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clan··on FreeBSD 14.0 Delivering Great Performance Uplift
Memory serves you wrong. No performance impact running inside the jail as it is basically just a jail id managed by the kernel.

I have no qualms with neither Linux nor CGroups. Great technology in itself. No reason to spread FUD.

clan··on Gut epithelial barrier damage caused by dishwasher detergents and rinse aids
Rare pork is most certainly a thing! You are missing out.

The scare of pork is the risk of trichinella. To such such a degree that some speculate that is why Muslims have codified it as haram.

Trichinella is practically non-existant in domestic pigs in EU due to regulation/industry.

In the US you should take more care. You should however remember that cooking food safely is not a magic temperature but a function of temperature and time. The threshold for pork is then 63C because mostly everything unwanted is dead at that temperature.

But if you keep it at a lower temperature but for a longer time you will have the same effect. An easy way to do this is using "sous vide". Simply put a water bath at a constant temperature. This has the advantage that if you vacuum your meat it can go into the water straight from the freezer without defrosting first. I usually add one hour to the sous vide time to allow for defrosting time.

So I usually sous vide pork chops (from the neck) at 54C for some hours and then pan sear to finish the crust. With quality pork I honestly find this superior to a regular bovine steak!

See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichinella https://douglasbaldwin.com/sous-vide.html#Safety

clan··on Sony announces a9 III: first full-frame global shutter camera
Agreed. Worth mentioning as well: flash sync speed. As you are not dealing with a shutter or progressive capture this will be a thing of the past.
clan··on Why don’t Americans eat mutton?
While I do agree that mutton requires more hardy recipes I strongly disagree about the subtle esthetics of western cusine as such.

If that was the case we would all crave goat. A young goat is very tender and delicate.

It can probably be found but I have personally never seen it in a shop. I only tried it because a family member keeps them as pets.

Another case could be made for the horse. It used to be a working animal and we would happily eat it. But today it is very hard to come by even though it is really tasty. And many would today look at you as if you suggested eating a dog. And let us not even go there :-)

clan··on Why don’t Americans eat mutton?
With all the comments and complicated insights I am surprised that no-one has mentioned the simple:

- price - availability - ease

Around here the price order is pork, chicken, beef, lamb, venison. Actual mutton and goat are hard to come by.

The lamb in the supermarket is usually frozen from NZ. It is easy to find locally sourced lamb at the butchers but at even higher cost.

Nothing really beats a crown roast of lamb but many/most would consider a cheaper ribeye first. Habits, picky eaters, non-adventurous, lack of exposure etc.

I love pork but would not use it for a curry. It is much better braised. But many curries works very well with chicken or beef.

So even though we eat much more internationally the local market segmentation still has an origin.

clan··on Poland may seek extradition of Ukrainian Nazi WW2 veteran Hunka from Canada
I do not subscribe to the idea the regular german army was entirely clean. And all war is dirty!

Furthermore you are absolutely correct that Soviet rule was not something you'd wish for.

Waffen SS was however a truly heinous organisation. If you consider it common to join the SS I would state that it also paints a rather extreme picture of those persons.

I think it is very dangerous to apologise for SS "just because they killed Soviets".

clan··on Mechanisms of scent-tracking in humans (2006)
Does not seem unlikely. It is already known to expand the range of smells we can detect.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_cycle

clan··on Are cooking videos making us better cooks?
We all have our own journey. But one of the biggest improvements in enjoying to cook was to learn not to clean up after. It was a revelation to me and the big enabler which moved cooking from a chore to something I appreciate.

Do not clean up after - clean during!

Maybe annoying at first but it quickly turn into a habit

There is plenty of time (as a home cook!) during prep to clean the knives, bowls boards etc. What will seem like a huge mountain if left to linger will be a breeze when you learn to keep your station clean. And you never see this very simple fact of life in most videos.

I really used to optimize how few bowls etc. I would use as I hated the dishes afterwards. But quickly cleaning a bowl after use only take seconds and I no longer dread reaching for another if it ease my process.

This usually only leaves a pan and maybe a pot to clean when done eating. Not too bad even though I do them by hand as I am particular with what goes into the dishwasher

That. And doing mis en place rather than running head first into it. Absolute key lessons for me.

Sparks joy ;-)

EDIT: And if you stack things in the sink we cannot be friends. Sorry. Stack them elsewhere and keep them low.

clan··on Facebook must pay $100.000 to Norway each day for violating our right to privacy
Your imagination is lacking:

"Norway's 'oil fund' earns 131 billion euros in first half of 2023"

https://www.thelocal.no/20230816/norways-oil-fund-earns-131-...

clan··on Interesting Facts about Bell Labs and 2001: A Space Odyssey (2001)
We went with the Lenovo Smart screen and used Google Duo. It worked really great. I would have preferred some dedicated buttons but we were able to get our 90 year old great grandmother to use it. Alas this was backed by Google and they no longer think Duo is fun.

It seems that everyone want to be on the video conference market but no-one wants to cater to simple point-to-point calling.

I really hoped the SIP standard would rule the world by now. But that did not happen either.

clan··on 4-Die Chess
It seems like they play until you have a winner. With only kings left (with normal chess rules) you would have a remis (draw). Kings are simply not allowed to move into a threatened position.

Edit: No it does not make much sense. Re-read the rules. I'll be the old grump who prefers the old vanilla boring rules.

clan··on Webcams aren't good enough
Seen a lot of "meh" videos. But Julie Schiro has made a few actually good videos

https://m.youtube.com/c/JulieSchiro/videos

Personally I just wish that people would invest in a cheap $20 or so lavalier microphone.

clan··on Duck Chess
BEWARE: I was tempted to do an impulse buy. Luckily I read the reviews first - they are not favourable. Seems abandoned and buggy.
clan··on Librem 5: First Impressions
While I do agree a maps app is very important indeed I find this statement completely bonkers:

> Being able to call and send SMS is secondary.

This is the basic definition of a mobile phone for me [1]. We can all have our opinions on what the "killer app" is. And some may rather want a pocket sized computer. The old grumpy man in me wants to shout "Get off my lawn" - please do not redefine what a "phone" is. How much we all may hate telcos they at least have ensured world wide communications. I accept the fact that many today are willing to trade that away to each their own favourite corporate garden be it Whatsapp, Telegram, Facetime et. al. However it does not a phone make. Sweet sweet E.164 [2].

It might be an unfair interpretation but as I read it calls should even be secondary to games!

So in my mind you argue the focus should be on a tablet [3].

You might be wishing for another device class which is fair. But this kind of redefinition I find troublesome.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_computer

clan··on Impacts of lack of sleep
I am not a "yoga type" so I was completely unaware of Neti pots. By chance my doctor told me about a "Rhino horn" which is available at the local pharmacies around here. It is the same thing.

https://www.yogaprosess.com/usa/

(I am not affiliated - any odd neti pot will do!)

You mix salt and lukewarm water. It gives instant relief. Even if you are not fully obstructed it relaxes the nose. When fully obstructed just have a little patience and it will rinse through.

I think Yoga practitioners use it as part of their daily morning routine. But I am too lazy and only use it when I have a cold or allergies (been around cats and horses).

It was a really weird thing to use the first couple of times. But the relief is so worth it.

This is a total game changer for a CPAP user. If you nose is clear when you go to sleep the pressure from CPAP it often enough to keep the nostrils free.

clan··on Commodore 900: Unix-like workstation/server that was eclipsed by Amiga (2020)
We have got one of those as well for those interested in more details.

https://datamuseum.dk/wiki/Commodore/CBM900

The boot-roms of the CBM900 has been reverse-engineered in the PyReveng3 project: https://github.com/bsdphk/PyReveng3/tree/master/examples/CBM...

clan··on Show HN: Clone your voice and speak a foreign language
Setec Astronomy
clan··on Sorry, we replaced that old technology, “see-through glass”
They sure do not make them like they used to!

The obligatory Technology Connections link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y

clan··on Multiple local news stations say the same thing verbatim [video]
There is a recent Last Week Tonight covering sponsored content on local news stations which is worth a watch as well.

https://youtu.be/sIi_QS1tdFM

clan··on FCC finally starts tackling America's robocall scourge
Around here I mostly get calls from "Microsoft Support". I tell them I need to get to my computer and put the phone down on the table. They are surprisingly patient. When they get desperate to talk with me I'll spout a little giberish which keeps them connected a little longer.

It does not take much effort keeping them busy. It works for me as it is not a problem to block the line for 5 - 10 minutes.

If I am bored I engage with the call. But that spiel is getting old.

clan··on Securing a Postgres Database
If the jumpserver is trusted and controlled by you then you should have a look at ssh agent forwarding. Then you avoid leaving keys on the jumphost.
clan··on Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
I think you are correct. But then you risk data as you would with the unclean shutdown. I much prefer to have a known clean state which all things considered should be a safer bet. Just like some are OK running without fsync.
clan··on Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building
Not saying that you should never do a full mysql dump. Nor that you should not ensure that you can import a full dump.

But when you already use ZFS you can do a very speedy full backup with:

    mysql << EOF
        FLUSH TABLES WITH READ LOCK;
        system zfs snapshot data/db@snapname
        UNLOCK TABLES;
    EOF
Transfer the snapshot off-site (and test!). Either as a simple filecopy (the snapshot ensured a consistent database) or a little more advanced with zfs send/receive. This is much quicker and more painless than mysql dump. Especially with sizeable databases.
clan··on Cloudflare Pages open beta
Bunny has just that. They just call it edge storage and you can use it as origin.

https://bunny.net/edge-storage/

clan··on FreedomBox: Run your digital services from your home
Seems to be hugged to death

    Get "http://localhost:36169/": dial tcp 127.0.0.1:36169: connect: connection refused
clan··on Chromium cleans up its act and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60B
The is a news story which "reports" on a blog entry. At least they linked the source:

https://blog.apnic.net/2021/02/04/how-chromium-reduces-root-...

clan··on Show HN: Dumbdown – A dumb alternative to Markdown
Ahem. English keywords is a feature...

While I like the abstraction of using English when programming I would like to keep it out of my text.

Yes. You could translate. But...

clan··on Zoom improvements requested by music schools
Congratulations. The teacher must be really happy.

My better half teaches online as well. Your setup goes the extra mile and leaves all other setups in the dust. Most parents cannot be bothered to make sure a basic setup is working.

For music education even a $5 lav mic would be a huge help.

clan··on The Platform Is the Enemy
They do not. It has taken me a long time to learn and accept. And I still struggle with it.

Many people have very different priorities and choose not to care. I am then often asked for advice for places to go and items to buy. Why? Because I do spend the time and effort it takes to go "beyond the stars".

For years I could not wrap my head around people who did not do that. I have learned (still learning) not to call them stupid, lazy or weak. They simply have different priorities.

Priorities. That is what I have chosen to call it. And I am still struggling with it... :-)

clan··on Why can’t you buy a good webcam?
This cannot be overstated. While I agree with many of the camera recommendations in this thread the most important factor is enough light.

Even the worst webcams go from absolutely trash to something usable if you add better lighting to you subject.

And when people start thinking over lighting you can move away from your window so you do not have that as a powerful backlight. Look out the window and the webcam will have much better results.

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