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Re:Stackoverflow and other network sites down on Saturday October 03, 2026 @01:56PM (#49946320)
The network's sites appear to slowly coming back online, but still a lot of 503s.
Re:ChatGPT vs. MOSQUITO Trolley Problem [YouTube] [video] on Thursday March 05, 2026 @03:53PM (#47267127)
I'm not that much into AI, but i'm wondering, is this real? Is this something e.g. ChatGPT could possibly propose?

edit: That is: ".. three Mosquitos, or honestly even three humans, wouldn't justify kill all ai forever".

Re:What LLMs Know About Their Users on Sunday June 29, 2025 @01:21PM (#44414726)
"Integrous" is a rarely used adjective meaning "having or characterized by integrity". It's derived from the Latin word "integer," meaning whole or complete, and the suffix "-ous" indicating fullness or possession. While technically correct, it's more common to use synonyms like "honest," "decent," or "virtuous" to convey the concept of integrity.

Now, take a guess where this comes from..

Re:Apollo will close down on June 30th on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:27PM (#36248441)
A note about api pricing: I imagine many of these social networks will give themselves a reality check in terms of true value to their users, after years of everything for free. I believe there are pretty, pretty hard times ahead of FB, Twitter et al., once reality truly hits. And from what seems to be the disparity of perception in terms of api pricing/value at reddit, they too. 20 million.. lol. I mean, who will be even able to pay that? Same at Twitter's api pricing. For many, like it appears to be the case with Apollo, it is not even an viable alternative.
Re:Building a Personal VoIP System on Saturday May 27, 2023 @12:37PM (#36096065)
I can't say anything about sipgate's reputation, as i haven't used their service. It just has been an issue with limited service availability in my country (BE)..
Re:Building a Personal VoIP System on Saturday May 27, 2023 @06:03AM (#36093449)
Has someone good experience with a VoIP-Provider (not OVH or Sipgate) in Europe?
Re:Cloudguy says we should log out of Amazon on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @05:28AM (#35711277)
So many people following, apparently blindly, advice on the interwebs.. i can't even figure out what this supposedly is about. Are Amazon devices scanning local wifi networks or what is going on?
Re:Eben Upton Interview: Raspberry Pi Availability on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @01:43AM (#34424046)
tldr; The company expects pre-pandemic availability for Q3/2023.
Re:Get root on macOS 13.0.1 the macOS Dirty Cow bug on Saturday December 17, 2022 @09:20PM (#34034459)
securelevel [1] is a similar feature from/for FreeBSD. As an example, it could be used to build e.g. a true append-only syslog server which even root would not be able to manipulate the data without a reboot or, in combination with other techniques like a capiscum-sandboxed tcpdump implementation, highly secure network appliance.. plenty of use-cases.

[1] https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=securelevel&apropo...

I doubt that too, without hesitation. But, i'm also not sure if the old way is indeed so much better. I left a comment above, describing some of the issues, apparently many, people have with suspend/resume and i wonder why MS is this strictly continuing this road. People may or may not like the new security mechanisms that windows 11 enforces, but they are there for a technical reason, reasonable or not may perhaps be a different question.
It depends, this thinkpad has lpddr memory and if i suspend the system, it can indeed go for weeks (2-3) on a single charge on S3. I used to only update the truly necessary like firefox and the like on do reboots only every 50-60 days with a kernel upgrade and had never issues with multiple daily suspend/resume cycles execpt every 3-4 months, the wifi/bt controller wouldn't correctly load FW and needed reloading, that's about it. _But_, imho, this works only completely "naked", that is, i use a separate usb-c DP-alt-mode cable, a separate usb-c charging cable and keyboard/trackpad via bluetooth. I have had issues with Thunderbolt-Docks _and_ USB-C Docks (so far: Lenovo, Caldigit, Belkin, no-name), USB-C Monitors with integrated Hubs and NICS, USB-NICS, USB-Hubs, pretty much everything external connected, that is not onboard the machine itself. This works well, the rest is a complete disaster and i fear not completely Windows/Mac/Linux Kernel's fault.
I have a ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen6, and indeed there is the "Linux" sleep-state option, which has been working for years just fine for me. I'm running a Linux-based OS. Before Lenovo added this option via bios update (via fwupd:), i indeed had to manually manipulate the DSDT to achieve S3 sleep.
Microsoft has a lot of insight about the Windows ecosystem works and crashes, and i'm even willing to believe that there's some sane technical reasoning behind all this. Perhaps the state of S3 is indeed this FUBAR, let's not forget, that MS cannot control the windows ecosystem like apple does with MacOS. MS has no/very little power over OEMs not conforming or only partly implementing standards, and yet has to deal with whatever hardware customers stick into their ~2 billion windows installations.
I don't even understand why Microsoft is forcing S0ix this hard, i.e. as i understand, forcing OEMs to remove the option for S3 via certification programmes, etc. Suspend/Resume is painful enough as is, with Thunderbolt devices on a picky pcie-connection and else, even with their "improvements".. What a state of affairs. Half an hour ago, my AMD Desktop freezed from suspend/resume due to a Mellanox ConnectX-3 NIC not properly resuming/entering from sleep. Gotta try to reduce the allocated tx/rx-rings from the kernel module, surely, then everything will be, must be good to go. Oh, well..
I never even heard about piracy on lan-parties.. A friend once told me, even if he were to strip the soundtrack from the first GTA, that the resulting zip-file would still span over like 60 3.5-inch floppy disks and that everything would be to no avail, if even a single floppy were to become corrupt. It's not like today, were almost everbody has access to an iomega 100 zip drive.
Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:50PM (#33496952)
Thank's for your response.. what an immensely interesting [1] topic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction

Re:BBC: Twitter users jump to Mastodon – but what is it? on Sunday November 06, 2022 @03:18PM (#33496634)
Why are so many people calling Elon Musk by his first name, like he's their buddy or neighbor? This reminds me when Steve Jobs had passed away, many people were walking the streets with candles and cards in memoriam of "Steve". How come?
Re:Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com on Thursday November 03, 2022 @07:30PM (#33459440)
OK, thanks. well, that is indeed quite unfortunate.. regarding things like lost job offers and the like.. Sad state of affairs, i mean e-mail in 2022. But, as an mail-service operator myself, i feel like i can understand, more or less, both sides dealing with the spam issue.
Re:Microsoft is killing custom domain names in Outlook.com on Thursday November 03, 2022 @06:47PM (#33459025)
What do you mean by that? Are you having spam in your inbox or do mean deliverability issues to *.outlook.com?
Re:Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video] on Thursday August 18, 2022 @04:30PM (#32514495)
Yes, whilst he has given so many other valuable talks around systems profiling, etc..

I firmly believe that this [1] still should be hanging in every system administrators bedroom around.

https://www.brendangregg.com/Perf/linux_observability_tools....

Re:Ask HN: Google Search down? on Monday August 08, 2022 @10:12PM (#32393533)
But i have to say: Personally, i don't run k8s and it's ecosystem and am just entering the whole "declarative world" with NixOS.. but nonetheless, these occasions are very rare, Google/YT Operations is just so impressive and has to be up there, if not a the very top.

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