Posts by Rainer

Re: I would have imagined...

They run their own, private CDN. Google Netflix Open Connect.

That may be true. But then, people who bet against Elon usually paid dearly.

Just ask the DNC.

Have you seen those?

They are quite peculiar.

I'm not an expert but looking at those pics, I don't see how one could assume he was talented.

Denying his admission to the University of Vienna, twice, was the likely right move. Even though it resulted in WW2....

I don't think his pictures are really "art". They are pictures.

Re: Tantrum boy

There's no waiting lists anymore because people have no money. In the US, people don't save up for a car, they finance. With high interest rates, that's not funny.

Tesla's inventory is in flux due to exports waiting for ships - but I agree it has been building up. But at least the entry-level cars are very affordable and very good value for money.

As for the prices of used cars coming down - do you belong to the class of people who thought a car is an appreciating asset?

People complained that there was no 2nd hand market for EVs and that the used ones were overpriced. Now that there is a market, people complain that prices are coming down.

Just see what a two year old EQS is still worth...

> Why don't we start by replacing the awful cargo ships that pollute as much as 100,000 cars

While you're at it, why not start by penalizing cruise ships, which basically do the same (though they're required to run on low-sulphur MFO now, AFAIK).

That would penalize pensioners - another influential voter-block...

Re: Bad choice of comparison

The problem with escape systems is that to be actually usable, they drastically reduce the amount of cargo you can take with you.

And then, their usability and practicability are still questionable. AFAIK, you can't eject yourself from a starting or landing spacecraft (or any other very fast flying object - regardless of what Tom Cruise's opening scene in TG2 claims).

Re: Bwahaha. Please do!

The Cybertruck will not "short out" wading through a comparatively deep stream. It does need some time to pressurize the battery, though and it has been demonstrated that it is "mostly" ok after doing so.

The main problem of the CT is its weight.

But off-road fitness has AFAIK never been a consideration for getaway vehicles. Else criminals would use Ariel Atoms and beach-buggies.

The main desirable feature of a Cybertruck as a police car is its physical presence, it's brutalistic physicalilty.

Vault on the other hand - it only got a lot of features after HC found some VC money and hired developers.

The license-structure on Vault is equally insane and intricate - but there is no alternative right now.

Re: Do you remember?

That was probably when they were hosted on an IMAP server with little quota.

Re: bad example

The problem was not the cooling units themselves - it was that the 3rd-party doing the remote maintenance on them got breached and while they were only supposed to access the cooling units at Target, they didn't have actual restrictions - likely because those who setup the VPN didn't want to bother with figuring out which 3rd party needed access to which part of the network.

Re: Lapdogs

It‘s just another State in the Union now.

Maybe if they lick hard and good enough, they’ll get a star on the flag?

Re: IPv6-mostly?

I guess most will just put it behind a CD/Proxy like Cloudflare.

Yup. Requirement fulfilled.

Re: You will trigger vegans with a reference to cream!

For a pork roast, you have to soak the fat side in water for a couple of hours. Then the fat will get all crispy.

Re: "discrete graphics class performance with the efficiency of integrated graphics"

Apple M1 Pro and M1 Pro Max enter the chat....

Re: The White House declares and outs itself ..... in a crazy directive

Trump could at least wrangle with reporters and hold his ground.

This guy...I cannot believe the media thought it was a good idea to have him elected.

Though, I suspect they thought that Kamala being sworn in mid-term wasn't too bad either.

I still have a bet with a co-worker that he won't make it to mid-term. Those drugs he gets to prop him up will stop working sooner or later or the side-effects will show.

Re: YouTube tech support?!

To be fair, if you've got 3.6m subs, you might have some sort of go-to guy at google that manages your account (among others).

Re: Ask any actuary

Still a thing here in Switzerland.

An insurance agent once told me, I pay only a third or less of what a young man from Albania or Kosovo (or really any Balkan country + Turkey) would pay (for my car).

(German, mid-30s then).

Though a lot of insurances have just chosen to not insure a certain demographic anymore.

Ran NetBSD arm32 on my RISC PC 600.

Was fun downloading 20-ish floppy disks at uni (and re-downloading a couple of them because the drives in the old Apollo workstations were flaky as hell).

Didn't really know what to do with it, though, at the time.

Re: Citrix VPN

The vulnerability was apparently mass-exploited before patches were widely installed. Backdoors were installed and the networks were they are still accessible are now subsequently "milked".

You wouldn't either, if you were as loaded as him.

That's too obvious.

You need to make it more subtle like "Jean", or "Chantal".

The big secret is to let the mark's brain do all the work and fill in the stuff you couldn't (and didn't want to) write on the small label ;-)

APU2

I use it on an embedded AMD Geode APU2 from PCEngines. This CPU only has one core and thus none of the Intel bugs of the last years.

It's passively cooled and I get pfSense updates for a very long time.

My access point is from Apple. I guess it does phone home a bit, but at least they don't sell to advertisers or hand it through to Facebook et.al.

I hope it will be viable to run your own access point at some time (with open firmware).

Re: No CloudStack then

> So clearly BT decided that their own „cloud”, based on CloudStack, is not

> good enough. I wonder what BT’s tenants will think about that?

It was mentioned here:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/12/10/bt_to_sunset_apache_cloudstack_cloud_customer_demand_went_awol/

Re: Interesting

Not sure if el reg allows links:

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2019-June/091254.html

Here you go.

Re: Displacement??

This is important for people who want to do a full-submersion oil-cooled NUC.