I’m not familiar with FreshRSS, but assuming that there’s something in the protocol that lets a reader push up a “read” bit on an per article basis — this page references a “GReader” API — I’d assume that that’d depend on the client, not the server.

If the client attempts an update and fails and that causes it to not retry again later, then I imagine that it wouldn’t work. If it does retry until it sets the bit, I’d imagine that it does work. The FreshRSS server can’t really be a factor, because it won’t know whether the client has tried to talk to it when it’s off.

EDIT: Some of the clients in the table on the page I linked to say that they “work offline”, so I assume that the developers at least have some level of disconnected operation in mind.

The RSS readers I’ve always used are strictly pull. They don’t set bits on the server, and any “read” flag lives only on the client.

Secondly, is there a benefit to creating an LVM volume with a btrfs filesystem vs just letting btrfs handle it?

Like, btrfs on top of LVM versus btrfs? Well, the latter gives you access to LVM features. If you want to use lvmcache or something, you’d want it on LVM.

You’re reading this comment. I suspect that people read quite a lot of text in electronic format these days.

You might not be reading books, mind…

Back to the topic at hand - doesn’t it seem strange that only CPU4 finds issues in memtest86? It could be a CPU or even motherboard that got damaged and not the DRAM itself, no?

I noticed that, but OP said that he ran the thing in three different systems, so I’m assuming that he’s seen the same problems with multiple CPUs. It may be — I don’t know — that memtest86 doesn’t, at least as he’s running it, necessarily try to hit each byte of memory with each CPU, or at least that the order it does so doesn’t have errors from other CPUs visible.

I also wondered if it might be a 13th or 14th gen Intel CPU, the ones that destroyed themselves over time. But (a) it’s a mobile CPU, and only the desktop CPUs had the problem there, and (b) it’s 11th gen.

The good news is that single-player games tend to age well. Down the line, the bugs are as fixed as they’re gonna be. Any expansions are done. Prices may be lower. Mods may have been created. Wikis may have been created. You have a pretty good picture of what the game looks like in its entirety. While there are rare cases that games are no longer available some reason or break on newer OSes with no way to make them run, that’s rare.

With (non-local) multiplayer games, one has a lot less flexibility, since once the crowd has moved on, it’s moved on.

It looks like it doesn’t support ARM architecture systems at all, or anything other than x86_64.

https://docs.bazzite.gg/Gaming/Hardware_compatibility_for_gaming/

Minimum System Requirements

• Architecture: x86_64

Ah, fair enough. Long shot, but thought I’d at least mention it on the off chance that maybe it would work and maybe you hadn’t yet tried it. Sorry.

tries to think of anything else that could be done

Are you using Linux? Linux has a patch that was added many years back with the ability to map around damaged regions in memory. I mean, if your memory is completely hosed and you can’t even boot the kernel, then that won’t work, but if you can identify specific areas that fail, you can hand that off to the kernel and it can just avoid them. Obviously decreases usable memory by a certain amount, but…shrugs

I’ve never needed to do it myself, but let me go see if I can find some information. Think it was the “badram” feature.

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Okay. You’re running memtest86. It looks like that has the ability to generate the string you need, and you hand that off to GRUB, which hands it off to the kernel.

https://www.memtest86.com/blacklist-ram-badram-badmemorylist.html

MemTest86 Pro (v9 or later) supports automatic generation of BadRAM string patterns from detected errors in the HTML report, that can be used directly in the GRUB2 configuration without needing to manually calculate address/mask values by hand.

To enter the address ranges to blacklist manually, do the following:

Edit /etc/default/grub and add the following line:

GRUB_BADRAM=addr,mask[,addr,mask...]

where the list of addr,mask pairs specify the memory range to block using address bit matching
Eg. GRUB_BADRAM=0x7ddf0000,0xffffc000 shall exclude the memory range 0x7DDF0000-0x7DDF4000
Open and terminal and run the following command

sudo update-grub

Reboot the system

If you can’t even boot the system sufficiently to get update-grub to run, then you might need to do a fancier dance (swap drive to another machine or something), but that’s probably a good first thing to try. I’d try booting to “rescue mode” or whatever if your distro has an option like that in GRUB, something that doesn’t start the graphical environment, as it’ll touch less memory.

EDIT: If your distro doesn’t have something like that “rescue mode” set up — all the distros I’ve used do, but that doesn’t mean that all of them do — or it it can’t even bring “rescue mode” up, because your memory is too hosed for that — then you probably want to do something like hit “edit kernel parameters” in GRUB and boot while adding “init=/bin/bash” to the end of the kernel command line. That’ll start your system up in a mode where virtually nothing is running — no systemd or other init system, no graphics, no virtual consoles, no anything. Bash running on bare metal Linux kernel. Control-C won’t work because your terminal won’t be in cooked mode, everything will be very super-duper minimal…but you should be able to bring up bash. From there, you’ll want to manually bring your root filesystem, which the kernel will have mounted read-only, as it does during boot, up to read-write, with:

# mount / -o remount,rw

Once that’s done, do your editing of the grub config file in vi or whatever, run the update-grub command.

Then run:

# sync

Because you don’t have an init system running and it’s not gonna flush the disk on shutdown and your normal power-down commands aren’t gonna work because you have no init system to talk to.

Go ahead and manually reboot the system by killing its power, and hopefully that’ll let it boot up with badram mapping around your damaged region of memory.

EDIT2: It occurs to me that someone could make a utility that can run entirely in Linux to do memory testing to the extent possible inside Linux using something like memtester instead of memtest86, generate the badram string and then write it out for GRUB. That’s less bulletproof than memtest86 because memtester can’t touch every bit of memory, but it’s also easier for a user to do than the above stuff, and if you additionally added it to the install media for a distro, it’d make it easier to run Linux on broken hardware without a whole lot of technical knowledge. I guess it’d be pretty niche, though — doubt that there are a lot of systems with damaged memory floating around.

EDIT3: Oh, that’s only the commercial version of memtest86 that will auto-generate the string. Well, if you know how to do a bitmask and you can get a list of affected addresses from memtest86, then you can probably just do it manually. If not, post the list of addresses here and someone can probably do a base address and bitmask that covers the addresses in question for you. Stick the memory back into your computer first, though, since the order of the DIMMs is gonna affect the addresses.

Is this a laptop ?

I’m not OP, but an i7-11800H is a mobile processor, so while I’m sure that there are non-laptop PCs out there using laptop CPUs, I’d guess that it’s probably a laptop.

Do they run stably if you downclock the memory in your BIOS? I’d at least try that first if replacing them is going to be a major problem.

A lot of space sci-fi spaceships have basically flown as if they are in an atmosphere, with a more-or-less aerodynamic shape and turning as if there are control surfaces in an atmosphere making them move more-or-less in the direction that the spacecraft is heading.

We do have various flying vehicles that have been described as flying cars. But it’s fair to say that the Back to the Future II-style mass adoption hasn’t happened.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car

It’s not just arbitrarily setting a number. There’s a valuation process of some form. This isn’t a new problem; if, for example, someone destroys something else, you need to have some way to determine the value of the thing that was destroyed.

Eminent domain. As implemented in the US, the government needs to pay for something if it takes it using eminent domain, so it’s not really a mechanism to move wealth around.

You’d normally use it when the value to the public of something is much higher than to the individual. Like, say someone has a piece of property that they don’t want to sell, but it’s blocking an interstate highway that a ton of people need to use. The value of the one piece of property is limited, but blocking the construction of the highway is a big deal; it lets the government say “you don’t get to choose not to sell”. The government still pays for the property.

In general, a lot of services have absurdly tight time requirements on email validation. A lot of users have graymail setups or other things that will delay email, not to mention polling intervals.

I get expiring temporary credentials in email on the general principle of not leaving credentials lying around, but use 24 hours or something, not minutes. There’s minimal added risk, and it avoids a ton of problems.

Stick a hedge made of cypress trees or something else dense and tall there?

It also looks like it’s possible to partially bypass DeviantArt’s mature content filter without getting a DeviantArt account via GreaseMonkey with this userscript:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/540384-bypass-login-on-mature-posts

@pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip

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Based on this, It appears to have been hosted here in 2012.

That’s currently occupied by what appears to be a Swedish domain squatter with random pornographic comic images.

If we plug that into archive.org’s Wayback Machine, it looks like the comic was being hosted on some “Smack Jeeves” webcomic hosting platform. The comic itself is not visible from a quick attempt to load it, but one does get a page warning about it containing an adult webcomic, so I assume that this is the correct thing.

Manually doing a binary search to find the last-known-good date on the Wayback Machine, the last crawl that contained the comic was October 3, 2014. Subsequent crawls give a message that say that the domain is no longer hosted by Smack Jeeves, and one will need to pay to renew.

Tineye has not indexed any similar images to the one you uploaded, so if there are online archives, Tineye probably hasn’t crawled them.

EDIT: It looks like Smack Jeeves shut down in 2020, based on this. That Reddit discussion contained an archive.org link to an archive of old Smack Jeeves content. Pawn appears to be archived here, from which you can download the archived comic as a whole from the download links next to “Show All”.

EDIT2: Based on the text in this image from the above archive, the artist is one “Fredrick K. T. Andersson”. That might be a pen name; some creators of pornographic content work under a pen name.

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According to this 2017 post, DerangedMeowMeow is the same user on DeviantArt, and “Fredrick K. T. Andersson” is, in fact, their real name, sans the initials.

https://www.deviantart.com/derangedmeowmeow/journal/Elfwood-Archives-Grand-Opening-717251720

The DerangedMeowMeow account appears to contain Pawn, as well as some other work. DeviantArt does not appear to let users without an account view pornographic content.

Ah, fair enough.

I’m not familiar with the character, but assuming that this is the original comic — what Tineye turns up — before it was modified:

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/73607f32-e182-49a8-b926-51695e2ee15b.jpeg

I think that it’s another character, since Franklin Richards is Marvel Comics universe, and Terra Markov is DC Comics universe. Also, I can’t find a Terra Markov image with a similar uniform, though I suppose that this could just be a variant for whatever particular work is done here.

EDIT: While Terra Markov does have blue eyes and blonde hair, based on an image search, she also apparently typically has either a pixie cut or long, loose hair, whereas the older character here has a ponytail and the younger pigtails.

That being said, again, I’m not familiar with either Terra Markov or the comic here.