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marcos , vor 6 Tagen

"Rotting" is a state that won't last past the middle 30s. By 2056 they'll be fully decomposed.

marcos , vor 8 Tagen

It has been in exponential growth since the signal was distinguishable from the noise, and exponentials do not have inflection points...

The only inflection we can expect is when it reaches 1/4 of saturation.

marcos , vor 14 Tagen

Tony Lazuto says you should delete System32

marcos , vor 20 Tagen

The same way, if the BSD internet stack was GPL, we wouldn't have an internet at all.

marcos , vor 19 Tagen

Yep, different licenses have different consequences.

marcos , vor einem Monat

It's close to 1 in 20 PCs nowadays. It's growing very quickly, and has been adopted in non-irrelevant amounts for a few years already.

marcos , vor einem Monat

That's why I plan to move my servers into an L4 clone.

marcos , vor einem Monat

Well, ok. I don't really plan to do that. It was a joke.

I do wish it was something viable, though.

marcos , vor einem Monat

Not as evil as they want. They can be just as evil as "a little bit better than the other villains", and not any bit more.

Besides, nobody believes they are the good guys.

marcos , vor einem Monat

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But you should really have a backup system. And often you should have a version control system too.

marcos , vor einem Monat

Just decrease your swap space.

Unless you have an unusual system, there's no reason to have several GB of swap.

marcos , vor einem Monat

Have you tried?

Because it does.

marcos , vor einem Monat

Actually, not much.

It always had reliability issues with bad hardware, and computers boot incredibly quickly nowadays. But yeah, it requires swap, and if you want it, there's a sibling answer here about sawppiness.

marcos , vor einem Monat

Going from where to where?

marcos , vor einem Monat

Hum... Not long ago the local police here arrested a gang specialized in stealing concrete mixers from construction sites.

marcos , vor 2 Monaten

The thing is, one of those attacks requires you to type your password. The other requires you to touch something.

marcos , vor 2 Monaten

They already have a confirmation box when you try to change the extension. And could just as easily move it into another column where it's harder to change (explorer was like this once, a long time ago).

And yet, they keep hiding the on the rationale that it confuses the users. The most common thing on explorer is some user being confused because they can't understand what clicking on a file is supposed to do, but that's not an argument for showing them...

So, yeah, that's the surface-level explanation. But there's a deeper reason.

marcos , vor 2 Monaten

Well, it couldn't be the natural progression.

marcos , vor 2 Monaten

A Kibimanjaro would be 1024.

marcos , vor 2 Monaten

Al-Qaeda tried to destroy those buildings every 5 years or so.

marcos , vor 2 Monaten

I think lemmy.world beats reddit. And it's one of the worst offenders.