
What About This?
https://www.meritalk.com/articles/house-lawmakers-want-to-extend-expiring-counter-drone-authorities/ Is it coincidence the sightings stopped after the 20th?
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That was a quotation from the popular song "Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderful_World_(Sam_Cooke_song)], not a statement regarding my educational achievements nor was it intended as a question seeking an answer. Oh, and the SR-71 design employed heavy slipstick support back in the day, so I guess it was faster than referencing log tables.
Nobody seems to have noticed this:
> * Support for System V service scripts is now deprecated and will be
> removed in a future release. Please make sure to update your software
> *now* to include a native systemd unit file instead of a legacy
> System V script to retain compatibility with future systemd releases.
There's a thread on the DNG mailing list discussing the ramifications at https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/thread/20230730.180432.a707194b.en.html#20230730.180432.a707194b
https://www.newsweek.com/top-20-quotes-chuck-yeager-first-man-break-sound-barrier-1553038
Number 5: "If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing."
He would know, as a WWII ace shooting down Nazi aircraft over the Channel at the beginning of his stellar career. Sometimes maintenance had a lot to do overnight to make the aircraft reusable.
It is the ever-extending HTTP(S) protocol that has produced all these warts on warts we have to deal with, combined with anti-free-software and ethics-challenged profiteering agendas associated with the development of these "improvements". May the straight-forwardness of Gemini increase in adoption. Does anyone remember Gopher?
While gcc may be the elephant in the room, under the room lurk the true leviathans, as Thompson mentioned: in the microcode, ME technologies, etc. Some years back I read an account of installing GNU/Linux in an HDD drive's controller--gave a whole new meaning to installing something on your hard drive.
I do, but what I really remember is 13. I suspect there were orders of magnitude more followers of that mission all over the planet, and it was riveting even if you weren't normally a fan of manned space flight. That's what comes from relatively open and public missions. Well has it been called NASA's finest hour.
The TechRights website is pushing the Gemini facility/protocol (much like Gopher) and I think this is an alternative technology to pay attention to as it's attracting mindshare. Most browsers don't speak gemini so you need one that does, with bollux (a bash script) preeminent. It's like using lynx or links2 to a large extent. To get it:
cd ~/my_git_tree
git clone https://tildegit.org/acdw/bollux
cd bollux
cp -p bollux bollux.sh
chmod a+x bollux.sh
man -l bollux # to read the man page
man -l bollux.conf # to read about configuration
./bollux.sh gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2021/02/28/gemini-ddos-protection/index.gmi
To open a link, type a lowercase o and type the note's number.
...according to Alan Cox who posted this link in support of the statement:
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8897
so the question becomes why wasn't it picked up before a few weeks ago?
Well, the third internal link explains that:
On Linux, the issue is fixed by commit d8ba61ba58c8 ("x86/entry/64: Don't use IST entry for #BP stack"), which has been available in Linus' tree and -stable kernels for some time. (Yes, the patch really was written in 2015. I fixed the issue as part of related work by accident, but I wasn't aware that the issue was at all urgent at the time, so the patch was never pushed out.) Most other vendors should have their own advisories and fixes available now.
"They use what's called a clock drive to rotate the telescope/camera so that it cancels out the Earth's rotation."
Which is useless unless the instrument uses an equatorial mount to provide a suitable rotational axis, one parallel to the rotational axis of the Earth itself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial_mount)--portable telescopes can be tricky to set up with adequate alignment.
This is not documenting the NSA HAP specification based upon Intel x86_64/ME motherboards. Rather, it provides an overview of an apparent parallel effort to design a High Assurance Platform by an organization named High Assurance Security Products On COTS platforms (HASPOC) using a Swedish domain and, most interestingly, their design is based upon ARM, not x86_64. I do not know why this was cited in the article, but I am quite happy you brought this group and their work to my attention.
systemd
with faint praise
> "Do what you feel is right, Sir. However, I promise you that if you get legal involved, I'll make you famous."
I would never say that. You need to complete the live test of the madhouse by including legal. If they decide to go after you, the lawyers also have earned their share of the notoriety.
Relevance: "Hippies were a thing when The Shockwave Rider was still science-fiction..."
TSR was published about ten years before the IBM PC was announced, and the hippy counter-culture was already past its heyday. One can argue when TSR ceased to be fictional but surely opening the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Science_Foundation_Network to commercial traffic had to be a prerequisite. I would argue the legitimization of working as a "rasher" is also a prerequisite.
"The trading systems should add up to 5 seconds of random delay to each trade to stop traders wasting money on technology and location trying to screw each other."
If the markets were truly free, yes, but that was the point regarding the broken financial system comment--markets are NOT free anymore, and no governments with the necessary jurisdiction are inclined to intervene. This is not a problem of technology, of course, but one of societal corruption.
The article is totally oblivious how remarkably minimal the past maximum was. It started late, didn't get very high, and abated earlier than has been typical. Scientists are still trying to understand it. The Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_maximum is rather helpful.
Exactly. But there's CRUX, from which Arch arose, which is even more Spartan and devoted to KISS principles, and will never, ever incorporate the systemd madness. These days documentation for build-from-source distros is more similar than not, so CRUX lets its community search Linux From Scratch, Arch, Gentoo, etc. for insights to issues rather then spend a lot of time developing package-specific prose. CRUX may be for an even more experienced GNU/Linux user, but it should be investigated if you are considering Arch, especially if you're a real purist.