because aside from the core GNU/Linux stuff, there's not a lot of C++ out there compared to TS/JS and shell (or even Python and perl and php).

C++ coding is rarely just 'raw'. usually the bulk of what you're doing is integrating multiple libraries together. How do you talk to your database? How do you create an API and/or a webpage and/or a UI? Each of these decisions requires integration that isn't published as well as the thousands of examples out there on stackoverflow for an AI to gobble up.

So internally, a team might start using AI to expand on its own code-base...but nobody is going to use AI to create a project from scratch in C++ unless speed is the #1 concern...and usually if you're heading to AI, speed of the product is not the #1 concern: speed of getting it out the door is. The AI is not going to know how to use the libraries a complex C++/C# system needs to integrate with because those are generally paid and proprietary (again, outside of GNU/Linux and Linux open source systems like gnome/gtk or kde).

we'll see within a year if AI starts getting involved in making linux desktop apps, but most windows developers will more likely use copilot for C# as Microsoft keeps training it.

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'.

I wonder if it is related to the uncertainties that come with the mid-term elections. Almost every one so far since 2006 [exception: 2014] has seen the House flip which invites a whole new relationship with the President (usually antagonistic) and with it a huge increase in uncertainties that tend to drop a lot of markets for a time. So maybe they're selling to ride it out in more stable things (like international stocks and, well, you've likely noted the price of gold is exploding...)

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.