Management is obsessed with the cloud and “serverless”, because it’s cheaper short-term, and they don’t have to care about eventualities like hardware breaking.

Long-term, it would be far cheaper and way more secure to host locally, especially for data storage.

But we all know long-term thinking is something that management can’t do. And of course, the PR doesn’t help at all.

I also had a machine that would randomly crash on Windows, but not on Linux.

I’m pretty sure it was some sort of hardware failure, as it also sometimes failed to boot Linux. But if it booted Linux, it would be stable until I shut it down.

This is why most tech companies (including Adobe) are so hell bent on having schools teach just their software and their way of doing things. An entire generation of clients guaranteed for life.

Funnily enough, back when it was floating by default, I always looked for the toggle to make it one window. But when they made it a single window by default, I found myself toggling it back to floating.

I kinda like having both options. Floating could still make some sense, and it can do cool things that a single window can’t.

Everyone knows it by that name, even in non english speaking countries.

They themselves gave a good explanation. They’d lose brand recognition, they’d expose the name to scammers using it to sell or distribute their own software, and years of tutorials, guides and books would instantly be harder to find and outdated.

It makes no sense to give up all that, and to force such a change on the whole world, just because some speakers of a single language don’t like it.

I once cut the internet for an entire school by plugging in a router.

They had a bunch of misconfigurations in their spanning tree and loop detection systems, and detected the router as a loop. That triggered the network to reconfigure itself using a different route, which was invalid, so the whole network went down.

Their IT wasn’t gonna be there for a few days, and I didn’t set up their network or had any access to it, so I think it stayed down for almost a week.

The latest image I can find is from NASA, taken in 2024.

It shows no growth in lit area in NK.

https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/the-korean-peninsula-at-night-153325/

The acronym was chosen as a reference to a character in Pulp Fiction.

And just India has a population of 1.4 billion people, and it’s a single country.

So in order to make it less awkward for ~500M people, we should make it more awkward for the rest of the 7.8B people.

Take a look at Caddy if nginx seems too complicated.

Caddy is designed primarily to act as a reverse proxy, and it can automatically set up your certificates with Let’s Encrypt (as long as you have it listening on ports 80 and 443).

You’d only need to set up a domain pointing to your IP, but you can do that for free and without a permanent IP by using a DDNS (like duckdns)

The jellyfin website has instructions on how to set it up with Caddy. I recommend using the Caddyfile.

No. How you choose to spend your free time is your thing. Some people decided not to have kids, maybe even for that exact reason. Some people decided to have kids, even though they knew kids would take away their time. It’s just how everyone decides to spend their time, and there’s nothing wrong with it.

At a lower efficiency than before, and a lot of stuff now won’t get blocked because of the limit in definitions.

This tweet is not advocating for removing the breaks for parents, it’s advocating for also giving the same breaks to everyone. Same as with smoke breaks.

It’s healthy to take small breaks every once in a while, and every worker should have access to them. You shouldn’t need to have a kid or an addiction to enjoy your breaks.

Hell, I myself take smoke breaks and I have never smoked.

I can’t tell you about the text, but the whole site is vibe coded. The CSS, the js, everything. Which doesn’t really inspire much confidence on the text, especially as it’s explaining how to bypass the claude detector.

That’s probably the worst part of it. In some places they’re required or very helpful to have, even though they’re still complete bs and a scam. Cisco is the perfect example. Their certs are useless and constantly changing, they’re really expensive, and they don’t really teach you about the general subject (networking). They just shill their products and their proprietary, non compatible way of doing stuff, and you pay thousands for that. Yet jobs still want those certs, even if they don’t work with Cisco.

Organic Maps was forked and is now CoMaps

Windows is so bad that running a windows game through proton on linux can generally be faster. However, running the game natively on linux should be even faster than using proton. If companies cared about linux, we could have even more performance than we already do.

Audio jacks are easy and cheap to waterproof, way easier to clean than usb-c ports and way sturdier than usb-c ports (in fact, it’s easier to break a usb-c port due to daily headphone use, while I’ve never broken an audio jack, despite abusing some).

They take up space, but many other brands have easily figured it out even in smaller phones. Hell, samsung can fit a whole pen in their phones.

It does not affect people who won’t use it, and I know a lot of people that would benefit from one (including myself). More importantly, it follows fairphone’s supposed ideals of reducing e-waste.

And no, a 7€ dongle is not a good experience, and not a premium thing. For that price, it’s also probably an analog dongle, which already requires the phone to have the extra hardware for the audio jack inside, just without the convenience of the audio jack.

You can! qbittorrent can manage both private and public torrents at the same time. You can also cross seed with it, but it’s more involved than checking a box or clicking a button.

The main issue with private trackers is getting in. Most of them need an invite from a user that is already inside, and you can’t ask for invites or ask them for an account.

Some trackers have open signup days, and some others require you to go through an interview process to get in. After you’re accepted to those, you can gather reputation and user level, and eventually, access to invite forums. In there, you can be “recruited” to more exclusive trackers.

It’s a really interesting concept, and despite its closedness (or thanks to it), it really is night and day with public trackers. You can find a lot more stuff, torrents rarely die, you can request new stuff, you get fast download speeds, and everything is way better tagged and organized than on public trackers.

If you’re curious about music trackers, REDACTED (RED) and Orpheus (OPS) both usually have interviews open. You can read more about the process and the interview material here for RED and here for OPS.

Additionally, I’ve heard MyAnonaMouse (MAM) has a really friendly community for starters. It’s mainly a book tracker, but it also has some music. It regularly opens registrations, info here.

There are also some general content trackers around that sometimes have open registrations, but the registration windows are short and random. You can subscribe to !trackers@lemmy.dbzer0.com , where people post open registration windows for trackers.

XP has background services that automatically connect to the outside for stuff. Most of those remain inside your network, but not all. It only takes a hardcoded expired domain to get instant infection without any user action.

I would never consider connecting a winXP machine to the internet safe.