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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
This couldn't possibly go wrong.
I've been considering switching already anyway:
- for ingress, to something that implements the gateway api for ability to route non-http tls connections by SNI, which the normal nginx-ingress doesn't support, and preferably that can also do service mesh, which nginx doesn't do either.
- for static resources something like lighttpd, nginx has grown in size and is no longer the fast server it used to be.
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
Finally, a useful suggestion from one of this red state's politicians:
Oh, somebody discovered Rick&Morty...
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
inspires a regularisation scheme for non-abelian gauge theories coupled to Dirac fermions that preserves the Ward identity for the vacuum polarisation tensor.
That's easy to understand:
Tension rose when the cleaner responsible for the ward arrived with the dust sucker and Dirac gauged some polarized rainbow light onto the oddly tiled floor.
HTH.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
This couldn't possibly go wrong.
And another year later,
librenginx
was started, ...
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That abomination is still supported?
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If they were thinner and I wouldn’t have the equivalent of a crack in the middle of my Midori no Hibi wallpaper in two months I would be kind of interested. Apple cultists will buy anything so this is a bit of a puzzler.
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Commentary from elsewhere:
The company went on to explain that it broke support because its operating system is buggy and insecure, and because it hates its own developers and users.
They didn't mean to explain that, but they did.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
This couldn't possibly go wrong.
His fork of nginx will probably be ignored by most people. Other than that, there really isn't anything to "go wrong".
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@Gern_Blaanston the inevitable trademark dispute?
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This isn't a feature. This is a fix for a catastrophic security flaw.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
This isn't a feature. This is a fix for a catastrophic security flaw.
And yet one that clearly happens enough for Google to think changes are necessary.
This kind of attack still works because of rookie developers a) accepting changes via GET and b) accepting changes without some CSRF protection.
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@Arantor And embedded developers being largely completely unable to into web development as it has evolved.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
A study by the European Central Bank last year found that a third of eurozone workers wanted to work from home more than their employers allowed and were willing to quit if they found a better deal.
Who's offering this better deal? Get back in the office or be fired is the message from everyone at the moment.
If by "everyone" you mean a small minority of large businesses with some serious sunk costs invested in office real estate, sure...
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
how he generalized from the Wiki example of Amdahl's law
He... didn't? He talked about a specific example of a task that "can be made 95 per cent parallel" (i. e. 5% = 1/20 can not be made parallel). With that premise, the maximum speedup of a factor 20 from adding more cores directly follows from Amdahl's law, because adding cores will not speed up these remaining 5%. It's not a generalization, just a reformulation of the Wikipedia example.
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@ixvedeusi well...shit.
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Just in case you're not paranoid enough already...
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@TimeBandit Looks like it's time for everyone to change their fingerprints once again
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@ixvedeusi I'm OK with this kerfuffle. I use a different finger for auth compared to actually using the device. It has always felt more natural that way, so I'm not going to claim a preemptive security measure. Well, not here. Maybe at work if it comes up...
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@ixvedeusi Those complexities rules though. I always struggle with making numbers and special characters.
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@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@ixvedeusi Those complexities rules though. I always struggle with making numbers and special characters.
The rule I have trouble with is the one that says you can't reuse any of your previous twelve fingerprints.
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@Watson said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@ixvedeusi Those complexities rules though. I always struggle with making numbers and special characters.
The rule I have trouble with is the one that says you can't reuse any of your previous twelve fingerprints.
Toes exist too, so you’re actually up to more.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Watson said in In other news today...:
@Zecc said in In other news today...:
@ixvedeusi Those complexities rules though. I always struggle with making numbers and special characters.
The rule I have trouble with is the one that says you can't reuse any of your previous twelve fingerprints.
Toes exist too, so you’re actually up to more.
Well, okay. It's not so much me who has trouble, but anyone downwind.
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Looks like it's time for everyone to change their fingerprints once again
Going to suck the next time you pass through border control.
: *looks at you with suspicion, quietly talking to some colleges over the radio*
: If you're worried about the fingerprints mismatching with your records ... my employer mandates that we change our biometrics every 3 months. We're not allowed reuse fingerprints and retinal patters for 2 years. There have to be at least two large swirly things...
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In a recent interview with The Register, former Voyager scientist Garry Hunt questioned if the commercial spaceflight sector of today would take the same approach to quality as the boffins of the past.
The joke about a senior engineer staying on the plane because he knew it wouldn’t start comes to mind.
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Firefly software bug left Lockheed satellite in wrong orbit
environment.units = UNIT_RETARD;
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
The part that somewhat surprises me is that Lockheed Martin, which holds 50% of United Launch Alliance, so they should have their own launch capability¹, is instead contracting this Firefly Alliance startup, flying the payload on just the fourth launch of the vehicle.
¹ Of course ULA builds a bunch of big rockets, but no smaller ones, so if they want to launch just one smaller satellite, they don't really have that capability.
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Figured there would be at least one other Trek fan in here…
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Figured there would be at least one other Trek fan in here…
Enemy territory. Nice!
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@topspin "Picard is not gay, he's British"
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
Figured there would be at least one other Trek fan in here…
I'll allow it, provided he's depicted playing the trombone.
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I'm genuinely impressed with how this has panned out.
After Apple’s announcement, “it took about an hour for app developers to realize they had been screwed,”
That doesn't bode well for app developers. It should have been obvious from the second paragraph.
He added: “The question is whether the European Commission accepts this—which I believe they will not.”
It's perfectly compliant. Any objection will probably lead to a protracted legal battle which will keep the status quo in effect for at least the length of it.
Gotta admit. Apple have played a blinder here.
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@DogsB the number 2 tech company in the world can afford the good lawyers.
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@ixvedeusi said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit Looks like it's time for everyone to change their fingerprints once again
It's all fun and games till somebody loses an eye
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@DogsB the number 2 tech company in the world can afford the good lawyers.
True but... they're in at least 10 major lawsuits at the moment. Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook are in at least 100 more between them. We have to run out of lawyers at some stage.
*edit half of Oracle is lawyers too!
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
We have to run out of lawyers at some stage.
Won't happen. They'll just start double/triple/etc billing hours.
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@dcon The lawyers will be fine, but eventually leeches can bleed even the healthiest host dry.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@dcon The lawyers will be fine, but eventually leeches can bleed even the healthiest host dry.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
number 2 tech company
How should we understand this expression?
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
number 2 tech company
How should we understand this expression?
I was going to say by market value; MS is the most valuable tech company (fuck knows how) and Apple is in second place.
But sums it up about as well.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
MS is the most valuable tech company (fuck knows how) and Apple is in second place.
Office, especially of the 365 variety. And Azure. There's just so much money to be made from running the workplaces of the world, and the switch to remote working for a while a few years back didn't harm that one little bit. What's more, when AI goes into workplaces in a big way, it will probably be MS that you buy it as a service from; hosted instances on Azure will turn a merry profit for years, whatever it ends up being used for...
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@Arantor when did that happen?
Oh right, I distinctly remember what feels like a few years ago when Apple was the first company to reach a trillion dollar market capitalization. Now they and MSFT are both around 3 trillion, because obviously they’ve grown 3 times in size or profit.
Fucking casino shit fueled by money-printer-go-brrr.
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@topspin it was 2018 when Apple became a trillion dollar company, 2020 for 2 trillion (first US, but not first worldwide), and they’re at like $2.89 trillion these days.
MS tipped the trillion point in 2019 after Apple and Amazon to become their third trillion dollar company. But the recent overtake is thanks to their investment in AI, by all accounts.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
We have to run out of lawyers at some stage.
If only that were true!
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@topspin it was 2018 when Apple became a trillion dollar company, 2020 for 2 trillion (first US, but not first worldwide), and they’re at like $2.89 trillion these days.
MS tipped the trillion point in 2019 after Apple and Amazon to become their third trillion dollar company. But the recent overtake is thanks to their investment in AI, by all accounts.
So triple the price in 5 years, for something that’s not a startup but already one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.
Makes perfect sense.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@topspin it was 2018 when Apple became a trillion dollar company, 2020 for 2 trillion (first US, but not first worldwide), and they’re at like $2.89 trillion these days.
MS tipped the trillion point in 2019 after Apple and Amazon to become their third trillion dollar company. But the recent overtake is thanks to their investment in AI, by all accounts.
So triple the price in 5 years, for something that’s not a startup but already one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.
Makes perfect sense.Wasn't the free money era great?
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@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...:
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
We have to run out of lawyers at some stage.
If only that were true!
We need more Shakespeares.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
So triple the price in 5 years, for something that’s not a startup but already one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.
Not even just one - Apple and Microsoft both went through that. Likely Amazon too and almost certainly some of the rest of the top 10.
And in that time we had a pandemic, mass IT hirings and then IT readjustments. Things that should not be justifying a tripling of value and yet somehow here we are.
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@Arantor said in In other news today...:
and yet somehow here we are.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@topspin it was 2018 when Apple became a trillion dollar company, 2020 for 2 trillion (first US, but not first worldwide), and they’re at like $2.89 trillion these days.
MS tipped the trillion point in 2019 after Apple and Amazon to become their third trillion dollar company. But the recent overtake is thanks to their investment in AI, by all accounts.
So triple the price in 5 years, for something that’s not a startup but already one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.
Makes perfect sense.Triple in 5 years? Rookie numbers!
The price of the firm's shares has more than tripled over the last 12 months, from less than $240 apiece to nearly $800 in mid-day trade on Friday.