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by angiosperm 2y ago
Report is that shortly before the hole was reported, a PR had been posted requesting to remove the dependency on xz.
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by angiosperm 2y ago
Systemd manages daemons. Sshd is a daemon. It knows when sshd has finished starting up, in case something else is waiting on that, and if it dies, and whether it needs to be shut down. If systemd didn't do it, something else would. Tha
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by angiosperm 2y ago
Seems like the code they added in place of the call to the huge libsystemd should be in a little library that all the other programs that need to perform systemd_notify may use. Seems like systemd should ship that library, or split out the
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by angiosperm 2y ago
Conceded. Anyway the Romans were unpleasant neighbors and worse hosts. But I do not credit Christianity for recognition of rights to dignity and freedom. The Church has much more commonly been a supporter of oppression, starting as the offi
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by angiosperm 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dxjr6rvFXE The most interesting secondary information I got from this vid is that there are dozens of mammoth sites in North America that have not been excavated because they are considered
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by angiosperm 2y ago
Mammoths and mastodons might be the only North American extinctions we can reliably blame on early Americans. The rest of the extinct macrofauna (30+ genera) fell to the end-Pleistocene comet strike and continent-spanning wildfires, or foll
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by angiosperm 2y ago
It is interesting that this work places those languages entering only ~5kya, many millennia after the other language families were long established. Their success establishing residence particularly in the Pacific Northwest is remarkable. H
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by angiosperm 2y ago
TIL about the Hartley Mammoth butchery site, 37kybp in New Mexico, via offhand mention in the paper. It will be hard for naysayers to discount it, given so many details seen almost exclusively in human contexts. Of course there would be no
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by angiosperm 2y ago
I understand from this that you consider coercive interactions and slavery to be such a normal part of your world as to be unworthy of comment. Pretending that people of the time bearing under the crushing burden of slavery did not suffer f
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by angiosperm 2y ago
The fresco painters probably cycled through Rome to pick up current fashions, then circulated through outlying towns to meet demand for capital styles. A top politician could easily have afforded the best painters, if he cared . The "
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by angiosperm 2y ago
By "correct" here you only mean fashionable. Either approach works. Each has its merits and its costs. Any big enough system will have parts that are most sensibly built object-oriented, and other parts that are more reasonably fu
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by angiosperm 2y ago
Civilization as we understand it was already thousands of years old, then, and actually expressive art from the period is easy to find. These frescoes were painted at great expense on behalf of an elite figure. He could afford to have expre
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by angiosperm 2y ago
You are the only one here enforcing a personal agenda. I have as much right to call attention to the coercivity manifest in all the images as you would to call attention to their color scheme. But instead of calling attention to the color s
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by angiosperm 2y ago
The alley was the way to the slaves' rooms, so supplies and slaves would not need to traipse through the manor. The slaves probably slept right there, or in rooms above got to by ladders.
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by angiosperm 2y ago
They probably traveled from city to city. They certainly carried clip art catalogs, and had painted each scene many times over. It wasn't art, it was decoration.
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by angiosperm 2y ago
They were topics considered more appropriate for a social setting. That they were really about rape and kidnapping was probably not seen as notable; they are just familiar furnishings of a culture founded and maintained on armed compulsion.
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by angiosperm 2y ago
Slaves did anything in Roman society. Skilled workers from conquered places were enslaved. Slaves apprenticed under them. Slaves even ran all the government offices, and some got rich from bribes, buying their freedom, and eventually, some,
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by angiosperm 2y ago
No one remarks how trite and formulaic the frescoes' compositions are. They are painted as if from soap-opera re-enactments performed by actors bored to tears. Evidently whoever commissioned the frescoes couldn't tell, cared less,
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by angiosperm 2y ago
We know, anyway, that they used untold millions of cat mummies for locomotive fuel. In other news, Egyptians mummified millions of cats.
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by angiosperm 2y ago
Most of us have no contact with Java. But Java offers little else than inheritance to use to organize a system, so Java coders use it for everything. They are not exactly wrong, except in using Java at all. But sometimes is all that is allo
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by angiosperm 3y ago
Are these the bacteria that literally all other life on earth depend on to split N2 so they will be able make protein and reproduce?
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by angiosperm 3y ago
99%+ of species were driven to extinction, first from their environments becoming bathed in oxygen they were powerless to resist, and then from the whole planet freezing over for an eon (except maybe some equatorial refugia). Volcanism even
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by angiosperm 3y ago
More to the point, geo-engineering is guaranteed to fail if emissions are unchecked. Whatever gains the former can offer, the latter may easily overwhelm. Our only hope is for emitting processes to become much more expensive than non-emitti
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by angiosperm 3y ago
With any luck, it will happen in just a few centuries as waste heat from industrial processes grows without bound, unless industrial expansion moves off-world before then.
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by angiosperm 3y ago
The social benefit of such production, considered strictly, probably far exceeds methane. But methane costs more to ship, and displaces demand for Russian gas. Economics is hard.
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by angiosperm 3y ago
Displacing mined methane is an overwhelmingly better use of excess power.
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by angiosperm 3y ago
The economics of this sort of thing is full of surprises. Someone with a solar farm who cannot sell the excess they produce at noon (local utility won't take it) can put it into producing methane to sell (or use), if the equipment is c
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by angiosperm 3y ago
Methanol is strictly harder. There is enough demand for any amount of hydrogen or methane that can be produced cheaply enough. Methanol can wait until those are saturated. Ammonia might be another intermediate step before it is worth doing
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by angiosperm 3y ago
Wow, thank you! So it is wrong for such a fundamental service as systemd to depend on such complicated processes ... just as the anti-systemd people said. Except of course shellscripts and /bin programs are just as complicated, when yo
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by angiosperm 3y ago
Peace War is about personal tragedy on a big stage. If you read it for the adventure, you missed the whole thing.

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