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Can we extend that beyond just parental controls? I'd love to permaban 90% of the internet from ever reaching me. But the laws are designed backwards because they're probably writt…

I agree. I also think that URLs will always be ephemeral because you can't control the TLD. If the TLD operator increases the price or introduces new conditions that are disagreeab…

Likewise, I thought I was bad at public speaking and avoided it almost entirely until my last couple years of university. By then I found myself surrounded by friendly, curious pee…

> Hearing that 2027 wont be any better makes me hopeful all the vibe coders can ask for memory efficient implementations to stretch existing hardware a little further. I've been th…

"Always Free" should probably be interpreted in the context of a recurring monthly contract: "of all the resources you use these will always be included at no additional charge" Th…

I wrote a script to simulate a variable workload when the load averages dipped so that I could keep my mostly-idle VMs running. It felt like a waste of energy but the VMs are in sh…

"AI Slop" seems to be misunderstood despite its simplicity: "this is sloppy/low-effort/unskilled work ... enabled by generative AI tools". > "People are telling you they can tell, …

> The project’s position is that hardware binding remains required I think you're downplaying the real risk: if TPM becomes necessary for any single routine activity (banking, comm…

Is there some way for me to be notified when you do? I don't see any RSS on your site. The docs I have built up are at times too technical for users and not detailed enough for dev…

I was off by 2x - last scrub took 12 hours.

I'm running five 8TB in a Z2 so I think that slows me down a bit more especially compared to people running mirrors. I'm going to kick a scrub off now and see if I'm misremembering…

That's an interesting idea. Reminds me of how people would put their swap partitions at the end for faster speeds. If I did an N-way mirror I get could attach/detach as needed and …

I have attended some of the webinars and listen to Allan on a podcast regularly and this LLM-written post is painful to read. If I hadn't already been familiar with him and his wor…

The perfect work ritual: fresh air, banter, coffee.

> On this netbook, which has 1GB of RAM, if you keep the swap partition small you will run into “No space left on device” errors all the time. The author doesn't explain why but I'…

Regarding memory compression: isn't the use of `zswap` and `zram` commonplace on embedded Linux at this point?

I've never heard of people having difficulty with inline replies before. Show them how to configure `sed 's/> /You said /g'` to run on all their incoming email... (I use the same p…

This was such an improvement to mine as well. Lots of strange advice in this thread about "one sentence/question per email" and other arbitrary terseness. Just use a messaging syst…

With a tagline of "a universal document converter" it is almost a guarantee to become a complicated program but how much of it is being used for any single conversion? Two more exa…

Where is the "data loss window"? Between nodes or between the client and the infra? The front page lists under Capabilities: > 4.8 > Honest fsync > A successful fsync means every a…

I have a feeling someone is going to jump in with a "solution" to each of these forgetting that lots of work is ephemeral/transient and undeserving of even the slightest bit of aut…

Others have already backed up bit-for-bit copies on your behalf: you just need to download it from them piece by piece. Bear in mind that you would likely be infringing on the righ…

Controlling the TLD has its own benefits and drawbacks (managing email reputation, for example) but as a regular person I have more reason to trust `.cloud` than `.self` purely on …

I think there a simpler way to summarize this list: Digital Purchases are non-transferable licenses to access "content" from a "provider". The terms of the deal are alterable and r…

> image of an apple, stored as an analog signal on a magnetic tape If I am following along... analog virtual: representation of apple on photographic film digital physical: disc wi…