put it away and ask around if your neighbours had something out of place in their front yard.

It's a cryogenics lab, so icy.

Something similar happened to this Finnish chainsaw juggler. He had just come back from performing at Kim Jong-Un's birthday and had a stubborn headache that wouldn't go away. Straight to the mental ward.

Article in Finnish, I'm sure Google translate does a decent job.

My 350€ three-year old phone has an SoC with 12GB of RAM.

I treat religion like my penis.

It's ok not to have one.

It's ok to have one.

It's ok to be proud of it.

But don't display it in public, and don't shove it down people's throats.

And NEVER whip it out in congress.

Overwhelmingly positive.

Do you remember when Microsoft tried to patent sudo?

Pepperidge farm remembers.

The article states that part of the compensation was stock and stock options. Likely incentive programs from previous years that finally paid off.

edit: looks like spez got 600k salary, and the rest of the compensation is solely based on the stock's performance.. and he can't cash that out unless someone is willing to buy all that reddit stock.

Consumer rights in the EU are pretty strong. They include two-week free returns, no questions asked, on things purchased online/remote.

These rights do not extend to businesses, though. Sounds like Amazon is not interested in being helpful unless legislation is twisting their arm.

That we do abortions for fun.

I mean, I do do abortions for fun. But not because I'm an atheist.

It think they drew the wrong conclusions.

It's not the high income-countries that are spearheading this decrease. It's the high cost of living-countries.

I haven't done that in a long time.

Most recently I probably overclocked my original playstation portable.

Slackware and Red Hat were the two distros in use in the mid 90s.

My local city used proper UNIX, and my university had IRIXworkstations SPARCstations and SunOS servers. We used Linux at my ISP to handle modem pools and web/mail/news servers. In the early 2000s we had Linux labs, and Linux clusters to work on.

Linux on the desktop was a bit painful. There were no modules. Kernels had to fit into main memory. So you'd roll your own kernel with just the drivers you needed. XFree86 was tricky to configure with timings for your CRT monitors. If done wrong, you could break your monitor.

I used FVWM2 and Enlightenment for many years. I miss Enlightenment.

"Can God microwave a burrito so hot that he himself cannot eat it?"

I was just wondering how they even managed to get publicly listed with that track record. Apparently a reverse merger with a company previously set up for just that purpose is just a slap on the wrist.

PeerTube uses Webtorrents to offload hosting of hueg files.

Odysee uses something similar to do the same. (At least they claim to, but last time I took a dig at it it seemed to be hosted "regularly")

Spotify famously had their own p2p-thing going in their desktop apps in the early days. Saved them a pretty coin back when hosting was expensive.

Coming to a browser near you is IPFS.

It's probably getting more rare as hardware gets more complicated.

You can barely get modern computers to boot without some proprietary blob. MINIX was a great stepping stone back in the day, and ran on plenty of hardware.

I have a sweet spot for MorphOS in my computer collection.

I do love bare-metal programming, but it just isn't feasible for wide targets like modern machines. I guess the next best thing is writing virtual machines for my own needs.

btrfs every day of the week. The only scenario where I'd even consider something else is for databases that would suffer from CoW.

I've been running it on my home server since 2010. The same array has grown from 6x2TB to 6x4TB, one disk at a time as they've failed. Currently sitting at 2x18TB+1x4TB. No data loss even though many drives have failed.

Jolla is the successor to Nokia's Maemo/Meego OS which was proper Linux. Jolla does have seamless Android emulation. They don't do their own phones anymore, though.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!

Not me, and not Linux, but a school mate found the following bash snippet online :(){ :|:& };:.

Naturally, he tried it on the SunOS servers we had access to for schoolwork. He got his account suspended for the rest of the year.

I think most Linux distros are configured to kill fork bombs nowadays.

Same. I bought some 70 bitcoins for 50€ when I first heard of it. Kept mining on a radeon 9770 or something at about 1BTC or 5€ per week. Electricity was included in my rent then, but I stopped because fan noise.

I lost a bunch on mtgox. Cashed out for a down payment on a house way too early (2016). I'd be rich if I had hodled.

I've been going with LiGNUx. The G is silent.

BBSes are making a comeback. This time over telnet. They're just as great as they used to be.

It feels like a common and repetitive theme that doesn't bring much discussion to the table. I might be an old grumpy fart, and I probably would've done the same posts back in 1997 when I left Windows NT 4.0 in the rear view mirror.

I'd much prefer to keep the discussion on Linux and not other operating systems. I enjoy AmigaOS and MorphOS as well, but I can't recall anyone every comparing those to Windows on the forums.

Been running BTRFS since 2010. Ext2/3/4 before that.

Using it for CoW, de-duplication, compression. My home file server has had a long-lived array of mis-matched devices. Started at 4x2TB, through 6x4TB and now 2x18+4TB. I just move up a size whenever a disk fails.

Define cold.

I have an air-water heat pump as the only source of heat and hot water in my house. It takes heat from the air outside and dumps it into a 200 litre water tank. I'd guesstimate that 80% of the homes in my neighborhood have the same setup.

Temperatures are going to be around -10°C for the next few days. When the silver falls below -15°C a resistive element kicks in to help the pump. In my climate I won't see more than a handful of those per year.

Nordic models scale down to -30°C before doing the same.

I was torrenting porn with good speed.

I think it's a bit more invasive of a browser to inject shit depending on the sites I visit.

I worked at a niche factory some 20 years ago. We had a tape robot with 8 tapes at some 200GB each. It'd do a full backup of everyone's home directories and mailboxes every week, and incremental backups nightly.

We'd keep the weekly backups on-site in a safe. Once a month I'd do a run to another plant one town over with a full backup.

I guess at most we'd need five tapes. If they still use it, and with modern tapes, it should scale nicely. Today's LTO-tapes are 18TB. Driving five tapes half an hour would give a nice bandwidth of 50GB/s. The bottleneck would be the write speed to tape at 400MB/s.

On that level it usually falls on computer scientists. Formal methods can prove that any implementation is correct, but proving the absence of unintended attacks is a lot harder.

Needham-Schroeder comes to mind as an example from back when I was studying the things.