Birthday hike, Batou just turned 4.

With a zero specifically I think you’d need extra bits to get it on a network, but Traccar itself is pretty lightweight.

Former healthcare IT, holy crap do all digital health records systems seem to suck. Some of them suck in different ways, but none of the big ones anyway are great.

I get that there’s a lot of semi-special use cases and regulatory requirements and so on, but at the end of the day it’s text and images and a record of the changes to them. And it’s not like this is a surprise problem. People have been trying to digitize stuff since at least the 90s. And yet every single system seems like it’s only been in development for a few months and usually has trouble working with itself, much less any other record system.

For now anyway, it used to be $20+/gb. I’ll settle for flooding the market with refurbished 16+tb drives.

If they have access to your phone and/or email, they will have access to your bank. There won’t even be much friction because the things your bank uses to trust that its you, are your phone and email.

The privacy aspect is also important, but secondary to that, and more of a drawn out discussion.

People in their 20s tend to buy well drinks and cheap beer unless they’re independently wealthy. Older people tend to have more expensive, or at least more specific, preferences.

Raw spending doesn’t mean much in isolation.

Looking forward to watching that when I have time.

I think one of the more surprising things about Andor is that Disney somehow didn’t mess up the second season after the first went ‘under the radar’. And Gilroy closed it up so tight there’s no space for a 3rd.

I know people are probably tired of hearing it, but Andor is probably the best Star Wars “thing” that’s been produced. It does it without Jedi or The Force or awkward lingering shots on nostalgia bait. And it has the remove of fantasy/sci-fi so real world factors don’t drag it down into the weeds.

The original movies are classics, the prequels are fun, there’s lots of good books/shows/etc. Andor cuts to the heart of the difficulties of fighting back against fascism. The Empire breaks everyone on the show, on either side. Most of the people making meaningful action are forgotten. Some causes are necessary.

The worst thing about Voyager going forward is it’s never going to get the kind of remaster TOS/TNG/DS9 got.

It was filmed in the transitional period between film and digital and all the effects weren’t done on film like those series. The masters were done digitally, at broadcast quality.

From interviews/behind the scenes stuff someone would basically have to redo all the editing and effects work from scratch if they got their hands on the raw film. Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if someone is crazy enough to do that. But that’s a ton of work with basically no financial incentive.

Thankfully this one is built of many redundant layers instead of just one layer of metal.

Very clear.

Secondary examples include:

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias (also considered tertiary);

Tertiary examples include:

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (also considered secondary);

They do have a handy table later though:

| Primary | diaries - world war |

| Secondary | biography - world war |

| Tertiary | encyclopedia - world war |

You shouldn’t cite wikipedia in a paper because it’s a tertiary source. Somehow that got lost in translation sometime in the 90s.

You shouldn’t cite any other encyclopedia either, because they’re “some guy” writing a paragraph or so about a thing. I think it was Britannica that Tolkein wrote a lot of the “W”'s for. I’m sure he did a great job, but it’s not exactly easy to fact check him either.

I think it gets some flak but I’ve been super happy with Unraid.

Migrated hardware by moving the usb drive over to the new system and it didn’t blink that everything but the HDDs was different. Just booted up and started the array and dockers. The JBOD functionality is great. Drive loss is just an excuse to add a bigger drive.

There’s weirdness sometimes if devices don’t respect your network’s dns settings and just use their own. You can override that by forcing a dns redirect if your router supports that but not all consumer ones do unless you put openwrt or something on them.

Yes and no. The one the Nazis used was / is also a symbol used in Asia. (And really, everywhere. It’s a fairly basic pattern.) The Nazis used it because of their obsession with Aryans. Sometimes it’s at an angle, sometimes it’s not.

Generally in the west, unless it’s on a statue of budda, any swastika-ish symbol since the ~1930s is going to be a reference to Nazis though.

Dolly’s god-daughter’s also got some pipes:

Miley Cyrus - The Backyard Sessions - “Jolene”

In the US those’ve been almost universally replaced by 401k plans, which I assume is what they’re referring to.

The Commonwealth Saga is so great.

The portals / train system brings the vibes of the commonwealth up to something like the EU, but on a multi-planetary scale. You have to go through specific points to get planet to planet but the infrastructure is so built up that it’s mostly a travel time problem. It becomes an issue later on that the society has gotten kind of hidebound into a gradual expansion so they never really ‘needed’ FTL for exploration, and now they do.

If you have to have someone enforce the land registry or the documents, what is the benefit of the database being zero trust?

It doesn’t stop being magic just because you know how it’s done.

-Terry Pratchett

Just looked up the episode (2015, Ep8). (also some cool U2 stuff)

They’re investigating whether it would be deadly by cutting through your neck. Drone tech has also changed significantly in the last decade. They literally have trouble flying straight and level and hitting the neck of their dummy. But their main problem is the drone hits something and falls away. They put the same smaller prop on a stick and saw into a plucked chicken. Their bigger one did actually slice the neck open before falling away.

Modern drones have much more powerful motors. From personal experience even the folding blades will give you at least surface cuts. Do not randomly assume they will not cut you, especially if you grab them.