mmerlin

Good to RTFM again and learn what's new (from a personal perspective)

e.g. Thin Jails

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/#thin-jailh...

Could add LLM-as-judge function to review new uploads and shadowban spam/scams

https://loro.dev/

RemoteApp is basically RDP for one single desktop app running on the remote server but launched and run to appear like a local app. It's improved a lot over the past decade+

Rustdesk web client is currently in beta testing:

https://rustdesk.com/blog/2024/10/rustdesk-web-client-v2-pre...

The "Slicing Pie" model has some ideas that might help you

https://www.google.com/search?q=slicingpie

This software is excellent for keeping a fast local searchable catalog of the filenames from all your drives, even after they are unplugged or powered off.

I found vvv after looking for something that can replace Sisoft Sandra.

https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

https://github.com/Coopydood/ultimate-macOS-KVM

https://github.com/notAperson535/OneClick-macOS-Simple-KVM

https://github.com/topics/osx-kvm

twinBasic.com is a revamp of VB6 using current tech

The nearest thing is probably a Monaco based IDE that generates self-contained executables (like VB before .Net) with modernization for todays OS ecosystem.

twinBasic https://twinbasic.com

Crypto was included in the laundering schemes.

"Part of the money Sánchez Gil amassed in recent years was laundered through the purchase of crypto-currencies and a large fleet of private hire vehicles registered in the name of one of his relatives"

Alt-drag from the parent folder... so that's the workaround... thanks for the tip on handling this deprecated feature.

Not only has the folder address icon-drag been lost in the name of progress, so too have dozens of previously useful keyboard shortcuts, plus the core ability to re-dock Windows Start Bar onto any edge of the screen... nowadays in Win11 we are restricted to only docking at the bottom.

VB6 fans looking for a modern approach should try twinBasic which after many years is about to release v1.0 https://twinbasic.com/

or possibly FortuneSheet which is an actively maintained fork of the original LuckySheet

https://github.com/ruilisi/fortune-sheet

At the Laracon it was estimated the new version 2 of inertia will be released in October with new features like multiple async requests, polling, infinite page scroll with smart background loader, etc

https://www.baeldung.com/linux/ssh-multiple-ports

Robotic Process Automation (adaptable software automation of a previously human-controlled process)

Trillions lost if you compare Australia with Norway or Qatar resource tax levels.

$4.125 billion per year is one loss estimate between 2012 and 2020.

i.e. $33 billion over 8 years according to this parliamentary document (in the pdf there)

https://www.pbo.gov.au/publications-and-data/publications/co....

In this case the 2012 the Liberal party repealed a freshly enacted resources tax, after being voted back into power with scare campaigns "ax the tax" being one of them, except ironically it was actually income for the country, and a tax on the profits of resource extractors.

$4.125 Billion dollars PER YEAR gifted to extractors by the Liberals.

No wonder they all get given nice "jobs for our mates" at the resouce extractors after they get voted out.

Australia is burdened with ex-PM John Howard's fixed-price gas export deals until 2031.

500% domestic price rises.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/06/japan-and-albo-rort...

"Cheaper" for the state of Victoria to re-import the gas already exported e.g. by Queensland to Japan at a loss (when subsidies and cleanup costs added - no security deposits to cover the cleanup of abandoned sites and offshore drilling rig abandoned offshore).

Liberal petro-lobbyists using their failed policies as a reason to start fracking farmland.

Gross failures in governance, because the entrenched system of post-politics "jobs for our mates" are awarded to the political stooges.

IIRC pretty much every single Australian mining or resources minister post-politics works for the same companies they gifted billions to as a legislator.

Maybe Univer

https://univer.ai/examples

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171216

Annoying how previous abilities are also being removed e.g. docking the windows start bar vertically on the side of the screen is no longer allowed in Windows 11, but is possible on Windows Server and Windows 10

Can confirm, running DNS66 on Android and I don't see any obtrusive advertising on that site at all.

Load balancers in front of a Proxmox cluster + Ceph storage (managed inside Proxmox) + federated/replicated databases (MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres etc)

a recurring peeve of mine is small tooltips becoming unreadable underneath the cursor which blocks them from being read... then you move the cursor away the tooltip disappears from view... this could actually be fixed at some point in the future

Delve could lead to accidental document sharing with peer accounts?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/delve-for-offic...

Microsoft365 is deprecating Delve in December 2024

Proxmox makes Ceph easy, even with just one single server if you are homelabbing...

I had 4 NUCs running Proxmox+Ceph for a few years, and apart from slightly annoying slowness syncing after spinning the machines up from cold start, it all ran very smoothly.

SES = Socioeconomic Status

Please clarify your recently self-invented TLA (three letter acronym) at least once in your response to reduce the cognitive load on your fellow reader.

Actually in this case the TLA would be more accurate as a TLA (two letter acronym) because Socioeconomic is just one word only...

If more countries followed suit with a proportional fine, then X might take notice and remove child sexual abuse content from Xitter, make it somewhat less abhorrently Xitty, and just return to it's original angry place where people can fling Xit at each other.

We likely also would have had approximately the same reasonably priced symmetric speeds if Abbott had not aborted the FttP rollout at 5%.

Turnbull also helped to butcher the original FttP NBN horrendously and they spent 400% more than FttP would have cost, to get the much slower network we got lumped with...

i.e the munted results of Murdoch protectionism and "stick it up the opposition" bully Abbott politics.

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