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> full name, email and location in order to manage your hardware and software, yet systemd has had optional fields for those for years and nobody complained.

maybe we should complain


Why, it's fine to have these values in a corporate environment: name, work email, office location. I'd be fine with an ability to store the birth date, the blood type, the zodiac sign, actually an arbitrary list of key-value pairs, as long as it's optional.

It's only a problem when the OS insists on recording your private information to let you access your private account.


It is an optional field, and so far there is no software that asks for this information, let alone insists on it.

which is the logical next legislative step

You described Ukainian Sky Sentinel, a $150K AI-driven M2 turret.

Fundraising started in mid 2025 https://u24.gov.ua/news/sky-sentinel-fundraiser-completed-33...

Started scoring first hits last week https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWgw8h8DJId/ https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/ukraine-private-air-defen...


That's awesome!

US can just keep bombing Iran into nineteenth century. The very least this will accomplish is no more ballistic missiles for Iran and its affiliated terrorist organizations around the region.

I seriously doubt that it will accomplish that.

I think Iran getting nukes will probably be the best outcome on balance. It should be a damper on Israeli willy nilly belligerence which is the chief source of issues in that region. Iran hasn't nuked anyone and didn't even particularly wanted to build nukes that hard. Israel is the only country in that region wil illegal nukes so if anyone is an existential threat who must be bombed it should be Israel. But really, rather noboby bomb anyone and to this end Iran getting nukes and perhaps some Arab countries building nukes in response should calm them down.

Iran getting nukes is the worst outcome, it will mean full impunity Hezbollah and Houthis. think this

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

but backed by nuclear power. Look at the weapons listed in that table, where do you think a cave dwelling terrorist in Yemen gets its hands on a cruise missile, or anti-ship ballistic missile. Its not like they make those in house. It was all Iran.


>Houthi forces began attacking shipping vessels affiliated with Israel passing through the Red Sea on 19 November 2023.

It says but then of course says later on they started attacking more, I am not sure I can take these unreliable persons on face value on the fact that only ships reaching Israel were being targeted. But if that's true I have no problems, I am not Israeli and if they aren't bothering anyone else that will only serve to cool down Israeli warmongering and indiscriminate violence further.

I absolutely do not like any party in this but Israel seems the most misbehaving of the lot. With parties I hate, the best possible outcome is to keep them at razors edge of each others capabilities and busy with each other. In that light, currently I hope Iran bolsters itself and obtains nukes. I doubt it'd increase their belligerence much, rather the more important outcome is that it makes Israel think a bit more before starting brazen invasions of Iran, and should hopefully quickly lead to the gulf countries developing their own nukes causing a balancing of powers. The gulfs weird subservience to Israel would no longer be as much of a geopolitical necessity for them effectively making warmaking quite tough for Israel and silencing most of the violence in the region.


Cyrix was physically incapable of pipelining FPU instructions. Without Pentium Quake would have had to wait two more years for commodification of CPUs delivering similar floating point performance.

https://thandor.net/benchmark/33

Quake needed March 1994 Pentium 90-100 to deliver ~smooth 25fps. Cyrix released similarly performing 6x86MX PR200 in May 1997, AMD K5-PR166 January 1997. Quake was unfeasible till ~1998 at the earliest to be able to sell playable game.


256MB was pretty much bare minimum to run contemporary software on a PC in 2004.

"Feb 2001 128MB DIMM was $59. Aug 2001 256MB module was $49. Feb 2002 256MB $34. April 2003 hit bottom with $39 512MB DIMMs"


Retail SDR SDRAM prices from that time period.

"128MB DIMM: May 1997 $300. July 1998 $150. July 1999 $99. September 1999 Jiji earthquake happens. September-December 1999 $300. May 2000 $89.

Then overproduction combined with dot-com boom liquidations started flooding the market and Feb 2001 $59, by Aug 2001 _256MB_ module was $49. Feb 2002 256MB $34. Finally April 2003 hit the absolute bottom with $39 _512MB_ DIMMs"

Ram was expensive and unpredictable so no wonder eMachines didnt include that in the offer. By 2001 you could upgrade ram on the cheap yourself which many attempted https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/memory-for-an-e-machine...


$99 never obsolete offer was very clever considering they probably had access to longer Intel roadmap. Starting with 1998 Intel was releasing Celerons with cheapest one always around $100. Even the earliest "never obsolete" systems could be upgraded to 766 MHz Cpu, with later 810 up to $103 1100 MHz.

Now add money they were making on those mandatory dialup subscriptions and you got a money printer.


>claims minister was in touch with Moscow

Its about Hungarys Foreign Minister, of course he was in touch with moscow duh. He visited moscow 16 times since invasion of Ukraine. The whole thing is not about "being in touch", its about Péter Szijjártó being an agent of moscow.


During P4 Intel kept their footing with bribes. Article touches on this

"Some companies, notably Dell, remained Intel-only well into the 21st century,"

Dell was receiving $1Billion a year in bribes from Intel https://247wallst.com/consumer-electronics/2007/02/02/michea...

"The documents filed in District Court claim that there were $1 billion in kickbacks and payments."

That was the only way to make big boys plunge into Pentium 4 with Rambus fiasco.


Quake DX2 framerate is 5-7 depending on rest of the setup.

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