Comment Re:Why not Rust? (Score 1) 129
Can we get Natalie Portman and hot grits involved somehow?
Comment Re:Why does anyone take this seriously? (Score 2, Insightful) 159
Remember when the Chinese destroyed that satellite in space a few years ago (2007 - geez, it's been a while) to "demonstrate their capabilities"? We NEED systems in space to defend/retaliate against that kind of stuff.
This isn't Reagan's "Star Wars" that was ridiculed. It's the new realpolitik.
Comment Re: Ok, but⦠(Score 1) 162
> One thing I noticed about modern Linux is if you "cat > file" and then press CTRL-C it overwrites with a blank file
That maybe a shell-ism. In bash if you ' >file ' with nothing else, you end up blanking the file (and updating the date/time on it) without ^C even being involved.
Comment Re:maybe the low paid rent a cops took them. You k (Score 1) 34
...and if the laptop drive wasn't even encrypted, even more of a fool.
Sucks to have stuff stolen, but the individual is responsible for taking at least basic precautions to protect property - including intellectual.
Comment As a sysadmin... (Score 1) 38
...and a former Mainframe op, this means very little to me unless / until it has a decent TUI and/or GUI interface to report on, configure, and manage things.
Give me an ISO to boot and an interface as described above, and I'll dedicate some time to testing it.
Submission + - Solar power and batteries have been keeping Europe's grid stable. (euronews.com)
AleRunner writes: "Solar has been doing the “heavy lifting” to help Europe meet its energy needs amid a string of blistering heatwaves." Euronews tells us as Europe's energy demands in the meantime, heat and Jellyfish have been causing shutdowns and reduced power output at multiple reactors at French nuclear plants as we already discussed
Submission + - AI and the 4-Day Work Week (bbc.com)
hadleyburg writes: The BBC reports "Tech leaders say AI means less work — their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week".
While a 4-day working week was suggested as one of the benefits of AI, it hasn't yet come to pass — not even in the AI companies themselves.
While a 4-day working week was suggested as one of the benefits of AI, it hasn't yet come to pass — not even in the AI companies themselves.
Comment Nothing gonna change (Score 1, Interesting) 116
Planet gonna keep getting hotter bc politicians don't have the political will to actively try fixing things
Europeans will (finally) install AC
People will keep getting sick and dying from the heat
People will relocate to try and escape from the heat
Eventually we will implement the Mexican mid-day Siesta due to the heat
After that we will be forced to convert everything to night-shift and become a night-based society starting an hour before sundown, bc nothing can be done anymore in the sunlight
Planet keeps getting hotter
Eventually the whole place is a smoking ruin and hopefully we have migrated to space cuz the Earth ain't worth living on anymore - bc H U M A N S A R E S T U P I D for destroying the only planet we were given.
Submission + - Freenet: Apps Without Platforms
Sanity writes: Earlier this year Slashdot covered the launch of the completely redesigned Freenet. I recently gave a talk about what we've been building since then. Unlike traditional web applications, apps on Freenet have no central server or database, with application state instead distributed across the network. These now include decentralized group chat, publishing, search, and fully decentralized Git hosting. The talk also gets into some of Freenet's internals, including how we use machine learning for network routing.
Comment Sigh (Score 1) 42
Having solved all other problems...
/ srsly, why do people waste their time on stupid crap like this
Submission + - Massive Debian 13 Linux Kernel Security Update Patches 68 Vulnerabilities (9to5linux.com)
prisoninmate writes: Linux blog 9to5Linux reports: "The new Debian 13 Linux kernel security update is a massive one, and it patches no less than 68 security vulnerabilities in the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel. Most of these security vulnerabilities are smaller, individually scoped fixes, ranging from use-after-free and out-of-bounds access to NULL-pointer bugs across networking, storage, and filesystem drivers. Nonetheless, these may lead to a privilege escalation, denial of service, or information leaks.
The most severe vulnerabilities patched in the new Debian 13 “Trixie” kernel security update are CVE-2026-64530, a use-after-free in the traffic-control subsystem leading to remote denial-of-service with potential for remote code execution, and CVE-2026-64531 (a.k.a. OVSwrap), a local-root vulnerability in the Open vSwitch datapath leading to local privilege escalation to root.
CVE-2026-64532 and CVE-2026-64533 are a pair of NTFS3 bugs that could lead to denial-of-service with potential memory corruption or information leak triggered by mounting a crafted NTFS filesystem, and CVE-2026-64534 and CVE-2026-64535 are two flaws in the NVMe-over-TCP target that may lead to denial-of-service."
The most severe vulnerabilities patched in the new Debian 13 “Trixie” kernel security update are CVE-2026-64530, a use-after-free in the traffic-control subsystem leading to remote denial-of-service with potential for remote code execution, and CVE-2026-64531 (a.k.a. OVSwrap), a local-root vulnerability in the Open vSwitch datapath leading to local privilege escalation to root.
CVE-2026-64532 and CVE-2026-64533 are a pair of NTFS3 bugs that could lead to denial-of-service with potential memory corruption or information leak triggered by mounting a crafted NTFS filesystem, and CVE-2026-64534 and CVE-2026-64535 are two flaws in the NVMe-over-TCP target that may lead to denial-of-service."
Submission + - FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic (axios.com)
alternative_right writes: The Trump administration has a new tactic for trying to isolate cases of alleged voter fraud â" digging into the IP addresses of those who went online to register to vote.
The FBI recently obtained the IP address of someone who registered online in South Carolina, according to documents first shared with Axios.
The FBI recently obtained the IP address of someone who registered online in South Carolina, according to documents first shared with Axios.
Submission + - China wants physical buttons on cars instead of touchscreens (autobuzz.my)
cantle2000 writes: The Chinese Government has mandated physical buttons on Chinese built cars instead of using touchscreens, from July 1st 2027. Essential functions such as the demister, defogger, power windows, lighting,and gear shifting will be button controlled instead of touchscreen controlled.
Comment Re:I have this wild idea (Score 1) 111
Even if it takes 20+ years, if we do nothing then nothing will change, obviously.
If 10,000 people spit into a bonfire multiple times, the bonfire will go out. One person won't make much difference, but a lot of people can - over time
Comment I have this wild idea (Score 1) 111
Make autonomous bots for forest strip-cleaning. Or hell, make it a game.
Give random people a joystick to a drone forest-clearing machine and tell them if they help clear firebreak lanes in the boreal forest, they will get paid.
Implement some basic "rails" controls so they can't cause havoc by bumping into other machines doing the same thing, etc and I can practically guarantee folks will sign on for this. Have someone organize things a bit and publish goals and a leaderboard.
Look at what random people have done in e.g. Minecraft for no real gain at all. If you can channel that kind of energy, the problem will sort itself.
