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[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

Soviet Union launched Venus-8

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

Don't worry, other countries won't let it happen because their economies are held hostage by US.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 2 days ago

Except power cables are inside and to pick them you first need to pick them.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Not novel. I think there was a train somewhere in Africa, that transported some ore from mountain to port. On the way down with ore it charged and uphill it used charge.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

Unless when it is the other way around, they will sue you to death.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 31 points 5 days ago (12 children)

Meanwhile security-oriented Android forks: "You didn't do that?"

[–] uis@lemm.ee 7 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Meanwhile in Russia(and pretty much rest of Europe): citizems get full healthcare and even foreigners get some of it. For free.

This is what happens if any foreigner for example breaks bone in Russia:

  1. Emergency, including emergency specialized, medical care is provided to foreign citizens in case of sickness, accident, trauma, poisining and other cases requireing emergency treatment. Such medical treatment provided by state and municipal healthcare organizations is free of charge.
[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

There are flibusta archives, but most of content is in russian

[–] uis@lemm.ee -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

At least this one will get everyone education, healthcare, housing, welfare and public transport.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

Eh. Russia doesn't rely on American voters. We know Putin will draw 80% votes with 80% turnover.

[–] uis@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Private clinics exist

 

We are now at t+26h. Please compare how much we knew about the xz-attack after less than a day with what we know about the chain of events of giant outage yesterday.

If something similar had been caused by an OSS component, we would see congress discussing a ban on open software in critical infrastructure already.

 

Some of the new Reddit mods are so toxic. Instead of apologizing for the bot being too harsh and reinstating my submission, they just banned me because I dared to ask what exactly I didn't "punctuate correctly".

 

So I think this is ridiculously ugly.

AIO is a horrible ad-hoc design, with the main excuse being “other, less gifted people, made that design, and we are implementing it for compatibility because database people — who seldom have any shred of taste — actually use it”.

— Linus Torvalds (on lwn.net)

First, as database people ourselves, we’d like to take this opportunity to apologize to Linus for our lack of taste. But also expand on why he is right. Linux AIO is indeed rigged with problems and limitations:

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The thing that has always disturbed me about O_DIRECT is that the whole interface is just stupid, and was probably designed by a deranged monkey on some serious mind-controlling substances [*].

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