/dev/random and lightning talks https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-12-10-dev-random/
@aral Good thing #FOSDEM isn't about freedom/privacy/human rights/democracy, then. It's just about Free and Open Source Software.
(disclaimer: yes I'm a FOSDEM organizer, but no I don't speak for FOSDEM, my thoughts are my own)
RT: https://mastodon.ar.al/users/aral/statuses/115662581483977762
I've done L1 tech support while in college, can confirm.
People ask you to help fix their internet connection but you have to explain to them what 'right clicking' means, first. Nobody wants to do this.
Doesn't excuse not doing it. Nobody wants to call people to sell them things they don't need (BTDT too -- not proud of it, was desperate) yet they somehow find people. If they can do that, they can also find someone to answer a f***ing phone.
@briankrebs
You think RAM is expensive today? One byte of ENIAC RAM would, according to quick-and-dirty back-of-envelope cost estimates, run you around $7,000 in 1946 dollars or $ 125,000 in today's cash.
Of course, there could be off-by-ones depending on the exact birthdays, but those are details.
Also, I believe you and your younger sister could be twins, but you and your older sister can't be without also being triplets.
You could be triplets (in which case you would all be turning 42 today).
Failing that, assuming your older sister was 23 on your younger sister's 21st, she would now be 46, you would be turning 45, and your younger sister would be 44.
If your older sister was 25, she would now be 50, your younger sister would now be turning 46, and you would be between 47 & 49.
@NanoRaptor
Happy birthday!
Also, no, you can't work it out.
What we do know:
Your younger sister's 21st birthday is in the past, otherwise your older sister's date of birth would be in the future (an impossibility).
Your older sister's date of birth must be long enough in the past that, at a point where your younger sister turned 21, she was half the age she is now while (probably) being 23 or older herself at the time (assuming there is at least a
@SRAZKVT @ariadne That would be a lot less bad, but only an experienced human could do the conversions properly.
Honestly, I think we should stop normalizing the fact that upstreams provide policy. The fuck? Policy is downstream's job, that's what they're here for. (And systemd is to blame for that normalization.)
Distros should start taking back control of how they run their services; if upstream want to provide unit files, sure, why not, but they should be used as hints, as inspiration, not as a source of truth.
hazard of our modern world: devices that pretend to be a simple machine with one job and are actually computers with firmware and the firmware was written by whacking the keyboard with dildos
Hugin has a mode to blend HDR pictures. It takes some practice, but if you get it right, the results are amazing.
Well, ED25519 isn't NIST, so that would make sense (no point in having a security standard if you're going to allow using algorithms that aren't part of said standard).
I suspect using ECDSA with one of the NIST curves works? P-384 is pretty good too, and not suspect like Dual_EC_DRBG always was, even before Snowden confirmed it was compromised.
@cloonix
Of course that doesn't answer the reliability, but then that's probably just another case of planned obsolescence, not much I can help with that...