Posts by TheMajectic

Datacus extractus: Harry Potter publisher breached without resorting to magic

Wild what's going on out there. I kinda feel bad for the admins that preach safe infosec, ask for budget increases to actually setup safe systems and never get heard until this happens.... Then it's too late

Oracle's Java price hikes push CIOs to brew new licensing strategies

Re: Java alternatives

I think you're thinking that Java is the same as JavaScript, it's not the same thing. Even though Oracle currently owns the trademark to JavaScript, Java being talked about here is primarily backend and HTML5 with JavaScript is front end exclusively

Everything you need to know to start fine-tuning LLMs in the privacy of your home

This is fantastic, more like this please. It's very different from the pay walled and AI generated content on many other places...

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

Socio-technological impact

I think it's fair to say that software today has a much bigger impact on the social fabric than we originally thought

Microsoft dusts off ancient MS-DOS 4.0 code for release on GitHub

Someone ported. Net 2 recently to 95

I think hobbyists have a lMattKCot of interest in doing this. But yes it doesn't make sense, for this someone() that did the. NET back porting did it just for fun

Version 5 of systemd-free Debian remix Devuan is here

Re: Being based off ...

I appreciate the humor, honesty and clarification. English being my 5th language, I understood you the first time, being based off has that feel of detachment, being based on has the feeling of varying degrees of attachment, being based in would have the feeling of strict attachment. I don't actually understand how being based of would be relevant since that would mean Devuan is related to Debian but not strictly so as each could independently exist

FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds

Re: Pretty impressive

Absolutely agree, everything has its place

Intel adds fresh x86 and vector instructions for future chips

Far too many x86 instructions

There are already hundreds of instructions no one uses anymore so what's a few more