According to this, 26.06 LTS got a kernel update fix a couple of weeks ago in the middle of July

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+...

Granted, 7.0 is no longer supported so patches are being backported by Ubuntu.

Isn't everyone patching 100s of vulns every month at the moment?

That would be fixed in the current tip of the kernel tree.

But there are multiple supported kernel versions, and many vulnerabilities are not present in the older kernels so those will not be backported. Either the feature doesn't exist in the older kernel, or it isn't enabled by default, or there's a dependency on a newer kernel.

Even if GOG finally released the Linux client today, and it had feature parity with the Windows one, it is because of Valve money that Linux has become such a great gaming platform.

I'll keep buying my games on Steam, at least for now: it is not just a matter of market dominance, but supporting a corporation that is giving back to my community.

The main reason to go with GoG is DRM free games. Every game on GoG is provided DRM free, and you can download offline installers for games and save them. If GoG vanished tomorrow, those offline installers will continue to work. If GoG was served with an order to remove a game from sale and to block people from downloading it, the offline installer will still work.

Steam will get money because there are plenty of games on Steam that will never be on GoG - many games ship with Denuvo and such and GoG will either never get it, or get it a long time later.

I shop at GoG first, but that hardly makes a dent on how much I buy from Steam. You can support both.

The problem is the ease at which we are connected - we assume cellular coverage is universal because everywhere we go there is cellphone coverage basically. And a lot of people who grew up with digital technology never envisioned there are alternatives to not being connected, always.

It happens all the time in BC, because we have a lot of urban trails and parks that are literally minutes from city limits. Cellphone coverage is basically there at the start of the trail because it's barely out of the city.

This ease is deceptive though - you think "oh it's only a few minutes away, we can do it for a picnic!" sort of mentality like it's a visit to the mall. Which is why people are consistently and constantly getting in trouble because they are as prepared as a trip to the mall.

And because the area can be mountainous the cell reception does get spotty so they can find themselves in trouble way too easily because it's just so accessible.

Most other people who never grew up with pervasive digital technology and connectivity will generally want to find more information first because you generally only left with the knowledge you carried with you and what's in your head. So you often researched websites, books, and local information to get more information ahead of time to plan things out because you usually couldn't have this information with you unless you carried it in.

These days if you need information its usually right there on your phone at that instant and your phone serves as the source of information without realizing it has to be connected to do so.

I've done urban trails and they can lead to a false sense of security - even though I live in a city, there are parks and urban trails within walking distance and it's like a little oasis surrounded by major road thoroughfares on all sides. (It's a park, so it's not going to be demolished for construction). If you do them a lot, you might get an impression that the less urban trails just outside the Lower Mainland are the same. We just have a lot of greenery that's easily accessible by walking, cycling, or transit. (Yes, you can get to them by car, but parking is a hassle as it always is in a city). Heck my neighborhood has a little park that's really only accessible by people in the neighborhood - it's really only used by people with dogs because if offers a reasonable area for them to run even though it isn't fenced off by more than a few logs. But the city comes around every month to cut the grass.

Where's the part of small government, freedom, free market, don't tread on me now?

Right there in power, it was all lies and a branding exercise. The right have never held to those beliefs, but it turns out that a lie repeated often enough becomes the truth for enough people that they can get into power.

But you know "both ides" so I voted for the worst. How come on one ever says "both sides" so I voted for Harris?

The latest brouhaha is over hot dogs. Remember way back when - there was a gay couple that asked a bakery to produce a wedding cake, and they refused? It went all the way to the Supreme Court, and they decided that businesses had the freedom to choose their customers?

The current brouhaha is a hotdog vendor setting up shop in a store's parking lot. The hotdog vendor is a Trump supporter and they were politely asked to leave the premises. The right is having a field day with it - despite the fact it's the same issue - the store is refusing to let the hotdog vendor do custom in their parking lot. It's what the right wanted.

But of course, it's "free speech" and "freedom" when it affects them, but not when it doesn't. The bakery not selling a cake to gay people? That's a good thing! Business freedom! A store not letting a hotdog vendor sell in their parking lot? Business... free... dom?

It's extremely funny as the right is trying to bring Harris back - asking where she is and all that and why she isn't in the public eye anymore. It's because when she lost, she became a private citizen again, likely living in California. She doesn't speak out because as far as she's concerned, she's just like you and me. She disappeared back to her own life as ex-VPs do.

Honestly, 12km isn't big in terms of upper air weather - at those altitudes it's more for predicting how the fronts are moving, and those are huge things where 12km resolution is basically good enough.

Weather is based on many models - you have the hyper local models which can predict the weather down to basically a part of a city, then you have models capable of doing weather at a county and state level, then even larger models good for many states to half the country. Sure it's not like Back To The Future part 2 levels of "it will stop raining in X seconds" but weather is too chaotic for that level of precision and what we have going on. Especially with climate change screwing up the models because the models are based on the past, and we do not have models that take into account the warming planet because there is no data there. At best we can predict, then observe, then modify the model as needed.

We should note the improvements over even the past quarter century - back at the turn of the millennium a 7 day forecasts was considered hopeful - the more accurate was around 3 days, 7 days was extending the model far beyond its capabilities and were basically guesses at that point. These days 7 day forecasts are basically accurate, with 10 day and 14 day extended forecasts being reasonable expectations and not even guesses.

Finally, drones are also a lot more expensive than weather balloons. A single weather balloon sounding only costs a few handful of dollars - likely under $50 all in. It's why the radiosondes are almost never recovered - if you find one, they ask you to return them, but they're basically disposable items. They only cost a few dollars to produce anyways. They were designed to be cheap and single use and thus really contain a sensor and telemetry package (no need for GPS - they can range it at the receiver. Sure drones are reusable but they're going to be expensive and likely will take a long time to recover the cost.

The master is the copy of the film in its finished state. The master doesn't have the meaning it once had - I mean, once you generate the final master, you still have the source assets and EDL (edit decision list) so you can always re-render a new master copy.

That master copy is taken and files are produced from it - usually a mezzanine file which is then encrypted and sent out. The mezzanine file is processed by the studio to produce files tor the digital projection systems which are sent out as hard drives and ingested into the media server. The file is encrypted and everytime a movie is shown, the projector requests the key from a key server so the theatre gets billed for the showing.

Netflix and other companies get the mezzanine file as well for their use so they can process the file for their systems and make it available.

TFA didn't say if this was a "Made for Netflix" movie or just something Netflix bought - because mezzanine files are encrypted as they're widely distributed. If it's a master it might be something Netflix is considering purchasing the rights to as the studio shops it around. But now that it was stolen that's no longer possible and the value of the movie is diminished knowing it's out there.

The problem is neither government nor Flock. Flock cameras have been around for over a decade and were never a big problem. You can find posts on /. defending their use of Flock cameras from that era - their neighborhood installed them and cut down people loitering and such and they would defend them.

The problem started when government started misusing the data for things like ICE and all that, which then turned the cameras evil. It's why the cameras are suddenly in the hot seat, and why cameras that might have been there for over a decade suddenly get vandalized and destroyed.

ICE doesn't have Flock camera access. That part is completely true on both parties. What they do is ask friendly police departments to use their access to provide data on their behalf - which often get logged as "ICE" or similar when performing the search. These accesses do not need warrants and the LEOs often do it out of professional courtesy. These records are public knowledge and the number of searches are increasing.

(And yes, ICE should be abolished. You need to remember that the US turned 250 years old, and ICE wasn't around for even 10% of that, having been established only in 2003. And it was fine in the beginning (soft of), but once an organization gets to what it's become today, there's no saving it - abolishing it and then starting a new agency from scratch is about the only solution if you still need it. It's been corrupted and there really is no saving it.)

I suspect that Microsoft, not unreasonably, thinks that the value of their AI slop will be enhanced if they can use an existing property to get people to classify particularly grating AI slop so that they can tune their copilot-related stuff to produce less grating or less obvious slop in the future.

Maybe someone in the org actually cares about linkedin's reputation as a hellscape for aura-farming lunatics; but I'd be shocked if the incentive that MS is actually motivated by is anything but the chance to get a dataset of text ranked by how unpleasantly bot-like it is to try to make their bots less visible.

Looks like Microsoft is trying to convince people to classify more and less distasteful bot slop for them so they can tune copilot outputs in the future.

The winning move is not to play.

Not sales managers, retail managers. Just basically the same floor employee given a modicum of power and responsibility and the power goes to their heads. Add to that the fact their employees are typically high school aged kids who don't know the law, whose parents are "tough it out" kind of people and the want of spending money means a captive audience for them to basically do every illegal thing in the book.

Would it cost more to bury that dedicated fiber with the pipes? Would it be a huge cost to build out your own wireless network, like many power companies do?

There are still many water utilities serving area with a million or more customers that do not have ANY infrastructure connected to the internet. Back office and billing, sure. Infrastructure, is not connected. How ever do they manage? They manage just fine.

Let me restate for the hard of hearing and the hard of feeling, no critical infrastructure such as power or water should ever be connected to the internet. None. Never.

Power companies have two networks. The smart meter network is often a proprietary network - owned by the meter maker or a company specializing in it. They are not compatible with each other - so once your company goes with iTron or Landis&Gyr they're stuck with it. Upgrading the network becomes very hard (and they're not impenetrable either - L&G UtiliNet equipment is trivially easy to acquire secondhand and it is possible to attach it to a live network.

Similarly other network equipment can be obtained readily on the secondhand market - meters, modems, collectors and other gear. This is great because the gear is often proprietary and once you've invested heavily one system, it's basically impossible to migrate.

My previous company I worked for also had their own proprietary wireless network system. It was optimized for rural situations and the main reason you went with them was they could read more basic meter signals like water and gas (these meters just broadcast their readings out loud, while most electric meters are a 2-way network). So an electric co-op could also provide meter reading services for the water and gas companies to save someone having to drive hundreds of miles collecting meter readings.

These co-ops often don't have IT departments and a large number of them preferred out cloud service which handled the data collection and servers. Granted, the data was collected by a collector then sent via the power company internal network to our cloud servers via a VPN which was then used to access the collected data.

Now, power companies do have small advantages because of the necessity of cable infrastructure - they can run their own fiber networks alongside the power cable which provides the data uplink for these tings. (In rural areas, these also provide internet service via fiber - the power company already has a fiber netork running down the power lines to talk to their SCADA, it's not difficult to use some of it for internet access using VLANs).

Water, sewer and gas don't have that luxury - they can run fiber along with the pipes, but that cable is likely going to get damaged when the pipe needs maintenance so it won't last long.

And yes, a lot of the meters can be decoded with an SDR these days - they usually operate on the ISM 900 band. You probably can even hear your electric meter talking but likely cannot decode it since their networks are generally more complex protocols. (I believe Itron is a form of 802.11g ODFM at 900MHz). But like I said, the equipment can be had cheaply secondhand online. It's why there's a lot of research into smart meter security.

Now, to be sure, generally speaking there is encryption so while you can capture the data it's almost always encrypted. But there will be plenty of of unencrypted overhead data because these networks are often mesh networks so the meter reading is encrypted, but not the meter ID or network ID as well as other things like mesh network control so you don't end up with a meter reading going around in circles.

Yeah, I have the same as well. I was given access to the company hosted AI models (because we don't want to let source code leak) and while some people attempted to vibe code their bug fixes, I've been using it to ask far more pointed questions.

And it was impressive - when a code merge resulted in a JSON file not building, I asked the AI to help me figure it out and it managed to find the issue in about 5 minutes, while for me it would've taken far longer. I later looked at the reasoning chain and realized it did what I would've done. It lkooked at the JSON file, tried a simple syntax check, then tried a parse of it, and neither would return an error. It then looked at the code that parsed it and realized I duplicated an ID number in the JSON. Took i t 5 minutes to find the issue, about 2 seconds to fix it (I opted to do it myself as it literally would take longer to ask AI to do it).

I even had AI fix itself - I had problems trying to get Cline to work in VS Code and just asked AI why it was happening. The AI tried various things and told me I had a configuration problem and to try some things. I did the modifications and asked it to try again and it fixed the issue.

I also experimented with its coding ability - I had a function I need to write which was basically a copy-paste of code from elsewhere and was suitably impressed when it got this narrow task done - which took it about 10 minutes with my approvals and probably saved me half an hour.

But I found it most useful when asking it pointed questions like where something is happening in the code and it could run off and look at it for 10 minutes and come back with an answer. I tried looking myself but couldn't find it, and the AI found it in a completely different spot than I expected.

In other words, it really became more of a "super grep" like tool where I could ask it questions and it woiuld find the relevant pieces of code. Not tokenmaxxing at all, but useful enough for me to have utility.

And I know there was more than one instance where I had to make a change, I considered using AI but when the prompt failed to materialize I figured it was quicker for me to do it myself than to try to figure out a prompt. (it was).

If I get a bug where I have no clue where it is happening, I might ask it for ideas, so it's also a handy research tool.

How are these people not in prison?

Once the supply of customers flush enough to buy under more standard arrangements is saturated you are basically left between ignoring the demand for growth forever or deciding between handling...subprime...customers yourself or keeping the arrangement at arm's length.

This 'restricted mode' that Apple is vigorously denying will be used for lease enforcement suggests that the metaphorical arm is not that long and that Apple seems to be doing more than merely being willing to sell devices to whatever resellers; but it's not a huge surprise that they'd want the risk related to the debt and any shaking down handled by someone who isn't them.