Interesting..! I've had something very similar happen on Fedora running btrfs, too.. No hardware failures (drive was great, still run it to this day a year later), no kernel panics, the partition just stopped booting out of the blue, with the rescue shell also being completely broken.
I think I almost managed to get some of my files back, but after an error on my part it corrupted itself to the degree where the only answer you could find online was something like "just give up, no one can help you now :(".
Lost a bunch of important data and still a bit mad about it, but at least now I'm back on NixOS with ext4 with no issues so far!
Not who you are replying to, but I used XFS extensively in production workloads because at the time it had a few features I needed that ext4 didn't have. (I want to say one of them was support for 64-bit inodes? I don't really recall now.) And most importantly no waiting for the system to fsck on a large or slow filesystem that was unmounted uncleanly by a power or system failure. At the time, XFS was also a bit faster than ext4 but I'm not sure if that's still true. The differences between the two are fewer these days but it's still a great general-purpose workhorse filesystem.
xfs is high performance and also rock-solid, I picked it for servers and like to be consistent in my experience, I never shrink volumes and to be frank I am a bit of a hipster/eternal contrarian.
In competitions of real world code in a language that has been in use for close to 30 years, and I can find a java 1.1 program that will both compile as source on the latest version, AND the original compiled version itself will run on a modern JDK as is.
And I assume this mythical 1.1 program does of course do a lot more than System.out.println and the reason that it took until recently, in part thanks to the Log4J fiasco, for 8 (almost 11 years old) to no longer be the most widely used version, was just superstition?
Carry on as planned and if you bork it all, switch to the backup branch which retains the original commits and all, delete the borked one and have another go
I have a custom bash function named "backup_branch" that does exactly that, along with "restore_backup" and "delete_backups". It's made my life 10x simpler.
GP might have meant that the researchers are veiling their actual goal, in the vein of "detecting humans in drone feeds and autonomously dropping bandages on them for search and rescue"
Spy satellites surveying Iran in order to detect underground water infrastructure seems like, to me, the ulterior motive is to identify infrastructure so that it can be compromised in some way, likely with drones and bombs.
That would be nice, yes. Like in Civilization where if the citizens are really happy they hold a "we love the king" event. Then your population expands a lot immediately after.
The honest answer is they have a lot of ICBMs. And besides, what would it do? We’ve got no more sanctions left. Short of invading (which nobody is going to do because of those ICBMs) there’s nothing left to do. We shot our wad on Ukraine sanctions.
At this point unless we somehow convince the big nations that still trade with them (like China) to stop, we’ve got no levers to pull, and we don’t care enough to give China whatever massive ask they’d have for that.
That is not the honest answer. Also, the response to the threat of ICBMs is well known, it's called mutually assured destruction.
The honest answer is that it would lead to sanctions on countries who continue to do business with russia. These are countries who we could like to consider as allies, such as India.
Not really. Why would it? Those same allies trade with other nations we’ve designated as terrorists.
And we’ve already pulled basically every sanction lever against Russia anyway. At this point we’ve probably sanctioned them more than anyone we call a terrorist state.
The only reason that I found this is that I recently made a Firefox extension that shows a tooltip with the user's bio, when hovering over a username on this site.
I am not sure what to name it, HN Inappropriate Snoop?
No, the honest answer is much more mundane - natural gas and Europe’s continued reliance on it to get through the winter and keep overall energy costs a bit more controlled. Who knew that denuclearizing the energy grid would have such benefit for Russia /sarcasm.
Color sequences are not portable and known to break things (e.g. Jupyter sessions crashing due to colored pytest reports) and nothing but a liability if you're just piping the output. I think it's more about having the option.
Major advantage of Fedora is being closer to the upstream sources, both in terms of freshness and in terms of not meddling with libs or similar. Debian patches lead to several possible exploits over the last few years.
Yes, distributing non-free, patented code that requires a license, requires a license. The same goes for Debian actually[1], including blocking requests and removing packages that were included before by mistake.
I would even dare say that this is another point for Fedora, enabling
https://rpmfusion.org/ is a one-liner and feels entirely native, never a broken package.
I have to admit that I never compiled a list of this type and it seems exceedingly difficult to find useful search results. I couldn't dig up the examples I had in mind from the last 2 years, but stumbled upon others I didn't know of yet in turn, e.g. RCE via Redis, no special config required:
> This post describes how I broke the Redis sandbox, but only for Debian and Debian-derived Linux distributions. Upstream Redis is not affected. That makes it a Debian vulnerability, not a Redis one. The culprit, if you will, is dynamic linking
I've burned my fingers once on it and recommend xfs ever since, no issues so far.
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