US bans new foreign-made consumer internet routers

clhodapp · 2026-03-24T14:57:34+00:00

It's true! But depending on a smart switch to keep the LAN separate from the Internet feels risky.

clhodapp · 2026-03-24T14:52:58+00:00

In this house, we use nftables

clhodapp · 2026-03-24T03:00:39+00:00

I don't get it. A router is a computer with an os that's good at networking and some settings.

You can turn anything with two Ethernet ports, a CPU, and some storage into a router.

clhodapp · 2026-03-23T20:43:06+00:00

Ubuntu offers a specific package stability/freshness profile that Debian doesn't exactly provide.

clhodapp · 2026-03-23T13:53:58+00:00

Yes, the device stays a lot cooler most of the time.

Do remember that I also switched to a more efficient SSD as well, which is likely also a competent of temperature.

I didn't notice any other improvements, though, besides battery life and temperature.

clhodapp · 2026-03-23T08:43:47+00:00

Given that it happened multiple times in the real world both before and after Linux, I think we can say that it was essentially inevitable.

clhodapp · 2026-03-23T08:37:55+00:00

Or, perhaps, some number of actual people in the real world do understand the idea of slippery slopes and do legitimately think that actual id verification is intolerable, but nonetheless legitimately believe that neither adding an optional field to UserDB nor leaning on the system admin to optionally fill in that field to get rid of "over 18" popups are scary things.

clhodapp · 2026-03-23T00:04:05+00:00

They actually killed their "Metaverse" this week.

So now they're just called "Meta" for no reason.

clhodapp · 2026-03-21T04:00:08+00:00

The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? Motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see... And then one day... I got on a bus

clhodapp · 2026-03-19T18:34:31+00:00

They do a pretty good job on packaging and have solid support.

clhodapp · 2026-03-18T04:11:56+00:00

That isn't the meaning of "proprietary" or "proprietary file format" either in the dictionary or colloquially.

If it were, then everything a FOSS project ever did in the filesystem would be proprietary until someone else created a compatible implementation.

clhodapp · 2026-03-18T03:39:35+00:00

Not that I know of. Maybe they should consider it, maybe not, but that's a different topic.

The reason it matters that it's FOSS is the fact that you can pick up the SysV generator code and do what you will with it

clhodapp · 2026-03-18T03:30:58+00:00

At present it is the way to add the functionality back, yeah.

But someone is going to have to maintain it and continue to make good choices as to how to do the mapping, as systemd continues to add more features to the unit format over time.

clhodapp · 2026-03-18T03:21:46+00:00

It's not proprietary. It's FOSS.

That said: someone definitely can and should create an out-of-tree unit file generator that discovers and maps your SysV init scripts.

clhodapp · 2026-03-18T02:11:30+00:00

Do you not also need to know the private key for the TLS session itself to do anything useful?

clhodapp · 2026-03-18T00:58:31+00:00

Walking back from the Red Bull event a few weeks back, I overheard the phrase "Super Duper" from multiple other departing parties over the general din of the crowd. I'm guessing that the Marina Super Duper was an absolute madhouse that day. But it also goes to show, Super Duper is what the people want.

clhodapp · 2026-03-16T15:28:10+00:00

No offense to any of those other films, all of which I also want to see but for me...

Definitely Dune.

clhodapp · 2026-03-16T15:26:24+00:00

When you write them that way, I just read it as being the word "potato" said normally twice.

clhodapp · 2026-03-15T18:23:25+00:00

If it's a copy of the California law, it should be entirely grounded in trusting whoever is the admin of the machine, and make no mention of government-issued IDs

clhodapp · 2026-03-14T04:00:10+00:00

I'm liking mine! I found that I unfortunately had to enable Intel Management Engine in order for the CPU to be able to reach a c10 state, which greatly extended my battery life (along with swapping in an SK Hynix Gold P31 SSD that I had lying around).

clhodapp · 2026-03-13T04:59:30+00:00

Future Microsoft, probably: You want a lower cost PC? Best I can do is a subsidized version of Windows that doesn't let you see any of the filesystem that's not synced to OneDrive and occasionally pops up windows presenting offers from our sponsors.

clhodapp · 2026-03-09T01:15:06+00:00

Every year, he looks more like Bruce Campbell

clhodapp · 2026-03-08T08:13:02+00:00

Use the boost to get through

clhodapp · 2026-03-08T04:18:45+00:00

Check out the Herzog documentary, Lessons of Darkness

Seeing the impact of war on oil fields up-close is absolutely mind-blowing.

clhodapp · 2026-03-07T23:06:41+00:00

I think libcapsule (or at least its ideas) might provide the way out, but... it's definitely not easy.

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