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by fmajid 5mo ago
A corollary to Clarke's Law: any sufficiently incompetently written software is indistinguishable from malware. Yes, I'm looking at you, Liquid Ass.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
More like 5000 years, Susa is nearly as ancient as Sumer. Also the Iranians have cultural continuity going back that far, unlike the Egyptians, Iraqis or Indians. Only the Chinese rival them in that respect.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
We could because we had an industrial base that knew how to make stuff, not MBAs with delusions of grandeur who are belatedly discovering that they are easily dispensed with once the Chinese have acquired the manufacturing know-how.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
The details may have been classified, but I had read about the conclusion of the exercise back then, shortly before the Iraq War. Fortunately, Saddam's generals were not as competent and resourceful as General Van Riper USMC.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
My home router, firewall and VPN gateway is an OpenBSD box, Intel N100 with quad 2.5G Ethernet. To be frank, Linux has better support for fighting bufferbloat with FC-CoDel, but pf is so much saner than Linux firewalls it's not even cl
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by fmajid 5mo ago
They've made major progress on the WiFi front in this release, finally getting experimental WiFi 6 support.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Here's a good example of the corruption at work: https://www.ft.com/content/3d1d8511-fb5b-4de4-b93c-990df9cad...
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by fmajid 5mo ago
I installed Crosspoint Reader on a M5Stack Paper S3, same price but better features. Its magnets are not aligned right for use as a MagSafe attachment to n iPhone, however.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Coal plants were mostly displaced by natural gas, but several states still rely on them for base load. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=54919 Independently of its horrendous impact on the environment, mo
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Worth mentioning the Project Gutenberg ZIMs. You can download the entire ENglish Gutenberg corpus for about 60GB (English Wikipedia ZIM complete with images is ~120GB): https://ebookfoundation.org/openzim.html
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by fmajid 5mo ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2026/04/16/how-franc...
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Civo is a UK cloud provider known mostly for its low-cost Kubernetes hosting service (albeit with fairly expensive storage).
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Yes, you have to decide in your threat model which is worse. There are people who’ve built entire systems on RISC-V FPGA soft cores like Bunnie Huang’s Precursor, but none fast enough to serve as a router.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
For all practical purposes Westminster is also the English Assembly, so there is no reason to believe a putative devolved English Assembly would have decided otherwise. Now, a devolved Northern English Assembly, that would be far more int
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by fmajid 5mo ago
RISC-V is quite wimpy this far, so it’s not even clear if it can saturate a gigabit with features turned on. The one benefit is that it doesn’t have Intel IME/AMT, AMD PSP or ARM TrustZone backdoors built-in, but I would be extremely s
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by fmajid 5mo ago
And also, of course, MS-SQL is only supported on Windows, and ZFS is not available on Windows. Windows does have Volume Shadow copy Services, but they are not as capable as ZFS snapshots and clones.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
There's no reason why it shouldn't, Delphix primarily targeted Oracle, but there is of course not as much open-source enthusiasm for supporting a proprietary database as an open-source one.
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by fmajid 5mo ago
Doesn't look open-source. If you are interested in having a Neon or git-like branching for PostgreSQL experience, have a look at Xata, which is based on ZFS like Delphix was: https://github.com/xataio/xata
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by fmajid 6mo ago
What specific model did you get? Linux compatibility seems to be spotty at best on these
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by fmajid 6mo ago
It might be because most 8TB drives are QLC
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Tuxedo tried to make an ARM laptop using Qualcomm Snapdragon Elite X but gave up: https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2025/11/26/tuxedo-slams-...
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by fmajid 6mo ago
There is a community build for the M5Stack Paper S3, which costs the same but has a touchscreen and a microSD card reader (theoretically limited to 32GB but my 128GB card with my entire eBook collection seems to work fine). Only drawback, t
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Nothing says "upscale product worth paying a premium for" than slathering it with advertising /s
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Not to mention a stronger economy means stronger defense against the Russian threat.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Obviously you trust your family, but some members may be more absent-minded than others and forget to record their trips.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Manual data entry is just too unreliable and time-consuming. I don't see how this could work short of integrating OBD-II fuel consumption data combined with some sort of presence tracking.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
You can’t really call it an exploit when SS7 and its layered protocols like MAP have basically zero security measures whatsoever.
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Even more amazing is the history of Nikolai Vavilov, the geneticist persecuted by Lysenko, who founded seed banks, and the incredibly brave and dedicated staff of the Leningrad seed bank who died in excruciating pain from starvation rather
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by fmajid 6mo ago
I regularly saturate my 1G home and 1G office connection syncing ~6GB files between the two. It's also nice to be able to download a 100G or so game quickly. Remote backups to cloud storage also benefit from fast upload speeds (and mor
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by fmajid 6mo ago
Combine that with full ZIMs of Wikipedia and Stack Overflow, plus documentation of your languages of choice, and you should be golden. I have 4TB SSDs in almost all my laptops (except Macs due to Tim Apple's price-gouging, but I am tra

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