Posts by Zolko 1285 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Nov 2010
He didn't commit any crimes, it's only the US government that pretends that he committed crimes. The same US government that verifiably lied about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction and killed hundreds of thousands of people in the process
What you're basically saying is that the US government has the right to arrest any person anywhere in the "free" World without warrant. It doesn't get more 1984 as this
USA mandates some bug/spyware into the source code of the Linux Kernel, [...] This code is open source
you mean than all the binary firmware blobs needed for the network cards are somehow open-source ? What good is a firewall if your first line of defense is a traitor ?
but they work in Chromium from my Linux laptop
remind-me who is behind Chromium ? Do you really think that ditching Microsoft for Google will improve someone's privacy ? As for Chromium being open-source, did you try to compile Chromium yourself ? It's quite an eye-opening discovery. Icon, obviously
He may have some valid technical points, but his attitude, presentation, and willingness to start fights with everyone...
I'm on such receiving side of a big open source project and my experience is that code is king and talk is cheap. Defaming people who write good code that doesn't fit in with some corporate agenda is a basic corporate tactic. What matters is that he writes good code, because that attracts other good developers who like good code and don't care about covid vaccines or LGBTQXYZ+ inclusivity.
As can be seen, individual data points aren't really very useful
they are if you understand what science is about : you only need 1 counterexample to prove that something doesn't work, but you need 100% of cases to prove that it works. If touchpad doesn't work out-of-the-box for 1 user on generic hardware, then I won't waste my time trying to use it because it might affect me. Also, if some standard touchpad doesn't work, what else will not work ? This was acceptable 20 years ago, but not in 2025 for a project that has been in development for 10 years. This stinks of corporate enshittification, like systemd ... which is also pushed by the same people.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me
because apparently people like it
I don't think that 99% of the people even noticed, and simply leave the defaults. So no, probably nobody actively likes it, people think this is the new "normal" and leave it at that. Heck, I see many people with the default desktop background wallpaper ! They don't seem to know that it can be changed
AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome
wait ... While Apple WebKit and Chrome are indeed based on KDE's KHTML, but Gecko is Firefox's html engine, so Apple WebKit it's not like Gecko at all
How would you suggest dealing with that in a proper way?
you should contact Huawei to tell them to correct such unforgivable mis-information.
The Reg FOSS desk has been installing and supporting Unix boxes since 1988 and has never once needed or used X11 over a network connection
that's difficult to believe : you have never ever used "ssh -X ..." in your professional life ? Or do you mean something else by "X11 over network " ? We (in a public research center) use it every day.
Russia can end this any time by going home
as you say, "can". But Russia can also continue and annihilate the Ukrainian neo-nazi Banderistas. The current death-toll is 20:1 in favor of the Russians, and rising. NATO doesn't have equivalent weapons, not in quality and quantity. Russia has all the elementary resources and the backing of the world manufacturing superpower, which happens to be its continental neighbor (therefore US aircraft carriers are sitting ducks for them and atomic submarines useless).
As for Israel –vs– Iran, there are 15 million Jews and 1.5 billion Muslims in the world, it's 100:1 in favor of Muslims. Like Ukraine, Israel has no chance. The US won't be able to help since they have donated most of their weapons stockpile to Ukraine, and they are facing an internal civil war if they insist. And if Israel chooses the Samson doctrine, then the Holocaust will look like a walk in the park in comparison of what awaits all the Jews in the world.
Nethaniaou will replace Hitler in the Jewish history.
we can't test the data
of course you can : a specific website had been set-up by the EU during the first covid infection (the SARS 1 : remember that Covid is SARS-2 ?), called European Mortality Monitor, EuroMoMo : https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps. Look for yourself, there was no overmortality whatsoever for ages 0 to 44, and standard winter overmortality for older agegroups.
You can also see statistics for the cruise ship Diamond Princess :
Reports of total deaths vary, reflecting difficulties in establishing causation, differing national approaches, and changes in total mortality as time went on. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine put the figure at 9. Between February and April 2020, Japanese government officials declared 13 fatalities from the ship, while one other person was evacuated from the vessel and died in Australia. In April 2020, the World Health Organization said there had been 13 deaths. All the dead were older passengers; none were from the crew
which means that it march 2020 we could scientifically know that the covid was harmless and posed a risk only for the elderly (>70)
I don't know who is really pulling the strings
A team of Swiss researches has found out :
Swiss government study confirms 147 corporations 'run the world'
Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world
The 147 companies that control everything
The Four Companies That Control the 147 Companies That Own Everything
doing the heavy work where the resources are is very smart ...
... and old-school. Aluminium processing is very electric-energy-hungry, and that's why Pechiney has installed a huge industrial facility in the middle of the Alps (Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne) where electricity is produced by hydroelectric plants. Direct from producer to consumer with minimum loss.
I'm sure the native population of Africa, North & South America and a large part of Asia would agree with you
Palestinians come to mind : why should the native Palestinians give place to European Jews because of Germany's crimes against Humanity ?
that's just about all it is good for, and all it will ever be good for
I used to think like that, but "forever" is a very long time, many strange things can happen. I was surprised last week-end when my son, studying fundamental physics in university, said and showed me how he was using ChatGPT. I was really baffled.
What I'm really baffled by, though, is that it's free (as in beer)) : this is not possible, there must be some hidden agenda and we will have an unpleasant awakening when we find out how it's supposed to be paid-for.
Anyone with information on foreign government linked associates of Rudometov, or their malicious cyber activities, or foreign government-linked use of RedLine malware, should contact Rewards for Justice via the Tor-based tips-reporting channel
that's a strange formulation : what about people using RedLine but without links to some foreign government ? Does this mean that using RedLine is legit if done by the US government ? And are non-state actors allowed to use RedLine ? What's the point on insisting so much on "foreign government-linked " wording ?
Ukraine is (rightfully) receiving a lot of European support
would you please give a link about which "right" you are referring to ? The EU treaties can't be those, nor any NATO alliance. So which tribunal did give the EU any right to finance any war whatsoever ?
I, on the other side, can prove that financing a neonazi regime that forbids local languages is explicitly against EU right. Try to remember what happened in France when they tried to combat Corsican or Basque regional cultures. Ukraine forbid – and is still forbidding – Hungarian and Russian languages, which is against European right. The sooner that neonazi regime is overthrown the better the world will be. That the Russians have to step in again to rid us of this plague is a disgrace. I hope they go all the way to Bruxelles and capture that Ursula von der Hyena.
I've worked in a bright young startup ...
... that failed. So why should anyone listen to your "advice" ? Of course I understand that you "claim" it was not your fault, but bragging about a failure and patronizing other people doesn't sound very convincing. In case you didn't know, AWS didn't start as AWS. Jeff Besos didn't ever imagine creating AWS, it is a byproduct (of Amazon's computer infrastructure designed for the 2 months before Xmas, and sitting idle the rest of the year)
I might take this more personally than necessary because yes, we're trying to create something in this area also.
It's why I like the whole Thorium idea
yeah, but you can't build nuclear bombs with its residuals. That's why Uranium was chosen during WW2 and the Manhattan project : because atomic bombs. Which only shows that those most opposed to nuclear energy are actually clueless about nuclear energy :
@Adair
we've got this technology for making very noisy explosions, but it's epically expensive—we really need some way to make it cuddly
no, it's the exact opposite. Nuclear was chosen for bombs, civil energy is a byproduct. As opposed to Thorium-based reactors that are only civilian, and were thus rejected. As a side-note : China has just finished a Thorium-based nuclear plant in the Gobi desert. I think it's still experimental though.
Historically, that's a Roman gesture, and was used to show ones resolve : we're ready to die for the honor of victory. It was re-introduced by Mussolini in the 1920-ies with those exact references, references to the Roman honorable spirit. It was then found to be cool by the Nazis who decided to use it also. It's actually used by many organizations where people have to swear on their honor. You might notice that Hitler himself used a shortened version of that salute where he shortly raised his fore-arm only
Difference one: Big Bang is a mathematical solution
exactly, it's an intellectual solution : It is only a prolongation of a line of which Hubble has observed a local tangent, We happily extrapolate into the past more than 13 billion years, and somehow pretend that it all began at t=0 . In that, God (Yahve, Allah, Krishna, Zeus ...) is as good an explanation as a giant explosion
Difference two: Scientists are constantly testing whether something better is around, and there are some other things around which might be a better solution with more data. You cannot test your gods
nor can the scientist observe the BigBang. We can observe the remnants of the originel universe in the cosmiv microwave background that existed ... 380 000 years AFTER the BigBang. We have absolutely 0 (zero) proof of anything earlier as that, so very very very far away from the BigBang "singularity".
Difference three: No real scientists will say that that the big bang, aka singularity, is the only possible beginning, it is simply which currently fits best
you should study physics before saying such things. The current BigBang theory is in conflict with 2 scientific observations : where is anti-matter, and what is that "cosmic-inflation" thing ? Until you can explain those 2 fundamental pieces of the BigBang, that theory is simply false.
The effects of dark matter and dark energy are very much visible
no : dark matter and dark energy have been "invented " because our observations didn't fit our models. Dark matter was called upon because 2 observations didn't match (visible stars in- and rotation of- galaxies), and dark energy was called upon because it fitted well with Einsteins equations of general relativity and a "measured " flat universe. There is so much ad-hoc theories created ex-nihilo in these 2 concepts that no, we don't see any of their effects : there is nothing "dark " in the dark energy, it's only that our models don't fit our observations. This is as scientific as claiming that Zeus on Mount Olympus is creating lightnings and thunder because we don't understand static electricity.
wanted to say that too. I played the Chuck Norris Flight Simulator in MS-Dos, and the flying and the missions were better than anything I have seen since. Of course, the 640x480 graphics are outdone today by 4K screens and ray-tracing, but the gameplay is unmatched.
Same for Gran Tourismo also: the PS2 version was amazing, difficult and addictive, while GT5 for PS4 is too easy. The jury is still out for GT6 on PS5.
lets idiots decide policy, just because they kiss their Dear Leader's ass on a daily basis
we have that Kallas woman who fits quite well that description. We had that Baerbock lunatic but she is no more in Europe now (was promoted to world leader). We have the greens who, at the same time, promote electric vehicles and shut down electric energy sources. We have Rutte and Stolenberg who ruin Europe to please the US deep state (North Stream anyone ?)
So unfortunately we have as many idiots – or more – deciding politics than anywhere else. I'd take a Vance over a von der Leyen any day.
... new wave of unverifiable propaganda ?
What I've read is that some/many Uyghur Islamist extremists are part of the ISIS califate operating in Syria and Iraq. That they have been set-up by the CIA to counter China, the same way as the Taliban were set-up by the CIA to counter Russia in Afghanistan.
US suppliers won't be able to do business with them and they'll be fucked
well, that's not so clear : who's going to be fucked if TSMC is banned in the US ? Imagine that TSMC gives the middle finger to US sanctions : where will Apple, Nvidia, Amazon ... get all the CPUs that their business entirely depends on ? The rest of the world could still buy TSMC's chips, it's only the US customers who will be cut off. It seems to me that TSMC has the longer lever in this story, but they choose NOT to use it.
The election was fair, so how do you explain this huge victory for the republicans ? I see this as entirely the democrat's fault for bringing such bad candidates to the elections. One senile patriarch of a corrupt family, and one so shallow that even the democrats wanted to get rid of her. How is this the fault of Trump if the democrats are unable to promote good candidates ?
Anyway, how does an attached lid make it harder to unscrew ?
reading helps:
I now have to open the lids of water and drinks bottles for my wife
do you know the difference between unscrew and open ? Because with these idiotic bottles, once the lid is unscrewed the bottle is still not open, not open in the sense that you can actually drink from it. The lid gets in the way when you try to pour water into a glass without spilling half of it over the table, or in your nose when you try to drink from it directly. And this without considering that it's more difficult to really close the lid because many times the lid is screwed but not hermetically closed, leaking the liquid in your bag or car. And all that for a piece of plastic that represents ~5% of the waste, meaning that 95% will still be thrown in the nature.
I'm more afraid of the European lemmings who blindly follow orders from the corrupt von der Hyena than of Trump, Putin and Xi combined.
cooperation between the European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos was suspended
why ? Cooperation between NASA and Roscosmos is still continuing (with the ISS for example) so why did Europe suspend all cooperation with Russia ? It seems to me that some people are overly zealous in self-immolation to show support of the Ukrainian Bandersitas. That actually also includes penguinista emperor Torvalds who dismissed Russian kernel hackers without reason (apart from said self-immolation)
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