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I have been using Nvidia on Linux for years and am able to run 95%+ of my library on Steam.


That’s awesome! But not everyone’s library is the same, so YMMV. I regularly see problems with flight sims that are Nvidia-specific, for example.


It has been my experience that this is currently the case. I haven't had to even open protondb or search for a workaround in over a year. The only titles I know that don't work are a handful of multiplayer games that have intentionally disabled linux support.


You can download the entire dataset using curl (will be 40+ GB)

    curl -s --retry 10 --retry-all-errors --remote-name-all --parallel --parallel-max 150 "https://api.pwnedpasswords.com/range/{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F}"


It's not that I couldn't have written that oneliner, it's that I assumed you'd get blocked very quickly.


It is officially recommended by the Troy Hunt: https://github.com/HaveIBeenPwned/PwnedPasswordsDownloader/i...


That speaks to a certain confidence in one's servers ability to hold up under load, doesn't it?

"Oh you want your own copy? Sure, just thrash seven shades of shit out of the database. Here's how."


It's not a database, it's just files. And they are hosted by Cloudflare so they can cope with a lot of downloads.

I think he should make the files smaller my removing the second half of the hashes, i.e. reduce it from 40 hex digits to 20. This increases the change of a false positive (i.e. I enter my password, it says it was compromised but it wasn't, it just has the same hash as one that did) from 1 in 10^48 to 1 in 10^24 (per password), but that's still a huge number. (There's less than 10^10 people in the world, they only have a few passwords each). This will approximately halve the download, maybe more because the first half of each hash is more compressible (when sorted) the second half is totally random.


> It's not a database, it's just files. And they are hosted by Cloudflare so they can cope with a lot of downloads.

Database: a usually large collection of data organized especially for rapid search and retrieval (as by a computer) [1]

It is a database. Stop nitpicking.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/database


Confidence in Cloudflare, for sure.


That's crazy, thank you.


You are being purposefully obtuse here. HIBP is a very, very well established site with a long history of operating in good faith.


> > It's not that I couldn't have written that oneliner, it's that I assumed you'd get blocked very quickly.

> junon https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=junon

> You are being purposefully obtuse here. HIBP is a very, very well established site with a long history of operating in good faith.

Allowing people to query and someone downloading the entire dataset is normally considered abuse, so being blocked is the expectation here. You're so dense you're bending light around you.


They integrated Pocket as a proprietary service in their open source product 2 years before Mozilla acquired it. Removing the integration required editing about:config. The complaints were mostly during that time.


> Does a faster moving black hole cause more or less damage to a target?

When a black hole accretes matter, the matter can create tremendous radiation before it crosses the event horizon due to the atoms experiencing many effects such as rapid nuclear fusion and becoming new forms of matter such as neutronium. The precise amount of energy released depends on spin, charge, and size of the black hole, and the speed at which the matter approaches the black hole.

If a tiny black hole (Let's say 10cm across) ripped through the earth at significant speed it would be like the center of the planet momentarily became the center of a star and (hand waving a bunch of assumptions) the total energy could easily be greater than the gravitational binding energy of the planet. The planet would explode.


The black hole in the paper is also ~7 solar masses. If that passed between the Earth and the Moon it would rip apart the earth from just the tidal forces.


Well, if present anywhere in the solar system it would also completely fuck our orbits all to hell too eh?


the chance of that is negligible.


Automatic updates? Node.js? Why would one want to use this over the tried-and-tested Network UPS Tools that already ships with most Linux distributions?


I have to admit I had a good chuckle at involving anything node.js in something as basic and bare metal infrastructure as "I need my UPS to talk to my hypervisors"

Next I'm sure we'll have something even more absurd like using an OpenAI API call to submit UPS voltage data every 60 seconds and ask an LLM for estimated run time remaining.

Also: If your software install method is trying to normalize and tell people "Yeah it's totally cool and fine" to curl something into sudo bash, please re-think what you're doing. Build it as a package for Debian and a few other distros through a generally accepted method and submit it for review, so that people can have some tiny level of confidence that this isn't just sudo'ing somebody's rootkit.


Well, you can read the source at least. Or tell AI to take a look.

In the end you always trust someone. At least bash and TypeScript is understood by enough people to judge it.


A lockfile with 10k lines of deps and bundling a whole-ass Node.js runtime is truly bonkers for a system utility like this. The JavaScript ecosystem exhausts me.


This only installs 3 modules in total. net-snmp and 2 sub dependencies. It provides its own node.js bin directly from the node website so nupst knows exactly what it is working with.

Anyways, you don’t have to use it.


Have you used these tools? Your main option is NUT, and it's not a great product. It crashes, it can't tolerate one of the UPSes being down, etc.

For my homelab, I ended up connecting my UPS via a USB cable to a Synology NAS and adding automation to shut down the rest of the servers to it.


I hadn’t realized this about NUT. I just started using it as part of TrueNAS’ built-in UPS monitoring support and haven’t had any issues thus far, but this gives me pause.

I buy that there is room for an alternative tool regardless of how crashy NUT is, but the technology choices for this are a huge turn-off IMO.


I'd just stick the server into a docker container, and firewall it from the public Internet. NodeJS is not something that I'd use for these kinds of tools, but it's not inherently bad.


Then use some rust file where you trust that the compiled file matches the source.


> Synology NAS

That's still NUT, just an older version with limited configurability through the DSM UI.


Goes to show you how awful NUT is that someone took the time to engineer this


NUT is really hard to configure and crashes constantly the second anything goes wrong. I've never really had it successfully shut down my 3 servers.

Would love something better.


;) You still have to tell it to update.


They do block side loading of audiobooks. You can only play audiobooks from Audible on Amazon Kindles.


Silly question, but why would you ever buy a kindle (or a kobo) for an audible book?


That ACF security update was not made available on WordPress.org due to ACF maintainers being blocked from accessing WordPress.org, according to WordPress.org's blog https://wordpress.org/news/2024/09/wp-engine-banned/


The edge of the Mandelbrot set expands out to infinity and yet the area within the edge is finite. Who is to say that the universe isn't a hologram on a higher-dimensional Mandelbrot set-like object?


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