I’m a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.
This is why we used to have sub-editors in the Before Times. They would catch and fix shitty titles - and a bunch of other grievous journalistic errors - before publication.
Linux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To Apple M4 NVMe Support
"Updates to the Linux 7.4 block device subsystem span 40+ years of personal computing, with floppy disk driver fixes as well as cutting-edge Apple M4 NVMe device support. "
Mostly so future me doesn’t undo something I already argued with myself about. They’re in docs/adr if you’re curious.
Mostly so future LLMs don’t undo something they already argued with themselves about.
Nice! Although I do wish everyone would get with IPV6 at some stage. But it seems everyone is OK with the current coping mechanisms in IPV4, so maybe I should pin my hopes on IPV7 or 8.
Most ISPs charge insane fees for static IPs
The joy of living in the US I guess. My ISP in Australia charges $5 a month for a static IPV4 address.
Lemmings.
Wolfenstein.
Doom.
Descent.
Unreal Tournament.
“This just in - running commands that induce a kernel panic causes a kernel panic, we’ll have more at 11.”
The QR code is pretty dense , probably plenty of space to include the panic reason and stack trace.
Edit: For those of you that don’t know, exiting or crashing the init process (PID 1) causes the kernel to panic. Essentially it’s the, “Well what the hell do I do now if I have no processes to serve?” response.
Still, a QR code is a marked improvement on the “Something went wrong :(” message of recent Windows releases.
So if your phone is hot it could be:
How is this, in any way, useful information?
To quote a famous line from Billy Madison: “Everyone is this room is now dumber for having listened to it.”
There’s some sort of electrolytic process similar to aluminium available, but yes the reaction that turns iron ore into iron is:
Iron oxide + carbon monoxide + heat ->
A redox reaction where oxygen atoms are transferred from iron oxide to carbon monoxide ->
Iron + CO2.
Heat and CO is conveniently provided by burning coal/coke in a blast furnace in the presence of a lot of oxygen.
You can pretty much just chuck layers of coke and iron ore in the top of your blast furnace, pump high pressure oxygen into the centre, and get molten iron straight out the bottom.
What language features do users say helped them? Existence of libraries didn’t make C a good language
Hm, except in the way that being able to call into library functions “relatively easily” from the base language was a good way for others to create a bajillion handy libraries.
And once you’ve got those available to extend your language in any direction you want, you’re well on your way to ubiquitousness.
Cute graphic for the malicious package upload explaining four relatively simple steps in detail to take up 3/4 of the page, meanwhile “Opus 4.7 attacks real target and deletes records” is a single sentence in passing.
Git is not stupid. It’s common. With markdown of course.
XKCD 2501.
like the insurance won’t approve it or something like that
That’s the part that’s broken, not the concerns that you might get false negatives.
In any case, I would hope that the system would return “results inconclusive” rather than a hard no, prompting you to be put in the queue for normal diagnostics.
Owned by Akami now for 4 years, I think.
I’ve several small linodes and have been using the platform since 2018 or so. No difference seen so far in the linode plans or features I’m using with Akami, except for more in-depth monitoring available (for a price).
Now if you turn anything off (like that stupid autobrake that brakes for cars in the left hand turn lane beside me), they’ll use that to say “it’s not our fault, the driver turned it off!”
Don’t try and spin this as a convenient liability-limiter for manufacturers.
Unless it is an actual failure of a safety critical system, with no warning, that then directly leads to harm, manufacturers are in no way responsible for how you operate the chunk of metal and technology that you bought from them.
All this stuff absolutely helps to reduce the overall risk of injury when operating a vehicle. Is it also a pain in the ass sometimes? Sure it is. Can you turn it off? Sure you can. But sometimes that shutoff is just temporary, because governments - not manufacturers - mandate that some things are now required, because they’re sick of hosing body parts off of highways.
Even slow RAM is a thousand times faster than swap. Search for “memory hierarchy” for a better idea of why.
Oh man that’s sweeeeet. This is the kinda shit I want to see at trade shows , not yet another iteration of “world’s thinnest phone with a chunky camera bulge”.
Oh your new phone can fold in half and it’s got a 600MP camera and it has a 37Ah battery that lasts for 3 days even when it’s churning on its internal navel-gazing AI 24/7? That’s greaaaaat.
But I want crazy shit!
I want a row of clicky buttons down one side as direct shortcuts to apps.
I want a TV tuner and a pull-out antenna so I can watch Judge Judy serve some proper smackdown to some entitled neighborhood dispute when I’m on the bus, nearly poking someone’s eye out when we hit a pothole.
I want a phone with a laser pointer and an IR blaster (again).
I want a phone that looks like the palmtops of old, with a clamshell case and a little hardware chicklet keyboard and it runs on AA’s, except it’s also a phone.
I want a phone that slots into a boom box and fully controls and plays tapes with auto-reverse.
I want a phone that’s a drone, throw it in the air and it takes group photos.
I want a phone that has gyros and can self-balance on one of it’s corners, and do little party tricks, and can hop along behind you if you leave it behind somewhere.
I want a phone that’s also a mini 1080p laser projector.
I want its calculator to also have an I Ching mode and print “a suffusion of yellow” instead of any answer greater than 4.
Where’s all the FUN stuff?
The article is quite fixated on how dialup was around in the early 2000s, and how Americans used dialup in the early 2000s with screeching modems, and how AOL turned off their dialup last year and only a thousand people were using dialup by then.
But there’s no indication that this has anything to do with the application, except for maybe everyone used a popular means to connect to the Internet to use it when it was first built.
Now if someone maintained a bank of modems and people legitimately called them up and connected to the system like it was an ISP, and it was secure by way of that was the only way to access it as opposed to over the Internet, then sure, I can see that maybe it’s time to work on that part.
Firstly, suspend might be an option compared to hibernation for your subsequent startups if you can suffer a slow startup the very first time.
Otherwise look up “Linux from scratch” .
A lot of boot time is decompressing and mounting initrd, loading modules there, mounting the root filesystem, jumping to that.
Build a kernel that has exactly the minimum modules needed for your system, skip initrd and jump straight to a root filesystem and call your init binary (it can be BusyBox even) do exactly what’s needed there to get your network+graphics card up and running with a single shell script, done.
Also look at COW filesystems. Read only base with an overlay file for writes. Discard that file on each boot and you basically have a system that is always at the same state on startup.
I think so. And I understood the title, because I’ve been using Linux on and off for the last 30 years, so maybe he’s hitting his target market. And a simple kernel release summary is hardly Pulitzer prize stuff, so I’m happy to cut him some slack.
But I still bemoan the loss of sub-editors in general.