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I have read this, would recomend.

Steam is a closed source market place blob that takes 30% middle man tax. Valve however has understood FOSS, and the contributions they are making are immense.

When a true FOSS project is dominating this means the people are in control of it. Not corpos nor is it a monopoly. People have voted by donating work for it to be the most successful thing in its applicable area. Dominating FOSS projects also suck up and integrate a lot of innovation greatly reducing duplicated effort.

FreeBSD is alive and well, and it even benefits from Linux’s DRM GPU drivers.

Although the drm gpu drivers are mostly of a corporate effort, we are seeing an occasional interventions by the people “no, not like that” to keep the sometimes shoddy quality up.

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The fucked up thing with phones is the locked boot loaders. Locked boot loaders should not exist because this seriously restricts the driver and OS development.

If the generator is inside the house, 100%. But then you could just burn the fuel…

Power-line losses before your house, so a electric heater is only 96%-85% effecient. When the heating for bird feets is accounted, it’s 100%.

the ssd disk would dying fast under the swap I/O.

I wouldn’t touch this without air-gapping the machine it’s run on. The funny thing here is that Denuvo can’t do much to prevent this hack.

The HV is intentionally malicious and modifies the guest on the fly to archive the Denuvo hack. The hack requires to disable all major security protections in the victim OS, so the HV can more freely poke at the victim kernel. A jne-instruction to check if running under a compromised HV? It’s now a nop-instruction.

The HV has access to everything that is plugged in physically, or run on top of it. In theory it e.g. extract encryption keys of https connections from any process in the guest.

I watched the live stream of the launch. You never know what happens until the rocket has reached space. From significant past launches was the launch of JWST, that was truly nerve racking and exciting, although no people were on the board.

Hopefully nothing will break, and we perhaps get a moon base in this century. (we do have more urgent things to research, but space research tends to produce more eye-opening and unexpected results.)

They launched the integrity of the USA off the planet, so it won’t bother them anymore for a few days.

I have recently realized that a sum negative knowledge situation can exist, and this is a thing with “AI”. The work the AI does may actually reduce the useful knowledge. It’s like you have built a working fusion reactor, but have zero knowledge how to replicate it or able to explain why it works.

The point this happens to a person, means she/he can’t be trusted with the tech and should stay far away from it.

The negative knowledge pit can be so deep that some people are unable to escape from it, and start confidently believing in the (AI injected) garbage like it’s their own thoughts…

You forgot the /s at the end.

Completely missing from the article is the syscall user dispatch being utilized finally: hardcoded NT syscalls can be handled instead of crashing. So, a program which didn’t work previously or crashed often may very well now work with Wine 11.5

Yes. Part of the inputs to Haber bosch process is natural gas and a ton of process heat. The hydrogen source has to be switched to H2 from electrolyzers and the plant can’t burn the NG for heat. So the energy cost for switching is very steep. This transition is huge, as it would decouple production of food from fossil fuels.

depend on that oil. I don’t, because I ride a bike.

I dont remember the exact number, but about half of the nitrogen in your body was made using oil/fossil fuels. This is the ultimate climate end boss fight, manufacturing everything without sucking (more) oil from the ground. Until this happens we are all slaves of it.

Cinnamon situation currently on arch feels such that it might break at any time, and in fact has recently. :-( I have absolutely loved the simplicity of this DE, but the breakages lately are worrisome. I’m considering migrating from cinnamon to plasma, but the added cruft that comes with the Plasma DE does not impress me. There is some tension; I have contributed to KDE projects, and I prefer KDE apps over gnome/GTK.

How well does plasma wayland tolerate unresponsive apps? I need to be able to keep graphical apps in this state for possibly an hour at time, as I run them under a debugger.

It’s apparently weird if somebody agrees with you on the internet?

Plant photosynthesis isn’t exactly efficient at all: 6% (It’s even lower than this maximum!) The industrial-scale corn-to-ethanol is something of a insanity, since agriculture is intensively polluting/destructive and ridiculously water hungry.

Using the same land area and producing hydrogen with solar, and then converting the H2 to hydrocarbons in a industrial complex would probably be way better. (I would like to know some numbers for this…)

Also, some plants actually like growing in shade. So, the solar-panel-fields don’t exclude using the land also for growing food simultaneously, if the panel arrays are raised from the ground level and placed a bit more sparsely.

chuggles - I’m in danger - of data loss.

I burnt the “trustworthy life-left” of a 256GiB NVMe disk in approx 6 years by writting 25 TiB onto it. :D It still works, but doesn’t hold any important data.

I however do fear the day one of the 1TiB spinning rust disks, in RAID1, die. I created the array in 2020 but the disks are nearly twice as old. (~12 years) There is stuff from WinXp era on those disks that I as a young wipper snaper once developed - irreplaceable.

This just a lovely comic, so have a double up vote.