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Re:Bob Cringely Has Died on Saturday October 03, 2026 @11:47PM (#49950420)
His takes on IBM were always interesting, especially during that turbulent time with Ginny. He is missed.
I've noticed a number of modem issues. I don't think this is actually related to network behavior. Pixels specifically when roaming up until the 9 had severe issues typically after 24 hours with full disconnects. The majority of users don't roam, and when they do they blame the network, but I'm becoming more inclined to believe this is an end-device issue.
Re:Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member' on Thursday September 17, 2026 @11:54AM (#49742635)
Why did this get moderated off the front page.
Re:GitHub Publishes IPv6 Addresses for Git SSH remotes on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @09:25PM (#49458257)
Bit of both, if you're building from a service provider you now don't need v4 to push (OVH, Hetzner, etc.)

Less so than road warriors, who are typically CGNAT'd anyway.

Re:British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres on Monday June 22, 2026 @08:21PM (#48638458)
Go for a run, hit the ski hill, all before you start work. The sun runs your health (circadian rhythm). I'm in Vancouver and this is the dumbest change. We're going to pay for this for a decade in premature deaths, and we'll end up on standard time anyway.
Re:Remembering Lou Gerstner on Sunday December 28, 2025 @03:29PM (#46414192)
In his memoir, Gerstner described the turnaround as difficult and often wrenching for an IBM culture that had become insular and balkanized. After he arrived, over 100,000 employees were laid off from a company that had maintained a lifetime employment practice from its inception. Long allowed by their managers to believe that employment security had little reference to performance, thousands of IBM employees had grown lax, while the top-performing employees complained bitterly in attitude surveys. In the goal to create one common brand message for all IBM products and services around the world, under Gerstner's leadership the company consolidated its many advertising agencies down to just Ogilvy & Mather. Layoffs and other tough management measures continued in the first two years of his tenure, but the company was saved, and business success has continued to grow steadily since then.
Re:ZFS: AnyRaid on Saturday July 05, 2025 @02:31PM (#44474587)
There's a rewrite command now, it defrags and does all kinds of nice things for your array.
We're also introducing GoStringUngarbler, a command-line tool written in Python that automatically decrypts strings found in garble-obfuscated Go binaries.
Re:Zebrafish protein unlocks dormant genes for heart repair on Friday January 03, 2025 @09:46PM (#42591877)
The meeting was the animals who evolved to not be able to consume this, lived in more harsh conditions than those that had the readily available sugar. Evolution.
Re:Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you? on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @11:49PM (#42506906)
OpenWRT is pretty much the oldest still running (and popular) with UCI. There's the classic nvram ones, but those are hardly manageable manually.
Re:Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo, Speeding Up Calculations 450% on Friday October 18, 2024 @07:50PM (#41884507)
It's still pretty slow, but overall correct. There's tricks, like reader connections and a single writer connection to reduce contention. There was a blog post on here detailing some speedups in general.
Re:Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo, Speeding Up Calculations 450% on Friday October 18, 2024 @07:47PM (#41884495)
nice to see you around still :)
Re:OpenSSH Keystroke Obfuscation Bypass on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @11:05AM (#41512061)
The implementation is just wrong from what's been presented. basic jitter (20-100ms), and a dynamic payload size are what's actually missing here. The question now becomes though how interactive should your session be. Timing the connection latency might help to an extent, but this is about mitm and you don't necessarily know where your adversary is (first hop, or towards the end). Batching keystrokes would also help here.
Re:Reddit banned me for developing Geddit on Saturday August 24, 2024 @04:52AM (#41336664)
Had to flip back to Boost man (which still works!). Darn shame the gallery was never implemented :-(.
Re:H.264 Is Magic (2016) on Friday June 14, 2024 @09:49PM (#40686865)
This only happens because they're using Cisco's license. H.264 is not "plays anywhere".
same reaction, and the author not using ddrescue just makes this a tale about not following any sort of documentation when installing their distribution. There's really nothing in there that anyone should take away besides making sure they didn't hack up fstab and remove tmpfs.
Re:Reflections on Distrusting xz on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @07:32AM (#39916061)
Based on how this has gone (remember xz has effectively been orphaned for years, and the majority of long-standing setups were using the release archives), unless if Lasse has never run any code from Jia (unlikely) I'd consider the entire machine untrusted (keys, etc). Provided the tarballs are still signed from that date, from another immutable source, that's really the only starting point here to rebuilding.
Re:Reflections on Distrusting xz on Wednesday April 03, 2024 @06:23AM (#39915570)
There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding with a lot of these writeups. Are they 100% sure history was not rewritten at any point? Going back in time on the repo prior to listed involvement doesn't do anything as the attacker had full control. Starting from the last signed release prior to their involvement is the only way to actually move this forward (history may be fully lost at this point), the rest is posturing.
Re:20 Years of Gmail on Saturday March 30, 2024 @08:27AM (#39874189)
At the time when Gmail came out, Hotmail was offering 15MB of storage. Gmail, out the gate offered 1GB. For many, despite the mining, was a godsend to actually getting online and maintaining an inbox that didn't have to be cleaned weekly, if not earlier.
Garnet’s storage layer, called Tsavorite, was forked from OSS FASTER, and includes strong database features such as thread scalability, tiered storage support (memory, SSD, and cloud storage), fast non-blocking checkpointing, recovery, operation logging for durability, multi-key transaction support, and better memory management and reuse.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/introducing-ga...

Re:Chainguard Images now available on Docker Hub on Thursday March 14, 2024 @11:18AM (#39705135)
so...

FROM:scratch ?

Might be worthwhile restating the companies business model in announcements like this, especially for people unfamiliar with the area. This sounded like some wireguard thing from the name, only to discover it's just an org delivering statically linked binaries in a scratch docker image to defeat scanners...

Re:Show HN: RAM Prices on Monday February 19, 2024 @02:28AM (#39427041)
RDIMM please (filtering specifically for ECC versus not). Voltage would also be appreciated.
Re:Show HN: CPU Prices on eBay on Tuesday February 06, 2024 @10:32PM (#39284134)
Looks awesome! Isn't there one of these for laptops as well?
Re:Cloudflare lays off new hires on Thursday January 11, 2024 @09:24PM (#38962816)
Check the comments - lots of others.

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