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by kees99 1y ago
Yes, rootfs-on-NFS also qualifies as "diskless", I stand corrected.
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by kees99 1y ago
Diskless (edit: with OS in initramfs) is indeed a golden standard against local persistence, but requires quite a bit of extra RAM - few GB for "latest Ubuntu LTS". With regards to preventing accidental persistence, disk with on
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by kees99 1y ago
The opposite. Planar (PCB-based) transformers are more expensive to make, but allow much tighter control over where wires and insulation go. A properly designed one will be significantly more compact for the same power rating (compared to w
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by kees99 1y ago
Some wifi controllers can also boot like that. In particular ESP8089 chip that shipped with some android tablets circa 2012-2014. Later, Espressif took that chip, modified bootrom to be able to boot from an SPI flash as well, and marketed t
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by kees99 1y ago
True that. Umberto Eco was a genius.
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by kees99 1y ago
No way a human fortune teller would say something like that in their right mind. Same as with fortune cookie quips, any "prediction" will be something that sounds deep and intriguing, but always vague enough to be non-falsifiable.
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by kees99 1y ago
Depending on your definition of "rose", this statement is potentially false. TFA mentions "genus Rosa". If that's the definition, this is false. Wild R. canina is pink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by kees99 1y ago
> only when grid is powered, solar systems export power to the grid? Worse yet. When grid is down, some grid-tied systems will not allow any local power use either. Few years back, nearly all grid-tied inverters had this problem. Now sit
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by kees99 1y ago
> Xiaomi HyperCharge requires an original Xiaomi cable and charger because the USB-A connector used includes an additional physical contact—five pins instead of the usual four. This is a regular superspeed USB-A connector (albeit with bo
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by kees99 1y ago
"PCBA assembly" is up there with "IQ quotient" and "ROI on investment". No editor writes like that either.
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by kees99 1y ago
I guess GP meant that online shops, mechanics, government bodies and schools were meant to move along? Not exactly clear where to, though. We don't have another messaging system with quite as wide reach (a.k.a. high value, in terms of
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by kees99 1y ago
DigitalOcean, or more precisely - some of their customers are the source of quite a few spam tsunamis, at least according to spamtrap data I'm collecting on my mail server. So from that perspective, a big "thank-you" goes o
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by kees99 1y ago
> just plain wrong -- e.g. floating inputs or missing resistors TTL logic gates have no problem with floating inputs. Those are interpreted as logic high. [1] This is fairly self-evident from looking at a typical TTL gate schematics. [2]
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by kees99 2y ago
For a greylisting that sends 451 before DATA, that is indeed a known problem. My server sends 451 after DATA, and keeps a copy of greylisted message, as marked-as-read entry in separate folder. Those are deleted after few hours, or moved
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by kees99 2y ago
I'm using something very similar, except incoming messages from never-seen-before senders are greylisted instead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greylisting_(email) 95% of spammers never retry.
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by kees99 2y ago
You were lucky scp uses a binary that typically lives outside /bin - in /usr/lib/openssh/ or some such. Many years ago, I've got to recover a remote server where /usr was nuked (and /bin, /sbin,
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by kees99 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAFT_(treaty)
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by kees99 2y ago
Chrome has to run on chromebooks, quite a few of which are still-supported models with 4GB of non-upgradeable RAM.
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by kees99 2y ago
Shipping toybox instead of busybox is even more telling of that exact mindset.
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by kees99 2y ago
Decent optimizing compiler would necessarily loose a fair bit of source information - loop unrolling, function inlining, tail-call optimizations, etc... There is no good way to reconstruct that, AI/ML or not.
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by kees99 2y ago
Not quite "self-replicating AI". More of a quine. Still cool, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)
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by kees99 2y ago
A while ago, our office switched ISPs, and we got IP from a block that was previously registered in Spain. Even though RIPE records were correct from day one (we're in the Netherlands), some databases somewhere took a full year to upda
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by kees99 2y ago
5400 is (was?) very common RPM for laptop HDDs.
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by kees99 2y ago
> obvious PR implications That's the right answer. And it's not like this is a potential risk that is only being theorized about. Microsoft already has a very hands-on experience with disasters of this exact nature: https:&#
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by kees99 2y ago
..or zypper install , or emerge . For other tasks though, exact arguments might differ a bit: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman_Rosetta
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by kees99 2y ago
"Occasional nonsense" doesn't sound great, but would be tolerable. Problem is - LLMs pull answers from their behind, just like a lazy student on the exam. "Halucinations" is the word people use to describe this. Tho
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by kees99 2y ago
Problem with pretty much every modern battery-powered device is that battery is flogged to near death at every charge. From @marcan's mastodon post, Pixel 4a's battery is charged to 4.45V: qcom,max-voltage-uv = <0x43e6d0&g
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by kees99 2y ago
Plus-tag stripping sounds like a no-brainer for spammers to do, but I've never come across this behavior yet. I always give out myname+tag@... to places that ask for email, and have an incoming message rule that puts bare myname@ strai
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by kees99 2y ago
> you are safe if your rsync is only via secure connections Not quite. If server has "command=rsync ..." in ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file, for some ssh key (to allow rsync access, but deny shell access), this vulnerabil
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by kees99 2y ago
You are 100% spot-on with the "local" thing here. People living in "bad neighborhoods" have to spend more energy and money on locks, fences, security cameras, self-policing as to not go out alone after dark, etc. Problem

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