rbos
@rbos@lemmy.ca
Canadian, sysadmin, trans rights are human rights, puncha-the-nazis, cats are pretty great, GNU Terry Pratchett.
- Comment on Trump tells Canadians to Elect the guy who'll make them the 51st State of US [Canadian elections today] 18 hours ago:
I would not ordinarily recommend Hitler’s tactics and strategies as a general rule, but he sure knew how to solve the Hitler problem, at the very end. Donny, maybe look into that.
- Comment on China has world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactor thanks to ‘strategic stamina’ 1 week ago:
Neutrons?
- Comment on TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days 1 week ago:
Not all DNS hosts support that. Webnames.ca, looking at you…
Also my workplace hosts their own dns and I think it will be a cold day in hell before they let me do automated updates.
- Comment on The people who first invented tools had to invent inventing tools without tools. 2 weeks ago:
In The Long Dark, making an improvised axe is more a midgame item. Gotta find a forge and a heavy hammer, then enough coal. Not to mention stocking up food and water for the wait while you heat it up and craft it.
- Comment on Storage, DoGE, and cognitive biases against tape 3 weeks ago:
It’s not even that it’s low-tech. Tape is high-tech, it’s been updated over the years. LTO10s are targeting 36TB of data per tape.
It’s the pig-ignorant newbies thinking “hurr durr tapes are 1970s tech”. Hard drives are also 1970s tech.
They have their advantages and disadvantages, is all. They’re not well suited for situations where you can’t guarantee a clean room (or enclosed tape reader), for instance, since the tape medium is exposed to the air. Dust can mess it up REAL good.
But for some situations, it’s indispensable.
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- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, we’ve got on-prem cloud hosting at a university, and moving away from VMware is an ongoing process. Still. Two, three years after the writing was on the wall. They’d rather pay the Danegeld.
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 3 weeks ago:
Or they’ll just pay the extra money and avoid all that.
- Comment on BRASSICAS 2 months ago:
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 2 months ago:
Megagermans vs milligermans
- Comment on Announcing the Data.gov Archive 2 months ago:
I work for a Canadian university library and I assure you that data archival efforts are proceeding apace. I can’t really say more without possibly endangering American colleagues.
- Comment on Be there for Boys 3 months ago:
It’s pretty heartwarming seeing all his friends come together to help him get his shot. Dude is obviously terrified and struggling. Bravery is more about facing your fear than it is about objective danger.
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 3 months ago:
It runs perfectly under Proton via the Steam runtime for me. Genuinely- maybe try Linux?
- Comment on What's the game you play when nothing else sounds good? 3 months ago:
The Long Dark. Something about wandering an icy wasteland scavenging, hunting, fishing, works for me.
- Comment on Mastodon Says App Downloads Up 47% on iOS Amid Twitter Exodus 5 months ago:
I would say no* but the asterisk has a few paragraphs involving funding sustainability, cryptobro involvement, and dubious decentralization.
- Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers 5 months ago:
They have good flights but they do make a lot of noise at the waterfront. The smell of avgas is overwhelming, too. Nothing against them, it’s unavoidable, but I’m looking forward to their electric Beaver plane.
- Comment on Pineapple trimmings in 1 liter burp or boom tube 6 months ago:
Ah, cool. Anoxic lactoferment, then. That does sound good. Like sauerkraut.
- Comment on Pineapple trimmings in 1 liter burp or boom tube 6 months ago:
What are we looking at? Pineapple and sugar and water?
Do you airlock it?
- Comment on End nuclear fusion! 6 months ago:
Nobody’s stopping you!