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- Comment on When can we expect 500TB drives to be available? 1 week ago:
I guess you’re expected to set those up in a RAID 5 or 6 (or similar) setup to have redundancy in case of failure.
Rebuilding after a failure would be a few days of squeaky bum time though.
- Comment on Oh Shit 1 week ago:
I’m not even surprised
This guy’s in the same despot category as the Kims now
- Comment on New Yorker’s ‘Social Media Is Killing Kids’ Article Waits 71 Paragraphs To Admit Evidence Doesn’t Support The Premise 1 week ago:
That’s a particularly buried lede
- Comment on Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants 1 week ago:
My main use is skipping the blank page problem when writing a new suite of tests—which after about 10 mins of refactoring are often a good starting point
- Comment on That hurts a little 1 week ago:
There’s only 4 years between FF7 and Halo
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 week ago:
Hmm
I’d maybe try systematically turning any other devices off you think could potentially have the grunt to run windows server in a container or VM.
Do you have a Mac/Linux machine handy? If you run
arp -ain one terminal and ping the unusual IP in another, that should give you a corresponding MAC address for the device. You can then look up the Mac address and see if it gives you any more info about the device running it—it might not but you never know. You can use something like dnschecker.org/mac-lookup.phpI guess next you could look at taking that MAC and blocking it in your router control panel and see if anything starts complaining
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 1 week ago:
Yeah IIRC you’re right, though I remember you could contact apple and reset it.
It was called FairPlay DRM and they only really got rid of it around a decade after iTunes launched. I’m not 100% but I think I had to pay to upgrade my paid library to DRM free too
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 week ago:
Have you recently installed visual studio or are doing any .NET development? It could possibly be a containerised version of IIS
If you completely turn off your windows device and try to access the IP from another device does it still resolve?
- Comment on I found a weird IP address on my network that had transmitted an insanely small amount of data. I put the address in my browser and got this. what the heck am I looking at? 1 week ago:
As everyone else has said this is the out of the box default page that comes with Microsoft IIS web server on windows server.
Though I feel like you’d know if you had a copy of windows server running on your network somewhere—is the IP in your usual network subnet?
- Comment on College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time 1 week ago:
Glassholes v2
- Comment on End the line: The last Sun Sparc Workstation 1 week ago:
…so you hate watch creators you don’t enjoy on alternative YouTube front ends to not give them ad revenue Vs just not watching them?
Aren’t you only wasting your own time?
- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 1 week ago:
Oh I didn’t actually realise that, I thought they’d just gone full Adobe with office 365
- Comment on End the line: The last Sun Sparc Workstation 1 week ago:
Gotta add to your message under the video, partly because I like this creator and other small creators like him:
I completely understand someone not wanting to get blasted by ads and tracking from YouTube—however if you’re using one of these YouTube front ends, please consider sponsoring the creators you’re watching on patreon or something if you’re able to. If everyone dodged the ads and didn’t also sponsor the creator in some way, they’re eventually just gonna stop being able to make content because the necessary income to justify the work is simply not going to be there.
I hate ads as much as the next guy, but it’s important to remember it’s a big part of how these people can afford to make the videos we enjoy. So particularly with smaller creators, happily dodge the ads, but make sure they’re still getting something for their work.
- Comment on A court blocks a couple from suing Uber over a crash, citing terms and conditions 1 week ago:
Time for another court to finally set the precedent the EULAs and Terms & Conditions are bullshit because it’s expected that no one will read them, and therefore no one has actually agreed to anything
- Comment on Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2 1 week ago:
And so the bloodline of windows write is extinguished
This is kinda sad that if you want to do even basic word processing with Microsoft software, your only option now is an ongoing subscription to do so…
- Comment on Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated 1 week ago:
Japanese courts have a 99% conviction rate or something. Saying you’ve not lost in a Japanese court is like saying 99% of the time you’ve been to the airport, you got on a plane.
That’s the case for most people
- Comment on I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US 1 week ago:
I read this like officer crabtree from Allo Allo
- Comment on Police investigating suspected gunshot fired at taxi containing Ian Hislop 1 week ago:
Do we think there’s much chance this isn’t politically motivated?
Random violence is rarely gun based in this country and it’s not really an area of London I’d expect strays from gang crime especially at 10am on a weekday.
Can we not be the kind of country that tries to kill the press holding our elected representatives to account
- Comment on Nintendo Is Now Going After YouTube Accounts Which Show Its Games Being Emulated 1 week ago:
This is getting to the point where it goes to court and rightfully, Nintendo should get slapped and a new bleem-like precedent is dry.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X is now worth less than a quarter of its $44 billion purchase price 1 week ago:
I remember thinking twitter was bad before he took over
It’s now a complete shadow of what it was even just a couple of years ago. Just a quarter of its value seems generous
- Comment on Wildlife Photography 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on What are some PlayStation games you avoid? 3 weeks ago:
This is the main category for me, if it’s a ported PC game I’ll play it on PC (quake, command & conquer, etc)
- Comment on Congress Poised To Bring Back Unfettered Patent Trolling 3 weeks ago:
So the party that’s ostensibly supposed to be pro business, sides with shitty anti-business conmen?
It’s hard to see how their guiding ideology isn’t just “be shitty and make things worse” now
- Comment on How to tell my actual internet speed usage? 3 weeks ago:
One thing you consider is concurrency, it’s always good to have headroom if you can.
It’s kinda nice to not have the internet speeds of every device on your network grind to a halt just because you’re downloading something on your computer, for example. Particularly if you live with anyone else using the connection too
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 3 weeks ago:
Flat design may be less distracting to you but that also means it’s less clear, because there are fewer obvious demarcation.
I despise flat design, it’s downright awful design, and done for looks rather than functionality.
to you
Flat design dominates for a reason, the less visually busy something is, the easier it is for users to wrap their heads around it. This gets proven again and again in user studies, the more busy and dense you make things, the more users miss stuff and get lost.
People’s opinions on the ribbon specifically are obviously all subjective, but I would say the less distracting design would be the one done less for looks, rather it’s a pretty utilitarian design if you pick it apart. This an interface for productivity tools, and as such the interface should get out of your way until you need it—the ribbon just does that better IMO.
Microsoft also did this to obfuscate features, which is pretty apparent when you consider new users used to “discover” features via the menu system. I supported Office for MS in the early days, and this was a huge thing at the time. It was discussed heavily when training on new versions.
Why on earth would Microsoft want to obfuscate features? There’s no way that motivation would ever make sense.
IIRC one of the main reasons Microsoft introduced the ribbon was that grouping functionality contextually helped users discover features, because people kept requesting features that already existed, but they just couldn’t find. I remember there being a blog on the Microsoft developer site about the making of it that went into this.
- Comment on Why is UI design backsliding? 3 weeks ago:
Weirdly as someone who has used both styles heavily, I’d say the ribbon is more practical than the old toolbars. That’s more contextual grouping and more functional given the tabs and search, plus the modern flat design is less distracting, which is what I’d want from a productivity application.
- Comment on Row erupts over Farage constituency surgeries after he told LBC the public ‘will flow through door with knives' 3 weeks ago:
I hope someone in Clacton opens a shop selling cement milkshakes
- Comment on I hope you don't have any plans this evening. 3 weeks ago:
What timezone is the rapture in?
Trying to decide if I should stay up and get some photos
- Comment on Delectable 3 weeks ago:
Hmmmm… Dessert pasta…
There’s definitely something to this
- Comment on Delectable 3 weeks ago:
If the meat is pork, that could potentially be banging