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I got beat up by a guy twice my size who was just in a pissy mood. “Participated in a fight, in school suspension”

Police have little intelligence of their own

My setup is an old Dell Wyse thin client and 4 external USB drives. The thin client is basically silent. The drives only make sound when they’re active, and spin down when idle. The thin client has an Intel CPU with QuickSync so it can even transcode with Plex. For data redundancy between the hard drives, I use lsyncd to make a poor man’s mirror setup.

Works great. Lives in a cabinet in my living room.

And in 10 years they’ll agree to a small website that suggests that maybe Europe might want to open a place to store source code that’s European hosted… In another five years.

Fully work from home. I start late on Mondays and Thursdays because I have Dutch lessons in the morning. I usually work from my small home office, or sometimes sitting on my sofa or rarely at a cafe. I don’t usually have meetings on Mondays or Fridays and log off at around 5:30. On Tuesday through Thursday, I often work until around 7:00 in order to have virtual meetings with coworkers in other timezones. Most days, I skip breakfast or have something light, and opt for an early lunch (sometimes that’s breakfast food).

Outside of meetings, I use an automated time management tool to block off times for certain tasks so that I don’t forget to do them daily. The rest of the time is deep work, hopping from project to project. My work is done in 2 week intervals, and I usually accomplish 15-20 project tasks per interval. During the day, I frequently field random notifications to myself or my team in channels on our comm tool. During deep work time, to keep my brain from falling apart, I tend to put on a comfort show or something not too engaging. A large chunk of my work is also stakeholder management, talking people away from metaphorical cliffs that will hurt the business.

I’m running at 120% at all times. My brain is mush at all times. I’m deeply burned out.

Nationalist vs nationalist is an obnoxious combo

Now I have to worry about my son being drafted.

EU tech companies keep letting themselves be sold to US tech companies, or re-HQing to America.

Capitalism can’t solve problems created by capitalism. The largest companies will always gobble up the competition, eliminating the alternatives.

That’s such an obvious deflection, though. My last car was a GM vehicle, with built-in OnStar right there in the box behind the rearview mirror. Built into the price I paid was hardware I didn’t want, didn’t pay a subscription for, yet was collecting my driving data and selling it.

Building a functionally useful infotainment system to replace Android Auto, with all of the bells and whistles needed to complete, is going to cost them the same or more. The difference is the rent seeking behavior, the demand for subscriptions, and getting more opportunities to spy on their customers for profit.

Mine didn’t go up at all… because I moved to the Netherlands this year, where this is a sane medical system. Not perfect, but sane.

When I was a teacher in South Korea, I had a 5 year old student hospitalized for anxiety. It was fairly common by high school ages.

In the upper left I see a dinosaur facing the sky with its mouth open

Rent seeking behavior. They want subscription revenue instead of wanting to deliver what consumers want.

I feel like short seasons leads to insufficient time to know the characters, and causes writers to pack in so much plot and melodrama that it’s exhausting to watch. Every second is packed too tightly , always trying to be EPIC. Miss 3 seconds in the episode? Sorry, that plot point was critical and either you go back and find it, or give up on the show. And heavy serialization also requires more of this obsessive watching and a requirement to not forget minor details between seasons. The higher production values result in 2-3 years between seasons, deepening all of the problems above: it MUST be considered epic, it MUST be tightly serialized to every minor detail, and when people don’t live to watch the TV, well, they might as well cancel it.

Writers also seem like movie writers have come to TV - think up a premise, write a story arc, and then have no idea where it goes after that. The drop off after S1 is usually pretty stark, and then S2 is when it gets cancelled.

TV having 20+ episodes (almost half of the year with weekly releases) means the characters were around long enough that they can actually build meaningful on-screen relationships. Every episode didn’t have to be a high stakes drama, plot, or writing. Lower budgets per episode means that writing quality, dialog, and character building takes precedence over flash, action, location, and epic camera shots.

Give me more Star Trek Deep Space 9 and less Marvel-like Star Trek Discovery.

It also deepens genre-ization. With only 10 episodes, a comedy is a COMEDY. A drama is a DRAMA. We don’t have time to be experimental or weave something more complex.

tl;dr A network operator can perform a MitM attack on the built-in updater’s call-out checking for updates by faking the Notepad++ update website, telling it a new version is available at <malware URL> and then downloading and running the malware

It requires a malicious network operator, or preexisting malware on the host.

For myself, I make sure I’ve done my due diligence before I might accuse someone of dishonesty, rather than making a minimum effort.

From his Kofi: https://ko-fi.com/flukejones

I’ve burned out on LKML and many many other parts of the FOSS world. It’s exhausting. As such, I will not be working on Linux for asus device. It’s not something I can devote huge chunks of time to for free anymore.

Thank you everyone who has donated something over the last years.

Same on his Patreon

For example, the developer of asus-linux.org who made the kernel contributions for Asus ROG laptops and the accompanying ROG Control Center recently walked away, due to exhaustion.

What’s wrong with original Syncthing? Why would anyone use a fork?

I don’t accept the premise of the question.

GigSky allows you to buy data on Egypt in 10GB intervals. You can continuously top up your plan once it runs out.

€52.49 for 10GB so it’s fairly expensive.

I used GigSky for work in the EU, and at least one day used 10GB+ without a problem.