Sen. Dianne Feinstein's daughter has power of attorney over her
It seems pretty poor, especially for 2023. This article from four years ago has TSMC touting an 80% yield rate on their new-at-the-time 5nm process. Still, the fact that Huawei is able to produce 7nm parts at all is something of a victory. Huawei is probably around five years behind TSMC at this point but may be able to close that gap over time.
To be honest, I didn't either but I wanted to know where all these names come from. So I did some Googling and that's what I found. Apologies if I've mangled anything, but I think I got the broad strokes right. Etymology (the study of the origin and evolution of words) is neat!
Essex comes from Old English Eastseaxan, literally "East Saxons". In other words, this is the part of England that was invaded/settled by the Saxons and they divided their lands into east, south and west regions, plus a middle region (middle Saxons, modern-day Middlesex).
There's no Norsex because at that time the lands to north of Saxon territory were held by the Angles. They also divided themselves into East Angles, South Angles, etc., but those names don't seem to have survived into the modern day. Interestingly though, the Kingdom of East Anglia was divided into "North Folk" and "South Folk", which is the origin of the modern-day names for Norfolk and Suffolk.
If you've heard of the Anglo-Saxons, yeah, that's these guys, the Angles and the Saxons. The Angles came from parts of modern-day Denmark, the Saxons from parts of modern-day northern Germany. They shared a lot of common Germanic culture but were also rivals.
I hear you, normally I'd recommend books before adaptations so it feels weird to be doing otherwise here. In this particular case I think it makes sense though. The main character of the game ties directly to same character's depiction in the TV show, while the book version of that character is actually three or four different characters.
Yeah, that makes sense. I'm in the process of re-reading the whole series now. Currently on book 3, will take another crack at 7-9 once I read that far.
This isn't a user behavior problem, it's a client code problem. Not wanting to see duplicates is reasonable, but expecting cross-posters to time-gap their cross-posts is not. There's already a feature request to fix this for the Lemmy web UI, other clients will need to decide whether and how to handle cross-posts.
TL;DR, for Expanse newcomers, I'd recommend bingeing the show before playing the game.
Do you like science fiction TV shows? If so, then I'd recommend the TV series. Do you prefer to read SF? Then I'd recommend the books. Both are pretty good, though the TV show adaptation made a significant number of (mostly) warranted changes from the books.
I would trust that the game does a solid enough job for newcomers to the series, but you'd likely get more out of it if you'd seen the show. The main character in the game (Drummer) is a prominent side character in the TV show, and I believe the actor for that role is doing the voice over for the game. Which is awesome, she was one of my favorite characters from the show. I believe that character doesn't map one-to-one onto any character in the books though, as the show condensed and combined a number of side characters. I felt that was an understandable change for the TV adaptation since the books had a fairly sprawling cast of side characters. Anyway, long story short, if you're on the fence for book vs. show, I'd say watch the show since the game appears to match the show's continuity.
The game just released today and I haven't played it yet. It's also releasing in episodic fashion, as many Telltale games have done, so you'd only be able to play the first installment today. Reviewers have access to the first three, according to this review-in-progress, but as that reviewer points out:
I've not yet finished all of the episodes, with only the first three available to review, but what I have played is exceedingly promising. At this point, my only question is whether the core mystery is satisfying and if the developers manage to stick the landing, which is impossible to answer without fully understanding the breadth and scope of the entire set of episodes.
I love both the books and the show, and while I'm looking forward to the game I've decided to stay on the fence until all the episodes are available.
Edit to add: IMO the TV show did stick the landing, so I have no reservations about recommending it to anyone. The TV show covers the first six books of the series, and just like in the show book six ends with a pretty satisfying conclusion to the story started in book one. In book seven there's a 30-year time jump, so books 7-8-9 are kind of a separate-but-connected story arc. Books 1-6 I loved, 7-8 I'm lukewarm on, and that's made me less inclined to invest time in book 9 but I probably will at some point.
A fitness watch. Having a more accurate estimate of calories burned makes it easier to maintain a consistent calorie deficit every day. Down 20 pounds since Xmas!
And yeah you drove by the Cerro de la Muerte (Death Mountain) at night. Thatās a big no-no! That road is always almost coveted with fog (even during the day).
Wait, so the actual proper name of the mountain I crossed, at night, under heavy fog, translates as Death Mountain?? Actually yeah, that seems pretty sensible based on what I saw. Clearly I was lucky to make it through without suffering a disaster of some kind. On the one hand I fully acknowledge that I was an idiot to put myself in that situation... but on the other hand it sounds really badass, so this detail is definitely getting added to the story whenever I tell it in future.
We were driving from Puerto Viejo de Talamanca on the east coast of Costa Rica to San Jose to catch our late flight home. We had decided to go to the Jaguar Rescue Center in the morning, thinking we had lots of time for the drive. That turned out to be a bad call because there had been torrential rain in Braulio Carrillo National Park, our planned route on highway 32 was closed due to landslides, and alternate routes doubled our trip time. We'd budgeted lots of time to get to San Jose before our flight so that part wasn't a problem, but it meant we'd be driving through the mountains after dark.
Holy shit let me tell you, when tourist guides to Costa Rica tell you not to drive in the mountains after dark, it is for a good fucking reason. Picture a steep, winding mountain road. Now imagine gutters on either side of the road that are V-shaped, four feet deep with 45 degree sloping sides. Now blanket the whole scene in the thickest pea soup fog you can imagine. That's mountain driving after dark in Costa Rica.
This was done in a shitty little rental hatchback with no fog lights, because of course we weren't planning to do any mountain driving after dark but fuck if it didn't happen anyway! It was a solid hour of the most intense pucker-factor driving I've ever had to do. The only reason I'm not a corpse on the side of a Costa Rican mountain is because some local with fog lights passed me on one of those roads, and by god I got onto that guys tail lights like fucking tick and drafted him all the way down the mountain. Shout out to the Costa Rican in that beat-up red pickup, I'm only alive today because of him.
Oracle is shit because they use Red Hat works, providing contract on top of itā¦ and only add UEK as ā¦ ābetter optionā ā¦
That's something they were allowed to do. It's something everyone was allowed to do. FOSS means free and open source for everyone, even people and organizations you don't like. Otherwise it's not really free (as in freedom), now is it?
Also, the "contract on top of it" is this license, which is a pretty short read. In my view it's a very inoffensive license compared to Red Hat's coercive license.
Also also, they're forking Oracle Linux from RHEL as of 9.3, so they're won't be "taking" from Red Hat in future anyhow.
They (oracle) do contribute some on mainline kernel, but by making RHEL copy paste and only add UEK and their productā¦ ughā¦ I donāt know.
It drives me nuts when I see people imply that Oracle was somehow "stealing" from Red Hat by creating a downstream distro. It's not theft when the thing being taken was free and open source! So Oracle copy-pasted RHEL, made some changes and redistributed it. So what? That's something everyone was allowed to do, as long as they didn't violate the open source license while doing it. Oracle isn't violating the open source licenses, the sources are freely available, so why should I fault them for doing what they did?
I think you're also overlooking how much Oracle Linux actually benefited Red Hat themselves. By making Oracle Linux a downstream distro and testing all the Oracle software on it, I'd argue that Oracle actually made RHEL more valuable by increasing the number of enterprise workloads RHEL could support. Yes, a customer could theoretically get support from Oracle instead of Red Hat, but hardly anyone actually did that. I see real-world Oracle Database installs every day and the majority of them are on Red Hat Enterprise Linux proper. Very few are on a downstream. Every one of those RHEL installs is a paying Red Hat customer.
Oracle didn't do all that out of the goodness of their hearts of course, they did it because their customers wanted to standardize on one OS and Oracle wanted to sell them database (and other) software. They did it for profit, but there's nothing inherently wrong with that. Both Oracle and Red Hat profited from that arrangement. Every enterprise Linux user indirectly benefited from the arrangement too, because it meant there was a less fragmented OS ecosystem to build on! But now Red Hat wants to alter the deal, Vader-style, Oracle is forking Oracle Linux, and you know who loses the most in all of this? All of those users who previously enjoyed the benefit of a less fragmented enterprise OS landscape, myself among them. As far I'm concerned, the blame for that lies squarely at Red Hat's feet.
It's a fairly far-right instance, which makes it unpopular with many left-leaning members of the fediverse. Tt also tends to export a lot of trolls and drama that cause it to get defederated by mainstream instances that don't want to deal with the moderation hassles.
Sooo, whataboutism doesn't actually win the argument, y'know.
another was annoyed that they had to plug in their phone to activate CarPlay
I suspect that isn't a current restriction, or it may depend on the car model. I have a car from 2018 where I have to plug in my phone for Android Auto work. That car is in the shop right now and I have a new 2023 loaner, and the loaner's Android Auto integration connects directly to my phone via Bluetooth as soon as I start the car. Having experienced both now, I know for sure that wireless Android Auto is gonna be on the list of things I want in my next car.
I was actually kind of hoping for the second option, if only so that it would be Oracle footing the legal bill to establish a precedent. That Oracle didn't choose this option may indicate that Red Hat's coercive license wrapper ("if you exercise your open source rights to redistribute, we'll close your account") is actually an effective and legal end-run around open source licenses. I don't want that to be the case.
Ahh I think you're right, I got it mixed up. Users can block communities, it's whole instances that they can't block. Only instance admins can do that, via defederation.
If an instance allows anyone to sign up then I think they need to tolerate those users having different tastes and interests, within reason. Most instances have policies against illegal content, and many don't allow porn. Defederation is the tool instance admins can use to prevent subscriptions to content they don't want to host. Other than that, if other users don't want to see certain content, they can simply not subscribe to it and avoid the All feed. Personally I like browsing All precisely because it shows me things I didn't know about, and might be interested in.
Currently there's no way for users or instance admins to block specific communities. I hope that will be made available at some point, so content blocking can be done at a more granular level and defederation can be reserved for more extreme cases. Instance admins would be free to curate their All feed if that's what they want to do. Users would be free to pick an instance that suits them, possibly one with a heavily curated feed or instead choose one that hosts a broad array of content. A broad array of content is much less likely to be an issue if users can block at the community level so they don't have to see it.
From a practical standpoint, we believe Oracle Linux will remain as compatible as it has always been through release 9.2, but after that, there may be a greater chance for a compatibility issue to arise. If an incompatibility does affect a customer or ISV, Oracle will work to remediate the problem.
This is the part of the post I find most interesting. Looks like Oracle won't be engaging in whatever workarounds Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux are using to continue operating as downstream distros of RHEL. Instead, if I'm reading this correctly it means Oracle Linux will essentially be forking from RHEL past 9.2. There were essentially three options before Oracle when Red Hat made their license change:
- Pay Red Hat for RHEL licenses. Lol as if, Larry Ellison didn't become a billionaire by spending money he didn't need to.
- Use whatever workarounds to remain a downstream distro and pay Red Hat nothing, while using their army of lawyers to fend off any ensuing lawsuits from Red Hat / IBM. It's not like they couldn't afford to fight the case after all.
- Fork from Red Hat.
That they've chosen the third options is kind of fascinating to me, and to understand why you'd probably need to understand how enterprise database support works. The Oracle databases I see day to day are massive, and they drive practically all of a company's core operations. Unanticipated downtime is fucking expensive, so these companies are willing to pay a lot for top-tier support (not like I think Oracle Support is actually good, mind you, but that's a whole other topic). The DBAs running these databases don't want to deal with any headaches whatsoever, so they're only going to install Oracle on approved operating systems. They can't afford to have Oracle say "nope, sorry, unsupported platform" during an outage.
For a couple decades now, the supported Linux platforms for Oracle Database have been RHEL, SLES and Oracle Linux. Obviously Oracle Linux will remain on that list, and I doubt SLES is going anywhere either (it tends to be popular in Europe), but does RHEL drop off the list in future? Does Oracle think they can actually convert RHEL installs to Oracle Linux installs at customer sites? Or does RHEL stay on the list but become the red-headed step-child? Either way, this feels like an attempt by Oracle to erode the value of Red Hat's platform. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out.
If anything, Iād like to see them put their money where their mouth is and hire Linux devs to continue Oracle Linux in an open manner.
Oracle Linux is already open: https://yum.oracle.com/. ISOs and full sources are freely downloadable, you don't even need to create an account, and the Oracle Linux license explicitly states that you retain all your open source rights to any open source software distributed as part of Oracle Linux. I suppose it would be possible for Oracle to change their license to make it more akin to Red Hat's and thus make Oracle Linux less free, but there's been no sign of Oracle looking to do that.
Oracle also definitely has lots of Linux devs. They even throw some shade at IBM in the post:
By the way, if you are a Linux developer who disagrees with IBMās actions and you believe in Linux freedom the way we do, we are hiring.
They need those Linux devs because all of Oracle Cloud and Oracle Exadata are built on Oracle Linux, and Oracle tests their main cash cow Oracle Database exclusively on Oracle Linux. I think that last point is actually the reason that Oracle Linux even exists. I don't think Oracle cares too much about owning the OS layer, they want to be able to support their Database product on an OS that the majority of their customers are using without having to pay a tax to the OS vendor.
I also work on a product that has to interoperate with RHEL, and I also want my company to be able to test our product without having to pay a tax to Red Hat. I'm quite happy to see this blog post from Oracle because it shows that our aims are aligned and it means we've got an 800 lb. gorilla on our side of the line. Entirely possible Oracle could turn around and do the same things, but I've got no compunctions about cheering them on while our aims coincide.
Exactly. I have PoA for my parents, but I've never exercised it. My father is in care due to dementia, but my mother is in fine mental and physical health. The PoA is primarily there in case a decision needs to be made for my father's care but my mother isn't available for any reason. Doesn't have to be medical reasons, mom always has the care facility make a note of the PoAs when she travels.