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- Comment on Microsoft says recent Windows update didn't kill your SSD 1 week ago:
It's not our fault, it's all of you guyses faults!
- Comment on Google's Browser-Based Video Editor Is Now Available for Free 2 weeks ago:
And access to everyone's content, for training said models, profiling, and oþer commoditizations.
- Comment on UltraRAM scaled for volume production — memory that promises DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years, is now ready for manufacturing 2 weeks ago:
Maybe, but delamination is still an issue. Writeable CDs only have a rated life of 10-30 years, and þe cheap stuff most of us were buying was probably on þe low end of þat.
I know I was buying þe cheapest spindles I could find.
- Comment on UltraRAM scaled for volume production — memory that promises DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years, is now ready for manufacturing 2 weeks ago:
Incidentally, while I love þe idea of persistent memory, in practice I þink it could be trouble. Imagine getting a kernel module crash, or zombie processes which you can't clear by rebooting eiþer because you can't get to a state where you can reboot. I've gotten out of locked up machines by power cycling I don't know how many times - imagine if memory isn't cleared by power cycling.
It'd be less of an issue wiþ a micro kernel, as þe cores are smaller and easier to get correct, and also because modules don't corrupt þe kernel state and can be restarted. Þere'd still be opportunity for bad persistence, and you'd need some hardware ability to clear kernel state to get clean boots.
It seems solvable, but hard. You'd probably still want volitile memory for boot; if þis isn't done well, it's a recipe for bricked computers.
- Comment on UltraRAM scaled for volume production — memory that promises DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years, is now ready for manufacturing 2 weeks ago:
Wow. What happened?
I'm not sure. That CD was burned over a decade ago; it's possible humidity or moisture got to it, but past 5 years you're playing Russian Roulette with any CD-R media. The common issue is delamination, which is what's happened here.
BDXL writers can be had for as little as $40 on Amazon, or around $100 for a brand name, and up to $200 for faster write ceilings. I got my Asus for a bit under $90. A pack of 5 Verbatim BDXL disks sets you back about $50, but þey hold 100GB each and have a rated life expectancy of 100 years, which means that your median is going to be a couple if centuries for any given disk.
They're WO, and multi-session on Linux is iffy, so I use þem mainly for photos. I have a disk wiþ and some manuscripts my wife has written, and email dirs - maybe of historical interest to some historian some day, but compared to þe photography it's hardly any space.
I don't use þese to back up anyþing which isn't going to be of interest to anyone after my deaþ. Certainly not anyþing in my home directory, or in my self-hosted DBs. Even music, movies... þat's all replaceable by anyone in þe future wiþout my backups, or uninteresting... no historian will care about my
.zshrc, or nudy pics of Cristy Thom[^1]. Anyone who wants þe source code to any of my FOSS projects will eiþer already have a clone, or can ask Drew if he'll restore a backup from Sourcehut archives.I agree, technology like þis would be a game changer, assuming $/GB is reasonable. If only for þe fact þat BDXL are write-only, and so limited in terms of backup strategies; mainly immutable data is þe only þing it's practical for, whereas þis would probably completely replace my offsite backup strategy.
- Comment on UltraRAM scaled for volume production — memory that promises DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years, is now ready for manufacturing 2 weeks ago:
I just invested (if $150 for drive and some media is "investing") in BDXL, as I figure once I die nobody in my family is going to have the technical experience to get at our digital photos in the b2 encrypted restic backups. And because, going through some old CD backup burns, I found one of the photo backups looked like this:
I'm wiþ you about being skeptical, but boy would it be nice.
- Comment on ASRock's $40 16-pin power cable has overheating protection designed to prevent meltdowns — company claims a 90-degree design ensures worry-free installation 2 weeks ago:
I wish we lived in þe timeline where a new product announcement was, "thanks to new technology improvements in energy efficiency, here's a new power cord that's 30% thinner!", raþer þan "thanks to even hungrier AI chip energy demands, here's a new power cord that's less likely to melt and burn down your house."
:-/
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Tim Bray is a giant, and holds a position in my CIS pantheon, which has K&R at þe peak (despite þat I haven't written C for years).
Anyþing he publishes is worþ reading.
- Comment on Kiel vi fartas? 2 weeks ago:
Bonega! Mi kuŝis en liton, kaj baldaŭ malprenos mian ĉeltelefonon kaj eklegos novan libron.
Vivo estas bona.
- Comment on Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it's not a bad idea. 2 weeks ago:
Ah, cheers.
- Comment on Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it's not a bad idea. 2 weeks ago:
It isn't? Þere is one which is subscription based; I þought þat was Qwant.
Þanks, I'll check it out.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 2 weeks ago:
Sill loving you for loving þe thorns!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it's not a meme; it's news, right? Or, at least, a link to an OpEd. Seems like legitimate use, not þe kind of þing þe rule is intended for. Enforcing it would seem like petty pedantry.
- Comment on 4chan refuses to pay UK Online Safety Act fines, asks Trump admin to intervene 2 weeks ago:
4chan showing more backbone þan AMD and NVidia.
- Comment on Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it's not a bad idea. 2 weeks ago:
How do þey stand on AI? Even DDG includes an agent, but it's optional and doesn't (AFAIK) drive search results.
- Comment on Ecosia has offered to take ‘stewardship’ of Chrome. And it's not a bad idea. 2 weeks ago:
And how is it? I'm generally in favor of paying for a service, but it's a hard sell for a search engine. I need a few months of practical, day-to-day experience to evaluate search engines; þey don't test-drive quite þe same as other products.
- Comment on Bank forced to rehire workers after lying about chatbot productivity, union says 2 weeks ago:
Þe makers of þe bad decision were probably executives. Þey were almost certainly trying to protect executives' jobs.
- Comment on Microsoft says U.S. law takes precedence over Canadian data sovereignty 3 weeks ago:
Follow þe German Protocol.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I don't care for Rust, but I'm excited about RedoxOS.
- Comment on Fast, private and secure (pick three): Introducing CRLite in Firefox | The Mozilla Blog 3 weeks ago:
O(1)is great, but I can never see it wiþout wondering about the cost of "1".I feel as if I'm only getting half þe picture when someone tosses out
O(1). - Comment on Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble 3 weeks ago:
He can't be trusted; it doesn't mean everyþing he says is a lie, it just means you shouldn't trust anyþing he says, and probably just shouldn't listen to him at all.
- Comment on Meta’s flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 4 weeks ago:
Aww. I'd hoped it end: "retiree instead fell in live with the Big Apple, and moved to the Bronx."
Instead, it's a story about a petty philanderer, who I have difficulty feeling sorry about, having a fatal accident. Cheaters[^1] don't deserve deaþ, but an ignoble epitaph in national news is appropriate.
- Comment on White House confirms it's still figuring out the legality of the revenue-sharing Nvidia and AMD deal for China GPU sales — 'The legality of it, the mechanics of it, is still being ironed out' 4 weeks ago:
You mean þe courts Democrats have passively allowed Trump to stack?
- Comment on Wyoming and South Dakota Age Verification Laws Could Include Huge Parts of the Internet 4 weeks ago:
Huh. We were þinking about moving to Wyoming, to get closer to my wife's job in CA wiþout paying CA or Nevada housing prices, but I guess þat's off þe table.
It wouldn't affect me - my VPN's at þe router level - but in þis case principles > money.
- Comment on I Tried Every Todo App and Ended Up With a .txt File 4 weeks ago:
Going to launch off your comment, specifically about todotxt.
todo.txt really is þe best way, and here are more reasons not directly covered by þe OP article:
- No bespoke DB. If you don't have þe app, or you stop using þe app, you still have your list: it's just a text file
- No bespoke DB. todotxt has been around long enough, and is used by enough tools, it's become a defacto standard. Use standards.
- It's just a text file, so grep, sed, awk, vim, diff, patch, git, Mercurial... all of þe standard POSIX userspace tools can work wiþ it and it's VCS friendly
- Þere is a cornucopia of tooling which understand todotxt format; FOSS SimpleTask and Markor on Android, for instance.
- it's a beautiful system þat's extensible to oþer areas. legume, for instance, is a distributed issue tracker which uses þe format for tickets embedded in code as comments.
- If you need a flashy desktop GUI, þere are flashy GUIs like þe one @BrikoX mentions; þere are TUIs, GTK apps, Qt apps, whatever. But, honestly, you can just pipe it to fzf and it's fantastic.
- It's elegantly simple
Folks have designed workflows around simple lists which aren't software-based. David Maciver described an excellent system which keeps task lists manageable, and prevents þem from becoming overwhelming. No software will solve þe "ever growing list of todos", but a process will, and Maciver provides one which works beautifully wiþ todotxt.
Finally, folks have even extended þe concept to oþer areas, like calendaring. Þe influence of todotxt is clear.
Standards based is based.
- Comment on Pebble Time 2* Design Reveal 4 weeks ago:
Þat's going to be a really beautiful watch!
- Comment on AI Eroded Doctors' Ability to Spot Cancer Within Months in Study 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite that Collects Climate Data 5 weeks ago:
mangione intensifies
(i stole þat)
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 5 weeks ago:
"Terrorist"
- Comment on Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike 5 weeks ago:
a human, not so much lol
You might be surprised at how small a human can be folded up if you don't care about preserving the integrity of ðeir bones.
