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Re:Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:33AM (#50324639)
Do be careful with the spray foam insulation, I've known a couple of folk who have had to spend a fair bit to put right the side effects caused by poorly done spray foam insulation.
Re:Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons? on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:36AM (#50287411)
Can't be AI output, there are too many sylables in the second line...

But "Pull poems out of my ass" would work ;)

The mischievous part of me wonders what would happen if torrentfreak wrote a matching article, with content that messes with the paper...
Re:RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes on Friday October 16, 2026 @06:19AM (#50116562)
While I suspect it's not quite what you meant, yes, whois is deprecated and is on its way out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registration_Data_Access_Proto...

And obligatory hn link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43384069

I suspect it may be too late for Trump at least - he has managed to demonstrate to Iran that they have more power than they thought they did, and it may be quite difficult to return to the pre-war state of affairs.

It seems many countries around the straits are now thinking "Hmm, we can charge ships to pass through...".

I don't think that would have happened without Trump.

Re:New gTLD Application for .lan on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:43PM (#50059049)
Bear in mind the advice on these things changes over time, and it's possible that the situation in the past may not have been as clear cut.

As an example, at one point in the past (I think in the 90's?), Microsoft recommended using .local for AD domains, whereas now they explicitly recommend against it.

Re:Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking? on Monday October 12, 2026 @12:39PM (#50058975)
I'd hope that the offenders in these incidents would pay off the victims in such a way that everyone walks away happy (or happy-ish).

But I suspect that's probably a hope somewhat in vain.

Re:New gTLD Application for .lan on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:00PM (#50008445)
The way they've filled out the application surprises me.

There are questions that literally say as part of the question "Choose Yes or No", so they've answered "true"...

And Q165 is fun: "Is it likely that consumers will face significant risks if domain names in the TLD(s) in the application are abused?" Answer: "No"

https://newtlds.lol/

Apparently .agent the most requested with 13 orgs applying for it.

Followed by .bit with 11, and .api, .brand, .hub with 10 each.

And apparently "Link Freedom Group Ltd" has 213 active applications, and "XYZ.COM LLC" has 182 active applications.

Re:New gTLD Application for .lan on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:42PM (#50008110)
21 separate applications for some variation on .agent/.agentic

I'm guessing that'll end up being expensive for someone...

Re:New gTLD Application for .lan on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:39PM (#50008067)
While you're not wrong, I suspect that .lan sees more real world usage than .local

It may not be an official standard, but it does have some weight as a de-facto standard.

I've tried briefly to try and find some numbers to back that up, but can't find much beyond apple's bonjour vs consumer routers - although I've seen companies with AD domains using .lan as well. (Although, I've also seen companies using 1.0.0.0/8 for their internal addressing...)

Re:Barcodes are about to go extinct on Saturday October 03, 2026 @06:15PM (#49948314)
It's more for portable equipment I believe, things like heart rate monitors and those things that control IV drip systems, and probably the beds/gurneys themselves as well.

I suspect it's less relevant for things that can't be moved. (Or are extremely heavy/difficult to move).

Re:Barcodes are about to go extinct on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:32AM (#49942128)
I thought that was exactly one of things RFID was used for?

Perhaps not for files, but definitely for equipment.

Re:Great Dirhombicosidodecahedron ("Miller's Monster") on Thursday October 01, 2026 @08:04AM (#49920570)
Given that the article is about making one out of paper, I'd say it is "real".

Clay might be a difficult material to use to make it though.

I'd imagine it could probably be made via CNC or 3D printing or similar.

Re:Google ending ChromeOS support two years early on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:14PM (#49897905)
From my understanding of the article, it sounds like ChromeOS support is getting pared back for those devices, but the devices themselves should still be supported, albeit via a (planned but not yet in existence) migration path to GooglebookOS.

Although tbh, I've not really used either in anger, so I can't really comment on if that is a raw deal or not. (Beyond the usual dislike of change that will always be encountered).

So agreed, that sounds reasonable.

Re:Who Killed Paulina Borsook's Career? on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:27AM (#49891422)
Similarly, German skier Fanny Chmelar.

(Known in the UK for a question on a quiz show that caused the host to lose his composure and be unable to stop laughing for a few minutes).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Chmelar

Re:Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:09PM (#49884382)
Yes, although I believe there were some issues - e.g. they got rather hot around the exhaust?

And maybe fuel economy wasn't great, although I remember hearing that they could use a very wide variety of fuels?

I hadn't realised there had been other attempts as well, including a Jaguar, that get mentioned in your linked Wikipedia article.

Re:Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:31AM (#49875525)
I suspect that the improvement in efficiency is small enough at the scale of an automotive power plant that it wouldn't be worth it.

Reading around suggests that in order to achieve decent efficiency from a gas turbine, you need quite a few supporting systems that only really make economic sense at larger scales (like the 10's of MW scales, not the 100's of kW).

(Although just from a fun technology angle I'd love to see a gas turbine in a car).

Re:Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:40AM (#49874394)
The original/first BMW i3 (2013) was like this, full battery electric (with an admittedly small battery 80-160 miles range depending on model), with an "range extender" engine.
Re:English: A vs. An on Monday September 21, 2026 @03:50AM (#49784293)
It always feels a bit like hitting a speedbump mid-flow!

Mostly breaks concentration/focus etc.

Re:English: A vs. An on Sunday September 20, 2026 @05:37AM (#49774153)
The one that I often find irritating is SQL...

An "ess queue ell", but a "sequel".

:(

I quite liked the idea behind one of zerodns's services, it wouldn't resolve any domain that hadn't existed for at least 30 days.

It felt like a simple (rather brute force) filter that cut out a lot of potential noise/malicious activity

Re:IBM Bob on Friday September 04, 2026 @10:55AM (#49565592)
tbh - my first thought, especially with that figure and marketing, is "Bob the Builder"...

[Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_the_Builder_(character) ]

Re:.name Termination on Thursday September 03, 2026 @02:14PM (#49554221)
You're absolutely right, when it's Nominet's actions that actually inspire a lack of trust in .co.uk, given they've been a bit of a hot mess since the early 2010's-ish.

;)

(Edit: although I should add that I'm hopeful that things have improved there over the last few years).

Re:Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:26PM (#49525924)
Or there's also those 'gigabit crossover' cables, where they flipped pairs 3+4 as well as 1+2, which I only remember seeing for a short period of time.

They always seemed a bit pointless, and died out with crossovers I suspect.

Re:Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:24PM (#49525877)
Most optical cabling setups I encounter these days tend to be made so that you just use a straight through (A-B) cable, and it generally just works.

Although it is super easy to just pop the individual fibres out of the clip holding them together and flip them round.

The biggest polarity issue I see are with mtp/mpo cassettes, especially with multiple spans, you always seem to need to cross something there.

"The 10 dropped the physical SIM slot"

I'm assuming that's a country specific/dependent thing?

(My pixel 10 does have a physical sim slot).

Re:EVE Online moves to Python 3 on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:17PM (#49492987)
There was a time when the community was the attraction, although I wouldn't say "the insanely large community", given that at the (for me anyway) best/peak WoW times, your specific community was the server, which was maybe a couple of thousand or so?

Around that sort of time you would encounter known groups/people, e.g. characters that had a reputation as extremely good in PvP etc.

Then along came the cross-realm stuff, and fairly quickly community ceased to matter, you just queue up, play, and move on.

Great for ease of play etc, terrible for community.

(Well, that was how I saw it anyway).

Wind spill?

Like... A hurricane?

Sun spill?

Like... A coronal mass ejection?

Re:OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1 on Tuesday August 11, 2026 @03:47PM (#49263479)
Wow... What have they done to that webpage to make it that unreadable?

And why?

Ouch.

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