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This is a more interesting one, though; some people might dislike Adobe's practices enough to be okay with an AI reimplementation of their suite.

I just wish I could still buy a 'Creative Suite' one off and keep using it instead of having to subscribe to these apps.

I assume any computer connected to my LAN is also a dedicated attack vector for everything on my LAN in case of compromise.

Exposing any port directly to the Internet is a huge risk these days—at minimum I'd put a very strong firewall in front, and unless it's serving the general public, switch to a non standard port. It's not much but would prevent the dumb automated scripts that operate on standard ports.

A fun little easter egg - I had read it earlier on my iPad, so didn't notice the mouse interaction. I love it, reminds me of acko.net and how each page would have a unique little animated feature to play with.

This is like the perfect clock demo opposite of the classic Bartosz Ciechandowski blog post on mechanical clock movements: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ (I love both, just opposite in the color vs dryness, jank vs precision, "build first, principles later" approach).

But in terms of rearranging the stack vertically; is that a possibility?

I guess I should hold onto the SanDisk USB sticks I bundled up for a 3TB re-test in 2023 then. Didn't realize the packets were so valuable!

So... at what point does someone re-create a 386 or 6501 but using only a motherboard, with no discrete circuits?

A lot of useful studies take weeks, months, or years to do the first time, and require a staff, a grant, etc. at least in medicine, physics, chemistry...

You'd be surprised how rarely (overall) reproduction / verification is attempted. Sadly, a lot of research is taken at face value. That's done quite often with AI/tech stuff these days, and even more so for scientific research. It's a hard problem.

My statement is the same as I put on all my ancient blog posts (for example[1]):

    Warning
    This post is more than 10 years old. I do not delete posts,
    because even old information is still useful, but please
    know that some material on this page may be outdated or
    incorrect. Thanks!

In the past, I've engaged privately with a few of the Reddit users who are linked to elsewhere in this thread[2], and realized they aren't interested in actually talking, only proving they are righteous, and I am evil. There's a saying I've found applies to those one-way relationships: Never wrestle with a pig: You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Therefore I ignore those threads now. I have enough on my plate trying to be a good father and husband (failing often, but a little less each day!), learn more about the world and people around me, and share what I learn with other people in what ways I can.

The main reason I started HomelabFest is to bring the homelab community together, in person. Get people (myself included) away from their monitors and phones, and into real human relationships. No matter who you are or where you come from.

[1] https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2009/my-cvs-workflow-updat...

[2] Note that I don't call out individuals for tarring and feathering in public. A couple times in the past I have used a name in reference to a movement or a poor business decision, and I immediately regretted it. Reducing someone to a label or branding them for one poor decision is a quick way to dehumanize the person. Every person deserves love and dignity.

Or speculation grows and a few hours later it's suddenly historical fact, like a modern version of telephone... just with a more harmful outcome.

Just to be clear, I've never taken a dime from Qualcomm, Apple, Raspberry Pi, etc—when I do take a sponsorship from any company I'm clear about it.

I always mark videos as sponsored if anything was provided (eg review samples) and not purchased. That never includes payments or editorial oversight, and equipment is either returned or shelved afterwards for future comparisons.

The only thing I accept money for is clearly demarcated ad integrations, like for Micro Center or Surfshark. See https://github.com/geerlingguy/youtube#sponsorships for details.

If I wanted to hype views I would not be sinking a few thousand hours into planning an event ;)

Yes—a year is a minimum, from all the people I talked to—and I've already spent about six months prior setting up everything I could pre-announcement. I have a lot of respect for anyone who puts on an event, of any size.

Agenda won't be up until a CFP is over, but there will be 10-20 sessions including a few panels.

Just wanted to post this here, someday it might be cool to have this regionally as well, but Sep 12-14 HomelabFest will be in St. Louis, MO (technically St. Charles, which is closer to the airport). It will include a number of homelab-related content creators, talks, a bunch of cool exhibitors (mix of community and companies in the homelab space)... hopefully a good time for all!

I meant to post this earlier but was a bit overwhelmed with all the inbound email. (Planning an event of this scale is hard, I have empathy for anyone who does it lol.)

Broadcasters also keep logs of their broadcasts for verification purposes. The traffic systems that inject the ads have parameters for how often and what times certain ads are played which are quite deterministic.

One thing I like here is Raspberry Pi still lets engineers have interactions with end users like this (despite them not doing the best PR all the time).

Reading through the EEPROM repo issue[1] makes me a little more sympathetic to the "feature", but I still don't like it at all.

It might help in the short term to stop dodgy resellers who mod the boards with cheap upgraded RAM to make a buck or two...

But the Pi itself is always taking one step forward, one step back in terms of firmware. I've been tinkering with some Qualcomm boards from Radxa and things are slightly better there, though you don't have anywhere near the ecosystem you get with Pi (or onboarding niceties).

[1] https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/761

Every time I login to certain sites (like my health insurance, for one) I get a passkey prompt (system dialog) with no way to keyboard-dismiss, so I'm forced to move my hand over to the mouse and figure out which of three poorly-named buttons to press to get on with the login and ignore the passkey.

It's a minor inconvenience, but happens so regularly I hate it. It also stops the login flow until I dismiss the prompt, which is also annoying as I could've already gotten to the page I wanted to get to in the time it took to dismiss the dialog.

They let their agentic AI take over system maintenance at Dreamforce yesterday like they were pushing in the talks

/s (partly)

It's surprising how often I can get an okay-ish GPS signal indoors... it seems to have a lot more to do with building materials than anything else.

Multipath reflections means the location (and thus timing accuracy) wanders a lot, but it's still great down to microseconds if you can get 5+ satellites in view.

In the spirit of a 1990s time server is I also got Timelord + Tardis working (time service over AppleTalk, tested on a Mac SE/30, courtesy of netatalk) and tested multiple NTPv1, NTPv3, and NTPv4 clients through this (and soon an Xserve G5).

It's less about getting the 1995 hardware working, and more about rebuilding the actual time server to serve the original purpose, for the next 5-10 years at least.

I'm planning on using this chassis to build up an NTP Stratum 1 server for the global NTP pool, hopefully later this year. I thought it would be a lot more fun than letting the box go to e-waste.

And leaving the guts completely untouched means I can do a full restoration someday, if I want.

The two main things I'd need to do:

1. Modify the RF chain so I can use normal GPS antennas that don't down-convert the frequency.

2. Modify the DC bias voltage so it doesn't fry GPS antennas.

After that, I could work on patching firmware, but I'd probably just use the original guts as a frequency reference and leave time to other hardware.

I could even run the Pi and the old hardware simultaneously. The old hardware providing IRIG-B, 10 MHz, and 1 PPS references that are a little more accurate (it has a TCXO, haven't measured its timing accuracy yet). And the Pi could provide PTP and NTP, using a more modern GPS chip which even supports dual band and survey-in for more accuracy.

The US has done tests with eLoran as well. The receivers are quite expensive and the signal isn't permanent yet, so it's more of a lab thing right now. Also experiments with BPS (Broadcast Positioning System) using high power TV transmitters to distribute time and position in urban areas (very hard to overpower that signal).

I use both the base M4 Mac mini and an M4 MacBook Air for Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and Fusion, and while they're not as almost-always-perfectly-smooth as my Mac Studio, they're about 100x better than the experience I used to have on my old Intel MacBook Pros in the 2010s.

I edit 4K ProRes and H.265 footage, sometimes with multicam (up to 4 streams) and color adjustments, titles, etc. It's only after stacking 3-5 effects before things can stutter, really.

Or if you try doing something CPU-intense in the background _while_ running some heavy creative software. I just don't do that.

Somehow the RISC-V designs mostly seem to have more coherent PCIe implementations, meaning some devices are easier to get running without the arm64 quirks drivers have to work around.

Drivers still need tweaking, most of the time, since most are still built assuming an amd64 world.

I'm guessing Chick-Fil-A?

It's amazing how poor on-site search has gotten, while at the same time the capability to have better results and more relevancy has gone way up.

I normally use Google and/or DuckDuckGo to search YouTube and Amazon, because if I'm looking for a specific video/product, that one will be 3-4 pages in (maybe not even shown).

Brand name products are buried 3+ pages deep on Amazon, while the first 2-3 pages are always drop-shipped Chinese knockoffs now. The onsite search is almost entirely useless.

Fingers crossed some of the usual mini PC suspects pick it up as it rolls out. Though I think 4 or 8 GB is back on the menu, annoyingly. Maybe it'll get some of the mini PC vendors to stop shipping Windows 11 by default!

It's funny, too — in my testing with Asahi Linux, some benchmarks ran better on Linux than macOS on Apple Silicon!

I never said it wasn't clickbait.

If you don't like it, either install DeArrow or subscribe to my blog, where I tone it down for the more technical audience. (Or block/ignore my content, no skin off my back!)

I've used a number of mini PCs and Arm SBCs with 8 GB of RAM. Most casual use (browsing, writing, media playback) is no problem, but using "creative" software (image editors, NLEs, DAWs, etc.) quickly gets annoying.