With the 1972 change in how horsepower is measured (gross versus net), the modern car is even closer to the muscle car’s horsepower.

Why don’t they target the heads of state and leave normal people alone? Joe Sixpack’s family is only going to be enraged by his death.

She was no dummy. But was always going to die this way.

(I only assume she is dead.)

I search things so others can be lazy.

Cluster B things:

Cluster B disorders are marked by inappropriate, volatile emotionality and often unpredictable behavior. The disorders in Cluster B are antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, and narcissistic personality disorder.

A and C are also things.

Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/cluster-b

I wish there were more lighted “closed” signs. I often cannot see the unlit “open” sign, but can see the lights inside are on with people inside.

Yup. Customers gotta note and avoid the untrustworthy spokes people, otherwise there is no downside for the spokesperson.

The joke is electricity and Linux.

The real answer is the free hardware.

My main reliable is from 2008? It cannot do modern virtualization due to not having the CPU instruction sets.

Used to run into this more. Some legacy systems imposed password limits that seem archaic by modern standards. The authentication system was just supporting systems from before newer standards were created.

I think some of those compatibility layers outlived the systems they needed to be compatible with. The people that knew the system retired ages ago and the documentation was lost 3 or 4 “documentation system” changes ago.

Anyway, those have no place on the modern web.

Is the redundancy used for bools? I mean in actual practice.

I don’t think I would want to piss off a government.

Article is a good one. Red flags all over.

a member of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, a fascist youth group around the Republican Party

I didn’t know they had crossed that line.

Can’t think of pro-LLM fan boys in the same light anymore.

And what happens when the AI is an official at work? “My boss says I am the second coming of Jesus and this expense is approved.”

Seems like a lot of work, when the font I use will mess it up. And compiler/interpreter won’t care.

But if it makes you happy, go for it.

Fuck. Copilot is going to add ads to everything.

Videos, links, random paragraphs. Everything written by a llm will feature 3rd party ads. Taking a page from malware developers, there will be innocuous libraries added that will later morph.

Eventually, we will stop writing software as llms will be all software. Serving ads. Serving you to advertisers.

“Hey watch, what time is it?”

“Time for a sugar snack. Just go to the counter, it is already paid for (by you).”

Apt-cacher-ng doesn’t tend to expire automatically. It can be configured to keep the last version regardless. https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/html/maint.html#extrakeep

One can also use a cache to hold deb and rpm files requested by the machines. (Works great when running hundreds of systems.)

I like “apt-cacher-ng”. It will do deb and rpm. https://wiki.debian.org/AptCacherNg

https://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~bloch/acng/

Edit: better link

Offline repository caches for Linux have been a thing for decades. People absolutely pass binaries to friends.

Flatpac may not be suitable, but that is only one way to get software on Linux.

Pretty much every Windows machine I’ve ever owned after a certain year requires you to type in your Bitlocker key, including my first-gen Surface Go from 2018.

This is interesting. I had a work computer require this ~4 years ago, but not one of the three since have (personal and different employers.)

You can buy a gun and practice. Start a club with your neighbors.

(Good) Scientists are looking for “no”. Cannot prove a theory right, but can prove it wrong. Maybes aren’t “no”.