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by simoncion 2mo ago
Given that the ethos of the Systemd Project is to almost-always reinvent so that they retain complete control [0] over the code, I'm never surprised when they choose to reimplement and fold that implementation into the project rather
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> syslog doesn't have nearly the functionality that journald + journalctl does. A huge feature list doesn't matter much if the software is bad. Given that journald still irrecoverably corrupts its logs even after all these ye
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by simoncion 2mo ago
If it ever worked like that, then gradual accretion of (mis)features and misguided enhancements pretty clearly broke it. Based on my years and years and years of reading about and using the output of the Systemd Project, there's rea
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by simoncion 2mo ago
"data owned by them" is one's papers and/or effects, depending. "data about them" pretty much didn't exist in the late 1700's when we compare it to the enormous scale of that data today. A combinati
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by simoncion 2mo ago
So, it was honestly not the command you ran.
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> Haven't stalking and surveillance always had a different interpretation despite mostly taking place in public? Yep. And dragnet surveillance has (pretty much?) always been illegal in the US... but it takes the courts an awfully
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> If the police stationed officers constantly at major intersections doing that, the outcry would be no less than having cameras do it. No. A police officer is an expensive asset that requires a lot of investment of both time and money t
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> I think what's interesting here is that they've shipped the product despite these glaring security flaws. Yeah. That's a huge part of my point. They talk a lot about how security-focused they are, and how dangerous
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> [LLMs are] almost the entire value. I agree that without the LLM, the system around it is useless. I also agree that without the CPU, the system around that is useless. > LLMs are not the "stupid bit in the middle." Both
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> ...the expectation from the computer is that it will execute the instructions exactly as specified without trying to simulate intelligence. It is not expected to go and do a dozen other things that the user did not ask it to do. Oh, ma
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> Justify that. ... Also, which "extensive teardown" are you talking about there? I haven't bothered to keep a detailed dossier, [0] and I CBA to go back through a year or two's worth of conversation between you and o
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> This is honestly the command I ran Mmm. Unless your /etc/hosts is wide open or your shell is running as root, you got something like -bash: /etc/hosts: Permission denied because the way to do what you intende
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> Elimination means 0%. Not in this context, no. It means the same thing as being cured of Hep C means... there's a little bit still lingering around, but the systems that keep it under control mean that it doesn't cause any pr
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> I got Hep C from a blood transfusion in the 80s... Same here! I had one symptom -intermittent somewhat abnormal liver enzyme results- that was very easy to explain away with the fact that I'm nearly always somewhat dehydrated be
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> Yeah...a "dumb as bricks CPU", which is obviously something frontier llms are demonstrably not. Just as the immense amount of scaffolding around the dumb-as-bricks CPU enables extremely sophisticated and useful things to be
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> ...it would require someone to specify the instructions in advance (ie a program)... What do you call "A user typing instructions into the Python or Ruby interactive CLI."? How is that a meaningfully different method of compu
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> Secondly, CPUs can absolutely be used to hack other people. This is more correctly phrased as "Every general-purpose computer can be run any arbitrary program, assuming it has the storage required to load that program.". Desp
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by simoncion 2mo ago
Yeah, this matches what I've learned over the past couple of years from reading some of your blog posts and reading your interactions in comment threads here and elsewhere. You're a politician, rather than a truthseeker. The absol
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> If domain names had been freeform from the start... I'd argue that they're not freeform now. You need to pay ICANN something like 250k USD to consider your application for a new TLD, plus I think you need to convince them
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> I get the impression that every AI lab is desperately trying... Of course. I wonder how we managed way back in the day to produce systems that can handle untrusted inputs and reliably instruct a dumb-as-bricks CPU what to do based on t
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> Their position makes no sense to me. If one assumes that they don't actually care about security, and care very deeply about getting sensational press, their position makes a lot of sense. For all their chatter about how incredibl
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> Missing out on the socialization of smoke breaks is a huge cultural pull. Sure. But the specific claim was that Phillip Morris is fundamentally different as a product because it lacks network effects. While I can imagine a smoke
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> ...IRC the timing seems to imply that it has more to do with them being hammered with AI slop... It can be both things. I've worked professionally with AWS, Azure, and GCP, and Azure is just really flaky and unreliable. It'
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by simoncion 2mo ago
AFAIK, the move to Azure is still ongoing. Rumor has it that it was delayed for a very long time after the Github acquisition because Azure was too bad to move Github to. Azure remains too bad to move Github to, but the relevant executives
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by simoncion 2mo ago
No, that's not normal. Every bare-metal Linux system I have in my home is upgraded in-place. My oldest is roughly twenty years old. My newest is around four years old.
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> What is happening at GH? In large part, the move from AWS to Azure. Azure's just bad.
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> This are however just records. E.g. "I still have a connection". This chatter about a successful 2005 Defcon shootout [0] indicates that a 125 mile link was able to pass traffic sufficiently reliably to be used for SSH, VNC,
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by simoncion 2mo ago
Perhaps the situation with 25gbit modules is way worse than 10gbit, but I have twelve 10gbit 10GTek fiber modules and haven't had a problem with them. Though, perhaps this would be a lottery that I'd inevitably lose if I were po
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by simoncion 2mo ago
> ...isn’t the phrase the orange site used as a derogatory sense here? Seems likely, yeah. > To the contrary... Why are you -er- proposing the contrary or whatever? From my ~sixteen years of experience with HN commentary, the preempti
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by simoncion 2mo ago
I don't know. But I do strongly suspect that if rowhammer could be eliminated by a change in memory controller behavior, it would have been eliminated long ago.

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