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mrlonglongon Custom home server built from spare parts

Beware, Ubuntu are dropping ZFS. That's something that's annoyed me as that's now ruled out future upgrades

mrlonglongon Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

Damn you were lucky. I bought 96GB DDR5 last year for £600 UKP. They're now retailing for three times that.

Bastards.

mrlonglongon Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM

It is for that reason they are being archived and torrented as a very large middle finger.

mrlonglongon Unix Year 2038 problem and the art of underestimating

Let's be super safe and assume 128 bits will be sufficient for as long as the universe lasts. Whether humanity will still be around is a matter of debate.

mrlonglongon Unix Year 2038 problem and the art of underestimating

I'm still fuming over the inability to take dvd backups in the 32 bit era.

mrlonglongon NATS publishes preliminary report on technical incident of 8 September

I rather suspect the current IBM system the software runs on is much quicker than the original system it used to run on. That can increase the probability of a data race occuring.

mrlonglongon UTF-8000: Unlimited UTF-8

I love it.

Some day we'll need this when we finally realise we are not alone in the universe. Alien glyphs ftw.

mrlonglongon Gem for Linux

I've had a play with this in a VirtualBox VM running Gentoo hosted in Gentoo.

Very nice but some issues, segfaults quite a lot and the display doesn't seem to get updated correctly, moving mouse leaves black spots on the screen.

It'll be quite nice when these issues are rolled out.

mrlonglongon Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him

This is the biggest argument for socialism, you pay the taxes, get free health care and free education, every one gets the same irrespective of their status. Why do Americans get scared every time they hear "socialism"? Is it because billionaires have told them it's like "communism"? Are they so brainwashed they can't vote for policies to enable this sort of thing? No wonder the life expectancy in the US is lower than in Europe.

mrlonglongon Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP

Are they still forbidding benchmarking the Oracle database in their T&Cs? I laugh. Such litigious losers.

Postgres ftw. Long may it eat their lunch.

mrlonglongon Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him

Hard concur, and I bet every single one of these who downvoted are nepobabies themselves.

mrlonglongon Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him

Nepo dynasty.

It'll all burn eventually.

mrlonglongon Warren Buffett Steps Down as Berkshire Chairman, Names Son to Replace Him

Can he give me a few million then?

mrlonglongon Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century

Wow that's brilliant.

I'd experiment with it except I'm running Wayland from the console the old fashioned way.

I hope these issues will get ironed out soon.

mrlonglongon Douglas Adams and the exterminated Doctor Who adventure

Seems like the Doctor Who enemies really has it in for the poor old UK.

mrlonglongon Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century

Does kmscon brings back the much missed scrolling backwards ability that the console used to have decades ago?

mrlonglongon Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100

Boots. You could cook boots but they still won't be edible.

mrlonglongon Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999)

Fantastic, well done you lot.

mrlonglongon Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999)

i386 are perhaps starting to die out. Has anything like this been done for amd64? Can we play such tricks with arm and aarch64?

mrlonglongon Panix, the oldest commercial Internet provider in New York, started in 1989

Their web site is a museum in its own right. The original web before it all went commercial.

mrlonglongon Milo Yiannopoulos Detained by ICE in Louisiana

First they came for the Communists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Communist

Then they came for the Socialists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Socialist

Then they came for the trade unionists

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a trade unionist

Then they came for the Jews

And I did not speak out

Because I was not a Jew

Then they came for me

And there was no one left

To speak out for me

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came

A warning to the Repugnants. They will reap what they sow.

mrlonglongon Secrets of the Atomic City

Bhopal in India, killed thousands. Union Carbide was responsible.

mrlonglongon U.S. gov't moves to suppress pushback on data centers

Good luck with that. Order books for gas turbines are full for decades. Diesels will probably get used and pollute everything with their stink and noise.

mrlonglongon Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months

I'm waiting for China to start selling cheaper memory. They can have my money. The greed of US billionaires need to be lanced with a hefty kick in their wallets.

mrlonglongon A humble cabbage became one of the Forbidden City’s treasures (2025)

Older than Liz Truss chuckles

mrlonglongon $580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf

Truth. There was never any attempt to route it over that grave.

https://backofmind.substack.com/p/chortle-on-a-chortle

mrlonglongon $580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf

Downvoted for speaking the truth, lovely.

I'll find the article and post it shortly.

Up yours.

mrlonglongon $580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf

This is false.

The cable was already under ground where it gets to the grave.