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cf100clunk

6,550 karma · joined January 30, 2017

A look in the mirror confirms I'm a greybeard:

career SunOS, Solaris, HP-UX, Apollo Domain, Linux system administrator, network administrator, instructor, dabbler in BSDs

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cf100clunk··on The large robotic arm on the International Space Station has stopped working
Everyone north of the U.S. border calls it the ''Canadarm'', of course. I hope they get it sorted after it has been operating for more than a decade beyond its longevity spec.
cf100clunk··on I switched to Brave
The LibreWolf browser, and if need be the IronFox browser for Android, should have been installed and analyzed in parallel with Brave by the OP, then I'd accept that a proper analysis was begun.
cf100clunk··on Vast Casino Secrets leak exposes inner workings of offshore gambling firms
''Files could have seismic consequences for online casinos, including those accused of illegally targeting consumers''

Gambling is a mug's game in the first place. Only James Bond ever beats the house. So, on top of that, online casinos are ginning up their addictiveness with AI and other analytical tools.

cf100clunk··on F-Droid 2.0
That page uses the term ''repository''' singular. Can additional repos be added in the way Neo Store allows?
cf100clunk··on Invasions of Canada (1812)
Incorrect title since the link is only about the War of 1812. There were several other invasions of what became Canada, such as 1775, the Fenians, and the Pig War.
cf100clunk··on Nokia Design Archive (2025)
At one of our big Nokia meetings back then, one of the board members, quite elderly, joked enviously that all the imagery in our advertising and internal documentation showed young people ''jumping over things'' while holding a mobile phone. It was a heady time of paradigm shifts from phoning a location's land line in order to reach someone, to actually phoning them directly (call the person, not their location). So much of that imagery was very prescient.
cf100clunk··on Fedora Discussion Raises the Idea of Replacing LibreOffice with Collabora Office
Why ship with an Office suite anyways?
cf100clunk··on Leaving Proton Mail
Tuta?

https://tuta.com

cf100clunk··on UN approves resolution in support of map that shows Africa's true size
From the article: ''United States was the only country to vote against''
cf100clunk··on Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
For F-Droid apps I don't use their app. I use Neo Store with the Guardian and IzzyOnDroid repos.
cf100clunk··on Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users
Have you tried Neo Store for accessing F-Droid and other repositories? In particular, I use the IzzyOnDroid F-Droid and Guardian Project repos.
cf100clunk··on Mourning Steve French
https://www.samba.org/~sfrench/

https://github.com/smfrench

May his memory be a comfort to his family, friends and all users of his work.

cf100clunk··on Built a free Irish sport TV listings site
Announcement on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Dublin/comments/1vq591v/built_a_fre...

cf100clunk··on Air traffic controller saves day when 2 flights with same call number converge
Also described at the Aviation Herald:

https://avherald.com/h?article=53da5ce0

cf100clunk··on Pizza Box Project Stack
Not about my old Sparc 10, I see.
cf100clunk··on Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun
Don't look directly at them.
cf100clunk··on Ban the Throbber
No more relentless hourglass, no more endless toilet flush, no more spinning beach ball. May they all suffer endless guru meditation.
cf100clunk··on Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga
Exactly, that's the main difference, that the electric is convenient but depends upon... mains electricity.
cf100clunk··on Kenji/Serious Eats – 30-Min Pressure Cooker Pho Ga
I hasten to add that an old school manual pressure cooker can be used on natural gas, propane, and electric stoves, any camp stove, or over a fire. With a bit of lye added, it can be used as a world class autoclave for sterilizing metal instruments and utensils with almost any available water that has not been chemically polluted. The caveat is that it must never be left cooking unattended.

I'll be trying this recipe.

cf100clunk··on Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021)
SFU's Burnaby campus was hugely present in the X-Files years shot in Canada. The brutalist architecture of Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey lent itself perfectly to the scifi-noir vibe.
cf100clunk··on Why Vancouver is always a stand-in for San Francisco in movies and TV shows (2021)
I recall a character on an X-Files episode who called himself "Lord Kinbasket". Fun for anyone who knows of Kinbasket Lake in BC.
cf100clunk··on Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle
That point-of-view doesn't soothe anyone alarmed by expansion of warrantless law enforcement surveillance.
cf100clunk··on Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle
The concern is the sharing of such surveillance with law enforcement and other government agencies.
cf100clunk··on Your Kids' School Bus Is About to Become a Roaming Surveillance Vehicle
There are ways to gently inform the person(s) of your discomfort. If communicated well, it can be settled. In one case I dealt with, body odour of someone on my team was causing another person distress, but some gentle, kind advice (yes, it was embarrassing as hell so we did it in private) and a quick trip by him to the shops for some deodorant resolved the problem almost instantly. Here's hoping.
cf100clunk··on [dead]
Ya, but it still uses systemd, and the version is now 7.9.
cf100clunk··on Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs
HEVC is provided by the official, licensed h265 standard. The open source ~HEVC-compliant codec library is x265 created by VideoLAN but was apparently not an option for Microsoft.
cf100clunk··on DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots
> twosopbts.com

I'm not getting DNS NX results.

cf100clunk··on Smokey Yunick's Hot Vapor Engine Was Equally Genius and Horribly Unsafe
I believe his engine was considered to have thermodynamically adiabatic design goals.
cf100clunk··on The Doctor Who Treats Patients with a Gaming Mouse
Perhaps they meant "The" as in "The one and only" Doctor Who Treats Patients With A Gaming Mouse?
cf100clunk··on Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot has died in a plane crash
Similarly, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608732
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