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What is this? Risk?
What dice is trump using?!

No idea.
New chip foundries take a while to come online, iron out process kinks, and get up to a decent level of reliable supply. Chip manufacturing is extremely precise and fiddly.

In 5 years? A lot more available & cheaper.

In the next year? Unlikely, unless the CXMT get really lucky. I think they have been making RAM for a while, but DDR5 (what people want) is the cutting edge.

I think it's more likely there will be a collapse of AI (not a full collapse, but certainly a recalibration of expectation & forecasts) which will lead to an easing in demand

I was listening to a podcast that repeatedly stated that bird is the word.

In the first paragraph:

The images leaked by wxnod show a Corsair Vengeance DDR5 module featuring ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) DRAM chips.

So, consumer suppliers for ram are sourcing Chinese made memory chips, instead of those made in Taiwan (because all the reputable manufacturers of the ram chips have their total manufacturing bought up by AI)

If a discharge pipe is traced back to a company - and it is discharging unsafe levels or typically unexpected chemicals - then it should be on that company to get their waste water into a manageable condition.

Just because a municipal/council/whatever has above average water processing, doesn't mean companies get a free pass to abuse it

Yes but the problem is that people keep submitting the same bug again and again and again. Some bugs exist because they haven't been spotted, but there's a heckton of bugs that are known about, but no-one has been able to put forward a fix for them yet. Overloading people with duplicate reports just means that they have less time and brainspace available to spend on fixing bugs.

Duplicates don't add anything to the conversation

Yeh, I realise now I misinterpreted an article I read

Ah, ok. I must've misinterpreted an article I was reading then. Thanks for the clarification!

Pretty sure they wrote the AGPL licence

Edit:

They didn't

I'll add that it works on a system of delegation.
So there are authoritative servers (which own a part of a domain) which can then have actual records or delegate to other authoritative servers.

So the authoritative server for "com" (yes, as in .com, com is technically a valid domain name) will delegate google.com to a DNS server (likely one owned by Google). And then Google will have DNS records for mail.google.com and so on.

So looking up mail.google.com, technically you ask com DNS for the mail.google.com. It won't have an actual record, but will essentially say "go talk to this DNS server to get google.com records". So your computer asks this new DNS server for mail.google.com and it might have an answer, or it might have delegated the mail.google.com somewhere else.

What your computer most likely is using, however, is a recursive DNS service. You ask it for mail.google.com and it will "walk the tree" to finally return the IP address.
And then it will cache the results (for com google.com and mail.google.com) so the next queries are significantly faster.

Client -> Reverse Proxy -> Upstream Server

It's quite rare these days for a client (eg web browser, video game, phone app... anything that needs an internet connection, really) to directly connect to the server that is actually serving the request.

It often goes through a reverse proxy which can direct the request to the "best" server (reverse proxies can have multiple upstream servers, either as a cluster that can share the load all dealing with the same service, as a bunch of different services, or both).

This has a lot of benefits for service admins (at the cost of mild complexity), and has near-zero cost for clients.

Plasma 7 is being renamed Desktop For Plasma365 2027 edition.
Everything is electron apps. Native apps are ran as web assembly inside an electron app.
There will be no UI, only a shitty AI chatbox that is always suggesting results from askjeeves (and takes 5 seconds before it suggests anything from your local machine).
Oh, and it's a monthly licence now.
And it's actually just a laggy local UI of the actual desktop that is ran in the cloud on a container with 512mb ram and 1 CPU.

Oh wait, this isn't microslop.
Good things on Linux (generally) stay the same or get better, not different so "line goes up".
I think I'm still getting over the windows PTSD