jlh Now • 100%
Crazy that their district heating system is such a mess. District heating works perfectly here in Sweden. Much more efficient than single-building boilers, too.
jlh Now • 100%
Many government organizations in Sweden use Nextcloud for exactly this reason.
jlh Now • 100%
Laying copper was just as expensive. This is a cost cutting measure.
jlh Now • 41%
Probably the dictator bootlickers in worldnews@lemmy.ml
jlh Now • 100%
Nice touch using an LLM-generated summary.
jlh Now • 94%
Too bad they messed that up by invading Ukraine. Russia had a lease on Sevastopol up through 2042, now they'll be lucky to keep it for the next 5 years.
jlh Now • 63%
The best value smartphone on the market is the Fairphone 5. 70 euros per year, amortized over 10 years. Compare with a cheap, slower, but more expensive to repair Samsung A14, which would only last 2 years before the battery starts dying, and cost 85 euros per year over that time.
jlh Now • 100%
But then they'd be paying $2M a month! /s
Tbh they probably already are, $500k/month is a lot of money. They would be able to get those costs down by hiring a few it engineers and renting a few racks at a CoLo. Geographic distribution is hard for a company of their size, though, and maybe it's not worth making that investment if the game's popularity isn't going to last.
jlh Now • 100%
Eh it's nuanced. HK is theoretically an autonomous region, and is usually treated as a separate country when it comes to passports/computer-databases. But most people don't understand that nuance and assume HK is mainland China.
jlh Now • 100%
Yes, the runc vulnerability affects both docker cli and podman cli.
Docker and Kubernetes use containerd, and Podman uses runc directly.
https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/9724
https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/21483
Do not run any untrusted images until the vulnerability is fixed, especially not as root.
jlh Now • 83%
I mean I guess people confuse chinese culture with the People's Republic of China? Kind of works in the CCP's favor honestly, because dumb Americans give the PRC ownership of everything chinese, like Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
jlh Now • 81%
Asking a Singaporean if he's from the PRC is idiotic, however I kind of like the idea of getting tech CEOs to say things that will get them blacklisted by the CCP lol. Just make it mandatory to declare "Taiwan is independent, free Hong Kong, free Tibet, free East Turkestan, and never forget June 4th 1989" to start a business, and watch how the PRC sanctions itself by breaking all economic ties with the US.
jlh Now • 100%
No hate to the developer, but Zigbee2mqtt doesn't really do semver. Features are released in patches and there are no backports of bug fixes to previous versions. I'm running Zigbee2mqtt on NixOS and had to use the unstable nixpkgs branch to make sure I was getting the latest bug fixes.
But yeah no hard feelings, it's still a really amazing project that's done so much for home automation.
Seems like a really serious vulnerability, any container attack or malicious image could take over a container host if there's no hardening on the containers.
jlh Now • 100%
Keeping unwashed eggs in the fridge at home helps them last longer, as long as you don't leave them out to sweat.
But yeah here in Sweden, we rarely ever get salmonella recalls since the chickens aren't strapped to a box here.
jlh Now • 100%
AMD is making good progress towards supporting coreboot, at least
jlh Now • 96%
I feel like most of the criticism comes down to the reviewer not liking 17-inch class laptops, but good review.
jlh Now • 100%
I just use a subdomain of my main domain and use dns validation of let's encrypt.
jlh Now • 100%
the amazfit bip is nice, if they're still selling them. I've had mine for 4 years now. Transflective screen so the battery lasts a week+, and it works with gadgetbridge so zero cloud phoning-home. Not as many features as a full watchos or wearos watch, but it gives me notifications, and monitors heart rate with zero spying.
Gadgetbridge is pretty awesome in general btw, it's a fully open-source, fully offline app for managing and communicating with bluetooth things like smart watches and headphones. It's on F-Droid.
jlh Now • 95%
You know it's an American author writing when they say the main feature of a folding bike is that you can put it in the trunk of a car.
I wanted to share an observation I've seen on the way the latest computer systems work. I swear this isn't an AI hype train post 😅 I'm seeing more and more computer systems these days use usage data or internal metrics to be able to automatically adapt how they run, and I get the feeling that this is a sort of new computing paradigm that has been enabled by the increased modularity of modern computer systems. First off, I would classify us being in a sort of "second-generation" of computing. The first computers in the 80s and 90s were fairly basic, user programs were often written in C/Assembly, and often ran directly in ring 0 of CPUs. Leading up to the year 2000, there were a lot of advancements and technology adoption in creating more modular computers. Stuff like microkernels, MMUs, higher-level languages with memory management runtimes, and the rise of modular programming in languages like Java and Python. This allowed computer systems to become much more advanced, as the new abstractions available allowed computer programs to reuse code and be a lot more ambitious. We are well into this era now, with VMs and Docker containers taking over computer infrastructure, and modern programming depending on software packages, like you see with NPM and Cargo. So we're still in this "modularity" era of computing, where you can reuse code and even have microservices sharing data with each other, but often the amount of data individual computer systems have access to is relatively limited. More recently, I think we're seeing the beginning of "data-driven" computing, which uses observability and control loops to run better and self-manage. I see a lot of recent examples of this: - Service orchestrators like Linux-systemd and Kubernetes that monitor the status and performance of services they own, and use that data for self-healing and to optimize how and where those services run. - Centralized data collection systems for microservices, which often include automated alerts and control loops. You see a lot of new systems like this, including Splunk, OpenTelemetry, and Pyroscope, as well as internal data collection systems in all of the big cloud vendors. These systems are all trying to centralize as much data as possible about how services run, not just including logs and metrics, but also more low-level data like execution-traces and CPU/RAM profiling data. - Hardware metrics in a lot of modern hardware. Before 2010, you were lucky if your hardware reported clock speeds and temperature for hardware components. Nowadays, it seems like hardware components are overflowing with data. Every CPU core now not only reports temperature, but also power usage. You see similar things on GPUs too, and tools like nvitop are critical for modern GPGPU operations. Nowadays, even individual RAM DIMMs report temperature data. The most impressive thing is that now CPUs even use their own internal metrics, like temperature, silicon quality, and power usage, in order to run more efficiently, like you see with AMD's CPPC system. - Of source, I said this wasn't an AI hype post, but I think the use of neural networks to enhance user interfaces is definitely a part of this. The way that social media uses neural networks to change what is shown to the user, the upcoming "AI search" in Windows, and the way that all this usage data is fed back into neural networks makes me think that even user-facing computer systems will start to adapt to changing conditions using data science. I have been kind of thinking about this "trend" for a while, but [this announcement that ACPI is now adding hardware health telemetry](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-New-SoCs-With-ACPI-PHAT) inspired me to finally write up a bit of a description of this idea. What do people think? Have other people seen the trend for self-adapting systems like this? Is this an oversimplification on computer engineering?
The latest patch today, 13.23 makes the game instacrash after champ select, be warned. Don't start a match on Linux until it's fixed. https://leagueoflinux.org/
Awful to see our personal privacy and social lives being ransomed like this. €10 seems like a price gouge for a social media site, and I'm even seeing a price tag of 150SEK (~€15) In Sweden.
Justin
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Tech nerd from Sweden