* Posts by Drakon

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Mixing Rust and C in Linux likened to cancer by kernel maintainer

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Re: Attitude

Sounds like my experience with *insert language here*

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There is an interesting point raised in the mailing list. While the Rust bindings are the responsibility of the Rust team, changes to the C API could break the Rust bindings. While it would be on the Rust team to fix, the “you break it, you fix it” policy is broken and getting a change merged is going to depend on both the subsystem maintainer and the Rust team.

WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses snoop on staff

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> I could be designing on a piece of paper, making a cup of Tea or many other 'normal' work activities, and Teams reckons I am away from the desk and not working. This is stress I don't need.

Teams shows me as ‘not working’ when it isn’t the actively-focused window.

Microsoft's London 'Experience Center' packs up and goes home

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You mean the Puma?

Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI

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Re: Some of us...

I didn’t understand that, I never opted-out and the feature isn’t enabled for me

Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law, advocacy groups argue

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> Meta communications director Andy Stone responded with his opinion that Apple is really saying “They don't believe in interoperability. In fact, every time Apple is called out for anti-competitive behavior, they defend themselves on privacy grounds that have no basis in reality."

And Meta is the last organisation I’m going to listen to regarding anything involving privacy.

RISC-V is making moves, but it has work to do if it wants to hit the mainstream

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Re: Myopic View

> Ampere ARM servers, working like a breeze at Hetzner, Amazon and so on.

Pretty sure Amazon uses their own ARM CPU’s, not Ampere’s

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Re: It isn't free

They offer the laptop with Windows pre-installed as an option.

Google Timeline location purge causes collateral damage

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Re: World's smallest violin

How did they know you didn’t read the emails?

Why we're still waiting for Canonical's immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop

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I think it is possible to fake an FHS file system layout

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NixOS is immutable without Flatpak/Snap, if you can deal with the weird configuration/package manager

HashiCorp unveils 'Terraform 2.0' while tiptoeing around Big Blue elephant in the room

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Re: Do they allow testing yet?

I guess the point is that all inputs are known at runtime, so a non-applying plan should handle all of what you just listed and show you what the expected output would be

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Re: Oh, they're being bought by IBM ?

We’ll ignore their blatant violation of the GPL

Bitwarden switches password manager and SDK to GPL3 after FOSS-iness drama

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> - Separate contract that punishes you if you share the source code (such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux, where they can end your support contract and future updates)

From the GPLv3:

> You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License. For example, you may not impose a license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of rights granted under this License, and you may not initiate litigation (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any patent claim is infringed by making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the Program or any portion of it.

Is punishing you for exercising your rights under the GPL an “additional term”? I don’t know, I’m not a lawyer.

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

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Re: 1939 Soviet invasion of Finland (Winter War)

Why is it that Russian bootlickers consistently have a problem spelling “Zelenskyy” correctly?

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Re: 1939 Soviet invasion of Finland (Winter War)

Interesting that you'd call a country with a Jewish president a "Banderite regime", given that said president would be someone they'd happily execute.

Google Cloud burst by 12-hour power outage in German region

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Re: Is It Possible ...?

A cloud setup is also safe if you know what you’re doing

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Re: Is It Possible ...?

No, I don’t remember the name and I doubt it lasted long

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Re: 99.99 errr NEIN!

In this case, it seems like the loss of a single zone caused a knock-on effect in the two other zones.

If you were just running VM's (as you would in your own datacenter) you would've only been affected if your VM's were in that zone (as you would if your self-hosted datacenter had these issues).

The issue I'm seeing here is that some of GCP's managed services weren't resilient to the loss of a single zone, that's a concern.

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Re: Is It Possible ...?

> Yes. You could even set up a crowd-owned global system - anyone who offers space on a server gets a piece of the pie.

I'm pretty sure this has been done. Unfortunately it involves cryptocurrency for some reason.

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Re: 99.99 errr NEIN!

> What happened to Cloud being always there persistent and available?

Who said this was ever the case?

Hugging Face puts the squeeze on Nvidia's software ambitions

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But have they successfully prevented side fumbling?

Ford CEO admits he drives a Chinese electric vehicle and doesn't want to give it up

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"One car goes 150 to 200 miles as an all electric car, and it has a small internal combustion engine that powers the batteries. One tank of gas gives a range of up to 1,000 to 1,200 kilometers."

Isn't that just a hybrid? That isn't new.

AWS Cloud Development Kit flaw exposed accounts to full takeover

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It seems to me that having bucket names be unique across the entirety of AWS is part of the problem. Oracle Cloud (shockingly) has them be unique at the account level instead which would've avoided this entire issue.

Don't know how Azure handles it, I know GCP has the same issue as AWS.

Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free

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Re: Mah

However, you also have to consider that adapting to the cloud will also likely (though not certainly) lead to vendor lock-in. It's avoidable, if you know what you're doing.

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Re: So just to be clear.....

How is it in an unknown jurisdiction?

Spectre flaws continue to haunt Intel and AMD as researchers find fresh attack method

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Re: And this is the reason why Win11 drops older processors

Or, the PC manufacturers wanted to sell more hardware by forced obsolescence.

Valve powers up Arch Linux – because who needs Windows when you have a Steam Deck?

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Is it really monopolistic behaviour if your competition just sucks in comparison?

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Re: Woa - desktops = production??

"Do you guys not have phones?" - Blizzard, 2018

Latest in WordPress war: Automattic says it wanted 8% cut of WP Engine revenue

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Or maybe he realised that the 'problem' has changed.

Intel thinks it's got a final microcode fix for recalcitrant Raptor Lake processors

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Re: sounds like

This has nothing to do with Microsoft.

'Almost every Apple device' vulnerable to CocoaPods supply chain attack

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FAIL

Fortunately CocoaPods isn't an Apple product

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FAIL

Re: > You are sneering at Apple, and yet there's a Linux snafu published...

> OpenSSH isn't even Linux!

And CocoaPods isn't a service provided or developed by Apple!

AT&T intends to quit VMware, Broadcom claims in legal broadside

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VMware for agreeing to it and Broadcom for refusing to honour a contract they’re now bound by.

Datacenters bleed watts and cash – all because they're afraid to flip a switch

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Facepalm

You mean IPv6 isn't causing my speakers to become posessed?

Majority of Redis users considering alternatives after less permissive licensing move

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Re: Failure to understand: Open Source

> The GPL requires you "give back" in return for the free stuff. If you improve it, your improvements are required to be shared.

Not if you're hosting the modified version of the free stuff. This is what Amazon et al were doing.

The AGPL however removes this "SaaS exemption".

Disney kicks Slack to the curb, looks to Microsoft Teams for a happily ever after

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Re: Element isn't going to attract many customers

Element is also somehow worse than Teams, so there’s also that issue

Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate

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Re: Hard truths

C# is more of a competitor to Java than C, and Swift was designed primarily for Apple platforms, but I get your point.

The end is in sight for Windows 10, but Microsoft keeps pushing out fixes

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It’s almost like there’s a completely arbitrary requirement to have a TPM installed…

Begun, the open source AI wars have

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> That's all well and good, but Maffulli doesn't feel a purely idealistic approach to the open source AI definition will work because no one will be able to meet the definition.

So it’s pointless.

Pop!_OS 24.04 and new COSMIC desktop reach alpha

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It’s surprisingly robust for an Alpha, to be honest

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You can move the top panel to the bottom if that's what you mean, and I'm pretty sure making it more like a Windows-esque taskbar is already possible.

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Re: First we have the COSMIC desktop...

They'd have to maintain ABI compatibility with Linux. Possible? Yes. Likely? No.

You also have the rather significant issue of driver support. The AMDGPU driver *could* be ported by a few/a lot of smart people, but a lot of System76 hardware uses NVIDIA GPU's.

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IIRC System76 laptops come with Coreboot pre-installed, if that’s your thing

Oracle reports rising top line as it hooks up database service to AWS

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Re: "When people are actually doing things manually, it's a security risk"

Nah, the BOFH would take the existential approach.

The most secure network is one that doesn’t exist.

Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It's one of our oldest

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Re: Why a new language?

> Not being a programmer/developer, it seems to me that asking existing C developers to learn and maintain a C-to-Rust API so that the Linux kernel can be written in Rust is basically the same as pretending that those C developers do the work for the Rust crowd.

The Rust maintainers were going to take on this responsibility.

Google says replacing C/C++ in firmware with Rust is easy

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Re: Wanna give some examples?

> Agreed on the GC - it is my #1 resistance motivator to having Rust in a kernel

That's good, because there is no GC in Rust

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