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Comment Re:But does it run Linux? (Score 1) 52

by SST-206 (#64928467) Attached to: 'A New Gaming CPU King': AMD's New Ryzen 7 9800X3D Reviewed

Very good:

Like with the other AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors and the AMD EPYC 9005 server parts, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D was working without issue on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Any modern Linux distribution should basically be in good shape for the AMD Ryzen 9000 series processors. The one recent caveat is needing Linux 6.12+ for the AMD Zen 5 CPU power reporting if that is important to you otherwise it's an easy one-liner patch to backport.

Comment World Service interview with David Shoebridge (Score 1) 260

by SST-206 (#64575575) Attached to: Julian Assange Reaches Plea Deal With US, Allowing Him To Go Free

Good interview addressing this 1m23s into this BBC World Service radio programme with New South Wales Senator David Shoebridge:

Newsday - Julian Assange leaves the UK after being freed in US plea deal

Julian Assange has reached a plea agreement to end the United States' long-running legal case against him. He has left prison in the United Kingdom and is currently on a plane. We'll talk to one Australian politician who has supported him.

Submission + - UK Considers Banning Smartphone Sales To Children Under 16 (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Ministers are considering banning the sale of smartphones to children under the age of 16 after a number of polls have shown significant public support for such a curb. The government issued guidance on the use of mobile phones in English schools two months ago, but other curbs are said to have been considered to better protect children after a number of campaigns. [...] A March survey by Parentkind, of 2,496 parents of school-age children in England, found 58% of parents believe the government should ban smartphones for under-16s. It also found more than four in five parents said they felt smartphones were “harmful” to children and young people.

Another survey by More in Common revealed 64% of people thought that a ban on selling smartphones to under-16s would be a good idea, compared with 20% who said it was a bad idea. The curb was even popular among 2019 Tory voters, according to the thinktank, which found 72% backed a ban, as did 61% of Labour voters. But the thought of another ban has left some Conservatives uneasy. One Tory government source described the idea as "out of touch," noting: “It’s not the government’s role to step in and microparent; we’re meant to make parents more aware of the powers they have like restrictions on websites, apps and even the use of parental control apps." They said only in extreme cases could the government “parent better than actual parents and guardians."

Comment Re:Isle of Road information (Score 1) 57

by SST-206 (#64284542) Attached to: Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That's Only About Roads
Came here to say this. SABRE is great, and their forums too. Wikipedia could learn a good lesson from their Article Rating system which marks pages from 0 to 5 according to various quality criteria. If only more websites had such a grading system, it might just take off... hehe :-)

As for Wikipedia

I can see the need for "standards" to adhere to, but surely hiding lesser articles behind quality levels is better than the NPP deleting articles/edits outright that people have spent hours/weeks creating, that non-NPP readers may still find useful. Let readers choose.

Submission + - French Court Issues Damages Award for Violation of GPL (heathermeeker.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: On February 14, 2024, the Court of Appeal of Paris issued an order stating that Orange, a major French telecom provider, had infringed the copyight of Entr’Ouvert’s Lasso software and violated the GPL, ordering Orange to pay €500,000 in compensatory damages and €150,000 for moral damages. This case has been ongoing for many years. Entr’ouvert is the publisher of Lasso, a reference library for the Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) protocol, an open standard for identity providers to authenticate users and pass authentication tokens to online services. This is the open protocol that enables single sign-on (SSO). The Lasso product is dual licensed by Entr’Ouvert under GPL or commercial licenses.

Submission + - Freenet 2023: A drop-in decentralized replacement for the world wide web

Submitted by Sanity
Sanity writes: Freenet, a familiar name to Slashdot readers for over 23 years, has undergone a radical transformation: Freenet 2023, or "Locutus". While the original Freenet was like a decentralized hard drive, the new Freenet is like a full decentralized computer, allowing the creation of entirely decentralized services like messaging, group chat, search, social networking, among others. The new Freenet is implemented in Rust and designed for efficiency, flexibility, and transparency to the end user.

Submission + - Iodine instead of Xenon for Ion Drives (newscientist.com)

Submitted by Tesseractic
Tesseractic writes: Chen Ly over at New Scientist reports on a Nature article on ion drives:

https://www.nature.com/article...

Dmytro Rafalskyi at ThrustMe, a space technology company based in France, and his colleagues have developed an electric propulsion system that uses iodine. They operated a small satellite and performed successful manoeuvres using the drive.

Submission + - SPAM: FDA Asks Judge to Grant It Until 2076 to Release Pfizer's COVID-19 Vaccine Data

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: The FDA has asked a federal judge to make the public wait until the year 2076 to disclose all of the data and information it relied upon to license Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. That is not a typo. It wants 55 years to produce this information to the public.

As explained in a prior article, the FDA repeatedly promised “full transparency” with regard to Covid-19 vaccines, including reaffirming “the FDA’s commitment to transparency” when licensing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.

With that promise in mind, in August and immediately following approval of the vaccine, more than 30 academics, professors, and scientists from this country’s most prestigious universities requested the data and information submitted to the FDA by Pfizer to license its COVID-19 vaccine.

The FDA’s response? It produced nothing. So, in September, my firm filed a lawsuit against the FDA on behalf of this group to demand this information. To date, almost three months after it licensed Pfizer’s vaccine, the FDA still has not released a single page. Not one.

Instead, two days ago, the FDA asked a federal judge to give it until 2076 to fully produce this information. The FDA asked the judge to let it produce the 329,000+ pages of documents Pfizer provided to the FDA to license its vaccine at the rate of 500 pages per month, which means its production would not be completed earlier than 2076. The FDA’s promise of transparency is, to put it mildly, a pile of illusions.
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