I don’t think that’s what’s happening. There’s no hard requirement for cat to read everything straight into memory. It can send data once it’s available, and the receiving process can read it as fast as it wants. There are cases where this might be more clear: Let’s say you have a big video file that you want to convert to something that only supports like y4m input and is not in ffmpeg. A common way is something like ffmpeg -i infile -f yuv4mpegpipe - | encoder --y4m outfile - I’m pretty sure ffmpeg won’t read the whole infile into memory, nor will it store the whole y4m representation in memory. Instead, it will decode infile as necessary and push into the pipe at the speed the encoder can handle.

But yeah, I remember something about tar using libraries for compression being more efficient that piping its output to a compressor. So it’s still the better route, but probably not as much better as you think.

Then those containers or virtual machines should add this or create the home as needed.

systemd has its own containers, so this is the implementation of that requirement; “virtual machines” might use this exact binary to create home, among other directories like srv and what not. Someone at one point probably said “we always need to create these when spinning up systems, maybe systems can provide a mechanism to do that for us?” and then it was implemented.

Having/home listed as a tmp file on regular systems is problematic by the nature of what tmpfiles claims it does.

systemd-tmpfiles claims the following:

systemd-tmpfiles creates, deletes, and cleans up files and directories, using the configuration file format and location specified in tmpfiles.d(5). Historically, it was designed to manage volatile and temporary files, as the name suggests, but it provides generic file management functionality and can be used to manage any kind of files.

I rather think having a purge command was the issue here, at the very least it should print a big fat warning at what it does, better even list all affected files and directories. There’s no reason a normal user needs this and with the name of the binary, it’s totally misleading, which is an issue in these situations.

E.g. for quick provisioning of containers or virtual machines, this is also to make sure the required directories always exist. In a normal distribution, /home already exists, so systemd-tmpfiles does nothing, but there are cases where you want to setup a standard directory structure and this is a declarative alternative to scripts with a lot of mkdir, chmod and chown.

The name systemd-tmpfiles is kind of historic at this point, but wasn’t changed due to backwards compatibility and all.

In which store are you looking for it? Willy sells it down at the beach in his cabin

Stimmt, ich war irgendwie gedanklich falsch.

Du wirfst hier allerdings zwei Dinge durcheinander denke ich. Auf Deutschland stolz sein ist ja nicht ganz das selbe wie stolz, Deutscher zu sein. Ersteres kann die Folge von letzterem sein, das meinen sie meisten damit aber nicht.

Alright, not that I wrote or implied that anywhere… In fact Java was probably the whole reason Oracle bought Sun to gain leverage over Android. Which fits very much into what I wrote - one company innovates, another one buys them to squeeze users (Google wasn’t a customer of Sun, they used their own implementation which wasn’t exactly Java but also not exactly anything else). Just that Sun by all means wasn’t a small company, I mean they controlled almost a full stack with their own processors (SPARC), workstations and servers (Blade was somewhat famous), an operating system with Solaris (and if you want to count it even JavaOS) and Java on top of those, and they contributed a lot of technology like NFS, ZFS (license discussions aside). On the other hand, when they bought someone, the product wasn’t just milked to death, but actually integrated into their stack and continued to be developed in the open.

Shame it turned out that way, I guess Sun was a bit overleveraged with how much they did vs. how much they made from it. And to think that Oracle paid less than a fifth than what Twitter sold for later for all of that technology to go to waste, just for a chance to sue Google… But we long as suits continue to license their stuff because they have cool advertisements at airports, this will keep going.

Oracle was never really innovative on a technical level , it’s first and foremost a company focused on selling licenses, and they’re really innovative in that regard but if you fall for that as a company, I have no pity, this is their whole schtick.

Big companies in general are often rather conservative in nature while innovation happens on smaller scale and later expands.

The big problem is rather that a lot of innovation has been absorbed by the big companies via buyouts, especially when money was cheap to borrow. Innovation bears risk, buying an established solution and milking existing users much less so.

I don’t think the users are without blame. A lot of people ignore the red flags when a solution is just convenient enough (we need the commercial support / this exactly covers our use case so we don’t have to hire someone to adapt it / …) and the vendor then cashes out when moving away from his solution would be really expensive.

I think there’s still a lot of innovation lately, but a lot people are just looking for the next big thing that does everything it feels like.

That’s reflected in the linked article:

First, we know the reason a bike will continue on its path isn’t just because of the force of momentum pushing it there. We know that because if you lock a bicycle’s handlebars so that they can’t turn, then the bike falls over, regardless of how fast it’s moving. So part of this riderless bike phenomenon has to do with its self-steering properties.

I found it especially funny that his initials are the same as Mike Tyson’s.

The guy is an absolute gaming legend. Just figuring out so much about a single game on your own and then optimizing it to such a degree with all the randomness involved. Truly obsessed

Allerdings ist die Frage, ob diese Polder was geändert hätten und ob sie schon einsatzbereit gewesen wären.

Ist es das wirklich? “Handeln damals hätte ja vielleicht eh nix gebracht” ist ein sehr schwaches Argument. Wäre der damalige Grund gewesen, dass die Lösungen bis zum Eintreffen einer Katastrophe nicht fertig seien, hätte man die Leute längst evakuieren müssen und wenn sie nicht ausreichend gewesen wären, andere Lösungen vorschlagen. Sich jetzt die Frage zu stellen ist etwas spät, die verantwortlichen Parteien sitzen seit Jahren dort auf den Posten und reden erst das Problem weg und verhindern dann mögliche “Lösungen” (die aber eigentlich auch nur die Auswirkungen abschwächen). Wenn einer besoffen in ein anderes Auto fährt stellt sich ja auch nicht die Frage ob das nüchtern nicht sowieso auch passiert wäre.

Nice info.

If you want know more about a completely different aspect of Punch-Out!, watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBR9ypSOTGQ

So in the non US game version, Soda Popinski is named Vodka Dunkenski.

I thought this was an issue with revisions, I still he was also called Vodka in the early US version.

I mean even Mike Tyson got renamed to Mr Dream later…

Isn’t he called “Don Flamenco”? Haha

What are you using right now?

What else did you have in mind? Firing squad? I don’t think this is a “slap on the wrist”, the guy got rightfully fucked. Slap on the wrist I’d consider something like 6 months probation, fine, relocation to a position where you don’t deal with secrets and timed ban from promotion or a demotion.

As said, he’ll only be retroactively be insured by his rather low gross, and only the employer share, not employee. So yeah his social security will be pretty much Grundsicherung. Which is much less than what he would have had if he didn’t fuck up, which was my original point

There is a hidden “fine” for him though as he’s removed from service (rightfully so) and as such he goes from comfy pension with 70% of his last pay to retroactive normal employment for which he never put any money aside because he was calculating with that state pension. And since for soldiers the gross is quite small compared to what others make with the same net his social security will cover for very little later. The prison time isn’t his actual biggest problem.

That said he fully deserves it, I served in a very similar position (also Captain in the very same procurement agency in Koblenz) and you 100% know that this is an absolute no go. Absolutely inexcusable, and the only thing that saved him was that the information he passed on weren’t state level secrets. Traitor scum but the damage has been done and all you can do now is make sure these things don’t happen in the future

Ein Unternehmenssprecher erklärte nach der Verkündung, dass man das Urteil respektiere, aber die in Rede stehende Verpackung schon seit zwei Jahren nicht mehr in dieser Form vertreibe.

Was ja nicht heißt, dass man nicht eine ähnlich problematische Verpackung liebend gerne verwendet hätte, wäre das Urteil anders ausgegangen. “Die in Rede stehende Verpackung” wird bei denen wahrscheinlich jedes Jahr neu designt Hier wird von Unternehmensseite so getan, als ginge es nur um genau dieses Muster. Es liest sich aber eher so, als sei hier eine Praxis untersagt worden.

Is docker even declarative?

Also you can build docker images from nix derivations