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Surely you are being sarcastic?

Funny you mention this. With cable, I used to be able to skip ads with my PVR (MythTV). And that's entirely my right to do so, nobody can strip it from me. My TV, my rules.

Same thing with the web. My computer, my rules.

But google of course is unhappy about it, and will try to frustrate as many users as it can until they can push their "web integrity" crap down users' throats.

But... your point doesn't contradict the author's ?

So, electronic payments are of course more convenient... but they do indeed force us to go faster. They speed up transactions, reduce queues, and eliminate the need for cash.

I'm happy I can buy stuff online, but that in turns also makes me consume more.

You're speaking of some of cash issues... but have you thought about impacts on the the homeless of a 100% cashless society?

Indeed, the paper says:

> Assuming ideal capacitive scaling[33] down to state-of-the-art feature sizes, the switching performance would be faster than DRAM, although testing on smaller feature size devices is required to confirm this.

So, they have no idea of its performance. Yet.

Indeed, but it's somewhat of a hassle. Having everything integrated on the board, or in the same case, is nicer.

Also the wiz bulbs have one feature that most others don't have: they get their last state back after a power outage. If there's one thing you don't want, it's a full bright room after a brownout in the middle of the night!

> They’re some of the most peace loving people on planet earth

Sorry, but the burden of proof is on you. Please provide a study, or serious statistics proving your point.

False equivalency fallacy.

You are assuming an extreme position that nobody expressed.

That's the problem with generalization:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sikh_terrorism

Yes, cellular modems with RJ11 phone ports do exist. From memory, the ZTE MF275 and the MF288 were such units (both are discontinued, though). You could receive phone calls through it.

Technically speaking, it is an "ATA", but you can't control the FXS port, as it's directly linked to the number associated with the SIM card.

Another solution would be using a cellular router in conjunction with a "normal" manageable ATA, which lets you configure the FXS port with a remote SIP account.

I think you can even find some stuff on ebay/aliexpress that combines both functionalities, but I never tried them (and would be worried of lack of support or firmware updates).

I have been hosting it locally for a couple of months now.

Stuff I like:

  - The mobile app is quite friendly
  - It supports "automatic upload" (after opening the app)
  - It supports deleting pictures from the device after uploading (to save space... much needed on the wife's old iphone)
  - The pictures are stored hierarchically on the filesystem
  - Very lightweight (the whole docker setup uses less than 128MB of RAM)

Stuff I'm not a fan of:

  - The web interface is "okay". It could use some modernizing.
  - When there's no more space on the device, the app fails to upload new pictures, but gives no error message.

All in all, Piwigo is a solid 7.5/10 for me, but I'm watching and testing some other active software such as https://immich.app/

From the docs [0], there's an option called enableYearPagination that probably does what you want:

"Adds additional buttons to jump through years."

[0] https://www.tremor.so/docs/components/daterangepicker

"Writes to the WAL are purely sequential and writes to long-term storage are purely sequential."

Is that simply a typo or am I missing something? Shouldn't it be mostly random for long-term storage?

"Legal" characters is a fun topic.

I realized at some point that there is a discrepancy between what's allowed on the file system, and "Windows" itself (or, more exactly, the programs running on Windows and using its APIs to communicate with said file system.

In this case, NTFS, totally allows for "illegal" characters such as < > : " | ? * etc... pretty much everything except / and \, and \0, I think.

This makes for funny situations, where sometimes Windows programs cannot deal with that. At best, they can't read, write or rename them... at worse they'll crash, which is always fun.

That's a broad generalization. Sure, reduce, re-use, recycle.

But... it's nice to have a system that has a very minimal footprint, which isn't exactly the case with a laptop.

Then again, we can argue semantics over "need" vs "want".

Indeed. I don't understand how that worked. You need to create a "phone key" in the app to unlock / use the car. You do that by swiping your card key once. Those keys can't be used in different cars unless something very fishy is going on.

Judging from the new ad, it seems the owl has now embraced its dark side to the fullest...

Ha! See, my experience is a bit different.

Most times, it acknowledges its error, and sometimes it successfully corrects it. That is, IF I give it specific enough information (ex: "why do you treat this variable as a string, it's a number?", or "don't you need to unpack the json first?").

Other times, it fixes something, but breaks something else in the process, and no matter of coercing makes it go to where I want.

But, yeah, the "confidently wrong" aspect needs to be kept in check. I tend to treat it as any other source of information... with a grain of salt.

What's neat with code is that you can prove the "truthiness" of its affirmations pretty quickly.

Very good point. As per Job snijder's own words [0], "the sshd binary becomes unique on every openbsd machine". So checksum-checking systems will indeed trip everytime.

[0]: https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=167388832715992&w=2

I spent a good chunk of my money back then buying the monthly issues, drooling over them. Unfortunatelly, it seems not many archivists have kept the 1990s editions... or didn't care to share them to the public, at least. I would have liked to get a copy in some kind of digital format.

That's not exactly true. From my understanding, what happened is that the maintainer for this project went on vacation in April 2022, and didn't reply to messages from the kernel team. [0]

But we can indeed see plenty of work being done by devs. [1]

So, I don't know what to think, I haven't kept with more specific stuff, but is the work done not being merged since? I couldn't tell without serious grepping.

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/ntfs3/da20d32b-5185-f40b-48b8-298692...

[1]: https://github.com/Paragon-Software-Group/linux-ntfs3/commit...

ahhhh, yes, thank you!

Amazing indeed!

I'd also wish for a pentium pro article on the same vibe. Many people don't realize that it paved the way to even the current "core" series! In some ways, like the DX50, it was even better than its successors, although it was plagued by issues.

Oh yeah, tomb raider was fun, but vquake was the bomb.

Although, eventually, when the miniGL port was released, it was clear that the V2x00s were sub-par, even with 24 bit support and hardware z-buffer. Eventually the voodoo2 just put the nail in the coffin. But for a time, little geek me had fun pushing the hardware limits, even though I knew nothing of thermal management at the time.

Indeed, I remember some DOS games having some... stutters? For lack of a better term. But at that point I was hooked on 3D and Windows 9x, so it didn't matter too too much.

Heck yeah, I went from a C64 to a 386SX (which youngin me eventually broke by trying to upgrade memory), to a 486DX2/66 which allowed me to FINALLY play doom.

Then followed a Cyrix 5x86 100GP in somewhere around 1996, which was a bit of an upgrade, since I could not afford Pentiums just yet with my own money. In 1997, I bought a Diamond Stealth II S220 as an alternative to a Voodoo, for the same "poverty" reasons. You have to know my parents were ... very much against computers.

As we started to get access to the internet in high school, I learned about overclocking, and oh my! was my system the best candidate for it! I could push the CPU to 120Mhz without additional cooling! The graphics cards, which bore a rendition verite v2100 chip, could also be overclocked quite heavily, but since the chips where bare, without any form of cooling, it became too hot, so I had to "MacGyver" my way around the problem.

I also have very fond memories of the socket 3 era... for me it started with the classics from id software, to Warcraft 2, Duke3D, LAN matches, Carmageddon, Quake, etc.. and all the early mods such as paintball, skin modding, what fun!

Yes there is! [0]

[0]: https://framablog.org/2022/12/13/peertube-v5-le-resultat-de-...

Still. Imagine the following scenario: your son's machine is compromised because of said exploits. It's in the same network as your other systems. The attacker can now sniff all traffic, attack other systems. Do you have good network segmentation in place?

... that is, until you connect to a malicious server that can exploit a local vulnerability. then you're screwed.

Who only uses their machine explicitely for gaming?

> Atlas aims to be secure as possible without losing performance. We do this by disabling features that can leak information or be exploited. There are exceptions to this such as Spectre, and Meltdown. These mitigations are disabled to improve performance. If a security mitigation measure decreases performance, it will be disabled.

haha, gave me a good laugh. thanks, but no thanks.

Yes, see for instance:

https://github.com/malcolmseyd/natpunch-go