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Young folks: Please can we contribute using modern git-based workflow rather than email?
Old farts: No.

👶: OK, but can we at least use modern memory-safe languages?
👴: Also no.

👶: Perhaps we could modernise our language & attitudes to be more inclusive?
👴: LOL! No.

👶: Could we at least consider addressing some long-standing community issues?
👴: What part of "no" are you having trouble understanding?

⏳ ⌛

👴: Why aren't there any new people contributing to our project? Truly a mystery. 🙃

Trying to achieve 2 second boot time? Skip udev, manually specify necessary modules via systemd-modules-load (or build directly into kernel), mount via:

https://gitlab.com/CentOS/automotive/rpms/util-linux-automotive/-/blob/main/mount-sysroot.c

this saves seconds on most hardware, querying hardware takes time #optimization #bootspeed #RHIVOS

mount-sysroot.c · main · CentOS / automotive / rpms / util-linux-automotive · GitLab

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Happy 37th anniversary of the Max Headroom Incident, to those who celebrate.

Gracias Delegacion del Gobierno en Valencia y Policía por golpearme mientras iba identificado como PRENSA con un brazalete de prensa y un casco con cámara.

No fue en una carga sino mientras seguía a un grupo de UIP de Galicia avanzar por una calle de Ciutat Vella. Y gracias por zarandearme del casco otro grupo.

Gracias también por golpear a numerosos periodistas más.

Y por disparar la bocacha a centímetros de otro periodista para asustarlo y obligar a que se moviese. https://www.publico.es/sociedad/colaborador-publico-fermin-grodira-herido-carga-policia-protestas-mazon-valencia.html

El colaborador de Público Fermín Grodira, herido en una carga de la Policía en las protestas contra...

El periodista cubría la manifestación contra la gestión de la Generalitat durante la DANA cuando un agente lo golpeó con una porra en la pierna.

Público

Randall Munroe, who draws the popular and erudite xkcd comic, endorses Kamala Harris, in his own unassuming way without any lengthy explanation.

The comic has also been displayed as the banner image on the main xkcd webpage at https://xkcd.com/

 
#XKCD
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Demons

xkcd

@KeithAmmann I was once told by a man who imagined himself a mentor that there were two types of people in the world; wolves and sheep.

He went to prison shortly afterwards for unpaid taxes.

Heads up to Kia owners/potential buyers: Today, a group of independent security researchers revealed that they'd found a flaw in a web portal operated by the carmaker Kia that let the researchers reassign control of the internet-connected features of most modern Kia vehicles—dozens of models representing millions of cars on the road—from the smartphone of a car’s owner to the hackers’ own phone or computer. By exploiting that vulnerability and building their own custom app to send commands to target cars, they were able to scan virtually any internet-connected Kia vehicle’s license plate and within seconds gain the ability to track that car’s location, unlock the car, honk its horn, or start its ignition at will.

https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track/

Millions of Vehicles Could Be Hacked and Tracked Thanks to a Simple Website Bug

Researchers found a flaw in a Kia web portal that let them track millions of cars, unlock doors, and start engines at will—the latest in a plague of web bugs that’s affected a dozen carmakers.

WIRED

Long ago, when I knew absolutely nothing about US, I received a serious offer to relocate there. After some rather basic research, I decided that I would have much less rights (as a worker), health care was absolute hell (my wife is chronically ill, so USA is a big no) and my family and I, in general, would have a considerably worst life quality in comparison to what I had (which now is even better), so I kindly refused the offer.

I have never regretted this decision. Only the opposite.

Our zlib-rs project implements a memory-safe and performant drop-in replacement for zlib, a widely-used data compression library.

@folkertdev shares the status quo of zlib-rs, including the good news that performance for the highest compression level is on par with the zlib-ng fork of zlib.

Read the blog for all the details:

https://tweedegolf.nl/en/blog/134/current-zlib-rs-performance

@trifectatech

#rustlang #datacompression #opensource

Current zlib-rs performance - Blog - Tweede golf

Our zlib-rs project implements a drop-in replacement for libz.so, a dynamic library that is widely used to perform gzip (de)compression.

Wondering if wealth inequality is out of control?

Well, Jeff Bezos made over $7.9 million an hour last year.

In just 13 minutes, he made the equivalent of what a typical person earns in a lifetime.

Don't tell me that the rich can't afford a wealth tax.