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@BlanK0@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago

Debian patching 32-bit builds to handle dates beyond 2038

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Debian patching 32-bit builds to handle dates beyond 2038

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@BlanK0@lemmy.ml to Linux@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago
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  • @socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    good thing they have 14 years to work on it

    • @ludrol@bookwormstory.social
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      40•1 year ago

      Only 9 if they want to include it in LTS release

      • Laurel Raven
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        Just 4 if they want to help Ubuntu prevent it in their LTS releases

  • @TCB13@lemmy.world
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    Great news, my Sheevaplug can now cross 2038.

    What’s a Sheevaplug? https://lemmy.world/comment/7295421

    • Sibbo
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      What’s a sheevaplug?

      • @SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
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        This is a sheevaplug apparently.

        • @ikidd@lemmy.world
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          21•1 year ago

          I was fairly certain I was going to see an IoT buttplug there…

          • @SinningStromgald@lemmy.world
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            The thought crossed my mind to do that the actual device seemed more interesting.

          • @duncesplayed@lemmy.one
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            2•1 year ago

            The search term is censored by DuckDuckGo in Korea. Even robots apparently think it’s going to be an IoT buttplug.

        • @thejml@lemm.ee
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          7•1 year ago

          As one of the first such computers on the market, the device has a 1.2 GHz Marvell Kirkwood 6281 ARM-compatible CPU, a.k.a. Feroceon.

          Man this Pokémon thing is crazy, how many Eevolutions are there?!

        • @JustUseMint@lemmy.world
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          deleted by creator

          • @TCB13@lemmy.world
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            @JustUseMint@lemmy.world you should read this: https://lemmy.world/comment/7295421

            • @JustUseMint@lemmy.world
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              • @TCB13@lemmy.world
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                Well then you may also like this comment here about the RPi’s lack of hardware innovation and features. And this one about how it is just a product that stays in between two very different markets and doesn’t really serve anyone.

      • @TCB13@lemmy.world
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        The SheevaPlug was the OG Raspberry Pi released years before the Raspberry Pi that nobody cared about because there wasn’t a media hype around it.

        Now the interesting part is: it included an ARM CPU @ 1.2 GHz and it was released in 2009 with dedicated Gigabit ethernet plus another isolated USB chip. Note that the Raspberry Pi was released years later, in 2012, with a 100M ethernet + USB shared chip that was total garbage. They kept selling that garbage until 2019 with the release of the Raspberry Pi 4 that finally came with Gigabit.

        Another interesting fact about the SheevaPlug is that there was a variant with an eSATA port once again totally obliterating the Raspberry Pi 4 and making it the perfect low power system for a NAS at the time.

    • @Menteros@lemm.ee
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      Wow I forgot about those. Always wanted one but too expensive for me at the time.

      • @TCB13@lemmy.world
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        I know the feeling, I also had to pay extra customs taxes because I’m in Europa and it was sold by an US company. :(

  • @init@lemmy.ml
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    Didn’t we learn our lesson 24 years ago with Y2K!?

    EDIT: To be clear, I was being facetious. I remember my parents and father freaking out about this when I was in middle school. I would have thought we got this taken care of permanently already

    • Possibly linux
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      Yes, that’s why we are patching

    • @BlanK0@lemmy.mlOP
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      The data lost that occurred due to the lack of differentiation between year 1900 and 2000 on calendar systems of the older computers?

    • @Bene7rddso@feddit.de
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      This mistake was made in the 70s when time was added to UNIX (or maybe already with Multics, idk)

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    deleted by creator

  • @maness300@lemmy.world
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    Does anyone know when the new date limit will be?

    • Perhyte
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      Assuming they went to signed 64-bit time, it should be about 3:28:32 pm UTC on Sunday, December 4, 292277026596. Yes, that last number is a year.

      • @duncesplayed@lemmy.one
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        6•1 year ago

        That’s Saturday night in North American time zones. Just a heads up in case you’re planning a boys’ night out a couple hundred billion years in advance, maybe move it to Friday night in case the world ends Saturday night.

      • @abbenm@lemmy.ml
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        I think all stars in the galaxy will be dead by then.

      • @maness300@lemmy.world
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        Holy shit.

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