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> I do not understand the true goals of Signal, but their actions are inconsistent with their stated ones. I've been annoyed and suspicious since they stopped being TextSecure and …

Interesting you're the first person to mention this. I had chronic insomnia for >25 years (my entire life) making it extremely difficult to hold down a job or generally interact wi…

I wonder if the render resolution was actually determined by the output resolution of the film recorder being used to get the sfx out onto film for display? I can't obviously find …

I can't edit my previous comment (which incorrectly implied that the 3 stations at Droitwitch are going out of the same antenna), but I've done more research and have more informat…

You're absolutely right and I was flagrantly wrong - Droitwich does use different antennas for the different LW and MF services (though still has to combine the output of two trans…

Also bear in mind that Droitwitch is radiating 3 different services. Talk Sport (1053 kHz), Radio 4 (198 kHz) and Radio Five Live (693 kHz). My suspicion is that this means an exci…

> Anything in space is more expensive and way harder to do, for a datacenter there is no benefit. If we pick an extremely fast orbit, then relativity means the hardware will age ou…

> I think in general the ability to spoof numbers should be banned / controlled. This has absolutely nothing to do with burner phones and the proposed changes won't do anything to …

Out of curiosity, why were you using a >50gb file on a dataset as as iSCSI target rather than a zvol or did I misunderstand?

I don't know how much better modern drives (and SSDs) have gotten[1], but as someone who started digital hoarding in the mid 90's, on-disk bitrot used to be a massive problem. The …

> ...before you'd want to change your subscription... For anyone not in the know, Resolve has an exceptionally capable and feature rich free version. A lot of the AI features (and …

iirc, the OpenFirmware boot image was larger than the equivalent BIOS image - I've got half a memory of resoldering ROM chips on ATi cards so they could be cross-flashed to work in…

You underestimate the laziness. "Can you paint them gold? And how about custom packaging and drop-shipping as well?"

If you enjoy this age of SciFi and don't mind radio drama rather than film, then X-1 is well worth checking out. It's a 1955- radio drama with a different short story each episode,…

WinCE had a load of weird issues (and looked consistently awful), but moving onto PDAs and even phones running it from a world of Psion and Palm was like stepping forward a century…

I've watched my work laptop reboot in the middle of installing Windows Updates without prompting me for a Bitlocker key. It seems obvious to even the casual observer that the pin i…

There's also a gent in Horsham who's recently been planting flowers in potholes to draw attention to them. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mgjklmzwvo

Is it possible to connect it to your wifi but block it talking to the internet? I'd be curious to know if that stops the built in SSID.

I don't worry about bandwidth or constant CPU use, but the one thing that will kill my mac is burning out the SSD. The calculator gives numbers for nearly everything, but I can't o…

The linux kernel traffic control (tc) can do network emulation with qdisc to simulate bad network connections. Add latency, jitter, bandwidth limits, and settable levels of traffic…

This probably isn't the point either, but I get an almost perverse level of calm knowing that for my most favourite albums, I own a physical representation of the waveform trapped …

I've also been searching for that double-bong for years. Last time I asked, user hackmiester pointed me to https://goughlui.com/2016/05/03/project-the-definitive-colle... The "Texa…

I've been using Win+R to paste it in the windows run box. Amazingly still works on Win 11 and still seems to keep it local (bypassing the windows search), so I'm pleased to report …

I don't suppose you could point to any resources on where I could get started. I have a M2 with 64gb of unified memory and it'd be nice to make it work rather than burning Github c…