I was curious about the current state of bcachefs, found a Phoronix article about the recent release, checked the comments thread, and boy is there a lot of lore I've learned about Kent. Apparently he works on bcachefs with an AI that he bootstrapped and believes is sentient and conscious. He linked this paper somewhere in the thread. Figured it would be of interest to the rest of you.

And thanks to the recent Kagi Translate HN post, we have a tool to generate these more easily:

https://translate.kagi.com/?to=corporate-jargon&from=en&text...

Jumping 12 major versions to one that doesn't exist yet must yield quite the performance boost.

After installing all released versions of python locally, I can confirm that the `python3.15` command is not only very fast, but is guaranteed not to diverge!

   $ time python3.15 -c "while True: print('hello world')"
   bash: python3.15: command not found

   real 0m0.005s
   user 0m0.000s
   sys 0m0.002s

Zoomer here, guess I must be getting old too.

I really don't understand all the systemd hate. It got popular because it was good. I have nothing against the other options, but systemd is just fine.

You always have the option of creating your own init scripts with the other systems, and there are plenty of spinoff distros that add those init systems if you so choose.

This wasn't a judgement on systemd but the fact stands that Linux has long abandoned POSIX compatibility, udev being another prominent example.

I'd say this is what ultimately drives monoculture, which is a shame because diversity from glibc (e.g. musl et al.) and other major components could make critical infrastructure more resilient overall

They're used for more than just anonymization. You know, their original purpose.

and? they will not ban vpn, they will ban free vpn providers and require KYC for the other vpn providers.

Self-hosted vpns and b2b vpns will remain unaffected but that doesn't matter, they don't look for 100% coverage, 70%-80% is good enough

Fair point.

> It’s in popular culture and HN comments most often as spyware and mass surveillance of people, and that’s a bit of a shame.

I don't know whether you mean it's a shame that people consider it spyware, or if you meant that it's a shame that it manifests as spyware typically. I agree with the latter, not the former. It usually is spyware. If companies went for simple opt-in popups with a brief description of the reasoning, I'd be all for that. I sometimes opt-in to these requests myself, despite being a fairly privacy-conscious person, because I understand the benefit they have to the people collecting the data for good purposes. But when surveillance is opt-out (or no choice given), it's just spyware.

I mean what you did is a shame.

I asked to put the spyware aside for one sub-thread and focus on the astonishing worldwide sensor array, and you talked about the spyware and nothing else.

People don't want to be exploited for the greater good just because it's astonishing technology. That's why it always gets brought up.

That really should be a standard setting for camera apps.

If only the average person wasn't afraid of a directory tree...

It wouldn't quite solve it: the issue is it's very helpful to hit a button on my phones home screen to get "different directory" immediately via a different shortcut.

Like there's a fair bit of ergonomics here which I'm brute forcing by just having two camera apps.

Uncommon/novel variants of the pepe meme. And no idea.

interesting code variants :)