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• Post #4231295

  You might have noticed I'm boosting a lot of cats. I have noticed too.

• Post #2457551

  Repeat after me chat: Security issues are quality issues.

• Post #2145780

  Hmmm... has anyone made something to rip stuff off webtoons? Because fuck using their proprietary malware.

• Post #2053736

  Reminder that the phrase "without any significant artistic merit" is completely meaningless as there is no such thing as objective determination of artistic worth. It's just blanket censorship for "thing we do not like" where usually the goal is to discriminate against some group or other.

• Post #1989794

  How many mappings does the average IOMMU controller support? Do such mappings include registers and interrupts? Is it unreasonable to think every Linux driver should be in its own isolated kernel thread without access to anything else?

• Post #1860204

  > The kernel incorrectly “copies” (or rather, aliases) a readable page into a writable context without proper privilege checks. I can't help but feel like this should have been represented in the type of the page. It's also a clear example of why Linux's permission model is catastrophically weaker than capabilities.

• Post #1655209

  I really would like if batteries got a bit cheaper. I'm so close to no longer having to care about power outages that last only an hour or so chat... The technology is real, I just need to be able to afford it.

• Post #1402025

  Far too many people ignore the ethical issues. Where did that ridiculous disregard for ethics so long as the product is "good" (it's not but nevermind that) come from? It's appalling especially from people that call themselves engineers.

• Post #1402024

  You know, it seems kind of hypocritical of Altman to complain someone tried to molotov or shootup his home when the tool he irresponsibly provides has been used to coordinate violence several times. What goes around comes around, it's only fair.

• Post #1402023

  nfs-ganesha supposedly supports 9p. This is the only documentation to be found. None of the manpages mention it.

• Post #1402022

  Sometimes, the error messages really are telling the truth. I had forgotten the Wireguard persistent keepalive, it was in fact losing connection.

• Post #790996

  So, all the nonsense with LLM psychosis and complete abandoning of self-respect & reliability, is it standalone or does it relate to COVID brain? A lot of the pertinent takes (that don't fall under ELIZA effects) seem feverishly delusional.

• Post #790995

  I wonder how much of a hassle it'd be to take DeltaChat's pipe server thing and make an Emacs client...

• Post #768529

  Company finances should be required to go through an escrow that, at any time, always has enough money in it to cover the wages of the current employees. So that if the company goes bankrupt, it can't also steal the wages of the workers.

• Post #768527

  I think one antipattern I *hate* that I first noticed with Amazon is showing elements on a page... that 404 or otherwise don't work until dozens of seconds after the rest of the page has already finished loading. How the fuck do you fail so hard at frontend dev?

• Post #646140

  Yeah actually, people that deny the rights of others online tend to be inclined to do the same in person if they think they can get away with it. That shouldn't be surprising chat. "Touching grass" (lol no such thing in winter or car-dependent hellscapes) doesn't necessarily help unless you mainly interact with completely out-of-touch types.

• Post #646138

  Follow the money chat.

• Post #476808

  So, Gentoo did the right thing. NetBSD mostly? I guess? Bit worse than Gentoo's. I wonder which others have done the right thing. Neat as Gentoo might be, I don't really want to have to switch everything over to it.

• Post #332731

  @quinn@social.circl.lu @mattblaze@federate.social It annoys me because they're mostly wrong. Mass automated surveillance happens to everyone (this is literally the whole point of automating it). They just haven't been hit by the acute consequences yet personally.

• Post #302645

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• Post #302644

  About misattribution of art, media, data, etc, you know something that really grates on me? That there are formats that are simply incapable of containing adequate metadata and the systems meant to handle them do not compensate for it. The browser does not save the metadata regarding an artist that made a .gif art file. It does not save the metadata in the filesystem either because most filesystems suck compared to BeOS/Haiku's. It doesn't even bother to keep the metadata in a...

• Post #302643

  > Call it Universal Serial Bus > No first-class support for an equivalent of host-to-host null-modem cables Seriously? :cirno_thinking:

• Post #302642

  I wonder how badly a FUSE filesystem based on 4~8K blocks & par2-equivalent parity would have performed. It's very redundant now that better things exist, of course.

• Post #302641

  I suspect the overwhelming majority of the complaints I see about dm-integrity's speed are from people who never bothered to read & understand all the options about journal commit, flushing & such. Depending on the durability constraints and usage patterns one chooses, there's a lot to play with & tune there. I expect they were mostly hitting a journal-commit-time too low for their particular use-case.