The trick will be in getting a charge to last long enough that it doesn’t need more frequent pit stops.

That would indeed be quite a trick. The batteries would need to get more energy-dense by more than an order of magnitude compared to the best that are available today. EVs are great for commuting and transportation where vehicle weight isn’t as important and you’re not constantly trying to go as fast as possible, but they’re a very long way from being competitive in that type of racing.

That’ll depend on how it happens I guess. They could completely rewrite the rules of NASCAR to nerf the petrol-based competition, invent a totally new way of storing electrical energy, or completely rewrite the rules of physics.

Weird headline. Whatever you think of their arguments, the interesting part is not that they were so bold as to describe the latest plan for mass surveillance as “mass surveillance.”

Huh, weird. The only thing I can think of is to check /etc/security/limits.d to see if there’s another conf file in there setting it to 4096.

Are you sure you really need 1048576 open files? It seems like a lot. But you’ll probably want to set “soft” as well as “hard” limits. Then you need to log in again for the change to take effect.

I wonder how Cloudflare estimates the increased rate of false positives they’re getting after they made their bot detector even more oversensitive in recent weeks. It no longer likes my default javascript-enabled browser profile and I don’t always bother to load another one when I get cloudflared, so >50% of visits from me are “bots”.

I was assuming that most scenarios where you’re asked to spot the worm farmer are bogus.

You can probably get to 99.9% accuracy by just saying “none of those guys run a worm farm” every time.

I just checked, and it is apparently called “Default”.

I was surprised as well. I found the instructions at debian.org somewhat confusing, and I’m not sure if they’re completely comprehensive or accurate — but they were the most useful reference I found and provide a good idea of what it’s like.

Coincidentally, today I removed systemd from my laptop (Debian Trixie.) It was reasonably easy. I booted from a USB drive into a shell through debian’s “rescue” mode and typed plausible-looking apt commands until it worked. For some reason it didn’t create /etc/inittab and I made a typo when I tried to do it myself, but other than that no problems. Differences noticed so far that a normal user would care about: none. If nothing goes wrong I guess I’ll do the same on my desktop at home this weekend, because why not.

Nothing against systemd, but I think it’s valuable to continue having other options and it was fun to see that it’s still pretty easy to use them (maybe harder if you’re a GNOME user, idk.)

Inequality is bad for quality.

Personally identifying information here, but I don’t mind telling you all that my exact time of birth was 1970-01-01-00:00:00.000000.

Most likely they are pointing out that you lack a certain subtlety of understanding and have made a mistake.

Based on everything I learned about history from watching Blackadder, probably not.

I have some doubts about the Russian minister’s understanding of the tenets of Satanism.

the government doesn’t want to put limits on tech companies, that’s so fucking backwards.

/s ?

Mild surprise at the suggestion that “evidence” or “science” has anything to do with it.

Technically they might not even need to become carnivores to learn the habit of chasing people down and punching them to death to defend their territory.

Imagine how malevolent the next generation of AI will be, when it’s trained on today’s Internet text.