Anyway, point is, we had ads in our free content for about 50 years, and that's what paid for the content. We wished there were not ads, but it was part of life. And it was fine. [ ... ]

It was not fine. Everyone put up with it, because there was no other real choice, but it was not fine.

Even at the time, people correctly complained that the ad block model made certain kinds of shows impossible. Do you think a televised production of Death of a Salesman would have the same emotional impact if it got interrupted every 10 minutes to sell beer?

Ads infuriated me as a child, and the intervening decades have done nothing to improve my opinion of them. Indeed, I regard them as vandalism, litter, pollution -- unnecessary, unwanted, and destructive by their very nature. I hate them so much that.... I pay for YouTube Premium. I visit YouTube exclusively with Firefox, I have never witnessed this reported start delay, and I never am troubled with ads.

"Well, Actually..." No, btop is written in C++ (check the src directory under your link).

There is a very primitive Rust utility called btop that is clearly little more than a proof of concept at this stage.

Nevertheless, thanks for the link -- btop looks quite cool.

"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."
https://www.theregister.com/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_cancer/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/ballmer-i-may-have-called-linux-a-cancer-but-now-i-love-it/

Ballmer doesn't head MSFT but not all top managers, developers and shareholders have been swapped out.

I've been involved with Linux/GNU/OSS from before MSFT took notice. I did not expect to see them so much in love with Linux so soon.

I hope to see Windows fully die and its internals be replaced with OSS-sourced code, before I fully die.

I much agree to this. Drivers, BSP, documentation and ecosystem can be more important than the SOC itself.

RPi has the stability and ecosystem (openness questionable)

Allwinner has the price and availability (stability and documentation are horrid, unless you can read Chinese and are located there)

NXP/SAM/Ti have kickass documentation and drivers relatively speaking, don't expect it to be cheap and always available.

They may all be Cortex-Ax, but their market usecases are mostly different.

The ram size is a disappointment, but hopefully more will be released later.
The price too. I think a 16GB version plus an M2 hat will take us closer to $150 or more.
I'm glad it uses less power or otherwise covers the overheating issues of version 4.

I personally use it for lower level code and hardware integrations and would have loved an embedded FPGA, M4 core or even the PIO from the pico against its GPIO. Give us a bunch more connectors in front of PIO/FPGA modules that sit in front of the GPIO to open up a lot more possibilities. This way they can still use the Broadcom SOCs.

I'll buy this version 5 if a 16GB version and an M2/nvme interface together add up to $100 or less. Otherwise it is too incremental for most of us.

https://twitter.com/GoogleNoDe...

There are companies who do "pay for play" Samba development. You pay 'em and tell them what you want in Samba, and they'll write it and upstream it for you.

Might be more than you want to pay though.

Samba does implement DFS, I wrote lots of the code for it and updated it recently :-).

I think you mean it doesn't implement DFS replication in the same way that Windows does.

Samba is only configured one way, via the smb.conf file.

Runtime control can be done via smbcontrol, but the base config file is always smb.conf.

When using local uses passwords *must* be separate as the SMB protocol and Linux passwords use completely different crypto.

Of course if you want synchronised passwords just add the Linux machine into the Active Directory Domain using Samba's winbind and users and passwords are identical of course.

Samba with an the iouring backend is as performant as an in-kernel version.

See Metze's talk this week at SNIA SDC 2023 in Freemont, CA. for details:

https://storagedeveloper.org/e...

This is completely incorrect.

Microsoft do not concern themselves with what SMB versions Samba supports when considering maintenance. At all.

As it should be IMHO. We match current versions of Windows and only keep SMB1 around in an "off-by-default" state for customers who can't or won't update old Windows / DOS clients.

Google authenticator worked as intended [ ... ]

"NOTABUG: Working as designed."

Yeah, we know, Sparky... The design is fucking idiotic!

It seems clear that one of the OTP codes got them into the rube's account -- the second OTP code allowed them to copy out his Google Authenticator database. If that copy hadn't existed -- and indeed did not exist until Google decided to make copies for itself -- then they would have had to keep pumping him for OTP codes, and the damage would likely have been more limited.

The first compromise can be laid at the feet of the dopey employee. Google bears partial responsibility for all subsequent compromises -- for making and keeping a copy of a sensitive database that the entire security community told them at the time was a STUPID FUCKING IDEA!

To be fair, AirBNB isn't a hotel chain, they're a booking facilitator [ ... ]

"Well, actually..." Let me summarize their so-called argument:

"We are Craigslist. We only list one kind of thing: Rooms for short-term rental. Like items listed on Craigslist, any transaction between rentee and renter is completely private, and any difficulties that may arise are exclusively between them -- we are nothing more than a listing agent and payment processor, and take a small cut of the transaction as our listing fee."

Same "reasoning" with Oober and Lypht, except they only list ride shares.

Looks like all the employees on LI use stock photos:

Gee, it's a real shame that LinkedIn doesn't have the resources of a true software giant, who could dispatch a couple of interns to kluge together a few functions that would compare uploaded profile photos to images available on stock photo sites, and flag them if they find a match...

Yes... Truly a shame that is, evidently, far beyond their capabilities...

Courtesy of JWZ:

What's your favorite tech innovation?

• Illegal cab company
• Illegal hotel chain
• Fake money for criminals
• Plagiarism machine