I’m not the only one seeing the 20 or so deals like this in the last few weeks. Right?

Is this because the SEC is shutdown?

This feels we’re going to get a movie like The Big Short in a few years time. “The Big Hallucination” or something.

Flakes should never have happened the way that they did IMHO. The situation it’s left the project in is awful. It’s stuck. They can’t move forward and accept flakes because they undermine some fundamental things. They can’t move backwards and remove them or even make breaking changes because they’re in such widespread use.

I’d just built my first PC and had no love for Win 3.1 which was rapidly becoming the default. I wanted to keep codíng having come from from Atari STs and had no desire to learn the windows APIs. An OS that came with C compilers by default was higher level than I was used to as I’d been doing 68000 assembler on the ST, but it was still low level enough.

IIt was also similar enough to the Sun IPCs and IPXs that I was using at university.

I’m a little confused by some of the discussion. Surely the problems they’re talking about with variations in the test system also apply to windows. You result can be affected by:

• Which windows updates have been applied
• Which version of the drivers have been installed
• What other software is on the system

Linux is the same, but they seem to be more concerned about it. Can someone explain?

They’re Saxon

How steep is the learning curve there? Should I just go with Plex and keep it simple?

You’ve got it the wrong way round. Jellyfin is simple. I’ve never understood Plex.

They do. You look at it every time you see the contents of your disk. It’s just organised in a tree to make path based lookups fast and locate organises its database differently to make fast basename lookups.

I’ve got a 12. I really like it.

Get a DIY one and put your own memory and SSD in it. You’ll save £$\€ over the framework prices for those. I paid about £750 total for my maxed out 48GB/2TB one. Then slap something like Fedora on it and you’re good to go.

I got a Lenovo slim pen 2 as the framework stylus isn’t out yet. Pairing required holding the buttons for ages, but works great after that.

While the drones are armed, they use non-lethal or less-lethal weaponry,

Less lethal? So still lethal.

Why is everyone so keen on making Terminator real?

Go with a VM for FileMaker I’d have thought.

BTW Bonjour is known as multicast DNS in the non-apple world and the standard Linux way of supporting it is Avahi.

Agreed. The headline is terrible. Headline Case Doesn’t Help Either.

A lot of the security fixes since spectre have focused on exploiting speculative execution (a key CPU performance feature) to cross security boundaries. Defeating speculative execution when switching from user to kernel space (for example) adds a lot of overhead.

The new kernel add controls so that machines that don’t need to worry about these exploits to disable the performance killing fixes.

It’s a few hundred lines of C across 7-8 files. It checks the password hash against a set of predefined ones and then calls a script if it matches.

It doesn’t need a lot of maintaining.

As does Arch.

The avalanche has started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.

…except there’s no hardware to run it on. They’ve chosen an ISA profile that’s not been decided on for long enough.

I tried it a couple of times and stopped both times because it puts it own password dialogue box up for my password. I assume it wants to sudo for some reason.

No! I will not give you my plaintext password.

1. No other piece of screen sharing software needs this.
2. You’ve not told me what you need it for.
3. Even if valid, no user level software should have my plaintext password. Make a request to the system, it will prompt me.
4. You now expect me to trust the software developers that make such brain-dead security choices with sharing my desktop? Not going to happen.

Uninstalled as fast as I possibly could.

I think people who dislike flatpaks or similar aren’t having “problems”. They work, but they’re using using a sledgehammer to drive a nail.

A better way to say that (more accurate) is that abusers often learnt “how” through personal experience.

The key point is not to look at someone who has been abused and think that they are likely going to become an abuser.