1970-01-01

XMPP is the pinnacle of chat that just works. And it is champion by default, which is kind of the point here. All other popular systems and servers went defunct; it will never be taken over by BigCo and left to rot. Here's to 25 more years!

Stop chasing everything. Stop and give me true open source repos for the Wi-Fi chips and drivers so the already well-established community can care for my router for the next 20 years. Force this into the spec.

https://wireless.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/en/users/drivers....

..to add to a botnet for click fraud.

The duality of cybersecurity is interesting. Sometimes the high bar is cleared just to enable a low bar to go lower. Those PLCs monitoring water were ignored for a very long time because they couldn't click on ads. It took a war for them to become a target.

Nice site. Funny how some are zipping around just as fruit flies and other extremely small insects do. I'm still patiently waiting for someone to upload 4K videos of UAPs that are in-focus. We're in 2026 and still are squinting at white pixel blobs in gray skies or gray pixel blobs in black skies. Example: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/1017793/dow-uap-pr117-unresol...

Somewhere way out there another life is looking at a similar map and feeling the same!

Great title. Great topic. The tiny details are all here, including the 4th option (X), the Abort/Retry/Fail link, and they even have RSS! Subscribed.

This is a good example of immature writing. Buried on the bottom of the page are two links, both revealing internal tickets that are hinting as to how I can actually help. There should be big, bold, easy to follow steps for volunteers.

Again, rare and valuable are not the same thing. A $2 bill is not as valuable as you think it is, unless you think it is $2.

There was more than plenty of names in music and tv that sold you stuff back then.

https://adland.tv/diet-pepsi-ray-charles-uh-huh-you-got-righ...

>That feeling part of a larger anti-consumerist vibe percolating through culture at the time.

No, now this is not how I remember it at all. It was entirely limited to that era of music. Back then, Michael Jordan got hundreds of millions on just his sneakers. Nobody dared to think he was "selling out". George Foreman grills were hot. Gretzky was into selling you quite a lot of stuff. Shaq has never stopped doing TV commercials since the 90s.

https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19950219/2105837/gr...

The article is very good; the headline is great. AI cannot (yet) do this.

Well, it depends on the plastic, but the impact can be engineered to become fertilizer for soil.

https://sustainabilitymag.com/articles/how-riken-university-...

https://pubs.acs.org/jacsat/article-abstract/147/48/44507/37...

We have plastic that lasts a few years instead of hundreds. The pollution problem slowly solves itself if we just put in a bit of effort to ban the cheapest of the cheap plastics. The technology is here, we're just refusing to do anything.

You can reasonably calculate the deaths caused by VW's diesel gate. We did that to ourselves.

https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/health-impacts-of-...

I suppose it isn't if you never had it on real hardware. Win32 was well marked as the complete OS takeover for the PC. DOS remained only to boot Windows and as backup OS. If you absolutely needed to jump back to DOS you still could, however you were heavily expected to force your DOS programs to launch and live in their own little DOS environments, much to everyone's chagrin.

WINSTART.BAT is just "AUTOEXEC.BAT for Windows"

The extra diagrams to state how it all works were extra.

Cutting down instead of shooting out is a sign of maturity.

Thanks. The complete gap to measure at-home living conditions kicks this into a flawed study. It does not control for physical living conditions anywhere. For instance, if your home is just some hot and filthy room in a neighborhood with lots crime, you're RTO just to escape the horrible environment.

Re: AWS.

Yes, you have agreed to SLAs. Credit is issued on your bill if they slip away from the 99% uptime contract.

After checking every box to never get any email from Amazon.com, I followed-up with a catch-all auto-delete rule for the domain. That was 10 years ago. I have experienced zero issues with their services. As a nice bonus, I'm immediately aware of anyone trying to phish me via Amazon orders.

Obscure? Sir, the printer is sold on Amazon. It is not obscure.

I think you right, however they left all the right clues to decrypt it in days. You really don't want to do that.

Why is this front page? This is just a strangely framed ambiguous question. Here's more of the same: Will you have spent more of your life sleeping than with your family? Will you have spent more of your life walking than with your family? Will you have spent more of your time working than with your family? Will you have spent more of your time blinking than with your family?

Yes - it is possible to label it the surface inner and outer - see my previous comment about paint flying off the outer surface at high RPM.

Edit: I guess I have to make it extra simple.

1. Where there's surface paint, that is the effective inner surface.

2. Where there's no surface paint, well guess what, that's the outer surface.

3. There's no other, 3rd possibility. It exists or it doesn't. If you're the ant, you either feel a paint line on the surface or you don't.

I don't want to ignite an argument, but this feels like Linux v Windows. You should absolutely switch because you hate dealing with it, but the less-popular choice is going to be less popular everywhere. Your next job will very, very likely not care about your personal hatred and will simply force you back into the default, popular choice. It is sometimes best to stick with what (mostly) works for everyone unless you want to go down the path of learning another tool.

You've redefined "the issue" but we agree here. The issue was there was no way for ants to know where they stand on a strip. Force will reveal where you stand. Topology makes it one (forever one) path (orientability). The ant will know where it stands, inner or outer path, based on how much grip it needs to cling to the surface. The outer edge is where the ant needs to start gripping the surface. The inner edge is where it does not. The twist is where it will need to apply grip force.

>Made for a 1 MHz machine

That's impressive work. It's fun to think how today's CPU rounding errors can run hit adventure games. Your smartwatch uses more cycles to render the time.

Spin the strip as you would a wheel. The forces tell you where you're standing on it; Just measure them: If you painted a line down the center, the paint would fly-out from half of the surface (at high RPM) before it could fully adhere to the surface. The no-orientation topology only makes sense if you're concerned with topology, the universe has other ways of showing you real orientation.

No, they couldn't find you because you are 404. That's the joke. Wooosh