dark-star

also https://werstreamt.es where the URL is probably only easy to remember for Germans

nobody has mIRC/ircii installed by default

everyone has ssh installed by default

I think the main problem will be sourcing one of the AMD InterWave chips. Those are (to my knowledge) not produced anymore and the only source would be another GUS card

Wait, being transported in an ambulance costs money? Man, every day I learn new things about how shitty the US health system is, and I'm more and more happy to not have to worry about deciding if I'd rather die or be broke in an emergency

So you can easily get it to work in the browser, but the dozens of core developers can't get it to work properly on Wayland[1]? Something smells fishy...

[1] https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support...

Of course broadcom offers 24/7 enterprise support. You can debate on whether the experience is bad or good, of it it was better when VMware was still VMware, but it's still Enterprise support as for what the customers are concerned (with P1 cases and follow-the-sun case handling etc.)

Yeah, I'm actually interested in that, and I think by now it should be very possible to build a Linux system without any GNU userland (by default).

Instead of building yet-another "no systemd here" distro, why does nobody build a "no GNU here" distro instead? :)

doxxing and/or stalking the kids (minors) of the person you disagree with is still kind of a d*ck move though

I think the title is missing a verb ...

systemd is still GPL (LGPL to be exact) so if you truly want to get rid of the "GNU" in "GNU/Linux" you might want to take a look at the rust-coreutils for a starter

because there are no real alternatives. Everything that could be considered an alternative has drawbacks or things that are missing. Proxmox comes close but doesn't offer proper enterprise support contracts, so you'd be stuck with a 3rd party.

Then there's training. you can't easily switch your admins and service desk techs to a different product. That alone takes months, of not years, and costs a lot. Rewrite all processes, etc.

Then there's 3rd party integration. Since VMware was basically the "default", most 3rd party products offered turnkey integration into VMware, and VMware only. Think backup applications or security etc. You don't switch backup vendors easily (for the same reasons - training, features, ...) and if you do consider it, it adds to the cost

This is why, for many companies that don't have 50-100 people or more in their IT department, it's more expensive to switch away from VMware so they grudgingly pay, while trying to move as much workload away from it as possible.

Newer reactors produce much less long-lasting waste. A half-life of only 100 or 200 years makes a tremendous difference to the old reactors where half-life was measured in 1000s of years

Tangentially related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6uhO1SNJRMQ

Highspeed Highway Halo

Everything I know about trombones I know from the game Trombone Champ.

It's a good game for every aspiring trobonist (or people just remotely interested in music-related video games)

Time to switch to Windows! yay! Where all of this stuff just works: HDR, remote desktop, gaming, Picture-in-Picture, ... all the stuff that Wayland devs are too stupid to get done correctly

/s (maybe?)

at least FreeBSD does already have Wayland. It has a few more hiccups and rough edges than on Linux (at least from my PoV on running it on an older laptop) but otherwise it works fine.

Here is a short setup guide on how to get it working rather nicely: https://thesaigoneer.bearblog.dev/freebsdkdeplasma6wayland/

funny you say that, given that the SteamDeck (the largest/most popular Linux-based gaming console) runs on KDE on Wayland.....

crazy, I really did not know that. Do you happen to know if such boards also exist that take registered DDR3 RAM? None of them explicitly call out DDR3-R RAM so I assume they only take consumer RAM?

Something doesn't add up here. As someone who has only recently built a home-server from an E5-26xx v2 on DDR3 RAM (because I have a sh*tload of 32g DDR3 DIMMs), I can confidently say that the newer cores (E5-26xx v3 and v4) only run on DDR4 memory...

So either you have a v2 instead of a v4 (and run on DDR3 memory), or you have a v4 but with DDR4 memory (not DDR3)

Everything else doesn't work

If malicious AI has replaced the sudo binary, then it can already run arbitrary code as root. No need to "collect your password" then

This is a recent trend in open-source though:

- people avoiding systemd like it's the plague

- people avoiding wayland because it is devil's work

- people avoiding rsync because someone used AI on the testcases

- ...

Unions are not there to protect companies from mismanagement or simply failing/going bancrupt.

I'm pretty sure you didn't design, assemble and field-terminate DAC cables. These are not regular RJ45 or DB25 serial cables, which you can assemble in the field.

I have never heard of the possibility to field-assemble DAC cables. Usually that's when you switch to fiber

me too. Convention-X-treme in Germany. 430 people, one big hall, a whole weekend, incll. sleeping areas and (affordable) food and drinks delivered to your seat.

The demand is huge, and it's a gamble if you can manage to get a ticket or not, but it's totally worth it.

The problem with Gnutella was that it was always slower than the direct competitor, EDonkey (aka EMule, aka ed2k, aka Kademlie later, etc.)

Searching took ages (if you got any results back at all), and when you tried to download something it took ages to even start, dripping through your dial-up internet like molasses. EDonkey on the other hand was quick. The first search results usually arrived within seconds (granted, it took equally long to get all search results), and usually downloads started (slowly) after a few seconds to 1 or 2 minutes.

I don't know if this was because of popularity (more peers in ed2k so faster download speeds) or if it was a particular problem with dial-up internet (Gnutella worked better for people with fast internet, like at universities etc., at least from what I heard back then)

Wait, what's with those suicide doors? Weren't they, considered to be super dangerous? Will this car pass the safety regulations in the EU with those doors?

I would love to see someone on CuriousMarc's, TubeTime's or Usagi's level of dedication get all that and rebuild/reconstruct it. Maybe if all the technology geeks of YouTube got together they could reconstruct one of those to a working level. The 737 one looks like it still has most of the components....

that might be true, yes, but still: the burden of proof (that "github is dying") lies with the original poster. A statement like "last week, these 3 big projects left GitHub" is not that

That "everyone" is just a small, vocal community if you look at the total numbers of repos on GitHub (which is still climbing)[1]

Yes, I understand that people are upset about the Copilot issues and maybe even the "frequent" outages (which usually only affect fringe parts of the site not everyone uses daily)

It's good that there are other solutions (forge, sourcehut, whatever) but most projects are still alive and very well on GitHub and my guess is that this will stay for a while.

Also, personally I have no issues with GitHub training AI on my (badly-coded and bug-ridden) code if they really want to :)

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1snqyj3/is_there_an...

What an unfortunate name, after a fighter aircraft that has been dubbed "widowmaker" because it crashed so often, and could only sold to various air forces around the world because Lockheed heavily bribed the decisionmakers

That being said, the laptop itself looks rather neat, especially the battery runtime