Posts by Maventi 275 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jul 2014
I can't stand the orange goon just as much as anyone, but let's just bear in mind that these particular age bills have come from the blue side (as has 3D printing attestation). It seems that a lot of people don't realise that neither party is your friend and it all comes together to build a very ugly picture.
But the highschool dropout who could previously get a job working the line, or cleaning floors, or serving customers, or any other number of low-skill jobs that used to exist now can't. They're not going to become a systems reliability engineer, or a network architect, or a full-stack programmer.
Hmm. I'm a both network architect and a highschool dropout. No degree. Just takes a positive attitude, motivation and effort.
A lot of those people didn't drop out because they were lazy, they dropped out because like my father they had severe learning difficulties and they simply weren't ever going to graduate.
Agreed.
While I wouldn't touch HP inkjets with a 10 foot pole, we bought a colour HP LaserJet MFC about five years ago for home use and it's been absolutely brilliant. Cheap to run and everything about it just works even on the software side. It's spat out close to 6,000 trouble-free pages to date.
Though admittedly we only have Macs and Linux machines, never tried it with Windows so I can't vouch for the latter. Historically I've had a very good run with Linux support via hplip so that was my incentive to go with the brand.
I wonder if this utilises or is related to WPBT? I suspect that active participation by Windows is partly to blame here; I don't expect that UEFI would be able to forcibly write this file to a local filesystem. But I suppose few things surprise me any more with modern tech, especially from the big players in the industry.
No mention of the elephant in the room: remote attestation? Lennart makes brief reference of this in his own post: https://0pointer.net/blog/brave-new-trusted-boot-world.html
This is already being used by popular apps on mobile phones, almost completely killing the custom ROM scene as they aren't 'approved' builds. Windows 11 now requires a TPM.
Apple and CloudFlare have been quietly bringing this to the web as well: https://gabrielsieben.tech/2022/07/29/remote-assertion-is-coming-back-how-much-freedom-will-it-take/
Joining the dots start to create an ugly picture.
Seems Linux WiFi is stable enough that most devices I have encountered that have anything to do with WiFi implement it in Linux without issue? The majority of access points, routers, mobile phones, plus countless embedded devices? And the occasional laptops, including my daily driver work laptop.
Yes there are some WiFi adapters used on consumer laptops that are a bit flakey, but these make up a pretty tiny portion of Linux WiFi implementations.
Even outside of this patch, DNS resolution was always a bugbear for me on Ubuntu 18.04. I believe that was the release (I only use LTS) they switched to systemd-resolved. For reliability on large-scale deployments I ended up removing systemd-resolved entirely and configuring resolv.conf directly and it ran happily for years.
Fortunately it seems to have improved since 20.04. I feel like there must be other things going on in 18.04 that combine with this recent issue for such a crazy issue to surface like that though.
Oh and Microsoft, blocking a single update in Ubuntu is pretty straightforward - simply hold the package (sudo apt-mark hold <package-name>). How about publishing proper instructions?
The equivalent of VSAN for Proxmox would be Ceph, which Proxmox can deploy and manage for you. Ceph can be a bit complex to learn (Proxmox helps here!) but actually very reliable once it's running.
I'd also echo the above drawbacks regarding about Azure Stack. It's got a familiar UI and API to those already using Azure but that's really the only strong card it has in its hand.
Yes, and they are well within their rights to do that as they adhere to the respective license terms and maintain attribution where required. They contribute plenty of code back too. It's a two-way street. There's nothing wrong with any of that.
The issue with GitHub isn't so much profit in itself, it's the fact they are taking code, digesting and regurgitating it to others without attribution or following the terms of the licenses the original code was licensed under. That is in pretty stark contrast to Red Hat.
Bought one of these also. Just works from any OS (though I haven't tried Windows yet), never had to battle with it to this day. Seems that HP can still make a good printer if you are willing to pay up front.
With that said, if HP's current shenanigans eventually make it to the LJ Pro series then the next printer will be a Brother.
> If their top customers are staying with them, those who generate most revenue, it won't matter.
In the short term. As others have said, those big customers came from small ones who gave VMware its original reputation. Kill that foundation layer off, and there's nothing left to grow on. You can only skim the cream for so long. That large base of small customers will migrate and there will be a huge pool of talent out there that no longer has VMware skills or experience. VMware will become that legacy dinosaur product that even the big customers will be trying to migrate off, leaving little left.
And what alternatives are there for those who don't want to host in public cloud? Hyper-V and VMM is awful and labour-intensive by comparison, Proxmox is still a bit of a newcomer and doesn't do all the fancy VDI stuff, OpenStack requires a some serious talent to set up and maintain.
> Ubuntu 22.10 is a non-LTS release so most users won't see Pipewire until a decision is made to put it into an actual LTS release and that hasn't happened yet...
> This is why there are LTS and non-LTS releases...
Sadly I recall PulseAudio being shoved directly into an LTS release (Hardy?). That said it's caused me very little direct grief in the last decade or so, and its functionality has been very useful for some odd projects I've worked on.
I do recognise there are still plenty of issues with PA, and I've met others who have had audio issues to this day. Fortunately PipeWire has proven a reliable fix for a such issues, so I look forward to it taking PA's place.
As a user of Windows and Linux I'd personally rate NTFS as reasonably robust and moderately performant. Nothing more, nothing less.
Dynamic disks are what nightmares are made of when they go wrong (and they do!). LVM by contrast has a bit more of a learning curve but is generally more robust and flexible.
> ...especially now that Chromium Edge has replaced the legacy version on Windows 10.
And practically forced itself as the default browser in the process. Apple has been popping up Safari nags for Firefox users for at least a year now, and recently to Edge as well. Less invasive, but still a PITA.
Operating system vendors are scumbags.
It works fine without a cloud account - I set it up at home for the first time (I'd deployed it to other environments years ago) and was able to run it entirely cloud free.
For the really paranoid block trace.svc.ui.com outbound; there doesn't currently appear to be any other phone home happening except for firmware update checks.
"Teams has won the race anyway. "
In the enterprise space yes, through brute force (O365 bundling) rather than merit alone.
In consumer space Zoom has the big mindshare, to the point Zoom has almost entirely replaced Skype as a coinage for video conferencing. Nobody says "hey let's Teams with the grandparents this evening".
Couldn't agree more - it's a pity the userland tools of many popular OSes neglect to support it well, so it takes a little bit of care (but is perfectly possible) to format a UDF disk in a way that works painlessly on every major platform. I can only guess Microsoft was too busy shoving ExFAT down everyone's throat via various standards forums (e.g. SD cards) to milk those sweet royalties, while UDF would have subverted that effort.
On the flip side it's nice to see that MS turned a corner on that particular issue, so if ExFAT does in fact see proper wide adoption without patent encumbrance then it's only going to be a win for everyone.
> ...to show what professional implementation of File System looks like...
Eh? Much of the existing filesystem support in Linux was also professionally developed. As a recent example Samsung contributed the ExFAT module and user space tools.
> The difference between current Linux kernel exFAT implementation and Paragon’s proprietary exFAT must be the same as the difference between NTFS-3G and what Paragon’s NTFS3.
That's an interesting assumption to make with little to no evidence to back it up.
> When Windows, Mac, and Linux systems can all universally boot/read/write USB thumb drives formatted with NTFS, life will be that much easier for everyone.
That has worked for years already with UDF and recently ExFAT. NTFS support would be useful, sure, but adds little value for the situation described.
I can understand the interest in NTFS for working on Windows disks and images, but for booting an ISO why not just use FAT? It's not like a large amount of space is needed. Alternatively ExFAT is now in the mainline kernel that's already in far better shape than what Paragon has tossed over the fence.
