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movedx

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About movedx

Systems engineer and educator.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MichaelCrilly Discord: https://discord.gg/MTzBvSS

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49175918

    > This is my experience with all Microsoft software. The worst thought out, buggy, untested pile of crap. Whoa! Now hang on a minute. That's not fair. They've only been developing …

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    Comment #49151420

    > I tried it a few months ago and the optical drive is dead This is definitely a good reason to give up on consumer rights... the hardware might die. No point having rights if thin…

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    Comment #49143108

    Yes, I want the console to last as long as possible. That is ordinarily why people buy durable goods: ownership carries a reasonable expectation of continued use. We don’t throw aw…

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    Comment #49140214

    It cannot be a "pretend" manifestation, when a physical disc that requires nothing more than an official piece of hardware to use continues to work 100 years into the future (assum…

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    Comment #48999916

    This is hard to read, but I think you're saying the Internet will see a shift to "Sneaker Net" like tactics where people torrent stuff, store it on HDDs, and just move those HDDs a…

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    Comment #48576942

    Does everything _really_ need to be compatible with a phone screen? Use a computer to view the website.

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    Comment #48390073

    > We do need parental guidance like in the physical world, but such guidance should be issued by the parents, not the tech companies. By putting up ID roadblocks, that forces the p…

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    Comment #48378100

    Where should the code be hosted, then?

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    Comment #48378091

    > It's the digital equivalent of requiring ID to go anywhere or do anything, rather than just a few well-defined things. Are you aware that most library systems across most of the …

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    Comment #48300481

    Oh dear. Thanks for the heads up. Sorry if you had a bad experience.

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    Comment #48278844

    > I would rather pay 15% more on goods and 30% less on rent. Exactly. Housing and the housing market in Japan is an interesting beast. Based on my limited understanding as someone …

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    Comment #48278673

    LRG? Limited Run Games? I've never heard of them before. How come you're shunning them?

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    Comment #47992368

    You’re forgetting the fact that the newer generations coming into the industry don’t know that. They don’t even know what a VHS tape is and some don’t even know what a DVD is — thi…

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    Comment #47901484

    The inaccessibility of 10GbE, and the even higher inaccessibility of anything faster, made me move away from NAS devices to DAS. Not everyone can do this, or needs move TBs of data…

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    Comment #47567565

    If AI makes replicating other people’s ideas faster and easier, thus allowing capital-heavy market players to just absorb whatever idea you manage to execute, then perhaps, somewha…

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    Comment #47496764

    Cyberpunk 2026.

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    Comment #47304080

    I've written and I'm now polishing and refining a tool for on-set data management for small to medium scale productions. I do Data Wrangling on the side and one of the hardest thin…

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    Comment #47094663

    > less is better Goes on to use Kubernetes and entire GitOps stacks to run a process. I truly do wonder what difficulty there is in transferring a binary to the system and writing …

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    Comment #46999045

    > Ergo offers server-side history but I'm not sure it supports edit/delete yet. I don't think it does, no. I've only just started using it, though.

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    Comment #46999040

    I'm happy to let people go. They're adults (or are they... gasp! Now I get it) so they'll be fine and so will I.

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    Comment #46999032

    I'll happily set up a platform and be friends with the other 1% - that's 60,000,000 people. I'm sure I'll be fine.

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    Comment #46999020

    > The blog post is incorrect in claiming that verification will be mandatory. It will only be necessary to access certain features and content. I think it's the writing on the wall…

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    Comment #46998995

    > This is similar to when HN thought Reddit's userbase was going to shrink after the API changes (it didn't) or when the internet thought Netflix was going to lose subscribers when…

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    Comment #46996683

    I’m going to do a video on this soon, but I was able to get Ergo IRCd and TheLounge up and running pretty quickly; https://chat.crilly.au/ I’ll be building a new platform on these …

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    Comment #46996417

    So just throw away this solution then? Never use it because it can’t solve this one tiny issue you’re putting forward as an argument? What’s your point? Everything you’re saying on…