rpm in its base form is relatively unchanged from the perspective of basic package management functionality. It still installs, updated, or removes individual packages.

But these days one uses dnf rather than interact directly with rpm. dnf takes care of pulling in any dependencies, downloading them, and handing them off to rpm to install. rpm's equivalent on Ubuntu would be dpkg, I believe, while dnf is apt.

The major changes to rpm have been on the development side. By default when you build new packages with rpmbuild, rpmbuild will pull out all debug symbols together with the source code and shuffle them off into a separate debuginfo and debugsource subpackage. You then proceed and install the base rpm packages. If it becomes necessary to debug something, installing the debug subpackages lets you run the binaries in gdb. You get the usual problems to deal with, when debugging optimized code, however in many cases it's possible to gather some useful debug diagnostic from the installed packages, as is, without attempting to set up a debug build.

Finally dnf/rpm now handles updating one Fedora release to another. The Anaconda installer is not used any more for updating Fedora releases. This means that updating to a Fedora release doesn't just leave you with just the set of packages on the installation media but with the new release that already has all updates installed.

I voted for Trump twice. I will likely vote for DeSantis in 2024.

I believe that Facebook, Google, and Twitter made the right decision. Allowing Trump to freely communicate on their platform would've caused irrepairable damage to a large segment of their users. Continuous exposure to Trump's tweetfarts was causing a lot of pain and anguish to many people. I do really believe that, this is not a troll. The only way for the modern left to to win an argument is to silence their opposition, leaving Facebook, Google, and Twitter no choice but to help their users to avoid major angst and pain, and restore proper safe spaces on their platforms.

But I don't think this bill fixes the real problems that the bill purports to address. This bill is completely wrong, and will not survive. The bill will get struck down by the courts fairly quickly, for a number of obvious, constitutional and jurisdictional reasons. It will quickly die. No reason to be upset about this bill. It will not survive a court challenge. It is a wrong solution to a real problem, and the right solution lies elsewhere. No need to burn oxygen about this bill, and express our outrageous outrage. The bill will be moot very quickly.

Ok, so someone's dead set on winning the Darwin Award, and it's the car's fault?

I'm just trying to understand the argument here. I don't own a Tesla, only a slim chance I ever will, and I have no horse in the game. Even if somehow the car can be fooled into driving without a driver in the seat, why is that the car's fault? I could understand the problem if Tesla were prone to taking off, by themselves, while parked, or stopped, or whatever. But, as described, one has to intentionally and willingly go out of their way -- supposedly -- to defeat the existing safety measures which, as described, seem to be quite adequate.

Then, if someone wins the Darwn award anyway, it's their prize to keep, not the car's.

Act 1: The Birth Of Mozilla

Act 2: Getting Woke

Act 3: The Finale

See also: Mozilla.

Who said that 0177.0.0.1 must be parsed as octal? There is no law that says that. Outside the context of computers, in the real world, if you come across someone writing the number "013", you'll look at them, oddly, and then proceed as if it was 13.

You know these "Next Serving" displays in deli counters? You know, where you pull a paper ticket out of a funny-looking, circular dispenser and wait until your number comes up to get your ham and cheese? Question: when that display shows "Next Serving: 09", is there any doubt in anyone's mind what it means?

I got a nice note myself, from someone who was puzzled by my tiny Perl module's behavior given a number with a leading zero. I explained that this is a d.e.c.i.m.a.l. number, and the library -- simply by the virtue of Perl being Perl -- keeps that digit around until some math needs to happen, and then it gets chopped off. Furthermore, right there, in the perldoc, there's a nice explanation of a separate validation function that rejects the leading zero, if you care to use it.

perl -e 'my $x=<STDIN>; print $x + 5'

Now, type "010" as input, and guess what you get? Would you believe: 15?

Yes, it was a social engineering attack on Network Solution. Via the "chat" feature with their outsourced off-shored customer service support. A bunch of very impressive looking documents submitted via chat, and a bunch of domains were fraudulently transferred. Just like that.

The off-shored customer service morons, of course, had no fucking clue what Perl was all about. Of course, when the tech side got involved, it was an oh-sheeeet moment.

Network Solutions f.u.c.k.e.d.u.p. You said, brother -- who in their fracking mind would still register with Netsol, these days?

For example, Usenet is still around. And you cannot get deplatformed off Usenet, the original peer-to-peer social media platform. I have very fond memories of trolling the kooks on talk.politics.misc in the late 1990s. I'm confident that those earlier predecessors of today's SJWs would've loved to deplatform me. But there was nothing that they could do about it.

Political bloviating does not interest me any more, though. But if I did. I'm sure I could still freely engage on Usenet.

Another possibility would be to leverage some popular content management platform to develop a social media plugin. This is slightly outside my speciality, but content management platforms like wordpress, and/or cpanel, are something that can be used to develop a distributed blog. I've seen blogs that appear to be backed a by canned content management platform. All that's missing is a peer-to-peer component, which allows different users of the same platforms to share their feeds, with some clever measures in place to prevent leveraging the platform to perform reflection DDOSes.

And until then, one can always continue to run their own, basic web site, and bloviate there to your heart's content.

Can someone help me out and tell me when was the last time congressional hearings resulted in any kind of concrete legislative action that were tied to those hearings? Let's try to be specific. Let's set the bar a little lower. Let's forget about anything that was actually signed into law, but settle any piece of legislation that: 1) substantiavely addressed the hearings' subject matter, and 2) cleared either the House or the Senate, whichever one held the hearings?

From what I can recall they're always nothing more than an opportunity for the congresscritters to grandstand and preen before the cameras, pretending That They Care[tm] about whatever prompted the hearing, while accomplishing absolutely nothing, whatsoever.

LG phones has been my home ever since the Nexus line went into the crapper. They are generally affordable. They have a 3.5mm jack. They have QI charging. Their Android build is mostly bloat-free. As far as I can tell, my 2 year-old G7's battery hasn't lost a beat, still charges as if it's new. It's a shame, these phones be missed.

... is to end it now, with the conclusion of season 2. Forget about season 3. Season two completed the awesome story arc that began in the pilot episode. A season 3 will likely need a completely new story arc, unless they are planning to turn the rest of the series into The Adventures Of Baby Yoda And Zombie Luke.

I see basically two things that can happen with the second story arc: 1) it'll be just as good as the first story arc, 2) it'll be just as good as the average Star Wars Prequel/Sequel, and likely jump the shark^H^H^H^H^Hsarlacc after three episodes. Which one do I think is more likely?

That's what they seem to draw their conclusions from. Translation: our meaningless internal metrics that count raw lines of code. Which doesn't mean anything, but we'll just pretend that it does in order to draw meaningless conclusions.

Microsoft Bing! Now, with electrolytes!

But I will hang on to my 20mbps bonded circuit until it's the greasy spot where the dead horse used to be.

My DSL account was originally provisioned by the defunct Speakeasy. Which was then bought by Megapath, then briefly Covad, then Global Capacity, and now I'm paying GTT. I reprovisioned a few times, and it's now on a bonded circuit, giving me 20meg downstream.

It's plenty enough for me, and I keep hearing from my neighbors how shitty their Optimum cable is. The next town over is taking those clowns to the state's public utility's commission, how flaky their service is.

The DSL service has notably declined. Local telco is (of course) Verizon, which don't care about their physical plant any more, they are focusing on their wireless division and letting their copper rot. Last time one of the circuits went down, it was a game of broken telephone between me, GTT, and Verizon, and six or seven truck rolls, before they fixed it. Sort of. Works ok for now. I hope to hang on to DSL as long as I can. Even when one of the loops goes out I still have connectivity on the other one, so all I have to suffer through is half the bandwidth, until Verizon gets their shit together.

The problem with broadband in 'murica can be traced to the original breakup of AT&T, that broke them up into long distance and local telcos. The breakup simply did not go far enough. AT&T should've been broken up even further, with local telephone companies ending up owning only the physical plant, that they were obligated to lease out, and tariffed rates, to any provider that wished to provide voice and data over them. The higher the reliability of their copper, and the more voice/data the copper could support, the more money they could charge for it. Including urban and suburban areas.

Then we would've had first class broadband in 'murica.

https://www.businessinsider.com/who-no-transmission-coronavirus-tweet-was-to-appease-china-guardian-2020-4 -- read it and weep.

But that was the unassailable Science[tm](R)(C).

Great. So keep that in mind before you advise someone to "Follow Science [tm](R)(C)". Since the current science can be proven wrong.

Right, since China kicked out all the CDC for you, in advance.

Can you explain what exactly you mean by that.

Which "miracle drug" was "pushed" as "cure", and by whom? Please be specific.