lotharcable

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by lotharcable 5d ago
Some of that was driven by people wanting hibernation to be reliable. The other part was that it kinda matched the money you were spending on the machine. The guy with 128MB of ram could likely afford to spend the extra disk space on a swap
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by lotharcable 5d ago
In the distant past there was plenty of times I tried to fix dying web servers by logging in and restarting a rogue process or cleaning up a memory leak... only to have my SSH session and shell sessions being repeatedly killed by OOMs. Not
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by lotharcable 5d ago
It just meant that you spent too much on servers. Either that or they could of been doing more. Not a big deal. Being efficient isn't really all it is cracked up to be. Sometimes having a big server that sits mostly idle is a good trad
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by lotharcable 5d ago
There are lots of very good reasons why running small root partitions on Linux desktops is a very bad idea. The smart money is on a single large partition for home and root and everything else. This way you get 100% disk availability with z
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by lotharcable 5d ago
Zswap has improved to the point where it is now preferable over Zram. https://linuxblog.io/zswap-better-than-zram/ There is a few other people documenting the same thing if you look around. As far as Linux and swap goe
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by lotharcable 29d ago
> I've never really understood why we chase Android-alikes on mobile platforms instead of trying to build on mainstream Linux. Because there is no such thing as "mainstream Linux" when it comes to anything related to user-
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by lotharcable 3mo ago
XWayland is actively developed. XFree86, which is the "standalone DDX" you see on X11 desktops, is being actively maintained.
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by lotharcable 3mo ago
Nowhere (and everywhere). It is my understanding that XACE doesn't actually provide any security features itself. It just provides the "hooks" to implement security extensions. Like LSM feature in Linux kernel. You have to in
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by lotharcable 3mo ago
probably because there is a ton of open source projects out there with disabled tests in their training data.
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by lotharcable 6mo ago
Lobbyists turning into government regulator is a lot more common then people realize. It is normal regardless of what party occupies the Whitehouse. This is one of those things were most people don't realize this goes on because it is
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by lotharcable 11mo ago
Fixing X11's security would of broken window positioning as well. Since that is a security issue. The deal here is that the only way to fix X11's security issues is by breaking all those types of workflows and forcing application
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by lotharcable 11mo ago
Yes it was bit uncharitable, but I couldn't resist based on the way he phrased it. It was just a joke. "Preventing" the vulnerability would indeed require going back to 1994. Since it is a vulnerability that has existed in e
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by lotharcable 11mo ago
The way X11 developers ended up fixing this is by creating Wayland. This way privileged operations (like keylogging, screen capture, etc) require the cooperation and authentication through the display server.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Microsoft is guilty of giving incompetent administrators enough rope to hang themselves.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
That shpool looks like a good idea.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Modern science is derived from Christian Scholasticism from the middle ages so this way of talking and thinking about science as being divinely originated is only unusual in the past couple centuries or so. It is from that era that they dev
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by lotharcable 1y ago
I think that using the term 'application containers' to reference docker and 'system containers' to reference LXC is a bit of a meaningless distinction. You can 100% host "systems containers" on Docker and you
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by lotharcable 1y ago
"Systems containers" are almost certainly isn't more secure since 'root' means things, even in a container. Containers just leverage existing Linux namespace isolation techniques to isolate applications. A good way
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Copyright exists to protect publishers, not the people actually doing the work. Copyright was created for the specific purpose of censorship.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Generally speaking the cells that are welded on are designed to be welded on in the areas were you do the welding. Doing something other then welding on them properly is going to be more unsafe then welding. The proper tools to do this are
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Replace well known, fast, and efficient image to text algorithms that can happily run on my ancient Kindle with a gigantic black box of ML mush that requires tens of thousands of dollars of GPU to run? Sign me up! Might as well claim that c
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Rabies anti-virus require very carefully handling and refrigeration and thus can be extremely expensive for hospitals to keep in stock. And, yes, it needs to be applied before symptoms start to appear. Otherwise death is almost for certain.
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by lotharcable 1y ago
One of the effects of ISG15 deficiency is a disease called "Type I interferonopathy". Among the symptoms of this disease includes things like necrotic lesions and severe multi-systemic damages. From what I gather the fact that the
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by lotharcable 1y ago
AMDgpu is the driver for newer GPUs, radeon is for the older GPUs. This is like circa 7 or 10 years ago. So it is both driver changes and architectural changes. There is also AMDGPU-PRO, which is the proprietary version based on AMDGPU. Use
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Things have changed a lot since Steam deck. Especially in the last 3 or 4 years. Mobile users suffer more problems then people with dedicated desktop GPUs, but it still gotten a lot better. The one thing to be careful about AMD GPUs is that
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by lotharcable 1y ago
With the advent of Steam deck and Valve putting time and effort into AMD GPU drivers the AMD GPU is really the best option for Linux when it comes to general desktop stuff and gaming. The days of Nvidia proprietary drivers being a safe bet
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by lotharcable 1y ago
There was a similar situation going on with Craigslist and a couple other websites. I don't remember the details. But the basic gist is that people were selling illicit sex services on these websites, much of which was very unsavory. S
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by lotharcable 1y ago
Water rights is a huge deal in Colorado. It is in the state constitution and there has been a lot of government corruption around the issue. It is common for people to buy up land just for the water rights, then transfer that water rights t
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by lotharcable 1y ago
If you are using podman "rootless" mode prior to 5.3 then typically you are going to be using the rootless networking, which is based around slirp4netns. That is going to be slower and limited compared to rootful solutions like in
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by lotharcable 1y ago
yeah Quadlets are a pretty reasonable improvement. It was introduced in Podman 4.4 which is circa 2023. And it takes a while for podman to get up to date in non-Redhat related distributions. Like Debian Stable was stuck on 4.3 until Trixie

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