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dmm··on Polyamory doesn't liberate; monogamy doesn't protect
> Having an extended family all living together is another.

Collectivism has clear benefits but comes at a steep price: the need to establish and enforce group norms. The nuclear family seems like a compromise in this space, a revealed preference.

I mean, I would probably be happy living like an Orca in a matrilineal family group but, then again, I've always gotten along with my Mom. What about the people who haven't? Or who only started to once they moved out? Those people would be faced with living in a disharmonious environment or leaving to a world hostile to individuals.

dmm··on Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
You're right. It's not a driver. It's a configuration tool. I use it to associate devices with the little dongles.
dmm··on Solaar is a Linux manager for many Logitech keyboards, mice, and other devices
You can attach multiple devices to a single dongle using this app.
dmm··on Ntfs2btrfs does in-place conversion of NTFS filesystem to the open-source Btrfs
ZFS performs much better than btrfs with the many small writes that VMs produce. Why exactly is a great question. Maybe it has to do with the optimizations around the ZIL, the temporary area where sync writes are accumulated before they are written to the long-term spot.
dmm··on Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
> Because if one of those iptables fails above you're in an inconsistent state.

These days iptables is a legacy interface implemented on top of nftables. And nftables does provide atomic rule replacement: https://wiki.nftables.org/wiki-nftables/index.php/Atomic_rul...

So you would have a file with something like:

    table inet filter {
       chain input {
           tcp dport 8080 accept
       }

    }
The you would atomic apply it with:

    $ nft -f input_file
dmm··on Trump wins presidency for second time
Thanks, I didn't realize that it needed 60%. It only got ~57%.
dmm··on Trump wins presidency for second time
> think a zygote is equivalent to an infant

Missouri and Florida were won by Trump and both passed constitutional amendments to guarantee abortion access.

> think vaccines cause autism

I don't think this is a partisan issue. I've spoken to plenty of liberals who believe similar things. Basically the "crunchy mom" stereotype.

dmm··on 1 in 6 Companies Are Hesitant to Hire Recent College Graduates
> If you do not compare the results with a similar poll for when other generations where entering the market, the article reads like an arbitrary roast on Gen Z.

Every generation of Grandpas claim the winters were colder and the fish were larger then when they were kids. I won't be fooled into believing climate change and fish population collapse!

Maybe every generation of graduates is getting less employable.

dmm··on Google Play Protect now asks for PIN in order to sideload some Android apps
It depends on the implementation. Prompting for a pin for a one-time install of a downloaded apk is not a big deal.

If it requires a pin every time you install or upgrade from fdroid that would be really excessive and actively discouraging alternative app stores.

dmm··on 18 Months with a Framework 13
The 12th gen Framework supports both s2idle(s0ix) and deep(s3) sleep. I use s2idle, because it's the default.

    $ cat /sys/power/mem_sleep 
    [s2idle] deep
At one point I did a quick comparison of the two and deep sleep performed a little better. I haven't attempted any tweaks to optimize that though, like eliminating sources of wakeups.

I haven't had sleep issues like the author describes. The difference may be that I run Fedora workstation which has a opinionated ootb experience and tracks the "stable" kernel, currently 6.10.

It could be a difference in usage too. I rarely use thunderbolt, for example.

dmm··on State of S3 – Your Laptop is no Laptop anymore – a personal Rant
My intel 12th gen works find in s2idle or deep(s3) running Fedora. deep is lasts a little longer but that might be because of configuration, which is a bigger part of s2idle.

The community.frame.work forum has reports from people running newer boards so you don't have to guess before buying.

dmm··on The Great Vic Gravel Route: Crossing Victoria on Unsealed Roads (2022)
Lots of people prefer riding on gravel because of fewer cars, more hills, and rural scenery.
dmm··on Rust in Linux Revisited
The gpu driver for apple m1 silicon is written is Rust.
dmm··on Linus Torvalds talks AI, Rust, & why Linux is the only thing that matters
What things are hideous about it and what would you rather it look like?
dmm··on Orphaning Bcachefs Tools in Debian
> So errno, which needed the exact version 0.2, was relaxed so that it could build with version 0.4 in Debian, udev 0.7 was relaxed for 0.8 in Debian, memoffset from 0.8.5 to 0.6.5, paste from 1.0.11 to 1.08 and bindgen from 0.69.9 to 0.66.

This seems to be a common issue packaging newer languages with sophisticated tooling around dependencies. What is the alternative to relaxing deps?

Packaging a dozen version of the same library?

Distributing flatpaks, snaps, containers, etc instead?

dmm··on Apple vs. the "Free Market"
> You’re not forced to purchase Apple.

Smartphones are necessary to interact with the modern world. This level of importance opens them to regulation. Just because Android is an alternative doesn't change this. My town has two hospitals. The existence of some sort of choice doesn't mean hospitals should be able to be unregulated.

"Don't blame me I voted for kodos!"

> Honestly the App Store is already garbage with the heavy amount of moderation it has.

Sounds like you would be open to a more strictly moderated alternative!

dmm··on In ‘The Book Against Death,’ Elias Canetti rants against mortality
> human development will slow down: after all if it requires a generation of human scientists to die so that new ideas can be accepted then

A worse problem is that whatever generation is in control when immortality is achieved will rule the world forever. Falling fertility makes this even more likely.

dmm··on DOJ antitrust case could cost Google 50% of US mobile searches in the US
If that's true, why is google willing to pay so much to be the default?
dmm··on OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior
The alternative to ipv6 is ipv4 over cgnat, which arguable has the same problem.
dmm··on Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4
> you still need a stable address space for your LAN that survives your ISP randomly changing your prefix

The randomly changing prefix is really annoying. There's no reason for your ISP to do this other than to try and upsell you on expensive commercial services.

dmm··on Reclaiming IPv4 Class E's 240.0.0.0/4
His justification for not supported stateful dhcpv6 is completely reasonable and I wish more platforms had come to the same conclusions.
dmm··on Microplastic presence in dog and human testis
Clothes are probably a major source.
dmm··on Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise
> Well, you can't bundle GPL licensed software with less restrictive one such as BSD

Sure you can. If the result is a derivative work redistribution is subject to the terms of the GPL but you can bundle all you want.

dmm··on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose
Would isolating a Wireguard interface using namespaces as described here[0] mitigate this?

[0] https://www.wireguard.com/netns/#the-new-namespace-solution

dmm··on Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced
> they will force all their projects simultaneously onto all their users for absolutely no reason.

That's just not true. Just because a system uses systemd the init system doesn't mean the it is forced to use the other components.

dmm··on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok
People were panicking about opioid abuse in the 80s therefore concerns about fentanyl today are invalid.

People were worried about computer security 30 years ago therefore computer security is nothing to worry about today.

Russian aggression was a concern throughout the 20th century yet we are still here, Ukraine shouldn't worry so much.

What is this general form of argument called? Appeal to nothing-ever-happens?

dmm··on Lions OS: secure – fast – adaptable
Have tried Qubes? It provides security through isolated VMs. https://qubes-os.org
dmm··on C++ Safety, in Context
> A colleague once claimed that there is nothing wrong with out-of-bounds accesses as long as we don’t crash.

I need to find the source, but someone pointed out that the safety advantages of Rust are, in part, cultural and I increasingly agree. People use Rust because they care about memory safety and that care is reflected in the programs they write.

dmm··on Full AMD Linux Laptop (Radeon 7600M XT GPU, Ryzen CPU): Tuxedo Sirius 16 Review
> why around Windows 7, I ended up using VMWare Workstation instead,

Linux has gotten a lot better and windows a lot worse in the fifteen years since 7 came out. I'm forced to use Windows 11 for work and I have many, many issues with it that just aren't present in Linux.

dmm··on AI needs so much power that old coal plants are sticking around
> The only solution to ending the use of fossil fuels is banning the use of fossil fuels entirely. Technology will never do it.

If electricity is more expensive in the US because we have banned (or heavily taxed) fossil fuels, wouldn't all the AI servers just go overseas? How could AI "imports" be taxed to account for this?

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