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You can't fight political issues with clever technical solutions

20 years of giving love to a soulless corporation

you don't have to be ideological. You can be perfectly rational and continue a seemingly useless pointless war, when the alternative is "armed men return home and start to question your power". Your goal is to stay in power and every move which helps you with it is rational

Mass scale internet censorship in Russia also started with the premise of "protecting the children"

When you put in law that ISPs should adhere to some government-provided blocklist, this is already a game over. No matter how sane your government is. The government in 10 years might be vastly different, and the ability to control the ISPs is too alluring to not abuse

I'd rather live in a world where you could find words like "kill all russians", or child porn, or blatant propaganda than to live with the government censorship. I lived in Russia and the experience was nightmare. Who knows, maybe if the government didn't have the tools they had then the independent media would still be reachable by an average russian, the pictures of the pointless massacre would be public and the war would be over in a week

fascinating. And who is that mythical person in charge

I tried to delete my account on GitHub. I could not. The gdpr compliance email address they provide happily accepts emails but my account is still there, after more than 3 months.

Why am I writing this here? To show you an example of being powerless to the system. The only things I can do is things you can call "petty", like wearing a "Microsoft employees deserve Gulag" t-shirt. Since I tried many other options and failed multiple times

I enjoyed it, although it was not an ISP call center with humongous amount of callers... Maybe 50 percent of the time in the office you were talking

I don't have the answer about "what to do in 5 years"

But, I think in this year you can avoid reading HN if the news about AI hurt. AI only exists if you let it inside your brain, you can remove most of AI by not reading news

I tried running the elder scrolls Redguard, on wine, which launches windows version of dosbox with glide support. Redguard is a weird beast which is installed only with windows installer, but the actual game runs in dos mode

Everything works but the frame rate isn't great

If anyone knows a good Redguard setup for Linux please mail me, you can guess my mail easily. Now I just run the gog version

just installed yesterday the certbot on ubuntu 24.04, from the default repos, without any snaps

to be honest, the only downside with this idea is that in case you succeed, you are left with a group of people who like killing elites (and who can switch their definition of "elites" to include you)

February 2022 war

I had a bad experience with it. We hired a contractor and he

1. insisted on a pre-war version of ubuntu

2. insisted on the cockpit. So you no longer can modify the NFS exports over ssh, you need to connect to this HTTP abomination. Very nice. Always wanted to open more ports on my servers

it was some mobile ISP in Russia. Maybe 6 or 8 years ago

I'd rather have some expired cert than http

I saw once my ISP injecting javascript ads into http traffic and the horror is with me forever

people are trying to run as fast as they can so that they are not left behind

(I've never run openclaw but planning)

bookmarking in case someone posts an answer

what is a "performative profanity"? A profanity which only goal is to be performed, said out loud? What other goals does a profanity have? I guess to hurt feelings of another person?

Infiniband cards are connected to the rest of the machine with the PCIe as well

I hope you will never have to implement DNSSEC

I had a couple of nice moments, like claude helping me with rust (which I don't understand) and claude finding a bug in a python library I was using

Also some not so nice moments (small rust changes were OK, but with a big one claude fumbled + I couldn't really verify that it worked so I didn't merge to code to master even when it seemingly worked)

I think it really helps to break the ice so to say. You no longer feel the tension, the pain of an empty page. You ask claude to write something, and improving something is so mentally easier

Also I mostly use claude as a spell checker / linter for the projects I'm too lazy to install proper tools for that. vim + claude, what else would you need

Luckily my company pays for the subscription, speding personal money on LLMs (especially on US LLMs) would feel strange for some reason. Ideally I want to own an LLM, have it at home but I am too lazy

you can count the paper votes only in your voting point/building. If there are abnormalities you can alert other people to trigger the global recounting

Yes, it's not foolproof, attacker can just modify the electronic voting data in places where he knows people don't usually do recounting. But it makes his job harder

you can still buy air-cooled versions of b300, seems nice to have for a hobbyist

Maybe you should redirect your hate towards the thing you can influence -- your own government who supposedly "lets too many fake refugees in".

you can absolutely run e.g. datacenter-level A100 at home, there are adapters from the SXM to the PCIe socket. Haven't seen people running SXM versions of H100s this way but this could be due to the price factor only

Just want to say something in defence of cloud providers

- sometimes you need to limit the list of available CPU features to allow live migration between different hypervisors

- even if you migrate the virtual machine to the latest state of the art CPU, /proc/cpuinfo won't reflect it (linux would go crazy if you tried to switch the CPU information on the fly) (the frequency boost would be measurable though, just not via /proc/cpuinfo )

Jesus christ, AWS has niches

This shouldn't surprise me, knowledge of a code base is a competitive advantage. But there is just something depressing about it. Maybe it being closed source and you having to learn it by being burned by undocumented behavior? Please tell more

any electricians here who want to give a piece of advice?

the news were there. I read about the russian army near the border. Russian media posted the quotes by european leaders. Still I kind of ignored it.

Interestingly, people on twitter learned that it happened first, because google maps near border cities suddenly started to display traffic jams early in the morning.

If assume the goal of the US administration is to really limit the weapons of mass destruction

then why the previous peacefull attempts were thrown out? I remember Iran agreed to limit the production or ivite the people to watch their actions, the US sanctions were even lifted in 2015. But then later reiplemented by the US for some reason.

unrelated to all of this, I don't understand what's the problem is with a country developing nuclear weapons. US can nuke Iran with ICBMs anyway if they try to use them?

why?