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- Comment on arthropods 2 weeks ago:
I imagined they used bugs per license plate for that. Since those are fixed size and vertical.
- Comment on What are the best indie games you've ever played? 1 month ago:
Closing to 6k. There is just infinite replayabillity. Then you add mods, and friends.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 2 months ago:
All chat tools after irc have been trash for large communities. That includes slack. Irc somehow still works with 1500 people in it. I can not explain how. With a logging bot the discussions can be archived for google searchabillity. I guess that could be true for a discord or slack also, But i never seen it implemented. In most slacks i can not search more then 60 days back.
- Comment on New Glibc Flaw Grants Attackers Root Access on Major Linux Distros 3 months ago:
Very well executed responsible disclosure. Good to see all the linux distro’s and vendors cooperating. Read the timeline :
blog.qualys.com/…/qualys-tru-discovers-important-… - Comment on How often do you back up? 4 months ago:
How often depends on how much work it is to recreate, or the consequences of loosing data.
Some systems do not have real data locally, get a backup every week. Most get a nightly backup. Some with a high rate of change , get a lunch/middle of the workday run.
Some have hourly backups/snapshots, where recreating data is impossible. CriticL databases have hourly + transaction log streaming offsite.How long to keep a history depends on how likely an error can go unnoticed but minimum 14 days. Most have 10 dailes + 5 weeky + 6 monthly + 1 yearly.
If you have paper recipes and can recreate data lost easily. Daily seems fine.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 4 months ago:
Absolutely. I have not pirated a single game since I got steam. Before that it was almost exclusively pirated games. no shops close by, and buying on mail order took FOREVER! and was very much hit or miss… And impossible to return.
I did buy most of the games that i enjoyed, and played a lot. Since i wanted the box on the shelf. but i still played the pirated version. since that was much easier then puling out the book and look at the 5th word on the 3rd paragraph on page 121 for the copy protection. :) - Comment on Steam keeps on winning 4 months ago:
having a company that is not actively trying to exploit us is surprisingly refreshing.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 4 months ago:
do not give them good ideas. I need steam to have all games since it is the only one with any good linux support. it does not matter if EGS have free games if i can not play them.
- Comment on What's up with Epic Games? 4 months ago:
for sure! steam liberated my machine from a windows dual boot partition. and made me go 100% linux all the time. gratitude is not really strong enough. it is more like when you have been captured, and then set free.
- Comment on xkcd #2866: Snow 5 months ago:
I am always impressed by how randall can show a lot of detail in very VERY simple shapes. Eg the head rotation in this case.
- Comment on Back in my day 5 months ago:
so true.
my uncle had a tv. and 2 movies on vcr. I saw “Smokey and the bandit” more then a hundred times. and “the sting” 30-40 times… - Comment on Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way 5 months ago:
Had the nic set to that. Any package on the network. Did not matter who it was for. If the nic saw it, it would wake the machine up.
- Comment on The problem is I'm not sure which I'm supposed to do right now. 6 months ago:
Does it really end? I fear my sleep patterns are irrevokably fucked. And i will never have another good night’s sleep.
- Comment on Microsoft expected to finally buy Activision Blizzard next week 7 months ago:
Factorio and rimworld have kept me entertained several thousand houers each. Hands down the best value for money on steam. Even beat out free to play games ;)
- Comment on Cat accused of wiping US Veteran Affairs server info after jumping on keyboard 7 months ago:
Why you should write rm /path/to/dir -rf ; and not rm -rf /[cat jumps here]
- Comment on The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it 7 months ago:
Should never have gotten down from the trees
- Comment on Apple forced to ditch iPhone lightning charger 8 months ago:
They saw the the writing on the wall, and turned colours as soon as they saw they were fighiting a loosing battle.
- Comment on OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work 8 months ago:
Ignoring the huge privacy/liabillity issue… there are other llm’s then chatgpt.
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 8 months ago:
If mozilla gets msrket share, google will defund them. That mozilla have a money will help.
Also mozilla’s other projects are also good ;)
- Comment on A Tribute to Bram Moolenaar, The Maestro Behind Vim Code Editor 9 months ago:
been using vim daily for 22 years. condolences to the family. :wq
- Comment on Encryption-breaking, password-leaking bug in many AMD CPUs could take months to fix 9 months ago:
It is really fantastic. With steam almost all the games i bother playing just works. Deleted the windows partition years ago.
Just have to check the community forum how well it works before buying. Or just get a refund if it does not work.