None. When was the last time you saw an actual headline not click-bait?
News is not about issues anymore - since the advent of 24 hr TV last century - It’s about filling time until the next exposé about Meghan frigging Markle, or some influencer of zero repute who overdosed.
I applaud this program, exactly what we’ve all been looking for.
Looks like many of the comments identifying it have been removed.
(half replying to other comments as well as yours)
If you have a look at the btrfs mailing lists post that introduced RAID1c34, they were created because RAID56 were not considered viable or fixable. It’s in couched language but reasonably clear. I don’t think you’re thinking of using those (RAID56) but don’t.
Never had any btrfs problems that weren’t self generated or date from a really sticky period in btrfs’s history (years ago, 4.13 or maybe 3.13). I’ve used RAID56 until RAID1c34 became available and RAID10 where I could.
Haven’t tried LUKS - btrfs though, although effectively no worse than putting btrfs in a VM (which is fine if slow at the time), albeit a bit more computationally intensive.
How does it defeat the purpose?
The domains have nothing that is traceable to you. addy.io provide that opportunity for you to do just that. What’s the issue?
Get a domain and link it so you have your own domain addy.io . It’s not very hard.
You can use the domain for other things too.
Doesn’t development still need funding somehow?
The 'Mercans are not usually aware that there are other countries besides the two countries, Europe and Africa.
I assume you define patriotism as belief in one’s country because no other populated countries actually exist.
In sharp contradiction, most 'Mercans believe that they are Irish, a small town in Delaware.
that’s unrelated - AES-256 for example can be executed just fine on either a 32- or 64-bit machine. in theory there’s nothing stopping you from running it on an 8-bit or 16-bit CPU (although other considerations related to the size of AES’s lookup tables make this unlikely). from some random googling, here is an implementation of Chacha20, another 256-bit encryption algorithm, for 8-bit microcontrollers.
I started out programming a 6502a in 1980, 680X0 a little later in 87, so I get that bit, but it’s easier doing operations on a larger register. I remember writing code for 8 bit multiplication of 32 bit floating points.
I enjoyed and understood the rest of your prose though. Didn’t do much/any programming/low level after say 2005, and regret it now. Trying to re-learn but things have moved on so much.
I take that there isn’t much motivation in moving to 128 because it’s big enough; it’s only 8 cycles (?) to fill a 512 (that can’t be right?).
Thank-you a lot for that. I wander around the tech blogs like lobsters etc, Reddit and here but never see anything that i remember seeing (if you follow me), but I don’t consciously look.
Encryption lengths are getting long so you’d think it was high time.
Your description sounds like the advent of 32 bits where there was a 16 bit address bus stage.
Whilst other distros move to a Weston (corrections please?) era Intel x86 2013 ish?
Bravo, I think. That’s going to be tough.
On a related track, is there any talk of 128 bit chips in general?
Microsoft own half of OpenAI. (Corrections?)
They don’t need you. They own 50% of your 20 (currency unit) monthly sub to ChatGPT.
I’m highlighting a contradiction in what you’re asking.
You’re asking whether you should use a ‘pure’ Linux kernel but using ‘dirty’ stuff everywhere else?
It’s not a great flex, but the whole thing about Linux is that you can choose to do what you want with no restrictions.
Have at it! Enjoy!
Thank-you for your kindness. And it is really kind!
I’m old so my view of prop software is rooted in the change of early Microsoft et al bringing real change to the dubious parasitic entities that they are today. I watched it slowly happen and have been delighted and contributing in a small way with Linux since the turn of the century.
RedHat had been sold to the ‘no-one ever got fired for buying IBM’ (I still can’t believe that they believed that that was a winning slogan). In these trying times the love for open source isn’t translating into enough cash; average people are stretched.
I can’t wait for the leaders in my country to stop pandering to the world’s oligarchs and serve the people that elected them.
Upvoted.
Appreciate the reply, but I don’t mind some proprietary code. There are very few reviews of open code by respected bodies (I’m writing in generality here). I’m certainly not qualified to review code. Just being open is only the beginning of the journey.
As we’ve seen with some open software recently there are some active hackers successfully targeting open software because it is open. Such exploits are not always discovered in good time.
https://thenewstack.io/why-so-much-open-source-software-is-vulnerable-to-hackers/
https://thehackernews.com/2025/01/github-desktop-vulnerability-risks.html
Etc etc.
I place store by the warrant responses and action of government entities against some software.
Fuck. They told me that they were storing my backups.
Signal. It’s changed a lot. For the better.
Do you use Netflix or other services/products with DRM?
That’s your answer.
The major issue is to complain to/about your provider, not mess around with the workaround solutions.
That said once you have the list of packages, you can download them on your phone and seamlessly transfer them to your pc with Syncthing.
Have a look at dnf-automatic to do downloads only. I’m not sure how many retries it allows.
There is also the option of limiting your bandwidth on the PC so that it doesn’t choke.
Ultimately the ISP has to provide a working service.