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Comment Re: Musk doesn't have the best people. (Score 1) 163

The requirements are the things that people can think of ahead of time, and they always contain glaring problems. It is inevitable that someone will have a "shower epiphany" at some point and share it with their colleagues. When these discussions happen in person then there's a discussion about how important it is, whether it rises to the level of an ECR, NCR, or other documentation mechanism, and what to do about it next. I have seen myself that when this happens in Teams chats that _usually_ someone from PMO intervenes immediately and says that we don't have the budget to address the issue and don't you dare spend any more time on it.

Comment Re:ACP has not connected a single person (Score 1) 18

The ACP has collected funds and did not connect a single customer.

"Sure". If you replace a previous program called the "Emergency Broadband Program" and define all the connections of that program as not being "new connections". Then when you're done with that also play statistical jujitsu to "correct" for all the connections that should be expected over the time period. After that you can totally say that you connected nobody with a straight face. </sarcasm>

Comment Re:Duh (Score 1) 104

You may remember that they do retire longterm kernels earlier than they would like to due to limited resources.

These days they actually transfer things over to a different team run by the Civil Infrastructure Program and they supply back-ported fixes for the "Super" LTS kernels. So, sure K-H only has so much support for LTS (and he would like to support them longer) - but there's also SLTS kernels if you want something to last for 10 years.

Comment Re: Time to let RPM die (Score 1) 71

Normally if you do this the code for the config package is in a shared repository, just like how people share their Ansible scripts in an organization. Debian config packages (high level of dpkg-divert) don't need the file installed from the other package in order to divert them, so there is no increase in dependency complexity. (You can install a config package that diverts the ssh config file even if ssh is not installed, when ssh gets installed later its config file will be automatically diverted.)

Comment Re: Time to let RPM die (Score 1) 71

The only place I have found it to make a difference between DEB and RPM is that RPM does not support "diverting" files. This is really important in some contexts, since it allows a new package in the system to replace the config files of another package without breaking that package. For example, let's say you are operating a controlled environment where you want specific SSH settings for all your systems. You can install openssh-server and use Ansible to edit the config files on everything (blech), you can rebuild the openssh-server package to have your config file (which you will need to change every time the package gets updated), _or_ you can create your own package that adds a diversion for the ssh config file. With a diversion you don't have to muck around with the ssh package or maintain a bunch of Ansible crap for all of your systems. You also have the added benefit of being able to detect local changes to the config files with "debsums" (either if you have made edits or if you have allowed people sudo).

Comment Re:...and no mention of NTPSec (Score 1) 95

It is amusing that they mention ESR at the start of the article but fail to mention he is part of the NTPSec fork.

Did you read a different article?:

One open-source group, called NTPsec, whose current technical lead is Eric S. Raymond, cut out vast swaths of N.T.P.’s code, reasoning that fewer lines meant fewer vulnerabilities; ...

Comment Re: Not unreasonable (Score 1) 112

Usage from multiple IP's simultaneously is a little harder to explain - particularly if there are separate profiles that typically are used with each IP consistently with watch patterns which suggest that the persons using each profile are different people.

If my TV didn't make signing in/out of Netflix profiles a giant pain in the ass then I might have more faith in this. Effectively, we only ever use one profile on the TV _ever_ because of this.

Comment Re:CNN shows us... (Score 1) 46

Even then, hidden behind headings you must expand, are "legitimate interests" about advertising content, market research, and other things not necessary to serve the web page. To avoid these, you must find them and click on them. The "legitimate" excuse here appears to be that they are entitled to use any means possible to turn a buck. That's pretty dark morals, isn't it?

Not only do many of these websites make you click on the individual "types" of cookies to turn them off, they don't actually tell you that you're accepting/denying that item. Instead, they have one color to mean accept and another color to mean deny. Give them a few months and they'll make one of those colors green and the other blue, or one of them red and the other orange, or make red mean accept instead of deny.

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