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by gertrunde 3mo ago
Quite possibly. But the way that they dealt with the whole thing smelt very "we don't know what we're talking about", enough to put us off. And shifting all the IP space about would have had costs with very little return
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by gertrunde 3mo ago
The blurb in game suggests the multiplayer side of things will be open, the 'premium' thing on steam gives the one closed bit, which is the single player campaign. (In theory!)
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by gertrunde 3mo ago
Fairly freedom-y by the looks of things: https://github.com/beyond-all-reason
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by gertrunde 3mo ago
I once asked them if we could enable IPv6 on a 1Gb DIA circuit, and the response I got back was that "we can convert the circuit to IPv6, but you'll need to give up your IPv4." I don't think I bothered asking them again!
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by gertrunde 3mo ago
I can't really see this ending well for the end user, however well it does/doesn't end for the stakeholders. I thought Roku took off due to their focus on the streaming platform itself, and being agnostic to the streaming ser
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by gertrunde 3mo ago
Quote from my partner's manager before a vacation: "If I see you log on, I'll disable your account."
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by gertrunde 4mo ago
I'd not seen that one, and it does look like it has some nice points - although needing its own special app is rather frustrating (vs leveraging apps that people are already using). Seems not too disimilar from the echo show's vid
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by gertrunde 4mo ago
ADB - Android Debug Bridge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Debug_Bridge - https://developer.android.com/tools/adb
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by gertrunde 4mo ago
We bought two portals for elderly relatives, predominantly for video calling, and I don't think there has been another product, then or since, that fitted that use case as well, especially with people who maybe aren't as familiar
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by gertrunde 4mo ago
> the time to fun is/was too high and was for a long time. Yup - I got one for the other half as a present... like an hour and a half / two hours into setup/onboarding, they lost interest, it went back in the box and never
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by gertrunde 4mo ago
Literally the first sentence: "The goal of Search has always been simple: to help you ask anything on your mind — from quick facts to the deep, complex or hyper-specific questions that can be hard to articulate." Really? My aim ha
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by gertrunde 5mo ago
The worst thing is it even does it if your photos are being backed up, but to something that is not Google.
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by gertrunde 5mo ago
I think class 4 tops out at about 71W delivered to the powered device, albeit 90W at the switch port. Might be a struggle I suspect!
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by gertrunde 5mo ago
Wikipedia suggests that there are no naturally resistant strains, although there is some genetically modified work ongoing. [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_greening_disease#Contro... ] More interesting was a sugge
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by gertrunde 6mo ago
A colo laptop seems a bit daft, vs a colo 2nd hand micro desktop?
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by gertrunde 6mo ago
Weirdly this might be a CPE problem, e.g. crappy ISP routers. Put in something more interesting, e.g. OpenWRT, or there are proprietary options too, that provides simple & reliable local LAN DNS, then the problem just goes away.
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by gertrunde 6mo ago
There's a few things here that are a bit iffy tbh! I can't see why an ISP is dynamically changing the IPv6 addressing for a client, but if that's what is going on, then v6 NPT is your friend (RFC6296 - https://data
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by gertrunde 6mo ago
Possibly not the best choice of name...? (Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance_Monitor in case people are unaware, usually known as... perfmon)
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by gertrunde 6mo ago
Reminds me a bit of S/KEY (RFC1760, RFC2289 and others around the 1990's). Not because of the encryption element, but the part about representing a 64 bit integer as a six word sequence for usability. ( https://en.wikipe
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by gertrunde 6mo ago
er... surely it's a Java application server? (i.e. in the same space as Jboss/Wildfly, WebSphere, etc) Historically, it was also the reference implementation application server for J2EE.
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by gertrunde 6mo ago
I think that might be literally the same text. (Barring the first paragraph anyway).
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by gertrunde 6mo ago
It can be done, but it is quite irritating with the way that canonical have made snap a dependency in the minimal meta package. (And minimal on Ubuntu is really really super minimal, doesn't even have ping. Well apart from snap anyway)
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by gertrunde 6mo ago
It's not very clear from the article, but I get the feeling from the context that the 'pile of shit' quote referenced the package of documentation about the service rather than the service itself. (That seems to be the main c
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by gertrunde 6mo ago
The sheer amount of conflict of interest with folk involved in this later getting employed by Microsoft is a bit crazy.
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by gertrunde 7mo ago
Was, they sold it on to Lenovo in 2014. [ https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-comp... ]
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by gertrunde 7mo ago
ok, did not know that, every day is a school day!
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by gertrunde 7mo ago
One of the more fun related items... You are not eligible for an ETA if you are a British citizen. On first glance, that sounds fairly common sense, as if you're a citizen, why would you need/want one? But there's a wrinkle..
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by gertrunde 7mo ago
I had the same thought, and checked a dozen or so of them, they're all multiple dozens of balls. The submitter's description does make reference to this a bit, the Amazon product description quantity for these items is "1&quo
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by gertrunde 7mo ago
Just for completeness, the followup: https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retractio... And the original article has now been replaced with a brief paragraph on the retraction. https:/&#x2F
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by gertrunde 7mo ago
Current response from one of the more senior Ars folk: https://arstechnica.com/civis/threads/journalistic-standards... (Paraphrasing: Story pulled over potentially breaching content policies, investigating, update

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