If you do not want to use their products don't. MS doesn't have to Extend, Expand, and Extinguish standards or lock things down to win32 which we all hate! Rather they make the APIs available to all platforms and several languages to their cloud offerings so you an keep using Linux or use Amazon if you want. However, the downside is the cloud framework hooks lock you into Azure. Amazon though sadly is doing the same. So the OS now is Azure and Windows is just one of the shells on top. Linux is another.
Even as a borderline Fanatical Linux Guy, I'm pretty much OK with this. It sounds like they are just adding some kernel tweaks to make it work better with their hypervisor. No real drama there. Ubuntu has a bunch of different kernel flavors that are similar in nature.
Having said that, if they start creeping into userspace, it's time to get out your pitchforks and torches.
I get the feeling he's ranting his way up to outright saying "Only Google (Brain) counts as a *real* AI company, everyone else is a faker, and they have cooties too".
Either that or he's giving an open invitation to start a flamewar about who is and isn't a *real* AI engineer.
Come on... Everyone knows that as soon as you link against TensorFlow, you are now an AI company.
I agree that it should have been free but, a stable adult rarely needs to do anything related to credit checks. Even beyond that, I am 100% willing to give up convenience for palpable online security. I've never had my identity stolen, never had a virus on my computer, never had a website password breach compromise another account, etc. And the reason for that is that I'm cautious and willing to inconvenience myself to avoid a threat. As soon as I read about credit freezes (on this website!) I decided that the threat was much, much larger than any inconvenience I would invoke by freezing my credit. The Experian breach is a Big Deal and the adults in the room are inoculating themselves against it regardless of the hassle.
Uhhh... I just finished freezing all 3 credit agencies and it cost me $6 and about 10 minutes of time. As far as Security Bang For Buck goes, I don't know if it gets any better than that. They give you a pin number so, in a few years, if I need to unfreeze, it should take about 10 minutes and, if it again costs me $6, I'm definitely OK with that.
XXVI, the name of the new holding entity, is the number of letters in the alphabet expressed in Roman numerals.
Thanks for clarifying that. At first I thought they named themselves for Taylor Switft's age. The number of letters in the alphabet is much better. Of course, it is a good thing that Google wasn't started in China, or the new company would have ended up with a name like MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
I wonder if this is an assumption on the part of the article writer. XXVI is clearly a stock-symbol-shortened version of ".xX VI Xx.". The new company name is just a strong suggestion to employees as to what editor they should use. Hopefully this means we will have VI bindings in Android soon.
I guess it's okay after your reach some level or amount of experience.
This is the crux of it. If you are young and a "jack of all trades", people are going to think you lack depth of knowledge. If you are older and a "jack of all trades" people will hire you just for your breadth of knowledge.
The other way to do it would be to close loopholes that let multi-billion dollar corporations pay less tax than I do. We, the people, via taxes, effectively subsidize the entities that are trying their damnedest to fuck us over as much as possible as long as it's profitable.
What I'd like to see is a study on how well a corporation like Google would fair if it was headquartered in Somalia. And then take that data and figure out what percentage of their profit is due to the infrastructure that the taxpayers have payed for. And then use those figures to work out an equitable taxation figure that totally disregards bullshit corporate tax haven schemes.
Corporations massively benefit from our tax dollars so, they should share a lot of that burden. Instead they move their money to places that don't tax it as much but where none of the actual work is done. Just making corporations pay their fair share would have an enormous impact on our society. But, unfortunately, the people that are elected to our government are bought by the corporations before they even take office.
I've built systems for about that long and I did a simple CPU upgrade about 2 years ago. About 6 years ago I built a dual Xeon E5645 workstation for myself ($500 per CPU at build time) and two years ago I upgraded them to Xeon X5690 CPUs. The X5690 CPUs were about $2000 each when I built the machine but only $200 each used on eBay 4 years later. I've also piecemeal upgraded a bunch of other parts like RAM, disks, etc.
The end result is a 6 year old workstation with shockingly good performance when compared to anything but a new $5000k workstation. I recently got the upgrade bug and decided to use the Phoronix Test Suite to test the performance of my workstation against modern i7 and Xeon chips. The new i7 chips were definitely much faster at single core tasks but, my old school Dual Xeon X5690, with 4xRAID5 SATA*2* SSDs and 96GB of RAM, handily crushed them for any task I care about: Compilation times, multi-core number crunching, etc.
My point is that if you buy cheap and shitty consumer grade hardware, you can expect to throw it away after a few years. If you buy low end professional/enterprise hardware, and that suits your needs, you have a cheap and easy upgrade path.
Writing to that directory with a Windows program will bring you pain and misery. I learned this the painful way the first time I used WSL, did a "git clone" then brought up Visual Studio on that directory. Couple hours of work lost as my disk writes just went poof.
It's commented out by default on Debian but, in a way that leads me to believe the commented out value is the default value: $ grep NAME_REGEX/etc/adduser.conf #NAME_REGEX="^[a-z][-a-z0-9_]*\$" $ sudo adduser 0day adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname' option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX.
You are correct, it was 8 people that voted on it and, as per the "pants on fire" link (https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00402.html) it was a 4-4 tie. That tie was decided by Bdale Garbee. Bdale Garbee made the decision to switch to systemd. Frankly, Mr. Garbee should be forced to hand over his Greybeard Card. He has shamed our honourable order.
Actually, on Debian 9, "adduser 0day" will fail with an error that it doesn't match the NAME_REGEX in/etc/adduser.conf. The useradd utility has no such restrictions though. It wouldn't surprise me if the NAME_REGEX in Debian 9 was specifically crafted to avoid systemd misery. Fool me once and all...
The adduser tool uses a regex to screen valid user names. It's a configuration variable called NAME_REGEX. If you try to add a user that doesn't conform to that regex, you'll get an error like:
adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname' option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX.
However, the useradd utility has no such restrictions and will happily create just about any user name. Various tools may use adduser or useradd and different sysadmins may also be more familiar with one tool or the other. If a user puts in a request to have his username be 0day, it's a coin toss as to whether or not it will be an acceptable username. This is not a "you need root to gain root" kind of bug, this is a "you need to fool a human/script into doing something that you know will compromise the system" kind of bug.
I understand the systemd is bug is "fixed" now but, Lennarts response to it certainly warrants the award he received.
For those of us who don't live in Silicon Valley, I assume this summary means, "Some guy I've never heard of, who's never done anything I vaguely care about, who used to work for some other guy I've never heard of, has left his company that never made anything important. And now he works for Google."
Dang, I switched jobs last year and it didn't make the front page of Slashdot. I gotta work on my PR.
I have to wonder about the accuracy of these benchmarks. I deal with reasonably powerful ARM Cortex-A53 chips at work and, we generally develop on fairly modern Intel i7 desktop chips and then cross compile the code to the ARM chips. We always assume the A53 chip will do 1/10th the integer or floating point operations of the i7 chips. It's almost always true. If it takes 10 seconds to do some complex test on the i7, it's usually going to take 100 seconds to do it on the A53.
Most likely what is happening in these benchmarks is that the Intel chips are running at near idle while the ARM chips are practically bursting at the seams. Or, the benchmarks have unknowingly (or knowingly) skewed towards capping the performance at something that is achievable by the ARM but trivial to achieve by the Intel chip.
That sounds like the painful way to learn Linux. Most of us did it the sane way: By using the Slackware CD-ROM that was included in the back cover of the Linux book we bought.
I remember I had an ATI All-In-Wonder card at the time that had a TV tuner in it and the TV tuner didn't work in Slackware. I actually e-mailed ATI and offered to write the driver for them. To my shock, they actually e-mailed me back and wanted to know more about what I planned to do and what my credentials were. Of course, my credentials were "Drunken college kid" and my plans were "Make the fucking thing work" so, nothing really came of it but, it's a fond memory I have of Slackware.
"so pirating content is often the only solution available " Are you arguing that you are not willing to pay for the content so your only choice is left is to steal it?
I'm very happy to pay for digital content. It's just that the only company that is willing to give me the service I want, at the price I want, is my VPN provider.
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If you do not want to use their products don't. MS doesn't have to Extend, Expand, and Extinguish standards or lock things down to win32 which we all hate! Rather they make the APIs available to all platforms and several languages to their cloud offerings so you an keep using Linux or use Amazon if you want. However, the downside is the cloud framework hooks lock you into Azure. Amazon though sadly is doing the same. So the OS now is Azure and Windows is just one of the shells on top. Linux is another.
Even as a borderline Fanatical Linux Guy, I'm pretty much OK with this. It sounds like they are just adding some kernel tweaks to make it work better with their hypervisor. No real drama there. Ubuntu has a bunch of different kernel flavors that are similar in nature.
Having said that, if they start creeping into userspace, it's time to get out your pitchforks and torches.
I get the feeling he's ranting his way up to outright saying "Only Google (Brain) counts as a *real* AI company, everyone else is a faker, and they have cooties too".
Either that or he's giving an open invitation to start a flamewar about who is and isn't a *real* AI engineer.
Come on... Everyone knows that as soon as you link against TensorFlow, you are now an AI company.
Still totally worth it.
I agree that it should have been free but, a stable adult rarely needs to do anything related to credit checks. Even beyond that, I am 100% willing to give up convenience for palpable online security. I've never had my identity stolen, never had a virus on my computer, never had a website password breach compromise another account, etc. And the reason for that is that I'm cautious and willing to inconvenience myself to avoid a threat. As soon as I read about credit freezes (on this website!) I decided that the threat was much, much larger than any inconvenience I would invoke by freezing my credit. The Experian breach is a Big Deal and the adults in the room are inoculating themselves against it regardless of the hassle.
I am not being defeatist, this will cause necessary change in the entire industry.
Right. Just like how in 2008 the narrow miss of a global economic meltdown has caused necessary change in the entire industry...
Uhhh... I just finished freezing all 3 credit agencies and it cost me $6 and about 10 minutes of time. As far as Security Bang For Buck goes, I don't know if it gets any better than that. They give you a pin number so, in a few years, if I need to unfreeze, it should take about 10 minutes and, if it again costs me $6, I'm definitely OK with that.
XXVI, the name of the new holding entity, is the number of letters in the alphabet expressed in Roman numerals.
Thanks for clarifying that. At first I thought they named themselves for Taylor Switft's age. The number of letters in the alphabet is much better. Of course, it is a good thing that Google wasn't started in China, or the new company would have ended up with a name like MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
I wonder if this is an assumption on the part of the article writer. XXVI is clearly a stock-symbol-shortened version of ".xX VI Xx.". The new company name is just a strong suggestion to employees as to what editor they should use. Hopefully this means we will have VI bindings in Android soon.
I guess it's okay after your reach some level or amount of experience.
This is the crux of it. If you are young and a "jack of all trades", people are going to think you lack depth of knowledge. If you are older and a "jack of all trades" people will hire you just for your breadth of knowledge.
Come on, man. You bought it so, what? You think you own it? That's totally 90s thinking. You just rented it until we decided you can't use it anymore.
I have that Stallman manifesto around here somewhere...
The other way to do it would be to close loopholes that let multi-billion dollar corporations pay less tax than I do. We, the people, via taxes, effectively subsidize the entities that are trying their damnedest to fuck us over as much as possible as long as it's profitable.
What I'd like to see is a study on how well a corporation like Google would fair if it was headquartered in Somalia. And then take that data and figure out what percentage of their profit is due to the infrastructure that the taxpayers have payed for. And then use those figures to work out an equitable taxation figure that totally disregards bullshit corporate tax haven schemes.
Corporations massively benefit from our tax dollars so, they should share a lot of that burden. Instead they move their money to places that don't tax it as much but where none of the actual work is done. Just making corporations pay their fair share would have an enormous impact on our society. But, unfortunately, the people that are elected to our government are bought by the corporations before they even take office.
I've built systems for about that long and I did a simple CPU upgrade about 2 years ago. About 6 years ago I built a dual Xeon E5645 workstation for myself ($500 per CPU at build time) and two years ago I upgraded them to Xeon X5690 CPUs. The X5690 CPUs were about $2000 each when I built the machine but only $200 each used on eBay 4 years later. I've also piecemeal upgraded a bunch of other parts like RAM, disks, etc.
The end result is a 6 year old workstation with shockingly good performance when compared to anything but a new $5000k workstation. I recently got the upgrade bug and decided to use the Phoronix Test Suite to test the performance of my workstation against modern i7 and Xeon chips. The new i7 chips were definitely much faster at single core tasks but, my old school Dual Xeon X5690, with 4xRAID5 SATA*2* SSDs and 96GB of RAM, handily crushed them for any task I care about: Compilation times, multi-core number crunching, etc.
My point is that if you buy cheap and shitty consumer grade hardware, you can expect to throw it away after a few years. If you buy low end professional/enterprise hardware, and that suits your needs, you have a cheap and easy upgrade path.
Writing to that directory with a Windows program will bring you pain and misery. I learned this the painful way the first time I used WSL, did a "git clone" then brought up Visual Studio on that directory. Couple hours of work lost as my disk writes just went poof.
$ sudo apt-get source adduser
$ tar xvf adduser_3.115.tar.xz
$ cd adduser
$ grep -r -i "NAME_REGEX.*="
examples/adduser.local.conf.examples/adduser.conf:#NAME_REGEX="^[a-z][-a-z0-9_]*\$"
adduser.conf:#NAME_REGEX="^[a-z][-a-z0-9_]*\$"
AdduserCommon.pm: $configref->{"name_regex"} = "^[a-z][-a-z0-9_]*\$";
So, it has a default value in AdduserCommon.pm that can be overridden by the conf file.
It's commented out by default on Debian but, in a way that leads me to believe the commented out value is the default value:
/etc/adduser.conf
$ grep NAME_REGEX
#NAME_REGEX="^[a-z][-a-z0-9_]*\$"
$ sudo adduser 0day
adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured
via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname'
option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX.
The Special Law of Betteridge says that any headline that matches the regex "/(will|can).*reduce privacy/i" can be answered with "yes".
You are correct, it was 8 people that voted on it and, as per the "pants on fire" link (https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00402.html) it was a 4-4 tie. That tie was decided by Bdale Garbee. Bdale Garbee made the decision to switch to systemd. Frankly, Mr. Garbee should be forced to hand over his Greybeard Card. He has shamed our honourable order.
Actually, on Debian 9, "adduser 0day" will fail with an error that it doesn't match the NAME_REGEX in /etc/adduser.conf. The useradd utility has no such restrictions though. It wouldn't surprise me if the NAME_REGEX in Debian 9 was specifically crafted to avoid systemd misery. Fool me once and all...
The adduser tool uses a regex to screen valid user names. It's a configuration variable called NAME_REGEX. If you try to add a user that doesn't conform to that regex, you'll get an error like:
adduser: Please enter a username matching the regular expression configured
via the NAME_REGEX configuration variable. Use the `--force-badname'
option to relax this check or reconfigure NAME_REGEX.
However, the useradd utility has no such restrictions and will happily create just about any user name. Various tools may use adduser or useradd and different sysadmins may also be more familiar with one tool or the other. If a user puts in a request to have his username be 0day, it's a coin toss as to whether or not it will be an acceptable username. This is not a "you need root to gain root" kind of bug, this is a "you need to fool a human/script into doing something that you know will compromise the system" kind of bug.
I understand the systemd is bug is "fixed" now but, Lennarts response to it certainly warrants the award he received.
For those of us who don't live in Silicon Valley, I assume this summary means, "Some guy I've never heard of, who's never done anything I vaguely care about, who used to work for some other guy I've never heard of, has left his company that never made anything important. And now he works for Google."
Dang, I switched jobs last year and it didn't make the front page of Slashdot. I gotta work on my PR.
I have to wonder about the accuracy of these benchmarks. I deal with reasonably powerful ARM Cortex-A53 chips at work and, we generally develop on fairly modern Intel i7 desktop chips and then cross compile the code to the ARM chips. We always assume the A53 chip will do 1/10th the integer or floating point operations of the i7 chips. It's almost always true. If it takes 10 seconds to do some complex test on the i7, it's usually going to take 100 seconds to do it on the A53.
Most likely what is happening in these benchmarks is that the Intel chips are running at near idle while the ARM chips are practically bursting at the seams. Or, the benchmarks have unknowingly (or knowingly) skewed towards capping the performance at something that is achievable by the ARM but trivial to achieve by the Intel chip.
I'm having an existential crisis wondering if your purposely didn't declare "use strict;"
That sounds like the painful way to learn Linux. Most of us did it the sane way: By using the Slackware CD-ROM that was included in the back cover of the Linux book we bought.
I remember I had an ATI All-In-Wonder card at the time that had a TV tuner in it and the TV tuner didn't work in Slackware. I actually e-mailed ATI and offered to write the driver for them. To my shock, they actually e-mailed me back and wanted to know more about what I planned to do and what my credentials were. Of course, my credentials were "Drunken college kid" and my plans were "Make the fucking thing work" so, nothing really came of it but, it's a fond memory I have of Slackware.
You're doing it wrong.
Meanwhile the people who use their computers to get work done use the LTS releases, Debian stable, CentOS, etc.
"so pirating content is often the only solution available "
Are you arguing that you are not willing to pay for the content so your only choice is left is to steal it?
I'm very happy to pay for digital content. It's just that the only company that is willing to give me the service I want, at the price I want, is my VPN provider.