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Kernel oomkiller is useless for the desktop. It only cares about kernel survival. There's user space oom options, like oomd, earlyoom ... but I'm not sure any heuristic really knows what user space program to clobber.

Resource control via cgroupsv2 sounds better for both desktop and server use cases, differing by what processes receive minimum resources. But IO isolation remains elusive. Some suggest a database of hardware capabilities, I wonder if a cheap estimator of throughput and latencies could do this dynamically.

Anyway, I'm not convinced user space should care about or rely on the kernel oomkiller. Well before it even considers the situation human interactivity with the system was lost.

$800?!

I wonder if Gaudi gets a cut!

I expect pilots called company, and risk assessment made the decision. Pilots can and do make flight safety decisions, but operational control is an airline decision.

I prefer the term "hugged to death" which I only ever have seen used on HN.

We need a synthetic or phytoestrogen that provides some (or all) of the benefits of natural estrogen, without at all stimulating Er/Pr receptive cancer.

Elderly undue influence costs victims billions.

I shouldn't have to consider getting a parent an under 18 account to protect them better.

The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. ... And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.

Why would someone let an elected official enrich themselves and their friends with your money? Why would the legislative branch allow that?

Republicans in Congress were elected expressly to allow Trump to do as he wishes.

A populace with a functioning representative democracy deserves its leaders.

Yes. Despite Trump himself being a fascist, the government continues to operate as a representative democracy. Most Congresscritters have their thumbs up their asses waiting for things to get much worse, which mirrors the vast majority of voters.

Is it national apathy? Decadence? Addiction to the drama, anger and depravity of Trump TV?

Elect an abuser, get abused. Is this surprising?

Send a letter requesting a full refund.

If they refuse, sue them in small claims court.

In a sense this is the correct level of punishment for all. The courts are slow and deliberative.

The Congress could solve this in a week. Impeachment and removal from office.

Feudalism says: buy new hardware, peasant.

I don't know what "equally annoying" would be for a company and its customers, i.e. a fair compromise. But we need a law requiring companies open source their hardware within X days of end of life support.

And somehow make sure these are meaningful updates. Not feature parity with new hardware, but security parity when it can be provided by a software only update.

Otherwise a company in effect takes back the property, without compensation.

Surcharges are permitted in some states.

Colorado law recently changed permitting merchants to pass on the actual cost of processing, except for cash, check and debit payments.

https://colorado.public.law/statutes/crs_5-2-212

This law overrides any prior contractual agreements with banks/processing companies that prohibit surcharges. This is previously how MasterCard and VISA coerced merchants into absorbing the processing fee, by contractually requiring credit same as cash pricing.

They are likely getting more frequent brake pad replacements.

Not a significant cost. But they sure as shit aren't getting what they think they're getting. Meaningfully farther ahead.

I now see it all as a risk assessment rather than as ritualistic combat.

Winning local elections means having the political power and thus economic power to Deflock your town.

Telling illiberal authoritarians to go fuck themselves is reasonable. But power is still more important than insults.

The medical and financial predators targeting elderly makes me wonder how to constrain it. The law doesn’t really help, short of having a court determine there’s some level of incapacity.

In theory the law doesn’t require victim cooperation. In practice, I’ve found local prosecutors won’t touch a case with an uncooperative victim. And most victims don’t cooperate whether out of humiliation or rejection pf the very idea they can be scammed. Because to them all scams are obvious, and only morons are scammed. They consistently lack imagination for the sophistication and manipulation component of scams, thinking it’s all about obviousness.

I’m sure it’s not only a case of “save the children”. Saving grandma’s retirement accounts is also important. The internet is a cesspool.

Federal court orders (judicial branch) are enforced by federal law enforcement such as marshals, FBI, ATF, and so on (executive branch).

If the executive branch is lawless, then there’s selective enforcement. We are seeing the emergence of the dual state. Authoritarianism that follows the law sometimes so it sorta looks legitimate but sometimes isn’t at all legitimate.

America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State (theatlantic.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43454004

Die Eier Von Satan (also 1996)

Hold on. That ballroom is ostensibly funded by private investors including Apple, AMD, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Nvidia, Palantir, Booz Allen Lockheed Martin, Zoom, Coinbase, Ripple ...

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/01/trump-ballroom-dono...

Therefore the customers of these companies are contributing some of their hard earned money to help these companies grovel to a would-be dictator, and build his precious ballroom.

I'm not a big fan of the general strike idea whereby people forego income to send a message. Why not stop spending money with these companies for some period of time? I think telling these companies to go fuck themselves will put more money in everyday people's pockets than not showing up for work.

Apple consumers would be on more ethical grounds paying a tariff than what Tim Cook has committed them to. He showed up at the White House on Saturday well after the reporting that the government had murdered a law abiding citizen, while that government protected the assailants, and smeared the victims.

It's disgusting. I find him disgusting. I find all of these companies disgusting.

Historically, the FAA had zero interest/jurisdiction in most hobbyist aircraft below 500 feet, they would not even bother entertaining such as it was not relevant to their opperations.

This is not correct. See 14 CFR 101, 103, and 105. There's a long history of the FAA concerning itself with hobbyists flying model aircraft, moored, and unmanned balloon, rockets, kites, parachutes, and ultralights. I mentioned this, you glossed over it. Their histories predate 2012.

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14

Helicopters, planes, and quadcopters could be flown freely under general guidance, with no actual enforcing regulations.

Helicopters and airplanes have been regulated under 14 CFR 91 for a very long time, and were regulated by the CAA (the Civil Aeronautical Authority, precursor to FAA), and their operations are certainly regulated below 500'. And it is definitely enforced.

If you're referring to the years long regulatory lag for drones/sUAS before the The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 which also gave us 49 USC 44809 "Exception for limited recreational operations of unmanned aircraft" - ummm, well all I can say is welcome to aviation. It's been significantly regulated the whole time, and just because some folks were not aware of this fact, doesn't mean it wasn't.

Maybe check out The Great Waldo Pepper with Robert Redford though. That begins in a genuinely unregulated era.

Yeah, the higher departure stress due to greater fuel weight at takeoff was mentioned in this video.

I'm now curious about the engineering of the displaced threshold. This is a portion of the runway that aircraft can taxi onto and use for takeoff but not for landing. I thought (assumed) that the landing was harder on the runway surface than takeoffs, hence the displaced threshold wasn't designed for that force.

The displaced threshold could also be used to ensure obstacle and terrain clearance on landing - simply disallow that portion from being used in order to create an offset from the obstacle. But I don't know whether this is a very common reason for displaced threshold usage.

-- Video also mentions https://skybrary.aero/ which I'd not heard of previously. Looks neat. I'll have to check it out.

When are you suggesting this overreach began?

FAA has asserted jurisdiction below 500' for a long time: balloons and kites since 1963, ultralights since 1982.

FAA certainly asserts regulatory authority over aircraft below 500', everything does takeoffs and landings of some sort, but ground operations are also subject to regulation.

There's no uncertainty. Republicans now openly assert the 2nd amendment belongs to supporters and defenders of the regime, and no one else.

The movement opposes equality because equality stands opposed to their need for hierarchy. It is a domination and submission movement. It boasts about its application of double standards. Double standards are not logical fallacies, when they use them they are virtues. To enjoy for themselves what they deny to others is a display of dominance.

What's important to understand is you can do everything lawful, and they will still lie about you and kill you.

No.

https://bsky.app/profile/bellingcat.com/post/3md6vlu7hb22t

Looks like the citizen was disarmed by an agent, then executed by an agent, then a different agent emptied a clip into the corpse.

https://bsky.app/profile/bradmossesq.bsky.social/post/3md6pi...

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Related, six days ago. Since then, the FBI agent who indicated a civil rights investigation into the shooting of Renee Good was warranted, has resigned.

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mcpk34cyu22p

I'm certain I should encrypt my data, backup all LUKS headers, and backup all data.

But what about unsophisticated users? In aggregate it might be true data exfiltration is worse than data loss? I don't know if that's true.

But what is true is enabling encryption by default without automated backup and escrow will lead to some data loss.

It's difficult for me to separate the aggregate scenarios from individual scenarios. The individual penalty of data loss can be severe. Permanent.

Maybe you're thinking of the 1st constitution, which was replaced because it made centralized power too difficult?

Trump, while president, sent a mob to assassinate the vice-president of the United States, and members of Congress, because Mike Pence refused Trump’s illegal order to overturn an election both of them had lost.

The current president is plainly undemocratic. It’s a matter of public record.

What is a secular term for prosperity gospel?

They knowingly voted for a racist, a rapist, a felon ...

A man who as president sent a mob to assassinate the vice-president of the United States and members of Congress, because that VPOTUS, Mike Pence, refused Trump's illegal order to overturn an election both of them had lost.

Trump voters understood.