Lammy

No sympathy from me. I have a GoPro Hero11 Black and it's easily the worst camera product I've ever used.

Damn thing overheats constantly. 4K60 never works for more than 15-or-so minutes even with an AC vent aimed directly at it. 1080p60 is its limit for any long-duration recording, and even then it still overheats from time to time if I'm in a particularly hot environment. Made me realize why so much of their marketing shows it being used underwater and skydiving lol

> Each surveillance technology in our field guide includes the following categories to help you “spot” surveillance technology in the wild

One shouldn't trust their eyes alone to spot all the hidden cameras that private property owners love to have covering the streets. For example, it took me months to realize that a tenant in my own building has three cameras pointed down from the windows of their unit and can track my every coming and going if they so wish, and that's an environment I have my eyes on every single day.

I have a modified Olympus OM-D E-M5Ⅱ MFT camera body that I picked up on a whim because it came with a bunch of lenses and batteries and other things I wanted to use with my PEN-F, and it turned out to be amazing for spotting hidden surveillance cameras.

The way it works is that the underlying camera sensor can see IR by design, and an IR-cut filter is installed over it to restrict it to the visible spectrum for photography. The mod simply opens up the camera body and removes that part. Surveillance cameras in dark rooms (or at night on the street) then show up as bright spots, because the modified body can see the ring of IR LEDs they use to illuminate dark scenes for night surveillance.

I don't have any surveillance-spotting images to share, because I usually only do that via the viewfinder live preview (because tbh a photo of an all-black room with a single bright IR blob isn't interesting enough to shoot), but for example here is my IR photo of the Windows XP “Bliss” hill (near the Sonoma/Napa border) both as-shot and after channel mixing:

- https://i.ibb.co/23t4HdrZ/P5160220-1.jpg

- https://i.ibb.co/1Yw8RFLS/P5160220-2.jpg

edit: Fine, link to web store removed at behest of shithead [dead] commenter. Find your own if you want one. If you must know, I got mine from Seawood Photo in San Rafael. How's this for an ad if you're so fucking bothered? – I'm Lammy and this is my favorite camera shop in the San Francisco Bay Area: d(^^ ) https://www.seawood.shop/ ( ^^)b

The person who writes the feature gets promoted for “aligning” with management's “Big Bets”.

I agree with you. I hate that there's any mechanism with a built-in time limit that anyone can sell as a Good Thing to well-meaning but naive people.

Look we're using encryption; you like that right? More encryption == more secure == your peers will attack you if you don't like it.

“Maintain humanity under 500 million in perpetual balance with nature”

> Who needs other language support anyway, we everyone should just learn English!

Why not? That's already how our global air travel system works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation_English

You are confusing letting a machine make decisions about what needs to be done with using a machine to remove toil from the things I have decided.

> I had already put both laptops through my benchmark gauntlet

Who needs to justify it? I make good money, fell in love with the Framework 12 at first sight, maxed it out with 64GiB RAM and 2TB SSD, and never even thought about “comparing” it to other companies' machines before buying. Something about that being a thief of joy? :p

Peep my one-wire desk setup, and that awesome tablet mode: https://ibb.co/album/1YGRfh

My favorite SimCity game by far. The aesthetics are flawless.

I was so happy to score the physical “Music From SimCity 3000” soundtrack CD at the Alemany Flea Market fifteen or so years ago: https://www.discogs.com/release/794952-Jerry-Martin-Music-Fr...

> Some of the music from the original release is missing from an .ini file, even though it is present in Unlimited.

Article neglects to mention that the tracks which are included in Unlimited are lower-bitrate and monophonic compared to the same songs in stereo from the 1.0 release. Copy the same-name files from the original CD instead :)

Unlimited is sad because data-mining shows that it was almost multiplayer à la SC2k Network Edition: https://tcrf.net/SimCity_3000_Unlimited/Unused_Multiplayer_T...

> A bit out of date

> article just about to turn three years old

JavaScript community never beating the allegations lol

I would rather not know the exact time than be spied on.

I would call that Deco, yeah. My rule of thumb:

- vertical lines == Deco

- horizontal lines == Streamline (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streamline_Moderne)

Context: https://www.1940airterminal.org/news/hahs-letter-to-city-of-...

> At this moment, HAHS is in default of the lease, and must vacate both the terminal building and the 1928 hangar by the end of June.

Sad :(

> Wi-Wi stands for Wireless 2Way interferometry

> 2Way

Does that mean you won't get to know the time unless you let them spy on your physical location too? That's what the diagram implies: https://www.gps.gov/sites/default/files/2025-06/CGSICMeeting...

GNSS time is still cooler because you can have extremely accurate time and a reading of your position without the broadcasting satellites knowing you're there.

> I was missing something like a template with the defaults that come with UFW, for instance.

FreeBSD does include this! It's implemented using IPFW instead of PF. Check out `firewall_type` key in `rc.conf`: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/libexec/rc/rc.conf?id=8e08...

For a very easy single-machine firewall, one could set `firewall_type=client` or `firewall_type=workstation` if you want to host anything. For the latter, `firewall_myservices` and `firewall_allowservices` control what ports are enabled and who (other networks/IPs) have access to them.

For a very simple NAT gateway, one could set `firewall_type=simple` and then `firewall_simple_(iif|inet|oif|onet)(_ipv6)?` to configure the ISP-side and internal-side interface names and IPv4 and IPv6 network ranges for each.

For more details and to see exactly what each option actually does, check out `/etc/rc.firewall` where this is all implemented: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/libexec/rc/rc.firewall?id=...

Ignoring the GitHub Pages issue, What does Jekyll 4.x not-do that you want it to do?

Who designed the phone to not have a user-replaceable battery, making CPU speed limiting guaranteed to occur with age?

> Rockbox Zig exposes the full Rockbox audio engine — gapless playback, DSP, 20+ codecs, tag database — through gRPC, GraphQL, HTTP, and MPD APIs

> seizing on word choice in AI notes that might have a sinister connotation

Ironic use of “sinister” when you probably mean “nefarious” and don't mean to perpetuate silly old superstitions about “left-handed” people being evil :p

For in-person conversations to keep the conversation flowing, sure, but any good transcription will say [unintelligible] when the scribe couldn't tell despite being able to listen over it again and again.

Nixon tapes for example: https://kagi.com/search?q=site%3Anixonlibrary.gov+%22unintel...

It's how The System kills something it wants dead without triggering Streisand Effect and creating a huge backlash. It punishes with success.

Wrong, they have 122 random bits out of 128. The other six bits are to say “hello I am a UUIDv4”.

> I thought this is technically impossible, and it will never happen

I always hated this meme/mindset, because if you dig in to the history of them you'll see that their original purpose was to collide. They were labels to identify messages in Apollo's distributed computing architecture. UID and later UUIDs were a reversible way to mark an intersection point between two dimensions.

Any two nodes in a distributed system would generate the same UID/UUID for the same two inputs, and a recipient of an identified message could reverse the identifier back into the original components. They were designed as labels for ephemeral messages so the two dimensions were time and hardware ID (originally Apollo serial number, later 802.3 hwaddress etc).

I think a lot of the confusion can be traced to the very earliest AEGIS implementation where the Apollo engineers started using “canned” (their term, i.e. static or well-known) UIDs to identify filesystems. Over time the popular usage of UUID fully shifted from ephemeral identifiers where duplicates were intentional toward canned identifiers where duplicates were unwanted and the two dimensions were random-and-also-random.

That's not why people use JDownloader. There are plugins for every popular file-sharing site that automate navigating download pages, handling countdown timers, and pausing for ratelimits.

> you can only find a clean installer in the forum

`winget install AppWork.JDownloader`

Built in to Windows since Windows 10 v1809 :)

A few millennia too late for that: the “mark of the beast” is just money — “so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark”. How does one buy or sell without money? Otherwise we would call it bartering.

Some currencies are even literally called Marks lol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_(currency)

Here's some good slice of life for you: https://www.youtube.com/@CrossTimbersBison

You aren't going to be able to make me anti-piracy just because some corpo benefits from it too.

> While archival sounds like a noble goal, in practice it is an excuse used by people who want to steal copyrighted works and take advantage of them

“Take advantage” of them by restoring cut content, fixing bugs, and porting them to platforms that Konami never would. I am very excited for MGS2 to be taken advantage of.

> Obscurity can be fine but it's not security.

All security is security through obscurity. When it gets obscure enough we call it “public key cryptography”. Guess the 2048-bit prime number I'm thinking of and win a fabulous prize! (access to all of my data)