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Comment Because of Facebook (Score 4, Interesting) 127

I have an older Quest of and a mobile one that I just gave away. The Quest was used for a few days and put on a shelf, something I keep meaning to go back and play with. Then I got an email from Facebook saying I needed to make a Facebook account to keep using my hardware that I (didn't actually) pay for (long story, test sample) but did own. FSCK that. There are a few things that are dealbreakers for me in the tech world and a forced Facebook/Meta spyware account is near the top of the list.

At CES this year, VR/AR stuff was in pretty high numbers in high profile areas but the interest seemed a bit tepid. At MWC last week, there was precious little VR/AR and it was mostly ignored. I think we have reached the 3D TV phase of VR and it is all downhill from here. Discounts are telling, not much to save the sector now, it will become an admittedly useful niche device but mainstream is dead. AR is a different story but we are years away from basic usefulness there.

Yawn. It deserves a quick flaming death but VR will drag on for a while yet. The sooner it drops out of the media hype cycle, the better for us all.

              -Charlie

Comment AP is a College Board trademark (Score 1) 228

Let's be clear. DeSantis's beef is with the College Board specifically, not with AP classes in general. I got this from the article you linked to. The College Board isn't the only possible source for AP classes.

The College Board is the only source of AP classes if you want to call them AP classes, because it's a College Board trademark.

https://privacy.collegeboard.o...

Comment Re:Microkernel vs monolithic (Score 1) 51

Note, another factor is that it's easier to integrate an in-kernel server with the exported filesystems.

File locking, NFSv4 file delegations, NFSv4 change attributes, and lookup of files by filehandle are all areas where we've traditionally depended on in-kernel interfaces between knfsd and filesystems.

Over time we've added APIs which expose that functionality to userspace (see for example open_by_handle_at(2)), and we may some day get to the point where userspace has access to all the same filesystem functionality as knfsd, but we're not there yet.

There actually is an active userspace NFS server project (Ganesha). My impression is that it's currently better suited for exporting filesystems (typically complicated distributed systems) that themselves run mainly in userspace.

Comment "Authority" is not how Interpol works (Score 3, Informative) 10

Interpol has no direct power. It's a voluntary association of law enforcement agencies among many countries. An Interpol red notice requests that other countries who see this person arrest them for extradition.

It also doesn't force other countries to do anything. Russia and Turkey, and I'm sure others, have both issued Red Notices for political dissidents, and other countries have ignored them and/or complained.

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