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There was a time before the Internet existed, and people were able to write programs. They reviewed the documentation, digested and understood the system as a whole, then worked on problems using that knowledge. That’s still possible today. When you hit a wall, you read through some more, try some things, and sleep on it. Often you wake up with the answer.

Not everyone is only copy/pasting from SO/Google/AI to know how to build stuff.

The vast majority of Linux installations don’t have a UI, they’re headless, and it was the same with Sun. I.E. the UI is irrelevant to the success or failure of Linux and Sun.

Linux took over the world because any licensing model that requires a per CPU license simply can’t work in a massively scalable situation like server farms and cloud.

They’re being used often in new construction areas. It’s just not likely that they’ll be retrofitted to existing areas due to needing more space than regular intersections.

The line of thinking is not about that $100 million bill, it’s about all the $100 million bills that come AFTER this first one.

As someone who got top grades in science classes, and a follower of science news for decades, I’ve never heard of temperature being a risk factor for cancer.

That said, it does make sense. Heat can cause damage to cells just like many chemicals can. I just don’t think many people connected the dots.

It’s still scanning (or at least listening to) all the other devices on your local network, like your phones, PCs, etc. It collects an inventory and if it ever happens to get Internet access, uploads that data.

They weren’t using RHEL. The title would be more accurate if it said “RHEL-based Linux”. They used their own build called Scientific Linux for a long time, then switch to CentOS. Then Oracle started aggressively poaching RedHat’s customers with Oracle Linux, which forced RedHat to start locking things down. One side-effect is that the life of CentOS 8 was dramatically shortened, and then RedHat killed the stable released versions of CentOS (9, 10, etc.). CentOS is now a rolling release “Stream” distribution, which nobody actually wants to use in production.

All this drama alienated many people who built their careers on RHEL-based systems, and created (either actual or perceived) instability in the RHEL ecosystem. And at the same time they started deprecating older hardware, some would say far too early. This is the “straw that broke the camel’s back”, as they said in the CERN presentation.

“You _will_ lose them”, as in, somehow Immich will do something to lose them (like making a mistake in a dedupe process which deletes the wrong things), or are you just saying you also need to keep backups?

It seems like we’re getting close, if not already there, to needing an official organization for this (i.e. the Turing Police).

Planet Money has a good episode on this:

https://one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5847893:nx-s1-mx-5847893-1

I think you’re responding to the general idea of a relational database, not Postgres, and definitely not what’s in the article (DR;CA).

Postgres has built in data types and functions that allows it to work with unstructured json documents, like you would use in MongoDB.

When the audit happens, the auditors also consider if the policy meets the control objectives. If it doesn’t, you’re going to fail.

Glad to see fwknop mentioned. Back when the idea of port knocking emerged, there was a lot of criticism about it. Then this came out, and not many seemed to notice.

This was before WireGuard and Tailscale, so the main option for remote access was IPsec or OpenVPN, which are both more complicated than most people want to deal with.

If checking the bag is free, everyone would do it, leaving the overhead space empty. That overhead space is flying to the destination anyway, so it’s better to make sure it’s full. The. If there’s free space in the hold underneath, they can transport other things like cargo (which makes them money).

I would recommend reconsidering that strategy; it’s not sustainable for your entire working lifetime. There WILL come a point where you cannot maintain the pace of being “so good” that the works speaks for itself. When you reach that point, the relationships you build NOW, will become very important to that future you.

It doesn’t mean you need to stop being technical now, but at least start allocating a few hours a month to relationships in a meaningful, intentional way.

Those people “floating about” were doing something: building relationships with others who could promote them. Something that’s very difficult for hard workers to do, because they’re busy actually…working.

eBPF started as a network tool, but (according to the creators of it) targeting the network was just a ploy to get a foot in the door so they could start expanding it to other things. They didn’t think the idea would be accepted if they tried to do it all at once. So now it works on many parts of the system, not just the network.

LocalSend has been working great for me across different types of devices.

One of the biggest concerns I have with phone scams is that the people most vulnerable are the elderly, and they don’t have the knowledge on how to block these calls (if a technical solution is the only option).

And further to that, the elderly are also the ones who cannot block unknown numbers, because doctors’ offices seem to have random numbers they call you from (they may have a pool of numbers but it’s not reasonable to add all of them to contacts). Blocking all unknowns would block these important health related calls as well.

In these (and I think many cases), the one star is being used to get the developer’s attention more than anything else.

I, and I think most people, think of most apps as being published by a company that’s actively engaged in enshitifying the app to squeeze as much profit as possible, and the company really couldn’t care less about what’s said in a four star review with some minor complaint. However, a one star review is going to affect the App Store rankings and will be reported to Senior Management (who are typically the ones pushing all the nags and annoyances). A one star review is the only way to get their attention and say: you’ve gone too far with this and customers aren’t happy.

Netflix had “everything” because it was the first (commercially successful) mover on streaming, and as a result it was pretty much the only game in town for a long time. Every other producer HAD to be on Netflix if they wanted to reach the streaming audiences.

It was only after their success did all the other producers feel comfortable that this was the future, started building their own apps, and then had to wait for their exclusivity contracts they had given to Netflix expire.

There was a lot of fear around what would happen to Netflix when those contracts would expire, and that’s how we started getting their originals like Stranger Things.

Maps apps see the streets that don’t have cars on them (the same ones closed for a festival) as good routes to send vehicles because there’s currently no vehicles using them. It keeps trying to route people there and doesn’t understand why.

I think it takes someone (at Google) manually marking those roads as unavailable before it will stop trying. I’ve seen it happen with other things too, like if a highway is closed because of a bad accident.

They say this is also sent with Windows Update checks, which happen frequently per day, and I think also when you initially connect to a network, so that’s a clear way they could tie the ID back to any IP address you’re using.

Which is fine. Burn your tokens (with all the carbon emissions they generate in data centers) doing more involved tasks like that. Don’t waste it on silly, easy things like simple macros, search/replace, etc. AI doesn’t need to be a hammer used for everything.

If the original source is 44.1KHz, and this codec prefers 48KHz, is there an issue up-sampling to 48KHz before doing the AAC encode?

I think that's really the question with this work: up-sampling to 48k, not down-sampling to 44.1k.

Smart TVs are always monitoring what you’re watching by taking screenshots and processing them. This is a known thing for at least several years now. The only safe way to use a smart TV is to never connect it to the network, and use another streaming device. That separate device will spy on you too, but at least you’re making the choice.

My setup is: dark mode, color filters tint red, brightness 0, and reduce white point. It’s almost completely unusable in regular lit rooms, but nice in complete darkness (mostly apps like Instapaper).

The main issue I have is that blue text is unreadable. I wish you could stack color filters like grayscale first, then red tint.

I think a lot of developers (e.g. the HN crowd) aren’t aware that pretty much all non-IT businesses people, from receptionists to the C-suite, really do think that what IT people do is take their (business people’s) brilliant, fully formed ideas, and just convert them into “computer language” so the computer does them by magic. There’s no understanding (or desire to) that almost the whole job (of development) is trying to figure out all the assumptions, corner cases, logic conflicts, etc. that are embedded in their “requirements”. This is why IT is always seen as just an overhead cost to cut as much as possible: because you’re not perceived as actually knowing anything about the business, only as a rote translator which can be done by anyone.

Maybe it’s better to start in a smaller, more focused and less controversial topic to set some precedents before trying to boil the ocean.

This is about how 401ks and pensions are going to be forced to buy into (or very close to) the IPO. That affects “most Americans” whether they want to participate or not.