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Your comment is funny. But obviously, "mistakenly" refers to the mistake of believing the embargo being broken, and then, very intentionally and not mistakenly, publishing a stupid video.
Re:One Year of Sponsored Servo Development on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:43PM (#49746273)
Oh shit, "Jeff [Geerling] is a Catholic anti-abortion and anti-contraception advocate".

Didn't know that. Kinda sad.

Re:Shutting down our public encrypted DNS on Friday September 04, 2026 @04:44PM (#49570006)
I'm not the person you are responding to, but Proton VPN? That's what I switched to after it turned out one of the two Mullvad founders took my money and gave it to a local lunatic politician.
Reminds me of that Michael Scott quote:

Don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever, no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you've been, ever, for any reason whatsoever.

Re:Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs on Saturday August 08, 2026 @06:49AM (#49220551)
Buried? Deep down? The fourth paragraph, clearly labeled "Affected Systems", a minute or two into the read.
Re:Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified on Saturday August 01, 2026 @08:33AM (#49133878)
Just slap some solar panels on it!
Re:Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding on Monday July 20, 2026 @01:06PM (#48981591)
Blacklist of what? I don't understand what a blacklist would be used for in this context. Specific unsupported hardware?
Re:Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork on Sunday July 05, 2026 @01:30PM (#48796071)
Having had consulting jobs working with Windows servers around 2015, this was ruined for me. Sooo many ancient out of support 2003 severs. Seeing it actually triggers some light anxiety ("oh no not another one!")
Re:Asahi Linux 7.1 Progress Report on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:56PM (#48752266)
Do you know how M2 support compares to M1? Trying to figure out if M1 is the better choice for a used macbook to run Asahi on.
Re:Valve P2P networking broken for more than 2 months on Sunday June 07, 2026 @01:26AM (#48432085)
> Who

These dudes and dudettes playing video games

> what?

Military service

Re:Project Glasswing: An Initial Update on Friday May 22, 2026 @03:51PM (#48240691)
This is marketing. So probably suspected. Or somewhere in between.
Re:What Your Bluetooth Devices Reveal About You on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:51PM (#47039430)
That one doesn't seem to do bluetooth at all, I think?
Re:When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown on Thursday February 05, 2026 @05:11PM (#46906118)
ATM machine
Can we not allow them to continue letting you buy games (outside the launcher) and not shut up?
Re:Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux on Thursday January 29, 2026 @01:53PM (#46814704)
Thanks! I have not put much effort into mouse settings.
Re:Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux on Thursday January 29, 2026 @01:52PM (#46814677)
Thanks for sharing
Re:Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux on Thursday January 29, 2026 @10:55AM (#46811871)
The Quakes! Quake Live and Quake Champions mainly.
Re:Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @12:57PM (#46799050)
As a competitive old school arena FPS guy, I have also had a very hard time getting the same smoothness and low latency (input, output, whatever it is) on Linux. The games I play are very fast and twitchy, and milliseconds matter.

There seems to be too many layers and variables to ever get to the bottom of it. Is it the distro itself? Is it a Wayland vs. X11 thing? Is it the driver? The Proton version? Some G-SYNC thing? Some specific tweak that games based on this game engine needs?

Re:Punkt. Unveils MC03 Smartphone on Friday January 02, 2026 @03:05PM (#46468781)
To find out why it's iffy, I asked an AI assistant and got the following (in the summary). Do you agree?

The "iffy" status reflects temporary development hurdles rather than a shift in Google’s openness to custom operating systems.

(Google delayed releasing the necessary source code to AOSP).

I get that this could indicate that they are dropping support in the future. But it seems to be fine, albeit delayed, for the Pixel 10?

> It's a complete dealbreaker for competitive play

Very true, and this is the biggest issue for me when it comes to gaming on Linux. And it's not just raw FPS count. You can usually brute force your way around that with better hardware. (I'm guessing you could probably get a locked 60 in Street Fighter 6 even with a 30% performance loss?). It's things like input lag and stutter, which in my experience is almost impossible to resolve.

If it weren't for competitive shooters, I could probably go all Linux. But for now I still need to switch over to Windows for that.

Are there games running at 4k 120hz?
Re:Mitsubishi Diatone D-160 (1985) on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @07:51AM (#46443673)
Speaking of exaggerations, there is some hilarious marketing language on those pages. A couple of examples:

> It captures both the weight of a collapsing mountain and the whisper of tectonic tension with equal ease.

> THE100 SUB PRO PASSIVE doesn’t just play low frequencies — it summons them from the earth itself.

Re:HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @07:44AM (#46443629)
Right. Clients (web browsers) would have to stop using it too for it to work I guess.
Re:HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) on Tuesday December 30, 2025 @03:45PM (#46437787)
Your second example would also be prevented by just not serving on port 80 as the parent comment suggests, no?
Re:Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 on Thursday December 25, 2025 @04:09PM (#46387060)
Kubuntu is nice. Not sure why it's not more popular. Or maybe it's just a quieter user base?
Re:Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @04:15AM (#46373918)
Ok thanks. That sounds reasonable.

>... and therefore you can unredact them from that readme is just not true then I guess?

Re:Some Epstein file redactions are being undone with hacks on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @03:29AM (#46373630)
I was thinking I understand what's going on but then I came to the image showing the diff and I don't understand at all how that diff can unredact anything.
Re:The Bob Dylan Concert for Just One Person on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @07:50AM (#46287869)
I agree. It would have been tempting to send someone who doesn't listen to Dylan at all, but what a waste that would have been. This guy deserved it.
Re:Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down on Friday December 05, 2025 @06:41AM (#46159978)
I'm not the person you are replying to, but like all of technology, you just find the latest (or most public) change made, and then fire your blame-cannon at it.

Excel crashed? Must be that new WiFi they installed!

Re:The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting on Sunday November 23, 2025 @04:20AM (#46021987)
$lang_header = $lang_header + $the_lang_choice_that_was_just_made

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