mansr, 19 days ago (edited 18 days ago) to random

If you regularly share a bed with the same person, do you always sleep on the same side?

(Sides from your point of view facing the ceiling.)

bagder, 29 days ago to random

This box landed on my doorstep. The #curl up 2024 preparations continue!

mansr, 1 month ago to random

bitrate: speed of data transfer
nitrate: louse eggs per unit time
titrate: porniness of a film

JoeRess, 2 months ago to random

Everyone said get a Brother printer so I bought a 3-in-1 scanner and printer. There seems to be something wrong with it though. I plugged it into a Linux laptop, opened a document, pressed print, selected the printer, and it printed. Then I opened simple-scan, pressed scan, and it scanned.

This isn't how printers and scanners are supposed to work. Where do I install the drivers that don't work properly etc? This was no fun. I demand a refund.

mansr, 2 months ago to random

Happy DOS filename day, everyone.

revk, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

I have tried to explain some of the issues with #2038 and time_t. And some about #Y2K

https://www.revk.uk/2024/03/2038.html

I mean, maybe boost it a bit if people need to know this shit?!

geert, 2 months ago to random

Nice!
But digits give away too much angular information.
1 => 1 dot,
2 => 2 concentric circles,
3 => 3 concentric circles,
4 => 2x2 dots,
...
You get the idea...

mansr, 3 months ago to random

A snowball is made of snow, so a football must be made of feet.

torvalds, 3 months ago to random

Being the responsible parents we are, we have Carbon Monoxide alarms in the house, because hey, it’s what you do. Right?

Of course, they have never gone off (knock wood), so you do tend to forget that they exist at all.

Well, yesterday one of those alarms decided that it needed to really remind us that it exists, and that it’s been ten years since we activated it. Because it’s now time to replace it.

Of course, nobody was home - except for the dog. Who is now traumatized by that beeping hell-box that suddenly decided that it was a good idea to tell everybody out of the blue that it needs replacing - at 95dB, just to make sure.

Kidde - I’m sure you could at least start out with just a mild chirp, instead of going full “the bark collar from hell” crazy. No?

mansr, 3 months ago to random

Whenever "right to repair" is mentioned, my first thought is of Loretta's right to have babies in Life of Brian. You might have the right, but you're never getting the means.

mansr, 3 months ago to random

We needed to make an interface that normally uses a serial port accessible over TCP. We chose port 19200 because why not.

thomasfuchs, 3 months ago to random

Can’t say it often enough, but never put anything in this shit that is private or not yours to share.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/ars-reader-reports-chatgpt-is-sending-him-conversations-from-unrelated-ai-users/

SuigSays, 3 months ago to random

#Boeing

mansr, 3 months ago to random

What's with this new fetish for not using search engines? What's next, cooking without using a knife?

mansr, 4 months ago to random

If Data from Star Trek were real, should he be allowed to read copyrighted works?

mansr, 4 months ago to random

The people railing against LLM training are basically arguing that remembering anything you read is illegal.

chrismarquardt, 5 months ago to random

Wenn du deinen Klimareport mit einem verdammt intelligenten Cover bebilderst. Chapeau!

(Nach dem Bewundern des Covers bitte nicht vergessen, den Report zu lesen und passende Konsequenzen zu ziehen)

https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2023

corbet, 6 months ago to random

On the radar: what is the linux-kernel mailing list for? @monsieuricon is suggesting that many or most patch postings be redirected to a separate list:

https://lwn.net/ml/ksummit-discuss/20231106-venomous-raccoon-of-wealth-acc57c@nitro/

I've not jumped into the conversation because I'm still trying to figure out what I think about it. I'm one of those people who actually reads over that list; the broad view it provides is helpful in both the LWN and documentation-maintainer roles. But it is painful to keep up with.

LKML has traditionally been the place you post patches to get them reviewed. If that's not its role anymore, what is it for?

vegard, 6 months ago to random

PSA: everybody should set their #git conflictstyle to diff3 or zdiff3:

git config --global merge.conflictStyle diff3

I have no idea why this isn't already the default. Without this, you have no idea what the actual conflict is.

Meaning of the conflict markers:

<<<<<<<
this is what is in your current tree before cherry-picking
|||||||
this is what the patch expected to find there

this is what the patch wants it to be after being applied
>>>>>>>

diff3 basically adds the middle part.

revk, 6 months ago to random

Is it just me, or is that a tad “weasel worded”?

If the cocoa in the product is not the exact same cocoa that they “responsibly sourced” then (a) where did it come from and (b) what did they do with the responsibly sourced cocoa?

mansr, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

How much RAM do you consider the minimum acceptable for a new PC?

AkaSci, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to voyager

NASA is sending a software update to the Voyager 2 spacecraft today!

The patch contains logic to auto-recover from glitches similar to one in May 2022, when the AACS system on Voyager 1 started sending garbled data. The root cause was not fully diagnosed. The patch will be activated/tested on Oct 28. Voyager 1 will be next.

Data will be sent at 16 bps with a 19 kW transmitter using the 70-m dish at @canberradsn.
Distance: 20 billion km; 18:40 light hours

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-voyager-team-focuses-on-software-patch-thrusters
#Voyager
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