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Comment Re:In god we trust, backups we check (Score 1) 73

Not just that - I know that the Kremlin is pretty paranoid about data sovereignty. But they could have had datacenters distributed across their 10 time zones - from Smolensk to Anadyr, instead of concentrating them all in Ryazan and Koluga. Good as Ukraine's ranges are, I suspect they couldn't have gone beyond Novosibirsk

I can get small countries being forced to have their data offshore. Russia is the last country that should worry about such a problem

Comment Re: When can we force Putin to end this awful war (Score 1) 73

What war in Iran? All I see there is a blockade of Iran, but w/ other ships passing the straits normally, w/ different IRGC factions occasionally lobbing missiles at Hormuz shipping. Regime supporters keep demanding a resumption of the war, but apparently, the regime is in no position to make that call: only the US or Israel are

So far, they haven't, otherwise what's left of the regime would have collapsed already

Comment Re:When can we force Putin to end this awful war ? (Score 1) 73

Also, ever since 2025, when Ukraine decided to start taking the war to Russia and bombing refineries, fuel depots and Wildberry warehouses, the notion that Russia is a superpower has been busted. Just like in 1991, the idea of Saudi Arabia being a major regional power b'cos of what it looks like on a map was disabused, this year, it has been Russia's turn. I am surprised that they are still a permanent member of the UN Security Council, w/ veto powers. I won't claim that Ukraine is a superpower, but Russia definitely isn't one

Comment Re: Not terrible, which is too bad (Score 1) 73

Only problem w/ that is that Moscow isn't too far away. It might have been different had Moscow been located at Krasnoyarsk krai, but it's located just some 50 miles from Ukraine. Even short range Ukrainian missiles made w/ no foreign technology could hit Moscow easily. But Ukraine has hit refineries and other targets as far away as Omsk, Tyumen and Yamal, and a lot of rich Muscovites have fled to Siberia - a region where they used to have to be deported during the Stalin era

So no, even Putin wouldn't be stupid enough to hit Kyiv w/ a nuke: if he did, he wouldn't be able to continue living in Moscow just from the radioactive fallout alone

Comment Re:If true.... (Score 1) 100

If the report is true (and it is just a report, but the NYTimes says it was corroborated by five people) that usually means that the executive will soon be "spending more time with their family".

How much of the company does he still control? That's the only thing I see that saves him from "spending more time with their family" (assuming that wifey still stays w/ him)

Comment Re:AI works, really well (Score 1) 45

That's what I thought. AI has evolved a lot and is pretty capable of writing good code. In this case, it looks like it would have to take the NetBSD kernel, the way it is, and then combine it w/ Alpine Linux's userland. Both code bases already exist, so from what I understand, the AI would have to provide some sort of a shim that would provide the Alpine userland w/ the BSD equivalents of the Linux kernel calls. After that, hopefully, one or more people would go through it to verify that it works as expected, or help troubleshoot and iron out any bugs that may still exist

It might be something of concern if AI was building something completely from scratch. But in this case, it looks like AI would be combining existing code, just providing the hooks for one part to talk to the other

Incidentally, is this the first NetBSD based distro being created, ever since OpenBSD was forked? Something I'm missing - the point of it: what's it about NetBSD userland that makes it worth replacing w/ that of Alpine Linux? There are ways that I can think of a NetBSD distro being enhanced - increased driver support, new software utilities and so on which could give NetBSD the former PC-BSD feel to it, the advantage this time being that it would be available over a wide range of architectures. But I'm not getting the point of this distro

Comment Re:Love BSD, hate the article (Score 1) 45

Only thing about your "hyper capitalist mess": all the companies that have been working on AI have been heavily leaning either Left or Left-of-Center. Grok is the only exception. The idea that AI would do things to empower the side that its owners ideologically oppose is just fascinating at best, and conspiratorial at worst

Comment Re:Why switchh? (Score 1) 43

Right. Only switch to it if you're running it on an appliance, such as a router or firewall. You can convert that router into multiple things - multihoming, firewall, routing, DHCP services

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