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by treffer 3y ago
1. Everything must be visible. A diff between the release tarball and tag should be unacceptable. It was hidden from the eyes to begin with. 2. Build systems should be simple and obvious. Potentially not even code. The inclusion was well hi
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by treffer 3y ago
Ubuntu still ships 5.4.5 on 24.03 (atm). I did a quick diff of the source (.orig file from packages.ubuntu.com) and the content mostly matched the 5.4.5 github tag except for Changelog and some translation files. It does match the tarball c
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by treffer 3y ago
“Say you changed out fluorescents to LED light bulbs, that’s a capital improvement. You’re not replacing lightbulbs, you’re enhancing”. That's the basis for the claim that lightbulb changes are CapEx. This is an improvement though. A
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by treffer 3y ago
This one works in private mode. I am using Firefox on mobile and it worked that way. There is also a plug in available on gitlab (iirc) that can auto-circumvent it on most sites. But I find that questionable and I try to keep my plug-in lis
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by treffer 3y ago
I would give it a 50:50 chance. The other option is that the scraper got lucky with a tiny glitch (whatsoever). On the one hand I bet github does everything to keep stuff secure, on the other hand I can't believe there wasn't a si
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by treffer 3y ago
I was surprised too. Then I checked my ryzen laptop and .... yep, max speed 6GHz. I haven't noticed before either. But given that my laptop pulls this off at a way lower TDP makes me wonder how competitive that Intel chip is, especiall
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by treffer 3y ago
Full enumeration is useful for security research. For blocking purposes it can sometimes be helpful to enumerate it. And on your question: it is most often the case that a subdomain is owned by the same entity, but it is not a given. The mo
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by treffer 3y ago
Regulatory worried? The EU stated they will investigate this. And somehow Apple decides less than a week later that the feature will return. Looks like regulators should not be worried about Apple complying in the medium term. DMA has a cat
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by treffer 3y ago
Just look it up. Here is the pure number of facilities in Germany (2021)... Verdi (the relevant union) is collecting this data and distributing it. 17 fulfillment centers (logistics) 47 distribution centers (logistics) 7 sorting centers (lo
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by treffer 3y ago
As others have pointed out: logistics. E.g. the German postal service employs some 600k people. DHL is another 600k. The logistics union has like 1.3M members. That's like 2% of all employees in Germany. Those are labor intensive jobs.
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by treffer 3y ago
Virtual private server == anything that is not a whole machine, usually referring to small VMs. In hetzner speak you want a "shared vCPU server". That's roughly what others offer as VPS, just more clearly spelled out (IMHO).
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by treffer 3y ago
Just a few points.... 1. Some decisions are better made than delayed. Most choices are reversible. So get over those being be important/relevant. 2. Everything else _should_ be thought through. Push for it. If that's not possible
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by treffer 3y ago
This should IMHO summarized in the related git commits. Yes they become paragraph long. But that's the point. That's where I search for "why". And not just "why", "when, why and with what reasoning?".
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by treffer 3y ago
Go to the cloud, it's cheap. And when it's not you just turn off parts of your system. I am somewhat suspicious that that's not really the solution.
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by treffer 3y ago
These court orders might also happen if someone _claims_ that crimes have happened. The legal system has to come to that conclusion, which requires an investigation. Yeah it must be an important claim. That's of course completely unacc
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by treffer 3y ago
So I got curious, nice questions. RFC6838: Expected uses for the "application" type name include but are not limited to file transfer, spreadsheets, presentations, scheduling data, and languages for "active" (computation
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by treffer 3y ago
I can't even find "cost" on that page. Only one rather tiny side note that you could get past the free tier quota. I don't think that's a proper warning on costs.
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by treffer 3y ago
The complaint says there should be a warning that processing fees can be high. Go to the front page and check out the links. Nothing really about cost. Someone follows that path and 14k gone without a word about it. That's the path tha
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by treffer 3y ago
Last time I checked the GCP prices vs. hetzner servers there was a factor of 10 in monthly cost. So I cant say this is a general rule of thumb. It is true though that hetzner can provide superb performance per $. Potentially below what you
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by treffer 3y ago
I never got this TBH. In Germany and Europe it's simple: the price on the item is what you pay at the cashier, at least of you pick the cheapest payment option (cash). Most don't bother to charge for other payment methods, a surpr
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by treffer 3y ago
NVIDIAs margin is someone's money. I wouldn't say they don't understand it. I would say they need a good enough competition to get the margin down. E.g. FB saying they want to buy 350k H100. That's just a whopping $14B p
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by treffer 3y ago
OpenPOWER happened a few years after Apple finished the transition to Intel. The whole architecture is niche since then. Linus Torvalds has a very interesting POV why x86 won. "Develop at home" issues. You are going to deploy to a
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by treffer 3y ago
I wouldn't call it kernel based. It's not like this is an in-kernel emulation. I would stick with hardware virtualization. KVM is a userspace API, and kvm-intel/kvm-amd are the drivers for the hardware. You will be using hard
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by treffer 3y ago
I am somehow puzzled on how this goes into a downtime as implied in the article. The control plane can be fully down - as in: you can shut it down - and everything continues to run . I've been in that situation multiple times with lar
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by treffer 3y ago
It becomes more funny once you shift online. Basically every checkout has a "coupon" field. Now you look for coupons, and some coupon aggregator of doubtful quality pops up. You find something that works. Or give up. Done. The cou
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by treffer 3y ago
Or you make the case that the OS should ship a DNS server. It can handle DNS forwarding and iterative queries anyway (iterative queries as you often need them for dnssec) and the logic for serving DNS responses is ok'ish (DNS name dedu
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by treffer 3y ago
Well, the good news is that there aren't enough of these a*** to destroy it. When Wikipedia started and even like 10-15 years ago that wasn't a common belief. Especially in Germany. "There are some assholes on earth, how cou
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by treffer 3y ago
It's not that. It's basically the old question: can algorithms format cartels? I am strongly on the side of: yes, they can. In a time where most offerings are public you just need to make sure you stay slightly above the p50 and p
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by treffer 3y ago
The problem is this... The money cow is datacenters, and especially top of the line products where there is no competition. Then fastest single core and multi core x86 cpus that money can buy will go to databases and similar vertically scal
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by treffer 3y ago
Well, "seize" = court order or a police action. If police shows up to seize something then you can either cooperate (hand it over voluntarily) or risk additional penalties (fines, prison time, ...). I read this story as "law

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