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dixie_land··on Germany's parliament approves easing dual citizenship
IMO immigration would focus on merits AND integration more than length of residency. In the past by physically traveling and being in another country is a testament of the financial means and the willingness to adopt the new culture.

Nowadays traveling is much easier and many immigrants are simply, put it harshly, colonizing the foreign country instead of adopting it.

dixie_land··on I forked SteamOS for my living room PC
I was in a similar situation as the author: for quite a while I had to build my own Redhat kernel for a very obscure case: by pass RMRR check to pass GPU to a windows VM. (similar to https://github.com/kiler129/relax-intel-rmrr ; not my repo)

The root issue can only be addressed by ROM updates from the manufacturer but I'm running an old DL360 that's no longer supported by HPE.

The patch itself is only one line change but updating the kernel is a pain since I have to : - get SRPM (there's no git repo) - unpack SRPM, apply patch - rebuild and install

dixie_land··on Southeast Asian Scam Hubs Drawing Global Scrutiny as Reach Grows
There's a Chinese movie called No More Bets about young people being trafficked into slavery in those scams. Surprisingly good with less than usual pro-CCP propaganda.
dixie_land··on A clickjacking vulnerability in WhatsApp that enables phishing attacks
Exactly, somethings should've just been left ASCII. The push to use Unicode in many components for "inclusiveness" are simply political.
dixie_land··on Apple's tight grip on iMessage spurs fresh calls for an antitrust probe
And force coke to share their recipe
dixie_land··on Run Mistral 7B on M1 Mac
I find it hard to trust a tutorial that tells me forking curl is an exemplary way to interact with a local restful API in Python.
dixie_land··on What is the point of a public key fingerprint?
Isn't the main problem to secure the distribution of the key?

> Maybe my site has been hacked and I don’t even know it.

How would the fingerprint help in this case? If the fingerprint is also hosted on the website.

dixie_land··on Security Issue: Cloud Site Manager presented me your consoles, not mine
TP links are cheap and well made for its price, if you don't care that the CCP has a backdoor to every device
dixie_land··on UniFi Express
I feel they all but abandoned the EdgeRouter line, which hits the sweet spot of prosumer for me.
dixie_land··on test, [, and [[ (2020)
[ x"$FOO" != x"" ]
dixie_land··on OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
Can you mine 13bn+ bitcoin with 13bn worth of Azure compute power?
dixie_land··on California strikes another blow against rooftop solar
The situation is backwards because instead of taxing the sh*t out of everyone (including non solar homeowners) and give incentives to select few, people can simply afford solar (or whatever solution they want) if the government hasn't robbed them.
dixie_land··on Almost no one pays a 6% real-estate commission except Americans
A "selling" agent IS the buyer's agent, a "seller's" agent (listing agent) works for the seller.

That tells you how the agents view their job responsibilities, the buyers agent ultimately sells a house (to the buyer), the sellers agent advertises (lists) it.

dixie_land··on US Confidence in Higher Education Institutions Continues Long Decline
My understanding is that the Ivies are traditionally known for their business and law schools.

For that matter, you go to Ivies for the connections, not the education per se.

dixie_land··on Northlight technology in Alan Wake 2
When I got my 3090 back when it was first released, I was excited to finally play Control with ray tracing on, no luck. Now with Alan Wake 2 it barely runs High with ray tracing off.

It's a visually stunning engine but it's just too demanding IMO.

dixie_land··on Sam Bankman-Fried is a feature, not a bug
Non-profits are just money laundering machines for the rich with sometimes unintended positive side effects
dixie_land··on Intel Itanium IA-64 Support Removed with the Linux 6.7 Kernel
I am not nearly as knowledgeable as many of the commenters here on the hardware, but I do have first hand experiences running ARM on production at scale.

What AWS offers and what Google offers are not even close: on AWS, our workloads actually perform better (as in, higher QPS/core, resulting in fewer pods/instances), in addition to being more cost effective (both in terms of per-instance price to begging with, and less instances in total, due to aforementioned higher QPS/core serving same amount of total requests). For the limited ARM offer from Google we tested, the performance is worse than equivalent x86 instances, in addition to no price incentives.

dixie_land··on Intel Itanium IA-64 Support Removed with the Linux 6.7 Kernel
You seem very insightful on this topic. May I ask your opinion as to why ARM is taking off on the server market?
dixie_land··on Cloudflare outage – 24 hours now
A silver lining I take from this is at least we have incidents page hosted somewhere else :)

I look fondly to earlier AWS outages where everything is Green on the status page because the Red icon hosted on S3 was down...

dixie_land··on YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
No one is entitled to YT videos without ads.

But at the same time, Google is not entitled to dictate how my user agent renders a page, locally, on my own computer.

I'd have no problem if google just inject ads directly into the video streams. ( by which time, equally I'm entitled to configure my own video player to skip whichever frames I want )

dixie_land··on YouTube's 'War' on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet
Ironically the first thing I see on this article about adblocker is a pop up
dixie_land··on US immigration enforcement used AI-powered tool to scan posts derogatory to US
Thank you! Many people comment without realizing this.

Your entry into the states (visa) and your stay (status) in the states are two completely different things. When you enter with a visa, the CBP officer note your status and its validity date on your I-94.

All a visa does is afford you the opportunity to present yourself at the port of entry and request to enter, it bears no guarantee nor right to enter.

dixie_land··on Netflix is raising prices, again
But that is indeed the point, see printers and ink cartridges
dixie_land··on Waymo Layoffs
Apes together strong!
dixie_land··on Automakers invented the crime of jaywalking (2015)
The intersection to Pike Place Market is an all way crossing (to your point we're pretty cloae to Canada :) ):

https://maps.app.goo.gl/wG1Eq4E1StVjCSj18?g_st=ic

dixie_land··on Snap shutters its enterprise services division after less than a year
Snap could've become OnlyFans but Evan's ego got in the way
dixie_land··on Raspberry Pi 5
On a similar note, I'm genuinely curious as to why Pi chose the "authorized reseller" model instead of selling them directly.
dixie_land··on Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs
> arcane requirements

One of which is some sort of a posted positions/wages or something at work place. ( it doesn't have to be prominent but it has to be there, usually it's in the same forgotten corner where they post labor right rules etc., usually around the water cooler I guess )

During Covid, our company told H1Bs to print those out and put them up in their kitchen fridges since it was their temporary "worksite" XD

dixie_land··on Google, Meta, Amazon hiring low-paid H1B workers after US layoffs
And in America we earn our keep. Life is not fair, if someone's willing to work for less, you simply show up and do a better job and demand a better salary. Entitlement is not America, it's communism
dixie_land··on Flexport is rescinding a bunch of signed offer letters
You got a good point, but let me clarify a bit: my hire back was within 4 months so I didn't consume any HC since my position was not backfilled yet.

Which I do think applies to this case, esp with ones say starting next Monday, their old position is probably not backfilled yet and why not hire someone who already knew the job.

AFAIK, most FANNG companies still have some sort of 6 month to a year hire back no interview policy.

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