Debian patching 32-bit builds to handle dates beyond 2038

https://distrowatch.com/dwres-mobile.php?resource=showheadline&story=17121

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TCB13@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 2y (13 replies)

Great news, my Sheevaplug can now cross 2038.

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

Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 2y (10 replies)

What's a sheevaplug?

SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y (8 replies)
ikidd@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y (2 replies)

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

SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

The thought crossed my mind to do that the actual device seemed more interesting.

duncesplayed@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 2y

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

JustUseMint@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Dude that's badass haha

TCB13@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)
JustUseMint@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Thanks for sharing, there fucking awesome. Even more turned off from pi than I was before haha

TCB13@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

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.

thejml@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y

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?!

TCB13@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 2y

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 · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Wow I forgot about those. Always wanted one but too expensive for me at the time.

TCB13@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

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. :(

socialpankakemix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 2y (2 replies)

good thing they have 14 years to work on it

ludrol@bookwormstory.social · 37 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Only 9 if they want to include it in LTS release

laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 2y

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

init@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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

possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip · 41 pts · 2y

Yes, that's why we are patching

Bene7rddso@feddit.de · 7 pts · 2y

This mistake was made in the 70s when time was added to UNIX (or maybe already with Multics, idk)

BlanK0@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y

The data lost that occurred due to the lack of differentiation between year 1900 and 2000 on calendar systems of the older computers?

Adanisi@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 2y
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maness300@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Does anyone know when the new date limit will be?

Perhyte@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 2y (3 replies)

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 · 6 pts · 2y

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 · 1 pts · 2y

I think all stars in the galaxy will be dead by then.

maness300@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y

Holy shit.