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Comment Re:Huh. (Score 1) 116

I can at least respect Cage's work ethic. He's a weirdo, but when he blew all his cash on absurd things, instead of just declaring bankruptcy and fading into the sunset he decided to take every possible job that came his way, in whatever quantity that entailed. Some good. some horrible. most meh.
I've got "normal" friends who would shy away from that level of fix.

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Comment Carpenters? What for? The kitchennete? (Score 1) 80

Snark aside, this is a legitimate question. I could not climb over the paywall to read TFA to find out myself.

I've seen (and/or worked in) many "normal-non-AI" datacenters in Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia and Poland*, and studied normal Datacenter best practices documents, and the ammount of wood used in their construction is minimal. Most of the floors are done in concrete, the walls are done in concrete (poured or pre-tensed), or heavy brick, the ceilings are concrete or metallic (to be able to hold the weight of the AC units)

Not only that, AI datacenters DO NOT use false floors, wood or otherwise. The weight of the Racks would collapse them, not only that, even the normal concrete floors of a normal datacenter is insuficient for AI racks, you need reinforced concrete floors to hold the weight of the racks used. Also, fiber is very lightweight, and electricity arrives in 800VDC or 480VAC, so cables are lighter and can be run overhead.This also simplifies maintenance of the cables.

Also, AI Datacenters are Large Open Spaces, there are no subdivisions for different groups, or "colo customers"

So, all these carpenters are doing what? So many kittechenettes? The entry halls?

I'd would undestand plumbers, as much of this gear is liquid cooled.

So What are the "unprecedented number of carpenters" for?

* Poland is the odd man out, Nokia invited us to see a "reference customer"

Comment Re:Wont be suprised if the US goverment (Score 2) 182

"The only solution" is in fact, not the "only" solution.

The correct and LEGAL means for the police to gain access to the phone is to take it and seal it in a tamperproof container (aka electronic Faraday Evidence Bag), go to a court and ask for a warrant to search the contents.

We have established LAW and procedures for the state to gain access to the device. It is inconvenient ON PURPOSE. and serves as a checks and balance in legal proceedings.

Comment Re:it is destroying evidence like it or not (Score 3, Informative) 182

IF that is the case, seize the phone, get a Search Warrant.

The problem is, the state couldn't be bothered following ESTABLISHED law and procedures.

Simply accusing someone of some unspecified crime isn't a right the state has to just bypass Constitutional protections, namely the 4th and 5th Amendments.

Americans have rights, secured in our founding Constitution. I don't care what feelings one might have to the rest of the case. Rights exist, enshrined and we ought to defend them tirelessly forever.

Comment Re:If he is found guilty (Score 4, Insightful) 182

There is some established case law that says that one cannot be compelled to give up a Password, Pin or Pattern Unlock, as a violation of the 4th and 5th Amendment.

Those Amendments are key to a person's rights to be SECURE. Which is the key word here. He SECURED his rights, under duress, by refusing to comply.

THIS is separate from the police chasing him as a possible criminal for crimes I may or may not like.

Rights work by being the STARTING POINT, not an afterthought or worse, something the state can simply ignore in an attempt to prosecute people for potential criminal activity.

The state has legal remedies they ought to seek if they want access to secured personal property. We all know what that is. GET A WARRANT, which is almost always a rubber stamp (very easy bar to jump over). They couldn't even be bothered with that.

Everyone ought to understand, if we do not defend our rights, the state certainly won't.

Comment Re:Why is this newsworthy? (Score 1) 30

Nothing in the summary really conveys why this raises to the level of news. Digging in it doesn't really have consequences for the users in the short term.

Plausibly a good change, but a change among countless other good changes that pass without notice.

Direct consequences for users in the short term, not many. But considering that most of the servers users interact with are on top of KVM, either as "Plain Vanilla" VMs, or Cloud Implementations (AWS runs on top of KVM, ditto for most of OpenStack), the indirect consequences of these changes quickly add up.

Comment Re:brew? (Score 1) 6

wine macos support is dead dead dead.

I suppose FEX might be able to be used to emulate x86_64 (and run Wine) after Apple pulls the plug on Rosetta 2 (although performance will probably an issue for some).

In theory, big chunks of Rosseta 2 are still on MacOS, for specialized purposes, in particular gaming, as staed by Apple themselves. So maybe, Wine on Mac can work with that.

Me? I Bootcamped before, and will bootcamp until 2028.

Comment Re:War's coming. (Score 1) 104

Speaking as a Californian, nothing good comes from continual one party voting. I'm assuming someone in a completely Red state would also agree with that assessment. Here's a hint: you want a mix between the two. Sure there's gridlock, but gridlock is better than one party rampant corruption. It's only minor corruption then.

Comment Re:WTF is an ESR? (Score 1) 55

In the summary I count 11 instance of the acronym 'ESR', yet nowhere is it defined. Please do better.

I can not believe that a 5 digit /. user can not google on his/her own what FireFox ESR means.

Comment Re:Wow! (Score 1) 55

I ditched Firefox and Chrome at least 13 years ago and have used Safari exclusively since. In fact, Chrome hasn't ever been installed on this MBP, which I've had for five years. I don't miss their bloating and battery drain, nor having a privacy raping app from Google. I also appreciate the integration with Messages and Mail for how easy this makes 2FA on web sites that send codes, as well as unified keychain and history across all of my devices. That doesn't mean I'm unaware of the current state of the other browsers: I do have FF, which I dabble with occasionally, but it drives me nuts, it's just shit and it's obvious why it's losing market share, and I get forced to use other browsers on remote Windows machines or in local VMs of Windows and Linux.

If I only used MacOS, I'd gone that same route. But when I selected Firefox all those years ago, I had mixed use of Windows and MacOS. Nowadays, I still bootcamp from time to time to play. And I also use Linux esporadically...

So firefox it is...

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