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Fuel goes bad mostly only when mixed with bio fuel, which allows bacteria to grow which does not happen for pure fossile fuel. Additives may degrade, too - but they can be mixed after long term storage. So jet fuel which is basically identical to diesel (except additives) can be stored unlimited.

The affiliate information shows that it the website shows mostly / only affiliate offers, and omits (intentionally?) much better a lternatives like posteo.de for email. Listed vendors like OVHcloud must follow the US cloud act, so not really independent from US.

Just advertising, no real privacy focused.

A great independent vendor for an EAM tool focusing on cloud migrations got acquired.

Does Ford now copy Tesla‘s tactic to over-promise nice cars for a specific low price to come much later (in 2027)? And then deliver much later and for higher prices?

A bit more context and details would help.

For now, it sounds like a Perpetuum mobile type of invention. A bald wide reaching claim, no evidence.

Reads like AI generated bullshit overemphasizing on zero percent probable benefits and ignoring hundred percent probable damages. Welcome in AI age.

developers have a specific skill set which gets 100% replaced by AI. The assumed skill set of „limiting AI damage“ is neither present or desired by stakeholders who push into AI (except alibi)

Yes, all packets get logged (metadata only). Otherwise we wouldn’t know there is an issue.

Those packets consume bandwidth and device utilization, too but this is flat fee, whereas log traffic is measured per GB so we investigated where an unexpected growth came from.

Microsoft InTune WUDO has a similar bug costing my department 40000 € internal charging per month for firewall log traffic of blocked tcp 7680 requests. 86000 requests per day per client, 160 million per day total. MS confirmed the bug but did nothing to fix it.

Wake up, American tech people (or anybody with remains of intelligence and humanity). Solve this issue from inside before the system implodes or sets the world even more on fire than it has done already.

Bad image still unchanged.

Have a look at the great image on their front page. https://iconigai.com/assets/images/influencer20.jpg Her right leg looks like zombie apocalypse Both arms are merged with half of one hand only.

Perfect way to effortlessly destroy any reputation / market value

While I appreciate many routine bug fixes and some longtime awaited features and UI improvements, Affinity apps still lacks general stability, UI consistency, and a huge number of essential features, making it hard to use these apps in professional context of for critical work.

The are no official statistics, but from own observation and counting the evolution of key indicators is very bad and going into the wrong direction:

Rate of solved long term issues (for basic/essential functionality) stays constant or going down. E.g.

Wrong handling of alpha channel adjustments layers Rendering issues depending on zoom level Merge down leading to blurriness Handling of layer or position or size leading to blurriness Unable to render 16 bit color depth within the app Wrong CMYK color profile preview / soft proofing (paper simulation)

Rate of features implemented (based on user feedback in forum) low (E.g. LTR writing, handling of 1-bit BW documents, missing vector trace, supporting functions for game devs like zero in alpha channel, PAR (pixel aspect ratio), blend tool, …

Instead Affinity often adds features which where never requested by users before and server only small very user groups (astrophotography stacking)

Countless regressions of UI bugs (UI elements not working/unusable)

Some „design decisions“ of the developers are insane: - older releases unable to open files edited by newer releases (this effects almost every minor release), so all users working as team or family must always upgrade to latest iPad versions lacks dozens of essential functions available on Desktop versions. Gap increases with every release Instead of fixing bugs for existing functionality, Affinity introduces new functions, covering the use same use case by a totally different workflow. E.g. combining blend ranges and mask layers vs. Live mask layers.

If needed I can provide links to relevant posts in the official Affinity user forum proving these claims.

This creates strong associations to „Machtergreifung“ and „Gleichschaltung“

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung

The Nazi term Gleichschaltung (German pronunciation: [ˈɡlaɪçʃaltʊŋ] ⓘ), meaning "synchronization" or "bringing into line", was the process of Nazification by which Adolf Hitler—leader of the Nazi Party in Germany—established a system of totalitarian control and coordination over all aspects of German society "from the economy and trade associations to the media, culture and education".[1]

There is no direct counterpart in Englisch Wikipedia for:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machtergreifung

Machtergreifung Mit Machtergreifung (auch Machtübernahme oder Machtübergabe) wird die Ernennung des Nationalsozialisten Adolf Hitler zum Reichskanzler durch den Reichspräsidenten Paul von Hindenburg am 30. Januar 1933 bezeichnet. Hitler übernahm an diesem Tag die Führung einer Koalitionsregierung von NSDAP und nationalkonservativen Verbündeten (DNVP, Stahlhelm), in der neben ihm zunächst nur zwei Nationalsozialisten Regierungsämter bekleideten (Kabinett Hitler); dies waren Wilhelm Frick als Reichsinnenminister und Hermann Göring als Reichsminister ohne Geschäftsbereich. Zusätzlich zur eigentlichen Ernennung umfasst der Begriff die anschließende Umwandlung der bis dahin schon seit 1930 durch Präsidialkabinette geschwächten parlamentarischen Demokratie der Weimarer Republik und deren Verfassung in eine nach dem nationalsozialistischen Führerprinzip agierende zentralistische Diktatur.

Nachdem am 1. Februar das Parlament in Berlin, der Reichstag, aufgelöst worden war, schränkten die Machthaber in den folgenden – von nationalsozialistischem Terror gekennzeichneten – Monaten die politischen und demokratischen Rechte durch Notverordnungen des Präsidenten ein. Als entscheidende Schritte auf dem Weg zur Diktatur gelten die Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutz von Volk und Staat (Reichstagsbrandverordnung) vom 28. Februar 1933 und das Ermächtigungsgesetz vom 24. März 1933. Der Reichstag verlor damit praktisch jegliche Entscheidungskompetenz. Neben vielen anderen wurden nun auch Parlamentarier ohne Gerichtsverfahren in Konzentrationslagern eingesperrt und gefoltert.

In the year 2002 should be added:

As part of DPReview.com's 25th anniversary, we look back at one of the most radical cameras we've yet tested.

Everyone looking for the long desired update of this sensor technology: there is none.

The paper is discussion regular people (not malicious people) tossing a coin, and under this precondition and assuming a fair (unbiased) coin.

It is not about intentional favoring on result.

That is outside the preconditions of the paper: „if the person tossing the coin controls the bias“

Flip it twice. Once to determine which side is up at second throw. Reverse to counter bias at start of second throw. Then flip again for final result.

The story fitting to the headline can be found https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/ceo-of-saudi-arabias-f...

Most DB systems allocate memory pools for specific purposes, and do a better job in managing RAM vs OS because the DB knows which queries will be processed and can optimize RAM usage accordingly. Using virtual memory (paged out to disk) would spoil the DB optimizations and should be avoided in general.

But the more important part is managing disk IO, as permanent storage is far slower, but magnitudes larger than RAM (except for memory DBs which depend on special RAM with battery backup). Even in times of SSD.

This applies for dedicated DB servers.

If you have a server with mixed workloads and other apps beside DB, it becomes blurry.

Text reads like AI generated logorrhea

Discussion in user forum : https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/201413-aff...

99% MTU size. Had this recently specifically with TLS due to large initial packets containing certificates. Results could even depend on user agent, some fail some will work.

try to reduce MTU on client, 1280 is a good starting point.

Probably formerly owned by China Southern Airlines until dec. 2011. Owned by Jet Midwest since mar. 2022 Their business seems to be used aircraft parts & maintenance/ service. https://www.planespotters.net/airframe/airbus-a380-800-n296j...

jow SysAdmin 8m Update:

After reviewing the situation we found no indication of any unauthorized access to the system.

Background:

During maintenance work to implement performance improvements for the table of hardware (ToH) views on the wiki, which are currently the primary reason for severe system load, we encountered a debug log containing username and passwords of login attempts in clear text.

What we initially believed to be a malicious modification of the DokuWiki PHP code turned out to be leftover debug code from an earlier wiki migration. We removed the offending debug functionality and purged the related log file. As a precaution, we're going to force a password reset for all users.

Note that the user database itself contains one-way password hashes and was not compromised, neither did we find an indication of any unauthorized access.

Transport time calculations using the max speed of >500km/h are misleading. I doubt that all passengers want to travel from one end to the opposite end. You might need to travel any partial distance to visit relatives, concerts, doctors etc. So you need to add many train stations (6 min walking distance: one per kilometer? Probably not, more about 10-20 stations over the total distance), or add hub and spoke design with other (slower) means of transportation and introducing inconvenience of changing transport 2-3 times, or multiple lines in parallel covering smaller parts.

There were concepts many years ago to have commuter capsules accelerating and dock to longer high speed trains, to avoid the slow-down of stops at stations.

I like the idea of using only 5% of the real estate and preserve 95% theoretically untouched - but the gigantic building will certainly change the surrounding environment by blocking air flow, reflecting sun to south, adding shadow to the north, etc. and you need to add lots of solar or wind farms, probably outside the actual building.

This gigantomanic plan is more an expression of prestige, non-democratic power, and an excellent way to totally police the people inside. Another useless waste of money, energy, building material, nature, probably human live of slave labor.

A useful project would need to include all stakeholders in the design phase, including a democratic process to define targets, outcomes, financing etc.

Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prora

Lighthouse case of (forgotten) prior art.

It seems some people may prefer it the tesla way to get automatically charged with potentially astronomical prices on your credit card, see https://www.thedrive.com/tech/41826/tesla-owner-billed-over-...

In Germany, we use the same word „Steuern“ for both taxes and steering. The purpose of taxes in many cases is to change (steer) behavior, besides generating state income. Same can apply for customs, which are often intended more to protect local products against imports, and less to create state income

What is missing is a guide how to replace the bad pattern bey a good one. Add a function that the user can login, create his individual API key, and store in a a secure way on his client (e.g. any credential store)