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We're truly living through peak politics. This made me ugly snort like the guy in this video: https://youtu.be/h232bilq8eQ

This comment is such a beautifully concise argument for the existence of block buttons. Toodles~

Omegle is gone :(

Your eye is still open under that flap though, no? I dabbled in Olympic pistol shooting back when I was doing across-the-course service rifle, and I was told to always keep both eyes open by the dude teaching me. Same for service rifle (and later palma). I always found that closing one of your eyes fucks up your focusing. If you don't have the little flappy dealy, you just do your best to defocus/deprioritize the view out of your non-dominant eye. I actually went for quite a while without any sort of cover because it helped me avoid cross firing (which is probably more of an issue with across-the-course than with Olympic pistol).

You're absolutely right about the lack of spectacles though. This guy is one hell of a marksman.

They need to do what MacOS and Linux have done. There are safer ways to interact with and inspect the running state of the kernel in those operating systems (eBPF for Linux, a bunch of APIs I don't know much about for MacOS). Software needs a way to do the shit it's doing, you can't just turn it off and provide no alternative.

If Microsoft provides a safe API, then Wine can translate calls to that API and approximate the same degree of protection for Linux boxen.

I also agree with the other person, you should still be allowed to fuck around with the kernel on your own box. Major software vendors should be discouraged from writing shit that directly runs in ring 0, but end users should be allowed to do whatever.

The tiered storage stuff is pretty cool. You can say "I want this data on this disk, so if I get a cache miss from a faster disk/RAM it'll come from this other disk first."

I believe it also has some interesting ways of handling redundancy like erasure coding, and I thiiiink it does some kind of byte-level deduplication? I don't know if that's implemented or is even still planned, but I remember being quite excited for it. It was supposed to be dedupe without all of the hideous drawbacks that things like ZFS dedupe have.

EDIT: deduplication is absolutely not a thing yet. I don't know if it's still on the roadmap.

EDIT: Erasure coding is deffo implemented, however.

I've always heard that seismic activity makes hyperloop-style transit effectively impossible.*

† Impossible given the constraints of current materials science. From what I've read (which may be garbage, but it seemed well researched), making a vacuum chamber that's hundreds of thousands of miles long on top of a big wiggly molten goo ball isn't something we can even see a way to realistically achieve right now.

What if you need to file a bug? What if you have a question on the config that's not easily answered by the docs? If you never, ever find bugs and never, ever have questions, then sure, separate the two. There are genuinely people like that, but they're not common. If you're one of them, then I'm genuinely glad for you.

My opinion is this: You use software. You don't use people, but you sure as hell rely on them.

Because Vaxry (the lead dev) got banned from contributing to wlroots or any other FDO projects.

As for why he was banned, this is the only thing I've read about the whole thing: https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html

Basically, he violated the FDO Code of Conduct when being told that a particular thing he said/enabled in a Discord community would not be acceptable if it was seen in spaces covered by said CoC.

This appears to be his response.

Were you using the kernel module? We're using Flatcar which doesn't support their .ko, and we haven't been getting panics on any of our machines (of which there are many).

Falcon uses eBPF on Linux nowadays. It's still an irritating piece of software, but it no make your boxen fail to boot.

edit: well, this is a bad take. I should avoid commenting on shit when I'm sleep deprived and filled with meeting dread.

The other person may have responded with a fair amount of hostility, but they're absolutely correct. I run Kubernetes clusters hosting millions of containers across hundreds of thousands of VMs at my job, and OOMKills are just a fact of life. Apps will leak memory, and you're powerless to fix it unless you're willing to debug the app and fix the leak. It's better for the container to run out of memory and trigger a cgroup-scoped OOM kill. A system-wide OOM kill will murder the things you love, shit in your hat, and lick your face like David Tennant licked Krysten Ritter.

God, I'm so tempted. I do not need to spend $90-100 on one of these and a Game Boy Camera...

I don't bother with those unless I'm specifically going for all the orbs. Like, I'll get the closest one, but I don't bother with the one you mentioned or the one that makes the boss spawn. There's usually enough health to be had once you know your formations, and if you want mondo amounts of health, there's always the heart mage trick. I don't go out of my way to dig gold in the mines for the same reason. You can win without doing it, and it just breaks up the flow too much imo.

Noita is probably my favorite game of all time, and it's an excellent rougelike.

Ahhh, I'd love it if I could tie that in with a Bluetooth OBD dongle and Home Assistant. It'd be awesome if I could set up a BLE proxy in my carport to automatically update stuff. It'd be especially handy if I could get alerted about check engine codes.

Hey! Boeing! There's a saying that's popular amongst lawyers—"if you must eat crow, do so while it is fresh."

The uh, crow is already pretty fucking old. Best to just eat it now before you get it shoved down your throat by the DOJ.

I imagine that part of it comes down to motivation. I pretended to be an adult on a special-interest forum when I was twelve years old because I needed an escape from my miserable existence. At that time, I had no control over my life and every morning I woke up meant I had a new chance for traumatic shit to happen. I desperately needed to be someone else, so I took my time, researched shit, and avoided any conversation where I might be outed. I'm sure I didn't fool everyone, but I got some shocked responses when I went back as an adult and owned up to it.

Kids doing it for the authority boost or just as a childish fancy will be easier to spot. Kids doing it as a coping mechanism for their horrible lives will probably blend in a lot better.

Eh, I have a low tolerance for this kind of bullshit. I know what I like and what I don't like. I went through their posting history before blocking them, and I found that the subjective quality of their contributions failed to outweigh my irritation towards them. To me, it's better to just block them and never risk seeing comments like this from them again. There are a bunch of people on this site who I'd rather interact with.

As a bonus, they'll only ever have one shitty passive aggressive comment from me to deal with.

Ah, excellent, thank you! I love it when shitheads make themselves obvious so I can block them. Toodles~