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Posts by Natalie Gritpants Jr
512 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Sep 2018
/e/ OS 3.0: Slightly less clunky, slightly more private
What will UK government workers do with an extra 26 minutes a day?
Ukrainians smuggle drones hidden in cabins on trucks to strike Russian airfields
Microsoft's plain text editor gets fancy as Notepad gains formatting options
VodafoneThree's a crowd – now comes the hard bit
Techie fixed a ‘brown monitor’ by closing a door for a doctor
Trump threatens to add formal Apple Tax on top of the 'Apple tax'
Torvalds' typing taste test touches tactile tragedy
Royal Navy freshens up ships' electromagnetic warfare defenses
Signal chat app clone used by Signalgate's Waltz was apparently an insecure mess
The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers
Downward DOGE: Elon Musk keeps revising cost-trimming goals in a familiar pattern
Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption
Mobile ad world drama: AppLovin not lovin' short seller assault claiming fraud
From MP3 to Web3 to now 3D, Napster gets a new owner
UK satellite smartphone services could get green light this year
FTC's $25.5M scam refund treats victims to $34 each
Open Source Initiative defends disallowing board candidate after timezone SNAFU
Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco
HP deliberately adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls
Trump can't quickly or easily kill the CHIPS Act, but he can fire the workers funded by it
The biggest microcode attack in our history is underway
If Trump annexes Greenland, he may well let Russia have Ukraine. If that happens, there will really be nothing stopping China taking Taiwan. You can expect that to disrupt the supply of chips to such an extent you will probably see a massive economic depression and a lot of redundant IT professionals.
India's banking on the bank.in domain cleaning up its financial services sector
Musk's move fast and break things mantra won't work in US.gov
Ubuntu upgrade had our old Nvidia GPU begging for a downgrade
Google Maps to roll out Trump-approved Denali and Gulf of Mexico rebrands
Sonos CEO steps down after smart speaker app upgrade hit bum note
Going to be more common with smart devices
They make a handsome profit on the initial sale, but a loss on backend compute resources needed to keep the product "smart". They could charge a realistic fee for the cloudy stuff instead of pretending it's free, or just open source it and let the geeks come up with a way. Shelly do this with their switches and stuff, and it is a joy to work with.
UK prepared to throw planning rules out the window for massive datacenters
Short-lived bling, dumb smart things, and more: The worst in show from CES 2025
Chinese RISC-V project teases 2025 debut of freely licensed advanced chip design
Arch Linux installer now slightly less masochistic
Raspberry Pi 500 and monitor arrive in time for Christmas
Re: Off-grid computing
The monitor sounds nice. I wanted a photo frame from the kitchen, and the displays on Amazon were around the same price for 7". The first one had speakers, but died after a week. The second is fine, but no speakers. Both required faffing around to get native resolution from the HDMI (the displays are basically laptop/tablet displays, and they don't have EDID on the HDMI as cost saving. Hopefully this one has
Europe's largest local authority settles on ERP budget 5x original estimate
Cryptocurrency policy under Trump: Lots of promises, few concrete plans
AI Jesus is ready to dispense advice from a booth in historic Swiss church
Musk, America PAC sued for allegedly rigging $1M election prize
Will passkeys ever replace passwords? Can they?
UK energy watchdog slaps down Capita's £130M smart meter splurge
O2's AI granny knits tall tales to waste scam callers' time
More theatre, while not taking action to block scam calls. There's a conflict of interest here, as the phone companies get paid for all those scam calls. They know exactly where the scam calls come from, otherwise it would imply they don't know how to bill precisely, and their business model would collapse. They could just block the origin of the calls altogether until the phone company originating the calls gets its act together. We do this for certificate authorities on the internet.
Schneider Electric ransomware crew demands $125k paid in baguettes
No-Nvidias networking club convenes in search of open GPU interconnect
Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
The horror that is VHS revived for horror movie release
Re: They did it for the publicity
Given that no one in their right mind will go to the trouble of unboxing and playing it, I predict they will just relabel a bunch of old unsold stock.
Who can forget the joy of finishing a kids movie only to find the last 20 minutes of a grumble flick that had been overwritten by the guy at the car boot sale.
41-million-digit prime crunched by datacenter GPUs
SuperHTML is here to rescue you from syntax errors, and it's FOSS
Re: would like to see a switch back to plain old static HTML
I edit my personal wiki using MD files in emacs and publish via a filter to convert md to html in apache:
# Apache configuration directives for the local wiki pages.
ExtFilterDefine md-to-html mode=output intype=text/markdown outtype=text/html cmd="/usr/bin/pandoc --from=gfm --to=html5 --template=/var/www/html/pandoc.tmpl"
<Directory "/var/www/html/wiki">
Options +FollowSymLinks
AuthType basic
AuthName "Wiki"
AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htpasswd
Require valid-user
SetOutputFilter md-to-html
AddType text/markdown .md
</Directory>