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rini17··on Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?
no it was reply to "i just dont want cloudflare ai-scanning my blog, seeing the word "DDoS" because i am in networking, and proactively removing my site from the internet."
rini17··on Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?
Your account can get terminated for any other random nonsense though. Happens all the time, with cloudflare, google, github, everywhere. Everyone just pretends that "this can't happen to me". You want cyberspace free from any "evil" state jurisdiction, nor "coddling" so this is what you get.
rini17··on EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing"
The former cyber-libertarians are running the tech unicorns now. Ofc they would prefer you see them as John Galts lol. But they aren't that and they will defend freedom of cyberspace only as far as it aligns with their power and profit.
rini17··on The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism
Since monopolies make stuff scarce and expensive, you basically want free market for violence, it should be be cheap and abundant?

And all the DDoS and crytocurrency extortions and scams should extend to meatspace too, and you would be okay with it because it's supposedly still better than what govts do?

rini17··on The hypocrisy of cyberlibertarianism
If you have friends with some shared meaning then anything is easy.

Everyone else can get get strip mined for attention and croak, you don't care.

rini17··on Light without electricity? Glowing algae could make it possible
Good? You would need the dashboard climate controlled all the time otherwise the algae gets sterilised in the sun. On the other hand, if you park underground all day, must provide light otherwise it dies. Either way it will eat your battery in no time.

Such an idea might be a good startup pitch for gullible investors but won't survive clash with reality.

rini17··on California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy
The peaches have similar problem with fungal diseases like bananas. The best tastiest varieties can't be mass grown anymore.
rini17··on What can we gain by losing infinity?
You know about busy beavers? These programs do fit in few bits, yet the number of states they can reach does not.
rini17··on The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
If we suddenly needed huge amounts of textile or clothing, we would run into same issues. This is not about progress as such.
rini17··on The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code
It's subtler than that. Europe was just constantly reminded by its big brother not to duplicate NATO structures, which are dependent on the US.
rini17··on Teenager makes groundbreaking invention on quest for unlimited energy
Well, afaik Farnsworth fusor is neither new invention, nor it can achieve over unity. Still a big achievement!
rini17··on Sweden's Digital ID System Hacked, Public's Data Sold on Dark Web
"The incident is raising alarm over the risks of centralized control as governments worldwide push similar schemes."

Good, such things could never happen in the US then./s

But seriously, can we stop such stupid soundbites?

rini17··on Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths
You mean zswap part of cleancache? But that fell out of kernel completely, no? And zram gained support for backing device.

BTW most of zram tutorials get it wrong, you are supposed to manually mark idle pages and initiate writeback by periodically writing to /sys/block/zramX/idle and /sys/block/zramX/writeback . Otherwise zram will never ever write anything to backing device. It is documented in kernel docs, just that if you expect it to work automatically you might misread it.

And you can convert swap into such backing device, but then you don't do swapon on it (just remove it from fstab) nor it's necesary to format(mkswap) it.

rini17··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
Kiosk can probably be done with rpi.
rini17··on The Reason So Many Autistic Adults Can't Stay Employed
It's not only about raw numbers. Others here explain.
rini17··on New polymer alloy could solve energy storage challenge
These capacitors are typically used for "energy storage" only in a millisecond timespans. Either to smooth ripples that could damage other parts or to provide surge current where needed. Very very useful but it's not usually referred to as "storage". Article tries to explain the difference to batteries but stops halfway, liable to cause confusion.
rini17··on Banned in California
Central/Eastern European here. Our labor costs are comparable or even lower than China today. And the manufacturing is still struggling. So it's not only that.
rini17··on Why Mars Astronauts Need More Than Just Space Greenhouses
Would be so funny if neurodivergents ended up handling monotony and bland food better than the "psychologically sane (and thoroughly tested) individuals".

And I don't get why food would take so much time from exercise and navigation and that would be a problem. They would exercise 12h daily? In deep space once you reach the trajectory there are weeks or even months without any navigation.

rini17··on Cost of copper must rise substantially to meet basic copper needs
Carbon (nano)fiber is competitive with copper conductors if we can mass manufacture it defect-free enough. Synthetic diamond can replace copper coolers, on the other hand. But that needs massive R&D, with experimental aptitude. Not your typical "tech" startup.
rini17··on TinyIce: Single-binary Icecast2-compatible server (auto-HTTPS, multi-tenant)
I tried streaming with icecast2 during pandemic and always got dropped connections in tens of minutes. It drove me mad. And it's impossible to detect in advance, receivers skip for seconds till new connection is made. From packet captures it appears as dropped ack packets. It was https so copyright filters are unlikely.

Are there different solutions, different protocols, ideally supported by browser in some simple manner? Is streaming over websocket possible?

rini17··on Cosmologically Unique IDs
From real life we know that people prefer to have multiple anonymous IDs, or self-selected handles, either makes fully deterministic generation schemes moot.

Also, network routing requires objects that have multiple addresses.

Physics side of whole thing is funny too, afaik quantum particles require fungibility, i.e. by doxxing atoms you unavoidably change the behavior of the system.

rini17··on Welcome to the Death of the DSM
Is there any evidence that the psychiatric care availability alone correlates with improved mental health?

Also psychiatrists should naturally be first to point out the broken system. When that's not top priority for them, no wonder they get villainized.

rini17··on Atom: Hydrogen Quantum Orbital Visualizer
Nice, I'm curious about the orbitals. Is it possible to visualize H2 or larger molecules?

And for me controls obscure the picture, probably because I'm on phone with square screen(Unihertz Titan).

rini17··on When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown
Fancy web interfaces are road to hell. Do simplest thing that works. Plain apache or nginx with webdav, basic auth(proven code, minimal attack surface). Maybe firewall with ip_hashlimit on new connections. I have it set to 2/minute and for browser it's actually fine, while moronic bots make new connection for every request. When they improve, there's always fail2ban.

That the nas server incl. hostname is public does not bother me then.

rini17··on Termux
Apparently the OEM must support it (the AVF virtualization).
rini17··on Ode to the AA Battery
There are 9V NiMHs, too. They just need dedicated charger.
rini17··on Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants
There's a research that winter sunlight in northern latitudes just does not convert precursors to vitamin D. Even when it's shining, no matter how long you are outside.
rini17··on LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra
Since AC is pulsating you need to store some energy to get continuous DC, usually in a smoothing capacitor. And that capacitor is relatively big and when durable, then not cheap. And it requires some further complications (like avoid inrush current).
rini17··on My Claude Code Psychosis – By Jasmine Sun
Nice. But when I asked it for simple initramfs busybox init script (the usual tools are pure indecipherable bloat) it hallucinated practically on every line. And obviously setting up a VM for it to debug the boot process would be a hassle.

Why my software needs are all like that? Sigh. At least ffmpeg command lines it gets right most of the time.

rini17··on As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options
Another OpenOffice.
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