It used to be even more literally so - network mail started off as using FTP to SNDMSG onto a remote system instead of your own. In RFC475, FTP has MAIL and MLFL (mailfile) commands to support this. I think it's neat…
I think what really stands out about this, is that having it installed as a pre-made brick is very cost-effective. But this cost-effective route isn't readily available to most people, as most people don't build homes.…
It may amuse you to know they're both essentially the same thing. GBP is formally Pound Sterling, formerly 1 pound (tower pound / 20 troy ounces) of Sterling Silver. Which is why £ is a stylised L.
2100 entries over 40 years is pretty much a show a week. Talk about artefacts of a life well lived.
Sigur Ros have a surprising number of shows on their ftp, which is delightfully retro.
I think it's interesting that traditionally Ireland used a different calendar for seasons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_calendar So Winter is Nov, Dec, Jan - and Spring is Feb, March, April. Which honestly,…
The last one is so close to the point. Iran had Internet blackouts earlier this year, Russia has been experimenting with the same - options like shortwave are just as relevant as ever.
I think "odious" really undersells it. A free press is an important part of a functioning democracy. What's the use in being able to vote against people doing wrong, if no-one's allowed to tell you about the wrong?
I have to admit - I still grind my teeth every time I see "dns propagation" used without a direct follow-up that it's a myth, you're looking at cascading cache expiry. Propagation might be a useful way to visualise it,…
Compelled speech is protected, fingerprints aren't. Imagine it's 1926 and none of this tech is an issue yet. The police can fingerprint and photograph you at intake, they can't compel speech or violate the 5th. That's…
later, like 1956? The world's first commercial HDD was 5,000,000 characters.
> with the context mostly being HDD manufacturers who want to inflate their drive sizes This is a myth. The first IBM harddrive was 5,000,000 characters in 1956 - before bytes were even common usage. Drives have always…
It goes back way further than that. The first IBM harddrive was the IBM 350 for the IBM 305 RAMDAC. It was 5 million characters. Not bytes, bytes weren't "a thing" yet. 5,000,000 characters. The very first harddrive was…
They almost always mean power of 10, unless you're discussing RAM, RAM addressing, or RAM pages. (or flash, which has inherited most of the same for most of the same reasons)
This is the bit (sic) that drives me nuts. RAM had binary sizing for perfectly practical reasons. Nothing else did (until SSDs inherited RAM's architecture). We apply it to all the wrong things mostly because the first…
Pretty much anywhere you have networked storage? Gigabit is about on-par with pre-sata ATA133.
This was one of the "lessons learnt" from the XZ incident. One of the (many) steps they took to avoid scrutiny was modifications that existed in the real tarball but not the repo.
What you'll tend to notice with "willing participants" is that they're not looking for truth, they're looking for confirmation. No-one asks for proof when you tell them what they want to hear.
In my family it's the other way around - it's the people that used to tell us not to talk to strangers on the internet, and not to believe everything we see on the internet, who are now doing precisely that.
Isn't it great being able to rely on tech that isn't doing what we think it's doing. I don't even need to keep an eye on my cooking anymore, the smoke alarm beeps when I get too close.
bps are easy. packets per second is the crunch. Say you've got 64 bytes per packet, which would be a worst-case-scenario - you're down to 150Mpacket/sec. Sending one byte after another is the easy bit, the decisions are…
> How do you physically solder a chip the wrong way around? With effort, and bodge-wire. I've seen chips done dead-bug style when the board's been messed up (eg, the footprint is orientated for the bottom of the board,…
> Nit: It's the Pi 500+ I really want to hope the name is a nod to the Amiga 500+ (which had twice the RAM of the A500 ..)
I think the common mistake they’re alluding to is Europe and north America having conflicting standards for colour-coding the pumps. So here green is unleaded and black is diesel, which can catch American tourists…
It'd be some fluke of an accident. You'd need to be targeting not only debian:testing/unstable, but specifically debian:testing-20240311. And then - making sure not to apt upgrade at any point so you don't accidentally…
It used to be even more literally so - network mail started off as using FTP to SNDMSG onto a remote system instead of your own. In RFC475, FTP has MAIL and MLFL (mailfile) commands to support this. I think it's neat…
I think what really stands out about this, is that having it installed as a pre-made brick is very cost-effective. But this cost-effective route isn't readily available to most people, as most people don't build homes.…
It may amuse you to know they're both essentially the same thing. GBP is formally Pound Sterling, formerly 1 pound (tower pound / 20 troy ounces) of Sterling Silver. Which is why £ is a stylised L.
2100 entries over 40 years is pretty much a show a week. Talk about artefacts of a life well lived.
Sigur Ros have a surprising number of shows on their ftp, which is delightfully retro.
I think it's interesting that traditionally Ireland used a different calendar for seasons - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_calendar So Winter is Nov, Dec, Jan - and Spring is Feb, March, April. Which honestly,…
The last one is so close to the point. Iran had Internet blackouts earlier this year, Russia has been experimenting with the same - options like shortwave are just as relevant as ever.
I think "odious" really undersells it. A free press is an important part of a functioning democracy. What's the use in being able to vote against people doing wrong, if no-one's allowed to tell you about the wrong?
I have to admit - I still grind my teeth every time I see "dns propagation" used without a direct follow-up that it's a myth, you're looking at cascading cache expiry. Propagation might be a useful way to visualise it,…
Compelled speech is protected, fingerprints aren't. Imagine it's 1926 and none of this tech is an issue yet. The police can fingerprint and photograph you at intake, they can't compel speech or violate the 5th. That's…
later, like 1956? The world's first commercial HDD was 5,000,000 characters.
> with the context mostly being HDD manufacturers who want to inflate their drive sizes This is a myth. The first IBM harddrive was 5,000,000 characters in 1956 - before bytes were even common usage. Drives have always…
It goes back way further than that. The first IBM harddrive was the IBM 350 for the IBM 305 RAMDAC. It was 5 million characters. Not bytes, bytes weren't "a thing" yet. 5,000,000 characters. The very first harddrive was…
They almost always mean power of 10, unless you're discussing RAM, RAM addressing, or RAM pages. (or flash, which has inherited most of the same for most of the same reasons)
This is the bit (sic) that drives me nuts. RAM had binary sizing for perfectly practical reasons. Nothing else did (until SSDs inherited RAM's architecture). We apply it to all the wrong things mostly because the first…
Pretty much anywhere you have networked storage? Gigabit is about on-par with pre-sata ATA133.
This was one of the "lessons learnt" from the XZ incident. One of the (many) steps they took to avoid scrutiny was modifications that existed in the real tarball but not the repo.
What you'll tend to notice with "willing participants" is that they're not looking for truth, they're looking for confirmation. No-one asks for proof when you tell them what they want to hear.
In my family it's the other way around - it's the people that used to tell us not to talk to strangers on the internet, and not to believe everything we see on the internet, who are now doing precisely that.
Isn't it great being able to rely on tech that isn't doing what we think it's doing. I don't even need to keep an eye on my cooking anymore, the smoke alarm beeps when I get too close.
bps are easy. packets per second is the crunch. Say you've got 64 bytes per packet, which would be a worst-case-scenario - you're down to 150Mpacket/sec. Sending one byte after another is the easy bit, the decisions are…
> How do you physically solder a chip the wrong way around? With effort, and bodge-wire. I've seen chips done dead-bug style when the board's been messed up (eg, the footprint is orientated for the bottom of the board,…
> Nit: It's the Pi 500+ I really want to hope the name is a nod to the Amiga 500+ (which had twice the RAM of the A500 ..)
I think the common mistake they’re alluding to is Europe and north America having conflicting standards for colour-coding the pumps. So here green is unleaded and black is diesel, which can catch American tourists…
It'd be some fluke of an accident. You'd need to be targeting not only debian:testing/unstable, but specifically debian:testing-20240311. And then - making sure not to apt upgrade at any point so you don't accidentally…