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The Syrian government fell early Sunday in a stunning end to the 50-year rule of the Assad family after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital in 10 days.
when I drove home yesterday there was a life sized cardboard cutout of a construction worker holding a sign right on the side of the road and I obviously couldn't tell it was cardboard at 100km/h and almost shit my pants driving past him
#EXCELLENT conversation with Germar Rudolf, the compiler/author of "The Holocaust Encyclopedia." This is one the best objective analyses of the “holocaust” of WWII I’ve ever run across! It’s #VictorHugo Vaca interviewing famous holocaust researcher, Germar Rudolph. It definitely has the best explanation for the origin of the “official story” of the holocaust.
#history The Holocaust Encyclopedia - Germar Rudolf with Victor Hugo Vaca, Jr. - Dec 4, 2024
EXCELLENT conversation with Germar Rudolf, the compiler/author of "The Holocaust Encyclopedia." This is one the best objective analyses of the “holocaust” of WWII I’ve ever run across! It’s Victor Hugo Vaca interviewing famous holocaust researcher…
Your yearly reminder to NEVER donate to the Salvation Army. They're a horrid right-wing organization run by extremists with a long history of racism/homophobia/transphobia.
Do not give these fuckers money they don't deserve it.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane and left Damascus for an unknown destination on Sunday, two senior army officers told Reuters, as rebels said they had entered the capital with no s…
Seit Version 133 connected #Firefox, der selbsternannte #Privacy-Browser schlechthin, beim Start mit jeder Menge Servern, mit einigen davon sogar via http:
In about:config'könnte die Antwort stehen, weshalb das geschieht. Eine Suche nach google liefert eine längere Liste. Darin unter anderem, kurioserweise:
No date but milliseconds: browser.safebrowsing.provider.google.lastupdatetime: timestamp (in ms) of when the last list update happened. browser.safebrowsing.provider.google.nextupdatetime: timestamp (in ms) of when the list should next be downloaded.
@Birne Helene Wenn du die automatische Kontaktaufnahme mit Google unterbinden willst, trage in about:config überall dort, wo eine URL von Google auftaucht, als String 127.0.0.1ein.
President-elect Donald Trump met with Prince William in Paris on Saturday, marking his first meeting with a member of the Royal Family since winning back the White House.
🚨BREAKING: President Trump has announced that all military members who were discharged for refusing the COVID mandate will be reinstated and receive full back pay, along with a formal apology from the United States Government.
While Reddit mods and admin try to keep up with the site's "no violence" terms of use, Facebook and LinkedIn is reacting with tens of thousands of laughing emojis.
A Republican just defeated a Democrat to become the mayor of Louisiana's capitol city of Baton Rouge. This is after a Republican became the mayor of Shreveport.
It seems like Louisiana is going in the direction of South Carolina in terms of being red from top to bottom, but LA is implementing far more conservative (actually conservative) policy than SC is. We need to do better
Isn't it odd how there's not a single mention from the new "Syrian Transitional Government" about liberating the occupied Golan Heights or expelling the Americans from Syria's oil-rich regions. 🤡
i decided to beef up some welds that looked questionable. cross raili is a lot beefier now but picked up a bit of heat distortion. i was planning to mill the face flat anyway
Syria resisted the fate of Libya for thirteen years. That has now come to an end. US, Israeli, and Turkish-supported chaos and suffering lies ahead for the people of Syria. The fall of Syria is also a significant setback for both the struggle in Palestine and multipolarity.
@Im_Speaking_Now yeah I think that was the reason for the urgency, this also cuts of Hezbollah in Lebanon from Iran making it easier for Israel to invade.
@KuteboiCoder @adminHis plane got shot down about 90 minutes ago. Not confirmed that he was on it, but it's likely. Some people may have survived the crash, who knows. But the plane hit the ground pretty hard.
Destiny is one of the only people in politics on planet earth that could have a video leak of him sucking another man's cock, and have absolutely nothing happen to his career over it.
Under an Obama-era policy, Chinese nationals can visit the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands without a visa. Chinese women visit the islands to deliver their babies who automatically become U.S. citizens. "We call it birth tourism," Congressman Tom Tiffany said. "There are more children being born to Chinese nationals than there are to native people of the Marianas. And that tells you everything you need to know." justthenews.com/government/con…
Wisconsin GOP Rep. Tom Tiffany said during an interview with the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show that many Chinese nationals come to the Mariana Islands, and have children there in order to get them U.S.
Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Alekseev Nikita, Edgar Vincent, and Toshihiro Umehara for assigning their copyright to the FSF! More: u.fsf.org/3ht #CopyrightAssignments
Here's another #HealthInsurance #CEO that deserves to be murdered. Yes. I said it. MURDERED. Only when enough of these CEO-assholes get whacked off will we maybe start to see some change. Report me all you want. Doesn't change the fact that the CEO of Natalie's Insurance Company doesn't deserve to live. And you know it too.
"The insurance company has an army of people who are very concerned about paperwork and precise wording ... My kindness and patience has shifted to fury."
Executive dysfunction is absolutely throttling me today. I want to get tasks done. Brain will not. This battle has spent loads of energy that should have gone to tasks.
How would I explain this to those who don't experience this? Yes, I want these things done. I very badly want them done.
Nope, haven't been gaming instead. Just been here battling and scrolling.
#LegacyMedia outlets are increasingly unable to shove the social media reaction to the UnitedHealthcare assassination under the rug, so now they are printing articles where "experts" "explain" the reaction, while mentioning nothing about Brian Thompson's compensation package, nor his history of insider trading, nor UnitedHealthcare's history of defrauding the federal government and denying critical care to sick patients.
these consent-manufacturing "journalists" and media outlets can get fucked.
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon says consumers should expect to see higher prices at the grocery store for the foreseeable future. During the 2024 Morgan Stanley Global Consumer and Retail Conference, McMillon said that inflated food prices will likely remain at inflated levels and perhaps might continue to increase instead of decreasing.
It’s from the halcyon bygone days of when SGI hadn’t devolved into a RHEL VAR and was actually selling systems that had features that seemed worth their premium pricing.
OpenZFS is neat, insomuch as hardware RAID basically hasn't kept up with something like NetApp/WAFL's RAID-DP or OpenZFS's RAIDz2/3 particularly well as far as I know.
ZFS is very memory hungry though. ;(
There are still good reasons to use UFS on FreeBSD; and tedu@ did a preliminary port of ZFS to OpenBSD and it didn't seem as if it was a great fit there either (further reading of that effort here: https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/ZFS-on-OpenBSD)
But, if you've got something like a NAS that is more single purpose and you can throw lots of disk and memory at it, I'm grateful ZFS exists as the best alternatives for a while were extremely expensive, proprietary (and in the instance of Isilon's OneFS, and AFAIK, NetApp's WAFL still built on top of FreeBSD) and closed source.
I remember when obecian was extolling some of the virtues of ZFS early on when it was still Solaris only; and it seemed to encapsulate a lot of functionality in that almost magical 10KLoC mark (similar to the early source code to UNIX) but I think it has grown quite a lot. It's still in active development, but now it seems to be more in the polishing stages (e.g. https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2024-10-27-openzfs-dedup-is-good-dont-use-it/).
XFS was in the polishing stages long ago and was developed predominantly in an era of much less powerful systems and IMHO that's often a great way to derive real world awesomeness because the constraints won't let bad bugs live for long.
(I've run into similar things with newer code elsewhere, e.g. FreeBSD's gitup being insanely memory hungry; making it not a great replacement [for me] to previous tools such as svnlite and csup, but svnlite and csup were developed in eras with more constrained systems too; whereas gitup is more an exercise in creating something similar that isn't git I'm guessing, probably due to licensing concerns in FreeBSD base more than trying to be svelte code rather than just running the full blown VCS tool.)
OpenZFS 2.3.0 will be released any day now, and it includes the new “Fast Dedup” feature. My team at Klara spent many months in 2023 and 2024 working on it, and we reckon it’s pretty good, a huge step up from the old dedup as well as being a solid ba…
Yesterday I committed support for ZFS. (And the people rejoiced, ever so briefly.) What would a real port look like and what would be involved?
The short answer is too much. Too much of everything.
too many files
After finding the list of files in FreeBSD’s cvsweb, I started copying them down. Towards the end of the list I began to wonder if maybe writing a script to scrape the web page wouldn’t have been a better approach. Then I got to the end and realized I only had C files, the headers were hidden in another directory. Oh well, in for a penny, in for a pound.
As somebody told me afterwards, “Wow, I even thought the list of filenames was part of the joke, made up, until I figured out it was the, uhh, actual list.”
The problem with injecting this much code is somebody has to understand it all. Even after we go through and wrap the Solaris rwlocks with OpenBSD rwlocks and even though this code has been tested by lots of other people, there are always bugs, and the first part of debugging is determining what you want to happen. With this much code, I have no idea what should happen.
too many features
ZFS has so many files because it has so many features. Some of these features are highly desirable, which keeps me interested in ZFS, but others I think I could live without. The problem is there’s no way to choose. It’s all or nothing. And the way it’s implemented means it basically duplicates tons of functionality that already does exist. It’s like running half of a paravirtualized Solaris kernel just to get access to a filesystem. (Fun fact: I once ran samba to export an NFS mount from an OpenBSD VMWare guest to the Windows host, all because Windows NFS clients are lousy. At least I didn’t have to write any of the code involved.)
This also becomes an issue with the userland tools. We’d like OpenBSD to maintain a certain feel, a consistency (where possible) among tools. You can’t just toss on your Solaris admin hat and work on ZFS; you need to suit up with your Solaris belt and suspenders and necktie. An OpenBSD port would probably relegate the official tools to the ports tree, and include minimally functional rewrites in base. Not desirable.
too much memory
I alluded to memory consumption in the commit message. ZFS wants a lot of memory. A lot lot lot of memory. So much memory, the kernel address space has trouble wrapping its arms around ZFS. I haven’t studied it extensively, but the hack of pushing some of the cache off into higher memory and accessing it through a small window may even work. FreeBSD doesn’t attempt anything like this, even with PAE support, maybe for good reason.
Amusingly, the proposed hack would also work with the buffer cache embiggening diff. Of course, you’re unlikely to see such a hack because FFS performance doesn’t blow goats with only a measly one gigabyte of cache.
This much is certain. I do not want to have any involvement in writing a filesystem tuning guide that includes text along the lines of “You may need to increase KVA pages. If you experience random reboots, you increased it too much.”
too many words
On the less technical side, there’s the CDDL. Whatever other issues there may be with patents, copyleft, sharing is caring, and whatnot, the CDDL suffers from TMW. Too Many Words. The most important question for free software is, Can I use this? It’s a yes or no question and I strongly believe the answer should be determinable by reading an amount of text that fits on screen with an 80x25 terminal.
too many choices
What is there besides ZFS? FreeBSD added journaling to softupdates, but having heard McKusick talk about the amount of work involved in all the edge cases, I think I’ll pass. NetBSD has WAPBL (TMC: Too Many Capitals). Dragonfly has HAMMER (TMC as well), but it looks pretty cool. Somebody should totally port it.
What about FFS? We (in a rather encompassing sense of we) have addressed various shortcoming in FFS. softupdates to make it fast. dirhash to make big directories fast. It’s not done yet. Just yesterday I also found out about a new FFS layout policy that can reduce fsck times considerably. For that matter, SSD storage is the great performance equalizer for all filesystems.
There are some things about ZFS I really like. The consistency checks where every data block read is hashed and verified should be a part of any new filesystem.
Hah! You're welcome! And also having me wonder about AdvFS now. ;) I know I haven't administered every OS or filesystem out there yet, but I've certainly administered more than my fair share. ;)
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UnitedHealth CEO's killing unleashes social media rage against insurers
https://www.axios.com/2024/12/05/unitedhealth-brian-thompson-killing-health-insurers-social-media
"When you shoot one man in the street it's murder.
Document from Hillary Clinton’s State Department emails:
“The best to way to help Israel deal with Iran’s growing nuclear capability is to help the people of Syria overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad...
Libya was an easier case…[but] the Libyan operation had no long-lasting consequences for the region. Syria is harder. But success in Syria would be a transformative event for the Middle East"
@royal I think I only went to the doctor once as a kid and recently when I got 2 nasty ones back-to-back, but those last I think were because I twice ate spoiled butter without noticing, and didn't investigate further, and so never got anything prescribed.
UPDATE: a spokesperson from JP Morgan Chase told the Texas Observer they fired the operator of a neo-Nazi X account who we identified as their employee.
"This person is no longer at the firm. We do not tolerate hate in any form and take incidents such as this very seriously." texasobserver.org/revealed-ope…
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.
‘If we want open RSS to survive in some iteration, there have to be more compelling audience-based reasons to use RSS-driven podcast clients. RSS needs to benefit the consumer in patently obvious ways.’ – @tomwebster
Video’s rise is causing an upswell of prescriptivism re: what “counts” as a podcast, which Tom Webster proposes is a sign podcast apps need to innovate to become more attractive ‘rented land.’
There was one a couple years back that read something like: “One app to rule them all”.
It’s as if they read LotR and identified with the villain?
Similar feels for the billboard about some millionaire dating app/site.
Or the one about financing your second home (while on any given night there are purportedly around 30,000 homeless in the SF Bay Area alone [and I’m among such disenfranchised individuals]).
I mean, maybe those billboards are on the money and the evil villains love SF?
But I know a lot more people in this area who sincerely wish this place weren’t the land of haves and have nots.
By incorporating drones, facial recognition, and high-tech sensors the company aims to supercharge home security, part of a cottage industry answering the elite’s safety woes with military tactics.
Back in the early 10’s I briefly worked for a Valley startup that was trying to automate restaurant ordering (think approximately “iPads on tables,” only right before the iPad was announced).
I very quickly realized two things:
1) We were automating the work of single mothers who were already working for sub-minimum wage plus tips; and,
2) Most of the people who went to restaurants, myself included, really wanted to talk to them, even for just a little bit.
The civilized world sets itself apart. It requires people to act in the best interest of the society that has established the rules and customs of a given people. To be counter to that, leaves the stranger as outcast. Maybe not belonging. Maybe removable. So simple. Really. Get the unhappy out. They do not belong. They are unhappy.
I’m loving my timeline here in the fediverse. I seamlessly follow and engage with people posting via Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Ghost, Wordpress and Flipboard. The social web is here and it’s just awesome.
SEOUL: South Korean prosecutors on Sunday arrested ex-Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun over his alleged role in President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law on Tuesday, Yonhap News Agency said.
‘This is my Chernobyl:’ Texas ranchers watch cows die because of PFAS.
Tony and Karen Coleman have watched 39 of their animals die and are now joining other Texas farmers suing the EPA. They believe forever chemicals in fertilizer sludge contaminated their land. #ClimateChange
Sounds very similar to events described in The Devil We Know (and its "theatrical" version Dark Waters) about DuPont in West Virginia, fucking heartbreaking =/
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nothing, barely getting out of the trucks. Those guys made great wages and had a ton of benefits - and Union job security. It was so bad that I was told by several of them to slow down. When I saw that I had no chance of a full time job until at least three of them either retired or died, I quit."
My husband @wisecracker.bsky.social is trying to convince our toddler to watch Gremlins instead of The Grinch Stole Christmas (for the 100th time) by telling her that Gremlins are "baby grinches." Whadya think? Legit?
I am still so surprised at the Republicans in name only. RINOS. They somehow see they have a viable play against President Trump. They could not be more wrong. Still, they feel emboldened. Let them. The moment they turn to acknowledge the army behind them and find bare ranks: priceless.
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