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Oldest is fine and fun. It's oldest in terms of when, not answers. The oldest pyramid for example.

I agree that the rarest wasn't nearly as entertaining or fun. Perhaps that one needs a list to pick from.

Mobile safari has the first question of each round covered by the keyboard. The resort of the questions are correctly laid out
I find myself in general agreement but I wonder what second order issues would come about. Will we see companies listing an old game for a trillion dollars a copy just to keep rights?
Re:Catch a Bird – I made it for my own sanity on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:14AM (#50099065)
I flagged a few and then it started telling me that I flagged too many birds for the day. A real shame that the vast majority of the birds I got to see was fake ones.
Little snitch is the best solution for firewalling off applications from the network
Does your financial orgs actually support simplefin or are you using simplefin bridge?

Bridge is actually provided by mx.com, pretty much the same service as Plaid.

Re:We're unlocking the biggest mysteries of the clitoris on Sunday October 11, 2026 @03:38PM (#50047010)
I thought that the clitoris contains all the nerve endings that would be in the male penis, just in the smaller area vs being spread out over the entire penis and penis nerves are selected for to encourage male mating.
A future of all SaaS only works if you can't just tell a LLM what you want and get a custom implementation. I've always done a lot of personal projects, but my velocity has increased dramatically and I've replaced a number of projects that I used to pay for with custom ones that work well enough. I can't imagine that SaaS is going to be a viable model unless it involves a community that wants a unified experience, like a multiplayer game.
Re:A 100x faster* alternative to homebrew on Thursday October 08, 2026 @04:34AM (#50003274)
Honestly the latest speedups have brought it fast enough that I no longer really notice it anymore.
Re:Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016) on Sunday October 04, 2026 @01:25PM (#49955875)
"Could" is not the same as "always" which is what the article title is claiming.
Re:Amazon introduces a redesigned Kindle family on Sunday October 04, 2026 @02:59AM (#49951376)
This finally got me to replace (preorder) my Oasis with a new Kindle. The physical buttons are a must for me.
Re:Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' on Saturday October 03, 2026 @08:00PM (#49949079)
> they change relatively frequently

Aren't they static for the life of the sensor which is ~10 years?

Re:Docker has always used microVMs (well since 2016) on Saturday October 03, 2026 @07:48PM (#49948985)
Article title is a bit click-baity. The article is only talking about Docker Desktop on Mac or Windows. Docker Linux have not been using microVMs for a decade.
Re:FTL: A new operating system for clouds on Saturday October 03, 2026 @02:37PM (#49946609)
As AI reduces the cost for writing closer to the metal, it's also reducing the cost for creating new metal to target. I suspect we'll see an explosion in new hardware as it's cheaper and easier to design custom solutions.
I don't disagree with you, however the original claim of

> provably storing peoples' online banking logins in plaintext in some ancient mainframe database system

Is not about functional encryption but storing directly as plain text.

their point is it could have been stored encrypted and then decrypted for the customer service person to read back to you. Access to plain text != storing it as plain text.
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Re:Pi 1.0 on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:15PM (#49926541)
Which models are you finding the most success with?
Re:Gitea 28.0 on Thursday October 01, 2026 @01:40PM (#49924710)
there's nothing wrong with it, just more work then I'd like. I'd have to setup a CI system or build my own to handle the dependency management of the jobs and, as I said, time based job runs (Rebuild this image monthly regardless of any code changes) add enough complexity that using the gitea container for the actions and ci is worth it compared to something marginally lighter weight.
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Re:Gitea 28.0 on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @08:17PM (#49916143)
Actions support running on times. Sure, I could wire up a Rube Goldberg of systemd user timers and user units that trigger on hooks or I can store some yaml in the repo and it just works (tm)(r).

Sometimes the juice isn't worth the squeeze, and for me, doing it all custom isn't worth it for my home projects.

Re:Gitea 28.0 on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @07:58PM (#49916024)
I don't really need the web interface, but the actions are useful. Automatically building updated docker images and software packages is enough to accept the gitea complications, but gitlab is way too heavy IMHO
There's been a ton of news stories of people claiming otherwise.
Re:Xiaomi MiMo v2.6 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @09:46PM (#49810662)
The US had the raw materials available in country to support that sort of build out and I don't think that's the case today. It would take kickstarting a lot of prerequisite industries to get back to the point where we could even start to learn how to build ships enmass again.
Re:A custom virtual machine for the Stars 4X game on Sunday September 20, 2026 @11:57AM (#49777095)
I loved stars! and really wish that it gets reimagined for the modern age. Stellaris gets way too micro-managing to be fun IMHO.
Re:T. Rex Had a Body Temperature of 97 Degrees on Thursday September 17, 2026 @03:26PM (#49745401)
Would add a new fun dimension to Jurassic Park.

"Quick! Climb to 300 meters above sea level and the trex will boil and we will be safe!"

Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Uncensored on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @04:54AM (#49709659)
Is it that difficult to design toxic molecules? I would think it's easy to "design" but extremely difficult to actually make in your kitchen. And if you have a biological laboratory, you already have the skills to make whatever you want anyway.
Re:Steam Frame starts at $1059 on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @01:52AM (#49708268)
You render lower quality and scale the images up to native resolution, with filters to reduce any jagged artifacts. It's not ideal, and so even running at the "same" resolution, the 2d monitor looks better then it does in the headset.

But the immersion is enough that you forget about it and just enjoy the content, as long as it's comfortable enough

Re:The kernel does not care what you named the tool on Saturday September 12, 2026 @02:25AM (#49669473)
I would guess Trusted Computing Base
Let's say this is widely used and let's presume that a specific version has a security issue. With everyone having their own copy of the binary on every host versioned at the time they first ran a command on that host, or any decently sized fleet, it'll take a big effort to track down and ensure all versions have been updated or removed (to be re-generated later).

Frankly, we would re-kick our fleet ahead of schedule rather then try to remediate it more manually. But we re-kick our fleet on a rotating yearly schedule, so it's not too much an effort to re-kick it earlier. It's a completely automated system in place now.

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