trelane @trelane@librem.one
Joined Nov 2022
@jaap I first read it in Tannenbaum's _Computer Networks_ in the mid 1990's. He was discussing bandwidth va latency iirc. From this page, it sounds like it came from about a decade earlier, from someone else: https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
@carlrichell Ah, wish I could make it. Supercomputing perchance?
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Computer science has had a bad case of identity disorder since the mid-'90s. I was in undergrad at the time and saw it take root. When I began my degree the only people taking CS were nerds: by graduation the web was beginning to take off, every company wanted to be Netscape.
In '98 I was a senior sitting in on an interview with a high school senior who openly said he wanted to study CS because his parents were insistent it would land him a good job, and computers were "fun enough," he guessed.
By '00, most of my alma mater's CS students were like that.
*There's nothing wrong with wanting a good job.* But CS is a hell of a way to get a good job. If you want to reach the serious bucks you have to have a fanatical commitment to *always* studying, because your tech skills are becoming obsolescent faster than you can learn new ones, for starters.
And if your commitment wavers, then no matter how rockstar you are now you are at most five years from being a mediocrity with an out-of-date skillset.
And the psychological toll this takes cannot be overstated, and that's on top of all the other psych tolls you have to pay.
@garrett What all do your checks entail?
@kyle So the firmware was broken?
Can confirm working in LO 25.2.1.1
@rob That's why peer review is important. Not because of the feedback (I see you, Reviewer 2!), but because it shakes out the gremlins.
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Hot tip: if you're interested in learning the details of world sanctions against Russia, you should attend this free webinar.
I know some of the people involved. They're knowledgeable and violently allergic to bullshit.
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Still using OpenOffice? It has unfixed security issues over a year old: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#Security – So all users are strongly recommended to update to one of the actively maintained successor projects, like LibreOffice. (Please share and help raise awareness about this!)
@system76 Does it have a TPM?
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@rob @sagefault Works for me now too. Thanks!
@rob This is good advice for everyone, really.
@rob @sagefault Also gives me a 404, even removing path parts, up until I get to the rjhansen.
Perhaps related to https://github.com/elibster/the_deck having a status of "moving?
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Our dev blog helps new #LibreOffice developers to get started and explains core concepts. Here's what we'll be covering in 2025: https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/01/16/outlook-for-the-new-year-2025/
@killyourfm @skobkin Kind of amazing to see all these Steam Deck knockoffs running Windows suddenly being released from Microsoft-dependent hardware vendors now that a non-Windows game platform has got some traction.
Reminds me so much of the days of the eeepc and netbooks/net tops. I wonder if they used exactly the same playbook as last time, or did it require a large update?
@system76 may want a word about hardware support
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So here is a weird one ... the LWN site has been seeing a steady stream of login attempts, all using weird yahoo addresses as the username. By "weird" I mean things like lllbnwidgqeerdyi@yahoo.com and other equally unlikely strings.
These do not correspond to LWN accounts, but somebody has looked at our login form for long enough to post the login attempts directly, without loading the form first. The attempts come from all over the Internet, suggesting that some sort of botnet is doing this.
I don't suppose anybody else has seen this sort of pattern, or has any idea what it is that they may be trying to accomplish?
These do not correspond to LWN accounts, but somebody has looked at our login form for long enough to post the login attempts directly, without loading the form first. The attempts come from all over the Internet, suggesting that some sort of botnet is doing this.
I don't suppose anybody else has seen this sort of pattern, or has any idea what it is that they may be trying to accomplish?
Joined Nov 2022
