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by lotharcable 1y ago
For me LLM is just a rubber duck that talks back. It is very stupid and is usually wrong in some meaningful way, but it can help break logjams in my thinking. Giving me clues that might be missing. Sort of like how writing gibberish is som
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by lotharcable 1y ago
The biggest problem with Western Governments, and the reason this sort of thing is going on, is the result of the "professionalization" of the political classes. Earlier in the 20th century politicians tended to be people establis
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by lotharcable 1y ago
The proper way is to have a idea of what it normally is before you need to troubleshoot issues. What is a 'good load' depends on the application and how it works. Some servers something close to 0 is a good thing. Other servers a
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by lotharcable 1y ago
I think this is less AI and more PEBKAC
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Don't worry. If CIA ends up hurting for money they can go back to using Israel to sell weapons to Iran and selling cocaine to intercity youth. Like the good old days.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
The only desktop to have real meaningful large-ish/professional usability testing is Gnome. And that is only a couple times. The first time was financed by Sun Microsystems in 2001 for Gnome 1.x and the result was Gnome 2. The second t
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by lotharcable 1y ago
It is especially acute when it comes to Linux desktop.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Netbook boom happened and then people actually started trying to use them. That is why the netbook boom died. Because while they promised to make cheap Linux devices that anybody could use none of them actually delivered on it. In fact the
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Not even remotely close. This is why it was such a revolution when Ubuntu came out and quickly dominated the Linux desktop space. When it was new. It took Debian and made it something approachable. But even then it was a 1/3rd of what
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by lotharcable 1y ago
> If you can get the us federal government to be functional again or have a path to doing that Impossible. Federal government in US is failing along with the rest of large scale western style governments. They are too big, cost too much,
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Large scale solar are actually large scale gas plants. Since there is no way to store electricity large scale and solar energy is unreliable then they depend on gas turbines to work.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
> This kernel design is bankrupt. There's much better available, such as seL4+Genode. I am sure that the tech community would love to read the details of your great success in deploying microkernels for large variety of production w
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Build environments are usually "soft targets" in most environments. Especially ones that utilize a lot of the "CI/CD" pipeline approach. Lots of secrets getting pulled from various different places, access to testin
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Emissions, mileage, crash safety standards in the USA punish smaller more fuel efficient cars. The larger the wheel base or "shadow" of the vehicle the easier for it is to meet Federal standards. This is why nobody sells small pic
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by lotharcable 1y ago
I wish more people understood what "The Administrative State" is and its history. Because the "oligarchy" people complain about isn't the cause of massive government corruption. "Oligarchy" is the natural
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by lotharcable 1y ago
What does "native containers" mean in this context?
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Very good, thank you. I did miss the significance of 'unshare' in your post.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Appimage is terrible. It works by trying to make applications in appimages adhere to a lowest common denominator between Linux distros... which amounts to forcing application developers to develop for the oldest version of Linux appimage su
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by lotharcable 1y ago
It would be more accurate to say that toolbx is based on Podman, but is intended to provide tight configuration with your user's outside environment. If you want to use toolbx for more isolation you'll have to end up turn off a bu
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Apptainer, like the vast majority of container solutions for Linux, take advantage of Linux namespaces. Which is a lot more robust and flexible then simple chroot. In Linux (docker, podman, lxc, apptainer, etc) containers are produced by co
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Containers in Linux are more a conceptual collection of different isolation techniques. Mostly just based on Linux namespaces. But things like cgroups, Linux capabilities, occasionally MAC (selinux, etc) and a few other items often get thro
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by lotharcable 1y ago
OCI image repositories are pretty ubiquitous nowadays and are trivial to setup. I am sure that a lot of people have them deployed and don't even realize it. If you are using Gitea, Gitlab, Github, or any of their major forks/varia
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by lotharcable 1y ago
> So if I understand correctly, you're suggesting that in essence the VM lied to Windows to improve performance? Pretty much. Just speculating because I don't know how your systems was configured back in the day. But all of wha
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by lotharcable 1y ago
For gaming and general desktop on Linux AMD is best if you want a dedicated GPU. If you want a laptop with good battery life Intel is generally the way to go. A lot of this is due to the enormous amount of effort Valve put into improving th
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Sorta. The devil in the details here. Depending on the VM technology they use they offer a variety of different caching mode and configurations, but the basic three approaches that most everybody offers are going to be something like; &quo
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by lotharcable 1y ago
It is using OpenGL to draw instead of using X11. Which pretty much means that it is using the same code paths and drivers that get used in Wayland.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Windows is the only platform that tries to do it "correctly" as per the internet peanut gallery. And, of course, doing it "wrongly" as per what OS X and Gnome does works a lot better in practice.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Yes toolkit authors have realized they have to avoid X11 as much as possible if they want to have good results. This one of the major motivations as to why X11 guys decided Wayland was a good idea. Because having your display server draw yo
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by lotharcable 1y ago
I self host a atuin server. It is a very easy thing to do. You can use atuin without syncing it between multiple machines. I have my shell environments divided up into different distrobox containers. Some of them sync between multiple machi
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Tramp can work better for containers then it does over SSH. I use it conjunction with distrobox and podman. It should be able to work with kubernetes as well.

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