Quickly perusing I see that this brand new device only support USB 2.0.
Using mostly Pixels here, this seems so weird since Pixels have had at least USB 3.1 since 2020. I mean the standard came out in 2008.
Apple made the iMac G4 with USB 2.0
Are they deliberately crippling hardware to try to sell cloud storage subscriptions or something? Can iPhone people not do local backups?
I recommended one to a family member recently to go with a flip phone.
There's just no way on most smartphones to have only extremely specific notifications wake you up or alert you to only emergencies.
One could imagine various ad-hoc methods to do this ("mom, text me with EMERGENCY if it is one, otherwise I'll read messages tonight") but the smartphones don't allow such deep integrations.
It's a lot more effort to dial a pager and leave a callback number. Back in the day we'd do 10-digit and 999 at the end to indicate an emergency alert.
The "always available" mindset is crippling entire generations. Too bad the companies making these devices also profit from the notification churn so they have no real incentive to improve.
Together with the mandatory face-id laws and Android going closed-ecosystem it's looking like it's time to get an actual linux phone up and running soon. I should dust off that old Pine64 and see if anything usable is supporting it these days. Supposedly Russia forked SailfishOS and has been putting tons of effort into it to be a viable daily driver.
Notice that the only value he sees in Humanity is as "useful and compliant factory workers", for times-adjusted values of 'factory'.
He likely considers a family reunion picnic to be a waste of resources.
"ChatGPT never needs to put its daughter into piano lessons - think of the savings!!!" - probably.
IIRC ZFS 2.4 will do parallel zpool imports, so that should help a bit, especially with a big server.
I think half my boot time on a big backup server is LSI device enumeration - which is totally not parallel - so there's only so much one can do.
Could the mptsas devs parallelize this task? It would certainly make lots of people happy.
It's also possible I could fiddle with systemd dependencies to get me a login shell before all the pools are imported because those pools aren't needed at all for the root filesystem. They'll be used minutes to hours later when a backup is initiated.
On my media machine some services like jellyfin need certain filesystems up before it starts but I don't need jellyfin to be started before sshd comes up. Etc.
We're still a ways from having a good tool to automate these dependency trees and most sysadmins are "meh, I can wait two minutes". It's certainly not the ideal for remarkably fast computers.
Also being starved for PCI lanes on pretty much every system is a pain. I'd take lanes over more cores or more GHz any day of the week. Let the data flow!
> Why was it removed in the first place,
Per Rene:
IMHO The removal of XAA was a huge cooperate planned obsolesce mission for older GPUs. Rendering everything mostly unusable slow. even for period correct X11 apps. The code should have just been left in peace and only bugs and security patches applied instead of outright deleting it for no good reason.
Here's a commit for XAA support in T2 Linux for others who are interested. I hope Rene has time to push it up to XLibre since it seems like the Xorg people are going to steamroll Wayland if they can and the XLibre fork will be the only surviving X11 server. Obviously it would be best if every distro could run on older hardware and Wayland is likely a poor choice for vintage computing.
I didn't know about T2 Linux and it really looks fantastic - I thought NetBSD was my only choice on some of those machines. Some of the screenshots feature WindowMaker, the spiritual successor to NeXTStep, which ran on an '030 and 2D video so this all makes perfect sense.
Those machines were perfectly usable and we can actually afford, today, the amount of RAM they used.
The claims against the archive owner are wild and would be easily disproved if untrue.
Is this the same operator who would block readers if their ISP used some DNS feature he didn't like, back in the day?
I understand being disagreeable, but, jeeze, this takes it to a whole new level. Way to have people's sympathies and then burn it all to the ground with malice.
Wikipedia was apparently in the position of being forced to amplify the attacks with their links to the archive. Not a supporter of theirs these days but what else were they to do?
How does Big Tech handle backups with data deletion requests?
I've set up backup systems for enterprises in the past where we had a hard requirement of restoring state back to seven years.
"Station wagons full of magtapes", and such.
I would presume a subpoena would require such retrieval. I can imagine a few cryptographic systems to make that difficult by mixing it with production but that would require extraordinary effort and commitment to privacy, which I would never expect of pretty much any corporation.
Don't get me wrong, this is a good move, but let's be careful to not get too cavalier assuming compromising info has been deleted.
It's a shame but I'm mentally and strategically preparing for services to require ID one by one over the next decade and ending my 1988-present use of the Internet at that point.
Unless the sun does it first.
That meant a winner who
...
One winner?
Enough recipients sought to sell or withdraw bitcoin
More than one winner? Or not winners, just exchange clients? Did one winner start disbursing to his friends?
the market sank 17%
The global market sank? Because of 10 lost Bitcoin? Was there a rumor that went viral? Was it the exchange's local bid/ask table?
before Bithumb halted transactions
BTC txns? Their database of custodial accounts?
Those affected included investors who had held bitcoin
Had held? Did something happen to their account balance? Or do they mean they were temporarily unable to withdraw or trade?
So much more could have been learned from this article. Amazing that it's a Bloomberg writer. I remember the 80's when they were The Word in finance.
Do what your preagricultural ancestors did - ignore self-appointed 'experts'.
The protocol is good.
The client? Who knows. The Facebook version of the Double Ratchet includes "Abuse Reporting" to complain to the manager about a message you got.
Could a closed client accept some secret message to cause the recipient to narc on the sender? It could, but that doesn't mean it does.
Which version of which algorithm, precisely, is used in each version of their chat apps? Who knows.
Why is anybody who needs secure comms using a closed source client? Who knows.
I even hear Zoomers say, "roll the tape," on podcasts where they're about to offer some analysis of or commentary on a video file or stream.
Words have usage that often extends beyond an original concrete origin.
Usually you'll do 60 days at County for contempt or some horseshit like that.
Despite Circuit Court opinion that passphrases are fifth-amendment protected.
Hardware and biometrics are not protected.
Sometimes 60 is the best option you'll get, especially if you're a whistleblower against criminal government actions.
I hope Microsoft has redundant offsite offline backups for its Cloud data, for disaster recovery.
It would be professional misconduct if they didn't.
That being the case, it's not clear how long it would be from the time you delete your cloud keys until Microsoft cannot respond to a subpoena.
If you look at the lists of number of arrests for social media posts, Belarus is nearly half of what the UK is doing, which is still an order of magnitude above any other nation.
It might well be higher on a per-capita basis.
I don't fully understand the Russian Political Union structure, but it clearly doesn't confer political rights across it. IIRC Russia proper is two or three orders of magnitude lower. I didn't see a breakdown of citizenship of the arrestees, though, so maybe it's a refugee thing, but this HAM attack is pointing in a very wrong direction (pending further information, like NED assignments).
According to a report I listened to (on "Android Explained", IIRC) the main problem is several trackers added to the update; ads being somewhat less alerting.
Support the guys at LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair or LineageOS or GrapheneOS for decent open-source launchers.
May Euell Gibbons eat your only copy of the manual!
