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by simoncion 5d ago
The lightly-edited transcript, relocated to a second comment to maybe avoid folding up the report: # lvcreate --size 3T --name testlv --stripes=2 testvg Using default stripesize 64.00 KiB. Logical volume "testlv" creat
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by simoncion 5d ago
I don't see that as odd. It looks like it was released at about the same time that zstd was getting added to filesystems, and a little bit prior to when IBM acquired Red Hat. It's quite possible that IBM decided that "little&
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by simoncion 5d ago
Thanks for the information. I made a ~3TB btrfs FS and mounted it with 'force-compress', put 5TB of zeros on it (which compressed down to like 160GB), and did a delete along with some concurrent operations on that same FS. Based o
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by simoncion 6d ago
> it blocks access to fs for minutes if you remove large files. How large is large? I've deleted files with sizes of tens to hundreds of GBs and not seen that, and can probably whip up a test with a single-digit TB file if motivated
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by simoncion 6d ago
> would want to have compression.. I learned about VDO today. [0][1] I'd never heard of it before, but I'm using Gentoo Linux and both the dm-vdo kernel module and the 'vdo' software provided by [1] are distributed by
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by simoncion 7d ago
> Those contracts and licenses are just a form of protection enforced by the State. Yes, that's how property works most anywhere that has stable government. Societies where The State has a monopoly on violence are usually far more
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by simoncion 8d ago
> Sorry, I don't understand your point. If you're looking for a single point, that's going cause you trouble. Maybe go back and read what I wrote more carefully? I believe that I took care to make sure that my rebuttals
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by simoncion 8d ago
Sometimes. Other times is is most definitely not.
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by simoncion 8d ago
> It’s real but whether you can make a profit or not is dependent on whether you can protect the information. That's what contracts and licenses [0] are for. Or perhaps you're arguing for a world where the only possible protect
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by simoncion 8d ago
> Avoiding something means staying away from it to the best of your ability Yes, that's what I said. "To the best of your ability." often means "You have to occasionally spend small amounts of time working with really
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by simoncion 9d ago
> I meant to say the discussion about OpenAI's negligence in securing agents and their infrastructure is the red herring. It absolutely is not. It's yet more evidence that the culture inside these companies is entirely inadequ
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by simoncion 9d ago
> ID chips can't be cloned... ID chips can be manufactured, so they can obviously be cloned. Thinking like yours leads to the asinine situation we saw ten, fifteen years ago where insurers were refusing to pay out vehicle theft clai
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by simoncion 9d ago
You appear to be confusing "avoid" with "never interact with". If your professional life has required you to spend enormous amounts of time working very closely with people you don't like and/or don't trus
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by simoncion 9d ago
> But it's those politics and policies of the institutions with control over the data that are the most important part of this: not where the bits are kept. Especially when those bits are encrypted, and the keys and access controls
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by simoncion 9d ago
At the time of this writing, the subtitle of the submission here on HN is recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes Notably, this subtitle doesn't appear on the blog post. Anyway. I only see claims that t
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by simoncion 9d ago
> Predictably the discussion is already veering towards OpenAI's negligence... > Cherry on top: That was part of an attempt to jail-break itself via self-prompt injection. We continue to see so-called "prompt injection"
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by simoncion 9d ago
> Once upon a time, cable didn't have ads, which was its primary advantage. To be pedantic: originally its primary advantage was allowing people who lived in bowls and other places that couldn't get adequate TV reception to w
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by simoncion 9d ago
Since roughly zero of the articles I've seen link back to the source of their quotes, here it is: < https://status.aws.amazon.com/#multipleservices-me-south-1_1... >
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by simoncion 9d ago
Fair-ish point. I was considering plagiarism in the context of computer programs, which is -at best- dreadfully difficult to do without also violating copyright and/or software licenses. I'd also rephrase your first sentence as &q
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by simoncion 9d ago
> This is for data loss, of course, not access or surveillance or unlawful processing. This is why the minority of politicians who actually know about how this stuff works worry about where the data resides for jurisdictional purposes. I
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by simoncion 10d ago
> If you don’t want it then just pay for ChatGPT. That will work until it very suddenly doesn't. The industry is awash in paid Internet-delivered advert-free services that suddenly got adverts stuck in them. And no, if you're i
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by simoncion 10d ago
> ...someone trying to enforce copyright on code that was put in production via an LLM... AIUI, in the US something that's entirely machine-generated is not eligible for copyright protection. If one could demonstrate that that mac
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by simoncion 10d ago
Yep. An entity in the "dirty room" reads the thing to be reimplemented and produces a document that thoroughly describes its behavior. That document is passed to the entity in the "clean room" whose only knowledge of t
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by simoncion 10d ago
> Do you have many examples of this actually happening that you could share? If by "this" you mean "an LLM [reproducing] copyrighted material", I have one here [0], with the challenge posed and plagiarized response at
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by simoncion 10d ago
> All of the components are out of stock in France... Ah, this announcement from the end of 2025 explains the recent dreadfully spotty availability: [0] What a shame you never used any of the "alert me when this shit is in stock&quo
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by simoncion 10d ago
Everyone I'm aware of adapts to it eventually unless they keep trying to power through the nausea. It's the basis for my ...which sets back the whole "Convince your stupid brain that the minor mismatches between the visua
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by simoncion 10d ago
Yep. Social Security numbers are not guaranteed to be unique, and for a very long time, were pretty easy to figure out if you knew roughly when a person was born and where. "I know! We'll use this number that its issuing agency
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by simoncion 11d ago
I've been using the Discord "thick client" on Linux for many years now and it works just fine. I've never seen any sort of crashes, nor have I seen any instability that couldn't be explained by shitty Internet &qu
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by simoncion 11d ago
> It's still out of stock in France today. You might look at why it's out of stock. Here in the US, it looks like they're out of stock of the base stations, the right controller (but not the left!) and replacement face
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by simoncion 11d ago
Yeah, I used my Index on my Gentoo Linux machine like six months ago and it worked fine. FWIW, I'm using an AMD video card. Perhaps it doesn't work at all on Nvidia hardware, but -absent sabotage from Nvidia- there's no reaso

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