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noselasd··on Baidu released ERNIE 5.5 Flash Base
Detect might be hard, but enforcing isn't neccesarily so. You file a civil lawsuit and then it's up to courts to enforce the contract (as this would be viewd in EU or copyright infringement (in the US).
noselasd··on So my ISP was hijacking my DNS
Very few, if any, countries makes this illegal.

Some countries have laws around Net Neutrality or Open Internet that can protect you from this, but even those countries have other legislations that can superseed that in specific cases. (e.g. hijacking DNS can be completely legal for some child protection laws, or to uphold laws that makes some web sites illegal)

noselasd··on So my ISP was hijacking my DNS
Note that there are ISPs that actively hijack traffic to UDP port 53 further inside their network and transparently maps that onto their internal DNS servers.
noselasd··on WTF Ubuntu?
Updated and rebooted an LTS server today. It was a disaster.

Kubernetes node went to pieces. Apparmor prevented nginx from doing anything sensible, so the ingress didn't work. Easy fix when you know what's up, not so apparent when starting troubleshooting.

One app invoked tshark in a pod, apparmor denied it.

Those two were the visible ones. Apparmor now also blocks some unix signals that e.g. postgres uses in a few circumstances - leaving latent annoying bugs.

Pod shutdown hangs. Logs indicate 7 more apps affected by the signal "armor".

We're banning any new Ubuntu installs.

noselasd··on Subnormal floating-point numbers are expensive on Intel processors
The article covers 5 CPUs.
noselasd··on The engineering behind the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Sun, rain, hurricanes, wind, debris is not friendly to long term oil storage.
noselasd··on Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time
Diesel in Norway was about €2.5 a litre today.
noselasd··on Alternative(s) to run CUDA on non-Nvidia hardware
You can skip the porting part.
noselasd··on Qualcomm Linux 2.0
Ofcourse they can. But which particular person will do it ?

The "upstream" people deal with their own drivers, subsystems or tasks which takes up their time - but if someone feels they want to take on this too, they'll do it (normally that doesn't happen - it's up to the original authors to take responsibility)

noselasd··on Coreutils for Windows
users , especially non-technical, find it highly useful in my experience. Is it a net positive to get rid of them, or will it largely only make developers happier ?
noselasd··on Incident with Actions and Pages
I've set up a local gitea now, and configured a few local runners as we test this setup out.

It's a few hours worth of work. Basic git operations and pull requests works fine for us already.

The interesting part will be how much maintenance this will need, and not the least how hard it'll be to port over github actions. We have trivial workflows, but I suspect this conversion will be the painful part.

noselasd··on Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame
So by coincidence, not by design then.
noselasd··on The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017)
Not really. Wifi does not do CSMA/CD. It does CSMA/CA, something quite different.

Wifi is in any case not considered a bus network, rather a star topology network.

noselasd··on Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data
> But... Why on earth do the people filing an administrative subpoena not have to notify the interested parties too?

Generally they do - with some notable exceptions being if you're a non-citizen and you're no longer in the US, and it's either a criminal investigation or related to intelligence or national security.

noselasd··on Do you even need a database?
Yes, the code in the article will at one unlucky point end up with an empty file after a power outage.

At least write to a temp file(in the same filesystem), fsync the file and its folder and rename it over the original.

noselasd··on MAUI Is Coming to Linux
It just means "noone" uses the wayland APIs directly, but instead they leave the wayland complexity to GTK,Qt or FLTK, and they call their app a Qt app, not a Wayland app.
noselasd··on Datacenters in space aren't going to work
A typical CPU heatsink dissipates 10-30% of heat through radiation, and the rest through convection. In space you're in a vacuum so you can't disipated heat through convection.

You need to rework your physical equipment quite substantially to make up for the fact you can't shed 70-90% of the heat in the same manner as you can down here on Earth

noselasd··on Datacenters in space aren't going to work
Is it an advantage though ? One of the main objections in the article is exactly that.

There's no atmosphere that helps with heat loss through convection, there's nowhere to shed heat through conduction, all you have is radiation. It is a serious engineering challenge for spacecrafts to getting rid of the little heat they generate, and avoid being overheated by the sun.

noselasd··on Japan's gamble to turn island of Hokkaido into global chip hub
They are doing _something_ according to https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/european-c... . It'd be good for someone with more knowledge to summarise what this act means though.
noselasd··on Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani's policies as 'normal'
> Norwegians self identify as socialist for example

Er.. that's not even remotely true

noselasd··on Kafka is Fast – I'll use Postgres
No, it's for every batch.
noselasd··on How I turned Zig into my favorite language to write network programs in
Mostly out of curiosity, a read on a TCP connection could easily block for a month - how does the I/O timeout interface look like ? e.g. if you want to send an application level heartbeat when a read has blocked for 30 seconds.
noselasd··on Mosquitoes discovered in Iceland for the first time
Iceland does have a lot of gnats, midges, flies etc. that are just as big a nusance.
noselasd··on SpaceX disables 2,500 Starlink terminals allegedly used by Asian scam centers
Yes, seems so - but they shut down a lot more terminals too, not just the seized ones.

And it seems the biggest reason for them shutting down the terminals was pressure from US Senator Maggie Hassan to shut down scam centers, not the government in Myanmar.

noselasd··on Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species
Yes, in some areas - but not e.g. on Sicily. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-O4_AwWpfI gives perhaps a better overview

M. Ibericus produces 4 kinds of offsprings.

    1. M. Ibericus queen + no male (unfertilized egg) -> M. Ibericus male.
    2. M. Ibericus queen + M. Ibericus male -> M. Ibericus queen
    3. M. Ibericus queen + M. Structor male -> M. Structor male, no genes from the mother
    4. M. Ibericus queen + M. Structor male -> M. Structor/Ibericus hybrid female, (worker ant, infertile)
noselasd··on Ants that seem to defy biology – They lay eggs that hatch into another species
I thought one of the big points was there's no M. structor females on the islands.
noselasd··on Wind turbine blade transportation challenges
They tip over from inertia or a small wind gust.
noselasd··on Europe is locking itself in to US LNG
Do the list go on ? For gas Q2 2025, figure 5 at https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports it's

    UK          5,6%
    Azerbadjan  3,8%
    Algeria    12,5%
    Norway     30,1%
    Other LNG   9,4%
    USA LNG    27,2%
    Russia     11,5%
Most of the "Other LNG" comes from Turkstream in the underlying data. Edit: I was wrong, Turkstream is included in "Russia", other sources points to Qatar and Nigeria being the largest part of "Other LNG"

If I read it right, for oil in Q1 2025, https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php...

    United States    15,0%
    Norway           13,5%
    Kazakhstan       12,7%
    Libya             9,0%
    Saudi Arabia      6,6%
    Nigeria           6,3%
    United Kingdom    5,2%
    Iraq              4,5%
    Guyana            4,3%
    Brazil            4,1%
    Azerbaijan        4,1%
    Algeria           3,4%
    Russia            2,5%
    Mexico            2,1%
    Other             6,6%
noselasd··on ICE is using fake cell towers to spy on people's phones
Those Attach Rejects should have a cause value, possibly telling a bit more on the reject reason.

I see those quite frequently, the bulk of them are phones trying to roam in a network they're not allowed to though, and some cause the cell is a bit overloaded, some cause the phone sends a wrong tracking area - not sure that's a phone bug or a common scenario where the phone retains an old tracking area, then it tries to connect to the same tracking area - then the phone discovers it's is now in a different tracking area, and after being rejected, it connects with the correct one.

noselasd··on VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong
Proxmox is an amazing alternative
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