In my own systems, I've just compiled my own kernel, but obviously you can't do that if you have a huge farm of devices to support.

Anyway, I have always thought that the whole point of a modular kernel for typical Linux distributions is that if your hardware or software configuration does not need a particular model, it is not loaded. If there's some piece of software (e.g. Virtualbox) that needs kernel-level access, those do get loaded as part of the software installation. Same for most package-managed software (install a VPN server, you get IPSec/ESP networking modules included). So with devices, they are autodetected (load driver module when you detect hardware, including when plugged in to USB or other removable port), and with other kernel features, they are brought in when some software requires it (some might of course be there by default, like firewall). Only case where you would manually edit /etc/modprobe.d is if you manually install some software...right? Why would a kernel load every module it has come with of most of them are not even needed?

Not sure what benefits or working hours have to do with this.

You are starting to see news like this:

https://www.techzine.eu/news/i...

It's not a mass exodus as such, but when contracts are up for renewal, there *are* European options, and they are starting to look attractive. Yes, that article is about Lidl (well, Lidl's owners) growing their cloud offering. If AWS grew out of a bookstore then I guess such a platform can be grown out of a grocery store as well.

If a chemical reaction is sped up by sound waves, does it mean the chemicals have a special sense of sound? Or is it just the basic mechanics of increasing collisions between different atoms/ions/molecules?

This info seems to be relatively hidden to get as summarized form, but since I'm running Gentoo I actually wanted to know what kernel versions are affected...Anyway, here goes. Look for commit 3d14bd48e3a.

First appeared in 4.14.

Fixed in:
        7.0+
        6.19.12
        6.18.22
        6.12.85
        6.6.137
        6.1.170
        5.15.204
        5.10.254

Whataboutism is not actually an argument.

I'm still typing this on my Lenovo Thinkpad T25 because it is the last laptop ever released with a proper 7-row keyboard.

There have been some concepts on frame.work's forums. I have always used cursor keys and the "Ins/del/Home/End/Pgup/Pgdown" set as a nice 3x2 array.

And trackpoint. Don't forget the trackpoint.

I also like the idea that if you stick a copper SFP into modern "merchant silicon" switch (Broadcom Jericho), you may or may not get working autonegotiation. And copper devices like to have that on by default, even if it's technically not needed for Gigabit Ethernet. And then there might be half-assed support where support for autonego is only for clause 37, but not clause 73 (or vice versa, don't remember which. Anyway, it meant that hooking up a Juniper SRX to a Cisco NCS 57C3 (or anything else using Jericho 2) does not work if autonegotiation is on...)

Then there's the whole thing that if you use copper SFP, even if the SFP itself would support it, the switch doesn't like downgrading to 10 or 100 Mbps.

Of course, complaining about the fact that 10/100Mbps or autonego does not work sounds odd when on the same device you can stick a QSFP and 400G optics, but if you'd prefer to have a single 1U that could handle everything it would be nice to have maximum compatibility... Because now we have to stick another unit into the rack to handle "legacy connectivity", usually just some IPMI or similar stuff.

It WAS. I challenge you to provide a link to Darwin sources of MacOS 26.

Who exactly did you think made that multi-billion trade on oil futures just before the war started? Bill Cosby?

Well, "just before the war started" would have been easy guess. Even I bought some oil ETCs when that second carrier group appeared to be in position and made some quick bucks on first week of March. I just assumed it was going to be something like last summer with the bombs on supposed nuclear facilities and everyone would have gone after a few days.

That 1.5B trade 5 minutes before announcing "negotiations" that happened just now is of course a different story.

So we have a guy who is overwhelmingly for coal and oil.

Manages to get the entire world economy that is dependent on said oil to crash and causes shortage.

=> Demand for EVs going up
=> Demand for non-fossil power generation going up

https://www.euronews.com/2026/...

So DJT manages to pull off what environmentalists and advocacy groups haven't been able to do for decades...by sheer incompetence?

Knowing him, he'll probably turn around at some point and claim that it was his intention all along...

They should add AI and quantum computing into the mix just for maximum buzzword coverage.

They seem particularly unreliable when asked to tell the difference between a headmaster and a fundamental rule.

Translation: we don't currently have a quantum algorithm for reversing hashes. But there was a time, not that long ago, when we didn't have a quantum algo for factorization either. However, I don't expect to see a quantum algo for hash reversion any time soon, because the whole problem of reversing hashes is pretty complex.

Factorization as a classical problem is essentially trivial, in that there are very simple classical algorithms for it. They just take a lot of time to run. But coming up with an efficient quantum algorithm was not trivial, and the algorithm itself isn't so simple. So you can estimate that a quantum version of any algorithm is a lot more complex than the classical counterpart.

I've only taken fairly general master's level courses in quantum information and regular cryptography, but I agree with this overall sentiment. My math professors used to say that no asymmetric encryption scheme has been proved unbreakable; we only know if they haven't been broken so far. Assuming something is unbreakable is like saying Fermat's last theorem is unprovable — until one day it's proved. So to me "post quantum cryptography" is essentially a buzzword.

Interestingly, Finnish government was planning to move election systems to Amazon's cloud, but the plan was just recently cancelled due to public outcry. https://www.heise.de/en/news/F...