systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems
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It's rare that I get to feel anything remotely comforting about not being able to afford new hardware, but if I understand correctly, my BIOS-only dinosaur can't be exploited.
Still vulnerable to thousands of other exploits no doubt, but not this one.
Pipewire? It's very new to me and can't say I know much about it, not that I knew much about its predecessors either.
The pipes in the diagram are obviously named pipes, but they're not Linux pipes. There seems to be not only multiple types (which is disturbingly Microsoft), but often multiple by the same name (which would confuse most sane OSes, if not the insane ones too.)
It's almost like they're instances of a subroutine object all running in parallel...
Makes sense to me.
My only concern is that pipe c is shown as having two different shapes: straight and slightly curved.
Based on the fact that the design requires that a and b be different, there would undoubtedly be the same situation for the four slightly curved c pipes. That is, there would need to be two "c2" pipes and two "c3" pipes in the set rather than just four more of the same c pipe.
That makes me think the diagram at the bottom was made before a decision to cut costs and/or simplify. Four regular c pipes will undoubtedly be cheaper and logistically simpler to manage for both shipping and user construction than having those two extra pipe types.
It was, of course, relabelled to match the supplied parts, but the hints of the original design still remain.
Ylu might wake up brain damaged
Ylu might
Ylu
Uh-oh.
They used lower-case L, suggesting they mean a place on the political spectrum, rather than a political party.
TL;DR The fruit of the tree of knowledge being a literal apple is non-canon, being entirely based on a pun.
The word "apple" is not used in the Bible, that is, unless the Bible in question is a translation that specifically uses that word. Even then, see below.
The whole apple thing comes from:
- the fact that the word for "apple" can be used as a synonym for "(any) fruit" in some languages and context, and so could mean any fruit.
Think about French pomme de terre for "potato" which is literally "apple (meaning 'fruit') of the earth". Dutch has aardappel (earth apple) which is the same thing. Fun fact: Old English eorþæppel (earth apple) allegedly meant "cucumber". Go figure. But I digress.
- Latin is the main ecclesiastical language for one particularly influential branch of Christianity and one word for apple in Latin is "malus". That sounds like a lot of unrelated Latin words that start "mal-" that mean bad or evil, thus an apparent connection to the fruit of the tree of knowledge also leading to evil.
(I mean, it might actually be a proto-apple of some sort (modern apples did not exist 7000 years ago or whenever it was supposed to be) but the Bible doesn't specify.
Some scholars think that the whole thing developed out of metaphor for abandoning a hunter-gatherer lifestyle for farming. Others think that it might be a reference to beer / alcohol, which is one of the first things humans got interested in after farming.)
Yeah, I get it. Only by forcing myself into uncomfortable situations am I going to be able to beat this.
So, I'm already screwed because that ain't happening.
To distinguish two Firefox profiles that I run simultaneously, I use different themes on each. For Firefox this might actually be the best way.
For a file manager (I assume the Dolphin you're talking about is the file manager), the closest I remember seeing is a red toolbar on the unrelated Nemo file manager when it's run as root.
If Dolphin is per-user theme-able, then you could do what I do with Firefox. If it supports other kinds of plug-in, then maybe there's one that does what you want already.
To my knowledge, windowing systems can't override the title of an application's window, and even if they could, the application could change it back again at any time, creating a race condition, or a very ugly situation where the system picks and chooses which windows are allowed to modify their titles and which ones aren't.
Therefore, I think you'd have to write your own plug-in (if they're a thing and the API permits title modifications), modify Dolphin's source code yourself or submit a feature request to Dolphin's developers, cross your fingers and wait.
"UNEXPECTEDEOS" is almost certainly "unexpected end of stream", that is, the file is missing the end or there's data corruption and the unpacker has interpreted the bad data as meaning the file should be longer than it is.
Redownload the file, or try to download it using a different tool (e.g. wget or curl rather than a browser). If that still gets a truncated file, try a different source / mirror.
That looks like it might be the monitor's own on-screen display rather than anything Puppy related. My guess is that the monitor hasn't been detected properly and Puppy is putting out a resolution that the monitor can't deal with.
Since the message says 1280x1024, either the monitor is 1280x1024 and can't deal with anything else, or it's not 1280x1024 and is being sent 1280x1024 resolution and is complaining about it.
(Or worse, it's a clock frequency error which was a real problem back in the early days of Linux.)
As for how to fix, the answer is going to be different depending on the age of the base Linux under Puppy and the graphical subsystem.
For X/X11/Xorg it's probably going to need use of the xrandr shell command, perhaps to delete the mode that is causing the problem. For Wayland, it appears that each window manager has its own xrandr equivalent. I see talk of a gnome-randr, for example.
To get to a shell in the first place, try the Ctrl+Alt+F1 key-combo. If the computer isn't frozen, that might get a text-based console login prompt. (Puppy might do things differently here though. Not sure.)
Alternatively, look up how to boot to a single-user shell by modifying GRUB options, that is, if no such option is there already.
Caveat: I am no expert. Take this under advisement. Also try web-searching some keywords. It might be there's a really simple fix for this that I don't know about.
Never trust a corporation. It will almost always do whatever makes the most money for C-levels, shareholders and end-of-year profits, and when it doesn't, we should be even more wary of its actions. Occasionally these unspecified actions and choices align with the preferences of people outside the corporation and this makes the corporation "one of the good guys" for a while.
Corporations have no right to complain about being called out on this. In fact, they'd do better to acknowledge it. All it needs is one change of CEO and the whole corporation can change direction in a heartbeat. Twitter is an example of this.
Also see: The fable of the scorp(orat)ion and the frog.
With Microsoft, any love shown could well be the Embrace part of the strategy that will lead to Extend and then Extinguish just as soon as they can figure those parts out. They might already have a plan.
The fact they've been able to turn things to their advantage so far does not mean they don't have such a plan. Or won't ever have one.
There's also that they might be sane enough in the moment to refuse treatment but not sane enough long term to improve, stop, or be aware that they're causing that much of a problem.
[Proofreading edit: The following is mostly me working through some stuff, but it might still be relevant? It's certainly apt if it's some guy rambling about something and nothing and disturbing people though.]
I say this as someone currently with agoraphobia, and bus-phobia, which, yes, is the exact opposite of a problem passenger (can't be a problem if you're not on the bus), but I can easily see myself in their shoes. In fact that might be part of the bus-phobia. Force me onto a bus and I don't know how I'll react. I don't want to be that guy.
Also, I've kind of lost confidence in treatment, which I'm well aware isn't going to help any kind of therapy to work. (Also, I'd have to go somewhere where the therapy is, because I don't want people in my house.)
Told this before in other places, and loosely speaking, it's kind of timely.
20 or so years ago, re-playing the original Half-Life (thus "timely" because of the recent updates and 25th anniversary of it), I had a relative sat behind me watching me play.
They asked me a question about something or other, and I immediately turned around to answer them.
In game.
I still remember where I was in the game and the milliseconds of confusion, realisation and feeling of stupidity.
That game was, is, pretty engrossing to be fair.
I don't understand quantum mechanics.
"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics." -- Richard Feynman
"Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." -- John von Neumann.
The latter quote didn't occur in response to Feynman, which might be hinted at by the subjects not being aligned, but together they serve my point.
Both these men were terrifyingly intelligent and worked as physicists at least some of the time. If they couldn't understand quantum mechanics, then we mortals don't have much of a chance.
Do they mean weary, or do they mean wary?
Weary means worn down (it's literally the "wear" as in "wear and tear" with a y on the end to make an adjective), usually signifying tiredness or apathy.
Wary means overly aware (it's literally the "ware" as in "aware" with a y on the end to make an adjective), usually signifying nervousness or apprehension.
Given the context, they could mean either. Or both.
Though for orthographic reasons, the e is dropped. I see you, fellow pedants.
Usually a so-called dead cat strategy or other distraction is employed instead.
Less extreme (at least in one sense) is complicit or embargoed media organisations deliberately not reporting on failures, perhaps only telling part of the truth, but why do that when you can haul out the old reliable: Celebrity News!
Everyone loves and wants to hear about celebrities! Even Z-list ones! Don't look at politics! That pop star you've barely heard of who might not resemble or align with the ruling class in some way has been arrested for something or other and this is the top headline tonight!
Or look over there! That politician you don't like is taking part in a celebrity game show where they might have to do something almost as unpleasant as they are! (This has happened at least twice.)
The Falklands are 300 miles "off the coast" of Argentina.
By that logic, France, let's say, has much greater rights to Britain's resources which is only 25 miles away, and Canada will no doubt be laying claim to Greenland very soon on account of it being only 10 miles off their coast.
Fun fact: The Windows BSOD colour was as easy as adding a couple of lines to a .INI file for a long time. Then, as they tend to do, they made it more difficult, but it was still possible. Third party tools were written to do the work.
Very recent MS Windows I have no idea about. My search-fu is failing me.
Anyway, my point is that the "two lines in a config file" method would be nice.
Knowing systemd though, it'll be "send some kind of message into a
/procpseudo-file", or a sub-sub-sub-command of one of the manysystemd*commands which ultimately does the same thing.