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I haven't had it fail once, and I've created many addresses. I do have a custom domain hooked up to my iCloud account, if that is making any difference, I don't know.

I'm at a crossroads and unsure of how to proceed.

Have you considered that perhaps online communities are simply unhealthy and withdrawing (at least to lurking) is the best course of action?

Cox Automotive generated the data[0] sourced in the second "paragraph" from the original article.

[0] https://www.coxautoinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Kelley...

tcp/443 is likely an open port on the target service (Dynamodb based on the domain name). TLS is not involved.

ICMP ECHO would be a bad choice as it is deprioritized by routers[0].

[0] https://archive.nanog.org/sites/default/files/traceroute-201...

Doesn't look like this is a ping[0]! Which is good. Rather it is a socket stream connecting over tcp/443. Ping (ICMP) would be a poor metric.

[0] https://github.com/mda590/cloudping.co/blob/8918ee8d7e632765...

Not any longer. They now use a 105mm Howitzer among other means.

https://wsdot.wa.gov/travel/operations-services/avalanche-co...

In a single-user environment, where malware is the biggest concern in current times, what difference does it make if it's a process running under a different user or one that is running under your current user that is attacking you?

In these systems, the responsibility passes to EDRs or similar. But neither a $HOME/.tmp or /tmp matter in these scenarios. _Shared_ systems are where the concept of $HOME/.tmp might be more interesting.

On a literal level it's not the same as "keep it in RAM"

I read the GP as 'literal level' in-RAM. If I interpreted that incorrectly, apologies to GP.

I see where you're going with your question, but like Windows' Services/scheduled tasks, most of those 'users' don't have a $HOME folder.

Not to say they couldn't have one!

Why not both, like Windows?

$HOME/.tmp for user operations and /tmp for system operations?

EDIT: I see from other posters it can be done. Why the heck isn't this the default?!

OS will try to move it in swapspace if memory gets low

That defeats the idea GP presented.

You'd need to pin pages in physical memory to guarantee it stays in physical memory. What happens if an 'attacker' (or accidental user) exceeds available physical memory? OOM Kill other applications? Just don't accept temp data, leading to failures in operations requested by the user or system?

Pages in physical memory are not typically zero'ed out upon disuse. Yes, they're temporary... but only guaranteed temporary if you turn the system off and the DRAM cells bleed out their voltage.

*nix started from a better _initial_ posture as it was multi-user, permissioned, and network-aware from the start (vs. corporate MS-DOS => single user => GUI => networked)

Windows NT started as a multi-user, permissioned, and network-aware OS. The team that built NT came from DEC, not the MS-DOS team.

Windows Me was the last version of Windows that had any form of DOS underpinnings.

Suffering can be alleviated

Lol. What world are you living in?

Sure, I suppose if you give someone enough downers and obliterate their mind, suffering becomes a non-issue.

Don't pretend this world can alleviate 'all suffering'. It's simply false.

How do you keep yourself excited and focused on growth?

Do something that connects you with the greater world. For me? Hiking and traveling in a State with a lifetime of natural wonders to explore.

Try nature. See how amenable it is to you.

(I also play video games... too much)

The Noita wiki moved away from Fandom to noita.wiki.gg due to ads, etc. The Fandom one still exists, of course, but has no community backing and lacks information from the newer updates of the game.

Unfortunately the Fandom wiki is still the first link when searching on DDG :-(

Windows shipped on DVDs. I'm not sure why you made your comment. Of course a system must support it, and plenty of ~20 year old systems did.

You can't have 'truly random'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_number_generation#Compu...

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41729526 - which made the front page

Linux much faster than windows mainly due to the file system being more performant (e.g. the builds run noticeably faster)

It's not the file system. It is the file system filter. NTFS is a high performance FS.

Microsoft is working around this via a feature called DevDrive. It uses ReFS instead of NTFS as ReFS leverages copy-on-write.

You're not limited to 650MB provided you use UDF rather than ISO 9660. UDF supports up to 16 EiB. It's still a "real" ISO, but obviously you'd need to stay within DVD size limits to use physical media.

Windows has been multi-GB bootable ISOs for over a decade at this point.

It's quite a different world with Windows Autopilot pre-provisioning from the OEM. These images are customized to your specs, there's no Candy Crush shipping on pre-provisioned devices.

Back to the manufacture it goes! Not a big deal in a medium to large business. I'm unsure how a small business would deal with it, but the smaller you go, the less likely you'd have a standardized image.

I wouldn’t use PXE at all! But I’ve been out of the computer imaging business for a long time, now. The folks that do that where I work simply activate Windows with Intune on first boot from the manufacturer, similar to how Macs are activated.

I agree, the author appears to conflate file and format. From a complete reading of this post and the author’s previous post on this topic, I read it as discontinuation of distribution of the ISO file, but in both posts they use the wording “ISO format” almost interchangeably.

I maintain that the ISO format has "had it's day" and needs to be retired.

Replace “format” with “file <for booting computers>” and most rebuttals would go away. There will always be edge cases, but this is again the author’s project, so their word is god.

Apple’s New Disk Image Format used the img extension. Fortunately not something you see anymore.

I said “may”, not “must”. Please don’t put words in my mouth — you have no idea what my beliefs are behind your keyboard. Thanks.

Ubiquitous adoption is an advantage for a given class of technology. This isn’t survivorship bias, it’s simply consumers finding a given technology useful to them and continuing to use it. Survivorship bias would have required ISO or img to fail and neither have failed (survivorship bias requires a non-survivor).

I can port an ISO between OSes from the early 90s through today. I can’t reliably do that with img as it may not use a universally accepted file system.

(And I did happen to burn a NetBSD ISO for a G4 last month from my M2 Air)

The author could use a bit of humility.

ISO isn’t useful in the author’s use-case. That’s fine, it is their project to do as they will. ISOs may still have uses elsewhere, such as PXE boot or just a near universally mountable read only container.

The author’s point to the age of the original ISO standard is irrelevant. Many old technologies are reliable and widely adopted, which in and of itself may make it superior to more modern technologies.

Author’s project, author’s will. But that was difficult to read due to their attitude and beyond the author’s use case, didn’t provide a reason for universally retiring ISO.

Use DevDrive. It was created exactly for your purpose.

As a layman, the visualization of black holes, the superstructure above and below the Milky Way, JWST’s distant galaxy discoveries, gravitational wave detectors as mentioned, and some of the Kuiper Belt observations all seem to be interesting and exciting.

Oh and the death of string theory!