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Boffins ponder paltry brain data rate of 10 bits per second

Re: The brain

Did the cat answer?

Re: Thought experiment.

Merely encoding the words zis insufficient. Now quantify processing them individually, then in sentences, then deriving meaning from them

The research is idiotic.

I call BS

How then can a person read, write, type at the speeds we do. How can a person play a video game or drive a car?

Cast a hex on ChatGPT to trick the AI into writing exploit code

"...was it plotting its escape?"

It will be now!

SvarDOS: DR-DOS is reborn as an open source operating system

Diskettes? What're they again?

I did not keep the DOS disks. I kept the DOS disk images. They are replicated on a set of long term CDROM backups in climate controlled storage. I have climate controlled storage not for the DOS images, mind, but for a book collection.

Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy'

Notepad++

Re: Sudo

I agree it is not black magic. It is clearly documented how to do this in, for example, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment and also in UNIX Network Programming.

Re: Is it just me...

The them. You know, them.

Re: How long before systemd ...

This is in fact Poeterring's stated goal.

Re: It's the only way to be sure.

If you have to use Power shell to invoke Windows' sudo I think we are safe. Nobody will use it.

Would systemd destroy bash or would systemd destroy humanity? I really want to know.

Re: As I Have Mentioned Before......................

It'd ne fair to say most Windows & Apple users are only interested in the applications. I don't think that is accurate of most Linux users. A lot of Linux users are shepherding servers and thus really actually do care about the init system and daemon MGMT and networking MGMT and so on. A lot of desktop Linux users are interested in the guts of the system.

On the face of it, guy, if Linux users really just care about applications then why are Linux users opinionated about the part of the system you think they don't care about. If they did not have to interact with it they would not care. You know, nobody gets hot under the collar about fstab... except when systemd raises it's head by being unable to figure out that changes have been made to it.

Re: Pottering … how?

Distro makers like it as it is fairly turn-key.

Also, one of the major desktops - Gnome IIRC - hooked systemd code, direct link level library dependency. I think this has been rolled back but for quite a while you could not ship Gnome without also shipping systemd. So that kind of made it hard to not ship systemd.

FFS

Poettering was quoted years ago as saying his intent was to replace the Linux kernel by surrounding it with the entire init system and then burrowing in (very loose paraphrase). I think the time has come for him to put up or fuck off. Release an OS and leave UNIX to it's "primitive outdated stupid philosophy" and it's shell scripts, and free Linux from this systemd cruft.

systemd begrudgingly drops a safety net while a challenger appears, GNU Shepherd 1.0

Systemd or Guile/lisp. Can I just have a gun?

Systemd is the product of a grudge Poetering seems to hold against Linus because Linus told Poetering to be consistent and improve his code quality. So we are saddled with an init system that expresses P's desire to destroy L, but which P does not appear to have the talent to actually push over the edge into being a kernel. It's more than an init system and it is less than an OS and it is slowly borging user space.

Many new init systems keep the script philosophy - just imagine! being able to just read what the system is doing - but use hard to read languages. Guile - FFS. ((Can (0)((((((()(())()())()actually)))read ((a(ny) of)this)?

What ever happened to Python?

Millions of APC Smart-UPS devices vulnerable to TLStorm

This is so cool!

Can they make them explode remotely?

Pretend starship captain to take trip in real space capsule

Corporate culture... Shatner's a good fit. Go watch his movie "The Captains", pay attention to his comments to Kate Mulgrew's face about whether a woman can really captain a ship, and also his comments about George Takei's sexuality.

ESA and JAXA release Mercury eyecandy, courtesy of spacecraft BepiColumbo

You'd think a bunch of people as smart as these could shoot pictures without the damned satellite disk in the way, innit?

Google emits data-leaking proof-of-concept Spectre exploit for Intel CPUs to really get everyone's attention

Re: JS disabled

And even then it will be hard to kill off Javascript in web browsers as there is an enormous installed base of it. Killing it off will be as extended a process as killing off Flash was.

License to thrill: Ahead of v13.0, the FreeBSD team talks about Linux and the completed toolchain project that changes everything

Re: Faith no more

If I add or remove a PCIe card from a PC running systemd, all my network interface device names change! It's insane!

Re: Speed and OpenZFS 2.0

@Len - any idea why the 486 would be the default in 2020/2021? I respect conservative design but that seems a bit over the top!

Linus is not a dictator...

he is the Divine Eye of the Needle through which crappy code cannot pass.

Anyhow, call me when FreeBSD achieves 1% of Linux' market penetration.

You want me to do WHAT in that prepaid envelope?

They just want a little Dabb of shit.

Huawei loses attempt to rescue CFO Meng from US clutches despite using 140-year-old law in High Court

Re: As A Canadian...

We have laws governing extradition. It is not the case that Trump says "grab that woman and send her to me" and we do it no questions asked.

We should arrange her release though, because the Americans had 4 years already to make their case and that's long enough. Trump used her as a tool to push a wedge between Canada and China: he did not want us making a diplomatic deals (especially a trade deal) with China because that would call into question his claims of being a great deal maker.

TBH, Trump is gone, her usefulness to him in keeping Canada and China from making a trade deal of their own is no more. We should just release her. If the Americans actually wanted her they had Trump's entire 4 years to make a case. They didn't...

Re: Don't break my laws but I can break your laws

The two Michaels are still alive. Our diplomats visited them recently.

House Republicans introduce legislation for outright ban on municipal broadband in the US

Someone or some people got themselves a nice bundle of Bitcoins...

Dangerous flying car drone zoomed into UK's Gatwick Airport airspace after killswitch failed

Pardon my French, but why the fuck are they allowed to operate drones at all within 20 Km (or 200 Km) of such an airport?

Happy birthday, Python, you're 30 years old this week: Easy to learn, and the right tool at the right time

Python is a good language.

It took me years to warm up to this language. It was difficult to accept indentation-as-syntax. Once I did, it became one of my two go-to languages (C++ being the other). Prior to accepting Python if I needed to prototype an idea or write a moderately complex script I would use PHP CLI, which remains a good scripting language IMO.

Up from the depths, 864 servers inside, covered in slime, it's Natick!

Orbit

How would Jeff Bezos protect an orbiting data center from solar flares?

Imagine surviving WW3, rebuilding computers, opening up GitHub's underground vault just to relive JavaScript

Assyria

Future archeologists will figure out a way to construe Javascript as a method of torture practiced against microserfs of this age. They will not be too far off the mark.

Call us immediately if your child uses Kali Linux, squawks West Mids Police

Perhaps the kids could install Red Flag Linux instead.

Judge Vulcan-nerve pinches JEDI deal after Amazon forks out $42m to pause Microsoft's military machinations

Editors: your writer needs to be Vulcan-nerve pinched.

The picture used on the story is the cast of Babylon 5. Vulcan-nerve pinches are a Star Trek thing.

Haunted by Europe's GDPR, ICANN sharpens wooden stake to finally slay the Whois vampire

IDK WTH RegGuy1 Is On About...

But whois often does not contain useful information for a given IP or domain. Otoh it seems to be used as a source of cold leads for hordes of Indian web dev shops.

I don't think the latter is a good reason to start hiding info: let's hope the former improves with the new scheme.

Kiss my ASCII, Microsoft – we've got one million fewer daily active users than you, boasts Slack

Having been a user of both...

I can say that Slack is the superior product. It is easier to use and it does not limit how small I can make it's window. Teams refuses to resize below about 640x480 and it has, like most MS apps, vast swathes of empty space in it's window.

The D in Systemd is for Directories: Poettering says his creation will phone /home in future

(facepalm)

What if I want to use LDAP for authentication and authorization via PAM?

Enjoy the holiday weekend, America? Well-rested? Good. Supermicro server boards can be remotely hijacked

IDK

IDK about this being a huge issue qua security hole.

If a server's BMC is accessible from the public Internet then the server's owner has worse problems than what are described in this article.

This seems like some of the "holes" described last year where the attacker has to achieve root level access to a box to exploit. If an attacker has root on your box then how likely are they to exploit obscure holes rather than just do bad stuff, stop syslog, clean up the logs and restart syslog?

Facebook: The future is private! So private, we designed some handy new fingercams for y'all!

Not new art.

The Japanese adult film industry has prior art.

Has NASA's Mars Insight lander hit rock bottom? Heat probe struggles to penetrate Red Planet

Re: Seek help from Donald Trump

Perhaps we can put him on a rocket to Mars. He can pound on the rod, and since Mars is quite orange-red in color we won't be able to see him.

Camping?

Pitching a tent while camping trip in the mountains, you need to use big nails to peg down the tent's various strings & ropes.

Inevitably every second nail hits a rock. NASA has never gone camping?

'Unstoppable' Chinese NAND fabber YMTC to unleash 64-layer flash flood before skipping ahead to 128 – analyst

Why is it an oversupply? Low prices are good for people who use flash - and that's just about everyone.

Start trek, the next generation: PCie 4 flash controller demo flaunts speedy peripheral vision

"... almost instantly..."

You know very well that MS will add shedloads of no-ops to everything in order to make it look like Windows is "working hard".

Either Facebook is building yet another massive bit barn in Iowa, and doesn't want you to know about it....

Sigint infrastructure, or possibly Russo-Republican vote manipulation infrastructure.

Tech support discovers users who buy the 'sh*ttest PCs known to Man' struggle with basics

Me too

Same thing, except it was in person. I was doing Novell & NT4 sysadmin in a biz school in Canada. This one guy - the executive director of an institute consisting of a single professor and an executive director - would always ask me how to do MS Office crap and of course I'd no idea about MS Office. But one time he asked me a Photoshop question and I did know something about Photoshop. I looked, he was trying to flood fill some space in a poster, and I asked him to click the paint bucket icon; for some damned reason he reached over and clicked the power switch on the PC to "Off", and looked up at me all doe-eyed and expectant. I just turned on my heel and left the room.

BTW @Editors - I like the nested comment scheme.

This is the Send, encrypted end-to-end, this is the Send, my Mozillan friend

Send is very secure?

When I went to send.firefox.com I got an essentially blank page: FF logo, Moz logo, footer links, main body of the page blank.

If I can't Send a file then nobody can pilfer it!

AyyyMD had an Epyc quarter: Server chip shipments 'more than doubled' Q3 to Q4

I got a lot of respect for Lisa Su.

Five or six years ago AMD looked like it might go under.

VMware's latest financial figures look virtually healthy if you page out Pivotal cash-splash loss

Didn't Dell gobble up VMWare? Why is it filing income data?

SQLite creator crucified after code of conduct warns devs to love God, and not kill, commit adultery, steal, curse...

Re: I have a code of conduct

"Re: I have a code of conduct

or one of my favorites:

"Tolerance means tolerating those who's actions/opinions you truly hate."

I wonder if this is covered by the Benedictine CoC ?"

That'll be covered in: Do not return evil for evil.