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They finally used some of those trillions to buy one (1) Claude pro subscription.

Healthcare companies are the WORST at this - they will send you legitimate email from h34lthc4re.biz with a heart-happy-health.phishing.info link that you HAVE to use - and it's all legit.

The win for passkeys is login with faceID. That people actually use.

I’m 90% certain most of the push for passkeys is to prevent paid account sharing.

One thing that was an eye-opener (to me) is just HOW MANY people that I'd put quite high on the intelligence/worldy knowledge graph had ZERO inclination or propensity to even notice or CARE about the bright red AD box around something on a search result.

Made me realize that advertising will always rank somewhere below prostitution (at least there you ARE paying to get screwed).

Sometimes those "modules" are just the antenna, and the Wifi is quite capable of connecting with no antenna at all.

Housing should be an investment; you should be encouraged to invest in where you live and improve both your property and the area around you.

It should not be a good investment - it should, over time, boil down to below inflation once you take maintenance and taxes into consideration.

Jellyfin is nice for various reasons (main for me is play synching) but Apple TV + Infuse + SMB share made something pretty bulletproof and kid friendly even before.

Mine is "thought leader" - I've yet to meet someone who calls themselves that who's had a useful thought.

DNSSEC ends up being such a solution in search of a problem. We already know Cloudflare MITMs half the Internet, and now they've developed a way to just bypass DNSSEC, too?

What is even the point at this point? It should be filed with the OSI model.

Any bacteria that survived that many thousands of years would just give you superpowers anyway, I've seen the documentaries.

It's one of those "programmer misconceptions" - we want to make reality fit our neat and tidy list of rules/laws/code; but it's the other way around most of the time.

This is where "possession is 9/10ths of the law" comes from.

Standardizing so many ancient build processes into a modern gradle setup was a ton of effort over multiple years, but totally worth it.

What exactly did you need and how did https://mikrotik.com/product/crs305_1g_4s_in not do it? It says switch but it runs routerOS and can route at some speed - not 10G tho.

I’m going to admit it took me too many years to realize there is a Mac Winbox client - I assumed it was a windows only thing.

It wasn’t terribly complicated for me but I seem to be built for the old Cisco style iOS.

But with an LLM it’s easier than falling off a log and the command line means it can do everything easily.

That’s the biggest danger with hot fail over at homelab setting. It keeps working so there’s no reason to fix it.

A pregamgamanagany test can be $5 and apparently it can run doom, so in bulk compute has to be pretty cheap.

No joke serious - play GTNH. You can turn off the mobs if needed and the quest book is phenomenal and the feeling of accomplishment is real.

And you can stay in steam forever if you wanted.

GTNH has done more for Minecraft than Microsoft has, arguably. The level of care and work there is incredible- and that’s not just because I’ve contributed a bit here and there.

Reminds me that they also seem to really not like sarcasm/humor.

Abusing frontier AI to determine what the hell I did with ancient installs, and then modernizing it, as been quite useful.

There is for hard drives - SMART - the problem is, unless you're an enterprise (and let's all stop and laugh because we KNOW that most "enterprises" run at least some hardware until the only person who even knows it exists is long in the grave) you're not going to do preventative replacement.

And especially for home use, where nien 9s is more realistic than nine 9s, you're better off having a solid backup strategy and a source of spare parts.

My main "tank" server is 16 years old this year, and has blown out one motherboard - it was a bit annoying to be "offline" for a few days as a replacement wandered in from eBay, but it worked. If it happened today I might import the zpool into another device temporarily - or permanently, who knows? This R510 probably takes more power than a datacenter.

“Best I can do for you is $3.75 and a cup of coffee.”

Without Quora we can’t get masterpieces like this: https://youtu.be/EShUeudtaFg

Knowing SO you’d get marked as a duplicate of your own question, then deleted.

SO collapsed twice - first when everyone stopped contributing, and then AI stopped anyone even reading.

Some school somewhere made participation required or heavily encouraged - understandably perhaps; it was a great signal before it got eternal Septembered into worthlessness.

The old Wikipedia had more information on obscure Pokemon than major politicians, and you could add PowerThirst as an energy drink and not have it reverted for weeks.

There was something good and glorious about that, but that era is gone. Wikipedia and Stack Overflow are done, finished, cooked - what comes next?