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Yes, somewhat. It started as email -only, but then later added NextCloud file services. The hardware is passively cooled, so nice and quiet.

Although I'm sad that the system is going to shut down, I'm glad that they are doing the right thing and are going to let me move the domain name I have to some other service.

I have the Helm email appliance, and what it does _not_ come with is a webmail interface. (It does have Nextcloud, though). I put Cypht on a different box to access my Helm mail, and it was very useful.

At the moment it is down because I did a migration from one host to another, there is some sort of login problem on the new box with the old database. RSN I'll have time to diagnose and fix.

Obviously no-one can predict the future, but a reasonable assumption (I think) is that a future AI will be able to de-anonymize supposedly anonymous posters to Kiwi Farms. If someone is posting terrible opinion to Kiwi Farms, why should they be protected by archive.org from reaping what they sow?

Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Archive.org now provided more shade.

What I don't know is if Kiwi Farms _requested_ to be removed from Archive.org. As a publicity stunt, I could see a request for removal and then a wailing that they've been removed.

There was a minor kerfuffle with Snopes and a fact check of theirs which embarrased them. They later revised their fact check to no longer be embarassing. Problem was, archive.org still maintained the original. You can no longer find the original article from 2018 on archive.org. I'm sure that the only people who wanted the embarassing fact check removed were Snopes themselves. Archive.org was apparently happy to help them revise their history, by limiting how far back you can see anything in their library from Snopes.com.

Heh. My first paid programming job was RPG II, eight hours a day, five days a week, for two and a half years. :-D

Mildly interesting problem: law says email with financial information needs to be encrypted. Email goes from the Accounts Payable clerk to Verizon Accounts Receivable, but triggers the automatic encryption process. One needs to create a free login and read the email in the (secure) web portal. Verizon complains. Talk with the Verizon AR manager and he tells me "I have 40 people who access that mailbox; I am NOT going to create a username and password in your system and then share that with those 40 people. What happens next week, when one of them leaves?"

When I was a desktop tech, visiting a user with a problem, I carried a laser pointer with me. I could point to elements on the screen without getting my fingerprints on the glass and without invading the user's personal space. Laser pointers are pretty much useless on LCD. Not that I would ever go back; but it was a nice feature at the time.

Why wasn't he charged? The FBI has a history of not prosecuting crimes if they think they are going to lose. 40 years ago it was a brag: "We've got a 100% success rate on convictions." James Comey would later call them chickenshit for not prosecuting actual criminals if they thought they would lose. In their mind, it is better to let criminals go free than to break their 100% conviction record.

Right. I remember a friend trying to share the link, and the app on the phone said "No - this link cannot be shared." My friend took a screenshot on his phone and then posted it to a Discord server I'm on. I forget if it was Twitter or Facebook; but both were complicit.

I've also seen posts by people defending this censorship with the lie that "you could still get to the NY Post article, so it wasn't censorship." This is bullshit. How am I supposed to even know there _was_ a NY Post article if your platform shuts down the attempts to share that link?

That Discord screenshot was the only way I learned that there even was a story.

For me, it was 1 based index that makes sense to me.

I started programming in FORTRAN, then COBOL, then (Lord help me) RPG II. All had 1 based arrays. I got paid to program in RPG II eight hours a day, five days a week, for two and a half years.

A common bit of code was to create an array of month names. Then take an input date, say 20220825, and split that into $Year (first four characters) and $MonthNumber (next two) and $Day (next two).

$MonthIndex = strip the leading zero (if present) from $MonthNumber

Then, this code worked: $MonthName = @Month[$MonthIndex]

When I ran into my first language with 0 based arrays, and @Month[1] returned February, I was pretty much convinced you all had gone insane. December is an out of bounds condition now? Really?

Much later, a friend explained the stuff about multiplying the index by the array element length, and easily getting the memory location of the item in that array. It does make sense; but, I've always hated the code I've had to write that says $MonthName = @Month[$MonthNumber - 1]

This recently changed. Firefox will turn it off for you, but the same keystroke does not turn it back on. In other words, it _used_ to be a toggle, but now it switches in one direction only.

There is a fix; add in about:config an item "browser.toolbars.bookmarks.2h2020" set as boolean False.