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Re:We made our filesystem 47× faster by deleting it on Saturday May 23, 2026 @03:42PM (#48250714)
Especially compared to direct virtio access to physical volume.
Xorg is indeed a lot of painful complexity. This being said, the software is not Linux specific, and for modern Linux distributions, it is more and more a legacy technology.
You can become an "hacktivist" by taking 15 minutes of your time to write an email to your MEP.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home

Re:Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained" on Sunday August 31, 2025 @12:44AM (#45080442)
Btrfs is NOT constantly eating people data. You have nothing to back this statement.

It's widely used and the default filesystem of several distributions. Most of the problems are like for the other filesystem: caused by the hardware.

I've been using it for more than 10 years without any problem and enjoy the experience. And like for any filesystem, I backup my data frequently (with btrbk, thanks for asking).

Re:Ask HN: Why hasn't x86 caught up with Apple M series? on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @10:56AM (#45027479)
I run Fedora and for legal reasons, they ship a version that has this problem. Have you tried Mozilla's Flatpak build? I use it instead and it resolves all my problem.
Re:The Future of Large Files in Git Is Git on Friday August 15, 2025 @06:27PM (#44918010)
git-annex is a good alternative to the solution of Githu, and it supports different storage backends. I'm actually surprised it's not more popular.
Re:Kagi Is Bringing Orion Web Browser to Linux on Sunday March 09, 2025 @01:24AM (#43306747)
I used to be a Kagi customer, but the fact that they waste their energy with all these distractions is depressing. They should instead build a real search engine and stop reselling Bing.
Re:Doubts remain over reliability of Texas' power grid on Sunday February 16, 2025 @12:45PM (#43069945)
It's actually 6.

https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/PE/htm/PE.43.htm

    (f)  A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.
Re:Insurers Are Deserting Homeowners as Climate Shocks Worsen on Wednesday December 18, 2024 @09:10AM (#42450524)
What you mean by "climate firms"?
The Russian foreign agent law is used to attack the public personalities and NGOs, and have nothing in common with the Romanian Electoral Laws. Georgians are absolutely right to be scared.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_foreign_agent_law

Re:The Insecurity of Debian on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @12:38PM (#41447713)
This is one of the topics of the article.
Re:The Insecurity of Debian on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @12:36PM (#41447680)
Disabling SELinux is pretty much like doing a chmod -R 777 ., it may fix your "problem", but it's certainly not the long term solution.
Oops, thank you.
This also leads to an decrease of the ocean pH with is a huge problem for the sea ecosystems.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/acidification.html

Edit: pH decrease, thans nwellinghoff

Re:The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @02:53PM (#40720884)
During the winter, the solar panel are efficient just for a couple of hours every days. Meanwhile, this is the moment of the year where the global consumption is the highest. We've yet to see a battery system able to hold enough power to balance these months of under production.

Why would you store electricity produced by Nuclear energy? You can adjust the production to match the needs.

Re:The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal on Sunday June 16, 2024 @01:27AM (#40694885)
You ignore the short daylight period during the winter, when the electricity consumption is the most important. There is no practical why to store the energy for the nights. At the end we end up with a cheap source of energy that covers only a fraction of our needs, and we have to maintain a second source of production for the rest of the time. We pay two times to keep the two system operational.

Nuclear is also cheap and doesn't have this limitation.

Re:The State of Carbon Dioxide Removal on Saturday June 15, 2024 @06:07PM (#40693052)
Solar is nowhere near to be a dominant source of energy and will never be.
Re:Tell HN: DuckDuckGo Search Not Returning Results on Saturday May 25, 2024 @11:51AM (#40475743)
I'm a Kagi user and unfortunately they are reselling Google Search results.
I'm surprised nobody mention Taiga - https://taiga.io/. It was a great contender when we compared it with Trello a couple of years ago and it's also a FreeSoftware - https://github.com/taigaio/taiga.
Re:A NetBSD/amd64 guest can now boot in 18ms on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:17PM (#39017637)
Before you can reload some previous known state, you need to initialize the hardware, load the firmwares and probe the devices (USB, SATA, PCI), discover the storage volumes and the partition tables. All these steps take time.
Re:Mozilla.social is live and open to registration on Thursday September 28, 2023 @08:55PM (#37698005)
The tab freeze frequently and you need to kill the application.
An example with France, there is between 400000 and 600000 (source an article from Le Monde) illegals, meanwhile the jail system can hold less than 60000 and are already full. So, even if you want to put everybody in prison, you need some absolutely massive investments, and the cost every year will also be substantial (guards, food, sewage, etc, etc). And I ignore the fact these facilities were designed for adults.

Update for clarity, My point here is to point out that you cannot technically just "Keep them detained in the meanwhile." without doing monstrous actions at industrial scale.

Insane? Really? There is nothing wrong with defending your language and the artistic industry. They've got also some similar quotas for the song in French on the radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toubon_Law.
Re:DJI Inspire 3: new 8k cinema drone on Friday April 14, 2023 @08:01PM (#35576336)
Thomas Edison Was a “Patent Troll” (2014) https://slate.com/technology/2014/05/thomas-edison-charles-g...
They've decided to leave the European Common Market, which was precisely designed to avoid the bureaucracy and reduce the burden of the customs procedures.
The damages were caused by the invaders. Everything was preventable and they decided to attack. But it's easier to blame the army who dare to risk their lives to defend their country, right? Regarding the Mariupol reconstruction, this is a story pushed by the Russian propaganda and in reality, it will take decades to fully rebuild the city. And what about the life of all the civilians, those won't come back. That's what Russia call a "liberation".
Re:How much can you get out of a $4 VPS? on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:49AM (#34677230)
If you've got your configuration properly automated, nothing prevent you from redeploying your bare-metal nodes every weeks. The opposite can actually also be true, it may become risky at some point to reboot a VM with a high uptime.

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