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20 years ago a malformed packet to winsock would crash the computer, 5 years later installing win2k on my buddies computer (no router/firewall) a few minutes after we finished the install "windows will reboot in nn seconds" whelp time to re-install without a network connection... we've added a lot of layers since win2k, mostly in the name of ease of development, and I don't feel like we've met that goal but we sure found a way to get a million monkies behind a million typwriters, and now we're aiming to replace the monkies with simulated monkies. Time to smell my fingers and fall out of the tree ;-D

The main trick is getting the pad/component hot enough that you're adding solder to them, not to the iron. The end result should look like the solder is a smooth fillet, not jaggy/crystalized bumps. Now to tweak my nixos gaming rig with your settings thanks to your research!

I appreciate the article, it's cool to see such small differences across all those settings! It says they learned to solder, if you see solder joins that look like those in the first picture, keep learning! Those are some dry joins, which can easily lead to failure, or intermittant signal loss. Soldering can be a touchy sport!

GhostBSD DragonflyBSD pf/opn sense even funky hybrid stuff like Chimera Linux, out of curiosity I had a quick search and the list goes on https://github.com/DiscoverBSD/awesome-bsd

Linux has a lot of corporate sponsorship and its own legal hurdles of the past (SCO le sigh.)

I haven't read about the details, but a sea anchor can really put the breaks on. It also woulden't surprise me if they spent a a fair bit of effort doing weather routing, making course adjustments to take advantage of weather systems as they evolve.

As a mouse with diabetes sometimes you have to wonder how did I get here?

Ahh the classic bootlicker's bias, this is how oppressed developers move and click their sad cursor hoping to keep their job while they train their AI replacement!

"For people who are comfortable, that's great, they can contribute to this kind of great human survey. To people who are not, it is not an issue,"

Me too!

I'm thinking of the classic 4chan "make sure I'm in the caption" meme.

Anproto would fit the bill for a simple "I was here, you may have seen me elsewhere" https://anproto.com/

I think because it's RMS champion of digital openess using using an archaine Chinese laptop, it's the dichotomy of China providing a product that's essentially more free (of binary blob firmware) then a western equivalent laptop. Take heed and dispare oh ye providers of win modems!

No jugement, but I'm seeing an up-tick in pro snake activities on this site!

User/admin discretion for software they use should be a big factor, sometimes getting burned is how you learn to play with fire. Or decide that having your data/participation disrespected means you need to set harder boundaries. My solution is to try things in isolation, run very few services, try to avoid becoming dependent on the online, appreciate the offline and local first.

^^^ Proof that IVM block was very effective!

Time to flip the Samuel Jackson quote upside down, we need more mf'in snakes on the mf'in plane!

Passive aggressive behavior around hiring and HR is a big reason I prefer self employment, I ununderstand some of the CYA reasons but I always find it yucky in the extreme.

Ye olde cyberpunk kill switch, are your teched out goons out of date? Flush em and print new better goons fresh from the vats!

The brand new BMW I last drove has network issues, it's been to the shop 10+ times the infotainment system glitches worse then skrillix and adjusting the side mirrors crashed and the car had to be turned off and on again to regain functionality. My friend is pulling teeth to get a new replacement, I had nightmares that it would glitch and emergency break us to death on the highway, not confidence inspiring!

As an urban farm nerd I've experienced this first hand in western Canada, "the chickens smell" indeed and??? "Our bylaws are so poorly written we can fine you $10,000 a day for your 6 urban chickens subjectively having a smell" ... Plus bylaw officers can enter property without a warrant, they've got more rights then the police! And yet they don't know how to determine if animals are kept in appropriate conditions/can't tell if animals in your care are healthy etc. It's like a montey python sketch IRL!

Technology is getting too in tents for me. /former boy scout

I think a big part of them problem is ye olde IT department, deploying the 'sloth is what they know how to do, people get funneled into using the stack and feel uncomfortable outside the walled garden. There are off the shelf solutions for end point control AD and beyond. It's not hard to come up with all the usual Machiavellian contraptions equivalent for a Linux platform but they'll have different names and hit a little different. People are creatures of habbit. I personally have a negative view on big orgs, my brief time inside a couple really painted a picture for me and I have a hard time seeing the up side of them, especially in this time of layoffs the illusion that a big org is a stable place to work is broken. Hopefully out of those pieces we can build smaller orgs that have a sprit of adventure who will pioneer new ways forward. Browser based SaaS products mostly unteather the need for a particular platform. The stage is set to use what you like, stand up for yourself and say no to using products that disrespect you.

Top it off with the github acquisition we need to nuke the planet from orbit, it's the only way to be sure!

My pet theory is a knock on history of reverberating PTS, people pander to the need for a calmed environment suitable for survivors with PTS which creates a vacuum for biggest emotions wins and other low boundaries behavior, gambling/internet addiction.

It's a large country with subtle differencies across the states but this story came to mind immediately https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249747

TV/Film has a way of naturally dumbing things down, the making of video content can get complicated, so the way your favorite book gets butchered into a movie is a natural consequence (RIP Tom Bombadil) between the writing style tailored for the screen, meeting episode length (gotta fit those ads in the time slot) YouTube pushes towards trending content lengths - like how every 4 minute topic is stretched into a 20 minute journey of how the creator came at the 4 minutes of content... The military brigade approach that film and TV employ to get the footage they need with continuity to some acceptable level etc. Writing about complex things has fewer (yet still infinite) hurdles.

I think different cultures can contribute to eachother, they don't have to hold hands. I'm sure open minded curious developers can look over the fence and appreciate the differences and adopt practical aspects of each other, maybe the time to stop and smell the roses is to poetic and altruistic. It's a JavaScript server/packager/framework drag race for pink slips!

The pharows know the best path to wealth. Just hold everyone hostage.

It's only a token offer... I'll see myself out.

A big part of the build out is government involved, there's no refferendum ballot for "don't spend public money feeding the circus" that tiger needs his three squares a day...

I'd add one of these: https://fortune.com/2026/02/21/peter-thiel-bill-gates-steve-...

but uh here I am on a social media site rebroadcasting that message... I'll add that I'm for an open internet, I don't think we need age verification. Walled gardens have a lot more shade then alternatives. Becoming aware of the many forms of abstracted gambling (time, tokens, or otherwise) makes the internet a much more affordable and sane place.

I first started recompiling the world with 64MB of ram, kind of funny how far we've come on hardware and made software gobble up the gains with very little to show for it.