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Because I can't attend FOSDEM this year, I wrote down some thoughts about the microkernel community. x86.lol/generic/2025/01/30/m… #fosdem #microkernel
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1987: It was disclosed that members of The Chaos Computer Club had hacked NASA’s SPAN network, then installed a backdoor and password grabber.
He cites the bible to justify annexing southern Lebanon. Wtf. jpost.com/opinion/article-82… #israel #lebanon #war
If you are disillusioned by @TheAtlantic's one sided coverage of the war in Gaza/Lebanon, but otherwise enjoy long form journalism, what do you subscribe to? The guardian?
Monitor/mwait is b0rken on Lunar Lake. 🤡 phoronix.com/news/Intel-Luna… #intel
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Having grown up in Berlusconi's Italy, I can feel it in my bones that when they win the first time, it's tough, but when they win *again*, after all they've demonstrated, *that's* the really hard one to take
A normal day in Saxony: "Spiegel magazine reported that three of the suspects were politicians who had held local office for the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party."
theguardian.com/world/2024/n…
'Alexander Hamilton endorsed the [electoral college] in 1788, saying [it] guaranteed that a US president would be of “characters pre-eminent for ability and virtue” and not merely adept with “the little arts of popularity”.' 🤣hindustantimes.com/world-new…
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From the original
> I truly believe the future of kernels is with memory-safe languages. [...] if Linux doesn't internalize this, I'm afraid some other kernel will do to it what it did to Unix.
This is why I want multi-kernel NixOS. We need to make that threat credible.
I regretfully completely understand Wedson's frustrations.
lore.kernel.org/lkml/2024082…
A subset of C kernel developers just seem determined to make the lives of the Rust maintainers as difficult as possible. They don't see Rust as having value and would rather it just goes away.
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If you think the pandemic's over, you're badly wrong.
This is the staff absence rate for the seventh largest employer in the world.
See the consistency of the absence rate leading up to the pandemic...
Look at how it changed in 2020.
And see where it's going *now*.
Given that Puerto Ricans are US citizens this seems extraordinarily dumb. (Is there any reason besides racism that Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico can't vote for the US president?)
