dale_huevo

Why is this e-waste when compared to old Mac laptops - many of which are in perfect working order, save Apple arbitrarily stopping OS updates because they were too lazy to maintain or update device drivers. Somehow MS requiring TPM2 for Windows 11 was the end of humanity as we know it, but a Mac with a T2 chip is heralded as progress.

If anything many of these PCs will enjoy a second life off eBay in someone's home-lab running Linux. One of the most popular "servers" in the home-lab community are those little Lenovo Thinkstations you see in hospitals.

Edit: if you're a sysadmin at a university, aren't you replacing machines every 3-5 years anyway?

One of the fringe benefits of going on a cruise is that you can disconnect from the Internet for a week. Hit up the bar, make love to your wife, gamble a bit. All without your phone constantly buzzing in your pocket. If you go on a cruise to immediately open your laptop it seems like a waste of time and money.

> the Cray had about 160MFLOPS of raw processing power; the Pi has... up to 30GFLOPS. Yes... that's gigaFLOPS. This makes it almost 200 times faster than the Cray.

Imagine traveling back to 1977 and explaining to someone that in 2025 we've allocated all that extra computing power to processing javascript bundles and other assorted webshit.

> The HR person had called to phone screen him and called him "Vlad" or whatever in greeting.

Is that measurably worse than the current new normal? Call him Mr. Vladsky, tell him he's a great fit and schedule an interview, then block his number and email and never contact him again.

Odd that visiting Google.com these days requires at minimum two clicks, the first to dismiss the "Sign in With Google!" dialog that steals focus from the search box.

It's well-known Apple is a big RHEL customer, including Linux on Azure, lending credence to the saying that every Mac is built upon Windows (Hyper-V).

Fairly certain the iTunes store, their web store, etc. are all built upon enterprise Linux as well.

And there's nothing wrong with that. Use the best tool for the job. Most car owners have never looked in the engine compartment.

The world has been waiting for the Dunning-Kreuger bottle cap engineers to start meddling with operating system design.

If it weren't for them, I could reuse all my lightning cables rather than re-buying them all as USB-C.

Literally nothing stops any app from hard coding launching msedge.exe or chrome.exe

That's a rather melodramatic interpretation.

Have you opened a lot of .mht or .shtml files lately? What about ftp:// links? (Most browsers have removed FTP support and if HN is to be believed, FTP users should be beaten and locked in a cell with the uneducated, mouth breathing http:// users).

And in doing so, not cared enough to immediately go into control panel and change the file association manually, as you could for the last 30 years; rather, insisting you need an Easy Button (tm) to do this in one click?

This impacts like 0.001% of users.

This is great.

Until now I thought CUPS drivers had to be written in C in order to link against its internal APIs.

Most inexpensive Chinese thermal printers ship with blatantly GPL violating drivers and they are precompiled binaries. Which means half the time they won't work in your situation, assuming you trust their probable malware in the first place.

Nitrokey

> And I really don't liek the idea of having the keys stored in the home directory in plain text.

so encrypt them.

or store them in a hardware token.

or on a USB stick (poor man's hardware token).

> There is also a risk of losing the keys if my laptop is damaged or gets stolen.

backups, full disk encryption.

I've been flagged as a potential shoplifter by the self-checkout at the grocery store based on some video analysis of CCTV footage of my hand motions. (It was wrong, of course.) After leaving the store I wondered if it really was software analysis or just some guy in India or the Philippines watching a live feed of me scanning bananas.

Yes, apologies, original post was misworded and corrected.

Everyone is assuming this guy was maliciously 'disappeared', but no evidence has been presented proving that vs. that he vanished on his own.

Everything is rage-porn speculation at this point, like a fresh airplane accident where everyone becomes an armchair pilot.

> This hasn't hit mainstream media yet. It should have by now.

Is it typical for the media to write stories when spies surreptitiously sneak out of a country?

I speculate this guy was long gone before the feds kicked in his door. Assuming he and his wife were indeed spies of course. Right now we cannot confirm or disconfirm that, but the narrative fits it so far.

> Disappearing people is not something the US government is allowed to do.

Do you have any sources that this guy was vanned, besides the very reliable Ars Technica comments section crying about 'fascists' and random schizos on BlueSky?

At least she has a future modeling coats once BS completes its ascendence onto the heap of tech obscurity, joining Gab and Parler.