Hey fellow linuxbrew user in the wild! Have you had any luck getting others to try it?
I liked linuxbrew up until it set up python in a way that broke a lot of apps for me. I keep meaning to give it another try, but there are only so many hours.
Readit Newsnieve commented on I'm Done with Ubuntu ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/02/... · Posted by u/LorenDB
nieve commented on AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache phoronix.com/review/amd-r... · Posted by u/mfiguiere
nieve commented on Mystery creator of Bitcoin identified, new HBO documentary claims politico.eu/article/myste... · Posted by u/cempaka
Shockwaves? yawns it doesnt affect me, my bank account, my family, my health or my happiness. Who cares?
The only way there'd be shockwaves is if it turned out to be Theo de Raadt.
nieve commented on CVE-2024-29510 – Exploiting Ghostscript using format strings codeanlabs.com/blog/resea... · Posted by u/ThomasRinsma
> Is there ever a good reason to enable it?
Yes. It's a rare system that it shouldn't be enabled.
RAM is a precious resource. It's highly likely programs will allocate RAM that won't be used for days at a time. For example, if you are using docker once the containers are started the management daemon does nothing. If you have ssh enabled only for maintenance it unlikely to be used for days if not weeks on end. If your system starts gettys they are unlikely to be used, ever. The bulk of the init system probably isn't used once the system is started.
All those things belong in swap. The RAM they occupied can be used as disk cache. Extra disk cache will speed up things you are doing now. Notice this means most of the posts here are wrong - just having swap actually gives you a speed boost.
One argument here is that disabling swap provides you an early warning system you need more RAM. That's true, but there is a saner option. Swap is only a problem if the memory stored there is being used frequently. How do you monitor that? You look at reads from swap. If the steady state of the system is showing no reads from swap, you aren't using what's there, so it can't possibly have a negative speed impact. But if swap is being used and isn't being read from, it's freed some RAM so it is having a positive speed impact.
One final observation: the metric "swap should be twice the size of RAM" isn't so helpful nowadays. There aren't a lot of programs that sit around doing nothing. Maybe 1GB or so, and it's more or less fixed regardless of what the system is doing. Old systems didn't have 2GB of RAM, so the "twice RAM" rule made sense. But now a laptop might have 16GB. If you are using 32GB of swap and not reading from it would be a very, very unusual setup. If you are reading from that 32GB or swap, you're system is RAM starved and will be dog slow. You need to add RAM until those reads drop to 0.
The best modern reason to have as much swap as RAM is to make hibernation to disk more reliable, but a lot of people don't use that anymore. It's more reliable because the kernel doesn't have to work as hard to find space to write the system image to.
A non-marketing answer is determining whether users are under age for regulatory purposes. Discord was and still is a gaming chat platform so the draw of young children can be dangerous.
Could be used to trigger a verification workflow in the event certain municipalities start requiring it.
How does that explain the focus on gender? Admittedly there are countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia where there might be laws about what you're allowed to show women.
nieve commented on Personal VPN services are snake oil httpscolonforwardslashfor... · Posted by u/ementally
The thing I never hear mentioned is when your home ISP (or say your favorite cafe's) is known to use your traffic data for marketing purposes or sell it outright. I trust Mullvad farther than I trust my ISP. I could switch ISPs, but my only option is Comcast and they're even sleazier.
I am genuinely curious what kind of mental model of the physical universe leads someone to look at a 3000km-diameter sphere of rock, or any matter at all, and say "yeah, I think that's actually hollow". Especially as the presence of the moon is one of the oldest, most observed and recorded natural phenomena in human history. It's not like it turned up one day or has ever been seen to do anything other than plod around its orbit dead on time.
How would it form? Why doesn't it collapse inwards? Why does it weigh so much?
I mean, sure, it could be an ancient alien ship with a superdense unobtainium shell to have exactly the same gravity as a rock ball but why would they park it so close that they need to cover it in regolith?
Then again some people think a virus is somehow caused by radio waves and active remote-controlled microchips can be suspended in clear liquid so the whole world must be like wandering through Wonderland all the time. There are no rules and anything can happen.
David Weber actually wrote a series once where aliens (actually humans) hollowed out the Moon (dumping the material into the sun) to use the rest as camouflage for a Moon-sized spaceship hiding from other aliens (actually aliens). It was pretty clearly him taking the p*ss on the entire topic, but it's seen multiple editions and I believe is still in print. I guess there's something about the idea that attracts some people?
That's an obvious agenda-driven take and very dangerous for a prosecutor to take on. Hope the judges disagree.
"Judge Kimberly Adams agreed to admit evidence of King’s cellphone." So no, at least the judge for this case decided it was fine. Note as well that the case is over the Cop City protests, not even a criminal endeavor. Literally going to a protest without a smartphone is being presented as evidence of criminal intent.
nieve commented on Gemini "duck" demo was not done in realtime or with voice twitter.com/parmy/status/... · Posted by u/apsec112
> Google really hasn't launched a decent in-house product since Gmail
What about Chrome? And Chromebooks?
Sorry if this was a joke and I didn't spot it. Chrome was based on WebKit which was itself based on KHTML if memory serves. Chromebooks are based on a version of that outside engine running on top of Linux which they also didn't create.