The big added value of Lenovo is that you can often be delivered the next day.

Lenovo are quite good at the moment.

What I think I discovered after years of internet searching for it, is that it is related to the cpu sleep state that are available.

Before, when going to sleep, the cpu was really going to sleep. Kind of shutting the power off. In that state, the laptop would not wake up for random events at random times. But nowadays, the only cpu state that is offered by the cpu for sleep mode is one where the cpu is still running, but in very low power/activity mode. Like "simulating" the sleep. But so, from the motherboard point of view, the cpu is up and running.

And so, because of that, you could easily have random events that wake up the laptop when it is closed and then it will start to do nothing but heat up as closed and probably in a bag. Fan might spin, without an effect as in a confined space, but so the battery exhausting very fast. Until the laptop run out of battery.

For event I think that it might be something like a fake touch event on the touchpad because of movement of the laptop, screen touching when compressed or things like that; a little bit higher temperature sensor reading because of high outside temperature, or indeed a device driver that is not completely off like a wifi card that will trigger events.

Where it was the most confusing is that for the half a decade old laptop, it has both mode but recently linux distributions started to favor the cpu "fake sleep" as sleep mode by default instead of the "real sleep" that was used previously. Switching the config to "real sleep" appears to solve the problem but new laptops doesn't have this mode available anymore.

French authorities and network operator will in fact prefer that you don't have alternative than using the dns servers that they are providing.

So it sucks that Quad9 is closing their resolver to french IPs. If they stand by their values, they should continue to accept the requests, just leave all office and business ties with France.

Similar to ofcom things against 4chan.

Just so you have a clear image of what is going on, you have pseudo student demonstrating asking for better infrastructure that are burning down their schools. Even brand new support modern schools...

Especially finding the solution that is based on using a random number generator.

It's like people seeing proof that the future was written in Harry Potter books by reading the first letter of the top of the page of a weird set of pages.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50119894

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Look at the recent news that Anthropic will ban users that insult their models. How can it make any logic sense?

But it could easily become "punishable by law" also:

- Abusing (non sexually) a fictitious person that is a LLM.

- Insulting a LLM in a chat box, based on a fact that it speaks and appear to behave like a human. The LLM can pretend and simulate that it is offended if you forget that it is just bytes behind.

And in the end, how to consider the following case:

- You have a government call center for a public service, you are aggressive and insult the agent -> it is potentially a legal crime

- Now the agent of this public service that you are talking to is in fact an AI, clearly stated as so, an you insult it very aggressively. -> No human being is hurt so should it be an legal offense?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063676

Honestly it is probably not bad for Mozilla to start such a business, but I have the feeling that it is not in the spirit of "open source"/"freedom for users" Mozilla that we used to have before an Uber exec became in charge.

Now it is like any other startup, and it is possible that in a few years you have features that you will only find in the "entreprise" edition, and that the entreprise edition is distributed in binary only because of "security reason" to protect "entreprise" features.

What is funny is that everyone forgot, but at some point in time, there was the CCK for Netscape and then Mozilla Firefox, allowing to create a standalone installation of the browser that was customized to your preferences as a company or organisation or anything. Your choice of default settings, search engine, background color, plugins, ...

https://wiki.mozilla.org/CCK

And people were worried the same as what we can expect today that it might give tools to companies to "restrict" their users: https://lwn.net/Articles/182904/

So you might have to wait for 10s or more to have a new lambda instance spawning up and replying to your requests. And you might have to have your function finish in 15 minutes, deals with the strange concurrency and scaling rules lambda is based on.

   He explained that the rate of issues being opened was accelerating, and if it kept up the project would face a large number of unresolved open issues. ""We're currently at 3,000 [open issues]. This is already too much to have a handle on. So I don't know. This is not great"."

And you can easily guess that these 3k issues are just the tip of the iceberg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffi_Krikorian

Raffi Krikorian (Armenian: Րաֆֆի Գրիգորեան; born July 1978) is an Armenian-American technology executive, and the CTO of Mozilla.[1] He was the CTO of Emerson Collective.[2], CTO of the Democratic National Committee,[3] Head of Uber's Advanced Technologies Center,[4][5][6][7] and the former VP of Platform Engineering at Twitter where he was in charge of infrastructure for all of Twitter[8] up to August 2014.[9] He is credited with leading the charge to improve the reliability of Twitter [10][11] as well as the move from Ruby to the JVM.[12] He currently also serves on the board of directors of the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies in Yerevan, Armenia and of Medic Mobile Inc. (Medic).

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But they said: it is ok now, because you can get a certificate for free with let's encrypt. So suppose, you have a local device not connected to internet or your own private network server/services, with 3 month validity, it was short but you were able to generate the certificate in some way, manually, and deploy it manually also.

You could also easily manual renew and deploy the certificates.

Now, with a very short period, especially the 7 days that is their end goal, your devices needs to be constantly connected to internet, constantly receiving "things" from LE that are automatically downloaded and "installed". And it becomes impossible, to manually manage the certificate renewal, so you are force to let automatic scripts/agent do that work. And most probably also let the script/agent auto-update itself because of "breaking changes" like it happened with certbot.

And all of that being, with a short lifetime, you are now constantly at will of Let's Encrypt, and in the end the US state and government where all of this is located. You depend of the https for a lot of things, now at the US gov will you can be cut off, eventually be monitored or be targeted, in a very short timeframe of "days" instead of months.

You can also more easily have your certificates impersonated in a hard to catch way as certificates will be constantly renewed.

And even in a non evil plot, if anything happens to let's encrypt, down time or anything, you could have your service broken with dead certificate in a so short time that you would not even have the time to look for a solution. Today you have at least months to figure out.

Now that they have a dominant position they do Google style and Google influenced move.

You are at their will fit whatever retarded dictatorial decision they want.