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Pentagon cancels $10B Jedi cloud contract

Posted on 2021-07-06 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: ...The drama dragged on for so long the requirements are no longer what is needed.
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Ten years ago, The Onion predicted west’s Irish Goodbye from Afghanistan

Posted on 2021-07-06 by pappp

Source: Boing Boing

Article note: ...That's uncanny. And hilarious.

In July 2011, The Onion published a facetious story titled U.S. Quietly Slips out of Afghanistan In Dead Of Night. In July 2021, the Associated Press reported that the U.S. had quietly slipped out of Afghanistan in the dead of night. — Read the rest

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The Untold Story of SQLite

Posted on 2021-07-02 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: I've long thought SQLite was a particularly great piece of tooling, but had never seen the story of how it came to be, that's very cool.
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Installing Linux into a 286 laptop from the year 1989

Posted on 2021-07-01 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: That's a neat stunt, using the 286 as a front-end to a pi crammed in there is a cute approach. Usually it's either pi connected to io devices (which is cool) or original hardware (which is cool).
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Kubernetes a black hole of unpredictable spend, according to new report

Posted on 2021-06-29 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Cloud container orchestration is where complexity fetishism meets rent-seeking as a service.
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Intel to disable TSX by default on more CPUs with new microcode

Posted on 2021-06-28 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: ...Wow, that's a hard abandon. Transactional Memory has always been supremely difficult to get right, so it's not super shocking, but it's still a wild ride. They retroactively microcode-removed the "earlier buggy" implementation from most Haswell through Broadwell parts in 2014, they stopped including it in new parts from Comet Lake (2019) on, and now they're removing it for a bunch of products from the Skylake through Coffee Lake era in between with microcode updates... which is basically going back and erasing it.
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Near

Posted on 2021-06-27 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Sad. Near (Byuu for most of the time they were notable, author of bsnes, higan, etc.) was ...super weird and uncomfortable in themselves in ways obvious to even a casual observer... but they were the kind of weird that drove them to be insanely productive at valuable things very few people are suited to tackle.
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Mike Gravel, former Alaska senator and dark horse presidential candidate, has died at 91

Posted on 2021-06-27 by pappp

Source: The Week: Most Recent Home Page Posts

Article note: Bummer. He was one of the only high-profile approximate left libertarians in the US, his 2008 Democratic presidential primary run was the last time someone [vaguely credibly] ran for president without any major issue I had to had to hold my nose on.

Mike Gravel, former Alaska senator and dark horse presidential candidate, has died at 91

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Dell SecureAssist contained RCE flaw allowing miscreants to remotely reflash your BIOS with code of their creation

Posted on 2021-06-25 by pappp

Source: The Register

Article note: FFS Dell. Your remote support tools work as RCEs more often than they actually work for their intended purpose.

And it affects 129 models of PC and laptop... or about 30 million computers

A chain of four vulnerabilities in Dell's SupportAssist remote firmware update utility could let malicious people run arbitrary code in no fewer than 129 different PCs and laptops models – while impersonating Dell to remotely upload a tampered BIOS.…

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MS Teams Switches from AngularJS to React, Ditches Electron.

Posted on 2021-06-25 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Oh shit yes (as long as it doesn't crap up the cross-platform-ness). Maybe it won't take more resources to be on teams than the _entire goddamn development VM_ I'm usually running at the same times.
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