Or you just mark your account as an adult, all the california law requires is effectively parental controls to be available, you can just not enable them.
A year ago I would had a similar opinion as the author but in the last 3-4 months specifically, it feels like AI based tools made a huge leap.
I've seen this claim made basically weekly for the last couple of years, if we're having "generational leaps" monthly then these LLMs would actually be capable of doing what people claim they can.
If ghosts are dead people, with the passing of time there should be more ghosts and be easier to spot.
One estimate I can see of the total cumulative human population is about 100 billion people, if there was just a 1% chance of becoming a ghost when you die there should still be about a billion of them on Earth currently.
Imagine if 1 in 9 people on Earth was actually a ghost.
Some newer radiation hardened stuff is 10x larger than that, older gear even more so. But that just reduces the risk, not sure it's possible to negate it entirely.
An easier way is to just include more CPUs as part of the system, run them in lockstep, then compare the results by majority rule. If 2/3 CPUs say one answer and the third says something else, you discard the result of the third and go with the other CPUs.
The most common thing computers do is break, and being forthcoming and transparent about that reality while not making your platform sound like an incoherent pile of bricks teetering on a cliff above a playground is a delicate balancing act. AWS's reliability is the stuff of legend, and on the rare occasion that it fails, they ...
It's a way to gloss over or redirect flaws. Apparently, it's a super political term from the search results I get when trying to find references to where the construct came from.
In the context of e.g. an authoritarian country, the leader is infallible, so therefore any problems the citizens experience must be because the people under the leader failed to properly execute the leaders vision. It can't be that the leader's vision was just wrong.
And also, JSON was intended as a data serialisation format, and it's not like computers actually get value from the comments, they're just wasted space.
People went on to use JSON for human readable configuration files, and instantly wanted to add comments, rather than reconsider their choice because the truth is that JSON isn't a good configuration format.
The original use case for this stuff was unencrypted HTTP with a public WiFi connection, in which case your ISP is the owners of whatever shop you're in and yeah they could see everything.
If you're at home or whatever it offers effectively no benefits, doesn't "block trackers" or whatever nonsense like Nord claims, but I don't think Microsoft ever claimed that it did.
This isn't sending your packets anywhere but their closest datacenter, not sure I'd trust MS (Or rather, Cloudflare) with your porn rather than your ISP who you're actually paying.
original, saw this somewhere else too. ddos stuff. this one blames ru for archive.today mess. sounds about right. didn' intend it to look like an announcement here. it kind of did. post based on ars story, apparently. who knows
Seems like we need to switch to URLs that contain the SHA256 of the page they’re linking to, so we can tell if anything has changed since the link was created.
It's mostly a tooling issue, so they really could, but I still doubt it.
I remember installing conflicting mods with Fallout 3, and you just had to run a tool to examine the mods and merge the changes together (and warn you if they genuinely conflicted). It was like a 1 click process and I'm amazed it hasn't been moved into the engine itself.
Much in the same way that laws don't prevent crime, a project banning AI contributions doesn't stop people from trying to sneak in LLM slop, it instead lets the project ban them without argument.
In Australia and most other jurisdictions an “e-bike” is defined by law as a bike with pedal assist up to 25km/h.
I'm pretty sure they're intentionally conflating them to either downplay the risks of unregulated electric motorcycles, or as some odd kind of anti-bike push, depending on the person making the argument.
The news is constantly bemoaning the dangers of e-bikes, while actually talking about motorcycles, too many times for it to be accidental.
Windows is pretty much the same as Linux, it exposes the raw events from the device and it's up to the app to handle them. Pretty sure the overlay handles that by sitting between the OS and the game and e.g. translating everything to Xbox style controls if the game needs it (And getting out of the way if it doesn't)
Outside of that, well Valve added support for the controller to SDL, so anything using it will be fully supported. But then the game needs to actually be using a new enough version of SDL, otherwise it'll just see a generic controller device, and that can be hit or miss.
In a blog post, Musk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with “terrestrial solutions,” and Silicon Valley will soon need to build data centers in space to power its AI ambitions. ...
SpaceX wrote in its July permit application — under the header Specific Testing Requirements — Table 2 for Outfall: 001 — that its mercury concentration at one outfall location was 113 micrograms per liter. Water quality criteria in the state calls for levels no higher than 2.1 micrograms per liter for acute aquatic toxicity and much lower levels for human health
Cool, you can drink the mercury water, but I'll pass thanks.
I can't even feel superior to everyone when theirs so many arch installers!! I use real arch btw. I thought "I guess I should go to Gentoo" but then wait, CHROMEOS IS A GENTOO INSTALLER! ...
It's been a few years since I used a Mac, but even then resource forks weren't something you'd see outside of really old apps or some strange legacy use case, everything just used extended attributes or "sidecar" files (e.g. .DS_Store files in the case of Finder)
Unlike Windows or Linux, macOS takes care to preserve xattrs when transferring the files, e.g. their archiver tool automatically converts them to sidecar AppleDouble files and stores them in a __MACOS folder alongside the base file in the archive, and reapplies them on extraction.
If course nothing else does that, so if you've extracted a zip file or whatever and found that folder afterwards, that's what you're looking at.
Or you'll create something that is genuinely better with good longevity and then discover you'll have next to no sales growth since once somebody buys it, they never need to replace it.
I've got some numbers, took longer than I'd have liked because of ISP issues. Each period is about a day, give or take.
With the default TTL, my unbound server saw 54,087 total requests, 17,022 got a cache hit, 37,065 a cache miss. So a 31.5% cache hit rate.
With clamping it saw 56,258 requests, 30,761 were hits, 25,497 misses. A 54.7% cache hit rate.
And the important thing, and the most "unscientific", I didn't encounter any issues with stale DNS results. In that everything still seemed to work and I didn't get random error pages while browsing or such.
I'm kinda surprised the total query counts were so close, I would have assumed a longer TTL would also cause clients to cache results for longer, making less requests (Though e.g. Firefox actually caps TTL to 600 seconds or so). My working idea is that for things like e.g. YouTube video, instead of using static hostnames and rotating out IPs, they're doing the opposite and keeping the addresses fixed but changing the domain names, effectively cache-busting DNS.
As we all know, file copying on Linux has long relied on the classic cp command, which remains reliable but offers little feedback and limited control over long or complex operations. ...
What's the risk here though, a company like Amazon makes a closed source version of it?
If it was a file format library, or something like a web server I'd get it. But stuff like cp are effectively just userspace wrappers around kernel APIs.
Because of static linking, a single GPL dependency turns the entire resulting binary into a GPL licensed one, so yeah just use something like the MPL in that case (Or EUPL, which I hear is similar)
LGPL has the same issue, since it only provides an exception for dynamic linking. But honestly that's all an issue for lawyers and judges to sort out (I bet you could win in court with an argument that dynamically linking to GPL is actually fine).
Boxes doesn't seem to expose it unfortunately (Par for the course, being a Gnome app). virt-manager seems like a better option in that case, you can share an entire drive from the host to the VM, or if the hardware allows it the SATA controller itself and let the VM manage the entire thing.
The only VM stuff I'm actually running is Proxmox, and while it all uses the same underlying kernel VM stuff, the UI is entirely different. In my case I've got my router running as a VM, and I'm handing off the network adapter itself to the VM, it's entirely unusable by the host OS. So while I know the functionality is there, the specific software side I've got no experience with.
Their go-to solution is libdecor, which is just a library that implements a titlebar, still putting the burden on apps (Or rather, whatever windowing library they use) to be responsible for it.
Worst thing is, I kinda get their argument against supporting it, they're just really inflexible about it which just makes the whole issue too heated.
The idea is that it's left up to the windowing toolkit itself (.e.g GTK or Qt, etc.), so the compositor can focus on just compositing, which makes sense IMO as it's how other platforms handle it (Except they have a single OS provided windowing implementation). Problem is, that leads to massive fragmentation of functionality, every app has different toolbars and features based on the toolkit they use, and requires each app to handle it, which sucks and shouldn't be the case.
Like in the Factorio case, it uses SDL for windowing, and SDL actually supports handling titlebars itself. But Factorio just wasn't including the dependency that enabled it at that point, so all it took to fix it was including it and everything started working. But that's still extra work that had to be done just to get minimum functionality, which wasn't needed on e.g. KDE.
I mentioned in my other response, it's the inflexibility that's the actual problem. Lots of apps do want CSD, or at least control over how their windows are presented, but Gnome going "you're on your own" is the worst outcome.
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She was pushing for Trump to have it since it was first announced she won it. It's got nothing to do with her wanting to protect her country or whatever, she's got a terminal case of Trump brainworms.
To the frustration of many developers and end-users, back in 2022 Google deprecated JPEG-XL support in Chrome/Chromium and proceeded to remove the support. That decision was widely slammed and ultimately Google said they may end up reconsidering it. In November there was renewed activity and interest in restoring JPEG-XL within ...
And PNG is so old that it lacks basic modern features like HDR support.
You can actually store HDR images in PNG (Even BMP, but that's cursed), you just need to include the right metadata, and have a client that supports said metadata. Without it, the image looks a bit funky, but still legible.
Now WebP on the other hand, is incapable of storing HDR images. The lossless mode is limited to 8bpc images, and Google killed off WebP2 in favour of AVIF (Which doesn't have a dedicated lossless mode), which could have fixed those limitations.
Yep, that's the proper way (Since you can specify the metadata correctly)
But there's also an older rather cursed way, a specially crafted colour profile that a compatible viewer would see and then act as if the image data was in a specific HDR format. It worked too, a few viewers support it, but it's a pretty terrible way to handle it so it's been deprecated.
I actually used it as part of a pipeline to turn Xbox HDR screenshots into HDR JXL images, the JXL encoder at the time would recognise it and apply the right metadata itself.
The global semiconductor landscape has reached a historic inflection point as the open-source RISC-V architecture officially secured 25% market penetration this month, signaling the end of the long-standing architectural monopoly held by proprietary giants. This milestone, verified by industry analysts in late December 2025, ...
Can you explains the knitpicking? They specifically decided that only objects orbiting our star can be Planets. It wasn’t an oversight but intentional. How can that be explained? Why do that?
Because we're not going to be visiting any exoplanets anytime soon, so it's not like we can actually check how much they've cleared their orbits.
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Turns out Generative AI was a scam ( garymarcus.substack.com )
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Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?
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Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links ( arstechnica.com )
original, saw this somewhere else too. ddos stuff. this one blames ru for archive.today mess. sounds about right. didn' intend it to look like an announcement here. it kind of did. post based on ars story, apparently. who knows
Elder Scrolls 6 Is Powered By New Version Of Creation Engine ( kotaku.com )
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Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up' ( www.pcgamer.com )
E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles.
What we have called “motorcycles” should actually be called “enginecycles”. Also, the engine on enginecycles is a four-cycle engine.
Official Valve: Steam Hardware Launch timing (Q1/Q2 of 2026) and other FAQs ( steamcommunity.com )
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Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company ( www.wired.com )
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Where to go now since Linux is mainstream
I can't even feel superior to everyone when theirs so many arch installers!! I use real arch btw. I thought "I guess I should go to Gentoo" but then wait, CHROMEOS IS A GENTOO INSTALLER! ...
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To the frustration of many developers and end-users, back in 2022 Google deprecated JPEG-XL support in Chrome/Chromium and proceeded to remove the support. That decision was widely slammed and ultimately Google said they may end up reconsidering it. In November there was renewed activity and interest in restoring JPEG-XL within ...
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The global semiconductor landscape has reached a historic inflection point as the open-source RISC-V architecture officially secured 25% market penetration this month, signaling the end of the long-standing architectural monopoly held by proprietary giants. This milestone, verified by industry analysts in late December 2025, ...
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