It would be pretty useful if we could somehow convince birds to relay our messages using birdsongs -- just use a speaker to transmit a message, encoded in birdsong with some special preamble header, and it will get broadcast or unicast to the desired destination bird that happens to be located near a microphone that receives this message. Could this scheme beat IPoAC? Maybe if we manage to reverse engineer birdsongs well enough, BGP could be ported to birds!
Really? Can you even copyright a font? As far as I know, fonts can't be copyrighted, meaning they can be used by anyone without needing a licence. IANAL, but it seems like font users aren't required to comply with attribution and share-alike requirements of the CC licence.
With vector fonts containing copyrightable code, are you referring to e.g. TrueType hinting, or OpenType shaping (or very avant-gardely, WASM shaping)? I should hope the glyph-drawing instructions don't fall under this definition of code, because that'd maybe mean SVG `path`s are copyrightable...
I panicked a little when I heard the news as I run a cupsd open on the Internet. But as it turns out, the issue is misrepresented in headlines, just like here. This is not an issue in the core cupsd, but in a separate package/component, called cups-browsed. My distribution of choice for servers, Gentoo Linux, ships cups-browsed in a separate package which I had not installed, meaning I, as well as most other cups users that did not install this additional package, am not affected by this bug.
Saying that all systems running cups can be hacked is a misrepresentation of the scale of the issue.
I've always disliked how on Debian, usually being rather conservative, cups-browsed gets pulled in by default if you install cups. I think "no install recommends" fixes that, but iirc some add-ons like that hplip driver pull it in again. In my home setup I just disabled the service, but it's rather annoying how more and more software spirals out of scope and makes components that could be optional a requirement. Very related is avahi-daemon. Take a desktop Debian/Ubuntu and try to uninstall it; there's a good chance it's going to remove a couple other software where you wonder why avahi would be a hard dependency.
A simulation of a space mission on the ground with a satellite that will eventually be in space.
Take your satellite, replace it's navigation/communication inputs with ones generated by a reasonably high fidelity real time physical simulation. Feed it's outputs back into said simulation. Ensure the satellite does the right things at the right time.
Why is one fibre (actually you'd probably like 2 for upstream and downstream) to one customer the way to go? Even with >100 customers on a single fibre it should be possible to get everyone on 100 Gbit/s (although there are currently no standards for it). That will future proof for a long time.
Where I live, you can replace an ONT easily. GPON in my small country is only secured with the ONT serial number and a static well known password.
From a security perspective, that's perfectly fine. No one is going to hack their own neighbours or dig out fibre cables. From a usability and freedom of hardware choice, that's even better -- SN is written on the ONT and can be easily input into another ONT, unlike passwords and encryption keys that are largely unnecessary and only complicate things, providing little security because no one will hack GPON infrastructure.
You run into problems, however, if you are subscribed to telephony. It's possible that the ONT will handle VoIP for you and provide you just with a RJ11 jack. In that case, you can't easily swap your ONT. But for IPTV and Internet, it works out of the box.
> But for the one I'll have hanging in my office, I have loftier goals. With swap enabled, the kernel sources can actually be built right on-device. It will take some number of years. The partition where the kernel lives is /dev/pvd2 and is mounted under /boot. The device can build its own kernel from source, copy it to /boot/vmlinux, and reboot into it. If power is interrupted, thanks to ext4, it will reboot, recover the filesystem damage from the journal, and restart the compilation process. That is my plan, at least.
One, it reminds me of that "worlds longest song" or somesuch thing, where they play a note every 10 years.
The other is just a picture of someone, asleep at their desk, a pile of calendars with days checked off tossed to the side, random unwashed mugs and such all dimly lit by a desk lamp and see the `$ make linux` finally return to an new, unassuming `$` prompt. Like Neo in the Matrix.
Yes. I have an emulator of this board (it is in the downloads too) which is much faster than the real thing. It shows how much realtime is needed to get to the current state. Doing a build in it will answer the question unequivocally.
The /etc/resolv.conf system is woefully inadequate. It doesn't have a concept of per-interface customization so you can't customize according to the currently active network interface. It doesn't distinguish between DNS configuration delivered by the network administrator (which can and should be changed remotely) versus set by the computer administrator. It doesn't work very well with VPNs where a specific DNS server is used for resolving addresses on that VPN.
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