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the bug is in processing TCP connections to the host. The chain you drop the packet doesn't matter
Re:DiscImageStudio on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @06:11AM (#50350520)
I'm kinda opposite on reason, I feel like using one means I failed to do the battle the normal way and picked the easy mode.

I've mostly healed from that affliction, at least for buyable consumables, now it is just math, if I buy X potions I won't have to go back to rest and heal, so it's more efficient to grind while spending a bit of gold earned on regen

Re:Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:32AM (#50350246)
I doubt local will be all that common aside from regulatory requirements but buying them off your cloud provider will be the new norm for many enterprises.

The slice of the pie where frontier models are required is just gonna be smaller and smaller. And at point where AI wrote docs, tests, and all the easy and medium difficulty functions you are already saving a ton per employee

Re:Revolut moves to self-hosted GLM on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @05:30AM (#50350223)
If investors knew how powerful open models are the AI companies valuation would tank overnight
Re:Moving our warehouse off DuckDB on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:07PM (#50343759)
yeah nah no engineer gonna bother replicating desktop vibe on a marketing page
Re:Moving our warehouse off DuckDB on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:05PM (#50343744)
> Things like this are a part of why I push back on people telling me we can do important things later. I don’t want to swap the engine out of a machine that’s moving that fast. There’s no time to learn about how it behaves with real versus synthetic traffic and what the failure modes are when you’re doing many thousands of transactions per second.

Counter-point - the longer you delay a crucial decision the more information you have to make it a correct one, so you might avoid migrating DB engine twice a year

Yeah attackers might not want to bother spending tokens on some niche OS but security thru obscurity only gives you so much
> For example Linux works totally fine without running dhcpcd

how you refresh dhcp lease if there is no service taking care of ? Why you think DHCP is pointless ?

all of that to hit two nines of uptime
It looks like someone that doesn't know how VHS looked thinks it looks; text and any other overlay should also be passed thru filter at the very least, and they are too small (would look like blurry mess at VHS resolution)
Re:Never Complain, Never Explain on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:57AM (#50339770)
I feel like bygone royals still left more memorable and positive changes to society (even in the background of all the negatives) that current caste of billionaires ever will.
Re:Never Complain, Never Explain on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:55AM (#50339741)
Doesn't work well if not giving attention to problem doesn't stop that problem from being worse, but just allows it to grow

Unless you literally mean "don't give oxygen", then yes, people generally die off that so the problem would be solved.

Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:50AM (#50339670)
no, you hash your node ID or get a random number, and then just add offset. That guarantees on average uniform load, not synchronized-wave-pattern-that-happens-to-be-59.

You have to consider that when power goes down and everything goes back up at same time you get same pattern back, just spike every 59 seconds instead of 60.

Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:48AM (#50339635)
Shows they didn't had sysadmin to look at it, it's very common pattern on IT systems
Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:47AM (#50339618)
journalctl is good idea executed terribly. It's builtin data format is massively wasteful and not even good at searching for data you want (often need to go thru all the files anyway)

Journalctl with SQLite or a columnar embedded database would be amazing for sysadmins. Current format is entirely useless

Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:46AM (#50339589)
Our configuration management system(Puppet) has function for that, fqdn_rand

give it number and you will get random value up to that number, same every run for a given host, but different per host (basically, hashed host fqdn)

add a label and you will get different number but similarly consistent. Makes it real easy to randomize run across the fleet.

Would be easy script to make.

Also systemd timers have the randomization builtin, just need to specify time

    RandomizedDelaySec=12h
Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:43AM (#50339545)
It's not a multi-hundred-MW load

It's thousands of few kW's of load

Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:43AM (#50339540)
That wouldn't require dropping from power network, just disconnecting battery from load/charging
Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:42AM (#50339524)
It's often failing of the tools used, cron (and various other OS equivalents) just doesn't have good facilities to it.

Systemd timers have some, for example RandomizedOffsetSec=30m on 30m job will spread it nicely.

I'd also like if schedulers just had option "just fit it in with other jobs and fire it with this rough interval when there is least amount of other jobs running"

Re:Mystery of 60-Second Fluctuations in Power Grids Solved on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:38AM (#50339469)
Just adding random shift of the duration of the check already will get you uniform distribution
Re:We halved DNS build delay and cut memory use by 85% on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:29AM (#50339285)
Isn't 700 changes a second like... really low, considering their scale and amount of domains they manage ?
Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:23AM (#50339191)
Having to get the client into call just so they go and click authorisation for adding some signing keys on VMs (as it was in pre-boot stage) just to add some driver wasn't fun

What an awful system

Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:22AM (#50339159)
I think you're mistaking Debian with Arch.

It just has package for nvidia drivers. Not sure if installer will install it automatically for you (I kinda... use my install for last 12 years, just upgrading it).

For me both with AMD and NVIDIA whole hardware driver story was "install it, it works"

Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:19AM (#50339106)
You can just use Debian Testing/Unstable. It's good enough that's where Ubuntu sources their packages anyway.
Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:17AM (#50339070)
RHEL also dropped a ball on it so yeah the alternative for paying for RHEL license is apparently "just use Debian or hire some Arch nerds"
Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:16AM (#50339051)
Plain Debian was always best option; even RHEL dropped the ball on this CVE and that's distro people pay for support
Re:WTF Ubuntu? on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:16AM (#50339040)
Worth noting that RHEL, the Linux version Red Had sells licenses/paid support for, also didn't update it for weeks
Normally I'd say 90% of "enterprise" hardware is same stuff consumers get but badly tested, with more bugs, and in enterprise(rack etc.) format but this is something else.

Getting chip with hardware AES isn't even hard and they implemented 90% of what is needed (usb-sd card protocol and accepting the key), it's just wtf. Maybe they prompted "make a storage driver accessing SD card after unlocking with AES key" ;) bot device looks old enough to not be made with AI help.

Probably just "the MCU that was fast enough wasn't cheap enough", but the fact process didn't caught it should basically remove Lenovo as serious vendor from anyone's consideration

Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:25PM (#50331923)
I'd imagine just as every other project, both.
Re:Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:50AM (#50314800)
Well the recent experiments shows they can't make effective government for minecraft, let alone entire country

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