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[00:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:03] <exec> 08└─We have sent forth one of our precious offspring, to IT college
[00:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:15] <exec> 08└─What happens if you reach into your gateway and put the printer in Internet timeout? (Set so packets with the printer's mac address cannot go thru the Nat to the Internet.).
[00:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 2047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:16] <exec> 08└─I too just installed Ubuntu (really, Lubuntu) 20.04, and it found my network printer (a Dell E525W all-in-one color laserjet), and ... would not work with it. Keeps giving me this "cups-pki-expired" error message. Lubuntu 18.04 works just fine with that printer. I am afraid to update the firmware on...
[00:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, I meant to mention a big prob with 20.04. LibreOffice Export to PDF does NOT work. They even say so in the release notes. Ouch. There's a workaround, but I think they ought to have delayed releasing 20,04. Major problem for office work.
[00:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:52] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the Q6600 is from 2008, and the Ryzen manages less than an older of magnitude in terms of performance improvement. And single core performance is only double. That's not really impressive for CPU's that came out a decade apart from each other. My main computer is a bit newer, a Co...
[00:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:53] <exec> 08└─So what's the line then? I haven't played with the Pi 4, but my Pentium III systems run circles around the Pi 3 despite the Pi 3 having an advantage in the RAM department. A Pentium 4 completely crushes the Pi 3 in terms of performance. Then again, maybe that's why I still have all those old Pentium...
[00:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:55] <exec> 08└─The other problem I found with old servers, particularly from ones from OEMs like Dell, is that they are/were just plain weird. I remember playing around with some Dell servers about that time that were probably 7-8 years old. Take a 7-8 year old standard Dell tower or desktop, and you can install L...
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[00:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:19] <exec> 08└─bout what I figured from you degenerate nutters
[00:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:20] <exec> 08└─Notice what was said about the link. Full rebuttal here
[00:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:22] <exec> 08└─I want to add, let's ... let them live. For fuck sake. Alll the foreigners withdraw, the Iranian, the Turks, American, Russians, Frogs, Saudis, Israelis, Yeah, fat chance.
[00:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:54] <exec> 08└─As opposed to the Republican voters, who appear to be missing several chromosomes entirely...? Hell, most of *them* only seem to have one helix to start with.
[00:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:55] <exec> 08└─The idea of *random* mutations alone driving evolution *is* bullshit. Have you ever actually read the Origin? Or, for that matter, *any* genetics textbook written in the last 40 years?
[00:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:57] <exec> 08└─No intelligent agent, let alone a prescient one, out there to meddle in living things' genomes. No one there to design a "specific change" to answer to any entirely new challenge. Trying things at random and relying on blind luck and large numbers is the only way a dumb chemical machine can attempt...
[00:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:59] <exec> 08└─I love cats, but their piss smells bloody awful. So, not infected, most likely? I don't know anything that could make cats' wee smell pleasant...
[00:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:02] <exec> 08└─Well, it evolved to live part of its life cycle in rodents, and another part in cats. So it "wants" the mice that it infects to not avoid cats. Humans aren't really a part of it's plan, they're just "Hey, I'm here, and I don't want to die before I must, so I'll just grow here, even though it probabl...
[01:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Memory Misfires Help Selfish Maintain their Self-Image - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:15] <exec> 08└─The transition from "Believe All Women" to "well, not that woman" did take a bit longer.
[01:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:11] <exec> 08└─Try being on the other end. But I guess it all depends on how seriously you take this whole thing.
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[01:58:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03corey [2202] 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 722 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:20] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for an analysis to be done, and it's just a matter of time, into the greenhouse gas emissions reduction due to COVID-19. It's got to be pretty major, which is good for buying time while the world pivots away from high emissions. But the bushfires here in Australia in January released as...
[01:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:31] <exec> 08└─After the withdrawal, kumbaya time for Assad and the rebels? Or chemical time?
[01:58:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] 02 - 064-Billion-Year-Old Nitrogen-Containing Organic Molecules Discovered in Martian Meteorites - 1132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:42] <exec> 08└─It seems as we progress through history, one of the findings we keep making is that we are not all that special. At first we were the only village that mattered. Then we realized there were many villages. Then we realized we weren't the only villages, we realized we all lived on the earth. Then we...
[01:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 064-Billion-Year-Old Nitrogen-Containing Organic Molecules Discovered in Martian Meteorites - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:44] <exec> 08└─They took a biopsy from Ruth Bader Ginsberg's ass, and they blame it on Mars?
[02:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:24] <exec> 08└─Or: Parziale sued the IT titan in the IT titan's home state of California
[02:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:26] <exec> 08└─I decided to look, only thing I found was on Amazon, in the $400 to $500 price range - https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] Amazon must get a kickback from Brother, because you have to scroll past a small boatload of Brother printers to peru...
[02:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:28] <exec> 08└─Oh - I missed this first time - https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] Kyocera 1102RW2US0 ECOSYS P2235dw Monochrome Network Laser Printer, 37 ppm B&W, 600 x 60...
[02:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:30] <exec> 08└─I have a HP OfficeJet 2620. The drivers and software come pre-installed with Ubuntu. The scanning Just Works. I don't use it to print. I go to Officeworks for that. Never put the print cartridges in. I only wanted a scanner that works in Linux to scan letters.
[02:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 1915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:08] <exec> 08└─The great stagnation of the mid-2010s is now over. Quad-core went from the premium $500 segment to the $100 landfill tier [anandtech.com]. Now 6-8 cores is emerging as a new minimum, 16 cores is "mainstream", and Zen 4 could deliver 24 cores as "mainstream" by 2022. The long stretch of Intel quad-co...
[02:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:09] <exec> 08└─Performance should be prioritized above security. If you want security, disconnect the system from the internet and transfer files from another computer using a USB stick or pigeon.
[02:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:29] <exec> 08└─Membership in tennis clubs (where serious competition starts) is expensive. It's social tradition, nothing about the physical aspects of the sport (or court, or equipment) itself.
[02:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:29] <exec> 08└─My wife endlessly retells the story of how I called a maroon awning purple, and how obviously different the two colors are. Now, if I focus hard on my pantone pallettes I can tell maroon from purple, but to my eyes they're really close - apparently not to hers.
[02:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:31] <exec> 08└─In the real world, you don't get materials personalized for you, it's necessary to adapt to the environment.
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[02:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YARA v4.0.0 Released - The Pattern Matching Swiss Knife - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:55] <exec> 08└─Has it been used by genome researchers yet? Or are they still using Notepad -- https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[02:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:20] <exec> 08└─That the left are now attacking Moore for calling out the government subsidized "renewable" green energy scam ...
[02:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:22] <exec> 08└─> Greens understand thermodynamics about as well as socialists understand economics. Very few people of any political bent understand thermodynamics. FTFY.
[02:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:59] <exec> 08└─Well I'm glad I am misisng one and don't have an extra one, otherwise the Democrats would abort me.
[02:59:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 846 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:52] <exec> 08└─If you use https://www.home-assistant.io [home-assistant.io] which does not phone home and is 100% local install, you can install ESP8266 and ESP32 based gadgets using https://esphome.io [esphome.io] and the two interoperate and plug and play to a level that's actually boring and not very educatio...
[03:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:20] <exec> 08└─After editing away the mistakes he made with this world, he would like to make a few more, without all the work? What does anyone want with a printer? And, LASER printer! He can mount them on sharks!!
[03:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:21] <exec> 08└─How does one block a printer from connecting to open internet access and downloading drivers? Can it really be said I 'agreed' to it doing this when it never asked?
[03:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:24] <exec> 08└─We recently finally let our workhorse 4050N go this year because it broke down and the replacement parts simply weren't available anymore.
[03:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:26] <exec> 08└─What if your printer is plugged into your computer and its software uses the computer to send packets to the network? Do we need a HOSTS blocklist or a iptables rule to block it?
[03:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Memory Misfires Help Selfish Maintain their Self-Image - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:23] <exec> 08└─The problem is that Republicans would, and have [usatoday.com], cynically pervert movements intended to correct injustices in order to attack political opponents. Your post illustrates one of the reasons this is such a shitty thing to do: it makes it harder to take a potential victim at her word.
[03:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:06] <exec> 08└─Raspberry Pi 4 Review: The Gold Standard for Single-Board Computing [tomshardware.com] *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Linpack Benchmark [futurecdn.net] Sysbench CPU Test [futurecdn.net] Memory Benchmark [futurecdn.net] File Compression Benchmark [futurecdn.net] OpenArena Benchma...
[03:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:10] <exec> 08└─I run both Pis and Odroids but haven't really found this to be a big issue, both are generic Linux devices and I haven't found anything I need to run that doesn't run on an Odroid just as well as on a Pi, or for that matter any other random Linux device like a Beaglebone. I'm running Pihole on an Od...
[03:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:28] <exec> 08└─I guess I've been around many artistic women, but I've observed that most women seem to see, or at least process color much more richly than most men. In other words, most men are somewhat colorblind compared to most women I guess. Rather than chide you for having a slight bit of a known trait, perh...
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[03:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DisplayPort Alt Mode Updated for USB 4, Allows Uncompressed 8K @ 60 Hz HDR Video Over a USB-C Cable - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:14] <exec> 08└─Alt Mode? Remapped data pins? They're just fucking with us now, aren't they?
[03:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DisplayPort Alt Mode Updated for USB 4, Allows Uncompressed 8K @ 60 Hz HDR Video Over a USB-C Cable - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:15] <exec> 08└─https://images.anandtech.com/doci/15752/TypeCPins.png [anandtech.com] https://components101.com [components101.com]
[03:58:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:34] <exec> 08└─That the left are now attacking Moore for calling out the government subsidized "renewable" green energy scam ...
[04:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:36] <exec> 08└─First thing I did when I purchased a network-attached printer quite some years ago (and still use to this day, a HP actually...) is have my ISC DHCP server give it a static IP address, and have my LAN iptables firewall block all access to the Internet from that IP. For many years now, I fully expect...
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[04:01:37] <exec> 08└─> Per unit volume, inkjet ink is more expensive than fine wine. And if you live in a low-tax state (or near an Indian reservation), gasoline is currently cheaper than bottled water. Think about that -- oil comes from deep, expensive wells and goes through countless refining steps. Bottled water migh...
[04:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:19] <exec> 08└─Hot damn! I knew this lockdown was messing with my sense of time but I had no idea 2012 [apple.com] was just two years ago! I don't even know what I'd link to to demonstrate that older versions of Safari don't stop working without OS updates so, without sarcasm, you can run the latest version of Saf...
[04:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:20] <exec> 08└─No, I mean folks who do a lot of compiling. You know, Gentoo users.
[04:03:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03esperto123 [4303] 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 608 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:44] <exec> 08└─It not because the pentagon did not find an explanation that it is automatically extra-terrestrial, they are the pentagon not captain disillusion. And there are this three videos that present actually good explanations for the phenomena and were posted at the time these videos were first released: h...
[04:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:59] <exec> 08└─The 'announcements' were back in 2015. But I don't think it has anything to do with any administration or another. I think there are two main factors: 1) The military is increasingly seen as little more than a tool for enforcing somewhat arbitrary political motivations. In particular it's just a too...
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[04:04:01] <exec> 08└─"Even as the U.S. military takes on a greater role in the warfare in Iraq and Syria, the Trump administration has stopped disclosing significant information about the size and nature of the U.S. commitment, including the number of U.S. troops deployed in either country." https://www.latimes.com
[04:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:03] <exec> 08└─Like an increasingly number of 'skeptic' clickbaits, that was highbrow rubbish. The math calculations are nonsensical, the object was not being tracked by radar but by infrared/heat, and the final subject thing was even more absurd. He suggests that because it was classified under "UAV, balloons, an...
[04:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:46] <exec> 08└─Can't throw a javelin? How are you at catching them? :)
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[04:58:03] <exec> 08└─Commodore is ignored.. again.
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[05:00:19] <exec> 08└─I'll still be ax-splitting my ten chords
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[05:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Classic 8-Bit Computing the Atari Way - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:14] <exec> 08└─Were you reaching for a fight? They did specify "in the classic gaming world".
[05:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Classic 8-Bit Computing the Atari Way - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:15] <exec> 08└─Why are so many of these emulators Windows only? Has MAME/MESS become the one and only emulator that runs in Linux? Besides which, emulating, say, an Apple II in MESS is a pain. You need the ROMs. The ROMS are copyrighted, and so, not included. Got to find them separately. MAME and MESS have changed...
[05:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 064-Billion-Year-Old Nitrogen-Containing Organic Molecules Discovered in Martian Meteorites - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:05] <exec> 08└─But, what's the night life like on Mars? You won't get very many people going to Mars until there are some bars, pubs, and lounges for a guy to relax in. After a hard day's work in the Martian desert, people need to get rehydrated.
[05:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 064-Billion-Year-Old Nitrogen-Containing Organic Molecules Discovered in Martian Meteorites - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:06] <exec> 08└─Send them a chemputer [chemistryworld.com] and basic brewing/distilling equipment. They'll figure out a night life.
[06:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:38] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the info!
[06:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:44] <exec> 08└─Here in the middle of euro-land we do recycle e-waste [recupel.be]. You have to pay a so called Recupel tax on electronic goods. This tax is used to process your electronic waste. You can bring it to a container park and deposit it free of charge (that is, you already paid for it through the Recupel...
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[06:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Classic 8-Bit Computing the Atari Way - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:25] <exec> 08└─Repeated in the headline and in the summary, but no mention what it means. You "editors" are illiterate. SN is pretty damn great on the tech side, but the "editors" are ...
[06:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:02] <exec> 08└─No doubt, there will be more blood letting, but far better off in the end that they sort out their own problem one way or another. Again, fat chance, though, being located where they are, but it's like democracy - what is a better alternative?
[07:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:14] <exec> 08└─Unless you had physical access, all you did was send the server information. It responded with other information. Think of it as persuasion. I really want a lawyer to stand up in court and argue that your free speech rights mean that you can say whatever you like to a server over a phoneline, and th...
[07:00:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03OrugTor [5147] 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:40] <exec> 08└─Fair price to pay for having shit that works.
[07:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:52] <exec> 08└─I suspect with a lot of this big data stuff it is: 1. Slurp as much data as you can. 2. Merge with whatever else you can get your hands on. 3. Run your analytics over it an see what relationships fall out. 4. Look at what you have and see if there is something you can profit from. In the olden days...
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[07:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Classic 8-Bit Computing the Atari Way - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:23] <exec> 08└─No, MAME/MESS and RetroArch are just the best-known. Which is a shame, as they're also a clunky PITA to deal with. I use Mednafen (which combines a whole bunch of other emulators) with the Mednaffe frontend for most mid-80s & 90s consoles/handhelds, PPSSPP for PlayStation Portable, ScummVM for many...
[07:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YARA v4.0.0 Released - The Pattern Matching Swiss Knife - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:32] <exec> 08└─Have they fixed the users yet? Users seem to mostly split into two classes - those who make bad decisions about what to do, and those who don't even go through a decision making process before doing something stupid. Until you fix humans, you'll never fix viruses, and you'll never fix humans. Ambigu...
[08:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:19] <exec> 08└─For some bizarre reason, I've never considered attempting that, so any estimation of my ability would have infinite error bars.
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[08:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:03] <exec> 08└─"one hailstone likely measured between 7.4 and 9.3 inches across" No. Measurement is an act that either happened or didn't happen, there's no "likely" about it. The hailstone's dimensions may be questionable, but the measurement of it either happened or it did not, and when it was measured, if it wa...
[08:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:05] <exec> 08└─Fuck me, not even a journalist - that's from Penn State University itself. Bill Hicks hit the nail on the head.
[08:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Classic 8-Bit Computing the Atari Way - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:17] <exec> 08└─It's English. If you don't understand it, perhaps try learning English? For those for whom English is not their first language "the X way" means "in a manner exemplified by X", which is wordy and complex, which is why English speakers will simplify their word usage, and abbrieviate that expression t...
[08:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YARA v4.0.0 Released - The Pattern Matching Swiss Knife - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:27] <exec> 08└─On FreeBSD, YARA is in pkg, as well as Sourcefire Razerback framework, which actually uses YARA as one of its Nuggets.
[08:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 064-Billion-Year-Old Nitrogen-Containing Organic Molecules Discovered in Martian Meteorites - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:11] <exec> 08└─Quite how do you propose that penguins get their crap into the centre of meteorites? I don't think they're well known for having diamond saw sphincters.
[08:59:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 868 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:43] <exec> 08└─Under CFAA, web sites get to make their own laws and sue you in US court for breaking their made up rules. Every computer system you access might as well be its own separate legal jurisdiction. They don't even have to pay the costs of maintaining their own enforcement! It's the perfect Libertarian p...
[09:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:08] <exec> 08└─You can't finish there! Inquiring minds need answers. Did you kiss her? Did you get a second date?
[09:01:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 709 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:43] <exec> 08└─When I look to buy a new Linux printer, I find a few printers I am considering, then I go to https://openprinting.org [openprinting.org] and check the status of the print drivers. It tells you if you need binary blobs, third party PPD files (usually with download link), or whether it "just works"...
[09:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:49] <exec> 08└─Enjoy [ubports.com]
[09:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:00] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but that isn't a convincing reason to use raspi. I've seen that "massive community", it's similar to the community around Ubuntu - 99% know-nothings looking for a step by step guide to run kodi. The odroid community is smaller, but if you have an issue you can post on the forums and the /deve...
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[09:58:23] <exec> 08└─Anyone know what the terminal velocity is for these things? I wonder how anybody lives through a hailstorm of this magnitude.
[09:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Classic 8-Bit Computing the Atari Way - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:37] <exec> 08└─Mednafen switched out their save states on the PS core a few years ago and there have been other changes since then, so many of those won't work without conversion. He has repeatedly said, however, that any changes to the memory card saves that render old saves unusable is a critical bug and release...
[10:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:14] <exec> 08└─Pete, thanks for the link. I was aware of the non-Canonical, continuing development of Unity (Unity8) but wasn't aware of this name-change. It's also interesting that Ubuntu Touch/Convergence and Mir development are also being continued; I had always thought that both were excellent ideas worth purs...
[10:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:25] <exec> 08└─And waiting 2 weeks to ship a new $1.49 eMMC>USB adapter every time you lose or break it. (Or booting from SD card to write to eMMC, playing musical chairs with rebooting).
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[10:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Classic 8-Bit Computing the Atari Way - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:26] <exec> 08└─It was the CPU that powered computers made by Apple, Acorn, Atari, BBC Micro, Commodore, and others. Though the 6502 was introduced in 1975, it is far from being a dead parrot!
[11:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:17] <exec> 08└─Model #?
[11:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:19] <exec> 08└─He was the original 3D printer pioneer.
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[11:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:13] <exec> 08└─... why not expressing your discontent by boycotting this story? I hate *this* change, so I'll keep shut.
[11:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:15] <exec> 08└─I really doubt that boycotting will help because homed will not be his last territorial demand in Linux.
[11:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:17] <exec> 08└─What, you don't like this change? But they way it is managed now is clumsy and inefficient!
[11:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:19] <exec> 08└─Say whatever you want about systemd (I don't care for it) and Poettering's other projects, but for fuck sake KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF MY HOME DIRECTORIES! I have a hard enough time keeping things straight as it is. Besides, /home has been a thing in Unix-ish OS's for, what, 50 years now? What possible be...
[11:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:21] <exec> 08└─What the hell, Leannart? Why would you store important information in a human readable form like json when you could store it in a binary container that requires a specific executable tool to interact with?
[11:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:23] <exec> 08└─This exists only to create problems, add pointless complexity, and cause incompatibilities. Imaginary "improvements" are the fig leaf, breaking things is the real purpose.
[11:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:26] <exec> 08└─I think you have it backwards. It does get tiring when people drag in tired systemd references into unrelated computer related stories, but this is exactly the story where the hate and vitriol, and support, should be.
[11:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:28] <exec> 08└─Your only chance is to retreat. I have long given up on defending my home folder. Too many programs just write stuff wherever they see fit. Programs even start invading the Documents folder. I have now my own subfolder in home (the name of which I keep a secret) that I call my very home (whoever tou...
[11:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:30] <exec> 08└─>> Lennart Poettering has always considered systemd to be incomplete And he always will... until it takes over 100% of the functionality, at which point we will start calling it Lennux (as in, "I can't get my Lennux system to boot because of systemd").
[11:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:32] <exec> 08└─Why would I do that when I can mock him for reinventing kerberos, poorly? No, that's unfair. He reinvented kerberos and a couple lines worth of login scripting, poorly.
[11:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:34] <exec> 08└─It's called 'not in house syndrome' with a touch of 'we sell support so lets make this as difficult to use without it on purpose'.
[11:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Comet Lake" Desktop CPUs: Skylake with up to 10 Cores - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:42] <exec> 08└─We know that cores are supposed to come in multiples of four, so you're obviously using two hidden cores for IME or other spying functionality.
[11:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:53] <exec> 08└─>> Anyone know what the terminal velocity is for these things? What do you mean? African or European?
[11:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Classic 8-Bit Computing the Atari Way - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:07] <exec> 08└─That was the 2nd CPU I taught myself to program in machine language without the benefit of an assembler. Thankfully the days of POKEing opcodes into RAM from Basic DATA statements are long gone. I preferred the Z80 because it had more registers (16 vs 3) [wikipedia.org] it also had additional specia...
[12:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:02] <exec> 08└─The link provided gave me a 404-error and I found the current page is this one [github.io]
[12:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:48] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu Touch has been kept alive by volunteers who share your enthusiasm for Convergence. It's seeing something of a renaissance with fresh hardware from Pine64. NB: I only follow the project loosely; they have a new OTA-12 in 2 weeks that I will flash onto my old Nexus phone. Lomiri can't be instal...
[12:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:32] <exec> 08└─If I were to ignore all sources of news that aren't objectively neutral, I'd get no news at all. I decided to just ask questions to everything I read instead, works pretty great. A proof must follow a claim. Any assumptions must be scrubbed. Anything invoking emotions in me, must be heavily scrutini...
[12:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:04] <exec> 08└─Don't panic.
[12:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:06] <exec> 08└─..but has dem fancy scientists completely ruled out that the universe has always existed and wasn't created in a big bang? Would it be possible that something existed that just is?
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[12:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:27] <exec> 08└─Prior to systemd every system and resource was managed by its own tool, which was clumsy and inefficient.
[12:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:28] <exec> 08└─Didn't your granny ever tell you "Don't put all your eggs in one basket Especially if systemd has been within 10 furlongs of of the basket. Every time I get an update to my Ubuntu system, resolv.conf gets totally fucked. No matter how I remove symlinks, make it immutable, write protected, etc. List...
[12:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:30] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Fuchsia [wikipedia.org] Use a superior kernel.
[12:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:33] <exec> 08└─We all know that Bach is good. But here in the real world nearly everyone listens to top 40 anyway. We want to eat healthy, but choose fast food. In the same way, Poettering likes the idea of Linux but hates everything about it. So many people seem to feel the same way. Thanks to all those people, I...
[12:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:35] <exec> 08└─>> What does ip give me that couldn't be solved with a new flag in ifconfig? The ability to confuse you so much that you have to buy Red Hat support services, which is the raison d'etre for Poettering's existence.
[12:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:37] <exec> 08└─Linux is open source. If you don't like the way systemd handles your resolv.conf file, then just fork systemd, make the changes you want, review the license agreement with your lawyers, write a Code of Conduct for your fork, and then your problem's fixed.
[12:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:39] <exec> 08└─I would have much more respect for Red Hat and Lennart, if they would come clean and at least admit what they're really doing -- developing a totally different operating system. This is what systemd is. Hence the comment title: systemd/linux. Sure its a variant on UNIX and gnu/linux, and runs much o...
[12:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:41] <exec> 08└─Each user home directory will be linked as LUKS-encrypted containers, with the encryption directly coupled to user login.
[12:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:43] <exec> 08└─"Thanks to all those people, I have to essentially learn a new OS as a 20 year Linux user." No, you don't. http://www.slackware.com Debian was once a respectable distro, but it's been enemy territory for years now.
[12:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:45] <exec> 08└─So, let me get this right, you think that instead of complaining of a completely strange and unnecessary behaviour that does not make sense, people should fork the program and correct it themselves? That, unfortunately, is not a viable solution for most people … and not a good solution either. The...
[12:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:48] <exec> 08└─One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered systemd/poetterix community when poettering confirmed that a new feature has dropped in yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers being unaffected. Coming on the heels of a recent RH-sponsored survey which plainly...
[12:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:50] <exec> 08└─What I don't understand is why you would continue using ubuntu after they do this to you? At most it should take one such incident to convince you to move to a distro that doesn't suck.
[12:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:52] <exec> 08└─Boycotting the story was a dumb idea, or I suspect a poor troll. Boycotting each and every distro that is infected with LP's malware is a good idea though. http://www.slackware.com
[12:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:54] <exec> 08└─Bach is not good. Bach is mathematically careful removal of tension in fugues. If you want to know what harmonic tension is ask Chopin. Even pop groups like Alphaville (in Big in Japan and in the lower quality forever young) and countless other which wrote fugues were able to put more tension in it...
[12:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:56] <exec> 08└─Any encryption of home folders, or any other folders, has been just one more thing to screw up - in my experience. If you engrave the password on the case, then it won't get lost, but also then what's the point? And, beyond user error, these things tend to "fail safe" which means dysfunctionally. I...
[12:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:58] <exec> 08└─How do you take your own portable disk and plug it into a different computer and your owner ship of the files still works on that second computer using kerberos and a couple of lines of login scripting? It knows nothing about who you are until you plugin that drive. Your user ID does not exist on th...
[12:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:01] <exec> 08└─Linext/Leannext
[12:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:03] <exec> 08└─Fuck Android. I mean, really. Every time I look at it and think: "gotta get me into this ecosystem, so much potential in the hardware" I just get mired in their special ways of doing everything - and that's O.K., until those special ways get revised every year into other special ways no longer compa...
[12:59:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:05] <exec> 08└─I'd like to recommend Void Linux [voidlinux.org] as being free of systemd, rolling release, very stable, very fast, well maintained, with a large selection of vanilla packages. There is no mandatory pulseaudio, logind and other freedesktop crap, and we like to keep it that way. Plenty of Voiders run...
[12:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:07] <exec> 08└─Fuck up your system like docker if your directory isn't set as /home/user? At work its /home/company.com/user and the stupid gnome-calculator that comes as a docker image refused to run. Of course it wouldn't say why or anything it would fail over a permissions error. Also that docker calculator is...
[12:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:09] <exec> 08└─Huh, that's what I've done. My real home directory is a subdirectory I created in /home/me. Too many programs want to clutter up the home directory and the official subdirectories. If I use the home directory the system set up, makes it difficult to tell which files and subdirectories are mine. I fo...
[12:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:11] <exec> 08└─I haven't dug into homectl yet, but everything else in systemd is trivially easy to learn. We run CentOS at work and we've never had to pay consultants. Most of our sysadmins have been Linux sysadmins since before systemd was created, and they all made the transition effortlessly. Thousands of serve...
[12:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:14] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know why a program meant for sequencing how items load during startup is concerned with DNS resolution?
[12:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:16] <exec> 08└─It looks like it's slowing down. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[12:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Comet Lake" Desktop CPUs: Skylake with up to 10 Cores - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:24] <exec> 08└─https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Core-i5-L16G7-turns-up-on-UserBenchmark-Efficient-5-core-Lakefield-processor-for-ultraportable-devices.452276.0.html [notebookcheck.net] 5-core is the future, man.
[12:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Comet Lake" Desktop CPUs: Skylake with up to 10 Cores - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:26] <exec> 08└─The perfect solution to low yield production lines!
[12:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:37] <exec> 08└─Measurement is an act that either happened or didn't happen
[12:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:39] <exec> 08└─What ever do you mean? My cock likely measures between 7.4 and 9.3 inches long and totally smashed yo mama's pussy.
[13:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:34] <exec> 08└─I might be more than $6 per gallon.
[13:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:26] <exec> 08└─... gear that has flaked out has been my 'murican branded garage door opener ...
[13:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:38] <exec> 08└─I’ve always been VERY appreciative of Linux support for old hardware. Just because a computer is a few years old, doesn’t mean that it should go into a landfill, or toxic recycling. I’m currently using an Apple B&W G3 from 1999 as a Linux based router for my home network. I’ve be...
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[13:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:23] <exec> 08└─Report to the hygiene officer for skin core sample test, citizen.
[13:58:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:33] <exec> 08└─I really doubt that boycotting will help because homed will not be his last territorial demand in Linux.
[13:58:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:37] <exec> 08└─What the hell, Leannart? Why would you store important information in a human readable form like json when you could store it in a binary container that requires a specific executable tool to interact with?
[13:58:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:48] <exec> 08└─>> What does ip give me that couldn't be solved with a new flag in ifconfig? The ability to confuse you so much that you have to buy Red Hat support services, which is the raison d'etre for Poettering's existence.
[13:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:08] <exec> 08└─This. Stop moving everything. Firefox is egregious at this too - the entire knowledge base of about config hacks, add-ons and userChrome.css gets erased every 2 years. For what? Nothing. Some new menu is even smaller and harder to launch than previously.
[13:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:10] <exec> 08└─How about removing traceroute? I was having an issue getting routing setup on a Debian box so no downloading from repos. Some time ago they replaced traceroute with tracepath for reasons? I wasn't aware of such nonsense and that made fixing the routing issues fun. Also they replaced the actual route...
[13:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:12] <exec> 08└─Bbut... where do you put Pictures? And Videos? And Templates? That recreate if you delete them. It doesn't make any sense?!
[13:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:14] <exec> 08└─Fecking LOL. +1 Funny, though it's also tragic.
[13:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:16] <exec> 08└─I made /home/me/tmp for my own temporary stuff
[13:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:18] <exec> 08└─From the fine article: If a systemd-homed home directory is encrypted until a user successfully logs in, how will users be able to log in to a remote machine with SSH? The big problem with that is the .ssh directory (where SSH stores known_hosts and authorized_keys) would be inaccessible while the u...
[13:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:20] <exec> 08└─>you can relearn everything you already know about it in a day or two FTFY. Those days sure add up when it's happening to everything all the time.
[13:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:23] <exec> 08└─I've been, as per usual, a couple of years ahead of the curve with the systemd hate (and took plenty of ribbing for it, because *of course* I did...). Have been systemd-free for years. I know where this is going: systemd is the F/OSS world's single largest malignant NIH-tumor, and it's only going to...
[13:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:25] <exec> 08└─store it in a binary container that requires a specific executable tool to interact with
[13:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:27] <exec> 08└─Don't let the 11 fool you, it's the 18th version - at least. I bought a SIM card holding Android 8 based smartwatch thinking I'd use it to make a tracker app. Got as far as putting pins on maps that tracked me around, but got mired in trying to have it chirp the current location data out to a MQTT s...
[13:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:29] <exec> 08└─I guess the new rule is "keep fucking with Linux until even the systemd supporters can't defend it."
[13:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:31] <exec> 08└─All that needs be said about all things systemd.
[13:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:33] <exec> 08└─I agree with you, but you won't convince many people here. I switch my computers on and they all work. Stopping or starting tasks is simple and takes care of all of the child processes too with no issues. Creating new service scripts is dead easy and they all go in standardised places. I just get on...
[13:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:35] <exec> 08└─The joke is that Systemd likes to use opaque binary formats which require special tools where they used to just be text files.
[13:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:38] <exec> 08└─I suppose I should just 'whoosh' myself then.
[13:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:40] <exec> 08└─A) My login/uid does exist on that computer if it's networked and using kerberos. Just like yours does on dev now that I got rid of the second entry for you that was confusing kerberos. B) I've never had to deal with a situation where I needed my home directory wagged to an air-gapped computer but b...
[13:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:42] <exec> 08└─Qui tacet consentire videtur He who shuts up, allows.
[13:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah many choices... but which one actually has a suspend that works? Or a screensaver that can kick in more than 50% of the time? Install an LAN printer? Jezus the shit never ends...
[13:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:46] <exec> 08└─You look at it from your POV, try theirs. Systemd is an instrument of domination, messing with /home is a juicy target to obsolete million mans hours of knowledge and info. Fact: all those people using linux for multimedia NEED PLAIN HOMES WITH NO ENCRYPTION hogging up the CPU. Ergo, pick antixxx or...
[13:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:49] <exec> 08└─If some of the data in ~/ needs to be encrypted, the solution is an encrypted directory underneath ~/ rather than encrypting the entire directory and potentially breaking your login.
[13:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:51] <exec> 08└─You can be sure that Poettering will come up with a solution that takes SSH into consideration.
[13:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:53] <exec> 08└─Good objection but, let's proceed in an orderly manner. Soon the limitation of json will become apparent and a new DSL will be needed to deal with the pesky problem of access to home dirs. Just have people onboard this for the moment, you want people to get entrapped first.
[13:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:55] <exec> 08└─Only on that network. How do you take a portable drive to a computer NOT on that network and have it install itself so that you still have ownership and access control over all of your files? What if your UID is already in use on that computer? Who would have ownership then? You, or the owner of tha...
[13:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:57] <exec> 08└─All I know for sure is if Debian follows suit, I will be very disappointed... (considering that Pulse and systemd are already a thing, though THOSE don't seem to be a problem, not like they were in the beginning)
[13:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:00] <exec> 08└─"That recreate if you delete them. It doesn't make any sense?!" When this happens; 1. Figure out which program is doing it. 2. Check if this is a configuration option. 3. a. If it is, fix the config. b. If it is not, remove the program.
[14:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:02] <exec> 08└─Saying that you don't have the need is not solving the problem for those that do. Just because you don't need it doesn't mean nobody else should need it either. So I ask again - what is your kerberos and scripting solution, or any solution at all, to that problem?
[14:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:04] <exec> 08└─Here's why some of the systemd haters will hate, take that portable disk and plug it into a system without systemd, will it work? Will systemd-homed work with other init systems? If not, it is a broken design that should not be on a linux box. What if kerberos must be used for technical reasons or i...
[14:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:06] <exec> 08└─Even easier, is just use a different distro. But for those of us who actually find systemd solves some problems then I will keep on using it. It hasn't been a major change in how I have to use my computer, but it is more powerful than its predecessors IMHO. Of course, you may disagree, but that is n...
[14:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:08] <exec> 08└─"I switch my computers on and they all work. Stopping or starting tasks is simple and takes care of all of the child processes too with no issues. Creating new service scripts is dead easy and they all go in standardised places. I just get on with my work and don't even notice that it is there." Thi...
[14:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:10] <exec> 08└─Debian was lost several years ago. Way past time to switch to a distro that is still shipping gnu/linux. http://slackware.com
[14:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:12] <exec> 08└─"it is more powerful than its predecessors" That's not a good thing. Think about it. What if your local dog-catcher had nuclear weapons? You would definitely have a more powerful dog-catcher. But what good would that be?
[14:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:15] <exec> 08└─How many admins do you know that want people without a login (either networked or local) having access to a box? It's certainly not an end user feature.
[14:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:17] <exec> 08└─That's kind of the point. It's a problem that does not exist.
[14:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Comet Lake" Desktop CPUs: Skylake with up to 10 Cores - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:27] <exec> 08└─The one really interesting thing I found is if you disable the IME (via a jumper) Windows will take forever to boot. Like going from seconds to nearly a full minute.
[14:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Comet Lake" Desktop CPUs: Skylake with up to 10 Cores - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:29] <exec> 08└─This is what, 5 iterations on Skylake, with a "TDP" that amounts to maybe half of what the chip uses whenever it actually attempts to stretch its legs? And full of all those God-awful hardware vulnerabilities? No thanks. I've always preferred AMD, and am very glad they're not only back in the spotli...
[14:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Comet Lake" Desktop CPUs: Skylake with up to 10 Cores - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:31] <exec> 08└─Comparing the i9-10900K(F) to the 3990X should be good for a laugh. The 64-core 3990X draws about 280W [anandtech.com], the stated TDP, starting at the 22-core mark. The other chip... well... [wccftech.com]
[14:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Classic 8-Bit Computing the Atari Way - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:59] <exec> 08└─65xx chips usually ran at low clock rates to accomdate slow RAM, even though the CMOS versions were capable of going much faster. In the Atari systems (except the 2600) the CPU suffers additional stalls for DRAM refresh and fetching of video data. The Hu6280 designed by Hudson and used in the NEC PC...
[14:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:23] <exec> 08└─Hah. Republicans would too, they'd just lie about it :) Look up the stats for where the most abortions happen.
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[14:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:11] <exec> 08└─Can they also flush the toilet after idiots that don't? (da fuq is wrong with people anyway?) Obligatory programming error in 3...2...1...0...4294967295; Humans=Germs; KILL ALL HUMANS!!
[14:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:13] <exec> 08└─Sterilize...Sterilize
[14:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:15] <exec> 08└─I've seen shit laying on the floor next to the toilet in public bathrooms. I guess that's how animals mark their territory.
[14:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:17] <exec> 08└─In San Diego? Nahhhh - EF just missed again.
[14:58:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:35] <exec> 08└─Why would I do that when I can mock him for reinventing kerberos, poorly? No, that's unfair. He reinvented kerberos and a couple lines worth of login scripting, poorly.
[14:59:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 862 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:09] <exec> 08└─I've been, as per usual, a couple of years ahead of the curve with the systemd hate (and took plenty of ribbing for it, because *of course* I did...). Have been systemd-free for years. I know where this is going: systemd is the F/OSS world's single largest malignant NIH-tumor, and it's only going to...
[14:59:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:12] <exec> 08└─I guess the new rule is "keep fucking with Linux until even the systemd supporters can't defend it."
[14:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:35] <exec> 08└─What a ridiculous argument. Imagine a temporary problem with my network. Several parts of the system might stop working because they have lost connectivity. systemd knows which programs rely on the network and, when the temporary problem is resolved, it automatically restarts all the programs that n...
[14:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:37] <exec> 08└─/home wasn't around in 1975. Back then my home directory was at /usr/hendrik. So it's beem around for less than the full 50 years. -- hendrik
[14:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:39] <exec> 08└─Systemd makes it phone /home... and sell your data... mwhahahaha.
[14:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:41] <exec> 08└─I'm genuinely curious. How do you boycott a story?
[14:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 1508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:43] <exec> 08└─"You can be sure that Poettering will come up with a solution that takes SSH into consideration." More like takes SSH into the carnage. Never underestimate a misguided 'helper' with lots of energy. The state of OS design pre-Unix was simple(r). Just make a big engangled blob. (Stil...
[14:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:46] <exec> 08└─Chinese Troll Farmer.
[14:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:48] <exec> 08└─Where can I read more about the mathematics of harmonic tension in general? Whether Bach's or Chopin's style?
[14:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:50] <exec> 08└─I use it as a media player box. It has a small install footprint and just works. Slackware current is basically a 15.0 release now with an up to date kernel.
[14:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:52] <exec> 08└─Start with about 77 comments and boycott the number upwards.
[14:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:54] <exec> 08└─I remember delaying upgrading my Debian system when the new release was a systemd release. I hung on as my usual system became obsolete until I could upgrade to devuan. -- hendrik
[14:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:57] <exec> 08└─"What a ridiculous argument." It's not a ridiculous argument at all. Making programs more powerful doesn't always or even often make them better programs. If take my init system and give it power over the entire system I don't get a better init, I just make the consequences of a bug in the init syst...
[14:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:59] <exec> 08└─What possible benefit could there be to the end user (or the admin for that matter) to start changing it up now?
[15:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:01] <exec> 08└─You forgot the "Vision Statement" and the "Mission Statement".
[15:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:03] <exec> 08└─So just how it is supposed to work for access to the dot files and directories in your /home/username? If it is encrypted then you need to login each time and remain logged in to run a service as your normal user on a server?
[15:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:05] <exec> 08└─Linexit/Leannexit fthfy
[15:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:07] <exec> 08└─That would be nice but no, I used slack back around 4.0 (~kernel 0.97, or so). Back in the aughts, the slackware web package repo went down for almost an entire year. Their packages are also often way out of date. Yes you can build from source, and I often do. But not on slack, because their libs ar...
[15:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:09] <exec> 08└─Yep, but for marketing purposes encrypting the whole thing is the equivalent of nuking it from orbit - now you're "sure" that no sensitive data will leak. They swear they've improved, but my 2006 MacBook Pro bricked itself because of a combo of an encrypted home folder and a bad driver that prevente...
[15:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:12] <exec> 08└─One big red flag I saw with this story was the atrocious writing quality. The author used "it's" multiple times for the possessive version of that word; did they even finish high school?
[15:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:14] <exec> 08└─No need to sell your data when "the home directory is automatically encrypted" but it will be borked so only paid customers with Red Hat support subscriptions will have entitlement to run systemd-decrypt-systemd-ransomewared. Step 3, Profit!!!
[15:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:16] <exec> 08└─I also wish he would put his hands into the X world. People dislike that API and interaction so much, and this guy _loves_ crappifying everything more, no doubt he has a grand vision for that. Also, with breaking X compatibility, then he'll have broken the _complete_ stack and there's nothing left b...
[15:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:18] <exec> 08└─Little bits of systemd are creeping into slackware to accommodate Plasma 5. Once they and Gentoo get swallowed up, I will have to decide which BSD is best. By the way, which BSD is best?
[15:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:20] <exec> 08└─Also, how do you manage per-machine group access? On your laptop you may be trusted with sudo, but on the file server, you're just a normal user. Where does that get managed?
[15:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:22] <exec> 08└─First thing is first: design the icons and t-shirt.
[15:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:25] <exec> 08└─Not for you - but there are many who do have this problem.
[15:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:27] <exec> 08└─With a name like Peter ring, why did ANYONE ever take him serious?
[15:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:52] <exec> 08└─Well then, they could have said "a hailstone seen in a social media post from random Joe looked awfully big" but then maybe it would have been difficult to work in the "researchers" and "scientists" and they wouldn't have had much of story. BREAKING: Hail Storm Happened Two Years Ago
[15:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:53] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the real world where scientists sometimes have to use proxies to measure things and where teleportation and time travel don't exist so they can't just go there and measure it. We know things about the sun but those stupid scientists have never even been there!
[15:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:56] <exec> 08└─And as we all know it is completely impossible for scientists to investigate things that happened in the past.
[15:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:58] <exec> 08└─And then, they have to come up with language to describe the resulting uncertainty that all introduces.
[15:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YARA v4.0.0 Released - The Pattern Matching Swiss Knife - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:24] <exec> 08└─Also packaged in Devuan. And I'd guess Debian. Also packaged: documentation, libary and various programming language bindings. Version 3.9.0-1.
[15:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:58] <exec> 08└─The movie in question is also an opinion piece.
[15:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:00] <exec> 08└─I think it would require an obvious rebuttal.
[15:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe the CFAA helped placate civilian needs for military-grade security.
[15:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:19] <exec> 08└─And Ethanol-feueled would know; he's got a lifetime's worth of experience on being penally challenged and penis-envious.
[15:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe the C2/C1/C0 has still some demand (for many uses even a c0 is good enough and they probably suck less power). It's not wise to give them away, especially if the board components are not produced anymore.
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[15:58:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:47] <exec> 08└─Prior to systemd every system and resource was managed by its own tool, which was clumsy and inefficient.
[16:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:10] <exec> 08└─Pottering discovers a lib for the first time, and Debian bends over to take it in the ass
[16:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:11] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but I don't see the point in backing up Music/Videos separately. Personally, I just backup my home dir onto portable USB drives using rsync. The large stuff doesn't change often, so it doesn't take any time to backup unless you've changed it. Even if you use some kind of snapshotting ba...
[16:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:13] <exec> 08└─+1000 to all that. I use all Gentoo myself and my company moved from CentOS6 to Devuan to avoid this cluster fuck. I actually can't believe how AstroTurfed that article is...like this gem: For those who aren't familiar with systemd, it is that which initializes all systems on the Linux platform. Any...
[16:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:16] <exec> 08└─Since you mentioned the 90s, you reminded me of Stacker. Some things have changed but the underlying principle is still about the same. Stacker effectively encrypted your partition, sure it was compression aimed at reducing the bytecount rather than preventing unauthorized reads, but it amounts to t...
[16:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure, I haven't used any of them for several years now. OBSD used to be pretty good, but I'm afraid the licensing killed it.
[16:00:19] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 471 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:20] <exec> 08└─but have you got a better solution to this problem? What if I don't consider this a problem at all? I have no desire at all to move my files, encrypted, to another computer I've never used before. However, I absolutely do require that I can log into my account with SSH, which apparently is a no-go w...
[16:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:22] <exec> 08└─Bandaids like automatically restarting a program can be applied with different tools.
[16:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:50] <exec> 08└─I think it would require an obvious rebuttal.
[16:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:51] <exec> 08└─But what's fully rebutting about having a different opinion? Or did I just rebut everyone in this thread??!
[16:03:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:03] <exec> 08└─Libertarianism is a fairy story told to gullible fools by billionaires.
[16:03:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:17] <exec> 08└─Four things are certain: the three stated, and IoT devices shall never be part of my home network.
[16:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:47] <exec> 08└─IoT devices shall never be part of my home network.
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[16:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06NASA Selects SpaceX, Dynetics, and Blue Origin to Develop Manned Lunar Landers - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:16] <exec> 08└─Let me get this straight. NASA wants to have SpaceX launch Starship to the Lunar Gateway, without crew. Then they want to spend much more money launching an Orion capsule on SLS to get the crew to the bigger and better Starship?
[16:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:29] <exec> 08└─Sounds like suicide booth from Futurama with only one choice: kill by fire.
[16:58:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 217 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:44] <exec> 08└─I think you have it backwards. It does get tiring when people drag in tired systemd references into unrelated computer related stories, but this is exactly the story where the hate and vitriol, and support, should be.
[16:58:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 537 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:55] <exec> 08└─I would have much more respect for Red Hat and Lennart, if they would come clean and at least admit what they're really doing -- developing a totally different operating system. This is what systemd is. Hence the comment title: systemd/linux. Sure its a variant on UNIX and gnu/linux, and runs much o...
[16:59:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:01] <exec> 08└─Boycotting the story was a dumb idea, or I suspect a poor troll. Boycotting each and every distro that is infected with LP's malware is a good idea though. http://www.slackware.com
[16:59:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 526 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:07] <exec> 08└─Fuck Android. I mean, really. Every time I look at it and think: "gotta get me into this ecosystem, so much potential in the hardware" I just get mired in their special ways of doing everything - and that's O.K., until those special ways get revised every year into other special ways no longer compa...
[16:59:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03epitaxial [3165] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:13] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know why a program meant for sequencing how items load during startup is concerned with DNS resolution?
[16:59:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:19] <exec> 08└─Fecking LOL. +1 Funny, though it's also tragic.
[16:59:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:29] <exec> 08└─I suppose I should just 'whoosh' myself then.
[17:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:50] <exec> 08└─Great Balls Of Ice!! I still gave in the freezer, 8 hailstones from 2007, when they caused about a billion dollars in damage here. 8 of them filled a chinese take-away food container. They left quite a lot of dents in my Nissan Pathfinder.
[17:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Classic 8-Bit Computing the Atari Way - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:07] <exec> 08└─It seems like the Z80 was a more serious machine and found its way into some pretty decent computers of the day. It's kind of a shame the Z8000 didn't take off. Wiki page mentions some good reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Gotta wonder where computing would be if it...
[17:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Classic 8-Bit Computing the Atari Way - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:08] <exec> 08└─All that, and if AC had read TFA, he'd know the answer. And if he still didn't get it, he's just in over his head and should go back to vaping.
[17:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:18] <exec> 08└─Nice find - I had checked Amazon as well (boatloads of Brother's included), and hadn't spotted anye. I stopped looking long before I reached $200 though. Not a bad price all in all, but a bit high for someone like myself who only occasioanally prints something, and is rarely more than 24 hours away...
[17:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks. And yes, research certainly helps. Unless you're far enough away from the nearest $100 option that shipping will mostly kill the deal anyway. :-/
[17:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 1248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:21] <exec> 08└─Don't give it open internet access - that's probably a good idea anyway since the security on printers is very often... lacking. The easiest way is probably to configure your firewall to disallow any communication between your printer and the internet. Most people don't have any need to print remot...
[17:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:24] <exec> 08└─I think something important was lost when English classes stopped teaching sentence diagramming. If you've never been taught how to systematically parse a sentence, how are you supposed to understand what's being said when your intuition inevitably breaks down?
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[17:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06NASA Selects SpaceX, Dynetics, and Blue Origin to Develop Manned Lunar Landers - 2518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:24] <exec> 08└─Well, the lunar gateway is no longer planned as a precondition for a lunar landing - it's still on the roadmap, but as a support outpost for long-term development that probably won't be ready by 2024 rather than as an essential way station to the moon. I understand Trump is pushing hard to get boots...
[17:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Selects SpaceX, Dynetics, and Blue Origin to Develop Manned Lunar Landers - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:25] <exec> 08└─That may very well be intentionally for a higher degree of redundancy.
[17:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Selects SpaceX, Dynetics, and Blue Origin to Develop Manned Lunar Landers - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:27] <exec> 08└─Let me get this straight. NASA wants to have SpaceX launch Starship to the Lunar Gateway, without crew. Then they want to spend much more money launching an Orion capsule on SLS to get the crew to the bigger and better Starship?
[18:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:58] <exec> 08└─Not near enough data to calculate terminal velocity is presented. Just looking at the pics of the largest ones, I can't imagine coming up with an accurate ballistic coefficient to input into the equations. But mentioned in TFS: "Anything larger than about a quarter in size can start putting dents in...
[18:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:59] <exec> 08└─And then, they have to come up with language to describe the resulting uncertainty that all introduces.
[18:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:02] <exec> 08└─You mean like stating the size as a range?
[18:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Classic 8-Bit Computing the Atari Way - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:21] <exec> 08└─Technically, it didn't use a 6502. But that's really just a nitpick. [wikipedia.org]
[18:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DisplayPort Alt Mode Updated for USB 4, Allows Uncompressed 8K @ 60 Hz HDR Video Over a USB-C Cable - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:43] <exec> 08└─8k at 60Hz is nice I suppose, for that handful of people that can use such resolution. Okay, yeah, I suppose it'd be nice for a 40+" monitor - I can still make out individual pixels at 4k from up close. What I really want to know is, is the spec flexible enough to use the same data rate to deliver 2...
[18:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 1311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:10] <exec> 08└─repeat after me: you have no access to energy! this is a fact for (oh guessing here) 99% of every nose on the planet. ofc this is not true because you buy it from someone else -or- in other words you are dependant on someone to provide it and bring it to you. curiously enough, it is countries least...
[18:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:12] <exec> 08└─I went through the thought experiment on low priced oil and how it will impact solar/wind. I suspect it will actually be a boon long term with more expensive oil. What I suspect will occur: 1. Low priced oil kills some of the producers 2. Consolidation in the oil industry thanks to low prices; only...
[18:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:14] <exec> 08└─a barrel being 55 gallons
[18:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:16] <exec> 08└─and this pandemic must be a hella jolt to hurry the fuck up.
[18:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:58] <exec> 08└─Looks like you are already alive so you should go die now to protect the Stock Market. Pro Life!
[18:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:59] <exec> 08└─Who’s driving high abortion rates? It’s the religious right [theguardian.com]
[18:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:01] <exec> 08└─Giraffes are born as Llamas and it's only by pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps that they succeed at getting fruit.
[18:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:45] <exec> 08└─Brother has some very nice color capable laser printers, I think they need drivers for cups, but work with lpr, netcat, etc. out of the box.
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[18:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:34] <exec> 08└─I think it's 'Microbe Obliterator' [instructables.com]. And it was my favorite, leading to an argument :-? with someone who insisted the best one was Eve.
[18:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:36] <exec> 08└─Somehow I'm reminded more of the Monsters, Inc. [youtube.com] safety protocol. That cone would work for social distancing, too.
[19:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DisplayPort Alt Mode Updated for USB 4, Allows Uncompressed 8K @ 60 Hz HDR Video Over a USB-C Cable - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:40] <exec> 08└─Probably: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Two 4K (3840 × 2160) displays @ 144 Hz and 8 bpc (24 bit/px, SDR) RGB/Y′CBCR 4:4:4 color (uncompressed) [...] Three 4K (3840 × 2160) displays @ 90 Hz and 10 bpc (30 bit/px, HDR) RGB/Y′CBCR...
[19:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:13] <exec> 08└─Rebutting each other's opinions is the subject of about 90% of the comments here.
[19:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:00] <exec> 08└─Pick up a marijuana habit. Good weed sometimes has a cat-piss smell, and you will acquire a taste for it over time.
[19:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:36] <exec> 08└─"Placate" is probably the wrong word. "Preempt" would be a better fit. Because yeah, the private sector didn't think they needed it. Even though Bell had been getting phreaked for years, they still thought they could get away with security-by-obscurity forever. In a more perfect world, the US govern...
[19:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:17] <exec> 08└─That sounds like you could have interference or range issues. Could be faulty hardware or wiring, but wireless is inherently unreliable and insecure..
[19:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:48] <exec> 08└─brother supposedly has some driverless printers out. i don't have model numbers. i think there is a video about the current state of printing in linux from the 2019 linux plumbers conf that talks about this issue.
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[19:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Defining Geographic Regions with Commuter Data - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:20] <exec> 08└─It's a geographic study of the distance between home and work.
[19:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defining Geographic Regions with Commuter Data - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:21] <exec> 08└─They found 90 counties, including Los Angeles County, that stood alone because of high levels of within-county commuting.
[19:58:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06NASA Selects SpaceX, Dynetics, and Blue Origin to Develop Manned Lunar Landers - 2518 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:30] <exec> 08└─Well, the lunar gateway is no longer planned as a precondition for a lunar landing - it's still on the roadmap, but as a support outpost for long-term development that probably won't be ready by 2024 rather than as an essential way station to the moon. I understand Trump is pushing hard to get boots...
[19:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Selects SpaceX, Dynetics, and Blue Origin to Develop Manned Lunar Landers - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:34] <exec> 08└─What is this Dynetics company? Am I the only one who can't help but think of Dianetics [wikipedia.org], i.e. Scientology?
[19:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Selects SpaceX, Dynetics, and Blue Origin to Develop Manned Lunar Landers - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:36] <exec> 08└─while Dynetics may not be a household name in aerospace, Bridenstine said the company has quietly worked with NASA for decades and brings "an immense amount of history and capability to the table."
[19:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:51] <exec> 08└─That's what came to mind for me too but I couldn't think of some smartass comment to post so I abstained.
[19:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:53] <exec> 08└─Even you are seeing the light that the Democrats want to keep us in permanent imprisonment and unconsented medical procedures?
[19:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:55] <exec> 08└─Involving the injection of bleach?
[19:59:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 730 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:16] <exec> 08└─Didn't your granny ever tell you "Don't put all your eggs in one basket Especially if systemd has been within 10 furlongs of of the basket. Every time I get an update to my Ubuntu system, resolv.conf gets totally fucked. No matter how I remove symlinks, make it immutable, write protected, etc. List...
[19:59:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 677 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:25] <exec> 08└─So, let me get this right, you think that instead of complaining of a completely strange and unnecessary behaviour that does not make sense, people should fork the program and correct it themselves? That, unfortunately, is not a viable solution for most people … and not a good solution either. The...
[19:59:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 683 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:36] <exec> 08└─Huh, that's what I've done. My real home directory is a subdirectory I created in /home/me. Too many programs want to clutter up the home directory and the official subdirectories. If I use the home directory the system set up, makes it difficult to tell which files and subdirectories are mine. I fo...
[19:59:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:59] <exec> 08└─If some of the data in ~/ needs to be encrypted, the solution is an encrypted directory underneath ~/ rather than encrypting the entire directory and potentially breaking your login.
[20:00:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Linux Home Directory Management is About to Undergo Major Change - 1268 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:23] <exec> 08└─"What a ridiculous argument." It's not a ridiculous argument at all. Making programs more powerful doesn't always or even often make them better programs. If take my init system and give it power over the entire system I don't get a better init, I just make the consequences of a bug in the init syst...
[20:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Comet Lake" Desktop CPUs: Skylake with up to 10 Cores - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:57] <exec> 08└─too late fucktards. Not that AMD is perfect, but I don't want your extra insecure shit anyways.
[20:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces "Comet Lake" Desktop CPUs: Skylake with up to 10 Cores - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:58] <exec> 08└─Yep. 3700X + Navi, runs every game at maximum with no problems. Motherboards are garbage garbage garbage though.
[20:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 2731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:20] <exec> 08└─The use of quotes implies that somehow the scientists' work is illegitimate. Did you read the scientific paper [ametsoc.org] that describes their work? As for this happening two years ago, there are good reasons why it wasn't published until now. The scientists were funded to travel to South America...
[20:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:21] <exec> 08└─While the journalist's wording may be imprecise, it doesn't make it ambiguous at all. It obviously means that if someone had managed to measure the size of the hail stone before it shattered on impact with the ground, they would have measured it somewhere between 7.4 and 9.3 inches across. You knew...
[20:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:34] <exec> 08└─Ok, I decided to read the "full rebuttal". Well, despite coming from Ars Technica, it's more than just opinion. For example, The rest comes from Ozzie Zehner—an author of a book critical of renewable energy titled Green Illusions—who is also listed as producer of the film. Zehner is mostly used...
[20:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064-Billion-Year-Old Nitrogen-Containing Organic Molecules Discovered in Martian Meteorites - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:52] <exec> 08└─In the future, Linus will be forced to flee into a blackhole, sending him back in time as Tux. He will then construct Stonehenge and the Pyramids to calculate where to send the source code for Linux 10.0 and the GPLv4, now weaponized with libre AI Stallman-Clones to finally save humanity from propri...
[20:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:23] <exec> 08└─well you weren't supposed to roll around in it!
[20:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:01] <exec> 08└─A law that says this string 10110011001101111011011100101110110 is ok, but this one 1011101101011011000110010010101110110 is not, is necessarily restricting free speech.
[20:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 2061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:44] <exec> 08└─1) I'd be very interested to hear more about how traditional recruitment demographics are wising up to what the upper classes have known for half a century. I think it's more likely those demographics have become cynical about the concept of one America, and are worried about the wrong political par...
[20:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:45] <exec> 08└─Isn't that just compared to the Obama years? That article claims Obama was going above and beyond for transparency. I don't remember having all that much information about commitments in the Bush years. Besides, more transparency does not mean less war. Proof: the Obama years. Heck, Trump might be l...
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[20:58:49] <exec> 08└─If I understand correctly, according to this I grew up in the "I-95 Corridor" metro area.
[20:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Selects SpaceX, Dynetics, and Blue Origin to Develop Manned Lunar Landers - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:02] <exec> 08└─The best odds of success are if you can pair the best in breed moon system with the best in breed launch system. To be able to swap, the interface between the moon system and launch system needs to be common. Starship appears a different beast, but it would be cool if Blue Origin and Dynetics could...
[20:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:22] <exec> 08└─The computer is your friend, you can trust the computer.
[21:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:50] <exec> 08└─Let's use more accurate language here. I didn't fuss about the precision of the wording at all. It's fine as far as I'm concerned.
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[21:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibly Active Tectonic System on the Moon - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:15] <exec> 08└─Would tectonic activity indicate the possibility of caves? (hey, i'm just a software guy)
[21:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibly Active Tectonic System on the Moon - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:16] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. But the fact that the moon used to be volcanically active all but guarantees the existence of lava tubes, which are a particularlly useful kind of cave (network). And under the moon's gravity they can be huge - there's evidence suggesting collapsed tubes 10km wide and hundreds of km...
[21:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibly Active Tectonic System on the Moon - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:18] <exec> 08└─"The distribution that we found here begs for a different explanation,"
[21:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibly Active Tectonic System on the Moon - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:20] <exec> 08└─Not much. Not our water-made variety, for sure. There are some good ideas of caves of volcanic origin, but they are yet to be discovered.
[21:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possibly Active Tectonic System on the Moon - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:23] <exec> 08└─Enter the Moon Cave [soylentnews.org]
[21:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Possibly Active Tectonic System on the Moon - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:25] <exec> 08└─Link to PDF [usra.edu]. Probably not. I can't think of a way that earthquakes could create underground voids. My take is that they're more likely to eliminate caves than to create them. They talk about the existence of "wrinkle ridges" which can expose lunar bedrock. That would be useful for early...
[21:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possibly Active Tectonic System on the Moon - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:27] <exec> 08└─According to NASA the moon isn't hollow, it just rings like a bell due to a cave system that makes up the majority of the inner space.
[21:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Selects SpaceX, Dynetics, and Blue Origin to Develop Manned Lunar Landers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:50] <exec> 08└─So, then aliens. Who don't want to be famous.
[21:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:09] <exec> 08└─What, you _like_ being literally covered-with and stuffed-full-of bacteria, viruses, fungi and archaea? Your body's only 43% human by cell count: https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[22:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YARA v4.0.0 Released - The Pattern Matching Swiss Knife - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:07] <exec> 08└─Just like a virus! $ dnf search yara Last metadata expiration check: 8 days, 15:32:16 ago on Thu 23 Apr 2020 01:48:50 AM EDT. ========================= Name Exactly Matched: yara================= yara.i686 : Pattern matching Swiss knife for malware researchers yara.x86_64 : Pattern matching Swiss kn...
[22:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DisplayPort Alt Mode Updated for USB 4, Allows Uncompressed 8K @ 60 Hz HDR Video Over a USB-C Cable - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:19] <exec> 08└─I agree that cables are a nuisance - unfortunately there don't seem to be any wireless technologies on the horizon that can supply the required bandwidth, and most compression algorithms introduce additional lag that can be ill afforded. Given the speed and erraticness of eye saccades I have my doub...
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[22:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Regenerate Neurons in Mice with Spinal Cord Injury and Optic Nerve Damage - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:05] <exec> 08└─Both contenders in the upcoming US election could use a few more neurons.
[22:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Defining Geographic Regions with Commuter Data - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:28] <exec> 08└─tl;dr: places that are a long way from other places tend to have people stay there maybe the useful part of the data will be discovering the commuter distance threshold - how far is too far to commute to work? there are people in Ipswich, UK [wikipedia.org] who have never been further from home than...
[23:01:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aegis [6714] 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:19] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the real world where scientists sometimes have to use proxies to measure things and where teleportation and time travel don't exist so they can't just go there and measure it. We know things about the sun but those stupid scientists have never even been there!
[23:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 2075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:29] <exec> 08└─We could also avoid posting misinformation that the hail measurements were a hoax. That would be a good start. Any mistake by the journalist is relatively minor compared to the misinformation you posted earlier in this thread. Had you actually looked at the journal paper, which was written by the ac...
[23:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Gargantuan' Hail in Argentina May Have Smashed World Record - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:31] <exec> 08└─Climate change you!
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[23:58:58] <exec> 08└─> For a lunar lander... testing is much more expensive, ... Doesn't have to be more expensive. Where's Larry Bell when you need him? (answer: long dead, along with most of the Greatest Generation) https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] This video gets more exciting as they w...
[23:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Selects SpaceX, Dynetics, and Blue Origin to Develop Manned Lunar Landers - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:59] <exec> 08└─You can certainly do some testing with creative tricks to imperfectly simulate a lunar environment, but between gravity and air resistance the only way to see for sure how well something will be able to land on the moon, is to land it it on the moon. That said, I suspect that landing on Earth is a f...
[23:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hong Kong Robots Automate Cleaning During Covid Crisis - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:20] <exec> 08└─Speaking of skin, everybody knows that UV light is not good for the skin. It's why nail salons stopped using UV curing for nail glue, because the UV was found to accelerate aging of the hands' skin. During my days of working on DUV photolithography, an accidental exposure to a beam (assuming the pow...