Comment Unbelievable (Score 1) 186
Only 3 times as often? Unbelievable.
Comment Re:smug Linux user enters the chat (Score 1) 186
Well, I remember vividly the last crash, few days ago, due to the crappy proprietary Nvidia drivers suffering from race conditions (seemingly). Even the physical reset button wouldn't work!
Besides, without the card and/or the proprietary Nvidia drivers, absolutely zero crashes, however.
Linux is amazing in this regard.
Besides, without the card and/or the proprietary Nvidia drivers, absolutely zero crashes, however.
Linux is amazing in this regard.
Comment Re:All copper is "oxygen-free" (Score 1) 69
The only thing stopping you from calling the water pipes in your house "copper-phosphorus pipes" is laziness and poor attention to detail.
Have you ever heard a single person, including plumbing professionals, call them "copper-phosphorus pipes"?
No. Because that's not how the English language works. You're the one who is too lazy and ignorant to figure out how people actually communicate in society.
Hint: The systematization your mind wants to apply to everything is not absolute. You need to figure out when to relax the formal logic rules when they start to result in absurd outcomes.
Comment Me2 (Score 1) 69
anti-protons have a negative electric charge, like electrons, and I can assure you that I also transport a bunch of electrons daily
Comment Re:Failed test? (Score 1) 69
How much energy are we talking about?
I don't know if it's still strictly true, but they used to say that all of the antimatter that has ever been produced by humans has had enough combined energy to warm up a cup of coffee.
Comment Re:All copper is "oxygen-free" (Score 2) 69
You win this year's Nobel Prize for pedantry.
So according to you, I can't call the water pipes in my house "copper", since 0.05% phosphorus was added to the material to accomodate brazing.
Submission + - Iran blocks accounts of Starlink users as crackdown continues (iranintl.com) 1
An anonymous reader writes: Iranian police said on Thursday they had blocked 61 bank accounts belonging to users of Starlink satellite internet in the central city of Yazd, as part of a broader crackdown on unauthorized connectivity.
A local police commander said six Starlink devices were seized and six people detained following searches carried out with judicial approval.
Authorities accused the suspects of trading access to the service, sharing information with foreign-based outlets and engaging in activities deemed hostile. The individuals were referred to prosecutors, police said.
The move comes amid a broader wave of arrests across Iran, with authorities detaining dozens in recent days on security-related charges, including alleged links to militant activity, contacts with foreign media and online activity. Officials have also reported seizing weapons, explosives and Starlink devices in multiple provinces.
Starlink is banned in Iran, where authorities have imposed a near-total internet blackout during the war. Monitoring group NetBlocks says connectivity has dropped to around 1% of normal levels, leaving satellite services among the few ways to access the global internet.
A local police commander said six Starlink devices were seized and six people detained following searches carried out with judicial approval.
Authorities accused the suspects of trading access to the service, sharing information with foreign-based outlets and engaging in activities deemed hostile. The individuals were referred to prosecutors, police said.
The move comes amid a broader wave of arrests across Iran, with authorities detaining dozens in recent days on security-related charges, including alleged links to militant activity, contacts with foreign media and online activity. Officials have also reported seizing weapons, explosives and Starlink devices in multiple provinces.
Starlink is banned in Iran, where authorities have imposed a near-total internet blackout during the war. Monitoring group NetBlocks says connectivity has dropped to around 1% of normal levels, leaving satellite services among the few ways to access the global internet.
Comment Re:Why? Please, why? There are so many excellent . (Score 1) 136
why?
maah-ney
Comment Chinese stuff (Score 1) 312
Bit more expensive than the usual made in China crap, but I'll get one.
Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 73
Why does this change make sense? Because you can't plant a flag and wave your dick if you're up there in zero G orbiting a planetoid.
You have to be standing on the surface, and that is what China is on track to do in a few years.
Comment WinBoat (Score 1) 55
Give it a try!
Submission + - Time To Flash OpenWrt
ptorrone writes: The FCC just added all foreign-made consumer routers to its Covered List, banning new models from receiving authorization for import or sale in the US. The agency cited Volt, Flax, and Salt Typhoon cyberattacks, but cybersecurity researchers note the same vulnerabilities existed on American-brand routers too (Salt Typhoon targeted Cisco hardware). No evidence of deliberate backdoors has been presented. Netgear stock jumped 16% after hours. There isn't a single router currently manufactured entirely in the USA. Existing models are grandfathered but firmware updates are only guaranteed through March 2027. If you're running a home network and don't want to wait for the government to pick winners, now's the time to flash OpenWrt, build a router from a Banana Pi or Raspberry Pi with pfSense, or support open-source networking projects like OPNsense. When proprietary supply chains get cut by policy, open-source firmware becomes the supply chain. Adafruit has a writeup with more actionable steps for makers and hackers.
Comment Re:It will flop (Score 1) 26
Something like this needs density. If there's not enough people using it, then the per use cost will be far too much to make it economically viable. That makes cities much more attractive to startups like this. Of course there you have airspace issues with large buildings, so the true sweet spot may be relatively dense but very high income suburbs. But it sure as heck won't be rural.
Comment Re:Who the fuck (Score 1) 28
would shop through ChatGPT
Apparently, people who don't want to be ominously "converted".
Comment Re:Not so difficult to locate (Score 1) 86
If Iran is interested at all, they get the information from their allies in Russia
And Russia gets the information from their ally in the White House.
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