Posts by Pete Sdev 469 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Oct 2021
I understand what you mean, however I'd point out that there are still a couple of TLDs with a geographic requirement in order to register. For example, .eu, .co.uk/.org.uk, .ie (IINM).
Which was one the minor effects of Brexit - British entities could no longer hold a .eu domain.
"Do your own research" is like "Roll your own encryption".You've got to be a fecking idiot to think that you're somehow better than a group of experts.
Arguably, if doing your own research is reading what experts in the field of interest say, then it's not a problem.
We all here have to research things at work, even if it's a simple RTFM with experimentation.
After making myself slightly less ignorant about ATM by reading the corresponding wiki page, I'm highly amused to why ATM's frame size was 53 octets.
48 bytes was chosen as a compromise, despite having all the disadvantages of both proposals and the additional inconvenience of not being a power of two in size.
If I am paying US$200/month for the Max25 plan, you'd think I am "paying my way".
Except you're probably causing (unintentionally) $2000+/month in compute costs.
Prices have to increase and/or service reduced, or servers need to magically become a fraction of their current costs, or the "AI" companies are going to go pop when the speculator money dries up.
there's still no clear, obvious, technical use for the blockchain or cryptocurrency in general
Arguably in principal it's just as valid as any other medium of exchange.
Way back, before speculation pushed prices to stupid, transferring value via bitcoin was cheaper than other methods (PayPal, WU).
I'd also point out the current situation where the vast majority of transactions are in the control of a small number of US firms (Visa et al) is such that it's causing people to look at alternatives, as reported in this publication. Not saying that crypocurrency is the answer here, to be clear.
Play2Go = Dodgy as fuck.
Company apparently registered in Dubai. Wiki in Russian and accepts payment in roubles.
2.26.97.61 appears to be currently assigned to a machine in Finland BTW.
I'd consider blocking all 69 IP-blocks associated with them : https://www.abuseipdb.com/check/AS215439
Icon - burn it with fire.
If there's really loads of people still using 14+ year old devices, that at least says something positive about the battery quality of said devices.
As a general rule of thumb, I'd not expect a portable device to go much past 7 years without becoming too degraded in useability.
My SO has a venerable Samsung S2 tablet that still technically works, except of course the battery life is now miserable and it's no longer really a practical portable device.
I'd say because it's:
a) Free
b) Straightforward to install
c) Runs on a common, cheaply available, stack (PHP+MySQL)
d) large ecosystem of themes and plugins, which causes an avalanche effect
e) Usability - the backend is straightforward
I've experience of other CMSs which after a lengthy install (as opposed to WP's beginner friendly install-screens) you're presented with a white screen of death (WP works on a basic level out-of-the-box) without further work, and the backend requires 2 weeks of training for non-technical users.
I'm not saying it's good (it doesn't play well with composer for example), but it does get some things right.
There are various hypothetical scenarios for ending capitalism.
Some are a lot more painful and messy than others.
It's also only a good thing if it is replaced by a system that is less bad, and that probably requires some groundwork on an alternative beforehand.
The acelerationist approach tends to be pretty irresponsible IMO - an "AI" induced collapse of capitalism would likely result in a lot of suffering (of the wrong people) and a worse situation than what we have now. I could be wrong of course, but I'm not that optimistic.
$5 million for Microsoft COA labels between 2018 and 2023
If we assume a 100% markup, that would be ~ $333K each (3 people are named in the article) per annum, before taxes and business expenses. Not too bad.
I wonder who is losing out in this scheme - I'd guess the OEMs purchasing bulk licensing from MS from which some of fall off a back of a lorry.
It's amazing how many cashpoints and self-service supermarket tills are still English-only. There are exceptions that offer Welsh and usually at least one other language (Polish used to be common) but it's far from being the majority as far as I can see.
Is that lawful that cashpoints and tills are monolingual in Wales? Welsh Language Act?
I don't have to "admit" to anything, having absolutely nothing to do with Wayland (or Xorg for that matter).
I "realize" [sic] that there's a piece of software that has different features to it's alternative (at this point in time).
I'll make the observation that the most used GUI unixy devices are Android phones and tablets, which don't use X and don't do networked display out of the box. The most used desktop GUI unixey system is MacOS which uses Quartz and IINM also doesn't run over the network.
If you want network capability in Wayland, get busy with those pull requests. Or demand a refund.
Ever used a GUI application?
Yes, regularly. My desktop machine at home runs Mint with Cinnamon (previously FreeBSD).
However, I've personally never had the need to run a graphical program on a *remote* machine. Web interface on say the router might be the exception (and it's not that remote, couple of meters maybe), though that's not a full XServer obviously.
In the particular use-case above, that of checking the status of a Raspberry, a GUI isn't required at all. If the use-case was editing video, that'd be a different matter.
In my experience, generally machines than have a GUI aren't remotely accessed, and remotely accessed devices aren't running a graphics server. I've never used the remote x feature despite now decades of using unixey systems.
I'll gladly accept that some people do use it, but I'll propose that they're in a minority.
I do wonder why you Jellied Eel spend time around here.
I doubt you work in IT (except maybe as a PHB).
If you'd a modicum of social intelligence, you'd realise from the consistent downvotes (not just this thread) that you're probably in the wrong place and go hang out somewhere else (Dailymail maybe?) where your presence would be more welcome.
Canada's plan if invaded by the US (again?) appears to be to go for guerrilla tactics. (E.g. https://thedefensepost.com/2026/01/21/canada-military-us-invasion/ )
Given the reputation of Canadian fighters, the US would probably experience a snowy Vietnam and lose.
Keep your elbows up my Canadian friends!
While the UK's Trident WoMD can be fired without permission from the US, the USA could nuclearly disarm the UK over (a probably fairly short) time by simply no longer providing support or maintenance for the actual missiles. The warheads themselves being obviously not much use if you can't launch them.
Coming up with a new equivalent missile system and retro-fitting the subs would take a not insignificant amount of time and money.
Icon -> obvious
