I love Buster Keaton. For me he might be the greatest performer ever.
I actually watched the video linked in the comments with his greatest stunts and also one short movie together with my kids (5 and 8 years old) just the other day. They laughed their heads off!
So if you can hear me, Buster, wherever you are: Your films are holding up a hundred years later. That is quite a feat.
Quite common in space industry. It is the script language used in many (all?) SCOS-2000 based mission control systems. Yes, is is actually used to control satellites and spacecrafts.
I don't miss physical media. Streaming works fine from a technical perspective. What I DO miss is the huge supply of films from all eras, forgotten gems, B-movies, etc.
In my part of the world we had Lovefilm where I got rentals delivered by post. I guess this was the same kind of service Netflix had in the US. The number of titles were just incredible. The number of films I can access today is just a tiny fraction of that. That really is a shame.
I do miss it a bit. Something about the scarcity made it more special. Also, the ceremony of going to the video store, browsing the shelves, and bringing it home. Same applies to music for me, but maybe even more so. I know I’m wearing rose-colored glasses in a lot of ways, but im okay with it.
A lot of commentaries were crap but I really enjoyed some of them and, in a streaming world (whether subscription or a la carte), it really doesn't make sense to devote any resources at all to making them for the handful of people who buy DVDs or even own a DVD player.
Furthermore, the attacker covered their tracks on the initial payload with an innocuous paragraph in the README. ("Nothing to see here!")
bad-3-corrupt_lzma2.xz has three Streams in it. The first and third
streams are valid xz Streams. The middle Stream has a correct Stream
Header, Block Header, Index and Stream Footer. Only the LZMA2 data
is corrupt. This file should decompress if --single-stream is used.
The strings of `####Hello####` and `####World####` are there so that if you actually follow the instructions in the README, you get a seemingly valid result.
They're shell comments so it won't interfere with payload execution.
And lastly, they act as a marker that can be used by a later regex to locate the file _without_ referencing it by name directly nor using the actual Hello and World strings.
For security critical projects, it seems like it would make sense to try to set up the build infrastructure to error (or at least warn!) when binary files are being included in the build. This should be done transitively, so when linux distros attempted to update to this new version of liblzma, the build would fail (or warn) about this new binary dependency.
I don't know how common this practice is in the linux distro builds. Obviously if it's common, it would take a lot of work to clean up to make this possible, even if it's even possible in the first place. It seems like something that would be doable with bazel, but I'm not sure about other build systems.
Is it possible to search for a specific pattern in this (or any other) hex editor?
E.g., if you have some sort of container format or aggregated file where you want to search for a specific instance of a pattern (starting from any offset). I haven't found support for this in ImHex (but I might have missed it).
It doesn't affect the wage of the individual postal worker.
What is interesting is how long can the main participant of the unions, in this case IF Metall, hold out. According to them, based on that the strike only affects around hundred workers, the strike fund lasts for approximately 500 years...
> It doesn't affect the wage of the individual postal worker.
Is it really the case? There must be a cost to refusing to do part of your job. It might not be paid directly by them but by the union (in turn with the contributions of all affiliated workers) but it should be more than zero.
You're American, are you? The country where CEOs either do their job or get a golden handshake, as the cliché has it. In what sense do they have to do their job?
Life in Scandinavia is different from the US. There are expectations you have to live up to, and those you have to live up to, but they're not everything. Some expectations are less serious.
No, I'm European, from a country with strong unions. I always thought that the right to strike makes sense if both sides need to invest in the struggle- if one of the parties can inflict damage on the other with no cost for itself, what prevents it from advancing completely unreasonable demands? "Their innate reasonableness and common sense" is not a satisfying answer, as any power that can be abused will eventually be abused.
In other words, failure to conform to some expectations leave them well off. Not begging on the streets.
Failure to deliver parcels to Tesla won't leave any Swedish postal workers on the street. A tut-tut from the manager, yes, serious consequences no. If the manager has read Tesla's recent job posting for a lobbyist to help subvert Swedish democracy, the tut-tut may well be delivered with a smile and a wink.
A zero cost of such actions may be a part of a collective agreement. What the postal service could do? Cut salaries and risk to become a next target for a strike?
From other standpoint employers and employees are all depend on the system to work. So it makes perfect sense to combine efforts to preserve the system.
I've been in mission control for a satellite when this is going on. It is the worst stress I have experienced in my professional career. Things sorted out in the end (some bias calibrations were just plain wrong). I hope for the best for this team!
My team is about to go through this ;) It's our first pair of satellite with solar panels in only one axis, so attitude control is critical. The satellites will be deployed on Wednesday, wish us luck!
Actually, before we extend the panels we do have do have solar cells on 3 out of 6 faces of the satellite - which should allow us to make sure our attitude control is working as expected.
We need to deploy the panels to maximize the solar collection area and thus power for the payloads. And there simply isn't enough space on the other panels to put "backup solar cells" :)
Maybe I'm just old and grumpy, but the subscription business model just puts me off. Nowadays when I read about some development tool (or just any product), I start with the price page. If there are only subscriptions available I stop reading and go on with my life.
A good way to detect these kinds of subscription-only tools is that they all call it "Pricing." (Not "Cost" or "Store" or "Purchase," all of which imply that you might own something after you pay.) I get very disinterested when I see that heading on a webpage now.
Both businesses and developers benefit from subscriptions because it's easily estimated costs, and easily estimated income where you keep contact with the customer.
The ones who don't benefit is individuals. I wish more products had one time costs for hobbyists (individuals with zero revenue) while having subscriptions for businesses and commercial. Lots of products have loopholes for education/OSS/etc so adding "hobbyist" doesn't seem like a big difference. And I think it would drive sales. If I use a product at home I'm likely to lobby for buying subscriptions at work.
No, totally reasonable not wanting to spend your whole life financially beholden to everybody you've ever done business with. "you will own nothing and be happy" is sadly becoming true, as you have pretty much no Rights for any digital and more of the world is becoming digital.
When people ask why I don't like copilot and want a worse alternative when copilot "pays for itself", it's not because I don't want to pay, I just want to buy something and have it.
But, if the subscription provider goes out of business or changes the product, I have to be prepared to spend more time to find an alternative. So, if I want to keep a project long term, I'd avoid subscriptions.
Yeah. Sad fact is a lot of this stuff isn't targeting individual devs. It's targeting small-medium sized companies, who are fine buying productivity so they can create more value than they pay.
Maybe a few larger companies as well, because those subscriptions tend to come with support, and larger companies love to throw maintenance to non-employees. But if they cared enough about not having a subscription, they'd make it themselves.
I don't mind a subscription model. For me, it represents additional options.
Why do I want to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars for a perpetual license of photoshop when I hardly use it? A 30 day subscription once a year is perfect for me.
Even for those of us who are heavy users - can you see the game theory? The provider of your services has to deal with a huge amount of inertia in their product because of the continuous distribution model. The bigger the subscriber base, the more inertia there is. The consequence of this is that you are essentially guaranteed that impacting changes will be delivered slow enough that you or your business can adapt to them. Contrast this with a big bang software upgrade that requires explicit retraining and disruption to ops.
Not all subscription products are run this way, but the good ones are. Any product that has a 4 digit number in its name is a bad example. Visual Studio 2022 is not how a subscription model should go. Netflix is.
I actually watched the video linked in the comments with his greatest stunts and also one short movie together with my kids (5 and 8 years old) just the other day. They laughed their heads off!
So if you can hear me, Buster, wherever you are: Your films are holding up a hundred years later. That is quite a feat.