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if you have less data you buy older generation tapes, LTO-5 is 1.5 TB uncompressed and should be in price sweet spot right now.
The more permissive MIT is often an advantage if you want to build it into something bigger, which is reasonable for diff tool.

Discrete users would arguably win more with integrity of AGPL, but developers have reasons to prefer MIT.

This is common-law centric. Other law systems often would limit sanctions to rejecting frivolous requests. See for example https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?qid=17614916... for discussion of different mechanisms in EU.
also less USification would help, it's not common knowledge how US birds or bridges or hats look like
Re:Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:20AM (#49977352)
I've already seen a couple of train hotspots respond locally to pings directed at 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8, apparently in effort to convince devices that they are on a good network event if the internet itself is broken due to being in the tunnel.
Re:Find the flattest route between any two points in SF on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @08:13AM (#49977305)
Or brouter with custom weights also has a lot of tuning points
Re:Apple Pass Designer on Friday October 02, 2026 @07:16PM (#49939756)
Boarding passes don't need to be secure anymore (as since 2008 non-electronic tickets went out of business [IATA Ticketing Handbook, 39th edition, p.29]), they are mostly pointers to DB and the scanning point makes list of passengers so double use is discovered. There is enough data to process them fully offline for failure modes, but that's fallback.
In EU normally BIOS startup screen is the point at which they wave it as ok.
Re:Saving Jet Fuel on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @08:45AM (#49726147)
At least in Europe, except for the largest airports, the start slots are well organized enough that the taxi+wait time is just enough to warm up the engines, eliminating the saving.
Re:How my e-reader lost its stripes on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @05:48AM (#49710019)
My preferred Kindle 4 classic also fits in my pockets, used ones are at around 25 EUR and pretty hackable. I could barely imagine reading a book in 3.7", that's half of a smartphone.
Re:Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS on Monday July 13, 2026 @12:17PM (#48894905)
Auto mode will upload artifacts to Anthropic without asking at least sometimes, for example it did upload my slide decks.
Re:Have You Restarted Your Computer This Week? on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @07:22PM (#48740531)
I don't know what current Windows 11 does, but my typical Linux Mint is single-digit seconds, and my t490 is 7 years old already. Windows 10 is a bit slower but still single second territory. With more current hardware we are talking about 2 seconds plus whatever BIOS needs, see sibling comments. Maybe you have corporate AV on the Windows PC, or funny drivers?
Re:New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper on Saturday April 25, 2026 @06:58AM (#47900436)
My Thinkpad T490 will happily take any power provided voltage is high enough (15V+).
If you don't use a lot of quota the cheapest monthly Claude Code is $20, Kimi Code is $19, i.e. the cost difference is minuscule.

Kimi wants my phone number on signup so a no-go for me.

Re:Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price on Thursday April 23, 2026 @03:39PM (#47880638)
Heavy duty trucks run well on electric in the EU at least, as the work time regulation make for regular charging and lower speed limits for trucks makes the consumption manageable.
Re:Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @06:51PM (#47870320)
Electric excavators are there, as they are low duty cycle, see sibling comments for details, but high load percent for long time is a killer for battery tech.

I could imagine tethered tractors with power line tensioned in the air, but the grid building cost will be quite high for intermittent usage. Only some land usages and plot shapes would work economically.

Re:3.4M Solar Panels on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @04:01PM (#47868520)
In EU it would be some $3k for inverter, $5k for panels, another $5k for cables, connectors and mounting and that's it if you DIY everything. Prices with VAT included.
Re:3.4M Solar Panels on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @03:53PM (#47868422)
I only get the following message:

Access Denied Error 16 www.ercot.com 2026-04-22 19:52:02 UTC

If you believe you have a valid business reason for accessing ERCOT resources, please contact the ERCOT Service Desk

Re:Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers on Thursday April 09, 2026 @05:05PM (#47710102)
For physical machines of course yes.

The linked one is VPS, so all trouble fixing is easier.

Re:Pebble Production: February Update on Friday February 20, 2026 @05:43AM (#47086260)
_This item does not exist_

Please post the item title, aliexpress links tend to be short-lived

Re:OpenAI Should Build Slack on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:05PM (#47019316)
> It drains my laptop's and iphone's battery like no tomorrow

Use Teams in Firefox with ublock for battery issues, somehow it consumes much less.

> It's the only software I use that, for some reason, has an effect on my typing accuracy.

That's because the typed letters appear with a large (often even ~1 s) delay. Close your eyes while typing and you'll be back on you track.

Re:OpenAI Should Build Slack on Saturday February 14, 2026 @06:01PM (#47019275)
> The main problem now is that it works fine

Except from:

* notifications for channels

* search

* using more than one org (needs app restart!) although screen sharing between 'classic' and 'web' editions works only if sender's and receiver's graphic cards share a hw-accelerated video format blessed by teams. Not, it's not easy to check what edition you are running and you can't change it without poking js variables by hand

* inconsistent read statuses between devices

* 'incoming call not shown at all' bug (but you get a missed call notification)

* can't join two video calls even in two separate windows

* random audio device switching on every morning (even if you don't close the app and computer for the night)

Re:Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:53PM (#46967454)
> My understanding is that for car rental purposes, anything using Visa/MC (and not a national debit network like Visa Debit in the US) will work, it doesn't actually need to be backed by a revolving credit.

Many companies will refuse all debit cards, or all cards with "electronic use only" restriction, at least for the deposit, irrespective of the payment network involved.

I use it for a non-it non-engineer group and everyone is happy with browser experience.

The mobile app is worse as it only allows writing in a few views that are not easy to access, and is becoming slower over time.

The killer feateure is that it's very easy to move last $x messages to another topic, so if someone writes a short note that begins a conversation everyone is free to reorganize it, and also moving messages between threads is easy and nice.
Re:Raspberry Pi's New AI Hat Adds 8GB of RAM for Local LLMs on Thursday January 15, 2026 @05:27AM (#46630610)
Wake word is not expensive, you can do it on esp32 https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp-sr/en/latest/esp32s3... (and then send audio to something more beefy as TTS will be marginal at best).
Re:Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @06:09PM (#46295993)
If you have a lot of not very time sensitive jobs, e.g. large merge trains, it was reasonable to have a not very fast runner run close to full utilization. Now that you'd pay by the run-minute, it'll be cheaper to move to a faster runner and run it at 10%.
Re:Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux on Sunday December 14, 2025 @07:46AM (#46262638)
It's not usual for PC, but if you select "remove animation" on Android you're good on 2 fps. Many applications do like crap as the first placeholders are given little attention, but there are only big refreshes, and only handful of apps written so bad that they ignore the setting and make animated placeholder.

The only thing is that you need to stick to Page Up/Page Down for scrolling.

Re:VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits on Sunday December 14, 2025 @07:30AM (#46262577)
Bromite is unmaintained anymore, Cromite is the current fork.
Re:VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits on Sunday December 14, 2025 @07:22AM (#46262557)
I've never seen one in Poland.

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