One rich company trying to claim money off the other rich companies using its software. The ROI on enforcing these will come from only those that really should have afforded to pay and if they can’t, shouldn’t have built on the framework. Let them duke it out. I have zero empathy for either side.

The hopeful other side is with a “budget” for the license, a company can consider using that to weigh up open source contributions and expertise. Allowing those projects to have experts who have income. Even if it’s only a few companies that then hire for that role of porting over, and contributing back to include needed features, more of that helps everyone.

The same happens in security, there used to be no budget for it, it was a cost centre. But then insurance providers wouldn’t provide cyber insurance without meeting minimum standards (after they lost billions) and now companies suddenly have a budget. Security is thriving.

When companies value something, because they need to weigh opportunity cost, they’ll find money.

Mac book pro from 2012 still going, not strong, Bluetooth barely works, there’s a dying row of pixels, on the screen, the CPU doesn’t seem to support any modem video codec in accelerated mode, and the speakers were clearly garbage and it doubles how bad the Bluetooth is. But it’s running pop os! And it’s running it fine. I mean as long as you connect via rustdesk to another real machine to do real work. It can’t handle tabs or browser rendering…

Anyway even if i retire it today, it’s outlasted 3 work laptops.

Post your cones of calibration front and back. They reveal if you’re exposure is at least something to rule out.

Post your calibration prints first to show your current settings. Personally I want to see the front and back of your cones of calibration to see if you didn’t under expose your print and make your supports too weak.

Thanks. From my perspective, commonly Chinese numberplate have 8s in them being lucky. And being Australian I thought that numberplate read BODG as in bodgy meaning of poor quality.

Anyway, depressing that the numberplate was not fun or positive at all.

Hold them all to account, no single points of failure. Make them all responsible.

When talking about vscode especially, those users aren’t your mum and dad. They’re technology professionals or enthusiasts.

With respect to vendors (Microsoft) for too long have they lived off an expectation that its always a end user or publisher responsibility, not theirs when they’re offering a brokering (store or whatever) service. They’ve tried using words like ‘custodian’ when they took the service to further detract from responsibility and fault.

Vendors of routers and firewalls and other network connected IoT for the consumer space now are being legislatively enforced to start adhering to bare minimum responsible practices such as ‘push to change’ configuration updates and automated security firmware updates, of and the long awaited mandatory random password with reset on first configuration (no more admin/Admin).

Is clear this burden will cost those providers. Good. Just like we should take a stance against polluters freely polluting, so too should we make providers take responsibility for reasonable security defaults instead of making the world less secure.

That then makes it even more the users responsibility to be responsible for what they then do insecurely since security should be the default by design. Going outside of those bounds are at your own risk.

Right now it’s a wild West, and telling what is and isn’t secure would be a roll of the dice since it’s just users telling users that they think it’s fine. Are you supposed to just trust a publisher? But what if they act in bad faith? That problem needs solving. Once an app/plugin/device has millions of people using it, it’s reputation is publicly seen as ok even if completely undeserved.

Hmm rant over. I got a bit worked up.

Some people noted that the Aussie instance post update a few days ago seemed to not show votes on some other instance content. I wouldn’t worry about it, just decide your own view :)

Some people noted that the Aussie instance post update a few days ago seemed to not show votes on some other instance content. I wouldn’t worry about it, just decide your own view :)

Tailscale can act as a site to site vpn, but it’s best used as a meshvpn imo with as many things as possible in it.

Why? Because the dynamic dns is so powerful. Every host name automatically is in every other tailscale joined computer automatically. My NAS (Truenas in my case) is just “nas” so to access it it’s just https://nas. Same with my rustdesk server on https://rustdesk. Jellyfin? You guessed it: https://jellyfin.

Why is this cool? I moved my box between other networks and it just works again. No ips changed.

I take it to work. It just works. I keep one server at my parents place? It just works.

But my printer doesn’t have the ability to join the tailnet so I use subnet routing to create a node on that network to act as a NAT router to get to and from that printer.

You can even define exit nodes so if I install tailscale on my parents TV in another state, they can exit their internet via my home which has my IP and therefore Netflix counts it as inside my residence.

Anyway just some considerations. I generally use the subnet routing as a last resort. My 3 node proxmox cluster is all joined and if I took a node to my parents it would literally just work, if slower, as a cluster member. Crazy. Very cool

Thanks for sharing!

I agree I need someone who could tell me what a state nation could do with sequenced Ebola from a risk point of view.

I both think it would be a requirement to cure, and a requirement to modify to weaponise.

I think when the scientists lied when interviewed though they would only do that if they knew the trouble was grave.

Digging tunnels.

You realise if it’s saved you can now use features that are built into the software, that get saved, like using ‘track changes’ to accept or discard edits granually. You have file system level version control to choose previous versions, you have an undo feature built in. Three different tools to use.

Not really, you can leave auto save on, and use the inbuilt track changes function. Best of both worlds.

Have you tried using file versioning, or using review (track changes) functions to propose changes so you can choose to accept edits or decide against them? It’s like there are specific features for this scenario that allow you to save, have backups and have that control.

This is an insane scenario: my software design decision is, despite recovery mechanisms like previous versions, file history, and undo mechanisms, I’m afraid if a cat uses a keyboard I’ll accidentally save changes I don’t want to a word document.

Lol. The only user error was choosing libre office instead of a user friendly software stack that has reasonable defaults and r recovery mechanisms.

There’s a few random projects that aim to store bulk data and human information in durable materials.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/5d-disc-stores-500-tb-of-data/

Professor Peter Kazansky, from the ORC, says: “It is thrilling to think that we have created the technology to preserve documents and information and store it in space for future generations. This technology can secure the last evidence of our civilisation: all we’ve learnt will not be forgotten.”

I’m learning most of the articles are all based on this guy from 2013 until now it’s still been in mostly research phase though proof of concepts have been done.

I’m trying to find evidence of another thing I swear I heard about where someone had some instructions from first principals how to read the data, but all the way from something like understanding the language to data format. I listened to something in a tech podcast but can’t find it.

I have to ask, do you think the websites you use or the places you post run on Windows?

Yes, not only does the developer specifically talk about that open source library, he says he would use it in the next idea.

I could understand a passion project dying because it needs to be rebased compared to just starting a new adventure with 3 years of lessons learned including a now better library he can also commit to.

But if I request it there, after its federated everywhere, what happens?