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New comment by paulv in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

paulv — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:22:26 +0000

Jurors?

New comment by paulv in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

paulv — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:38:21 +0000

I'm saying that words have meanings and that it's important to be clear about what they are.

New comment by paulv in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

paulv — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:10:39 +0000

> that a majority voted for

A majority of people who voted. Not a majority of eligible voters and certainly not a majority.

New comment by paulv in "What Killed Perl?"

paulv — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 15:48:22 +0000

I was a happy perl user for a long time, probably until sometime in the early 2010s. I am a sysadmin and perl was a great tool for what I needed to do.

Jim Weirich was a heavy perl user for a long time, and we were both involved in the Cincinnati perl mongers group. He found ruby and fell in love. He thought Ruby would be a good fit for me and we had a long conversation about why he preferred it to perl. It took me a few years, but I eventually took his advice. As usual, Jim was right, and I haven't written any perl since then.

tl;dr: for me, ruby killed perl.

New comment by paulv in "Nearly half of drivers killed in (Ohio County) crashes had THC in their blood"

paulv — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 19:05:42 +0000

> No Effect from Legalization: The rate of drivers who tested positive for THC did not change significantly before or after legalization (42.1% vs. 45.2%), indicating that legal status did not influence the behavior of those who chose to drive after use.

Ohio recently passed a marijuana decriminalization bill.

New comment by paulv in "FCC bars providers for non-compliance with robocall protections"

paulv — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:51:55 +0000

Did you get the data in the db from telcodata.us?

New comment by paulv in "What to expect from Debian/Trixie"

paulv — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:19:19 +0000

> Ask me how I know.

What problems did you have that made you want to roll back the update?

New comment by paulv in "What to expect from Debian/Trixie"

paulv — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:18:39 +0000

The default configuration for tmpfs is to "only" use 50% of physical ram, which still isn't great, but it's something.

New comment by paulv in "Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration"

paulv — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:22:37 +0000

My experience as a long time Linux user (since 1997, so admittedly stuck with some bad habits from when things were actually hard to get working) has been that things are kind of confusing if you deviate from the golden path, but if you are on the golden path you won't ever notice that it is turned on.

The laptops I have gotten from eg Dell with Linux pre installed have just worked. Machines I have upgraded through many versions of Ubuntu (lts versions of 16-24) were weirdly broken for a while when I first turned secure boot on while I figured it out, but that seemed reasonable for such a pathological case. Machines I have installed Debian on in the last few years have been fine, except for some problems when I was booting from a software raid array, but that is because I was using 2 identical drives and I kept getting them confused in the UEFI boot configuration.

I have not used them on machines with nvidia, vbox, or other out-of kernel-tree modules though.

New comment by paulv in "Omnimax"

paulv — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 07:06:38 +0000

Wow, I thought for sure they would have retired it by now. I remember having a birthday party there when I was a kid (90 or 91?) and thinking that it was the coolest thing ever. It made up for them not moving the planetarium from their old location when they moved the museum to Union Terminal, which I (at 9) recall making me really sad.

New comment by paulv in "Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem"

paulv — Mon, 05 May 2025 14:37:45 +0000

We use them for a few dozen domains. DNS only, though, and they are all set to auto-renew.

I basically only have to interact with them when we need to make DNS changes. The web UI seems fine, especially in the advanced view, but our biggest zones are managed through opentofu, so I can see how changing a large zone would be frustrating.

New comment by paulv in "My imaginary children aren't using your streaming service"

paulv — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:38:14 +0000

Sometimes you can be having a great day and bam, some small reminder of something you lost can send you in to tears.

Grief isn't linear.

Update to Linux kernel could cut energy use in data centres by up to 30%

paulv — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 18:41:03 +0000

Article URL: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/news/cheriton-school-computer-science-researchers-update-linux

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42806681

Points: 9

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New comment by paulv in "The Origins of Wokeness"

paulv — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:28:36 +0000

Why'd you leave the most notable one out of your list?

New comment by paulv in "Hacker plants false memories in ChatGPT to steal user data in perpetuity"

paulv — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 02:00:27 +0000

Is this not the same as the halting problem (genuinely asking)?

New comment by paulv in "Docker Desktop Alternative"

paulv — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 23:17:22 +0000

Back in ~2002 this was the case with cron. Found out the hard way when all the backup tapes we desperately needed were completely empty.

New comment by paulv in "Cloudflare misidentifies Hetzner IPs as being located in Iran"

paulv — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 21:21:25 +0000

Does this kind of thing affect Hetzner IPs in their US datacenters?

New comment by paulv in "Our Git Hash Bug"

paulv — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 15:49:33 +0000

The trailing comma thing gets me nearly every time I edit a json config file.

I don't think json supports comments, which makes it a non-starter for a lot of folks.

New comment by paulv in "Howm: Personal Wiki for Emacs"

paulv — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 02:58:38 +0000

I think the web interface for the gollum wiki (which used to power GitHub wikis, but I think they have diverged) supports org mode files.

https://github.com/gollum/gollum

New comment by paulv in "Slack AI Training with Customer Data"

paulv — Fri, 17 May 2024 03:32:23 +0000

It seems like we've entered an era where not only are you paying for software with money, you're also paying for software with your data, privacy implications be damned. I would love to see people picking f/oss instead.