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Comment Re: Pay or move on (Score 1) 37

> I'm paying for it.

You'll stop when you get less value from it than the fee is worth.

It sounds like they're lazily destroying their value proposition but Subjective Value Theory says that set point will be different than everybody else.

It's still stupid of them to remove features for paying customers. Probably they are losing devs or hiring unqualified people for non-merit reasons. Their shareholders should be pissed.

FWIW when I was a teen I probably spent $100 a months (in 2024 dollars) on music so I can see why so many people subscribe.

I still own my CD's but only ever listen to the mp3 rips.

Comment Repo (Score 1) 17

I had some problem with a gitlab-ce install some months back where an update failed to install and then new updates filled the disk with the apt cache on it.

I used their docs to clear the problem and get current but there was nothing inherently wrong, just an upgrade error.

This may have preceded the security patch; if it's a common problem people who thought they were OK with automatic updates might be in for quite a surprise.

I am glad gitlab exists but goodness it's up to about 20GB for a half dozen very small text-only repos.

Comment Re:Go On, Take The Money & Run (Score 1) 79

Before Rockefeller purchased Congress and Standard Oil was made a permanent corporation, they only existed for limited times and for public purposes.

It would be crazy to create an unaccountable immortal entity, they knew, from the mercantalist Chartered companies of the King.

Corporate America is unAmerican.

Comment Re:About 82 million people still listen to AM radi (Score 1) 303

It's the National emergency information system.

For when cell goes down (again) or in a scenario where nrad hardened comms become necessary.

Assuming the existience of a nation state this is the least dumb car mandate.

That thing that kills starters and engines at stoplights is the opposite.

Comment Re:improvement? (Score -1) 313

Presumably since systemd runs as uid 0 run0 is just some glue code to tell systemd to run a process as uid0.

So on a systemd machine you get to throw out almost the entire sudo codebase which is redundant in that sense and has been a recurring attack vector.

But the bellyaching greybeard retards here will continue to get pwned because they refused to ever learn anything new after their brain got old and now they're hopelessly behind.

It sounds like if you need LDAP etc you just keep using sudo.

Comment Goldmine (Score 1) 70

It might be "worth it" for a criminal to allow the backups and harvest private data.

Now skulduggerous types will be executing github searches for default bucket names and putting filters in for .bitcoin directories, browser password files, and similar nuggets of gold.

I'm glad I pay for vm's by the data rate available!

Comment Re:but it filters viruses same as the others (Score 0) 74

The definition of reasonable person has been revised downwards.

I suspect most people bought these to flip the bird to the worthless mask culture.

At least now we know forever that paper masks don't do a damn thing for viruses and N95's only work a little for trained wearers.

I'm still seeing mask litter in ditches everywhere. Mass hysteria.

Comment $199? (Score 3, Insightful) 64

Sounds like they're about to do a massive price hike.

They've started reminding me that I've "saved $11 in shipping costs" when I order a 6-pack of pencils like I'm a drunken fool who has no idea how costs are structured.

No better way to garner good customer will than to end every single transaction with a bald-faced lie!

Comment Re:All IP was transferred to RISC-V International (Score 1) 130

> There are no trade secrets or anything special in RISC-V.

It's not what's in it that matters, it's what's not in it.

If the Chinese people use chips without backdoors then they will have a global competitive advantage.

Of course Americans could also do that but domestic spying is too important to the fat unearned paychecks of the DC intelligentsia.

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