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[00:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes RTX 2000-Series GPUs With "Super" Branding - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:21] <exec> 08└─Used to be outsized demand allowed price increases instead of additional production runs. That was during the great cryptocurrency mining rush, before the IRS caught on.
[00:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canon Crowdfunds a Small, Clippable Camera - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:37] <exec> 08└─6. It skirts around the real use that these can be clipped onto a shoe for the perverts.
[00:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Jim Keller Promises That "Moore's Law" is Not Dead, Outlines 50x Improvement Plan - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:52] <exec> 08└─But let's just redefine Moore's Law! Instead of making better chips, we'll just get you to buy twice as many. Bang double the compute power!!
[00:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Jim Keller Promises That "Moore's Law" is Not Dead, Outlines 50x Improvement Plan - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:53] <exec> 08└─Wired has been garbage since the 90s. I'm surprised they are still around.
[00:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Jim Keller Promises That "Moore's Law" is Not Dead, Outlines 50x Improvement Plan - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:56] <exec> 08└─but otherwise correct. In the past the marketers could basically sell the customer whatever they wanted and engineering had to fix it, but Intel cut too many corners on employee bonuses and ensuring any kind of work-life balance between the 1980s and the 2000s, finally culling enough people that the...
[00:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Jim Keller Promises That "Moore's Law" is Not Dead, Outlines 50x Improvement Plan - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:58] <exec> 08└─Intel suxxors.
[00:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Jim Keller Promises That "Moore's Law" is Not Dead, Outlines 50x Improvement Plan - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:00] <exec> 08└─Accountants generally hate spending on R&D.
[00:23:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03redneckmother [3597] 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:12] <exec> 08└─Why do 9 out of every 10 Southern Baptist preachers drink Jim Beam? Square bottles don't roll out from under the car seat.
[00:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:18] <exec> 08└─uhh, the spirits are burning away in a fire.
[00:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:20] <exec> 08└─If they lose 1% of their warehouse capacity every 20 years this way, yeah, that's probably an acceptable loss compared to beefing up security or even fire safety. Old buildings are cheap, extra headcount for security or even construction labor for structure remediation is expensive. And their produc...
[00:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:22] <exec> 08└─Keep your spirits up, folks.
[00:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:24] <exec> 08└─Not even. Vodka's still more effective and cheaper.
[00:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:27] <exec> 08└─People had the same thought about the collapse of the Russian economy meaning less deaths from Vodka abuse. Turns out that the substitutes were often much nastier.
[00:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HIV "Cured" in Mice by Combining CRISPR/Cas9 With Antiviral Drug Nanocrystals - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:38] <exec> 08└─says, there are "billions and trillions" of particles so you're asking CRISPR to excise every single DNA provirus in this morass. He adds, "it would be inconceivable that it would be efficient enough to destroy every DNA molecule.... If one infectious particle remains, it will grow and replicate. Yo...
[00:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We've Already Built too Many Power Plants and Cars to Prevent 1.5 °C of Warming - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:41] <exec> 08└─Nothing in conflict. It seems like you and the wswswswsws both share a healthy contempt for the Fed and corporations, so I'm hoping they might prod you in the right direction. Your analysis seems to be going in the right direction, especially wrt needing infinite growth to make the system work. The...
[00:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We've Already Built too Many Power Plants and Cars to Prevent 1.5 °C of Warming - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:43] <exec> 08└─Vociferous here too.
[00:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We've Already Built too Many Power Plants and Cars to Prevent 1.5 °C of Warming - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:45] <exec> 08└─both share a healthy contempt for the Fed and corporations
[00:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We've Already Built too Many Power Plants and Cars to Prevent 1.5 °C of Warming - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:47] <exec> 08└─Yea, checked it. At first glance it is the same old boring ideas that require mass murder to work in theory and still fail despite mass murder in practice. If you claim it is different then let me know.
[00:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hard-to-Kill Poop Parasites That Lurk in Swimming Pools on the Rise, CDC Warns - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:38] <exec> 08└─The answer is obivously no from reading the original post. Just wait until the retard rage from these people turns against you because they always need a target for hatred.
[00:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hard-to-Kill Poop Parasites That Lurk in Swimming Pools on the Rise, CDC Warns - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:40] <exec> 08└─What politician doesn't fill your pool with crap, or piss in your pond? :)
[00:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hard-to-Kill Poop Parasites That Lurk in Swimming Pools on the Rise, CDC Warns - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:42] <exec> 08└─A. So could it be? B . Or no, that is impossible? A or B, simple question.
[00:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Scrapping Prototype Code And Rewritting It In Another Language ... - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:39] <exec> 08└─The linux kernel only takes 15seconds to 2 minutes on a modern ryzen processor. But if you go back to anything older, it takes between hours and days to do a full compile, and even a subset compile can take over an hour to multiple hours. Converting any part of the linux kernel to C++ would be a dev...
[00:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Scrapping Prototype Code And Rewritting It In Another Language ... - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:40] <exec> 08└─Last time I truly investigated it was 2013 - seems there has been some development/maintenance activity as of 2016 - but... if you dig in, there are VERY few people who have contributed to the project in the last 10 years, and precious little activity in that time too. Anybody can put up a decent we...
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[01:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canon Crowdfunds a Small, Clippable Camera - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:31] <exec> 08└─Has it got stereo in/out audio ports? Timelapse. Digic9+? I get really MAD at Canon when the low end sh!t gets better toys than the pro kit, which delays updates, and delays updates. Been with Canon for over 15 years, but I think the horse is dead. New 6Dii scores much lower than the original 6D on...
[01:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canon Crowdfunds a Small, Clippable Camera - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:33] <exec> 08└─Corporation with loads of capital shall not tap funds meant for cash strapped startups with good ideas. Both players must skip next turn.
[01:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:14] <exec> 08└─Old buildings are cheap, extra headcount for security or even construction labor for structure remediation is expensive.
[01:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:15] <exec> 08└─I'm not all that upset, as Jim Beam is the poor man's Jack Daniel's. And Evan Williams is the poor man's Jim Beam. And Scots Whisky is the rich man's paint remover.
[01:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HIV "Cured" in Mice by Combining CRISPR/Cas9 With Antiviral Drug Nanocrystals - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:26] <exec> 08└─but but... when you're drunk and passed out, how do you keep the mice from self-servicing? Do we need to attach mouse traps to our family jewels?
[01:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We've Already Built too Many Power Plants and Cars to Prevent 1.5 °C of Warming - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:35] <exec> 08└─It's all that fookin XML.
[01:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We've Already Built too Many Power Plants and Cars to Prevent 1.5 °C of Warming - 1931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:36] <exec> 08└─>Just askin', how much % of CO2 is man related, or anthropogenic if you like big words, compared to total emissions? That *is* the question - but it's not quite specific enough. There are two different carbon cycles going on: - the ecological carbon cycle, where carbon cycles through living things:...
[01:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We've Already Built too Many Power Plants and Cars to Prevent 1.5 °C of Warming - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:38] <exec> 08└─Nuclear is the only answer. There are over a billion people in China, and over a billion people in India. They burn coal, oil, and natural gas. They won't do that if we nuke them.
[01:26:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Hard-to-Kill Poop Parasites That Lurk in Swimming Pools on the Rise, CDC Warns - 268 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:21] <exec> 08└─You're funny, but the scary part is that nobody is really shitting in the pool. I was reading another article about this: People have an average of 0.14 grams of poop on their bottoms. This poop can wash off swimmers’ bodies and can contaminate the water with germs.
[01:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hard-to-Kill Poop Parasites That Lurk in Swimming Pools on the Rise, CDC Warns - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:33] <exec> 08└─Interesting... so we need a butt wash station, like a car wash station, for every public pool and have it as a mandatory gate into the pool. Sounds like a viable business model there buddy!
[01:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Scrapping Prototype Code And Rewritting It In Another Language ... - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:33] <exec> 08└─Even more, if the things are moving towards a RFC, you could start with what you have already as a "reference implementation of the specification in Ada". This way your code can stand on its ownthe current code will not have to pretend it is "The Implementation" or make any claims to performancenoth...
[01:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Scrapping Prototype Code And Rewritting It In Another Language ... - 1388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:34] <exec> 08└─Aren't you supposed to slam out a prototype / PoC in a scripting language like Perl or Python? Then you declare it 0.9 and release it. Years pass and maybe somebody does a rewrite in a real language, maybe they just keep telling people complaining about performance to buy a faster computer. That is...
[01:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Installs Surveillance App on Smartphones of Visitors to Xinjiang Region - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:00] <exec> 08└─No because they made it sound like they're oppressing muslims for being muslims. They aren't they oppress anyone that they see as a threat to their power base - regardless if they're muslims. Mentioning the fact that there's muslim minority there is utterly pointless and have absolutely nothing to d...
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[02:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:28] <exec> 08└─That Google's results aren't already clogged with spam? The whole internet is choking on it. Well, except for here, it's all good
[02:26:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] 02 - 06Hard-to-Kill Poop Parasites That Lurk in Swimming Pools on the Rise, CDC Warns - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:10] <exec> 08└─People are getting sick because other people are shitting in the swimming pool. Pretty much the story of humanity since... I was going to say the industrial revolution, but let’s face it, we’ve been a short-sighted species pretty much since we climbed out of the trees, so... forever.
[02:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Scrapping Prototype Code And Rewritting It In Another Language ... - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:57] <exec> 08└─I believe Rust has garbage collection too, but you only get it if you ask for it, and only for the data you ask to be garbage collected.
[02:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Scrapping Prototype Code And Rewritting It In Another Language ... - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:58] <exec> 08└─What do you think about C#?
[02:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disrupted Sleep in One's 50s, 60s Raises Risk of Alzheimer's Disease - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:23] <exec> 08└─Thank you! Sometimes I wonder why I give so much time to this site, and then I see a comment like this one. Please accept a "+1 Insightful" from me!
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[03:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─In 1984 I was engaged in a local BBS hacking contest, and the most effective weapon against the "open" board was a bot that logged in at all hours of the night and day and pretended to post stories. It actually did post stuff, and within a few days the 88K floppy disk would be full and the board wou...
[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:28] <exec> 08└─Well, except for here, it's all good for now
[03:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:31] <exec> 08└─The solution is straightforward -- curated data where people determine what gets published. Of course this takes effort and costs money, but (for an obvious example), I'm quite happy subscribing to my local newspaper. Another source (on certain topics) is https://www.wolframalpha.com [wolframalpha....
[03:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:42] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I prefer the green or black label Jim Beam over Jack.
[03:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:43] <exec> 08└─But then 3 people die in the fire: what is the TCO now? 3 people die in a fire, once a year every 3 years. TCO? That's what i see in 'corporate security': millions of people's private data stolen, but who cares because zero executives are held accountable and the hit to their bottom line is like a s...
[03:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:46] <exec> 08└─Doesn't bourbon require new barrels? Yep: https://thewhiskeywash.com [thewhiskeywash.com]
[03:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hard-to-Kill Poop Parasites That Lurk in Swimming Pools on the Rise, CDC Warns - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:02] <exec> 08└─I mostly agree with you, but let me point out that shit is everywhere. There's shit on your hands right now. It might be a statistically insignificant amount of shit, but if you used state of the art instruments to measure it, it would show up. Hell, we grow our food in shit (generally not human shi...
[03:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Scrapping Prototype Code And Rewritting It In Another Language ... - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:06] <exec> 08└─Go has be stable for 7.5 years. It has a very small, well written spec and a backward compatibility promise. I'm willing to wager double digits of USD that it will continue to be stable for 2.5 more years (and I would wager more depending on the exact wording of the wager).
[03:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disrupted Sleep in One's 50s, 60s Raises Risk of Alzheimer's Disease - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:31] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that disrupted sleep is not the same thing as insufficient sleep, especially since we had an article not too long ago about the myth of needing continuous sleep: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[03:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disrupted Sleep in One's 50s, 60s Raises Risk of Alzheimer's Disease - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:33] <exec> 08└─Insomnia in late middle age is symptomatic of declining thyroid function, which also eventually causes brain deterioration; at a guess, that and the associated biochemical imbalances lets Alzheimer's plaques develop where they otherwise might not. Thyroid affects *everything*, and should be the firs...
[03:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists "Speechless" at Arctic Fox's Epic Trek - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:52] <exec> 08└─arctic fox do eat the baby gulls.
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[04:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:45] <exec> 08└─But read a little more closely and you realize it references magazines, people, and — crucially — Instagram filters that don’t exist:
[04:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:46] <exec> 08└─i have found quite a few sites that look like review or opinion blogs, but, despite proper sentence and paragraph structure, are actually content free. Ads on sidebars and banners*, links to other sites (also content free), so they must be generating 0.00001 cent for someone, or maybe they boost som...
[04:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:48] <exec> 08└─Hipcrime was an early attack on usenet, back in the day.
[04:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Jim Keller Promises That "Moore's Law" is Not Dead, Outlines 50x Improvement Plan - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:37] <exec> 08└─Many times over the years, I've heard that Intel is an extremely demanding employer. Used to be a site about it, faceintel.com. The Wayback Machine has a copy: https://web.archive.org [archive.org]
[04:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:06] <exec> 08└─Useful for killing insects and cleaning the toilet
[04:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disrupted Sleep in One's 50s, 60s Raises Risk of Alzheimer's Disease - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:54] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I wonder why I give so much time to this site,
[04:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilJim [2501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Installs Surveillance App on Smartphones of Visitors to Xinjiang Region - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:00] <exec> 08└─woah, their social credit system is a harsh mistress.
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[05:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linode Reboots of our Servers Completed [Updated] - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:38] <exec> 08└─EF is still able to shitpost, gotta run Kaspersky AV and use trolls to catch trolls!
[05:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:53] <exec> 08└─There's no better time than now
[05:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:55] <exec> 08└─But like most AI-generated text, it would only have surface meaning, with little correspondence to the real world. It would be the information equivalent of empty calories
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[05:22:57] <exec> 08└─The problem with all these systems is that they are effectively anonymous. There is nothing securely tying the actual identity of the poster to the posts/blogs/articles/news/etc. In the early days of the internet there was at least a human (with a few tiny exceptions) spewing the garbage. But, most...
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[05:22:59] <exec> 08└─reputation/trust system for sites Just as easy to game. Let's just get used to the fact that you won't know if you're talking to a real human unless you're face to face, and even that will be out the window when robots get really good.
[05:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Installs Surveillance App on Smartphones of Visitors to Xinjiang Region - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:11] <exec> 08└─No because they made it sound like they're oppressing muslims for being muslims.
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[06:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Wants to Make the 25-year-old robots.txt Protocol an Internet Standard - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:38] <exec> 08└─robots.txt discriminates by useragent, and many naive websites outright disallow any unrecognized wildcard useragents, while whitelisting established search engines. This effectively blocks any new search engines from competing. Their only recourse is to ignore robots.txt (or at least impersonate go...
[06:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:09] <exec> 08└─Google is CIA, nothing more, and nothing less. Google itself behaves like an artificial hungry beast from a Czech folk fairy tale, a wooden personification of hunger. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Google wants to consume any information, because it is CIA. This is a ver...
[06:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Jim Keller Promises That "Moore's Law" is Not Dead, Outlines 50x Improvement Plan - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:58] <exec> 08└─How many years has it taken to double CPU single thread performance? Still seems like we're plateauing on single threaded performance and the rest of the performance increases is on parallel stuff. Parallel performance is a far easier problem to solve - make it cheaper, use less power and generate l...
[06:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HIV "Cured" in Mice by Combining CRISPR/Cas9 With Antiviral Drug Nanocrystals - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:41] <exec> 08└─...from infected humanized mice
[06:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HIV "Cured" in Mice by Combining CRISPR/Cas9 With Antiviral Drug Nanocrystals - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:43] <exec> 08└─The mind simply reels.
[06:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Scrapping Prototype Code And Rewritting It In Another Language ... - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:55] <exec> 08└─No, Rust doese not have any form of garbage collection. There have been movements to provide gc as a library (if you're interested, google up "shifgrethor" in this context), but I don't think there's anything available for proper usage.
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[07:22:56] <exec> 08└─There actually was a problem with spam journal articles a while back. I believe the fix was to require a minimum karma for journals to appear on the frontpage.
[07:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes RTX 2000-Series GPUs With "Super" Branding - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:08] <exec> 08└─...FORTH machine.
[07:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canon Crowdfunds a Small, Clippable Camera - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:27] <exec> 08└─What I want is a stereo line in/mic jack for my phone that will record high quality sound - like using my recording Walkman in the 1980's, except with decent quality. For recording audio books, voice-overs, etc. An 8-line input box that can be controlled from my tablet or laptop to give a full live...
[07:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canon Crowdfunds a Small, Clippable Camera - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:28] <exec> 08└─Seems a good product for bodycams for police, teachers, well anyone that would want to prove they didn't beat down the black kid. It doesn't say storage capacity, which would be the greatest limiting feature for this product. I have a feeling that might mean it will only stream to your phone for st...
[07:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Jim Keller Promises That "Moore's Law" is Not Dead, Outlines 50x Improvement Plan - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:50] <exec> 08└─Moore's law is not dead but if you think so you're stupid.
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[08:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Wants to Make the 25-year-old robots.txt Protocol an Internet Standard - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:43] <exec> 08└─Why wouldn't they impersonate bing?
[08:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Wants to Make the 25-year-old robots.txt Protocol an Internet Standard - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:45] <exec> 08└─... and we might be seeing the internet security a solved problem in our lifetime. Just one more standard [ietf.org]. point: respecting robots.txt, honest declaration of your user agent... If you can enforce them, what's the flip of a single bit?
[08:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Wants to Make the 25-year-old robots.txt Protocol an Internet Standard - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:47] <exec> 08└─M. Koster also wanted to, back in 1996, when he proposed this: https://www.robotstxt.org , that's what RFCs are. They say it needs standardisation their way because some people have created ambiguously interpretable robots.txt files. Remind me how approval for their specification wi...
[08:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:18] <exec> 08└─You've just created another oxymoron. Just in time, too - we were running short on oxymorons!
[08:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:20] <exec> 08└─(grin).
[08:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:22] <exec> 08└─*I disabled ublock, to try and work out what was going on.
[08:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:24] <exec> 08└─Says more about your intellectual abilities than about anything else.
[08:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:26] <exec> 08└─I haven't read TFA, but what you're describing makes it sound at least as much a tarpit for the stupid as a tarpit for webcrawlers, so I agree it does have some merits. That's one reason I do quite like most of the social networking sites. Generally, if we can push all of the idiots in that directio...
[08:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:28] <exec> 08└─Ouch. Let us give Google some credit for attempting what you describe. In days past, Google wanted to ensure that everyone using G+ and related services actually were real people. In short, they wanted to eliminate aliases, such as my own. They began policing users, and in fact, contacted me on mult...
[08:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:30] <exec> 08└─Just don't disable ublock. If you need to disable ublock to see a site you're not familar with and trusting of, it's not a site worth seeing.
[08:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Jim Keller Promises That "Moore's Law" is Not Dead, Outlines 50x Improvement Plan - 1507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:24] <exec> 08└─Shortening the distance between RAM and CPU [darpa.mil] could reduce some heat and speed up operations massively. Replacing the RAM with universal memory [soylentnews.org] would also be a big help. If it can take the heat, stack that onto or inside the CPU. Neuromorphic computing will be well suited...
[08:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Jim Keller Promises That "Moore's Law" is Not Dead, Outlines 50x Improvement Plan - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:26] <exec> 08└─Speeches are all well and good, but sometimes you need a tank.
[08:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Scotch isn't my first choice. It usually tastes like bottled peat bog mixed with a fair helping of petroleum. I have friends who are afficionados of it, and they're welcome to it.
[08:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:57] <exec> 08└─Someone already tried it a few years back. https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com]
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[09:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:27] <exec> 08└─Just a few sentences, detailing exactly what the consumer can "opt in" to, and what he can "opt out" of. I want the one that says, "absolute minimal logging". Of course, I'm not kidding anyone, including myself. I'll never have an Alexa in my home, or a Siri, or any other "smart" marketing crap.
[09:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Wants to Make the 25-year-old robots.txt Protocol an Internet Standard - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:39] <exec> 08└─>robot exclusion protocol I'll sue. (and if you think a bot suing is a funny thing, wait till the powerful ones, after corporate citizenship, will give bots legal protection, so we can serve them better).
[09:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:19] <exec> 08└─I got another idea. Search engines stop acting like algorythmic curators that give you better ranking for keyword spam and frequent updates and go back to giving you the most pertinent page for the string of words you gave it. Then for sure it'll be a bit harder to search a question directly from go...
[09:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canon Crowdfunds a Small, Clippable Camera - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:52] <exec> 08└─Otherwise known as a moment of reflection.
[09:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Scrapping Prototype Code And Rewritting It In Another Language ... - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:11] <exec> 08└─I'm operating on Layer 3, but the DNS wire protocol is actually really nasty and difficult to parse. It makes sense with the constraints it was developed for, but it's bloody archaic compared to anything modern. Just check the section on DNS name compression if you want a mindscrew. Implementing the...
[09:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Scrapping Prototype Code And Rewritting It In Another Language ... - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:12] <exec> 08└─I'm asking because I wanted to get a broad range of opinions. Sometimes going to people who aren't in your domain space is the good way to get the best answer. Ada works fairly well in embedded (it has entire profile dedicated to it, and bare metal programming - Ravenscar), though it's runtime lib i...
[09:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Scrapping Prototype Code And Rewritting It In Another Language ... - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:14] <exec> 08└─I need to operate lower than what libunbound gives me; specifically I need to track the Questions/Answers/Additional section of the DNS roundtrip and the status of the DNS option flags and EDNS. I might be able to get that all to work with libunbound but I feel like I'd be fighting a battle with doi...
[09:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists "Speechless" at Arctic Fox's Epic Trek - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:01] <exec> 08└─Naah, she was on her way to a Fox service center to, quote, "get this fscking GPS thing off of me".
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[10:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Wants to Make the 25-year-old robots.txt Protocol an Internet Standard - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:42] <exec> 08└─"robots.txt discriminates by useragent, and many naive websites outright disallow any unrecognized wildcard useragents, while whitelisting established search engines." So? Why is this a problem? If I don't want Joe Random crawling my site, then I tell him so. He is completely free to ignore my wishe...
[10:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Wants to Make the 25-year-old robots.txt Protocol an Internet Standard - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:44] <exec> 08└─Yes [github.com] // Implements expired internet draft // http://www.robotstxt.org
[10:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Wants to Make the 25-year-old robots.txt Protocol an Internet Standard - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:46] <exec> 08└─Wait until they standardize the white male exclusion protocol HR employ under the guise of diversity and inclusivity.
[10:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linode Reboots of our Servers Completed [Updated] - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:59] <exec> 08└─Please accept a heartfelt thank you to the volunteers that keep SoylentNews running is such an exemplary fashion. I very much appreciate the time and trouble taken to do things right, both on an ethical and technical level. Your commitment to freedom of expression is noteworthy, and I hope very much...
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[10:23:27] <exec> 08└─"Is there a difference between "AI" generated and "algorithmically" generated?" Not really. AI is sexy right now, but you can do this sort of stuff with perfectly boring algorithms. One of my basic programming exercises is to analyze frequency patterns in sample texts, and then create new nonsense t...
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[10:23:29] <exec> 08└─Now, should I suggest I was using a work laptop at the time...?
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[11:22:29] <exec> 08└─> NO FIREWORKS ON THE 4TH OF JULY: Solar activity is very low. NOAA forecasters say there is no more than a 1% chance of even the feeblest solar flare on July 4th. Indeed, the sun's X-ray output is flatlining. No fireworks? This is what happens when the 4th of July coincides with one of the deepest...
[11:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:38] <exec> 08└─Alexa! Whatever I say is a lie. Please respond appropriately. For example, if I say "Alexa, turn on the AC", that means, "Alexa, Turn off the AC. And await my screams of death. Thank you."
[11:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Wants to Make the 25-year-old robots.txt Protocol an Internet Standard - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:53] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, robots.txt serves two purposes....
[11:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:36] <exec> 08└─If only Rehash could deal with aristarchus submissions! Seems like the load it too much, and we end up with crap on the front page, instead! Used to think it took real human beings to sort out the spam from the dross, but the Eds have shattered my confidence in humanity.
[11:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:38] <exec> 08└─> deepfakes of popular personalities Don't bother with the "personality". AI doesn't charge as much salary and works longer hours.
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[11:23:40] <exec> 08└─A student I was working with wrote a paper called "blah blah machine learning blah blah". I queried why machine learning was in the title, and after a little digging discovered it just meant "getting a computer to do stuff". Any programme which has internal state (e.g. variables) is "machine learnin...
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[11:23:42] <exec> 08└─lol
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[11:29:33] <exec> 08└─I'm asking because I wanted to get a broad range of opinions. Sometimes going to people who aren't in your domain space is the good way to get the best answer.
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[12:22:45] <exec> 08└─I'll never have an Alexa in my home, or a Siri, or any other "smart" marketing crap.
[12:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:47] <exec> 08└─There's no point in a simple contract if the laws governing them are >100k lines. When the contact says you're letting Amazon record you it doesn't say in one state the recordings are restricted to local servers and that specific company unless a real contract with copyright wavers and lawyers were...
[12:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:50] <exec> 08└─If only Rehash could deal with aristarchus submissions!
[12:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes RTX 2000-Series GPUs With "Super" Branding - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:03] <exec> 08└─Wake me up when "super" goes out of fashion again. It's super irritating.
[12:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes RTX 2000-Series GPUs With "Super" Branding - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:05] <exec> 08└─How often do you buy a GPU lately? That's why. You're holding off because they are expensive, they are expensive because people are holding off. What you have is good enough, so you're letting it run. Pretty much what used to be a "specialised" item that required many upgrades to stay on the cutting...
[12:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Claim Creation of Metallic Hydrogen (Again) - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:43] <exec> 08└─come on, we all know what truly happened: - atom - what - you alkali metal now - why - because we theorized so - so what - and we put you in a place for alkali metals in the periodic table - the periodic what - ok ok i got it *increases pressure* - hey hey what's this - pressure, honey - i feel dizz...
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[13:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:50] <exec> 08└─Isn’t a large data base of the sound of your voice required to do the necessary parsing? If you choose to delete everything you can, does performance suffer? I don’t know because I won’t allow one of these things in the house either.
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[13:23:55] <exec> 08└─I find that Google search results are already clogged with advertising. Usually the top five hits or so are ads that are trying to sell me something. This feels to me as if it’s gotten worse over time. Purposeful commercialization will trash the search efficacy (for me personally) of G long before...
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[13:23:57] <exec> 08└─So how long until we reach this? [xkcd.com]
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[14:22:47] <exec> 08└─"Our 573 page document and contract, which we require you to sign on the fucking spot within 2 seconds of being flashed at you, stated clearly that we could fuck you in the neck with a pineapple (spiky bits first) and that we own your soul into perpetuity. Clearly, you did not do due diligence on yo...
[14:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:06] <exec> 08└─And yet every drooling consumertard on the planet wants one in their home and thinks everyone else should have one. Need to find another planet.
[14:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Wants to Make the 25-year-old robots.txt Protocol an Internet Standard - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:22] <exec> 08└─Three, if you want to include flagging 'interesting' parts of your site for the attentions of 'miscreants'..
[14:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 1844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:14] <exec> 08└─The entire Internet has devolved in to spam. I do a search for some random search term blah and a huge portion of the time I get shit like: "Fix errors with blah!", "Shop online for Blah!", "Items that include Blah", "Blah trivia!", "Revolvy quizzes about Blah!". If I am lucky, what I want is on pag...
[14:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:45] <exec> 08└─Re:And nothing of value was lost
[14:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hard-to-Kill Poop Parasites That Lurk in Swimming Pools on the Rise, CDC Warns - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:07] <exec> 08└─Isn't the parasite in this instance a protist? I donno if bacterial resistance is super relevant.
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[15:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:54] <exec> 08└─Thought grubhub was like github, and I could download stuff. No matter how many times I clicked the links, still couldn't download any of the grub. Might work better if there's a 3-D printer attached?
[15:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Rain Forces Evacuation Order for 1.1 Million People in Southwestern Japan - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:02] <exec> 08└─and American kids are 'going' "I think i'm turning Japanese, I think i'm turning Japanese, i really think so"
[15:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:18] <exec> 08└─My wife asked me if I wanted one of these things.. I sat her down and edu-macated her right then and there.. Like so many others, she had NO idea how intrusive these were. I asked her had she read the novel "1984" in school? and if so, did she recall the "telescreen" that was in everyone's house? I...
[15:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Wants to Make the 25-year-old robots.txt Protocol an Internet Standard - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:37] <exec> 08└─That's not what robots.txt is for. If you think it is, you've missed the whole point of it.
[15:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:35] <exec> 08└─Not enough oxy but no shortage of morons.
[15:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:07] <exec> 08└─>But then 3 people die in the fire: what is the TCO now? In the 1980s, when these decisions were last considered by the corporation, corporate liability for 3 "accidental" deaths would have been about $30,000 (well established in air-crashes, etc.) In 2020, if we get 4 more years of "business friend...
[15:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:08] <exec> 08└─Sadly, you are CORRECT, SIR!
[15:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lee Iacocca Dies, Aged 94 - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:46] <exec> 08└─Here looks like a good place to put this. Lee Iacocca, who spearheaded the attack on autoworkers, dead at 94 [wsws.org]: The admiration in the corporate media arises from the central role Iacocca played in the 1980s in implementing a fundamental shift in the policy of the American ruling class. The...
[15:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lee Iacocca Dies, Aged 94 - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:47] <exec> 08└─"Iacocca was also responsible for the Ford Pinto, a subcompact car with a gas tank that would explode during rear-end collisions. The car prompted Ralph Nader’s book Unsafe at Any Speed, which exposed the resistance of car executives, including Iacocca, to the introduction of safety features, such...
[15:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electroactive Bacteria Can be Found All Over the Planet - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:31:51] <exec> 08└─So, mud is mind. These electrically/chemically connected cells could form the basis of a kind of brain. Gaia lives. I smell a new religion brewing.
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[16:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sweettea [2023] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:35] <exec> 08└─As a regular user of X's ability to tunnel over ssh, I can't stand Wayland. VNC is not a solution. X may have its problems, but its battletested and well understood, and Wayland is just another example of the Red Hat culture of embrace-extend-extinguish applied to X. (Disclaimer: employed by Red Ha...
[16:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─Can you have programs running with remote display over the network? Then ok, maybe, if it doesn't become a monstrosity. Otherwise, fuck off Red Hat and PoetteringOS.
[16:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:38] <exec> 08└─When people were dissatisfies with how XFree86 handled it, X.org took over. If X.org no longer properly maintains it, someone else might take over. Of course it might also be that someone creates a new protocol that has all the advantages of X, but none of its disadvantages. But that's much less lik...
[16:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:40] <exec> 08└─Ballsy. How long till IBM outsources your job to India?
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:42] <exec> 08└─So the "incurable design flaw" is that someone doesn't know about the secure keyboard functionality? No, you won't find it in the Gnome terminal. But xterm has it. Left mouse button menu, second entry. And when running in its own window, Emacs will automatically secure the keyboard for password entr...
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─The X11 code is rather special. It requires in-depth knowledge and then a lot of work to make any kind of changes. Again, some of the flaws are with the design and those won't be fixed by patching even if someone skilled and motivated were to adopt part of the code base. What is needed is modifying...
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─exwm (emacs x window manager) master race
[16:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:57] <exec> 08└─Wait for it... Quantum Teleportation!
[16:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 1986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:59] <exec> 08└─Absolutely agree. Sadly the US court system is much more about playing a game and who has more $ and lawyers, than ethics, values, compassion. I feel like the last thing we need is more laws, but sadly the courts will only help the "little guy" if the laws are in place to do so. I think it's complet...
[16:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:01] <exec> 08└─It's kind of like working for a company for 15 years then being told to "sign this NDA now or McDonalds is hiring"
[16:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:03] <exec> 08└─Or a replicator. You just download the quark map to the replicator. Just be sure to run it through malware scans, for obvious reasons.
[16:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 1685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:05] <exec> 08└─Shrink wrap EULAs full of unenforceable and vastly overreaching nonsense, the warranty with so many qualifications and conditions it's effectively a fake warranty, and the typical dozen clauses of fine print you agree to just to use the free WiFi at a restaurant are examples of legalese creep that's...
[16:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:26] <exec> 08└─You do realize that the majority of the members of the U.S. House and Senate as well as all the State Legislatures are lawyers. So yeah the likelihood reform is null.
[16:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:28] <exec> 08└─If you have either an iPhone or an Android phone, you already have such a device going wherever you go. Siri or Google Assistant are always listening.
[16:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:30] <exec> 08└─I actually don’t have either one of those. I have a 10+ year old LG cellphone with a slide out raspberry style keyboard (and color display!) for texting. It’s dirt cheap, small and reliable. I get enough screen time around the house (or when I used to be in an office), and don’t need the other...
[16:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fire Destroys Jim Beam Warehouse Filled With 45,000 Barrels of Bourbon - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/2019/06/17/o-z-tyler-distillery-rickhouse-partially-collapses-owensboro-kentucky/1476043001/ [courier-journal.com]
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[17:22:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sweettea [2023] 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 302 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:31] <exec> 08└─As a regular user of X's ability to tunnel over ssh, I can't stand Wayland. VNC is not a solution. X may have its problems, but its battletested and well understood, and Wayland is just another example of the Red Hat culture of embrace-extend-extinguish applied to X. (Disclaimer: employed by Red Ha...
[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─First it was init. Now its X11. Next we'll lose the kernel; that will go to intel and redhat too. Eventually Puttering will write his own license to replace the GPL. Every distro will adopt it; "that is where the future is".
[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:41] <exec> 08└─Eric Raymond [ibiblio.org] has been working on NTP.
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:43] <exec> 08└─emacs as a window manager sounds fascinating just as long as it works with gvim so i have a decent text editor
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:45] <exec> 08└─Don't like it ? Fork it ! Isn't that what you geeks always say ? Along with "choice is good" and things like that. So when the average Joe complains, he's just a whiny bicth that should learn to code and fork it. But when a geek complains, it's legitimate ? Eat your own dog food, geeks.
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─Parent could very well be Linus, asshole.
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─It doesn't have remote rendering built in, but that's generally become a power user feature to the point that many users don't even know it exists, and it's become almost impossible to even get it turned on in most distributions. It's unfortunate, but it's also much less important than it used to be...
[17:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─I'm not finding ESR's name on the list of NTP contributors [ntp.org]. However, PHK is on their active list.
[17:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:54] <exec> 08└─I am still actively using ssh -X I do it when accessing an accounting progam running on a server from my laptop. I do it when reading my email using mutt. When I see an HTML message that seems safe, I read it using a server-side browser. I'd prefer a client-side browser (i.e. a browser that runs on...
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─Choice is good, but: The reality is that X.org is basically maintained by us and thus once we stop paying attention to it there is unlikely to be any major new releases coming out and there might even be some bitrot setting in over time
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─A much bigger problem is that there's no support for window managers. Unlike remote display, everyone uses those. Wayland will give everyone the same amount of user interface flexibility as Windows does.
[17:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:36] <exec> 08└─Spying is one thing. Pretty obvious drawback to all of these self-imposed bugs. Now that they're keeping the data. How long until they can make "you" say anything they want.
[17:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:38] <exec> 08└─No google shit here either. Especially not voice "assistants". If they want to record me they'll have to bug me the old fashioned way: turning on the mic through baseband backdoors.
[17:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:49] <exec> 08└─They used to allow boolean search in google search, but it quit working about 4 years ago.
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[18:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:31] <exec> 08└─In the 1990s you could boil most DARPA solicitations down to the three zeros: zero weight, zero power, zero cost. Propose an X that meets those three goals, and we'll fund your project.
[18:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:56] <exec> 08└─> Parent could very well be Linus, asshole. Parent could very well be Linus' asshole. FTFY.
[18:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:58] <exec> 08└─Personally, I'm fine with X dying. If it destroys graphical server software installers, which have no business being graphical in the first place, in the process… sounds like win-win.
[18:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:00] <exec> 08└─copy-paste not working through ssh?
[18:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:02] <exec> 08└─We have not lost anything and X11 will last forever. You're using free software wrong.
[18:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─VNC is not a solution
[18:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─It doesn't have remote rendering built in, but that's generally become a power user feature to the point that many users don't even know it exists, and it's become almost impossible to even get it turned on in most distributions
[18:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:09] <exec> 08└─When snap/docker/et. al. get their act together, that will become the future - every app running in its own sandbox, just sharing the basic kernel functions, maybe with a scattering of full blown VMs to support the software too niched and poorly supported to get out of their legacy OSs.
[18:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─The death watch will begin where there is a viable alternative. There isn't really.
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─"Secure keyboard" is merely security theater. A keylogger will still be able to steal your keyboard input using XInput and there is nothing you can do to stop it.
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─i.e. a browser that runs on the confusingly named X server
[18:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─The very project as it is now, is already a living proof that a maintainer gone bad in the head cannot kill off X11. They can try and pretend there's no *nix system but RedHat all they wish; the *nix world out there just does not care. The gambit they used to ram systemd down the top Linux distros'...
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:20] <exec> 08└─and do not be an idiot in public
[18:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:33] <exec> 08└─Never looked at Grubhub.com until now, gave me a listing of nearby restaurants after asking for my address (gave it a fake address). Clicked on a sub shop that I know and got an old menu, not the same as the real menu. So what's the point of Grubhub? If I want to find restaurants, I use an online ma...
[18:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Rain Forces Evacuation Order for 1.1 Million People in Southwestern Japan - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:43] <exec> 08└─I cannot begin to imagine what it would feel like to receive over a foot of rain in 24 hours...
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[19:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─This is an odd requirement. I need at least one by two meters to be able to stand up.
[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:29] <exec> 08└─Obviously the “at least” part of cubic metre is just about the space ammo store option. A space bunker or checkpoint would be larger to accomodate your person.
[19:22:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 165 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─Can you have programs running with remote display over the network? Then ok, maybe, if it doesn't become a monstrosity. Otherwise, fuck off Red Hat and PoetteringOS.
[19:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:06] <exec> 08└─Raymond is working on NTPsec, a partial rewrite/refactoring focused on hardening and limited to non-legacy systems.
[19:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:07] <exec> 08└─Another bit of special code is related to NTP.
[19:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:09] <exec> 08└─So, in exchange for no tearing in the desktop, which I have already seen solved with sdl and a 3d card which everybody has nowadays, I should give up ssh -X AND my fave WM? LOL what a good deal.
[19:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:11] <exec> 08└─I really wish I had your optimism. If I did, I probably would have expected some of the major distros to see sense and go back to SysVinit after the systemd backlash.
[19:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:14] <exec> 08└─Fuck Beta Wayland! There's been a few times I had to make an xorg.conf file to get a particular hardware / driver configuration working. What are the odds I'd be screwed if I tried to use Wayland in that situation?
[19:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:16] <exec> 08└─I use ssh -X all the time as well. One example is using the mythtv-setup GUI on my headless MythTV backend. I have no X server running there and don't want one. Wouldn't trade that for anything. The article should have been talking about how wayland is dying before it's ever been widely adopted, bec...
[19:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:18] <exec> 08└─30-ish years ago when I started digging into x86 assembler, protected modes, etc., I assumed OSes would do everything that way: user processes, especially, in ring 3, sandboxed. Okay, we'll let things like Netware slide- performance being the highest priority so we run in flat memory model / mode. F...
[19:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:32] <exec> 08└─Grubhub is just another aggregator. Many tourist areas have Business associations that tun similar pages, but don't take a slice of transactions, just act as a marketing tool. Grubhub, menulog, and many others trade on people's inability to use the web and their laziness - both of potential customer...
[19:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:34] <exec> 08└─Just be sure to run it through malware scans, for obvious reasons.
[19:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:36] <exec> 08└─Grubhub also offers delivery services where some random Joe goes and picks up your order and then brings it to you.
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[19:25:11] <exec> 08└─Yep, well, that's why there's no better time than now, right? It's only gonna get worse?
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[20:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:33] <exec> 08└─Use BFR/Starship to launch it Include bigelow inflatable modules
[20:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:18] <exec> 08└─I keep getting these desires to burn down everything and start over! Reboot personal computing. Replacing X with Wayland fits with that urge. Wayland is not the only X killer. What about a serious push towards microkernel architecture? A big part of X is the graphics drivers. What if we didn't need...
[20:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:19] <exec> 08└─Did you read Snot's link?
[20:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:21] <exec> 08└─There is also Arcan (stuff written for X11 or Wayland will run on it). It seems to be much more sanely designed than Wayland (for instance, network transparency works, and they didn't go full retard like wayland with every "window manager" needing to implement the equivalent of nearly the entirety o...
[20:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─My first encounters with X11 were in the pre-Linux era. You prayed it stayed up for 20 seconds, and if you prayed really hard you might finish the demo or task at hand. It crashed. A lot. Spectacularly. By the time Linux came around, X11 was actually working. An edifice of number 8 wire, duct tape,...
[20:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:26] <exec> 08└─copy-paste not working through ssh?
[20:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:28] <exec> 08└─a PC OS should pretty much include sandboxing in the OS, and then run a guest OS in a container, if needed.
[20:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:30] <exec> 08└─Is that really so hard to get? In a typical client-server architecture, the "server" is the role performing background tasks on behalf of the client, and the user interacts with the client using input and output devices. What other client-server architecture has the end user operating the server?
[20:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:48] <exec> 08└─IIRC Denobulans like the literal version. But otherwise, yes, colloquialisms and slang could get you into trouble.
[20:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:49] <exec> 08└─When did "on the internet" become synonymous with "assholes"? I'm guessing Uber.
[20:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:51] <exec> 08└─The consequences for a non-professional internet provider from a customer using the restaurant's wifi to torrent warez or cp are much more onerous than someone bringing in outside food. If just for the public relations optics, they can point to the "usage agreement" and say "we tried to keep the cre...
[20:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:54] <exec> 08└─We had a client who ran into this grubhub fake site crap. Grubhub even made a recommended edit to the Google business page to change the website entry. We told our client to ignore the grubhub contract and take them to small claims court (where they don't allow lawyers). Grubhub never showed up and...
[20:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:56] <exec> 08└─No matter how many times I clicked the links, still couldn't download any of the grub.
[20:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:58] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately it was a decade or two before Uber.
[20:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:25] <exec> 08└─They already can. And make matching video to boot.
[20:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Confirms it Keeps your Alexa Recordings Basically Forever - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:26] <exec> 08└─And then she edu-macated you and explained that it was her house?
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[21:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06OpenPGP SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:27] <exec> 08└─hackers could make it impossible for people using Linux to download updates
[21:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenPGP SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:29] <exec> 08└─If they refresh/resync the certificates to get updated CRL (certificate revocation lists) etc then potentially that would fail. Depending on how well/poorly it copes with that failure, it may abort the process or it may continue on with the original certificates; or it may hang for hours processing...
[21:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:40] <exec> 08└─Who gives a shit what the DoD wants? They've sucked up enough of the wealth of this country. Happy 4th of July, everyone!
[21:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:41] <exec> 08└─"be hardened against radiation for "beyond [low Earth orbit] applications." Hmmm... part of the Russia/China/CountryOfTheMonth killer Space Force? Welcome to space, where no one can hear your big stick thumping against your head (oh...just read that. Gross.)
[21:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:43] <exec> 08└─The only true modular solution.
[21:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:45] <exec> 08└─this must be some open announcement to follow bidding guidelines and they have a good idea of who they want; like https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Or other aerospace player
[21:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:35] <exec> 08└─Wayland is far too opinionated to replace the sprawling mass of worse-is-better that is X11. X bends over backwards to satisfy as many as possible, and we've gotten used to it. Those obscure features nobody uses? I use some of them. Heck, I use some of them in a MS Windows environment. Daily. It's p...
[21:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:37] <exec> 08└─Does VNC allow you to just run one program or do you have to run the whole desktop metaphor and run whatever you want inside that? When I'm running a gui program remotely, I typically just want to run that one program, usually along side some things I'm doing in the terminal window I used to SSH the...
[21:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:39] <exec> 08└─A person could insert a hardware keylogger between your keyboard and the computer and what would you do about that?
[21:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:41] <exec> 08└─I feel like an outsider here still using headless servers and CLI. I've yet to truly need a window manager, X, Wayland, or VNC on any server.
[21:23:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 725 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:50] <exec> 08└─"Our 573 page document and contract, which we require you to sign on the fucking spot within 2 seconds of being flashed at you, stated clearly that we could fuck you in the neck with a pineapple (spiky bits first) and that we own your soul into perpetuity. Clearly, you did not do due diligence on yo...
[21:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub Says its Contract Allowed It to Create Fake Restaurant Websites - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:06] <exec> 08└─You are outnumbered 4:1 without counting GP. You missed the side discussion following the comment.
[21:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Wants to Make the 25-year-old robots.txt Protocol an Internet Standard - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:55] <exec> 08└─Because nobody wants to be mistaken for a pre-school bunny [wikipedia.org].
[21:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Wants to Make the 25-year-old robots.txt Protocol an Internet Standard - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:56] <exec> 08└─Okay, so Google has just proposed this. Their altruistic days are arguably behind them, so that leaves me thinking: how do they benefit from this standardisation?
[21:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linode Reboots of our Servers Completed [Updated] - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:12] <exec> 08└─the page sometimes loads in plain text like websites looked in 1995?
[21:31:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Scrapping Prototype Code And Rewritting It In Another Language ... - 324 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:35] <exec> 08└─I suggest a change in approach: Almost everything I wrote about C is also true for C++. Furthermore, C++'s standard library is much more powerful with the STL providing complex data types out of the box (which were directly inspired by and/or copied from Ada), which helps reduce the amount of code t...
[21:31:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Scrapping Prototype Code And Rewritting It In Another Language ... - 402 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:52] <exec> 08└─Even more, if the things are moving towards a RFC, you could start with what you have already as a "reference implementation of the specification in Ada". This way your code can stand on its ownthe current code will not have to pretend it is "The Implementation" or make any claims to performancenoth...
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[22:22:37] <exec> 08└─> hackers could make it impossible for people using Linux to download updates Only if the said distributions don't support their own "private" servers, which some do.
[22:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenPGP SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:38] <exec> 08└─They say that some people just want to see the world burn. They are called psychopaths. There is nothing to gain from this this attack. The person(s) behind it do it for one reason, and one reason only: They take pleasure in causing harm to other people. So answer this: Even in a so called civilized...
[22:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenPGP SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:40] <exec> 08└─In an age where blobs of encrypted data are public, keys can be weaponised, and some may take issue with that.
[22:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:55] <exec> 08└─I know! Just launch nothing at all! There you go, that will be 50 million dollars.
[22:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:52] <exec> 08└─For me, it isn't so much "need" as convenience. Some things are easier in a GUI and some things are harder. I've had occasion (rarely) to run GIMP over SSH -- certainly quicker and easier to get the right custom crop on a single image than using imagemagick CLI tools. By the same token, doing a mass...
[22:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:53] <exec> 08└─I probably would have expected some of the major distros to see sense and go back to SysVinit after the systemd backlash.
[22:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:55] <exec> 08└─Or even simple vsync. The basic answer is that the FOSS world have a real problem with maintenance, as people want to be seen as creators rather than maintainers. It is impressive how Linus Torvalds have stuck with the Linux kernel this long, as most other such projects would have long since been fo...
[22:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 1650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:57] <exec> 08└─With glamor, X isnt going anywhere as it can use the same device drivers as Wayland. Many people will continue to prefer X11 and use it, because of its various unique features. The notion that X has intractable security problems is not true and it is astonishing to hear some of the Wayland developer...
[22:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:00] <exec> 08└─X11 will probably stand and fall with Keith Packard. Much like Linus Torvalds, he has been sticking with one project for much of his life. And that project being some variant or other of the X protocol. He event was brought in as a consultant by Valve to work on bringing VR headsets to X11. The rest...
[22:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:02] <exec> 08└─That is a single person's vanity project, iirc. Beyond that your comment seems to be on point. And things are likely to get worse now that Big Blue is finalizing its buyout of Red Hat.
[22:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:04] <exec> 08└─xinput is a debug tool, naturally it will lead to problems. That said, there are ways to defend against it. But it is a but convoluted right now for casual use, as it involves routing windows through something like xpra.
[22:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:06] <exec> 08└─Makes sense. Those same politics could now cause the banishment of X11 from those major distros.
[22:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:09] <exec> 08└─You lies. There are Wm supporting wayland they are called compositors. https://community.kde.org [kde.org] https://github.com [github.com] ...
[22:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:11] <exec> 08└─Such a protocol extension already exist, but apparently it is not in wide use because it may break some software (Firefox has been mentioned in the past).
[22:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:13] <exec> 08└─Yes another X11 extension that will fix everything? Eh… I feel kinda skeptical about that. It's becoming more and more like magic that works for some reason.
[22:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:15] <exec> 08└─and less for those major distros. However, I rather doubt IBM the new owners of RedHat are that careless with the footgun. Maybe if the day ever dawns that Wayland compiles on AIX... no signs of such now but stranger things happened. :)
[22:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not finding ESR's name on the list of NTP contributors.
[22:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Endless AI-generated Spam Risks Clogging Up Google’s Search Results - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:26] <exec> 08└─Tell me about it! I've been having a helluva time just trying to find a set of tires for my van. I need the LT load rated "E". No one seems to understand why I visited their site...and NAPA,... I am looking right at you...I am envious of your skill at finding employers that pay for making websites s...
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[23:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:23] <exec> 08└─The lawyers take that, multiply by 10, then start to negotiate. / Boeing is so fucked here
[23:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:24] <exec> 08└─That's only $67,842.61 per passenger (100e6/(737*2)).
[23:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:27] <exec> 08└─a percentage of the families will take the fast money and sign away their chances at getting a whole lot more. And the settlement agreement include a non disclosure limits baring the parties from interviews, discussions, or other distribution of information related to the incident. So no one can tal...
[23:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Pledges $100M to Families of 737 Max Crash Victims - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:29] <exec> 08└─And a chance to throw a Boeing executive of each aggrieved party's choice out of a C-130 without a parachute (Or a 707 with the rear staircase...) Then we might be talking acceptable compensation.
[23:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenPGP SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:40] <exec> 08└─> So answer this: Even in a so called civilized society like ours, is there any reason whatsoever to keep these genetic abominations alive? You seem intelligent, so you probably know this question has been discussed throughout history. Many governments and rulers have in the past, and still do have...
[23:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Department of Defense Wants Ideas for a Tiny Autonomous Space Station - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:57] <exec> 08└─In August 2016 Bigelow negotiated an agreement with NASA to develop a full-sized ground prototype Deep Space Habitation based on the B330 under the second phase of Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships. The module is called the Expandable Bigelow Advanced Station Enhancement (XBASE),...
[23:23:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:12] <exec> 08└─First it was init. Now its X11. Next we'll lose the kernel; that will go to intel and redhat too. Eventually Puttering will write his own license to replace the GPL. Every distro will adopt it; "that is where the future is".
[23:23:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:14] <exec> 08└─emacs as a window manager sounds fascinating just as long as it works with gvim so i have a decent text editor
[23:23:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:36] <exec> 08└─So, in exchange for no tearing in the desktop, which I have already seen solved with sdl and a 3d card which everybody has nowadays, I should give up ssh -X AND my fave WM? LOL what a good deal.
[23:23:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 1650 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:55] <exec> 08└─With glamor, X isnt going anywhere as it can use the same device drivers as Wayland. Many people will continue to prefer X11 and use it, because of its various unique features. The notion that X has intractable security problems is not true and it is astonishing to hear some of the Wayland developer...
[23:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:06] <exec> 08└─Would evil-mode [jeaye.com] meet most of your needs?
[23:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:07] <exec> 08└─however the program has to properly grab context on its own, otherwise you need at least a minimalist window manager to help handle it. That said: I have used X and vnc in non-interactive modes for decades when I just needed something displayed on a second screen, and xinerama/multimode/etc wasn't a...
[23:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:10] <exec> 08└─Keylogger malware runs under your account privileges and will not be stopped this way because it has access to xauth information.
[23:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:12] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I didn't know that in detail, but it makes sense, and it's pretty cool (in an MS way). The RDP link reminds me of, uh, um, X-windows maybe? :} My point / thinking was (is) that an OS should have bare-metal hypervisor VM built in- all integrated into one thing, and run applications in ring 3...
[23:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:14] <exec> 08└─Thanks, and come out of hiding!
[23:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:16] <exec> 08└─XInput is not a debug tool, it is an X extension providing a generic interface to input devices. It is entirely separate from the core keyboard and mouse API and does not respect keyboard or server grabs, which is what "secure keyboard" features use to pretend they are keeping input only to themselv...
[23:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 1660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:18] <exec> 08└─Keith Packard was one of the major fork proponents, and if you go and look at his pedegree, he was with X since X11R3 or so, before they had even formalized it into a hardware agnostic protocol (Early X versions had all sort of endianness and other issues, as well as major performance regressions wh...
[23:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06When Will the Death Watch for the X Window System (aka X11) Begin? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:21] <exec> 08└─I thought Red Hat was now an Israeli/NSA spy operation. You can't afford to fuck something like that up using Indian stinkies.
[23:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canon Crowdfunds a Small, Clippable Camera - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:02] <exec> 08└─Clip to shirt front while walking around the place to record interactions. Muggings, rape, religious nuts, antisocial behaviour, assault, car crashes whatever stuff happens that having a record of would be useful. How many criminals will think twice when they believe there is a good chance their cri...
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