ISP around me had policies like “we can provide Usenet except for the binaries trees”

I think in 2001 I was making a Linux from scratch system having not gotten enough from red hat and Debian with home configured and compiled kernels

Fun times and no, nothing like the commercial home operating systems back then

You could buy vodka instead of backup media and it’s not like anything will go wrong

Training videos might do it

My giant workplace had a data problem and had to restore from tape. We had a week off and things weren’t all back and working for months

By telomere length humans should live to about 120, but we don’t. There are other problems to solve before telomeres matter

As much as people hate Musk, Tesla is unusual in that they allow you to opt out of all connectivity. Get no updates, send no video, audio, or data to the company

So complain to the developers that make mastodon work that way. Complaining here is worse than useless, no one here can do anything about it

Tesla sticker ranges are optimistic. You can achieve them if you drive slowly, but not at highway speed

8 hours

More like 3 days. A Tesla 3 standard range takes 10 hours on 240V @15A

Cybertrucks have big batteries

t time is the time a thing happened

One program I tested went from (31,12,99) to (01,01,100). Its front end formatted the date and added the century, so it showed 1 January 2000 as 01/01/19100

That wasn’t fixed. The fault didn’t affect processing (the years were wrong but had the correct offset between them) and was only visible to internal users, and also that system was expected to be retired in 2004

I also pay for YouTube, and I keep chrome around for watching it, and for the Google apps

If they’re embedded in a combat group they take their chances.

If the missile knew where the drone was, it should have exploded on closest approach.

What are their uniforms made of to burn so well? Gun cotton?

So this is a Ukrainian built Russian ship that just on its own decided to join the fight on the Ukrainian side by self-immolation

The article describes a tool that grabs the data without admin privileges, but yes, there are methods used by current malware to escalate privileges.

Search: block app from internet [my operating system]

You’d really think a tank designer wouldn’t make the magazine all that easy to get at from outside