Onno (VK6FLAB)
Anything and everything Amateur Radio and beyond. Heavily into Open Source and SDR, working on a multi band monitor and transmitter.
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19·23 hours agoLinux aggressively caches things.
4 GB of RAM is not running out of memory.
If you start using swap, you’re running into a situation where you might run out of memory.
If
oomkillerstarts killing processes, then you’re running out of memory.
5·1 day agoNo, “the due and payable” kind.
I suspect that the house of cards will come tumbling down as soon as one of the companies in this massive Ponzi scheme fails to pay their bill.
3·12 days agoIs Utah nominating itself for the Darwin Awards?
Interesting, but unplayable on mobile, the onscreen keyboard obscures the clues, so you have to keep hiding and showing the keyboard.
12·15 days agoIn the Netherlands this is common knowledge, there’s even a nursery rhyme about it:
1·17 days agoAbsolutely!
I mentioned it last week.
Boarder?
26·18 days agoDefenestration in … three … two …
11·20 days agoSo … the reality of this is that these vulnerabilities exist for all microchips, since the purchaser and the user have absolutely no insight into the innards of any of this.
Microchips are made all over the globe and rarely … if ever … in a country where the political system matches your own, unless you happen to live in the country where the chips you’re using are actually manufactured there and even then you don’t know who is watching what.
In other words, this is not a new issue, nor is it limited to one country, it affects all of us.
While we’re at it, software has exactly the same issues.
Why do you think that ICT professionals keep advocating for open source solutions?
Where is this utopia?
1·20 days agoIs it just me, or is that IKEA shelving?
11·20 days agoLook at tailscale.
You mean like the Nepalese government did?
How much waste they take up with them?
If it’s more than 8kg, I’m guessing that the only missing requirement for the refund is to increase the number to make it that every climber brings down more than they take up.
In other words, put every climber on the scales before they go up and unless they weigh more when they come back, they don’t get their money back.
Bonus reward for each extra kg.
This is the job for the OS.
You can run most Linux systems with stupid amounts of swap and the only thing you’ll notice is that stuff starts slowing down.
In my experience, only in extremely rare cases are you smarter than the OS, and in 25+ years of using Linux daily I’ve seen it exactly once, where
oomkillerkilled runningmysqldprocesses, which would have been fine if the developer had used transactions. Suffice to say, they did not.I used a 1 minute cron job to reprioritize the process, problem “solved” … for a system that hadn’t been updated for 12 years but was still live while we documented what it was doing and what was required to upgrade it.