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Why Europe Hedges Its Support for Ukraine

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3 points·by jwatt·4 anni fa·2 comments

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jwatt
·3 anni fa·discuss
For me `isoinfo` doesn't like the format of the .iso file ("CD-ROM is NOT in ISO 9660 format"). Using bsdtar worked though:

  bsdtar xOf xxx.iso initrd | gzip -dc | cpio -idv --no-absolute-filenames "root/fumagician*"
(And of course then running `root/fumagician/fumagician` in either case.)
jwatt
·3 anni fa·discuss
Brokenness.
jwatt
·3 anni fa·discuss
Personally I find "wrist warmers" work well. I don't like fingerless gloves when typing since material between my fingers is annoying, but wrist warmers are like fingerless mits (no individual finger holes).
jwatt
·3 anni fa·discuss
I agree the number of attack vectors is significantly reduced in comparison to the same version of Android on a smartphone (particularly if the user is making little or no use of the music player's already limited app store). But there are still many, many CVEs for Bluetooth, for example. Taking the Bluetooth example, I would be happier connecting to a hire car's audio system with a version of Android that is getting patched than a version that is not, and may have known vulnerabilities. I don't want my DAP to potentially be a vector for transferring malware around.
jwatt
·3 anni fa·discuss
I would like something like this but one thing that makes Android-based music players like this unappealing is the versions of Android they start with. When this is releases in February, Android 13 will have been out for six months. Android devices don't get security updates for long enough as it is, so starting out the gate with a non-current version of Android isn't great.
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
On a related note, the interviews with homeless people on the YouTube channel Soft White Underbelly were a real eyeopener to me. I highly recommend it, but some of them are extremely hard to watch.

https://www.youtube.com/@SoftWhiteUnderbelly/videos
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
He also just released the second edition of his book, Taking Charge of Adult ADHD, this year. That book (along with Atomic Habits) seems to be the one most suggested by the ADHD subredit's users...at least for those who can manage to make it through a book.
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
I recently watched the following series of videos by Russell Barkley who I believe is one of the world's leading ADHD researchers. I think it's a good place to start because it describes the scientific understanding of what ADHD is, which I feel has given me a more solid grounding to evaluating other things I read and hear about ADHD, some of which turns out to be innacurate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T9LQ5kqOqo&list=PLzBixSjmbc...
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
Lex Fridman had an interesting podcast on IQ a few months ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hppbxV9C63g
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
What? Power is the rate at which energy is supplied. Power and energy from one source are both exactly proportional to power and energy, respectively, from another source. Fuel, or cost of infrastructure, of whatever it is you're referring to here when you say "energy", isn't energy.
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
On a related note, I've been getting increasingly worried that we're imminently and blindly walking into a human catastrophe due to our current energy policies. I'd be interested to hear about holes that anyone here might be able to poke in any of the red flags being raised by people like Anas-Alhajji[1], the Doomberg team[2] and Wil VanLoh[3].

1. https://www.macrovoices.com/1087-macrovoices-328-dr-anas-alh...

2. https://doomberg.substack.com/

3. https://www.realvision.com/shows/the-kyle-bass-interviews/vi...
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
As it happens, a kernel update appears to have fixed the issue, but thank you for this tip.
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
I commented here about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31498642
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
For anyone thinking of using this with Linux, there are a couple of issues I've encountered with Logi Bolt with my MX Keys Mini.

Getting the keyboard and a Logi Bolt USB receiver to pair on Linux was a huge PITA. (Why do I have to trust and install an app for this anyway?) In the end I resorted to plugging the receiver into a mac and pairing it that way. Even that hasn't worked out so well though, since I ended up with messed up modifier keys when I transferred the receiver back to a Linux machine (the modifier keys are still mapped as a mac keyboard).

Another issue I have is that I can't suspend the Linux machine if I leave the USB receiver plugged in. If I do, the machine will wake back up almost immediately after suspending. Kinda annoying to have to always unplug it...especially since if you buying a Logi Bolt device it's probably because you want to be able to switch it between multiple machines without having to constantly plug/unplug thing to USB...
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
That site links to the 2005 edition of the book The Elements of Computing Systems, but an updated edition was published in 2021. (I found the original edition excellent years ago. I'm not aware how the new edition differs, only that it exists.)

https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/elements-computing-systems-se...
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
Indeed. Applying it to the former case seems like an abuse of the word "efficiency" to me.
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
I'm not sure it's "desperately" chasing; its trajectory looks positive. For example, in the 2019 Stack Overflow developer survey[1] only 3% of professional developers reported using Rust. A year later[2] it was 4.8% and a year after that[3] it was 6.4%. So based on that metric (of debatable value), professional developer use may have doubled in two years. For reference, in the SO surveys C++ and C use was about 20% and 16%, respectively and, if anything, slowly declining (as a percentage of respondents, of course).

1. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#technology-_-...

2. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#technology-pr...

3. https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#technology-mo...
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
I think they used underscores in their links originally and then changed them to dashes at some later date but broke things. (You can see this in the second article which links to the first using an underscore, but the redirects they've put in place are broken.)
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
The original Wired links are:

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/ff-kaspersky/

https://www.wired.com/2012/07/kaspersky-indy/
jwatt
·4 anni fa·discuss
He could be referring to multiple things, but the one I recall was the treasurer resigning, claiming he felt/was removed by the founder for blocking what he saw as misuses of donated funds and breach of the agreed spending guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23940824

The original link is dead because the database for the entire Manjaro forums was lost shortly after that, so you'll need to use archive.org if you want to read the original discussion:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200807042341/https://forum.man...