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drtgh commented on Japan to revise romanization rules for first time in 70 years japantimes.co.jp/news/202... · Posted by u/rgovostes

juancn · 6 days ago

    The ō in Hepburn could correspond to おう or おお or オー. That's an ambiguity.

What's the issue here? They all sound exactly the same, although おお seems unusual. The choice of kana kinda depends on the what you're writing.

drtgh · 6 days ago

> What's the issue here?

You need to know previously the word to write from Hepburn to Kana when "ō" is present because data is lost in such transliteration from おう or おお or オー to Hepburn.

The internet is full of romanji written incorrectly with "o" alone when it should be "ou" or "oo" due "ō" ASCII conversion errors at one moment.

(The sooner a beginner embrace Hiragana and Katakana, the better)

drtgh commented on Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops phoronix.com/news/Framewo... · Posted by u/mikece

andrekandre · 10 days ago

  > they invest in retirement and pension funds, who in turn invest the money in businesses to earn a return

maybe not a popular opinion but, this is the original sin imo; putting retirement/pension on the market makes for so many perverse incentives to keep things growing at any cost...

drtgh · 10 days ago

The system is perverse per se,

you create money based on debt, and eternal growth, and devalue savings, and force people to bet in order to try to preserve savings value, then each ten or fifteen years you allow someones to harvest the rewards of the casino.

And when population start to decrease (on developed countries), you rise the alarm, "more population is needed due to the decline in the birth rate", promoting an eternal growth that would need the resources several planets if everyone had a decent standard of living.

drtgh commented on Nuclear energy key to decarbonising Europe, says EESC eesc.europa.eu/en/news-me... · Posted by u/mpweiher

BurningFrog · 10 days ago

Fukushima was the result of the biggest earthquake in 1000+ years of Japanese history occurring where the resulting tsunami knocked out the backup generators at the plant.

Such an extreme set of outlier events could happen again, of course, but it's not very realistic.

drtgh · 10 days ago

Fukushima was the result of corruption,

Among others variables, the plant was designed to be constructed on a hill 30-35 meters above the ocean, but someones decided would be cheaper to construct it at sea level in order to reduce costs in water pumping, others decided to license this, and much latter, one decade before the disaster when was requested to reinforce the security measures within all the reactors in the country -in Fukushima for example to elevate critical systems to hills- others decided to ignore it [1][2]

[0] https://warp.da.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/3856371/naiic.go.jp...

[1] https://warp.da.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/3856371/naiic.go.jp...

[2]https://carnegieendowment.org/2012/03/06/why-fukushima-was-p...

What happens is that nuclear fusion is not here yet, and there is insufficient stable/maintained energy to meet current demand without using combined cycle power plants (combustion), and this without even a transition to full electric vehicles, with right now sounds to pure phantasy (how will be feed).

So the realistic by the moment sounds like to keep constructing new nuclear fission plants and renewables, keeping a diversification of sources, as is doing China with their mega projects. Without this will not be way to compete with their industry.

But more important, I think is needed to end the nepotism, the revolving doors (amakudari), and, of course, to prevent sociopaths from accessing positions of responsibility in any field... what sounds difficult because those positions are like magnets for them. This is what seems we don't learn from the human history.

drtgh commented on Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices by 50% for DIY Laptops phoronix.com/news/Framewo... · Posted by u/mikece

klez · 10 days ago

One has to hope OpenAI goes bankrupt and they flood the market with used RAM sticks at bargain bin price.

drtgh · 10 days ago

As with all Ponzi schemes OpenAI will eventually go bankrupt, yet it continues to receive money from the unwary. I wonder how the research division at Disney feels about what their bosses have done...

But it should happen earlier due what is happening with the RAM, as it sounds quite illegal, like anticompetitive hoarding, cornering the market, raising rivals' costs, consumer welfare harm, and so on.

drtgh commented on Qualcomm acquires RISC-V focused Ventana Micro Systems qualcomm.com/news/release... · Posted by u/fork-bomber

rwmj · 12 days ago

If it happens, Arm will have only themselves to blame. Suing your own customers is not the smartest move.

drtgh · 12 days ago

Qualcomm acquired Nuvia in order to bypass the licence fees charged by ARM, with I can guess ARM tried to block in good terms first, and latter in bad terms without success as we saw. It may make sense now that ARM is refusing to license them the newer ones.

Qualcomm may be solely to blame themselves, as they now has to invest in researching and developing an underdeveloped architecture, quickly, while their competitors -including Chinese ones- take advantage with newer ARM designs (and perhaps they could even develop their own alternatives peacefully in the meantime).

drtgh commented on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental lwn.net/Articles/1049831/... · Posted by u/rascul

N_Lens · 13 days ago

After all the resistance to Rust in the Linux Kernel, it's finally official. Kudos to the Linux Rust team!

drtgh · 13 days ago

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alex-Gaynor-Rust-Maintainer

    << Alex Gaynor recently announced he is formally stepping down as one of the maintainers of the Rust for Linux kernel code with the removal patch now queued for merging in Linux 6.19. Alex Gaynor was one of the original developers to experiment with Rust code for Linux kernel modules. He's drifted away from Rust Linux kernel development for a while due to lack of time and is now formally stepping down as a listed co-maintainer of the Rust code. After Wedson Almeida Filho stepped down last year as a Rust co-maintainer, this now leaves Rust For Linux project leader Miguel Ojeda as the sole official maintainer of the code while there are several Rust code reviewers. >>

drtgh commented on Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari

kwanbix · 14 days ago

The problem is that each OEM releases 50 different models per year, vs Google (or Apple) that release 3 or 4 models.

drtgh · 14 days ago

They must release drivers and firmware for all the devices that they no longer support.

drtgh commented on Sam Altman’s DRAM Deal mooreslawisdead.com/post/... · Posted by u/pabs3

jascha_eng · 17 days ago

I'm curious how OpenAI has the funds to pay for 40% of the worlds ram production? Sure they are big and have a few billions but I kind of assumed that 40% for a year or whatever they are buying is easily double digit billions? That has to hurt even them, especially because they cant buy anything else?

Also what are these contracts? Surely Samsung could decide to cancel the contract by paying a large fee but is that fee truly so large that getting their ram back when prices are now 4x of what they used to be is not worth it?

drtgh · 17 days ago

Ponzi scheme [1] , Anticompetitive hoarding [2] , Cornering the market, Raising rivals' costs (RRC), Consumer welfare harm, and so on

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding_(economics)

I think the event is big enough to stop them and send them behind bars.

> Samsung

I think that Samsung -and other manufacturers- have been intentionally limiting their production capacities so as not to devalue the prices of their chips (for SSD at least) so may be they are an interested part. This, combined with the madness we are seeing, is abuse^2 . I think they should also end up behind bars.

drtgh commented on Stop Hacklore – An Open Letter hacklore.org/letter... · Posted by u/zdw

8organicbits · 22 days ago

> like CA vectors

This gets complicated because you're not safe on your home or corporate network either when CAs are breached. The incident everyone talks about, DigiNotar (2011), had stolen CA keys issuing certificates that intercepted traffic across several ISPs. If that's the threat you're looking to handle, "avoid public wifi" isn't the right answer. Perhaps you're doing certificate pinning, application level signing, closed networks, etc.

> Entrust (2024)

I recently wrote a blog post[1] about CA incidents, so I notice this one isn't like the others. Entrust's PKI business was not impacted by the hack and Entrust remains a trusted CA.

> Click here or use your login

Password manager autofill is the solution there, both on public wifi and on a corporate network. Perhaps an ad blocker as well.

> people connecting to an unknown unsupervised network

Aren't most people's home networks "unsupervised"?

[1] https://alexsci.com/blog/ca-trust/

drtgh · 22 days ago

Why do you talk about home networks "unsupervised" when we are talking about public networks, access points, created to hunt people?

Do you notice that your proposed solutions try to fix a problem, isn't it? The open letter does not propose solutions; it merely denies them.

It is needed to be sincere with people, those "incidents" have happened for a long time, and unfortunately will keep happening (given the history), bad actors hunting, yesterday the CAs, and tomorrow? So if one connect to an open wifi one may fall victim to a trap, probably not at home but in an Airport or other crowded places with long waits, and even if you do not browse another app in background will be trying to do it.

It was needed many years to make people just sightly aware, and now they -if the text is real- pretend to undo it. But to be sincere I really do not mind much, I just perceive that open letter as malicious.

drtgh commented on Stop Hacklore – An Open Letter hacklore.org/letter... · Posted by u/zdw

8organicbits · 22 days ago

Then what? The user presumably sees TLS certificate warnings since you don't have valid certicates. HSTS would prevent downgrades to plain HTTP and is pretty common on sensitive websites.

Isn't the better advice to avoid clicking through certificate warnings? That applies both on and off open wifi networks.

There is a privacy concern, as DNS queries would leak. Enabling strict DoH helps (which is not the default browser setting).

drtgh · 22 days ago

I am afraid that it is not only about privacy (that they recommend ignoring), there are many options to chose, like CA vectors, lets say TrustCor (2022), e-Tugra (2023), Entrust (2024), Packet injection vectors, or Click here or use your login first vectors as you commented, bugs and configurations.

This ones known. Therefore I just cannot believe that those who wrote the open letter did not even though about such significant events from the past year, I remark the past year, or even on zero-days.

We are talking about people connecting to an unknown unsupervised network, that we do not know what new vulnerabilities will be published on main stream also, and the ones of the open letter know it because they are hiding behind the excuse of "rarely".