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Some DevOps guys I know are running on Macbook M2 a Gentoo musl+llvm+openrc userland on a Linux that has Asahi patches and https://grsecurity.net patches.

The only "downside" is no Windows VMs, but they don't seem to care about that.

Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Sunday February 02, 2025 @08:07AM (#42908374)
"Some things are more important than GDP".
They're catching up with everyone else on which of the two sexes can get pregnant. Good for them.
Re:Archivists work to save disappearing Data.gov datasets on Sunday February 02, 2025 @07:45AM (#42908295)
Smart.
Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Sunday February 02, 2025 @12:16AM (#42906097)

  "The government of Columbia has agreed to all of President Trump's terms, including the unrestricted acceptance of all illegal aliens from Colombia returned from the United States, including on U.S. military aircraft, without limitation or delay. Based on this agreement, the fully drafted IEEPA tariffs and sanctions will be held in reserve, and not signed, unless Colombia fails to honor this agreement. The visa sanctions issued by the State Department, and enhanced inspections from Customs and Border Protection, will remain in effect until the first planeload of Colombian deportees is successfully returned. Today's events make clear to the world that America is respected again. President Trump will continue to fiercely protect our nation's sovereignty, and he expects all other nations of the world to fully cooperate in accepting the deportation of their citizens illegally present in the United States."
Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @11:01PM (#42905701)
You're already outed as a racist man. There's nothing to talk about.
We have been running RaptorCS servers for years, are evaluating RISC-V based options in a lab, and we are looking at Oxide.

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What Purism offers with its Pureboot and hardware security chip that enforces deemed-tolerable ME payload is sufficient enough for our ask.

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> Are there any modern Intel systems that can

The lack of availability of a product does not change the desire for the product to exist. RISC-V is already successfully playing in a market space with products that satisfy my asks above, maybe Intel can catch up some day.

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> clients' needs,

Our clients came to us and were clear about what their ask was. I'm kind of chuckling right now, because one of clients in particular, if he saw your post would shoot back with "it's not called the Bill of Needs".

Some of the other ones are government. But I appreciate you trying to be helpful.

Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @08:46PM (#42904778)
The edit was like within 30 seconds of the original post. I didn't hide anything, I added more.

You can not substitute an argument of actual substance with a protest over procedure.

Someone else brought up race, not me, by calling me a "nazi". Furthermore, just like them, you have no right to deny me my lived experience as a black man.

At this point you need to pony up with an actual argument or just shut up because thus far we have seen nothing out of you on this thread but name-calling and racism -- you look like a fucking clown.

I want a Surface Pro, that exact hardware as perceived on the outside as a user, sans the ""accidental"" backdoors. I have partial responsibility running a business that administrates high value deployments and many of our internal users doing "general office stuff" want exactly this kind of hardware.

And I want one or two for myself too, sans the backdoors...

Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @07:49PM (#42904298)
> This account is a troll and should be banned from HN.

You have no ability to present an intellectual argument and are now calling for censorship to compensate. Absolutely pathetic.

And yes, I am actually black, so you're racist on top of it.

Re:Avoid ISP Routers on Saturday February 01, 2025 @07:47PM (#42904287)
Always treat hardware you get from someone else as not just untrusted but hostile until proven beyond any reasonable doubt otherwise.

Put an OpenBSD machine to act as a router/firewall between supplied devices and your own network to keep things clean.

My immediate questions are:

  - where can I set machine-owner-key for rEFInd to do secure boot with Linux?

  - where can I set the *real* machine-owner-key to load only a copy of board firmware compiled from not-license-encumbered source code on a machine I control?

  - can I remove the wireless network interface so that I have a wireless network interface that does not run binary blobs?

  - is there a clean interface to remove the Intel Management Engine binary blob and replace it with something that I can see the code so don't need to worry about something opaque and untrusted having "ring -3" access to my system?

I feel like I already know the answers to these questions. But these are questions anyone who has one of these machines should be asking themselves.
Re:Archivists work to save disappearing Data.gov datasets on Saturday February 01, 2025 @07:00PM (#42903920)
In my experience, to archive effectively you need a physical datacenter footprint, or to rent capacity of someone who does. Over a longer timespan (even just 6 months), having your own footprint is a lower total cost of ownership, provided you have the skills or access to someone with the skills to run Kubernetes + Ceph (or something similar).

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> Is this a use case for Torrents?

Yes, provided you have a good way to dynamically append a distributed index of torrents and users willing to run that software in addition to the torrent software. Should be easy enough to define in container-compose.

Re:Archivists work to save disappearing Data.gov datasets on Saturday February 01, 2025 @06:58PM (#42903914)
The pedestrian "right", which I encounter on a day-to-day basis the months I visit client sites a couple hundred miles inland of the Gulf of America, will look at climatelinks.org and say something like: "all I see are foreign countries, why are we spending money on this instead of citizens of the United States?".
Re:Archivists work to save disappearing Data.gov datasets on Saturday February 01, 2025 @06:56PM (#42903896)
Let's make torrents and seed them.
Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @06:45PM (#42903800)
A vicious hoax campaign is not merely "getting things wrong" tho.
Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @06:44PM (#42903795)
> the presenter of the question knows people who find this question important, therefore the question can be disregarded.

Very intellect, much smart.

Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @06:31PM (#42903689)
I asked for specific examples of what your concern is. You have still not presented a question of any substance.
Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @06:27PM (#42903651)
> a misquote

If not for the hoax campaign, we could dismiss it as "a misquote".

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> What makes you ignore the rest of reality?

Such as? What are some specific examples that you feel need to be raised?

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Nonetheless, two wrongs do not make a right. If there are things Trump has done you think are horrible, and your perspective may be right, and even if your perspective is right, the "fine people" hoax campaign is not justifiable.

Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @05:37PM (#42903176)
See:

  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/
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It's a hoax man. Even Snopes (yes, fuckin' Snopes) fesses up to it being a hoax.

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> Trump just pardoned the

Different issue.

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> the violent attackers of Jan6 who tried to

Very few of them were actually violent. But the violent ones were pardoned to due to the way the courts handled it. I don't agree with pardoning the violent ones, but I don't find that reasoning unreasonable because I believe courts must be fair, even though I don't agree with it.

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> Trump is indeed a friend and an enabler of violent neo-nazi

You're writing this as someone who was foolish enough to fall for the "fine people" hoax. Just minutes after Trump said "fine people both sides", there is video of Trump explicitly stating "I am not talking about the neo-nazis and white supremacists, they should be condemned totally" -- as documented by many, but in particular Snopes, which the low-info crowd seems to find to be an "acceptable source" -- not that that should be necessary because the primary source, the raw video of that transcript in its entirety, already existed.

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Even very smart people are not too difficult to brainwash. Even very smart people can be naive enough to believe: "the news is real".

Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @05:36PM (#42903158)
If you buy into the "fine people" hoax, then you buy into all the other hoaxes. The "fine people" is the "tent pole" hoax, which was repeated ad nauseam by the lying media.

This hoax was pushed by Biden during debates in 2020, and during many of his speeches. This hoax was pushed by HR lady in the 2024 debate.

The "fine people" hoax is the hoax that, once revealed, causes all of the other of the other hoaxes, the hoaxes that are obvious hoaxes to high information people, to all come crashing down.

I see Trump the same way I see Bush and Obama. Whether I personally like them or not, I'm not going to participate in the lie.

Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @04:19PM (#42902458)

  > fact check
Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @04:18PM (#42902443)
> “pregnant people, transgender, binary, non-binary, gender, assigned at birth, binary [sic], non-binary [sic], cisgender, queer, gender identity, gender minority, anything with pronouns”

In real life -- as in, not Reddit.com -- most people do not agree with this fringe extreme ideological cruft.

And it took extremists to install it in the first place:

A former Reddit mod describes how the entire site became a propaganda psyop which used aggressive censorship and organized teams of company-run sockpuppet accounts to control the discourse and give the impression of popular consensus around radical left-wing ides like transgendering children.

https://subv.substack.com/p/reddits-secret-agenda-a-confessi...

Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @04:13PM (#42902411)
If fascism means secure borders, an end to the kinetic conflict in Ukraine, an end to social media censorship, and a booming economy, more than half the country will vote for fascism. Promises fulfilled or not aside.
Re:CDC Data Are Disappearing on Saturday February 01, 2025 @04:04PM (#42902306)
Speaking of fact checks, do you still believe in the "fine people" hoax?
Re:List of Hoaxes in Wikipedia Articles on Saturday February 01, 2025 @03:51PM (#42902143)
Why would the "tent pole" hoax, the "fine people" hoax, be missing? WikiPedia is an unbiased and objective source of information. Totally. 100%. Yep.

  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/
Re:Anti-Intellectualism on Saturday February 01, 2025 @12:12PM (#42899945)

  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-very-fine-people/
> as the Trump administration works to scrap anything that has to do with climate change, racial equity, or gender identity.

The college educated person -- but not the university educated STEM degree holder -- takes these three things to mean what they are labeled as at face value.

Re:Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What's the Big Deal? on Thursday January 30, 2025 @12:50PM (#42880164)
I could be wrong here, I'm not an expert with databases, but I believe -- this is a belief, please help me disconfirm it if you think it is wrong -- that CitusDB's approach that shards Postgres across redundant mirrors, should successfully scale horizontally for OLTP without sacrificing consistency.
Re:Scalable OLTP in the Cloud: What's the Big Deal? on Thursday January 30, 2025 @12:48PM (#42880140)
> From my experience, the vast majority of complications in systems is people not realizing they are asking an OLAP question while wanting parts of OLTP semantics.

If you could elaborate on this further, I and others are probably very interested in reading more about it.

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