I’ve never stood in like for early voting in the EU. I’ve done it at my supermarket while getting groceries.
Grab a ballot and envelope, enter booth, do the thing, walk to desk, flash id, get crossed off list, watch volunteer put your envelope in another envelope and drop it in the ballot box.
In-and-out, three minutes.
Come to think of it, voting on election day has always been just as smooth. I just have to go to the library or some school, so it’s not as convenient.
The theorem holds true. The theorem states that the monkey has infinite time, not just the lifetime of our universe.
That’s just lazy science to change the conditions to make sensational headlines. Bad scientists!
It’s not just about the frequency. It’s about the modulation. You need new/additional radio hardware. Constantly being on another band eats more battery, too.
But as we’ve seen in busy areas, there’s just not enough bandwidth with many nodes on LoRa. It’d get congested real fast if it were built-in to mainstream phones.
Using the hardware that’s there, something like briar let’s you get your messages routed through whichever means. Bluetooth mesh, internet or tor.
The contributor above works at Baikal Electronics, which are a defense supplier in/for Russia, and therefore sanctioned.
The Linux Foundation is based in the US and have to bide by those sanctions.
I’ll keep that secret from her 😅
Three years ago, I bought my wife a laptop with Windows 10 to replace her 10yo windows 7 machine.
It had hardware issues out of the box, and went in on two repairs. It works fine now, AFAIK.
But, she still doesn’t trust it, and she doesn’t think that she can move her Adobe CS6 license over to it…
I even bought her the affinity suite.
I’m starting to think she’ll never move on from Windows 7.
I think the major browsers stopped supporting it sometime during the last year, so my best hope is that some included certificates will eventually make her favourite websites stop working. That has to force her over to something more recent… right?
I use arch, btw.
For the occasions where you’re uncertain if it’s gigabytes or gibibytes.
Meanwhile, my 2018 T480 has 64 gigglebytes of memory.
I have two accounts with the same bank in two different EU-countries.
I need to call them to get interrogated for 20 minutes to get international transfers enabled for 24 hours, and for my other account as recipient only.
Revolut sounds like a dream for anyone who cares about their sovereignty. I hate being baby-sat by my bank.
I bought one years ago. Maybe 2018? I think it’s a kindle touch 8th gen, ad-supported. Cost me ~60€, ad-supported. It got jailbroken and KOReader installed. It has stayed offline since, so those ads have long since expired.
It gets the job done. I’ve never been in the amazon e-book ecosystem, and I don’t want to be licensing my books at their mercy.
Standardized firmware isn’t something that’s specified in the ISA, is it? It’s just shitty phone manufacturers.
Asus had some x86 phones a few years back. I haven’t dug into them, but I doubt they had a full bios/efi.
pine64 arm devices have u-boot, while a bootloader does fullfil a subset of the uefi spec.
Integrated GPU is not a dirty word anymore.
AMD’s system-on-a-chips with RDNA2/3 pack almost the same punch as the discrete cards with the same architecture. See steamdeck as the prime example, but there’s quite a few boards, boxes and laptops with the same.
My desktop, laptop and homelab all synd my important stuff over syncthing. They all do btrfs snapshots three months back in case an oopsie would propagate.
The homelab additionally fetches deduplicated snapshots of my VPS weekly, before syncing all of the above to an encrypted hetzner storage for those burning-down-the-house events.
instead of healthcare
Where in the world are you? In my part my tax money goes far enough to pay for both. And free university studies so that no one has to take loans.
WebRTC isn’t necessarily a bad specification.
But that history shows how they draft a specification, implement a service around it at a fast pace (in this case even with a takeover), and many years later the draft turns into a än official specification.
Other browsers have no choice but to fall in line behind the draft if they want to stay relevant. And they did.
IE did the same shit with their marquee-tag back in the day. Last I checked it still works on Firefox. (It’s still not in any w3c specification)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC#History
I don’t think I could summarise it better than that Wikipedia section.
He also planned to have BcacheFS merged to mainline in 2018. Finally got it merged in 2023 (released in 2024).
Development will likely slow down a bit when things require more review, discussion and scrutiny now that it’s mainlined.
Let me quote the Wikipedia page.
Bcachefs describes itself as “working and stable, with a small community of users”. When discussing Linux 6.9-rc3 on April 7, 2024, Linus Torvalds touched on the stability of bcachefs, saying “if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you”, and in August of 2024 that “nobody sane uses bcachefs and expects it to be stable”.
It’s been being for a long time. It finally got merged to mainline in Linux 6.7. Sounds like they started a lot of renovations after that. It’s still a bit too much in motion for me to consider it.
Performance and features look promising. I’ll revisit in 2030 if things have calmed down and they still have maintainers.
I’ve been running btrfs for 14 years. It has similar features and a proven track record. It doesn’t move as fast. That’s a good thing for a filesystem.
Gee, I can’t imagine why they chose to drop this bomb today.
It’s like they wanted it to be drowned in other news.