If users are compelled to view ads than websites should be liable if those ads violate privacy laws or distribute malware.
Depending on the jurisdiction; they are.
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csdreamer7 commented on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs · Posted by u/nativeforks
> 32 bit Linux is still supported by the kernel and Debian
Deprecated for Debian
https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/issues....
>> 32 bit Linux is still supported by the kernel and Debian
> Deprecated for Debian
> https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/release-notes/issues....
32 bit Linux is still supported by the kernel... and... 'Debian, Arch, and Fedora still supports baseline x86_64'.
Please do not take things out of context.
csdreamer7 commented on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs · Posted by u/nativeforks
> about to ask people to donate, but they have $80k in their coffers
I'd still ask folks to donate. £80k isn't much at all given the time and effort I've seen their volunteers spend on keeping the lights on.
From what I recall, they do want to modernize their build infrastructure, but it is as big as an investment they can make. If they had enough in their "coffers", I'm sure they'd feel more confident about it.
It isn't like they don't have any other things to fix or address.
I would too but do you have a link to them talking about it?
csdreamer7 commented on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs · Posted by u/nativeforks
I'm not even sure mainline Linux supports machines this old at this point. The cmpxchg16b instruction isn't that old, and I believe it's required now.
32 bit Linux is still supported by the kernel and Debian, Arch, and Fedora still supports baseline x86_64.
RHEL 8 is still supported and Ubuntu is still baseline x86_64 I believe for commercial distros. Not sure about SuSE.
csdreamer7 commented on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs · Posted by u/nativeforks
OP did say "consumer Epyc", so presumably referring to the parts using the AM5 socket. From a quick check on Newegg, it looks like barebones servers for that platform start at under $1000, to which you need to add CPU, RAM, and storage. So a $3000 budget to assemble a low-end Zen4/5 EPYC server is realistic: $570 for the 16-core EPYC 4565P, a few hundred for DDR5 ECC unbuffered modules, a few hundred for an enterprise SSD, and you have a credible current-gen server from readily available parts at retail prices, without any of the enterprise pricing and procurement hassle.
That was my intention; mATX AM5 parts.
csdreamer7 commented on F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs · Posted by u/nativeforks
This means their servers are very old ones that do not support x86-64-v2. Intel Core 2 Duo days?
https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2021/01/05/building-red-h...
Think of how much faster their servers would be with one of those Epyc consumer cpus.
I was about to ask people to donate, but they have $80k in their coffers. I realize their budget is only $17,000 a year, but I am curious why they haven't spent $2-3k on one of those Zen4 or Zen5 matx consumer Epyc servers as they are around under $2k under budget. If they have a fleet of these old servers I imagine a Zen5 one can replace at least a few of them and consume far less power and space.
https://opencollective.com/f-droid#category-BUDGET
Not sure if this includes their Librapay donations either:
csdreamer7 commented on Cryptocurrency exchanges begin offering tokenized securities apnews.com/article/crypto... · Posted by u/doodaddy
Approximately everybody in the US is able to get a brokerage account for trading public shares (with actual SIPC insurance, very limited liability for fraud etc). At the same time, the publicly investable stock market constitutes less and less to the total universe of US companies.
Unless tokenized securities will somehow make private investments accessible to non-accredited investors, this initiative seems to be entirely missing the elephant in the room, at least in the US.
If you can shift these tokens around like Bitcoin my first thought was tax or sanctions evasion. Buy some VOO tokens from a 3rd party since you know your corrupt government (and you made money from that corruption) will seize your bank account for any reason. You hold these tokens in a private wallet stored somewhere for a few decades as your escape plan.
There was an article on how cut-throat (pun intended) low the margins are for money laundering in the competition between businesses to get drug trafficked US dollars from Mexico to China.
> I do not have enough knowledge to disagree on this. But I will say the FAA is still on floppy disks when the US Nuclear Arsenal moved off floppies back in 2019.
Well this isn't very long in terms of overhauling safety-critical systems that have many decades worth of processes and infrastructure built up around them, is it?
> Well this isn't very long in terms of overhauling safety-critical systems that have many decades worth of processes and infrastructure built up around them, is it?
Do you actually know if 6 years is enough time? If so, provide info.
As for myself, I do not know. I do know once it was reported they were on floppy disks; they finished moving off it in 3 years. If wasn't for the media report I doubt it would happen. Once again, different systems, but likely public embarrassment motivated the move more than anything else.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/26/479588478...
Never mind that having an undamaged internet connected device and functioning internet service after a natural disaster is a big if.
This has major "poll test" energy: a transparent attempt to deny people their rights with an intentional bureaucratic hurdle.
Or a way to reach people (and reduce fraud) when your mailbox is destroyed and you are in temporary housing. Same with people who rent. There was a case where the Supreme Court heard that requiring postage and stationary to mail a form to access government services was a poll tax and they rejected it. The courts may view email as the same way.
Protonmail does not use sms verification, but a lot of places block @protonmail.com without telling you. Happened to me with British Airways and stranded me in Europe until I bought another ticket. Never heard from BA, but another service told me it was because they offer a VPN service.