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by sherr 17d ago
This is what I do, to try out ZFS in a "safe" and easy way. An HP Microserver (my home server) with a USB3 disk attached formatted as ZFS. The server still runs Debian stable and uses DKMS ZFS. The recent pain points have only bee
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by sherr 18d ago
That's wrong. All scholars know he was a Briton, or sometimes called "Romano-Briton". The "English" (Angles, Saxons etc.) were usually the antagonists of the Britons. I only recently started to understand that the p
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by sherr 1mo ago
I found Noah Smith's piece on this a good read. It's from November 2023 : "People are realizing that the Arsenal of Democracy is gone" [1] "It’s important to clarify, by the way, that the phrase “Arsenal of Democra
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by sherr 1mo ago
Yes, it's all very bad. > 2) if you remove fujitsu then you're handing it to either crapita or atos. who are also shite. Yes, agreed, although (at least) Capita are probably much worse. They're currently in a deep hole hav
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by sherr 2mo ago
Publishers and "professional editors" have been releasing crap for years, even decades. No LLM needed. Humans are perfectly capable of writing so-called "slop" without a machine.
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by sherr 2mo ago
I see mentions of Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" in that thread but what this really seems to be mostly like is Vernor Vinge's "shred and scan" factory in his novel "Rainbows End".
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by sherr 2mo ago
There's a site in the UK [1] that shows images of the front page of various newspapers. I think they try to put them online the evening before. Sometimes worth a look and a European version would be useful too. Might need to be "c
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by sherr 2mo ago
https://archive.is/U2fWP
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by sherr 2mo ago
There's a good article on White and the book in the "Encyclopedia of Fantasy". It made me appreciate that this set of stories is more than just a book for children. I haven't actually read it but the entry for "Whit
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by sherr 3mo ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48610055
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by sherr 3mo ago
Nothing has changed in that regard. Moscow still receives much more monetary attention than any other city in Russia.
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by sherr 3mo ago
Yes, that's what I ended up using. I was wanting to program something myself but it was too difficult. MusicBrainz Picard [1] is excellent. [1] https://picard.musicbrainz.org/
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by sherr 3mo ago
My hell was trying too make sense or and organise audio/music ID3 tags. What a nightmare that is. EXIF seems much nicer to me.
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by sherr 3mo ago
It's a shame that the title doesn't say what the s/w is : keyd. I actually use keyd on my laptops because it seems to do everything I need and is easy to get going without any fuss. So thank you Raheman Vaiya.
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by sherr 3mo ago
Thanks. I'm sure Sprang loved having Hockney as a user! I must say that I am less fond of the digital art he made and much prefer the traditional, physical, paint on canvas.
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by sherr 3mo ago
I wrote this on another submission here about his death : Inevitable of course. He was getting on in years and starting to show his age. He's an artist I started to really appreciate about 10/15 years ago when visiting the one of
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by sherr 3mo ago
Inevitable of course. He was getting on in years and starting to show his age. He's an artist I started to really appreciate about 10/15 years ago when visiting the one of his big Royal Academy shows in London. The works were very
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by sherr 3mo ago
Yes, magpies are very intelligent birds. Also very annoying! I don't like hearing their "cackling", especially if you're in bed trying to sleep. Magpies at mine also figured out how to feed from the wire-cylinder hanging
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by sherr 3mo ago
Mine's been mostly fine. Second hand Pixel 10 (previous 2nd hand 8a) and I am extremely happy with an excellent phone. No problems like you've had.
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by sherr 4mo ago
Thanks for writing this. Perhaps a part of your therapy at the end. Also, a way to understand and recover. I hope all goes well for you!
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by sherr 4mo ago
Yes, I agree. It was magic to me really. I still love Perl.
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by sherr 4mo ago
Respect for programming this. I did some date/time calculations a few years ago using Perl and it was full of corner cases and trouble. Did I enjoy it? I enjoyed seeing it work. Hopefully with the right answers! This tool looks great.
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by sherr 4mo ago
That's great news. Fwupdmgr has made a huge positive difference to me over the past few years. A BIOS update used to be painful, perhaps even impossible, but not now. Thanks to all who worked hard on this, particularly Richard Hughes,
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by sherr 4mo ago
Whatever the reason for "hiding" Mythos, it seems clear that these systems are getting very good at finding software security exploits. Mythos has made more people, even the US government, sit up and pay more attention. Regarding
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by sherr 4mo ago
Desktop and server vulnerabilities are one thing. At least many are actively maintained and will get patched. I have a concern about all the common and cheap internet firewalls and routers that are around, running old software and kernels.
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by sherr 5mo ago
"Theft-resistant" I have two Bromptons (a 3 and a 6 speed). Unfortunately, I've also had TWO stolen .. painful. This was years ago now and both were locked up in central London. The second time, locked via a "Kryptonite
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by sherr 5mo ago
I've just donated. I use Thunderbird every day and have used it for years now. Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird are very important to me and my internet usage. For all the complaints (many just unwarranted in my opinion) I'm a hap
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by sherr 6mo ago
From : https://docs.titanos.tv/introduction "Titan OS is the European, independent Linux-based smart TV operating system from Titan OS S.L, the technology, entertainment, and advertising company based in Barcelona.&quo
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by sherr 6mo ago
Going to the link and just hitting the spacebar worked for me. Next slide, and so on. Firefox/Linux.
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by sherr 6mo ago
This appears to be a "pre-beta" site, so this will be why it is not polished yet. From the documentation page : "note: These installation instructions will be changing, with the Beta release of Kalpa" A bit rough around

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