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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Blade Runner

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It should be possible to download the audio files directly from archive.org, using a browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You should also say/yell "I do not consent!", because it's illegal to search or arrest someone without their consent. It was a popular spell a few years ago, but I don't see it being used much anymore, so it's possible that the cops have found a counterspell. 😉

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not an expert, but the only thing I can imagine is that it's related to certificates or keypairs used for encrypted communication / authentication. Afaik ssl certificates can be issued to a given company, for example, and might become invalid when that company no longer exists. Or it becomes impossible to issue new ones.

Something in that vein, maybe.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Had a similar thing at work not long ago.

A newly deployed version of a component in our system was only partially working, and the failures seemed to be random. It's a distributed system, so the error could be in many places. After reading the logs for a while I realized that only some messages were coming through (via a message queue) to this component, which made no sense. The old version (on a different server) had been stopped, I had verified it myself days earlier.

Turns out that the server with the old version had been rebooted in the meantime, therefore the old component had started running again, and was listening to the same message queue! So it was fairly random which one actually received each message in the queue 😂

Problem solved by stopping the old container again and removing it completely so it wouldn't start again at the next boot.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

When Hillary called him a puppet controlled by Russia his response was "no puppet, you're the puppet!"

[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What an amazing businessman!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago

What, does he have a coup for one special?

Maybe he has a... coupon...?

[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm a Norwegian Linux enthusiast and have never heard anything about the government using Ubuntu or Linux. Seems unlikely, from what I know. I know that within healthcare Windows is still widely used, even on the server side...

On the other hand, a lot of software for official services is being developed as open source now, so that's at least a good step in the right direction. Example: https://github.com/navikt

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I mean, that's quite literally happening, more or less. Check out the documentary Praying for Armageddon if you can find it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

An additional problem (maybe the biggest problem imho) is Amazon and Netflix et al refusing to give them more than 8 episodes per season. For things with a huge amount of source material (e.g. Wheel of Time) this forces the writers to make big changes in order to try to tell a big story in a too short amount of time. Combine this with inexperienced writers or writers who think they can do a better job than the source material, and you've got a recipe for failure, in my opinion.

The Wheel of Time, for example, had many small moments that were amazing, almost perfect, but overall the show ends up being disappointing when so many other parts fail completely.

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