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waigl ,

Paywalled.

waigl ,

I have been sort of following Wayland's development for over 10 years now. I have been using Wayland for over 2 years now. I have been reading and watching various lengthy arguments online for and against it. I still don't feel like I actually know it even is, not beyond some handwavey superficialities. Definitely not to the extent and depth I could understand what X11 was and how to actually work with it, troubleshoot it when necessary and achieve something slightly unusual with it. I feel like, these days, you are either getting superficial marketing materials, ELI5 approaches that seem to be suited at best to pacify a nosy child without giving them anything to actually work with, or reference manuals full of unexplained jargon for people who already know how it works and just need to look up some details now and then...

Maybe I'm getting old. I used to like Linux because I could actually understand what was going on…

waigl ,

Floating Point Unit. The thing that does mathematical operations on floating point numbers. It used come separately from the CPU as an add-on chip, but around the 486 era, manufacturers started integrating it on the same die as the CPU. Of course, as these things go, from the system programmers point of view, there is still no difference between an add-on FPU and an integrated one.

The one pictured here is an add-on FPU for an Intel 80386 CPU.

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    waigl ,

    Okay, this bullshit. It's not shareholders who would be negatively affected by this, and it's not shareholders who are actively working against doing something about the problem. Shareholders are just an easy acceptable target to point your fingers at, whether it makes sense or not.

    What needs to be done to tackle the homelessness problem (not the only thing, but probably the most important one) is to zone much, much more land inside or directly next to cities for affordable mid-rise multi-family homes. Guess who is opposed to that and has the power to do something about it? Existing property owners. Specifically owners of detached single family homes. Because doing that would negatively affect their property values. Personally, I think that shouldn't matter, because what good is living in home that is worth absurd amounts of money on paper going to do you if society is falling apart because of it? But home owners are always massively concerned about their property values and will torpedo anything that might threaten it. Of course, pointing your fingers at home owners is much dicier than pointing them at shareholders, because even in a bubble like this one, you are bound to point at some people here who will feel personally attacked by that...

    "Shareholders", on the other hand, aside from those that are also home owners at the same time, don't really have much reason to care one way or another about effective projects to reduce homelessness.

    waigl ,

    Corporations holding residential real estate are a growing part of the problem, but still a small one. The vast majority of single famliy homes are still owned by either their residents or small time, non-incorporated landlords.

    Never mind increasing the supply of housing would drive down prices and remove pressure regardless of who owns the existing stock.

    waigl ,

    It's a lot better than the system that just randomly throws in your USB drives with your SCSI/SAS/SATA/PATA drives. Or the systems that calls everything a SCSI drive when it usually isn't a SCSI drive.

    waigl ,

    About 20 years ago, Microsoft was found guilty and convicted, because they forced their browser on their users, driving out competitors by abusing their de facto monopoly on PC operating systems. These days, they are doing the exact same thing again, just on an even broader base. I don't even understand how this verdict took so long.

    waigl , (edited )

    WhatsApp is not its own company, it belongs to Facebook/Meta.

    Also, on that topic, you could do the same thing you did with X/Twitter to Meta/Facebook.

    *edit: Oh, and of course Alphabet/Google. Curious how many big tech companies seem keen on obfuscating their own name these days...

    waigl ,

    But this is about companies, not products or brand names.

    waigl ,

    Well, yeah, dividing something by 0.5 is the same thing as multiplying it by 2…

    waigl ,

    Top Left – More or less the default position, sensible enough, if a bit naive. Nothing wrong with this.

    Top Right – Having knowledge is a good thing, and so is making decisions based on sound risk-benefit analysis.

    Bottom Right – Well, at least it's an informed decision. Just don't try to pass off the risk on someone else if it backfires.

    Bottom Left – Oooouuuuh, you don't want to be in this quadrant, trust me…

    waigl ,

    Gunsmith Cats

    The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk (rmi.org)

    The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk::The unstoppable rise of batteries is leading to a domino effect that puts half of global fossil fuel demand at risk.

    waigl ,

    Batteries take “rare earth metals” like cobalt.

    Some Lithium-Ion batteries use Cobalt, but many don't. Lithium-Iron-Phosphate, for example, is a popular variant without any Cobalt. There is a push going on to move to battery chemistries without Cobalt or to reduce the actual amount of Cobalt where it is still required.

    waigl ,

    The way I, as another European, understand this, he's flying an anti-oppression flag and a pro-oppression flag at the same time.

    waigl ,

    Yes, support for sessions in Plasma.

    waigl ,

    Is sshfs an option? Unfortunately, I don't think you can put that into /etc/fstab, though...

    waigl ,

    Interesting. Though it does seem to to require your private key to be unencrypted...

    waigl ,

    Dunno about ideal, but it should work.

    It does have quite a bit of overhead, meaning it's not the fastest out there, but as long as it's fast enough to serve the media you need, that shouldn't matter.

    Also, you need to either mount it manually on the command line whenever you need it or be comfortable with leaving your SSH private key in your media server unencrypted. Since you are already concerned with needing to encrypt file share access even in the local network, the latter might not be a good option to you.

    The good part about it is, as long as you can ssh from your media server to your NAS, this should just work with no additional setup needed.

    waigl ,

    Well passwordless.

    Same thing in this context. But sure, an encrypted partition would work.

    waigl ,

    Sure, he promised...

    waigl ,

    Sidenote:

    HTTP user agents have become absolutely bonkers over the years.

    waigl ,

    There is more information in there that isn't actually true and only supposed to trick some old web servers into treating it a certain way than there is actually correct information,

    It mentions three different browsers, only one of which is actually true, and three different rendering engines, none of which is actually what's used.

    waigl ,

    In your case, instead of getting a dedicated server and putting proxmox on it, I would check if it might not be cheaper to just get individual virtual servers directly.

    Other than that, sure, I have been a customer for many years now, and I have always been a fan of Hetzner's price to quality ratio.

    waigl ,

    Really? That's a rather big claim, and would change a lot for me if true. Do you have anything by the way of a source?

    Also, how do you MITM https traffic without one of the parties just handing you their keys?

    waigl ,

    Wait, they managed to forge Let's Encrypt certificates? While it explains the attack on TLS (though technically not https as originally claimed, not that it makes much of a difference), that's even worse...

    waigl ,

    I get the joke, but in contrast to heating, you can easily just... not run demanding games while the electricity is insanely expensive for a day.

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