Posts by Graham Dawson

Re: Some OSS development introspection needed

The difference is in who does the linking, and why. Libraries linked by the sshd developers are audited by them to ensure they're compliant with requirements. libsystemd was linked by people who wanted to tie sshd into a gigantic, sprawling mess of an "init" for the convenience of notifications.

It's all good and well saying that the attack could have come at any point, but the fact is that this vulnerability was introduced by the long arm of systemd reaching into sshd's internals, where it had absolutely no place being. THAT is the problem. THAT is the thing that people have been warning about.

Re: No way-land

No, it did not. dhcpd had its EOL update in late 2022. There are, of course, other DHCP daemons.

The advent of IPV6 didn't magically make the requirement for DHCP obsolete; it is not going anywhere as long as IPV4 still rules the roost.

The difference, of course, is that musk's rockets don't claim to be environmentally friendly.

Complaining that windmills kill birds is rather more relevant, as it compounds with the unreliability and low productivity of wind turbines, as well as with other issues (chief being the enormous amounts of land that has to be cleared for them and the fact that wind requires dispatchable, conventionally fuelled backups for when it isn't blowing).

They are an inefficient, ineffectual waste of funds that should have been put into building out nuclear AND they kill birds.

Re: Wayland only

It still doesn't remember window positions from one session to the next, which is a pretty fundamental feature for a lot of people. Myself included.

So, no. They haven't. And with the amount of time they spent getting to this point, they could have fixed every single problem in X11 that they use to justify this change and added some new features to boot.

Re: Starlink

Comparable to virgin, then.

Re: Systemd dosen't even do some of that reliably.

They get WONTFIXed and rejected because they don't cleave to Poettering's grand vision.

Re: I doubt he would get paid today

That should be interesting. I've never seen an OS written entirely in javascript before.

Re: payload ?

When you're leaking enough pure oxygen, it really doesn't matter all that much if there's methane in the air. Anything remotely reactive will start oxidising in a sufficiently rich oxygen atmosphere.

Re: IPv6

So, not Plusnet.

Re: A lot of hardcore Firefox fans are now happy Chrome users.

I refuse chrome. I was using it for years, but all of its alleged advantages disappeared one by one, as it became a bloated, memory-hogging privacy nightmare with greater and greater restrictions on what I could do to prevent it spying on me. At least, in firefox, you can turn that stuff off.

Re: Why, it's *almost*

Mine shoots round ball for Christians and square ball for Muslims.

Re: Call it molehilling.

That depends. What colour is the pin?

Re: You're asking me to quantify Mozilla's market strategy.

I'm starting to think you don't actually understand the words you're using.

Re: A nice contrast to Apollo 13

"Who hid the torx set again?!"

Delta actually has one of the better records for maintenance, compared to a lot of airlines.

Re: Find a new joke

Take me back to my cell. I'm surrounded by Yahoo!s

Re: Bet

I quite like it, though. It makes them seem irrational and untrustworthy.

They won't be on the car; they'll be on the charger.

Re: 13 days into 2024...

Main page, scroll down just under the green bar. Or click here.

Shockin'!

And that's just what makes it through the inspection...

Re: When did Windows turn into Linux?

More of a pacman fan?

I gnu someone would say that...

Re: Mount Inaccessible

These days, you'd have to balance that against the water meter.

Re: From what I can recall ....

Presumably, they have no off-street parking, so can't actually charge overnight. Using pots green boxes wouldn't fix this, as there is only going to be one for a whole street. Or several streets. Slow charging at any public charging point is so stupid that I don't know why anyone would suggest it.

Re: It's all a hoax

Long term, there's nothing to worry about, because the Davos set are arrogant arch-fantasists, who think they can control the world because they're surrounded by yes-men. The problem with them is the damage they'll do in the shorter term, as they use their vast wealth and influence to convince enough gullible or greedy politicians and media types to attempt to implement their impossible ideas. Like every other utopianist movement that managed to capture the levers of power for a little while, they'll fail because of their own hubris. Life will go on, but a lot of people will be hurt and societies damaged in the meantime.

I'm sure people will chime in with other examples of the same. Some closer to home than others.

Re: Eight years message time

Sure is a strange game...

Re: Ermm

More like a constant stream of deltas, probably with some motion information teased out somewhere, to deal with saccades and the like.

Re: These stories are crazy

Point of sale machines are usually just a glorified pc these days.