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Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:31PM (#50184611)
Dude even backported the fix to his 5.6->8.0 branches

Newest: 5.6.40-104 which has the CVE fixes.

Re:PHP 8.2.35 on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @01:29PM (#50184588)
switch to PIE
Re:The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @05:56PM (#48666088)
I love the buttons, would loath a touchscreen on this size format. Just add a backlight!
Re:The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @05:55PM (#48666078)
I love my X4 as well, and would love a backlight. Crosspoint and its downline forks are great.

the only funny thing about the X4 is reading it in bright sunlight. it will corrupt the image on the screen on page turn unless you shade it? something to do w/ older eInk screens and not having a UV Filter. weird, slightly annoying.

Its increased my reading 2-3x though!

Re:Retro-Tech Parenting on Thursday June 04, 2026 @02:46PM (#48402923)
+1 for Yoto, our kids (5-7) have abused them for years. The Make Your Own cards let me create full length audiobooks, playlists, etc..

super stuff

Re:StarFighter 16-Inch on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @04:25PM (#48041277)
not well
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2026) on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @03:42PM (#47680382)

  Results Generation | Cloud & DevOps Engineer | Austin, TX (Hybrid)

  We're a digital marketing platform company running a fleet of PHP/Lumen microservices on GCP, and supporting/rebuilding a legacy monolith. Small team, no bureaucracy, real infrastructure problems — multi-cluster Kubernetes, async messaging, database replication, content delivery at scale.
                                                                                                                                                                                 
  You'll own day-to-day infrastructure operations: multi-cluster Kubernetes, Terraform-driven GCP resources, Jenkins CI/CD pipelines, and on-call. Hands-on role — you're the person keeping production reliable and making it better.
                                                                                                                                                                                 
  Stack: GCP (GKE, Cloud SQL, GCS, Secret Manager, Workload Identity), Kubernetes, Terraform + Atlantis, Jenkins, Helm 3, Docker, MySQL (primary + replicas), RabbitMQ, Redis/Dragonfly, Elasticsearch, Grafana/Prometheus, Scalyr, Flux, Ansible.
                                                                                                                                                                                 
  Looking for: 3-5 years with cloud infrastructure in production. Solid Kubernetes and Terraform experience. Comfortable operating MySQL with replication. On-call experience — you've been paged and written postmortems. Networking fundamentals (VPNs, private endpoints, DNS, TLS).
                                                                                                                                                                                 
  Nice to have: GCP-specific experience, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, GitOps tooling, multi-cloud or cross-cloud migration experience.  

https://www.indeed.com/job/cloud-devops-engineer-9234cb66e9a...

or just email me: dhawkins over at resultsgeneration.com

Re:That's not how email works on Wednesday January 28, 2026 @04:04PM (#46801485)
So does Apple's Mail Client. So do most webmail providers. Open signals are generally worthless.
Re:Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV? on Saturday October 11, 2025 @11:03AM (#45549712)
Hisense Canvas and TCL NXTVISION
You cannot run a standard distro (easily) - their software (DSM) is linux based and they expose most of the stock services like Docker and libvirt
I have family in very rural east texas. They have 1Gps bidirectional at the hands of EasTex Co-Op spending federal dollars to actually lay fiber across their service area.

Lots of them took the money and ran, some jammed it into real infrastructure.

My kids love theirs, and we get tons of comments from other parents since they'll happily listen to stories on them instead of begging for a screen.

They swap cards with their friends, and so long as its on a wifi connection the first time the card is inserted, the local storage is plenty enough to keep the cache there for offline use.

Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:50PM (#43016652)
yeah - valid point. it seems like they all moved past 5400RPM at the 14TB level.
Re:Backblaze Drive Stats for 2024 on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @11:29AM (#43014790)
I wish there was a way to underspin (RPM) some of these drives to lower noise for non-datacenter use - the quest for the Largest "Quiet" drive - is a hard one. It would be cool if these could downshift into <5000RPM mode and run much quieter.
Re:Railroad Tycoon II on Monday January 13, 2025 @09:44AM (#42683907)
Also runs well under Wine!
Re:Magic/tragic email links: don't make them the only option on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @02:45PM (#42637739)
Same issue. I've had university professors put my email address in their sylabus instead of ____.edu, and been carpet bombed by assignments, excuses, and pleading diatribes.

I'm listed as the email address for _many_ utility bills, doctors offices, and more political campaigns than I can count.

Comical how many people mess up their own email address.

It has PerfectStroke keys, so maybe the K740?
Re:DMARC required by Gmail and Yahoo from Feb 2024 on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @02:58PM (#38942392)
how are they supposed to enforce it?
Re:The killer features of the Steam Deck on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @07:28AM (#37997518)
I'd still rather have them play in the real world over either, but at least its a semi-active activity (problem solving, hand eye coordination?) vs a purely consumptive one.
Re:Pixel 8 Pro on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @11:54AM (#37767010)
loved the size of the mini but the battery life was awful after a year or so of deg.
Re:50TB IBM tape drive more than doubles LTO-9 capacity on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:22AM (#37261417)
Bitrot.
declient cron job. No more DNS manual edits.
I dont understand why they didnt put the cable in the car itself. Just two female plugs (car and charger) with a M-M cable?
Re:Heavy EVs Could Collapse Old Parking Garages: Report on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @05:07PM (#35531575)
They're within a few 100lbs +/- of a Model X?
Re:Winamp 5.9 on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:14PM (#32781079)
For MacOS - still has WinAmp skin support. https://re-amp.ru/
Kinda silly that we're putting motors on bikes that outclass the braking system though, yeah?

Imagine a Corvette with the brakes of a Malibu. Would chevy would be torched for creating an unsafe vehicle? Kinda the same theory here...If you're selling a package make sure all the components are sized to work appropriately together.

Re:What ever happened to xmms.org? (2010) on Monday August 01, 2022 @06:25AM (#32304049)
For MacOS - still has WinAmp skin support.

https://re-amp.ru/

Re:Linux 5.19 on Monday August 01, 2022 @06:08AM (#32303926)
Third time using Apple Hardware.
Re:High property taxes are good on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @04:11PM (#32171553)
Texas, but its more complex because we distribute tax revenue from wealthy districts to less wealthy districts. Its imperfect, to say the least.

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