It looks like the setting is max_parallel_downloads
in /etc/dnf/dnf.conf
. Here's a post on how to increase it - so do the opposite, and set it to 1.
hallettj
There's a relevant episode if you don't mind DS9 spoilers:
DS9 spoilers
The DS9 episodes Homefront and Paradise Lost feature another conspiracy that looks to me to be similar in scale and position to the Pegasus conspiracy. Those episodes are very explicit about the separation of Starfleet and Federation leadership.
I don't think the Pegasus plan involves all levels of Federation leadership. I think it's a conspiracy that, although it does include at least one of the highest-ranking Starfleet officers, doesn't go all the way to the top. From the transcript:
PRESSMAN: It's not just me, Will. The Chief of Starfleet Security has personally given me her assurance of complete support.
RIKER: Admiral Raner? How many other people know about this?
PRESSMAN: Not many, and it's up to us to make sure it stays that way. Raner has given me written orders for you.
Pressman says that a small number of people are involved. He doesn't mention the Federation president or any Federation officials outside of Starfleet (remember that Starfleet is the military-ish arm of the Federation, it's not the whole organization.) He only mentions one Starfleet officer.
Pressman emphasizes that it's important to keep the secret from getting out. Of course that's partly because he doesn't want the Romulans finding out. But I think it's mainly that the conspirators don't want to be held to account for unauthorized actions.
Later in the episode Pressman tells Picard, "the Chief of Starfleet Intelligence herself is watching this one". I think it's possible that Chief of Security and Chief of Intelligence are titles used interchangeably for the same office. Or it could be a second officer involved in the conspiracy.
There's also this conversation:
PICARD: You know, it wasn't easy to get this record. I had to pull in quite a few favours at Starfleet just to get a look at it. It seems that it was classified by Starfleet Intelligence.
[...]
PICARD: The Judge Advocate also believes that the surviving officers are deliberately withholding vital information from this inquiry. Further investigation is recommended. Will, there was no further investigation. This report was classified and then it was quietly buried. Why?
RIKER: Sir, may I suggest you take this up with Admiral
PICARD: I'm taking this up with you, Will! The Judge Advocate thought you were participating in a conspiracy to cover up the truth. Now, what the hell is going on here, Will?
The judge advocate on the case is not in on the secret. That doesn't mean it doesn't go higher, but the conversation does imply that whoever was involved had limited authority to, say, prevent that inquiry in the first place, or to instruct the judge advocate to avoid sensitive topics.
Someone did have the authority to classify and bury the report. Maybe that's something the Chief of Intelligence could do unilaterally.
Note that Picard is confident that with the secret exposed the project will be shut down. If it had been authorized at all levels you might expect it to continue, but out in the open.
Now Section 31, that does seem to be institutionalized so that's a different story.
Oh... oh dear!
Linux on ARM is getting better all the time!
I sometimes tell my kids about things I was taught, and survival habits I picked up in the "dad qualification program". I based the idea of the program on a brief description of air force officer survival training in the book The Hatchet, and a generous dose of imagination. The kids have never questioned it.
Good point! We should only use date formats that are allowed by both standards! https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/
Don't say "acronym" when you mean "abbreviation"!
"Acronym" specifically refers to an initialism that forms a new word. For example,
- scuba (self-contained underwater breathing apparatus)
- NASA (pronounced like a word - you don't say "ehn eh ess eh").
It's acro- (height) -nym (word) - a word that exists on top of / above other words.
In contrast "NIH" is not an acronym because it isn't pronounced or read as a word. It's appropriate to say, "'NIH' is an abbreviation" or "'NIH' is an initialism". But saying "'NIH' is an acronym" is wrong!
The images probably don't have to look meaningful as long as it is difficult to distinguish them from real images using a fast, statistical test. Nepenthes uses Markov chains to generate nonsense text that statistically resembles real content, which is a lot cheaper than LLM generation. Maybe Markov chains would also work to generate images? A chain could generate each pixel by based on the previous pixel, or based on neighbors, or some such thing.
Yes, I meant miles, but I forgot about the abbreviation collision
I raised my kids using metric temperature for weather. Now that they're older they hold me to it!
There's also the death slugs in The Expanse