Where do you live now?

What’s the food like where you are? Are there any regional specialties you love?

I visited Florence last year and couldn’t get enough of it, I’m actually heading to Milan later this year so looking forward to getting stuck in again

The NT kernel supports hot patching because restarting running servers is an inconvenient requirement to remain secure

Apparently end users can just run that insecure kernel indefinitely because… arbitrary product feature tiering?

I mean this is something we’re at risk of sure, but it’s not really anything to do with windows

The fact that all the components are getting exponentially more expensive is the much bigger risk to the concept of personal computing

I’m not sure if they’ve degraded, but I’ve got one of those CD-R spindles with a few disks left on it somewhere

I could burn a mix CD this afternoon if I felt like it?

Thing is if I gave half of the people I know a mix CD I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t actually have a means of listening to it

It’s still never been proven despite countless very smart people looking for this exact behaviour for well over a decade now. The first person to actually prove this whole mass spying via microphone to sell ads thing is actually happening, would be world-famous overnight.

For instance on an android phone, it’s not really possible for an app to do something that a determined enough security researcher couldn’t ultimately detect if they were looking for it. When you can build your own version of the operating system and decompile the application easily, there’s not really any other places to hide that won’t give something away.

If you feel like your phone is acting off of a conversation you had without interacting with it, it’s nearly always one of these three:

• The vast majority of people are super predictable most of the time.
• You are not accounting for other people in the conversation, who may well have just googled the thing. These companies know who you spend time with, they don’t need a microphone for that.
• Baader meinhof phenomenon

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve thought surely something fishy was going on plenty of times, but the reality is, until someone can actually prove it (which is entirely possible to do if it’s happening), it’s gotta just be the above. We’re being tracked a crazy amount, but it’s not passively by microphones in our pockets

Note: none of this applies if you’re actually being specifically individually targeted (i.e. by a hostile government). All bets are off in that instance

Yes of course

But every single scrap of information in Wikipedia exists somewhere else

Its value is twofold and exclusively these two when you boil everything down:

• It is enough information to answer any question that has an empirically known answer
• It is available to anyone on the planet with ease and without cost

There’s very little else we’ve created that hits both of those, but the second is by far the most important.

Already got a copy on my NAS, I update it every year or two when I remember to.

But you’ve missed the point, my personal access to a Wikipedia text snapshot is not equivalent to the free access of information to everyone. The information just existing somewhere isn’t enough.

And anyway a person can’t practically keep their own copy of the Internet Archive. It takes up something like a quarter of an exabyte

I feel like this has been one of my soapbox things for a while now, but

Americans, the Internet Archive and Wikipedia stand as two of the biggest contributions to human knowledge preservation in all of history. To lose either would be a huge backslide for us as a civilization, and it never really seemed like a genuine threat until recent events over there.

I know there’s a lot of other shit going on right now, but you must do what you can to ensure both are able to continue their work.

I literally cannot conceive of a more efficient arrangement of 17 monitors

Conclusive proof all species of geese are assholes

Make your website feel like a single-page app — without JavaScript

Oh, intriguing! I wonder how they do that

Step 1: add this JS to your page

Oh.