Comment Re:Thanks, but no thanks (Score 1) 86
I am not sure I kicked it. I still dream about EQ and the old raids.
Comment WTF (Score 1) 61
Sony jumped the shark long ago. Only fanboi's buy Sony products these days. Overpriced under-performing junk. I remember back in the 80's a Sony Trinitron was the shiznit, now all their stuff is just plain shit.
Comment EA sucks... (Score 3, Insightful) 40
EA sucks and I will cheer when they go down in flames. Everything they touch they leverage into shit.
Comment Debian fixed (Score 3, Informative) 54
Looks like both bookworm and trixie are fixed as of about 3am UTC last night.
Sync your mirrors if it's off cycle. Luckily mine sync around 9am, hopefully the buildbots were busy..
For bookworm you need 8.2.35-1~deb12u1 .
Thank you, Guilhem.
Submission + - Physicists Trapped a Particle of Antimatter And Kept It Caged For Months (sciencealert.com)
alternative_right writes: Theoretically, the birth of the Universe should have produced equal quantities of particles and antiparticles.
Why the current Universe is so heavily skewed in particles' favor is an enduring mystery – one whose solution remains all the harder to find because of antiparticles' tendency to go and collide with particles.
But an extraordinary effort may have finally tamed one of the biggest tricksters of the antiparticle milieu – the positron, the antimatter counterpart to the ubiquitous electron.
In a cryogenic, superconducting vacuum trap, physicists at Northwestern University in the US successfully kept a single positron for months – a breakthrough that, they say, paves the way to the most rigorous probes yet of particle physics.
Why the current Universe is so heavily skewed in particles' favor is an enduring mystery – one whose solution remains all the harder to find because of antiparticles' tendency to go and collide with particles.
But an extraordinary effort may have finally tamed one of the biggest tricksters of the antiparticle milieu – the positron, the antimatter counterpart to the ubiquitous electron.
In a cryogenic, superconducting vacuum trap, physicists at Northwestern University in the US successfully kept a single positron for months – a breakthrough that, they say, paves the way to the most rigorous probes yet of particle physics.
Comment Re:Why switchh? (Score 1) 34
"It starts out with a minimal amount of packages."
So the advantage is that it doesn't install as much junk as other distros? That's good, but not a compelling reason to switch (for me personally). I see security mentioned a lot, and if I'd had any issues that would be a consideration.
Comment Re:Why switchh? (Score 1) 34
Does your answer translate to "It's more secure"?
Comment Re:Why switchh? (Score 1) 34
I'm not asking about shoes or shirts.
Again, what does OpenBSD offer that would be of benefit for users to switch over to it?
Why should I consider switching to it as opposed to some other distro?
(You're usually pretty helpful but this answer did not bring any clarity.)
Submission + - More than 1.5 million Canadian Crime Stoppers tips leaked (www.cbc.ca)
doconnor writes: Crime Stoppers data was stolen last March by hacktivist collective Internet Yiff Machine. In a manifesto, the group said it wanted to disprove the claim by P3 Global Intel — the company hired by Crime Stoppers to manage its tips — that the platform was "anonymous" and "secure."
A copy of the hacked data was made available to researchers and journalists, including CBC, by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a U.S. non-profit that archives and publishes hacked and leaked documents it deems to be in the public interest.
A copy of the hacked data was made available to researchers and journalists, including CBC, by Distributed Denial of Secrets, a U.S. non-profit that archives and publishes hacked and leaked documents it deems to be in the public interest.
Submission + - A Lost Schrödinger Manuscript Reveals a Surprising Twist in Quantum Physics (sciencealert.com)
alternative_right writes: Now brought to light by physics historian Flavio Del Santo of the University of Geneva, the three-page document is the very soul of brevity – but on it is scrawled a long-lost contribution to one of the most contentious debates in quantum mechanics.
And it offers a surprising insight into what Erwin Schrödinger himself believed about the nature of reality.
Rather than the discomfort with quantum randomness he is often portrayed as espousing, Schrödinger believed that there were aspects of the Universe that couldn't be predicted – a belief he held even before the emergence of quantum theory in the 1920s.
And it offers a surprising insight into what Erwin Schrödinger himself believed about the nature of reality.
Rather than the discomfort with quantum randomness he is often portrayed as espousing, Schrödinger believed that there were aspects of the Universe that couldn't be predicted – a belief he held even before the emergence of quantum theory in the 1920s.
Submission + - Russian Satellite's Close Shadowing of Radar Imaging Satellite Is A Big Deal (twz.com)
schwit1 writes: Russia's Kosmos 2612 came very close to ICEYE X36, which reportedly has Ukraine connections, after weeks of highly unusual maneuvering.
Kosmos 2612, may have passed within approximately 85 feet (26 meters) of a U.S.-registered satellite belonging to commercial imagery provider ICEYE. This would be an extraordinarily close and potentially dangerous pass-by for two objects in space traveling at thousands of miles per hour. For weeks beforehand, ICEYE-X36, which would be of special interest to Russia, had already found itself in increasingly close orbital alignment with its pursuer. The two satellites now look to be drifting further and further apart, but the episode has been a clear sign of what is to come as the potential for conflict in space only continues to grow.
Publicly available space tracking data from the satellitemap.space and orbitalradar.com websites show that Kosmos 2612 (also written sometimes Cosmos 2612 and abbreviated K2612) and ICEYE X36 had their especially close encounter at approximately 16:07 UTC today. Private space services company LeoLabs also told TWZ today that it could not "confirm or contradict what other data sources have stated publicly," but that it has "high-confidence that the objects came within approximately [emphasis in the original] 500 meters [1,640 feet] of each other." Kosmos 2612 had been making progressively closer passes by ICEYE X36 in recent days.
Kosmos 2612, may have passed within approximately 85 feet (26 meters) of a U.S.-registered satellite belonging to commercial imagery provider ICEYE. This would be an extraordinarily close and potentially dangerous pass-by for two objects in space traveling at thousands of miles per hour. For weeks beforehand, ICEYE-X36, which would be of special interest to Russia, had already found itself in increasingly close orbital alignment with its pursuer. The two satellites now look to be drifting further and further apart, but the episode has been a clear sign of what is to come as the potential for conflict in space only continues to grow.
Publicly available space tracking data from the satellitemap.space and orbitalradar.com websites show that Kosmos 2612 (also written sometimes Cosmos 2612 and abbreviated K2612) and ICEYE X36 had their especially close encounter at approximately 16:07 UTC today. Private space services company LeoLabs also told TWZ today that it could not "confirm or contradict what other data sources have stated publicly," but that it has "high-confidence that the objects came within approximately [emphasis in the original] 500 meters [1,640 feet] of each other." Kosmos 2612 had been making progressively closer passes by ICEYE X36 in recent days.
Comment Re:You cannot destroy data, harmless or not ... (Score 2) 298
Oh, did they have a warrant signed by a judge?
Illegal searches can be resisted.
Of course you risk being murdered for your rights.
Which appears to be the cost now.
They shouldn't want us to know that; bad chess.
Comment Re:Ok (Score 3) 53
They've gone from being infamous for offering no support to pretending to offer support?
I guess it will help people who haven't yet tried everything on their own before they figure out there is no support.
Happy to be proven wrong and learn that the chatbots are empowered to fix things.
Comment Late Stage Empire (Score 2) 61
They did things like this at the end of Rome.
P.T. Barnumus.
Comment Why switchh? (Score 3, Interesting) 34
I always ask "What might be some compelling features that would make me interested in switching to OpenBSD from another distro?"
So, what does OpenBSD offer that would be of benefit for users to switch over to it?
