I knew the article was going to mention NTSYNC, but is that really it?

I get that we don’t want the argument for compatibility to effectively allow windows to define what the linux kernel has to looks like, but afaik this is one instance. The headline makes it sound like a systemic issue.

Most likely telegram, gab, and some FB groups. I wouldn’t count twitter because those are all bots.

I don’t think they’ll have any difficulty convincing Disney to put out another installment.

I was trying to do this recently and learned that, I guess certain bluray drives have been identified as compromised by the powers that be. As a result newer bluray disks ship with a list of those drives, and when your drive’s firmware sees that it is on the list, it will refuse to open the disk. I have an old bd drive from ~2008 that was ~60% effective at ripping my library.

I also tried my best to use fully open source tools in combination with an up-to-date KEYDB.CFG, but never had as much success as just using makemkv.

The most extreme route I found is to refer to makemkv’s list of drives that can have their firmware flashed to prevent it from refusing to read a disk. I haven’t gone that route, but would definitely consider it if I was looking for a drive.

Agreed, this is very weird that signal is being mentioned at all.

“It’s not a question of whether the torment nexus will exist, it’s who will build it and what will they use it for?”

Doesn’t change the fact that it’s a cautionary tale we clearly didn’t take any lesson from. I’m fully convinced the first sufficiently capable AGI is going to conclude humanity is the only problem that needs to be solved.

Omg I read your comment and thought “what then? A playground slide?” I’m tired lol.

Man, just when I think I understand home networking…

Interesting, yeah I’m not actually well versed, that’s why i began with “afaik” hah. My experience with EdgeRouter is that you basically have to enable hw offloading to get the full throughput, and my assumption was that probably all off-the-shelf routers are doing something similar for them to be usable in such a small/cheap/lower-power box.

When you say I might be thinking of “switching hardware”, I assume you’re referring to “managed switching”, and isn’t that just routing without any NAT? Like, if your pfsense router has 4 NICs, then it has to do the job of both a router and switch, no? First one, then the other for each packet?

Afaik, you’d want hardware acceleration for the actual packet routing, or it’ll be quite slow/inefficient. So any ASIC for routing packets would be considered a “router”.

I wonder if there exists an open router design based on an FPGA platform…

Doesn’t the law expect “Operating Systems” to do this? I feel like everyone should point fingers and lean on bureaucracy. Systemd should say “well don’t look at us, we’re not an operating system, we’re just an init and services system”, and Linux says “well we’re just a kernel, usermode does whatever it wants”, and Debian says “well we’re just a distro, we didn’t write any of the packages we just stick them together.”

If the tech illiterate idiots who wrote the poorly thought out law can’t figure out who to ask, maybe they’ll do their due diligence next time.

As a software engineer, I’m convinced “vibe coding” is just a meme. It’s like watching a chaotic system. You need to constantly be wrangling it back on topic, and keep it from bloating the codebase, in order to get anything done. You may be able to vibe a small mockup, but it will inevitably go off and produce garbage that doesn’t make sense.

It is useful as a glorified grep, and a sort of natural language to programming language compiler for simple descriptions. But if you don’t already understand what you expect the LLM to output, you’re gonna have a bad time.

it will not implement such measures unless legally required.

What a bold stance 🤦

It’s just another routine fascist strategy:

“All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”

“When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will”

So your claim is both that the Linux kernel operates perfectly fine without systemd for certain distros, and also that the Linux kernel is heavily dependent on systemd and it would be difficult to re-engineer to work otherwise. Do I understand your argument correctly?

Gnome is not Linux.

Also very windows like, aside from Mount.

For an actual answer, it looks like WD has something called wdckit that is available on request.

I see a corresponding AUR entry that looks like it’s grabbing some zip from a personal Russian CDN. Super sketchy looking tbh.

But it’s possible this tool has whatever functionality the windows WD Utility uses to toggle the light in the drive’s firmware.

IMO, it’s not worth it. I’d just go the electrical tape route and maybe ask WD Customer Support if there’s a way, and if not, ask that they support Linux better in the future.

Everything is always optional for power users on linux. What I’m saying is they shouldn’t have made a GUI checkbox that’s also easy enough for non power users to check.

Yeah, people keep correcting me by reiterating exactly what I’m saying lol