That one will move to twitter.

I'd agree, but the caveat is that github is primarily about an interface for source control and collaboration between developers for projects. The release page is really just an also-ran in terms of importance.

I think in the case of forced agreements (both Roku not having a way to select disagree and disabling all hardware functionality until you agree, and blizzard not allowing login to existing games including non-live service ones) no reasonable court should be viewing this as freely accepting the new conditions.

If you buy a new game with those conditions, sure you should be able to get a full refund though, and you could argue it for ongoing live service games where you pay monthly that it's acceptable to change the conditions with some notice ahead of time. If you don't accept you can no longer use the ongoing paid for features, I expect a court would allow that. But there's no real justification for disabling hardware you already own or disabling single player games you already paid for in full.

It'll be interesting to see any test cases that come from these examples.

Papers that would be released 5 years after the engineer got doom to run on it.

I like this kind of protest. Using their own rules against them. But, you know admins are going to do something. r/PICS are keeping up the good work where others have folded and I salute them from the fediverse.

I remember, I was on holiday 4 or 5 years ago. I was sitting at the bar having my morning coffee and browsing reddit and I was getting annoyed that if I went to get a drink from the bar when I came back and turned the screen back on it would reset my position in the comments.

So, I asked around and was recommended RIF. Not only did it keep comment position, but it was just all round in every single way better.

No, I couldn't go back to the official app.

People work from home in their bed? I've been doing this for a decade and a half now. I don't think I've worked from my bed once. Now I have a dedicated office but when I didn't I, you know, made a small surface my desk area and brought in a chair.

Regardless, it's propaganda of a sort. For sure.

I think most people make this mistake when first entering the workforce though, right? I know I did. Now, I get called pessimistic and cynical. But, I've got three decades of experience at various levels of company. With all that experience, I'd prefer to call myself a realist.

Pffft spez. He just flies commercial.

Follow up post.

"I don't want to write a fucking essay nerds! Just make a GUI and put it in an .EXE!!!!!!1111111111 spittle sp[pzpzzzzzzzqawjpoidqweiofrjowqefj"

The guys themselves made a pretty good write-up. https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/zenbleed.html

The short version is that the very large registers on the modern CPUs aren't fixed things like they used to be, they're allocated from some register area on the die. When they "zero" the upper portion of one of the large registers it doesn't really clear it. It just releases the block back to available.

Another thing all CPUs need these days to keep fast is branch prediction. CPUs are only fast if they can keep the pipeline of upcoming commands (opcodes) to process full. So they often run both possible routes for a branch and discard the loser.

In this case they "trick" the CPU by asking it to "clear" a block of one of these large registers (the upper half). But then have the branch go the other way. What sometimes happens is that the register space is "released" but it has to take it back. In some specific circumstances they are able to have the register come back, but not with the original contents but with some random contents of maybe another register that was used by another thread (maybe even running on a different VM guest).

I have a server with a 3000 series CPU. I can confirm this definitely works. You'll get all kind of random blocks of memory from processes running as all users (and kernel code). For AMD processors running VM servers it is even worse. Because if you have say a VPS running on an AMD Zen2 CPU, you can login as any user run this and get random data from people on other VPS on the same hardware!

There is a linux workaround, and it seems most CPUs will be fixed by December.

Note: If you have access to a VPS that is vulnerable, do note that in most countries it is illegal to even try to exploit this.

Make one :P

Then I suspect you'll find the answer is money. The ones for women simply just make more money.

Well base operating system or hardware driver. There are exceptions, the pps driver for timekeeping makes sense to be kernel level too.

But games developers? No, they have no right to ring 0. I understand they want to protect from cheats, but they're just moving the battleground to a part of the system that results in blue screens/panics when it fails. And cheat developers will follow them there and even move to the hypervisor if needed, trust me on that.

Ah yes, they're standing in x-crement.

Well you need the screwdriver (with the smorx 5omble bit) to open the maintenance panel and access the button you hold while booting to get the unlocked bootloader, so you can install Linux and then subsequently doom.

Elementary.

I think this is the answer. Time for the companies to experience the bad side of fire and rehire.

@elonjet we can, I just followed.

Coming soon to reddit patch notes.

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This is pretty much how it is in most of Europe. At least generally in the UK drinks are served by the people working there and the machines are behind the counter.

I remember some years ago burger king sometimes had self serve drink machines. But cannot say I've been inside one in the UK for some time. So may no longer be the case.

The other exception is Costco which seems to work like an outstation of the USA over here. They have the self serve drink machine that is almost always out of syrup and allows refills.

Having said all that it does seem like penny pinching.

Yes, but you lose your save game every reboot.

I love that this is the solution to all the logged-out user crap they've pulled lately.

Alas, I suspect it means they will drop old. in the near future.

Indeed. They had the whole chart showing exactly what would be paid by who. Their original post was designed not to be confusing and it wasn't.

I would say that none of the current operating systems were developed by individuals.

Linux, the original kernel was written mostly by Linus. But that was extremely basic by today's terms. There are hundreds (or more) contributors to the modern kernel. Security alone could not be a single person's job now, I'd argue.

Windows. Well, I don't think one person wrote that. 1.0 was already when MS was a business with multiple developers. The modern Windows OS has a full size kernel also like Linux and likewise one person would not be able to write something so monolithic.

macOS I don't know much about, but it's built on top of an existing *ix kernel and again one person didn't make the current version.

So individuals would struggle to make a modern secure network aware operating system.

As others have stated, there's really no reason to. The Linux kernel is free and open-source and is quite modularized. So you can take what you want from that to build your own micro to macro kernel, and then add tools you write yourself or curate afterwards. Would it truly be a new OS? Debatable, but then again, to make something secure enough for the modern era from scratch? I don't know how many people would want to even try now.

function goingToCrashIntoEachother()
{
    // NYI
    return false;
}

I did wonder what all the fuss was about. I don't live in Scotland, I live in the UK though. So it's kinda partially relevant to me. It's also relevant to JK Rowling I guess. But really not sure why Musk or Rogan feel the need to weigh in.

So, the act itself is not that long and is here https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2021/14/introduction. There was also a 70+ page consultation/memorandum document that I also read (here https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/legislation/bills/s5-bills/hate-crime-and-public-order-scotland-bill/introduced/policy-memorandum-hate-crime-and-public-order-scotland-bill.pdf).

So, I think generally the law is well-meaning and a good thing. I think there were a few things I took issue with in the consultancy. Those were mainly that they had a review of the law by a lord, and a consultancy with individuals and organisations. However, they seemed to just not take into account some of the recommendations from either source when it didn't suit them.

When the consultancy didn't turn up a result they liked, they would just state that it's likely the people didn't favour hate crime law overall. Now to me that's kinda the point. If most people don't want an extension of hate crime law, and you're asking them about creating an extension of hate crime law, that consideration should have been taken into account.

I also think that Lord Bracadale raised a few good points which were also dismissed. The main one being about not including insulting as a qualifier for the new hate crime law. Here, I'd agree with what the people surveyed said. The term is far too subjective to be used in a law with such a maximum sentence. There's nothing wrong with the spirit of the law, but I believe it should be abundantly clear when the line for breaking the law has been crossed. Saying "that a reasonable person would consider to be threatening, abusive or insulting" isn't a clear objective statement. It makes it very subjective and very interpretable by the police officer(s) involved and the CPS.

Of course, none of the above is why the aforementioned people are complaining. But having read through it, those are just my concerns.

I have the same concerns about the Public Order Act (UK law, 1986) that has similar subjective definitions. However, that doesn't include "insulting" and only has a maximum sentence of 6 months and is almost always dealt with by way of a fine. So, the threshold being low and subjective isn't as concerning. This law seems to have a lower threshold to satisfy (despite the memorandum document stating it was meant to have a higher threshold than the existing laws it replaced and augmented) but a considerably longer maximum sentence (1 year summary, 7 years on indictment), which will almost certainly mean higher values in the sentencing guidelines. This is my main concern with it.

In summary, I think as an act and new law overall, it's fine and I do hope if used appropriately it will make people safer. I just feel like there's scope for over-zealous application due to the subjective language used. Time will tell I guess if that happens or not once cases and convictions start to happen.

But new IPv4 allocations have run out. I've seen ISPs that won the lottery in the 90s/2000s (when the various agencies controlling IP allocations just tossed them around like they were nothing) selling large blocks for big money.

Many ISPs offer only CGNAT, require signing up to the higher speed/more expensive packages to get a real IP, or charge extra on top of the standard package for one. I fully expect this trend to continue.

The non-move to IPv6 is laziness, incompetence, or the sheer fact they can monetize the finite resource of IPv4 addresses and pass the costs onto the consumer. I wonder which it is.

Last time I heard a dial tone was just a second ago when I pushed the speakerphone button on my Cisco ip phone.

The thing is, every Boeing plane that has any problem is going to make it to the news right now. So it's very hard to see what is relevant and what is just "one of those things". So, this will make them look worse than they really are.

Having said that, they have problems. My opinion is that cost-cutting has created all their recent actual problems (MCAS, missing bolts, loose bolts etc) and I'd argue that unless the actual location(s) responsible for these problems is identified, the safest thing to do would be to recall ALL aircraft recently (last 3 years AT LEAST) serviced, repaired or had their configuration changed at a Boeing owned or subcontracted location should be reviewed for substandard work.

My reasoning here is that if we have loose/missing bolts on the 737 Max 8/9 and -900ER. It won't stop there, it is going to almost certainly be an institutionalised problem of quality control slippage that could affect any aircraft maintenance, repair, or adjustment operation.

But, I'm not an aviation expert, so my opinion is worth very little.

Well damn, that web server has a good union.

I think this really comes down to whether the employee was IT (and to an extent part of the network team). If so, I'd say there's a lot of questions to be answered here. If not, there's also a lot of questions to be answered but not from that employee :P

The thing is, this actually if anything proves the strength of the fediverse. Lemmy.world is not Lemmy and Lemmy is not the fediverse. Just find another instance that has not blocked the community yet and carry on with your day.

Lemmy.world have every right to curate the experience for their users as they see fit and/or feel comfortable carrying the risk for.

But, what kind of software do they have that uses one price source for the unit pricing display and another source for calculating the total? It seems that it is destined to create more problems like this one.

I don't want to be that asshole Andy. But 0.1% of 1,000,000 is 1000. :P

It's not random. At the end they let users place a pixel just as before, but the only colour available is white. It's not random hence why there was an organised push for the huge Fuck Spez that appeared.

I always think of the ferengis when people use men to describe men, and females to describe women.

OK, one possibility I can think of. At some point, files may have been created where there is currently a mount point which is hiding folders that are still there, on the root partition.

You can remount just the root partition elsewhere by doing something like

mkdir /mnt/rootonly
mount -o bind / /mnt/rootonly

Then use du or similar to see if the numbers more closely resemble the values seen in df. I'm not sure if that graphical tool you used that views the filesystem can see those files hidden this way. So, it's probably worth checking just to rule it out.

Anyway, if you see bigger numbers in /mnt/rootonly, then check the mount points (like /mnt/rootonly/home and /mnt/rootonly/boot/efi). They should be empty, if not those are likely files/folders that are being hidden by the mounts.

When finished you can unmount the bound folder with

umount /mnt/rootonly

Just an idea that might be worth checking.

You're right, that sounds better than the average HR rep.

I've travelled to Italy quite a bit. In every case yes, prices on the main tourist thoroughfares are high. Sometimes eye-wateringly high.

But invariably you do not need to go very far to get off the beaten track and find much better deals. Explore and profit.

The constant growth aspect of capitalism means that profits are never obscene enough for any business.

In other news, War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.