r_deckard

@r_deckard@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekends were a mistake, says Infosys co-founder Narayama Murthy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Infosys is a mistake. It’s a poor choice for anyone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pi-hole can block microsoft telemetry domains, just need to keep the blocklists up to date, and flush the Recall cache every day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But you can feed a scrambled egg back to a chicken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Recall is secretly installed on non-Copilot+PCs (Privacy Nightmare)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Last time I bought a Win 10 Pro DVD to install on a customer’s machine, it was AUD$195.00. And I still had to use powershell to de-provision some of the bullshit. Better than the Home version (AUD$165.00), at least I can use GPEDIT to disable some “features”.

  Of course, a Windows licence on a pre-built Dell or HP would be a lot less.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “If you think this is expensive now, wait for 20 years” “Not a problem, I’ll be retired by then, it’ll be someone else’s problem”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Morphing spray-on gel gives buildings long-lasting wildfire protection⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve got a fire suppression system. An agricultural sprinkler on each of the two roof peaks, fed by a pump from storage tanks. We’re off-grid (no mains) and already have the storage tanks - 2 x 22500litre/5000 gallons. With full tanks, the sprinklers should operate for ~7 hours, which is way more than necessary - three to four hours would be enough. The sprinklers “throw” interlocking circles of water, they intersect over the roof and saturate all the ground and foliage out to about 15 metres/50 feet. Water falling on the roof goes back into the tanks. The pump is electric, but being off-grd, we’ve got big batteries and a backup generator, so I’m confident the pump would run long enough for the fire to pass.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And JPEG2000 is what’s used in Digital Cinema Package (DCP) - that’s the file format used to distribute feature films. That’s not going away soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German Navy to replace aging 8-inch floppy drives with an emulated solution for its anti-submarine frigates⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What I’d like to know is how the hell do they manage corrosion in all that salty air? Sure, the op centre is probably filtered and air-conditioned, but if there’s one thing about marine environments, salt corrosion will happen, and you can’t put 30 coats of paint on a floppy drive’s components.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German Navy to replace aging 8-inch floppy drives with an emulated solution for its anti-submarine frigates⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was system operator for an IBM System/36 in the mid-late 1980s and that thing used two 10-slot magazines of 8" floppies for backup.

  It was replaced in 1989 with an AS400 that used half-inch tape.

  And that backup solution was replaced with an LTO library.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Milk-V Jupiter is a mini ITX board with a SpacemiT K1/M1 RISC-V processor - Liliputing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t someone get Debian running on a Talos II workstation?

  Granted, that’s tinkering, but getting Debian to a workable state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remote IT management provider TeamViewer says it has been hacked, allegedly Russian state hackers from APT29⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gee, it’s lucky they didn’t start requiring an account for personal use… Oh, wait.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨California says AT&T can't shut down copper DSL network⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Same in Australia. The libnats (right-leaning) broke the fibre-optic rollout by claiming it would be too expensive, and replaced it in non-metro areas with wireless, claiming 25Mbps was adequate. They didn’t mention that slow internet would benefit the Murdoch -owned Foxtel satellite services. And here we are now with internet services worse than some poorer countries.

  I chose Starlink because I will never get fibre optic, my only broadband option is geo-synch satellite, with speed and data caps, and 600ms latency.