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I had backblaze on a laptop that was stolen. The thief uploaded all of their criminal activities to my backblaze account. I was able to inform five federal agencies on their wrongdoings as a result.

Thanks Backblaze for adding the forever hold feature! You helped prevent more victims of a very bad human.

Hello Woofy has been working on an AI to find the right emoji to convert customers in online advertising.

https://www.emojidata.ai/

My grandfather was a nuclear scientist who worked on the Manhattan project. He ate right and exercised daily. He even maintained the community parks as a volunteer fixing things like tennis courts and fences.

He got Alzheimer’s. It dragged out for over a decade killing him slowly and hurting everyone who knew him.

My father decided he’d rather have a shorter but more quality driven life after that experience. He’s overweight, has a great outlook on his life, and is a joy to be around.

Not everyone wants longevity.

We extract hydrogen from water using thermolysis or electrolysis. Either way requires using a lot of energy.

Nuclear provides an answer to capturing hydrogen in a carbon friendly way.

Carbon taxes are extremely unpopular in the USA where many doubt the validity of climate change.

Quote from the work done to fact check if we need Nuclear:

Most experts FactCheck.org contacted, including those who think nuclear power should remain an option, said that from a technical perspective, nuclear is not needed to decarbonize the grid.

But technically possible is not the same as practically feasible, or the most cost-effective. In that regard, many, although not all, researchers say nuclear — or something like it — is likely to be necessary to some degree. And even if nuclear is ultimately not needed, they say, the safer strategy is not to exclude it.

Here is the article: https://www.factcheck.org/2019/11/what-does-science-say-abou...

BS.

We need carbon extraction plants and Nuclear power to reverse the changes we are making to the planet.

Ever since cmb sold to netgate the Pfsense project has been run by people who I suspect are working hard to find a way to stop releasing open source versions.

FYI, my observations as an outsider are the project went through three phases of owners:

BSD Perimeter is owner and starts open source fork creating open source releases = CMB and Scott as founders.

Electric Sheep Fencing ownership is a result of CMB taking more of the day to day while Scott bows out and Netgate starts funding things / sinking hooks in. Open source continues to be important and CMB is in charge for the most part.

Netgate ownership completes obtaining full ownership / gets their hooks into every bit of the project. We see annoying screen about licensing and they start nonsense with OPNSense to flex their tiny muscles.

FYI netgate hardware isn’t bad and you get stellar support for what is currently an open source product but they have worked hard to fracture the hard won trust CMB had been building up in the community.

To others who might be curious, the iPhone 12 now supports raw photo mode. Older models do not natively have this.

MacOS was a breath of fresh air to those of us who wanted Office, Adobe, and a more polished experience than Microsoft or Linux offered at the time.

My friend bought one of the last G3 iBooks. It ran Mac OS X 10.2 that was arguably the first “stable” release of Mac OS X.

I had such a great experience I bought a 15” October 2005 PowerBook as my first Apple laptop.

It was under performant compared to Intel offerings of the day but I badly wanted Mac OS X. I was thrilled when I could buy a 2007 MacBook Pro to replace it with a Core2Duo processor.

Now, the M1 MacBook Air is so unbelievably fast and power efficient.

Run for office. You live in a democracy.

Yes.

They support their AS400 line. No one else in the market. This plus some companies they bought (e.g. redhat) is all that IBM is left as today.

Only novel tech they have been working on that I’m aware of is quantum computers…

This is my experience as well since the BPoS days…

Not that it matters. Companies on the Microsoft stack just tolerate the outages so they can keep using Microsoft for everything.

I think 15 years ago you could get a better education on irc than in a classroom for computer science material. The top talent in open source lived on there. Times have changed.

Support can be ended at any time and leave you hanging when relying on proprietary software.

The fallout from this will be worse for western digitals brand than just patching the cloud service or smartly shutting it off if they weren’t going to support it.

That was due to how horrible it was to program an app for the cell processor.

Crypto currencies today are basically all decentralized Ponzi schemes inflated in value by the very centralized tether that is is printing something like $4Bn a week of new tether with no US dollar currency known to be backing it: https://youtu.be/-whuXHSL1Pg

Brrrrrr goes the federal reserve printing press.

When you still have reserve currency status for the world you can do dumb things.

Unfortunately those dumb things are catching up to us…

I started today with 4.5 hours of sleep and I’ll do just great with that. Once a week my body grabs 10-14 hours in a single night to “catch up”.

Could you ever see Microsoft dropping the registry?

My probably unpopular opinion is that the registry is the worst feature in Windows. It’s bloat directly impacts the speed of the operating system.

Seems like such a waste for so many advancements in Windows but the registry sticks around like a bad hangover.

If history is any indicator Nintendo will release these improvements on future virtual consoles as paid upgrades. They’ll credit the open source contributions they didn’t have to pay for to make this possible.

Britain and the USA 🇺🇸 needed Russia to break the last axis power. This war will be economic but will be far more global than previous wars.

So many horse and buggy makers in these comments that can’t see what you see. They think that because some SaaS app they build required so much custom login that low code won’t make a big difference in their world view.

What low code really represents is making automation more accessible for more common tasks without knowing how to develop software. Zapier but for more complex tasks.

20 years ago you had apps like Dreamweaver or Frontpage that enabled this for many people to do static sites like a square space now does dynamic ones.

Sadly though, if history is any teacher, at some point these incremental improvements will create larger low code companies and further consolidate more of the web into a few bigger providers.

I’ve read the decline in crime and overall improvements in society being safer is a direct result of the reduction in lead exposure: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27067615

That timeline you described doesn’t align with the events of eternal September: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Blaming the trend of declining religious faith in the American people is as easy as blaming replacement migration.

How about we talk about declining standard of living, wealth inequality, and rules that apply only to the working class while the political/wealthy classes live their best lives.

The existing system is broken.

Mike Holmes would.