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Some friendly tips from post-silicon validation:

sudo systemctl reboot --firmware

shutdown /r /t 0 /fw

These reboot directly into BIOS.

For Windows CMD+R menu, run it by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+Enter (elevates to admin). You may have to do it twice for some unknown reasons after reinstalling the OS.

What non-malicious use case is there for this?

The only sane way to manage "your config files" is to put them in a git managed folder and use a symlink farm program.

Another option is to ignore all files and selectively allow the ones you want to track. That's what I'm doing now.

Files describing how to do IPC with current processes. They belong to ~/.local/state not .config.

XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (i.e.: /run/user/1000)

Are those real numbers? Also, do you mean additive or multiplicative (i.e.: 20 + 20 + 15 vs. 20 * 20 * 15).

Is there a market for publishing the retrospective of the process which resulted in a "late found flaw"? I would expect uninteresting data would still be published if only to prevent someone from going down that rabbit hole in the future.

Zig also doesn't have dynamic dispatch

It doesn't have it as a language feature, but it does have VTables just like C would. The `std.mem.Allocator` is an example of this.

I think they're discussing the lifetime of that heap data, not whether the data is heap allocated.

I don't understand. Isn't this already the case in America with Section 230? (The original post is about the Netherlands, so this is now tangenting.) It's just that no one actually acts as a platform.

I'll daydream with you except mine is different. The optimal social media in my view is one tied to your real identity. Moderation would only be applied under court order by the relevant jurisdiction for the view of the content within that jurisdiction. i.e.:

1) American posts content critical of Indian officials. That content is restricted by order of an Indian court and no such order is additionally given by an American court. It would be hidden from view within India but not from within America. The inverse would be true.

2) Indian posts content critical of Indian officials. That content is restricted by order of an Indian court. America (or any other nation) has no duty to protect that speech and thus no claim over it. That content is censored everywhere.

Additionally, everyone would have client-side filters which may be published. Emphasis on "published" because the publisher would be accountable for their words just as much as a newspaper within their jurisdiction. Though they wouldn't need to say much (i.e.: list of people I [dis]like). Unique identity and nationality are the only ones I can think of right now. More complex examples:

1) An American publishes a list of politicians who have made inflammatory public statements. They have evidence of this for each person on the list and make no additional assertions about their behavior. People not interested in such content could subscribe to the filter. (I guess people interested in chaos could view the inverse.) No court is willing to censor this list because their statements are protected speech.

2) An American publishes a list of men who have committed sexual crimes (such as in the original post). They assert it as fact not alleged crimes. They include someone who has not been proven in a court of law to have committed that crime. They can be sued for libel and possibly forced to remove the person from the list or reword the list description.

Anonymity between the user and the social media service wouldn't exist, but it might between users. The service could be mandated by the jurisdiction to unmask or otherwise ensure the accused does not fall within the jurisdiction.

There's a dead comment sibling to this one talking about how group admins can see through the anominity. I don't understand why it is dead. It wasn't even rudely stated. Is it just flat wrong, or did it cross some unknown social boundary by pointing out a fact? Was it edited posthumously?

Edit: And, when I refresh it's not dead... I don't understand this system apparently.

A quirk in my config that I haven't bothered to fix makes it so my formatter runs post write. I've unfortunately picked up the habit of <esc>:w<cr>:w<cr> in rapid succession.

Having bad leaders in an authoritarian system (there are many in the military) effectively amplifies the problem they create which is likely where this bias comes into play.

Additionally, good leaders in an authoritarian system can be more effective. It's just that no one wants to make the gamble for society at large.

It's more or less necessary for grunts where ultimately someone will be mandating another endangers themselves. I don't think modern society has enough bloodthirsty people to field a military completely composed of willing participants. We do have enough that think they're bloodthirsty to field our "voluntary" forces.

I used to work on datacenter NVMe products. I wrote the tests which validated them (mostly functional not performance). I left that company before things got hot with fabrics, but I really want to see that stuff succeed. It looked really cool.

Is no one going to talk about their capabilities system? That shit looks cool. A compile time permissions system for which resources can be used. I wonder how fool proof that can be made. Are there escape hatches in the form of arbitrary assembly/linking? Could a leftpad module security issue be deterred with this?

I usually do. I have a 2 liter water bottle that I fill up at least twice a day. Though ironically with the heat this summer, I've been exercising and drinking less.

Looks at dmesg... "Heh, how is this thing still running?"

Wasn't there active attempts to hide the extent of the issue with Chernobyl which significantly worsened the damage? If so, that seems like saying there were cascading human errors in a murder-suicide. You're technically right on some level, but I wouldn't so much call that human error.

I, for one, quite enjoyed the novelization of it. Especially the part about the space-irony continuum. My sleeping wife did not appreciate being woken up by laughter though.

I'm fascinated by the woman who seems to be pacing back and forth rather than do anything productive to help people or get to safety. I wonder if I would have the clarity of mind in that moment or if I would melt down also. It's moments like this that make me wish I had followed some of my early career options and became an EMT or similar. Then, I would know how I would actually react rather than just being an armchair commentator.

I can't imagine someone named their language "of", "programming", or "in". So, I guess 3. Joy and Odin are obvious since they have shown up here recently.

Totally tangential, but am I the only one that was taught to put punctuation inside of quotes and now despises that rule?

Good read. Thank you.

This just worsens my fear of changing "unnecessary" code when I don't know the original motivation for it.

100% OSS

Tell that to your BIOS or the firmware that runs on your WLAN or NVMe. Hell, tell that to the CPU itself[^1].

[^1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine

That's the user and/or user agent inserting those. You can have streamlined email threads without those issues. You just don't top post.

Now, try to do encourage that behavior in a corporate environment, and you'll just get blank stares.

Which one are you referring to? A lot happened last week in the SCOTUS, and I haven't heard of this specific concern.

This is one of those times where I look at what someone says, and think, "Aren't you the same people who thought X about Y, and now, you think something that seems totally contradictory because Y' happens to support the opposite side?" Then, I realize all sides are comprised of heterogenous people with ideas that happen to have similar throughlines, and I'm comparing your statement to something I read from someone I perceived as being from the same side.

To this specific topic, could you clarify your position? Do you think the same is applicable to a police officer or an IRS agent?

The specific thing that made me think your statement was contradictory was police. The left was demanding police to be accountable seemingly five minutes ago. For most police departments, I think they went too far in saying the whole system was corrupt. I think there's at least an argument to be made about the extent of the Biden administration's involvement, but certainly you think the person doing the coercion should be punished, right?

It seems to me that any case of a "random bureaucrat" attempting to coerce a citizen or company outside of their civil mandate should be punished to the maximum extent of the law. If there isn't a criminal punishment already for this, one should be created and applied retroactively because it should be common sense.

- you can’t download while it’s asleep or in the background.

Are you saying this is something unique to the Steam Deck? If my Linux desktop is anything to judge by, you should be able to enable background downloads in Steam settings. I'm also fairly sure there should be a way to get logind to inhibit sleep during the download.

I think that's runtime safety protected. It should segfault if the program is built with "ReleaseSafe", the variable value is only known at runtime, and the variable overruns the array. There's a "ReleaseFast" mode which disables things like this. Also, if that variable is somehow known at comptime, then I'm pretty sure it will fail while compiling which is what you would want.

- containers are each isolated in a VM (aka virtualized)

Why are you assuming containers are virtualized? Is there some container runtime that does that as an added security measure? I thought they all use namespaces on Linux.

I used a Vega64 for years and just bought a 6000 series. Both work great on my machines. I'm typically running the bleeding edge kernels though, so that might explain it a bit. I would think Ubuntu is probably the most supported if you opt for the OEM kernel.

Messages promoting capitalism or meritocracy

Fascinating. I thought anarchy was supposed to be all about unfettered freedom of association and trade with no governmental oversight. They seem to be defining it as opposition to the existing societal structure rather than a description of the desired structure.

In fairness, I assume their rules are for residents of that server, not accounts which are federated in.

I wonder if something like quickcheck could be used to randomly generate characters which pass the criteria. I don't know how it would handle Paul though...