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Wow, I didn't know that. Also, only 75 USD per virtual server. For some reason I had a much higher number in my head. Happy to pay this (and support the Ubuntu team) to keep some old boxes up for a couple more years.

Congrats to the Gitlab team! Very happy on-premise Gitlab user, for both our relatively small scale SAAS and our digital agency. Our growth mirrored Gitlab's, so we started with the basic git hosting + issue tracker, and have added CI and other features in our workflow as time went by. Nice thing to know is that we've upgraded our instance for over the last 5 years and never had to do a backup/reinstall, which shows something about the general software quality.

Would this board be capable of switching AVB (IEEE 1722.1 specifically)? Existing switches are ridiculously priced, and this might be a great solution paired with some open source code for (home) music studios.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio_Video_Bridging

This is true. But there is the shortest term, say the 2030 goals (go full on wind and solar, there's still plenty of fossil base load that can be shaved off), and the 2050 plus subsequent goals. If we want to go full carbon negative (and we should), then nuclear is necessary.

That's not normal. Both my Siemens washer & dryer will reach 10 years this December and both are working like new. Price wise in the 75th percentile models (of Siemens).

The dryer is a heat pump model, which was quite a bit more expensive than other models at the time. The salesperson at the local MediaMarkt even recommend against it, since you would never 'make the money back' in energy costs from it. This is quite wrong. In fact, with EU energy prices you recoup the difference within 2 years using it twice a week.

Disagree. I think this is a boon to E2E encryption. However you might feel, content filter legislation is unstoppable. It will just take a few high profile media cases for E2E encryption to be killed, otherwise. This is the right (privacy-conscious) way to implement it, on device. Google has been doing this for years, yet server-side. I recommend reading the actual docs: https://www.apple.com/child-safety/

I force myself to use it in the same way. With time, it gets better. But the speed I had from working 20 years in Photoshop is gone.

Sorry, I meant 'rich people' as a neutral term, I do not attach any value to it or intend to deride someone for their wealth. I think that in general people should do as they want, as long as they don't harm others.

To rephrase: I felt that the entire flight was a bit underwhelming, and that it felt more like an amusement park ride (with a very expensive ticket price) than an actual spaceflight with astronauts, even though it was communicated that way.

Agreed. This really felt like an amusement park ride for rich people. Like a throw towards the edge of orbit.

I'm sure there is some innovation coming out of this, but compared to the insane progress of SpaceX it's super underwhelming.

Everyone is talking about memory usage. But for me it's nuts how much CPU Teams is using when doing a video chat. Facetime video calls are barely measurable, CPU-wise, whereas a 1-1 call with Teams can easily occupy more than a full core. Quality and latency are much better with Facetime too.

Believe it or not, most graphic designers are still using Adobe tools. Already hard to get them to move over to Sketch, but it's becoming the norm for digital design. Figma is popular in UI circles, but an exception outside of them.

Good write up, but this reads as a naive implementation of a single band compressor with gain compensation, a long look ahead, fast attack and slow release setting.

I love SQLite. Used it to set up a small PHP tool which allowed users to check if their data was present in the latest Facebook leak. Took 30 mins of coding, incl. data import. The tool got picked up by the national media and the tiny 1GB VPS got quite hammered with traffic (±50 lookups a second, 5.5M records). But it didn't break a sweat. The only snag I ran into was running out of file descriptors/sockets, which was easily solved.

I made a version for NL users, but based on first name/last name (returning the last three digits of their phone number): https://jstsch.com/facebook

Yes. My 486 DX2-66MHz could do 112kbit MP3s, but was struggling with 128kbit MP3s.

Completely agree. This has caused me endless frustration over the last... 20 years (wow, time flies).

Wondering, do fonts need to be adapted to support this? Is the property 'cap height' typically available in fonts? X-height is.

Luckily in response to this thread [1] they recently announced that local access will return: https://community.ui.com/questions/UniFi-Protect-Mobile-App-...

[1] https://community.ui.com/questions/A-Request-for-Local-Accou...

Yeah, same here. It’s really nice to be able to spin up a clean Ubuntu VM on any provider, and just adding your repo, key and being an apt install away from deployment. Makes it super easy for us to deploy dedicated instances for Enterprise customers as well - no exotic dependencies and no problem if they want on prem or wherever else.

You are right. Back in the early 90ies, in primary and high school, I often got in conflict about this with my English teachers. Distinctly remember being around 10 years old, and arguing with my poor teacher, that US English would be a much more useful standard for Dutch students to learn :)

PS: So starting age 8 I learned English from adventure games and a bit later from shows like Star Trek TNG (BBC!). Starting written versus verbal (often using a dictionary to find the right words to type with those Sierra text interfaces) did mean that some of my pronunciation was totally off — I'd simply never heard most words spoken before :)

H5mag | The Hague, The Netherlands | Onsite (remote right now of course) | https://www.h5mag.com/

H5mag is an online design platform for digital magazines. We're aimed at graphic designers and enable them to create (responsive) interactive content for the web. No coding needed — practically magic!

Technically: the H5mag editor is a large vanilla Javascript web app. Our backend is mostly written in PHP with some (real-time) microservices sprinkled on top. We develop using GitLab with a Continuous Deployment philosophy.

Take a detailed look here: https://www.h5mag.com/jobs

Want to know more? Shoot off an email to me: joost [dot] schuttelaar [at] h5mag.com and I'd be happy to share!

I also like the Touch Bar, and wish that I could get an external keyboard with an integrated Touch Bar.

Yes, I upgraded from Unifi Video to Unifi Protect (by purchasing a Cloud Key Gen 2 Pro), and was pretty dismayed that you have to allow outside access (via the Unifi cloud) to use the cameras in the app. For the hypothetical reason that this might be cracked once. This was two weeks ago... didn't expect it would happen so soon.

H5mag | The Hague, The Netherlands | Onsite (remote right now of course) | https://www.h5mag.com/

H5mag is an online design platform for digital magazines. We're aimed at graphic designers and enable them to create (responsive) interactive content for the web. No coding needed — practically magic!

Technically: the H5mag editor is a large vanilla Javascript web app. Our backend is mostly written in PHP with some (real-time) microservices sprinkled on top. We develop using GitLab with a Continuous Deployment philosophy.

Take a detailed look here: https://www.h5mag.com/jobs

Want to know more? Shoot off an email to me: joost [dot] schuttelaar [at] h5mag.com and I'd be happy to share!

Fantastic, bullseye. What an event, beautiful! If it managed to slow down a tiny bit more it'd be still standing... Phenomenal.

Unbelievably lax response. However, I've encountered a similar response with Microsoft 365 login phishing sites being hosted with a nice windows.net SSL certificate. Sites remained up for more than a week after reporting through official channels (CERT). Never received a response.

From the article: Firefox asks for your permission before connecting to a website that doesn’t support secure connections.

Indeed. Great performance too (much more CPU efficient on Safari than Chrome for some reason).

Also: P3 colors all over :) the Nova logo burns my eyes nicely on the Ultrafine 5K's :) color(display-p3 1 .012 .29 / 1) learn something new every day.

The site reminds me of early Panic work which was also pushing the web envelope forward in tiny attentive details.

At H5mag we use bare VMs and deploy using Debian packages. Build them with a Gitlab runner, push to a package server. Let the ‘nodes’ update themselves. It’s really nice since the only dependencies you have for deploying are rock solid.

> Chromium doesn't even do hardware decoding on x86 desktops

Which is a ridiculous waste of energy... :( you notice it too now using Microsoft Teams (Electron) and Google Meet versus Facetime. Eats your battery in no time.

Here in NL the tide is slowly turning in favor of adding more nuclear to the mix. It's getting increasingly clear that wind and solar alone are not going to cut it, after the low hanging fruit has been picked. There's simply no space for the required overcapacity if we want to be self sufficient.

Currently, we're getting so much of our base load from coal, it's embarrassing. We'll probably have a mix of wind, rooftop solar, natural gas and nuclear in the future. Dumping excess energy as hydrogen -> methane in our huge natural gas grid.