ms.lane

“TPM is a backdoor” was something that got bandied around during the Vista era psrtially by people not understanding and partially (imo) to muddy the waters.

Secure Boot was maligned as at the time only MS were allowed to sign for it, so it was just an anti-linux locker. Later, after much haranguing, they backpedaled and allowed Canonical and Redhat to sign things, much much later, we could self sign.

TPM was also maligned around the same since MS (allegedly) had aspersions to only allow signed software which would be encrypted so that ‘bad actors’ (the users themselves) couldn’t change ‘protected’ (any) executables. I think the closest we’ve ever seen of that is Windows S.

ABC Kids is great if you’ve only got kids under 5.

It just stays on all day, it’s generally all good content (except the petulant Peppa Pig)

But if you’ve got kids a bit older than that - your options are none and none. ABC really doesn’t do programming for schoolage and teenage kids anymore.

Right now for example - 5:54PM Adelaide Time, we’ve got Kangaroo Beach followed by Octonauts on ABC Kids, great for the under 5s.

But the rest of the channels of ABC are… Antiques Roadshow and ABC News… There is programming for under 5s and over 60s. Nothing inbetween.

CIA plant wants Australian children to only watch broadcast television and not access the internet until they’re 16.

No Youtube, No Netflix, No Fortnite - Broadcast TV only.

Hardware RAID is dead.

• They’re no faster than Software RAID today

• They’re vendor and often model locked to a particular make or model of card (so if your card goes bust, so does your array, where software options you can migrate the entire machine to a completely new one, as long as the disks are good so is your data)

• ZFS wants access to individual disks anyway

Check which raid card your Dell shipped with, if it’s a PERC H200 or H310, you can flash it to IT mode to make it work as a plain HBA. If it’s a PERC 700, you’re SOL on IT mode. I’m pretty sure it can expose vdrives, but that’s probably more trouble than getting a cheap HBA at that point.

*GNU is my pepper

‘You’re folding it wrong!’

*GNU Is My Pepper

Not every device with a built in web browser has reader view (like the kobo I showed)

Almost nothing has Gemini support though…

NFS seems a poor choice for mobile when simply losing the link will cause end user troubles.

I hard dropped it years ago when a momentarily dropped link would mean you needed to reboot the client machine or you’d lock up for minutes at a time trying to poll the mounted directory. (which, when pinned in a gui file manager, meant every time I opened the file manager or a save dialog box, my entire system would just lock up for minutes at a time)

I use an unholy combination of smb and sshfs now, since they can fail gracefully where NFS just can’t.

That’s just Docker in a nutshell.

Andrew Wilson is literally a Ventrue Prince.

nVidia finally catching up to AMD?

No, FlatPak is centralization in the worst possible way, whilst also making software less usable.

It’s a terrible thing and it dies to die swiftly.

Why are none of them called JonnyCab?

Reddit (who fully supports Russia in their war on Ukraine) did that for me!

Freedom, Free Doom.

A wise man can hear profit in the wind.

Actual Article: https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/639509/unity-matt-bromberg-runtime-fee-interview

“But we consulted and what we heard again and again was, “Hey, I accept that we’re not paying you enough. I actually think you’re delivering more value.”

Seems like they’re keeping up the war on users…

Because it’s run by Americans.

We’re way past ‘Not all Americans’ now.

Let me go one step further-

“Fair use and movies-and-music piracy exceptions” are “critical” to human development.