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it's the same idea, done slightly differently because with fedora you can start from their own atomic images and change them a bit. the setup is much easier and probably more robust because it feels less like a hack. ironically, my intermediate step between silverblue with layered packages and vyy was similar: https://github.com/myyc/silverpurple/ – using bluebuild instead of containerfiles.

exactly. plus i mean, this particular build is quite boring because it's, like i said, silverblue. vanilla gnome and all that. but one can go quite wild and make vastly different builds. building locally takes very little since it's basically decompressing a bunch of packages, moving some files around and building an initramfs, so the infrastructure one actually needs is minimal (especially if said upgrades happen silently).

i must say that even though this tech has been around for a while it's still very much WIP. much of the ostree command line is undocumented, some commands are hidden and even though there is significant overlap between rpm-ostree, ostree and bootc, they do quite different things and some things are easy with one tool and outright impossible with the other. but personally i think this is the future of "mainstream" linux, and even though "immutable linux" has been often associated to locked platforms (e.g. android), it's been fun to showcase how you can do it yourself too, with whichever distro you like.

this one technically doesn't have an ostree server because it would require dedicated infrastructure, but if you decide to either try out images (they're in ghcr) or fork the project and build your own, you can schedule nightly builds (as it's being done now) and use bootc rather than ostree. the problem is that you'd always have to pull a 2GB image rather than incremental updates.

regardless of firewalls and best practices and all, i'd just put all sorts of admin-related stuff behind tailscale (or similar), including ssh. hetzner allows you to have ssh closed in your public ip and still open a terminal via the console if ssh-on-tailscale fails. for the web stuff you should do a similar trick. blog and public websites on the public address, while admin stuff goes on tailscale. and if you do it nicely with letsencrypt you can even have nice hostnames pointing to your private stuff.

but but but what about "made in rust(tm)"

lol at scientific papers using the word "caucasian" like it's the 70s

that's my favourite feature :)

regardless, kindle books can be cracked. not the easiest thing ever, but it's doable. cracking ADE books is much, much easier. i crack all my ebooks because otherwise i can't read them in my ereader

i am not sure why everyone (comments, this post, etc.) assume there is a one-size-fits-all solution to every problem, even this one that looks quite simple. companies have to align a few things, ranging from the skills of the current employees, hiring plans, investor/shareholder management, or how to make sure the CEO really gets that boat he really wants and deserves.

not all businesses are the same. businesses with fat contracts but few users won't have massive operating costs, and they can use whichever easy and non-scalable technology they want, because once the business scales up, those fat contracts will pay for enough data engineers. a gaming startup will face high server costs right away, without any optimisation, while data platforms (e.g. bigquery) with a tiny bit of optimisation (materialising 2-3 summary tables, for example) will bring the cost down to "laughable" pretty easily.

it is true that many of these things are choices, e.g. do you really want to spend a shit ton of money for looker when superset for most users is just as good? are you even able to make that choice? if these choices are hard to make because a potential user (or set of users) in the company really wants something instead of something else, well, that is not a technical choice, and the issue you have has nothing to do with the technology.

plenty of countries in the world where this is a non-issue :)

not what i said at all. it's obvious that the cradle is a whitewashed organ of a dictatorship that pretends to be neutral.

very few people bringing up that thecradle is a pro-mullahs, pro-russia and pro-hezbollah outlet disguised as a normal geopolitics website? :)

i enjoyed the shitstorm i unintentionally created but i don't think most people (even religious ones) make the connection with dhu-l-qarnayn. it's probably, like someone else said, something that has to do with softer or harder persian nationalism. after all, even religious iranians are still iranians.

not sure to which degree current islamic republic brainwashing has messed up with this but many "modern not too or not at all religious iranians" call alexander the great just "alexander" and don't have a good view of him.

trigger warning: serbia is referred to as "southern europe"

the hype in terms of money they can pour here could potentially be a factor, as opposed to "feature completeness" right now.

i mean right now one can't even sign up properly. but obviously since they want to compete on a platform level as opposed to whatever you were doing for them, surely "not being able to create an account" isn't gonna draw users away from gcp/aws.

it is a bit baffling that 99% of the articles talking about greece go on and on about a period that after all lasted 300-400 years and until the macedonians it was sort of politically irrelevant. this compared to the thousand years of hellenised eastern roman empire where not the same philosophical works have been written, but "byzantine domination", really?

those were greeks and the main inspiration for both the great idea (it was about restoring byzantine prestige, certainly not "athenian"), and the state structure afterwards, with kings called constantine and the church as a relevant part of the state.

"modern greeks don't seem to have much to do with the old ones". that's right. I wonder what happened in those 2000 years we keep wanting to ignore.

the whole argument is based on a single unverified piece of data. it also doesn't get elaborated on further, backed up or explained. do those 90000 deaths also include famous "prescription opioids"? etc

portugal arresting heroin users who do it in public is obviously besides the point and good for a "see??" sort of reaction only. if decriminalisation has worked in the places where it's been implemented the case is closed.

there is no closed form, like you say, and the additional complexity is around ergodicity, i.e. solutions that start close to each other might end up very far from each other after a certain point. this is also an issue with computer simulations as the error might accumulate and push solutions away. in practice, given the amount of cosmological computations people do on a daily basis, including those for satellites and rockets, this might not necessarily be that big of an issue, but i don't work with that stuff on a daily basis.

that case is beyond scope of the three body problem

yeah. obviously mine is a half provocation because shipping "two vaccines" to "one person" isn't feasible considering temperature etc., but if countries had the balls (which they don't) they should take a bit of a U-turn and allow bulks of unused vaccines, perhaps even asking the people "are you sure you don't want to get vaccinated this year? y/n", to get shipped elsewhere once they reach a feasible number.

it is a scandal, especially considering the amount of non-immunised people at risk in the rest of the world. i fall in that category (recovered) and i would even pay to give my vaccines away.

If I am not mistaken there have been some restrictions on cutting edge technology of the time (electronics, for instance) but I am not sure whether that has been implemented in practice, especially in Germany and Japan, but also in Italy.

Germany and Japan, though, got heavily de-industrialised and there was a conscious plan to bring the living standards to a much lower level than they used to be. Patents also got seized, and in general Germany and Austria did not recover their pre-WW2 prestige, even, for instance, in terms of the "new Heisenbergs and Schrödingers", which never came.

Let's not confuse payments with loans (Europe is not Israel). Let's also not ignore the fact that there have been plenty of analyses showing that post-WWII Europe showed a natural recovery independent of US aid in several countries, and let's not ignore the shackles imposed by the winning powers on several technologies, not to be developed further.

This statement is also incorrect when referred to several key places the US have picked over the years (e.g. Pinochet's Chile or Syngman Rhee / Park Chung-Hee's Korea), and of course looking at the constant heavy military occupation of several "allied" countries, a fact without precedents in history, rather than the fable of "exporting democracy" this just looks like version 2.0 of the British Empire :)

the title says "drug users use a lot of drugs". either it's shamelessly clickbaiting or it's what the author thinks. we move to the ketamine section, again, "two studies on users". one clicks on the chinese one and the word "chronic" is in the title. the study focuses on them only. the english one is on "addiction research" but the study is more complex than this dude's summary. he says that "both find that they [the users] take about 90mg". this is, of course, not what the UK paper says, as one can check in the paper.

and to your point: some places have draconian laws about possession of MA in the same amounts that get prescribed in the US. if i were from thailand i would argue that this person is shamelessly drugging his patients.

there is nothing wrong with telling the truth about occasional recreational use, and yes, "drug addicts use a lot of drugs". that's a necessary condition for "addiction".

hooray another article that focuses on the heavy tail of severe addiction and generalises it to the general public who uses drugs. humanity really needed this!

or, worse, someone who is a fellow at the "victims of communism memorial foundation", like it's not a completely bogus entity. literally any article on the topic this week (and plenty before) has him as the only source.

the "uyghur problem" for china is that there is an ethnic minority that is substantially poorer than the average, worse educated, less integrated and some of which has been involved in terrorist attacks. this is the same thing that france calls "separatism". they use a better word but it's inevitably about muslims.

as i have said a thousand times though, i don't think they're approaching this "problem" the right way.

let's first address the heart of the matter, as i've said in a few comments: i think it would be great to have an explanation from china on what the hell is actually going on in xinjiang, and if those claims are correct, i obviously think that policy is atrocious. it's still not a genocide, of course, as there is no planned extermination. it's not just "not to the extreme level of the holocaust". it just isn't a genocide. it doesn't have to be a genocide to be despicable.

on the data: if by "we" you mean adrian zenz then you're out of luck when it comes to quality. i'd like to see better sources than someone who thinks he's in a mission from god like he's the blues brothers. china hasn't done "a great job" at framing the west for lying otherwise there wouldn't be a wikipedia page and we wouldn't be discussing this on hacker news. the sad reality is that china doesn't give a shit about its reputation abroad, which is why many of the rebuttals to those claims are in chinese. one is here: https://twitter.com/globaltimesnews/status/13029926735409111... – it's by the chinese state media so one can still claim they're lying.

on the "cities that were once heavy uyghur communities ..." as i mentioned above: kashgar still has a lot of uyghurs. they go to their mosques and so on.

what is true, however, is that china is encouraging resettlement of han chinese (they've been doing it for decades), for the sole purpose of making the uyghurs a minority in their own land. this is something that personally i don't like, but (here comes the whataboutism) i have not seen a single piece of criticism when this happened literally everywhere else, minus of course when it was accompanied by planned extermination, which only applies to anatolia's christian minorities, as the jews were already a small minority in the locations that were affected by the deportations.