vrighter

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vrighter,

quit fucking saying that! I still get random flickering on the desktop and flickering in games on a 1080. X11 is the only thing that lets me actually play games onmhe thing

vrighter,

so how come they’re so rare nowadays? I mean everyone had one back then, why aren’t the overwhelming majority of these appliances still with us? Survivorship bias, that’s why

vrighter,

but if they were “built to last” then surely we shouldn’t have needed much more produced after market saturation. And yet, they actually are vanishingly rare today. Which means most did break down

vrighter,

“that thing you used to do is now impossible to do consistently across different implementations, if at all. But it’s all ok, because we have decided it’s not our responsibility!”

That is not what users want to hear. From a user’s point of view, it is broken.

vrighter,

you can just unplug your pc: and that way you won’t incur downtime for the rest of the house.

vrighter,

you’re wrong for valuing peace of mind.

/s

vrighter,

it’s an acronym (as opposed to initialisms, which are not pronounced as a single word). There is no rule on pronunciation.

scuba nato laser

We don’t do this for any other acronym. There is no rule about the pronunciation. It’s arbitrary. The creator chose “jif”, so that’s the “canonical” one.

vrighter,

it’s pretty much just arch without systemd then. which is enough of a dealbreaker for me, as I think that systemd is the best thing to happen to linux since sliced bread.

vrighter,

mandrake was my first linux distro. I got it from a german magazine in 2004

vrighter,

and even worse, sometimes they even reply days later!

vrighter, (edited )

cat is writing to a file descriptor. Which is pretty much transparent to it. it’s just sometimes redirected. What happens when cat writes to it is not up to cat. In fact, I looked at the source of coreutils. there are two sub implementations of cat. copy_cat, which uses copy_file_range when the input and output are a regular file, and simple_cat which does a simple read/write loop. In both cases the target file descriptor is STDOUT_FILENO. So the target file descriptor is hardcoded to 1. Cat is not aware of where the data is coming from, or where it’s going. It is hardcoded to only ever write to stdout.

edit: re the reflink thing, you were probably thinking of cp, not cat.

vrighter,

cat isn’t the one writing to the drive there.

vrighter,

i was replying to the point that all hardware is made by large corporations. That will not change, irrelevant of whether the isa is open source or not.

vrighter,

pretty hard to do computation on a pdf. which is what risc-v is. You need someone to design and build a chip according to what’s in those pdfs

vrighter,

there’s the part that google added on top, which isn’t open.

And then there’s rcs itself, which isn’t open either. You need to get a license from the gsma

vrighter,

and then steal it agaiiiiiin!

vrighter,

Modern cpus actually do have trng hardware built in. So yes, modern computers can create numbers out of nothing, because they have specialized hardware to do so

vrighter,

yeah, no you have a misconception of what risc-v is.

Risc-v is an isa not a chip. the isa is open, available to anyone.

Implementations of risc-v (actual working designs) are usually not open. They are just guaranteed to be able to execute risc-v instructions.

So risc-v is neither more nor less vulnerable to hardware backdoors than any other architecture

vrighter,

your hands would probably still be warm, due to holding on to a hot beverage

vrighter,

needs more jpeg

vrighter,

thanks, much better!

vrighter,

why are you speaking in german?

vrighter,

“wherefore” means “why” not “where”.

She wasn’t asking him “where are you?” but rather “why did it have to be you?”

vrighter,

neither do divers use “self contained OOnderwater breathing apparatus”, usually written as SCUBA.

Nor do we say jPHeg files.

Nor “north AYYtlantic treaty OHHrganization”

or “light AYYmplification by stimulated emnssion of radiation”

vrighter,

“only an xor” would pretty much imply any of most stream ciphers. It’s what you xor with that matters.

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