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Compiling has never been the hard part. The challenge is making it through the entire configuration menu system before succumbing to the urge to gouge your own eyes out with blunt sticks.

Once that’s done, kick off make take a long break; it’ll be compiled by the time you get back to it.

I hear build times are getting longer with the Rust parts, though, so do it soon before you need mainframe access to get a compile within your lifetime.

The AMD graphics driver is reputedly the biggest that mainstream Linux users will encounter, approaching six million lines of code.

That does seem a bit … excessive.

Or the Bavarians tell about Austrians.

Lightbulb jokes are universal, only the target changes. The Bavarians have some long-form jokes (“Two Austrians go on vacation to the Sahara…”) that I’d never heard before going to Germany.

In case anyone is wondering, the joke (actually) goes:

Two Bavarians go on vacation to the Sahara and quickly find themselves bored. Being German, they decide to do something constructive, and decide to build a bridge from whatever scrap wood they can find. Two weeks pass in happy industry, but as they’re flying home, the first slaps his head and says, “We have to go back!” “Why,” asks the second. “Because we signed our names on it, and if anyone finds we built a bridge in the desert, we’ll never hear the end of it!” says the first.

So they switch planes and head back. As they near the bridge, the first says: “Stay here, and I’ll go check the coast is clear,” and he heads off over the dunes. A while later, he returns, crestfallen. “We are undone,” he cries, “a couple of Austrians found our bridge already!” “What are they doing,” asks the second. The first answers:
“Fishing off it.”

But control of the protocol - the definition and development - is still controlled by the for-profit company, right? It hasn’t been handed over to a nonprofit governance committee, has it?

Federation or not, if Bluesky dominates the protocol, they can decide to stop federating and essentially kill the independent servers. Much like what Signal did. Sure, you can run your own Signal server, but without access to the dominant player’s market, and using a protocol that’s controlled monopolistically, it’s practically useless to do so - which is why almost nobody does it anymore.

I really like the Nostr protocol, though. It’s too bad the network is so inundated by cryptocurrency topics.

It’s simple, it has a nice extension process (standing on the shoulders of giants), and it’s super easy and lightweight to self-host. It reminds me a lot of the early days of http, when it was more common (as a developer) to telnet to port 80 and just type in a couple of lines of header and get a response.

Sadly, Nostr’s association with cryptocurrency, and the fact that 90% of the traffic on it is cryptocurrency created posts, has been a severe handicap.

This is hilarious.

And Slava Ukraini.

That said, I’m always melancholic about these videos. I kinda feel bad for the trees, you know? Like, Ukraine has suffered so much, and environmental damage is probably the least thing to be sad about this whole criminal invasion (the trees will eventually regrow), but still.

Huh.

So I was wondering where the US was and dug in a little more. It looks as if the source of this picture is here. From what I can tell,

• This was the third Noble Raven this year: Noble Raven 24-3
• There were two in 2022
• The US usually participates, but were not involved in 24-3
• Submarines from various countries usually (always?) take part.
• We (the US) took part in the first one this year
• The countries involved in each exercise are often different; the only consistent participant is Japan

The last point leads me to believe that Japan is the organizer of these parties.

Also, there’s a related repeated exercise called Noble Jump, which is different branches; last year’s had Italian hand-launched drones called “Ravens,” which makes for interesting search results.

Shucks, I switched from screen to tmux over a decade ago, simply because (a) screen wasn’t a ubiquitous tool, and (b) tmux was superior in almost every way. I haven’t encountered screen in the wild in years.

a) is still important; I like and use ripgrep and fd, but grep and find are still useful because they’re always installed, everywhere that’s even halfway POSIX. ripgrep and fd aren’t everywhere - e.g. BusyBox. But screen isn’t in that core toolset, so there was little reason to hang on to it.

I agree, it’s a great idea. The limitation is that the maximum amount of data a QR code can hold is about 3kB. Assuming the encoded data is compressed - either mostly ASCII and compressed, or a custom serialization format referencing external lookup tables - you could reasonably fit around 10kB of debugging information into a single QR code. That’s not too shabby.

This is very true; that’s just plain Capitalism, and the government takes advantage of that through simply asking for the data.

It’s a great reason to never use MS or Apple software.

I’m stuck on Android, which is no better, at least until someone sells a phone that is reasonably usable as a reliably daily driver. So, I assume everything going through my phone is surveilled. It’s the price I pay for not wanting to limit myself to a dumb phone; a minimalist phone that will allowed me to use a P2P encrypted chat client would be sufficient; I’d even accept Signal, although I’m not a fan. But phones like the Light Phone are just too dumb, and none provide any sort of encrypted chat. Linux based phones (or, a phone-oriented Linux distro) are almost there, though, and I’m ready to jump when one gets a decent review.

Sure. If anyone is willing to put in that effort; I’m not going to audit all that code.

Does Deepin have its own package sources? B/c if so, you also have you audit all of the third-party packages for trojans, too.

The difference is that laws in China require companies doing business in China provide the Chinese government with means to access all data crossing Chinese borders or involving persons of interest. You can read the DSL of China yourself; and consider that nearly every executive of any significant Chinese company also holds an office of some sort in the Chinese government, there are a vast number of Chinese nationals who are considered “persons of interest” to the national security of China and therefore fall under the DSL purview.

Any company building or selling software in China has to provide the Chinese government with access to data collected in China, or outside of China if it involves persons of interest for national security. Like I said, find the DSL and read it yourself, or read an InfoSec analysis of it from a company you trust - you don’t have to take my word for it.

This immediately puts Chinese software into a different category of risk than non-Chinese software. Of course, the US could twist arms to get companies to put backdoors in software. But it’s a false equivalency to say that they’re the same. When the US does it, they have to do it covertly, and there’s always the risk of a leak. When Chinese companies do it, they’re doing it because Chinese data laws require them to.

Yeah, I left when it became impossible to really advance without coop play. Even strikes were annoying, but raids were impossible if you didn’t have a team, or were just a casual player. When Bungie obviously stopped giving a shit about casuals or PvE players, I stopped giving a shit about Destiny.

As long as it’s a legitimate offer, and not an “accidents happen; it’d be a shame if something happened to you if you stayed” Monty Pythonesque arm-twisting. An offer to move somewhere contested, where there will absolutely be further fighting, and where one side has no compunction about inflicting massive civilian casualties… it’s hard to leave your home, but it’s a compelling offer.

Wow. All 20 of those people want to nuke Washington? Even the half of them who aren’t joining in the chant? Were they not told the words?

I want to see more enthusiasm. The hairy gnome is carrying all of the load.

Plus, the paper maché missile looks like it was made by chimpanzees.

You have nearly enough people to do a decent Harlem Shake, and you wasted it on this?

I’m disappointed. 3/10 performance.

Lucky guys. Their best chance at surviving this war is not being prisoner swapped back to Russia.

Except when there’s a draft, nearly all US soldiers spend the first 2 years of their duty as teenagers. In Vietnam, the combat rotation was 2 years; many men joined as teenagers, and died as teenagers. This really isn’t unusual.

You’re right about Putin, but he’s no different than any other leader of a country with a military WRT enlistment age.

Why the quotes around “war correspondent?” Was he Press, or was he not?

Biased or not, unarmed journalists and medical personnel should be off-limits.

As I understand, he was embedded, and wasn’t personally targeted; too bad for him. That’s the risk you take. But the quotes in the title appear to try to legitimize him as a valid target, and unless he was engaging in combat, that’s not right.

Slava Ukraini.

Until the TSA lifts restrictions on blades, cartridge razors will continue to be a necessary evil in my kit. However, there are so many better options for your home, as you say. The shown safety razor style is perfectly fine, and so much less expensive, even if you don’t go all in with a solid soap and brush, and just use a normal shave cream like Creamo.

Its inclusion here is absurd. Cartridge shavers are shitty for the environment, and shitty for your wallet; they’re not less manly, they’re just a less smart choice.

I loved GL.iNet series, both the full size, but especially the travel size. OpenWRT based, quite cost effective, nicely built.