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by xoa 5y ago
> Expending energy to cool the house that heats the planet is so counterproductive Please don't spread this anti-environmental claptrap. Expending energy does not "heat the planet", as a quick consideration of the night s
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ZFS fans, rejoice–RAIDz expansion will be a thing soon(arstechnica.com)
2 points by xoa 5y ago|0 comments
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by xoa 5y ago
> Just because Apple decided to drop support for ZFS, that didn’t mean that ZFS was no longer available on Mac OS. In 2008, Dustin Sallings created the MacZFS project with the goal of “continuing where Apple left off with ZFS”. The MacZF
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by xoa 5y ago
> This is such a weird fucking statement. Not if you've been in the industry for long enough. And it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Apple, the "everyone just loves watching Intel suffer" (or more charitably,
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by xoa 5y ago
FINALLY . They should have done this since the start, for decades now much of the US military has gotten cyberwar completely backwards by misapplying real world strategies to the digital world (obviously they have not been alone). "Th
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by xoa 5y ago
It was also relatively recently (2018) reinforced by the Supreme Court in the case Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis . However, there are (as companies have now been finding out) still standards in the courts for arbitration. It's not just
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by xoa 5y ago
It's been clear the whole ICE chain is full of tipping points and hidden boosters that we have been seriously starting to accelerate towards for at least a decade now. This article actually doesn't even touch on many of the most i
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by xoa 5y ago
Looks like a super cool project. I'm always happy to see new client-side software for communication protocols written that aims to improve upon built-in! And iMessages in particular could certainly use it. With the demise of iTunes, it
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by xoa 5y ago
> but WireGuard is much much simpler than OpenVPN (which was comically hard to get right). I love WireGuard, and it's definitely beautifully designed to be security fail safe with no moving parts as far as that goes. If you manage
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by xoa 5y ago
This is an older study but used 37 years of data and I found it interesting to re-read in light of the current Brood X emergence. The long cycles nonetheless appear to have multi-year effects and may themselves have helped induce generation
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Effects of Periodical Cicada Emergences on Abundance&S of Bird Pops (2005) [pdf](escholarship.org)
1 points by xoa 5y ago|1 comments
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by xoa 5y ago
I mostly agree with your overall argument, but the "mostly" qualification goes along with a small but important correction: > The fact that ARM, an open-source architecture ARM is in no way open, it's fully proprietary. U
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by xoa 5y ago
> I'm asking where is the line between "mining crypto" that is banned and that is allowed. Well specifically here, their T&C has 9.3 ( https://www.hetzner.com/rechtliches/agb ): > 9.3 We are als
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by xoa 5y ago
> Such concept exists? Yes, terms against costs incurred due to extreme, malicious or negligent conduct by a renter are fairly common I think across nearly every service aren't they? I mean for a completely different category, take
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by xoa 5y ago
> Where is the line between allowed and banned? Uh, in the contract (here the Terms and Conditions ) the customer agreed to? That's kind of how business transactions work. Hence why they updated the T&C. This isn't some a
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by xoa 5y ago
So the newer one on the front page just got flagged, I guess because of this one? I missed it though and thought this was interesting, so transplanting my comment: Neat piece, and interesting to start to see some numbers attached to Apple w
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by xoa 5y ago
Advances in miniaturization and better economics for lidar definitely are making floor plan creation and 3D room scanning far more accessible. For work I've been experimenting over the last few months with "RoomScan LIDAR" an
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by xoa 5y ago
FWIW, I've met McDonough, and a friend did a bunch of work with him. He's an interesting person and has done some genuinely interesting projects. And not in terms of big fancy ultra expensive ones, he's been on the "sust
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Risks from symmetric encryption in Ubiquiti UniFi’s inform protocol(jade.wtf)
3 points by xoa 6y ago|0 comments
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by xoa 6y ago
> You can't replace drives with bigger ones and expand the pool. Yes you can. That's exactly what the 'autoexpand' property is for. It's odd how this kind of thing floats around on the internet.
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by xoa 6y ago
> if you drink enough water it’s no problem If you learned such a thing you learned incorrectly. Mojave is dry . The article mentions this, but the relevant measure is the "wet-bulb temperature", which combines heat and humi
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by xoa 6y ago
I know DNSSEC has a ton of flaws and has received a lot of justified criticism. But I'd still desperately love to be able to have good standards in place such that my possession of a given domain also allows me to operate a generally r
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by xoa 6y ago
> Worst case I get convicted in absentia and the next time I set foot on US soil I get in trouble at customs. FWIW, you cannot simply be convicted in absentia in the USA. It would violate the 5th, 6th, and 14th Amendments and the due pr
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by xoa 6y ago
> edit: my concern is the long chain of the curve of low-orbit satellite companies as price continues to have downward pressure. While this isn't entirely unreasonable, consider a few things. First, this is one case where even natu
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by xoa 6y ago
> They’re maintaining a constant fleet of 42000 satellites, which means putting up new junk to replace the old junk while its still flying junk and not de-orbited junk. No. First, The whole reason they need to maintain a fleet, rather
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by xoa 6y ago
Just to add to sibling comments who already answered this, that isn't how orbital mechanics work (or else a lot of things would be much easier!). A good place to start reading is on Hohmann transfer orbits [1, 2]. They're commonly
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by xoa 6y ago
While I know Scientific American is a fairly mainstream targeted and softer science publication, this > And the problem is now poised to get much worse because of the rise of satellite “mega constellations” requiring thousands of spacecr
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by xoa 6y ago
TrueNAS (formerly FreeNAS but got a rebrand). Built around ZFS and FreeBSD, it's a really solid and more focused NAS product. DSM has more general features like their whole surveillance software and such, but with a touch of irony NAS
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by xoa 6y ago
> to forcing people to migrate to their cloud only infrastructure ... fully SaaS A slight gentle correction. I criticize them elsewhere in this thread, but in fairness I have to point out that this isn't quite correct yet. It'
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by xoa 6y ago
It's a fundamental concern I've always had with subscriptions for non-entertainment services or trivially fungible goods. I've become a big believer in business incentives and feedback loops for sustainable commercial relatio

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