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Rand Paul blocking Iron Dome funding comes back to haunt him
Insane it's controversial to expect that other countries pay for their own defense.
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Rand Paul blocking Iron Dome funding comes back to haunt him
Insane it's controversial to expect that other countries pay for their own defense.
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US military gives Lockheed Martin $33.7 million to develop nuclear spacecraft
A working nuclear thermal propulsion (NTP) engine was already built in the 60s under NASA's NERVA project. It is one of the highest technological readiness level solutions we have to the dilemma of high specific impulse versus high thrust present in the current spsce engine technologies. Imo we need something like this to make manned interplanetary missions viable.
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Will Larian release the BG3 toolkit to allow us to make our own modules?
Check out Solasta: Crown of the Magister. It's another fantastic turn based 5e (SRD) RPG and it comes with a custom campaign editor https://solasta-dungeons.fandom.com/wiki/Creating_Campaigns
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What developments in the Linux world are you looking forward to the most?
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It doesn't care about copyright or authorship, which becomes a huge problem due to content no longer having a real home in IPFS, everybody can pin, cache or share content on IPFS.
Sounds like a feature, not a shortcoming
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ZFS without having to faff around with DKMS
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs. AMD Radeon RX 7600 Linux Gaming Performance Review
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Unfortunately, I think no. Nvidia sells every AI chip wafer they can get from TSMC, so if gamers won't pay the same margins as datacenter customers Nvidia will simply stop selling to them. As such, Nvidia does not need consumers/home users anymore.
As for AMD, they just decided their pricing strategy is "whatever Nvidia does, but 10% cheaper"
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in python, how do i check if an user boolean input is true or false
Use argparse instead of input
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs. AMD Radeon RX 7600 Linux Gaming Performance Review
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Both team green and team red thought they could charge pandemic era scalper prices this generation, which of course wont happen because ETH mining is dead
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Ubuntu trying to install snap AND Firefox even though I have removed them a year back
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Works really well with Flatpak Steam
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Ramaswamy wants to end the H-1B visa program he used 29 times
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$25/hr (about $50k/yr) is nothing for the kind of professional/software jobs typical of H1Bs.
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Best way to transfer my installation to another drive?
cp /dev/sdX /dev/sdY. Really, it's that simple, just replace sdX and sdY with the device files for the source and destination drives.
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Cat not using its water bowl
Cats dont like drinking stale water. You can get an electric water foutain that tricks the cat by rotating the same water like this
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YSK: Google tracks your app usage and so much more
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GrapheneOS has strict sandboxing for all apps. App A cannot talk to App B unless given explicit user permission. Google Play services is not installed by default, and if you do install it, it's subject to the same sandbox. This basically addresses all userspace tracking concerns, unless you actively choose to weaken those defaults.
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Intel Begins Sorting Out SR-IOV Support For The Xe Kernel Graphics Driver
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Looks like Meteor Lake iGPU will be supported though, which is still cool for VMs with GPU accelerated desktops.
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Apple and Google Are Introducing New Ways to Defeat Cell Site Simulators, But Is it Enough?
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Example: https://grapheneos.org/faq#baseband-isolation
Yes, the baseband is isolated on all of the officially supported devices. Memory access is partitioned by the IOMMU and limited to internal memory and memory shared by the driver implementations...Earlier generation devices we used to support prior to Pixels had Wi-Fi + Bluetooth implemented on a separate SoC. This was not properly contained by the stock OS and we put substantial work into addressing that problem.
Baseband modems were not isolated from kernel memory in stock Android, GrapheneOS had to do it themselves using the IOMMU. We do not know for sure due to the proprietary/closed-source nature of baseband modem drivers, but we have no reason to assume any OEM (Samsung, Xiaomi etc) implemented proper isolation of baseband modem and system memory.
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Long storage life curiosity
Something like Amazon Glacier is your best bet if you don't access data often and are okay with paying a (per-GB) monthly fee. Otherwise, you may want to build a NAS PC with high levels of disk redundancy (RAID5 or RAIDZ2)
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Opening weekend in numbers (4/4)
My friend was talking to the people in the centre of the grove. I clicked on his character to walk towards him, but the entire grove became hostile so we had to kill everyone. But then we also ended up killing everyone in the goblin camp too after deciding to fireball their leader. Does that count as assaulting or saving the grove?
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Give it to me straight. How worried are you for Fedora's future after Red Hats recent anti user decisions?
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Ubuntu LTS has the exact same problem. And unlike Ubuntu, with Debian you have the choice to use sid which is as up to date as Arch usually
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Plex will be blocking access from at least one VPS provider
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Fair, although you're probably fine for "hosting jellyfin for your family" levels even then. If cloudflare boots you, swap to a free tier Oracle Cloud VPS and set up an nginx proxy.
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Ramaswamy wants to end the H-1B visa program he used 29 times
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People getting stuck in queues and kids being put in concentration camps have nothing to do with the H1B system. You could give a H1B visa to every sponsored individual and the concentration camps would still exist because the people put in them exist entirely outisde the immigration system. You could give a US passport to every kid in a concentration camp but the Indians and Chinese would be stuck in queues even though they do everything by the book.
This guy is right that the H1B system is unfair. The fact that H1B is a lottery creates a huge amount of problem for e.g. graduates of top US universities who want to transition to work in the US. Other countries (Canada, Australia, UK) have point based systems that prioritize highly skilled immigrants over less skilled ones, which work much better than the US system. Lotteries are inherently unable to prioritize top candidates.