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rini17··on The tech monoculture is finally breaking
That's exactly the policing.
rini17··on Open source's new mission: Rebuild the EU tech stack
There's absent technical leadership. Bureaucrats and managers and politicians can't do this. This would need someone of the Linus Torvalds or Fabrice Bellard caliber. Or Daniel Stenberg (curl). KDE Foundation has plenty of expertise too.
rini17··on Brush.Q: An Articulated Ground Mobile Robot with Compliant Brush-Like Wheels
Would be interesting to see what optimal wheel shape would be evolved by AI.
rini17··on Robot accidentally kicks its operator in the groin while teleportation
Excuse me, teleportation? It's teleoperation/remote operation.
rini17··on No strcpy either
Yes, in the old times if you crashed a program or whole computer with invalid input, it was your fault.

Viruses did exist, and these were considered users' fault too.

rini17··on Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Depends. Written by whom?
rini17··on New Theory Suggests We've Been Wrong About Black Holes for 60 Years
tl;dr: physicists incl. hawking worry about singularities and event horizons, but to us, external observers, these need infinite time to actually form. basically, stop worrying about objects that can't actually exist in our light cone.
rini17··on Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
If it's part of legislation, you can fight it. If the official ideology is equality and racial prejudices "don't exist", then any problems are suppressed and you can't do anything.

Soviet union was defacto an apartheid when you consider how non-white ethnics were treated in practice. They just were so good at suppressing everything that it was never "an issue".

rini17··on Jingle Bells (Batman Smells): An incomplete festive folk-rhyme taxonomy
Have you heard about Roma? The communist states tried to help them but in a hamfisted ways like separating kids from parents. They did nothing to actually resolve racism. Many Roma ended up in squalor in segregated settlements. That goes on to this day and improves very slowly. It definitely was not "its moment".
rini17··on It's Always TCP_NODELAY
Perhaps you can set up iptables rule to add the bit.
rini17··on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
That was in the 2000s. Google was heavily SFW-ified since.
rini17··on SQLite JSON at full index speed using generated columns
You can use triggers to keep the tag table synchronized automatically.
rini17··on Nvidia isn't Enron So What is it?
Whole scheme is clearly unsustainable and will end with disaster. That some parts are thoroughly audited and trustful, is not whole picture.

Why can't investors wait with buying AI chips until they actually have DCs and power supply ready? There will be improved ones next year.

rini17··on Nvidia isn't Enron So What is it?
Yes the article is very meandering. But near the end he mentions that the chips nvidia sold last three quarters alone would require about 15GW of electricity to actually run. But where are all the datacenters? And how long can this go on?

When the ground truth is someone keeps buying zillions worth of equipment from investors' money, but the chances to use it are slim, not to even mention getting some profit off it, there just has to be some fraud involved. Probably not on nvidia's side, but would not bet on it.

rini17··on Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools
That glorious day when I explained to my boss what wiki is and that we should have one internally, he fired "viki" into google, with smoothly honed muscle memory clicked first result..and got full screen of poon.
rini17··on Stop Breaking TLS
Are you aware how https proxying works? Clients use CONNECT method and after that everything is opaque to the proxy. So without mitm you only know remote IP address.
rini17··on Perl's decline was cultural
No mention of taint mode, you had to untaint all data coming from user. By comparing to fixed string or convert to number or filter through regexp at least. If this were more broadly adopted, would save everyone so many headaches.
rini17··on Book Review: The Way of Effortless Mindfulness
You don't link to the book, where it is? Did you mean Loch Kelly: The Way of Effortless Mindfulness?
rini17··on Byte-Level Tokenizers Unavoidably Enable LLMs to Generate Ill-Formed UTF-8
You can enforce grammar. Llama.cpp can do that, without any need to change models.
rini17··on Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
After I had a reckoning with bitrot, would muchly recommend to use something with ECC memory for NAS. And a checksumming filesystem with periodic scrubing that won't get corrupt on you silently.
rini17··on Don't throw away your old PC–it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
The electronics went so cheap recently, so selling it to strangers is rarely worth the effort. Then there's a question, what OS are you going to put on an old PC. And then even if they are, say, only using browser, and would be okay with linux, modern browsers need 8GB of memory at least.
rini17··on Open Source Developers Are Exhausted, Unpaid, and Ready to Walk Away
Then someone finds out you are rewarding outsiders for something they are doing for free anyway. Such cutting into company profit is inexcusable. You are supposed to ride even your own employees raw to maximize profits, not to splurge money to some weirdos just like that!
rini17··on Landlock-Ing Linux
They can be disabled by firewall, iptables can match outgoing sockets by owner uid. I know it's not the same thing as landlock, still can come in handy.

And raw sockets require elevated privileges anyway iirc.

rini17··on Norway's lesson for Europe on wealth taxes: let some millionaires go
The question is, is it more or less just than allowing for abuse of all kinds of loopholes to avoid paying taxes altogether. Hiding everything in "unrealized" and other kinds of hitherto untaxable stuff. Even if they would have no problem actually paying it. Taxes will never be fully just.
rini17··on Norway's lesson for Europe on wealth taxes: let some millionaires go
What a hell you have there, public goods like healthcare or transport are impossible unless paid by the poor?
rini17··on Norway's lesson for Europe on wealth taxes: let some millionaires go
Such a LLC would be subject to fixed minimal income tax or so called "tax license" already in many countries, that's nothing new.
rini17··on Norway's lesson for Europe on wealth taxes: let some millionaires go
> the taxman's assessed value of your business doesn't change

That's first time I saw anything like this, usually in accounting the fixed assets depreciate so if there are lean years without much investment the assessed value should get down.

Like, are you saying when you buy a work truck for your business then after 5 years you'd be still paying 1% tax of its original price every year?

rini17··on Norway's lesson for Europe on wealth taxes: let some millionaires go
You would vote no even if you got free healthcare in exchange?
rini17··on France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors
I don't think they are highly concerned with people installing their own OS on desktop machines, that's still a fringe group. And most of us are using smartphones too. Also there are likely other trivial exploits like CUPS which was preinstalled and enabled by default on desktop linuxes.
rini17··on Norway's lesson for Europe on wealth taxes: let some millionaires go
Why is 1% of net wealth such a big deal? Are the richest using some kind of leverage that balloons net wealth and makes it too onerous to pay?
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