Maybe.

Linux won because it worked. Hurd was stuck in research and development hell. They never were able to catch up.

However, Linus’s kernel was more elaborate than GNU Hurd, so it was incorporated.

Quite the opposite.

GNU Hurd was a microkernel, using lots of cutting edge research, and necessitating a lot of additional complexity in userspace. This complexity also made it very difficult to get good performance.

Linux, on the other hand, was just a bog standard Unix monolithic kernel. Once they got a libc working on it, most existing Unix userspace, including the GNU userspace, was easy to port.

Linux won because it was simple, not elaborate.

Zsh

No plugin manager. Zsh has a builtin plugin system (autoload) and ships with most things you want (like Git integration).

My config: http://github.com/cbarrick/dotfiles

Exactly.

My take is that the issue isn’t with tmpfiles.d, but rather the decision to use it for creating home directories.

If caching is properly configured, the cache (Cloudflare) will see thousands of requests, but the VPS should only see one request.

Just put the site behind a cache, like Cloudflare, and set your cache control headers properly?

They mention that they are already using Cloudflare. I’m confused about what is actually causing the load. They don’t mention any technical details, but it does kinda sound like their cache control headers are not set properly. I’m too lazy to check for myself though…

Fair. That was overgeneralizing German bureaucracy to the entire EU.

But I think the point that tech companies in Europe rarely survive still stands.

The EU is terrible at maintaining good tech companies.

Like, they have some really important and innovative consumer protection regulations, but they are really shooting themselves in the foot with this one…

Yeah, but I want both GPU compute and Wayland for my desktop.

Long term, I expect Vulkan to be the replacement to CUDA. ROCm isn’t going anywhere…

We just need fundamental Vulkan libraries to be developed that can replace the CUDA equivalents.

• cuFFT -> vkFFT (this definitely exists)
• cuBLAS -> vkBLAS (is anyone working on this?)
• cuDNN -> vkDNN (this definitely doesn’t exist)

At that point, adding Vulkan support to XLA (Jax and TensorFlow) or ATen (PyTorch) wouldn’t be that difficult.

Unfortunately, those of us doing scientific compute don’t have a real alternative.

ROCm just isn’t as widely supported as CUDA, and neither is Vulkan for GPGPU use cases.

AMD dropped the ball on GPGPU, and Nvidia is eating their lunch. Linux desktop users be damned.

There’s a Wikipedia article on multiple encryption that talks about this, but the arguments are not that compelling to me.

The main thing is mostly about protecting your data from flawed implementations. Like, AES has not been broken theoretically, but a particular implementation may be broken. By stacking implementations from multiple vendors, you reduce the chance of being exposed by a vulnerability in one of them.

That’s way overkill for most businesses. That’s like nation state level paranoia.

No, you don’t split the file. You split the master decryption key.

Each user just needs to remember their own password, and SSS can reconstruct the master key when enough users enter their passwords.

multiple people to agree on decrypting a file

For that, you would use Shamir’s Secret Sharing algorithm rather than multiple encryption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir's_secret_sharing

AES has been accelerated on all Intel CPUs since Broadwell, was common as far back as Sandy Bridge, and has been available since Westmere.

AMD has had AES acceleration since Bulldozer.

But the commenter is right that adding a second layer of encryption is useless in everything except very specific circumstances.

Does Hyperland support scrolling tiling?

That seems to be the new hotness in tiling WMs.

(Also, you can change the default editor visudo uses, but I don’t remember the command because I won’t be changing it until I get a grip on vim and can make a decision about which editor I want to use.)

It just uses your preferred editor, which you set with the EDITOR environment variable. In fact, any program that opens an editor should use this to determine the user’s preference.

I set mine to VS Code:

export EDITOR="code -nw"

Examples of programs that use this variable include visudo, crontab -e, and git commit.

After two years of development and some deliberation, AMD decided that there is no business case for running CUDA applications on AMD GPUs. One of the terms of my contract with AMD was that if AMD did not find it fit for further development, I could release it. Which brings us to today.

From https://github.com/vosen/ZLUDA?tab=readme-ov-file#faq

Yeah, if you’re not up to the challenge of maintaining your own system, Arch isn’t for you.

Nothing. They’re mostly the same thing.

The Ubuntu version will sometimes print “ads” to your terminal :P.

For a prod server, I’d choose Debian over Ubuntu if I didn’t have paid support, because I’m not a fan of Canonical. If I needed paid support, I’d choose Ubuntu, because Debian is strictly a community distro. (That community happens to include major companies, like Google.)