Posts by chasil 262 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Jul 2014
The account bans sometimes cannot be undone, regardless of assistance from any an all authorities.
Due to this, it is unwise in the extreme to ever leave significant [digital] assets behind one of these accounts.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-csam-account-blocked
I am running a Pixel 3a XL and a OnePlus 5, both on LineageOS 22.2 Android 15.
I wonder when I will get this.
p.s. I find holes in the LCD to be aesthetically distasteful, so I hope to be running my Pixel for many more years. I have a Pixel 6 loaded with Graphene, which is extremely challenged in aesthetics both with the OS and the LCD hole.
The author of the Game of Thrones series, George R.R. Martin, famously writes all of his novels with Wordstar 4 in DOS. This will never happen to him.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26695017
For anyone wanting a taste of this unchanging utility, try "Joe's Own Editor."
https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
(I actually have a floppy distribution of Wordstar 4 in the original binder.)
I am going to say that at least three-nines (99.9%) of Android users do not know of the XML file that holds all of these credentials.
If you run this simple script (as root), you will dump all of your network credentials. I think these are also in SQLite somewhere, but I'm not sure.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/11yfiuv/wifi_password_extraction_script/
Perhaps one of the BSDs would be a better place for bcachefs.
Many people around OpenBSD have been lamenting FFS for some time.
I don't know if GPL is a concern, but Apple once was near to bringing ZFS into MacOS.
Apple integration would certainly be quite the comeuppance for ejection from Linux.
In addition to bootloader unlocking, VoLTE (Voice over LTE) is required on the three major carriers in the U.S.
Samsung's VoLTE implementation is closed-source, so their phones will never (again) have custom ROM support.
Google Pixel is the safest choice (avoid Verizon models). My OnePlus 5 is one of the oldest phones in active support. I hear that Motorola works.
/e/OS is heavily based on LineageOS; I think the supported hardware is close if not identical.
My two complaints about /e/OS are: 1) it asks for a Google account login for their store - use a throwaway account as this use might violate Google's terms of service, and b) the launcher is primitive and does not support widgets placed arbitrarily on the desktop (use https://lawnchair.app/).
Epiphany is the gnome web browser. It is based on Apple's Webkit. The gnome help browser also appears to use Webkit.
https://apps.gnome.org/Epiphany/
I am no longer able to install Konqueror from any Yum repositories, but there are likely flatpacks available.
https://apps.kde.org/konqueror/
Konqueror's KHTML was (long ago) chosen by Apple for Safari, which also moved to Blink.
I don't know if the last large-scale phone manufacturing facility was Google/Motorola in Texas...
https://abc13.com/motorola-texas-smartphone-factory/85795/
However, if Apple were to make phones in the U.S. that were a) easy to assemble, b) without glue, c) with a battery that the user is able to replace, with components that could otherwise be replaced (screen) after registering with Apple...
Well, I think many people would opt for a model more easily serviced, even if the aesthetics and features were not up to par with what Shenzen is able to produce.
There are people who want the very best. I am very happy to let them pay extra for Shenzen expertise.
Really, why reinvent the wheel? This is a solved problem.
$ ll /usr/bin/nano
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 159232 Jun 6 2007 /usr/bin/nano
$ file /usr/bin/nano
/usr/bin/nano: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), for GNU/Linux 2.6.9, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
I am typing on a Model M now, part number 1391401, dated 22JUL88. I found this particular Model M underneath a floor tile in our datacenter in the early 2000s. I have two more at home, a bit newer.
There is a clear tactile feel of certainty when you have successfully pressed a key on these IBM designs (and I've used the Datamaster, original PC, the AT, and the PS/2 Model M), where there is tactile ambiguity on common modern membrane keyboards.
I have no problem using my laptop keyboard, but I make more mistakes on it than when it's docked and my Model M is powered up.
Model M keyboards do have some problems, the most common being the loss of plastic rivets that will cause the keys to stick.
https://www.instructables.com/IBM-Model-M-Disassembly-and-Repair/
The parent article briefly mentions the Bliss launcher, but it has more severe problems than is reported.
It does not appear to allow widgets on the home screen; these are confined to a separate widget area.
It does not allow shortcuts to apps, so dragging an incognito Chrome shortcut to the home screen does not appear to be possible.
For these reasons, most users should immediately replace Bliss on /e/os.
I chose Lawnchair 14: https://lawnchair.app/
"While Microsoft is very committed to SQL Server continuing, it's also clear that they are very serious about support for Postgres."
Microsoft also makes extensive use of SQLite.
"Microsoft uses SQLite as a core component of Windows 10, and in other products."
https://www.sqlite.org/famous.html
One of my users has started using the VS Code variant of Oracle SQL Developer. I believe this is Electron JavaScript.
I'm assuming that it has fewer aesthetic challenges than the Java version (which my ex-Toad users despise).
https://www.oracle.com/database/sqldeveloper/
Perhaps bcachefs would be better placed in a different kernel, say NetBSD or Illumos.
Linux has a particularly fragmented filesystem landscape, which is mostly Oracle's fault, but perhaps some is the community itself.
Demoting Linux to the status of a second class citizen would mirror ZFS, and is perhaps the right step.
RHEL aliases rm with a warning as rm -v. It is best to pay careful attention to those prompts.
In this particular case, a cleaning script should have been used which included:
[ -n "$QATOOLS" ] && rm -rf $QATOOLS/bin $QATOOLS/etc $QATOOLS/incl $QATOOLS/var
On many Linux distributions, the "ReaR" application can be used to make a bootable restore USB that will format and rebuild a lost system. Very handy (and surprisingly written entirely in the bash shell).
I can confirm, Chrome was forcibly uninstalled from my corporate laptop when Edge was pushed.
It is interesting how Microsoft embraced, extended, and is now working to extinguish Chrome on Windows (with enthusiasm!). Old habits die hard.
I actually use LineageOS on my main (Google) Android phone, and I don't have Chrome there either (I use Brave, which has some problems).
I guess that I'm the rare user that Chrome really doesn't touch anymore.
Oracle has much greater control over SPARC than Ampere has over ARM, so likely not.
Fujitsu has already replaced their SPARC implementation with ARM A64FX (as used in the Fugaku, which was the highest-performance supercomputer for a time). Oracle has no control over A64FX.
I have read elsewhere that 28nm is the last realm of "planar transistors," and the smaller nodes just implement the FINs (of FINFET) on top of (essentially) this node.
I've also read that planar transistors are more reliable than FINFET (or GAA), and they are obviously more able to dissipate heat into the substrate.
For automobile electronics, where the temperature will be high, FINFET sounds like a bad idea.
My Dell R710 server is running an X5675, released Q1'11. RHEL9 applies a microcode update:
# dmesg | head -1
[ 0.000000] microcode: microcode updated early to revision 0x1f, date = 2018-05-08
The spectre-meltdown-checker.sh script reports:
CPU microcode is the latest known available version: YES
(latest version is 0x1f dated 2018/05/08 according to builtin firmwares DB v296+i20240514+988c)
It seems as if Intel is more indulgent with these updates than is AMD.
An alternative to the UEK is the El Repo Mainline, currently offering Linux kernel version 6.9.8 for RHEL-compatible v8 and v9 platforms.
The ML kernel is "a kernel of last resort" for hardware problems and driver development. It will never, ever become a production kernel for the release in question.
At several points in the past, btrfs support was better in ML than the UEK. The bcachefs filesystem itself is better than btrfs, and ML will likely be the first place to get it on RHEL.
https://elrepo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=kernel-ml
Microsoft has already thought of this question. Pick one of these. Confirm it on your own Windows host, if you want.
C:\Temp>wsl.exe -l -o
The following is a list of valid distributions that can be installed.
The default distribution is denoted by '*'.
Install using 'wsl --install -d <Distro>'.
NAME FRIENDLY NAME
* Ubuntu Ubuntu
Debian Debian GNU/Linux
kali-linux Kali Linux Rolling
Ubuntu-18.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Ubuntu-20.04 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Ubuntu-22.04 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Ubuntu-24.04 Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
OracleLinux_7_9 Oracle Linux 7.9
OracleLinux_8_7 Oracle Linux 8.7
OracleLinux_9_1 Oracle Linux 9.1
openSUSE-Leap-15.5 openSUSE Leap 15.5
SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-Server-15-SP4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4
SUSE-Linux-Enterprise-15-SP5 SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP5
openSUSE-Tumbleweed openSUSE Tumbleweed
RHEL 9, and its variants, are supported until March of 2021. This doesn't quite get us to the 50th anniversary.
I understand that RHEL 9 will quietly install Wayland on compatible hardware, but that didn't happen on my old box.
$ pps X
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
2069 tty1 Sl+ 0:03 /usr/libexec/Xorg vt1 -displayfd 3 -auth /run/user/42/gdm/Xauthority -nolisten tcp -background none -noreset -keeptty -novtswitch -verbose 3
$ cat /etc/oracle-release /etc/redhat-release
Oracle Linux Server release 9.4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 9.4 (Plow)
$ dmesg | grep DMI:
[ 0.000000] DMI: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R710/00NH4P, BIOS 6.3.0 09/20/2012
Oracle does a lot for specific open-source projects, that are of great benefit to the industry as a whole. Yes, there are a lot of people who have negative experiences with Oracle as a company, but that doesn't diminish the good that is done.
Oracle employs an XFS maintainer. People use XFS because it's fast, and Oracle's improvements have addressed problems and are bringing extensive new functionality. As a rising tide lifts all ships, a rising filesystem lifts all databases.
https://blogs.oracle.com/authors/darrick-wong
Oracle really holds the Linux filesystem landscape in its hands, via their influence on XFS, btrfs, and ZFS. I don't agree on their direction with this (and a lot of people have a problem with it), but IBM certainly didn't do this.
"Chris Mason, an engineer working on ReiserFS for SUSE at the time, joined Oracle later that year and began work on a new file system based on these B-trees."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs
Oracle has done a lot with NFS over ONC RPC, one result being RFC-9289.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9289.txt
In summary, there is a lot going on with Oracle contributions (and their lack). It's not as simple as some might assert.
Why the heck does North Carolina supply the purest quartz in the world, from which high-purity silicon ingots can be drawn?
Why the heck did Ukraine previously supply half of the world's neon gas, a critical resource for semiconductor manufacturing?
It takes a globe to make a 5nm chip.
The industry has grown familiar with RHEL-compatible LTS kernels, the source of which is now controlled by IBM, who would very much like to monetize it more strongly.
The question is if CIQ/SUSE/Oracle (as members of OpenELA) are willing to provide an alternative.
Oracle already distributes their own custom kernel (the UEK), but it does not occupy the same niche and it has a much smaller development team.
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