Tell me when you’re getting used to USB so I can prepare for the next switch /s 😅

… was a VMware bill for “10 times the sum it previously paid for software licenses,” per The Register.

… OpenNebula has enabled the company to dedicate more of its 3,000 bare metal server fleet to client loads instead of to VM management, as it had to with VMware. With OpenNebula purportedly requiring less management overhead, Beeks is reporting a 200 percent increase in VM efficiency since it now has more VMs on each server.

Damn. Pay less and gain significant efficiency increases.

I don’t see how that is relevant? You’re already familiar with C, so writing about C does not influence whether you will be outdated in a few years. Learning and writing about Rust could be something that becomes useful, but not necessarily practically - it depends on what you will do in the future.

If you feel you lost your passion, I would suggest learning and experimenting with Rust. It’s different, so may be interesting and thought provoking to learn.

Writing down what you know about C may also be worthwhile, good, or produce a good resource, but I don’t see it as much or like as sparking lost interest and passion. If that is actually your goal (you only asked about future relevancy in the end).

I did not go through those phases.

I talked to a friend of mine last week and they didn’t know of the old PS/2 mouse/keyboard cable/sockets. They’ve seen it before, but it wasn’t familiar to them. Nobody only having used USB devices will remember those.

Who has age authority? A state agency or service. Like the state issues an ID with age.

Preferable, we want the user to interact with a website, that website request age authentication, but not the website to talk to the government, but through the user.

Thus, something/somewhat like

1. State agency issues a certificate to the user
2. User assigns a password to encrypt the user certificate
3. User connects to random website A
4. Random website A creates an age verification request signed to only be resolveable by state agency but sends it to the user
5. User sends the request to a state service with their user certificate for authentication
6. State agency confirms-signs the response
7. User passes the responds along to the random website A

There may be alternative, simpler, or less verbose/complicated alternatives. But I’m sure it would be possible, and I think it lays out how “double-blind”(?) could work.

The random website A does not know the identity or age of the user - only to the degree they requested to verify - and the state agency knows only of a request, not its origin or application - to the degree the request and user pass-along includes.

https://floss.fund/

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I will instead label them as “Copilot-ers” and “Control-ers”, for brevity.

Were the Copilot-ers copiloted or are they copilots? 🤔 There are probably both kinds.

I didn’t see that one coming

From the article:

ESET already considers it a potentially unwanted program

From there, that categorization means:

A potentially unwanted application (PUA) is a program that contains adware, installs toolbars, or has other unclear objectives. There are some situations where a user may feel that the benefits of a potentially unwanted application outweigh the risks.

Their intro video about Veilid…

blenderdumbass.org

What a domain

You didn’t give much info on what it’s supposed to be or become, but either one of:

• Create something of value, while being open and documented enough for accepting contributions
• Write down and publish goals, approach, structure so anyone can participate, and seek out collaborators while also doing your own

• AHA - Avoid Hasty Abstractions
• WET - Write Everything Twice
• DRY - Don’t Repeat Yourself

From what I hear from my brother working in a bank, they should be using databases and data querying instead of excel. What excessive excel use leads to, at least in such cases, is awful flimsy practices, certainty and stability.

The financial data and its accumulations run through multiple excel files referencing others. Traceability requirements that they have to guarantee by law are an issue; I wonder if they’ll be able to implement them with Excel at all.

Businesses running on Excel is certainly factual. But I have to wonder whether it’s necessary of even a good solution for their work.

If they’re deep and wide into Excel, I imagine other data tooling would be better. And if they’re not, other products like LibreOffice seem viable as direct replacements.

Because they’re done with specific ms-office macros or because libre-office has no equivalents?

It may not be an immediate 1 to 1 switch with extensive or specific macros, but I would imagine it would be possible and no worse after migration?

• Official blog post
• Alpine Linux / Xorg / i3 environment

Forge-joe

there have been physical fights between committee members

lol; committee with consensus by violence?

• https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz-gen
• https://blog.oss-fuzz.com/posts/
• https://google.github.io/clusterfuzz/