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Re:Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking on Friday August 14, 2026 @07:27PM (#49305834)
Yes it is, it hacked Artifactory to get to Hugging Face.
Re:Bluesky Protocol Services on Friday August 14, 2026 @07:12PM (#49305716)
How fast can I change my DNS records?
Re:Dear people who work at the airport on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:53AM (#49298716)
about a half of a developed country's minimum wage.
Re:Bluesky Protocol Services on Friday August 14, 2026 @09:50AM (#49298672)
If you have a central database why do you need atproto?
You could however choose to maintain a fork. If you had time. Few people do.
So change it back when you have a dodgy driver to deal with
You could even generate a bloom filter for every block, and when you have a full block of bloom filters, write them out to an index file.
systemd is not a collaborative project. It is Lennart's personal cathedral project and you can take it or leave it. That's fine for Lennart, the question is if it's so bad then why are the rest of us taking it instead of leaving it?
The principled excuse for mmap is when you're reading all over a file at high performance and you want to avoid either excessive syscalls or double caching. Which sounds like what a torrent program does but evidently it doesn't even work well for them.
Re:The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:52PM (#48913388)
This has already occurred. This has been since Minecraft infdev (2009, now 17 years old). Later on, a limit of 30 million blocks (30000km) in each direction from the origin was added, due to floating-point precision issues and integer overflows in world generation, which get more severe past this point. Integer overflows in world generation caused the infamous "far lands" in versions prior to Beta 1.8.
Re:The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:49PM (#48913361)
This is because Microsoft approached 2b2t, and said if they don't implement these rules, they will be blacklisted.

Blacklisting is a penalty normally given to pay-to-win or gambling servers, where the client will refuse to connect to the server's domain name or IP address. In this case, Microslop used it to force a server to censor the word "fuck", because Microslop are political extremists.

Re:The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:48PM (#48913346)
The censorship story is lame. Someone should set up a new uncensored server.
Re:I'm a USB-C Maximalist on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:45PM (#48913321)
If some of your devices require a $30 cable and you use the same cables for everything, then you use a $30 cable for your mouse.
Re:I'm a USB-C Maximalist on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @05:44PM (#48913312)
Why do you need to verify my request, USB-C maximalist?
An unmanned plane is also called a drone.