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New comment by Vegemeister in "Fixing a bricked Framework laptop"

Vegemeister — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 02:20:05 +0000

If you need to do that again, maybe try turning the tREFI DRAM timing to the moon? That controls the refresh interval, which is very temperature sensitive. You could configure a marginally stable setting, let it boot, start running `memtester`, and then apply hair dryer directly to DRAM.

New comment by Vegemeister in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

Vegemeister — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 03:46:34 +0000

Indeed. This is a think tank whose publications are LLM-generated, but, like...

This is what a think tank is for.

A better headline would be "Israel fails to adequately paperwork their low-rent think tank".

New comment by Vegemeister in "The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory"

Vegemeister — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 13:38:03 +0000

In the UK, a country known for its lack of press freedom.

And the plaintiff was Matthew Garret, who has a past record of changing the words of other people's comments on his blog. The allegations of sockpuppetry are not inconsistent with his character.

That said, I recognize that the prose on that website is highly schizo-coded, so it should probably be considered unreliable on that account.

New comment by Vegemeister in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

Vegemeister — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:04:19 +0000

Stop trying to blame capitalism for your failure to jump out of the pot when they put ads in Windows 8.

We very much do have options. I haven't had Windows on a personal machine since 2011.

New comment by Vegemeister in "Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today"

Vegemeister — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:31:59 +0000

Isn't a simpler explanation that the FBI was co-opted in the same way as Adguard, rather than that the FBI is masterminding the scheme?

New comment by Vegemeister in "AirPods libreated from Apple's ecosystem"

Vegemeister — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 15:46:09 +0000

A set of airpods + the Minimum Viable iPhone to configure the them to work as hearing aids is way cheaper than standalone hearing aids. Regulatory fetishism around "medical devices" is exactly what enabled hearing aids to become a racket and to remain one long after the relevant electronics became a mass-produced consumer product.

New comment by Vegemeister in "Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub"

Vegemeister — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 07:50:10 +0000

That is an interesting perspective, but it doesn't actually change my point, which is that if you want to build a distributed system that cannot be shut down, you have to be willing to collaborate with distributed system that cannot be shut down enjoyers.

New comment by Vegemeister in "Pro bettors disguising themselves as gambling addicts"

Vegemeister — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 02:00:42 +0000

Keeping the average citizen away is a dramatic improvement. The pre-legalized-gambling era is in living memory, and we know what it was like.

New comment by Vegemeister in "Ryujinx (Nintendo Switch emulator) has been removed from GitHub"

Vegemeister — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 00:43:24 +0000

If you meme yourself into getting the ick around libertarians, you cripple your ability to defend liberty. Imagine that.

New comment by Vegemeister in "CPU Throttling for containerized Go applications explained"

Vegemeister — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 19:24:55 +0000

>For example, your average CPU might look fine at 50%, but in truth you're using 200% for 500ms followed by 0% for 500ms, and when CPU is scarce your latency unexpectedly doubles.

That is exactly the behavior that cgroups' cpu.max has, except it'd have to be 50 ms instead of 500 with the default period.

The problem with cpu.max is that people want a "50%" CPU limit to make the kernel force-idle your threads in the same timeslice size you'd get with something else competing for the other 50% of the CPU, but that is not actually what cpu.max does. Perhaps that is what it should do, but unfortunately, the `echo $maxruntime_ns $period_ns >cpu.max` thing is UAPI. Although, I don't know if anyone would complain if one day the kernel started interpreting that as a rational fraction and ignoring the absolute values of the numbers.

This makes me really want to write a program that RDTSCs in a loop into an array, and then autocorr(diff()) the result. That'd probably expose all kinds of interesting things about scheduler timeslices, frequency scaling, and TSC granularity.

New comment by Vegemeister in "Varlink – IPC to replace D-Bus gradually in systemd"

Vegemeister — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 01:16:20 +0000

>reverse-domain name

Why do people keep replicating this terrible design decision? It puts the lowest-entropy part of the name at the beginning, so that you have to parse (or type) the maximum number of characters before you get a unique specification. Try tab-completing a "flatpak run" command sometime.

New comment by Vegemeister in "CPU Throttling for containerized Go applications explained"

Vegemeister — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 00:45:46 +0000

I think it kind of has to do with kubernetes, in that kubernetes embeds assumptions in its design and UI about the existence of a kernel capability which is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the cpu.max cgroup knob, and then tries to use cpu.max anyway. Leaving CPUs idle when threads are runnable is not normally a desirable thing for a scheduler to do, CPU usage is not measured in "number of cores", and a concurrency limit is about the least-energy-efficient way to pretend you have a slower chip than you really do.

There is a reason these particular users keep stepping on the same rake.

cpu.uclamp.max is a little closer to the mental model k8s is teaching people, but it violates the usage=n_cores model too, and most servers are using the performance governor anyway.

New comment by Vegemeister in "Ventilation Made Easy"

Vegemeister — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:18:42 +0000

Clown if you want, but he's absolutely right. There is exactly one sentence in that entire damn thing that comes close to touching on the question of why ventilation is desirable, and it is:

>Pleasant, healthy air to breathe is the most important food for human beings.

New comment by Vegemeister in "What the damaged Svalbard cable looked like"

Vegemeister — Mon, 27 May 2024 02:12:47 +0000

Seeing as "(leaky and scrapped) refrigerators are damaging the upper atmosphere, allowing ionizing UV to reach the ground and cancering the everyone," actually happened and AFAIK is disputed by almost nobody, it's not that implausible. Hormones in milk is more plausible still because hormones are known to do that kind of thing, but the main knock against the refrigerator idea is that we already have fairly strong protections against leaky fridges because of the ozone.

New comment by Vegemeister in "KeePassXC Debian maintainer has removed all network features"

Vegemeister — Sat, 11 May 2024 02:36:37 +0000

I've visited the App Store world, and my experience was that, weighted by how often packages appear in search results, the median is charitably described as "potentially unwanted", and honestly described as malware.

New comment by Vegemeister in "Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)"

Vegemeister — Sat, 11 May 2024 02:12:33 +0000

IIRC the issue is with cultures that leave rice out on the counter at room temperature, because of historical inertia from per-refrigeration times. In that case, it does support life like anything else moist and pH neutral.

But there is no problem if you follow good food safety practices -- everybody puts the lid back on the pot after they've served themselves, and any leftover goes in the fridge within 4 hours of cooking.

New comment by Vegemeister in "Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)"

Vegemeister — Sat, 11 May 2024 01:57:59 +0000

Probably doesn't smell peppery, though, especially if it's pre-ground.

New comment by Vegemeister in "A skeptic's take on beaming power to Earth from space"

Vegemeister — Sat, 11 May 2024 01:46:58 +0000

Only one measly paragraph on the obvious improvement, eliminating the microwaves. Instead, launch independent steerable mirror satellites of the most economically efficient size, and point them at the highest bidder.

No heavy transmitters or PV cells. No new ground-based infrastructure that has to be built before you can do anything useful.

New comment by Vegemeister in "Native encryption added to ZFS on Linux"

Vegemeister — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:27:37 +0000

Is there a way to do file-level encryption without leaking the number of files and their sizes? Because that seems much worse than any known problem with block-level encryption.

New comment by Vegemeister in "The Sorry State of Copy-On-Write File Systems"

Vegemeister — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 04:44:29 +0000

s/tripple/triple/g