> I can't empathize with the complaint that we've "lost something" at all.

you won't feel you've lost something if you've never had it.

sorry.

The mmap/msync one is incorrect I believe? (Correct me if I am wrong).

msync() sync content in memory back to _disk_. But multiple processes mapping the same file always see the same content (barring memory consistency, caching, etc.) already. Unless the file is mapped with MAP_PRIVATE.

Yeah I agree that one isn't very clear, perhaps the idea is to use `msync()` as a barrier to achieve consistent ordering of the writes without having to handle that yourself with more complex primitives. But then, they do mention some of those primitives at the bottom of the article, so it's hard to say what exactly the idea is.

mmap/msync is behavior is also very platform specific. On some systems (like AIX, at least older versions), even without msync, memory mapped data is synced back to disk periodically.

I worked on a code base that was portable between Linux, AIX, and some other Unix flavors. mmap/msync was a source of bugs. Just imagine your system running for days, never syncing any data to disk... then someone pulls the plug. Where'd my data go? Even worse, it happened "in production" at a beta site. Fortunately we had a way to recover data from a log.

looks like we have it. in the end it's pretty mundane...

There are plenty of other PDF's with Base64 encoded attachments.

Which begs the question why was it censored?

They censored Dont in one location. The current Thought process is they were redacting mentions of Don T.

Mighty be they censored all pages mentioning keywords, this one says "Breast" ... perhaps they censored all sexual content?

At the risk of repeating myself. Which begs the question why?

To protect the people in power, as always.

what is insane is that everyone just accepts it, knows that this happens, and dont go lynch the ones in charge immediately.

There was a time when the guy making the cannon had to sit on top of it for the first shot. Perhaps this kind of policy could be adapted to other situations aswell.

Take the job to guard epstein? take the consequences when things go wrong.

Protect criminals? take the very real consequences if found out

> what is insane is that everyone just accepts it, knows that this happens, and dont go lynch the ones in charge immediately.

For a while, my pet conspiracy theory was that this was Epstein's real cause of death: a lynching by a prison guard made to look like suicide.

I never took it too seriously, because no actual evidence; now I'm more inclined to think it was a coconspirator hoping it would mean no more evidence getting out.

Epstein being murdered is the one conspiracy that I personally still think may be possible/probable.

All it takes is a single actor paying off some guards to ‘fall asleep’, a camera to be disabled, and a 15 minute window of opportunity. It’s much more probable than something like the US Government planning 9/11 and somehow keeping thousands of co-conspirators silent.

I don’t really spend a whole lot of time thinking about it since as you said, we’ll never know for sure. It just seems at least probable if he actually did have kompromat on powerful people.

Did you see this? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-files-jail-cell-death-v...

The noose they found in his cell was not the thing that strangled him. If he wasn't murdered then they faked his death.

Likely because the named list is a bunch of Trump appointees and mega donors and they're illegally trying to spare them the embarrassment.

Distraction.

> won't cause a sense that peripheral vision is fuzzy

it won't because your eyes literally doesn't have enough sensors in those regions to see it.

better luck with your next job :)

If you want to learn the system from scratch, the best way will be writing your own little init system from scratch, so you can understand how the boot sequence works. And as you make use of more and more of the advanced features of Linux, your init system will get more and more complex, and will start to resemble systemd.

If you only learn about sysvinit and stop there, you are missing large parts of how a modern Linux distro boots and manages services.

> and will start to resemble systemd

That's the point on which people differ. Even if we take as given that rc/svinit/runit/etc is not good enough (and I don't think that's been established), there are lots of directions you can go from there, with systemd just one of them.

sure is nice to be paid for staying out of the way.

i think i am an expertise on not getting into other people's business. can someone pay me?

nothing stopping them from developing on Linux workstations, cross-compiling to Windows, and testing with Wine/Proton. saves them Windows license fees too.

The incentives are not there, as it is, they work as usual, and Valve is the one that has to make it work.

there will be incentives once windows becomes shit enough.

Nah, regular people buy what is on shopping mall computer stores, they don't go online ordering from Tuxedo.

They are more likely to move to PlayStation and Switch than SteamDeck, the amount of sales already show that.

They don't need to beat valve. The contribution made by valve is going to benefit GOG too. That's the power of open source.