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by skissane 8mo ago
In RHEL8/9, there is a command "scl" which works by updating the PATH... so you can run "scl enable gcc-toolset-9 bash" to start a new bash shell using GCC 9. In RHEL10, instead of "scl", each toolset has
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by skissane 8mo ago
How many people do dogs kill each year, in circumstances nobody would justify? How many people do frontier AI models kill each year, in circumstances nobody would justify? The Pentagon has already received Claude's help in killing peop
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by skissane 8mo ago
This isn't a lock It's more like a hammer which makes its own independent evaluation of the ethics of every project you seek to use it on, and refuses to work whenever it judges against that – sometimes inscrutably or for obviousl
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by skissane 8mo ago
> Let's ignore the words of a safety researcher from one of the most prominent companies in the industry I think "safety research" has a tendency to attract doomers. So when one of them quits while preaching doom, they are
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by skissane 8mo ago
To give a concrete example of what I was talking about, RHEL has “gcc-toolset” for installing multiple GCC versions in parallel: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/04/16/gcc-and-gc...
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by skissane 8mo ago
> Note that this also doesn't work on Linux - your system's package manager probably has no idea how to install and handle having multiple versions of packages and headers. But this isn’t true. Many distros package major versio
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by skissane 8mo ago
By unit count, no question. By revenue? Genuinely uncertain.
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by skissane 8mo ago
> This is the beefiest SPARC I have ever seen My sarcasm detector came defective from the factory, and I've always struggled with getting it to work effectively. So, if you aren't being sarcastic: 20 years ago, place I worked h
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by skissane 8mo ago
Or IBM? z/OS is officially a Unix
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The central party and state organs in Moscow would sometimes overrule decisions by the governments of the SSRs and other subordinate entities. But they didn't do this by having the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union declare laws unconst
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by skissane 8mo ago
But can you imagine a Soviet court declaring a law to be in violation of human rights?
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by skissane 8mo ago
> Seems to be about as strong as the Soviet Constitution's protections: In the 2015 case Perinçek v. Switzerland , the European Court of Human Rights applied Article 10 to find against a Swiss law making it a crime to deny the Arme
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by skissane 8mo ago
Free speech is a thing in the EU too. To become a member of the EU, you have to first join the Council of Europe and its European Convention on Human Rights – article 10 of which guarantees the right to free expression. The EU also has its
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by skissane 8mo ago
> Why sue the medical professionals rather than hold the parents responsible? Aren't they the person's legal guardian? Because the medical professionals have insurance? If you sue a doctor, and win, their insurer will pay. If y
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by skissane 9mo ago
The biggest remaining production use of telnet is IBM mainframe and midrange systems. tn3270 which is a telnet extension implementing support for 3270 block mode terminal data streams is still in widespread use, and there is also tn5250 whi
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by skissane 9mo ago
Currently minimum 4% of formal first preference votes, which gets you $3.499 per a first preference vote (indexed to inflation every six months) Then you automatically get paid the first $12,791, and the rest of the funding is by reimbursem
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by skissane 9mo ago
That’s much more true for Nixon in 1968 than Morrison in 2019 Because the US has a “hard” two party system - third party candidates have very little hope, especially at the national level; voting for a third party is indistinguishable from
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by skissane 9mo ago
The thing is... on both the cited occasions (Nixon in 1968, Morrison in 2019), the politicians claiming the average voter agreed with them actually won that election So, obviously their claims were at least partially true – because if they&
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by skissane 9mo ago
> SCOTUS has found non-protected categories can still be protected because they are "proxies" for protected categories. One of the classic examples of this are zip codes[0], which was found to be a proxy for race, because it ha
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by skissane 9mo ago
I wonder if there is any chance we might see another Xserve? If they’ve got Apple Silicon servers in their own data centres…
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by skissane 9mo ago
Does Apple use macOS in servers in its datacentres? Or are they all Linux? Surely at a minimum they need macOS for CI. Apple does have one advantage here-they can legally grant themselves permission to run macOS internally on non-Apple hard
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by skissane 9mo ago
I wonder how hard it would be to write an emulator to run the actual 3174 software?
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by skissane 9mo ago
In recent versions, z/OS has been copying lots of Linux-specific APIs (e.g. unshare [0]) in order to support the z/OS port of Kubernetes. If Kubernetes starts using renameat2(RENAME_EXCHANGE), they could very plausibly add it. [0]
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by skissane 9mo ago
> It wouldn't be called CSAM in France because it would be called a French word. Arguing definitions is arguing semantics. The most common French word is Pédopornographie . But my impression is the definition of that word under Fre
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by skissane 9mo ago
> Well, there is evidence that this company made and distributed CSAM I think one big issue with this statement – "CSAM" lacks a precise legal definition; the precise legal term(s) vary from country to country, with differing d
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by skissane 9mo ago
> Of course storage mediums are always going to use sector sizes of powers of two. Actually, that's not true. As far as I know, IBM floppy disks always used power-of-2 sizes. The first read-write IBM floppy drives to ship to custome
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by skissane 9mo ago
> 90 mm floppy disks. https://jdebp.uk/FGA/floppy-discs-are-90mm-not-3-and-a-half-... That page is part right and part wrong. It is right in claiming that "3.5-inch" floppies are actually 90 mm. It is wron
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by skissane 9mo ago
> This is the part that might not be the same in all US jurisdictions (though it appears it is the same in some, someone posted upthread about Iowa having a system like this). As I pointed out in a reply to that comment, that's a po
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by skissane 9mo ago
The system in Iowa, is instead of getting title insurance from a private insurer (as is standard in the US), you get it from a state government agency (Iowa Title Guaranty) which has a legal monopoly on all title insurance in the state. But
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by skissane 9mo ago
> In many US jurisdictions, the county clerk is not responsible for checking to see if the person recording the transfer deed has the legal right to do so; that's up to other parties involved. But under the Torrens system you descri

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