In other news today...
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@TimeBandit The leader of the world's largest nation thanks the people of Quebec!
Or does he?
There's the conext of being eaten...
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https://www.science.org/content/article/octopuses-may-have-nightmares
: The "Don't interpret my dreams" thread is !
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Water buffalos are
curecute animals. But they may cause some damage when they enjoy your private swimming pool...
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Water buffalos are cure animals.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Water buffalos are
curecute animals. But they may cause some damage when they enjoy your private swimming pool...
The buffaloes should sue because there were insufficient safety features to keep them from falling in.
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@jinpa They'd need to sign the court papers to get a lawsuit going.
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@jinpa said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
Water buffalos are
curecute animals. But they may cause some damage when they enjoy your private swimming pool...
The buffaloes should sue because there were insufficient safety features to keep them from falling in.
Much like you'll get sued if you install electric fence as security measure to your back garden and doesn't have large warning sign displayed outside the wall, and some thief attempts to climb in and got electrocuted.
Yeah, ensuring safety of uninvited parties surely is important matter.
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@cheong said in In other news today...:
Much like you'll get sued if you install electric fence as security measure to your back garden and doesn't have large warning sign displayed outside the wall, and some thief attempts to climb in and got electrocuted.
If there's enough volts and amps, nobody's going to complain. Except perhaps the next of kin.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EzX_RdpJlY
TL;DW: SCOTUS said Twitter isn't liable for stuff users post. YouTube isn't liable because its algorithm promotes certain videos, even if the content of those videos is despicable (mostly because the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate any link between those videos and any criminal act by users who watched them). They avoided any action with respect to Section 230.
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Thatās a turn into the surreal, I think.
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As if there weren't enough reasons to hate Oracle already.
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@Arantor The morons over at IT probably think this is a great idea, despite not even having heard of it.
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Well, at least the future isn't all bad:
[...] you'll never go to Amazon again," he said.
But, I think what Bill is missing is that the ad people will thoroughly ruin the whole thing by having 'AI assistants' push shitty advertisements and try to manipulate people into buying shit they don't need.
Oh, wait. Most people won't care. Can we just roll back to a savepoint earlier in time and try some sensible decisions this time?
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@cvi thereās a lot of reasons to look at this save point and go for a do-over. Maybe even a fresh install. Nuke and pave, maybe itās the only way to be sure.
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
Can we just roll back to a savepoint earlier in time and try some sensible decisions this time?
Nope. Being retarded about it gets more viewer subscriptions.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
I remember having a machine that ran it's entire stack of user processes from network storage back in the 1990s (don't know about the kernel). The network storage was NFS and machine was a Sun Workstation. It was great... until the server providing the files keeled over from the quantity of traffic and took out the whole department's productivity for several weeks (while IT scratched their heads about how to fix). Since then I prefer to have basic files (up to and including enough to run a desktop environment) held locally so that the network can't crap out and fuck me over totally.
The failure mode was fun: the fileserver would come up and every workstation would promptly jump in to get the hundreds of files it was waiting for. That would overload things and the fileserver would hard crash. Fortunately the OS on it would come back up automatically, and start serving again but only after it had completed an
fsck
(because it was an uncontrolled crash) and that took a while because there was rather a lot of storage on that server (for the time). The result was you'd get about 30 seconds of usability every 20 minutes or so.
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@dkf Did you ever hear what the fix was? Something like a load balancer wouldn't be off the shelf like it is today, or if it was, not nearly as easy to use.
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@ObjectMike said in In other news today...:
Did you ever hear what the fix was?
The service was sharded across several slave machines that would go back to the master for files they didn't recognise; this reduced the load on individual machines back down to the level that they could handle happily. Since it wasn't for normal user files or anything else that actually changed (we already had a different server for that) it wasn't difficult to implement.
My next workstation had a local copy of the OS.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
(Not reading the article beforehand) Soo.... they're just launching a thin client?
Edit: Essentially, yes. Using a whole phat install of Windows to transparently launch MSTSC.
Innovation!
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@Tsaukpaetra It's for security , of course.
The computer on your desk you have physical access to, so it's not secure. So you just use it to connect to a server over ā fairly restricted ā RDP or similar protocol and only from there you have access to the sensitive internal network. And of course you can't install anything on the server, so trying to do development there is as pleasant as it sounds. But s3cur1ty!!1! .
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
Citrix
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@cvi said in In other news today...:
@Arantor The morons over at IT probably think this is a great idea, despite not even having heard of it.
Some of us are old enough to remember our first jobs working like that...
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
CitrixPrecisely.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
launch MSTSC
That's a little bit different from older ideas of booting from the (typically local) network.
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
Dates are hard.
Well, dates have hard stones inside, do not bite on them, better eat the soft sweet pulp only.
But TFA mentions oaks, and dates do not grow on oaks but on palm trees. Oaks will give you acorns.
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@BernieTheBernie Deep.
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INB4 "Reminds you of." Too obvious...burned own house.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
launch MSTSC
That's a little bit different from older ideas of booting from the (typically local) network.
If you say network booting I think PXE.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
launch MSTSC
That's a little bit different from older ideas of booting from the (typically local) network.
If you say network booting I think PXE.
Man, why do you have to trigger my PTSD like that. Now Iām going to need a vacation from my vacation.
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Sounds like a cromulent party game to me.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Sounds like a cromulent party game to me.
Sounds like a decent party.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
INB4 "Reminds you of." Too obvious...burned own house.
If they start treating songs with lyrics in the first person as depositions, it's going to solve a whole bunch of murders: Bob Marley and Eric Clapton for the sheriff, Mick Jagger and an unnamed accomplice for the Kennedys, Freddie Mercury (victim not specified but a gunshot to the head), not to mention that Barry Manilow gets copyright credit for every song ever written.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
launch MSTSC
That's a little bit different from older ideas of booting from the (typically local) network.
Network booting is also nothing like what they're talking about here.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
launch MSTSC
That's a little bit different from older ideas of booting from the (typically local) network.
If you say network booting I think PXE.
Man, why do you have to trigger my PTSD like that. Now Iām going to need a vacation from my vacation.
One of these days I'll get my iPXE setup working again... https://tsaukpaetra.com/iPXE/
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Some very cool science being done here.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie Deep.
But he failed to point out that pitted dates do not have pits, but unpitted dates do.
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@jinpa such a pity.
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Ah, so itās not my fault I want to languish around all day instead of going to work! There must be ultrasound pollution at my apartment!
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
Ah, so itās not my fault I want to languish around all day instead of going to work! There must be ultrasound pollution at my apartment!
It's the 5G!
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Some very cool science being done here.
Isn't this the premise of "Ratatouille"?
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@jinpa linked an article in In other news today... that said:
pumps ran and emptied 440,000 gallons
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pumped outāhold your breathā21 lakh litres
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drained 41 lakh litresSo how much did he actually pump?
Note that lakh is 100,000, so 41 lakh litres = 4,100 mĀ³, 21 lakh litres = 2,100 mĀ³ and 440,000 gallons = 1,666 mĀ³, so the values are of the same order of magnitude, but still quite a bit different.
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@Bulb Not too many places you can post a link like that and get that kind of a response.