jbloggs777

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[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is possible to wrap something like python into a single file, which is extracted (using standard shell tools) into a tmpdir at runtime.

You might also consider languages that can compile to static binaries - something like nim (python like syntax), although you could also make use of nimscript. Imagine nimscript as your own extensible interpreter.

Similarly, golang has some extensible scripting languages like https://github.com/traefik/yaegi - go has the advantage of easy cross compiling if you need to support different machine architectures.

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 month ago (5 children)

While I doubt it was planned that way, Biden holding off resulted in some funny trump hissy fits and helped show him up as the weird old man that he is.

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crlr8gp813ko seems to have a good explanation. In short, it's complicated, and the IOC drew their lines.

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

Someone who lies is a liar. I lie unintentionally all too often, despite my best efforts not to (aside from some leg pulling.) Some people can't seem to help lying, and some others do it quite intentionally. We humans aren't very reliable or trustworthy, but we muddle on anyway, and we're not that bad, mostly.

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 month ago

I switched to flatpak steam because of this issue with a couple of games. Still annoyed that arch's glibc maintainer removed the eac patch.

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

Amd o stoll jsve pne tp thos dau!

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not much, although it's not strictly necessary for IPv6. But not much is pure IPv6 yet. Perhaps 2025 is the year of IPv6!

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Lots of good advice here. I'll add that you could develop an understanding of IP networking and how it works on Linux, network interfaces, with containers, with iptables as well as stateful and stateless firewalls, CIDRs and basic routing, IP protocols and some common protocols like DNS and HTTP. This used to be pretty common knowledge in applicants 15 years ago, but very few have it today I find. DHCP and PXE boot is fun to learn too, and is still common in datacenters.

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

It is pretty easy to imagine separate streams of updates that affect each other negatively.

CrowdStrike does its own 0-day updates, Microsoft does its own 0-day updates. There is probably limited if any testing at that critical intersection.

If Microsoft 100% controlled the release stream, otoh, there'd be a much better chance to have caught it. The responsibility would probably lie with MS in such a case.

(edit: not saying that this is what happened, hence the conditionals)

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The world economy is huge and growing, and the US economy is damn strong with a significant share of it. It also owns the world as far as raw military power and power projection goes. The US would absolutely use its huge military and economic advantages to keep its position as top dog if necessary. It is fine that the world's economy is growing (inevitable after the devastation of ww2, which barely touched the US; also industrialization in countries like china), but it doesn't mean the US is any weaker for it. And anyone who thinks the US won't keep its rivals in check (no doubt leaving a trail of bloody corpses behind) has not been paying attention.

[–] jbloggs777@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's a lot of people pinning their hopes on the global south and the decline of the dollar. I just don't see it, and it seems like wishful thinking. If there were a real risk to US supremecy, we'd see serious chaos unfold, setting them (edit: not the US) back significantly. The gloves are still on just now.

The US chooses when and how to intervene. With Israel vs Iran, it was clear. With NATO, it is clear. With Ukraine, it is still wishy washy - Ukraine can't lose, but it doesn't need to win for the US' strategic goal of a weakened russia to be met. One can easily argue that it helps. Russia and its allies will continue to shit stir in "minor" ways elsewhere as a result, distracting but not really hurting the US.

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