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Comment Re:Nothing is Secure as Hardware Write Disabled (Score 1) 56

Bro, disabling write means disabling security patches and updates. Not very secure, is it?

Wow! You really nailed them! It's almost like they should have said something, like, I don't know, maybe:

Want to update the OS, you flick the switch back to update to disable the write protect.

Comment Re:Obviously (Score 2) 95

(from a LLM result) Olympic ski jump suit rules for 2026 mandate strict, tight-fitting, and air-permeable microfiber uniforms, often measured within a 2-4 cm tolerance of the body via 3D scanning to prevent excess lift. Suits must be 4mm-6mm thick, with specialized controls for 2026 to prevent illegal,, "Crotchgate" style modifications, such as lowering the crotch to increase aerodynamic surface area.

See also: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.olympics.com%2Fen%2Fmi...

TBH, there are so many over-specified details that I'd question the usefulness of that competition. For example, max ski length is 145% of the athlete's height, but only down to a BMI of 21; Below that, max ski length is a lower percentage (ex. 144% of height for BMI of 20.750). I'm still quite impressed whenever I watch ski jumping though - it's so outside the realm of anything I'll ever come close to doing!

Comment Re:eh (Score 1) 62

Even though all heads move together as part of a single head stack assembly, only one head seeks and reads at one time.

Anyone know if there have been any attempts, production or otherwise, of having multiple actuators that can work simultaneously and independently? Or why we don't see more of that?

Comment Re:For improved data loss (Score 1) 62

You back it up to another 140TB drive and hope both don't fail. And then back it up to a third 140TB drive just in case.

MUST have an offsite backup as well!

Speedtest.net says I'm getting 11.39Mbps right now. So that should only take... 27,314 hours to upload (or a over 37 months)!

Comment Re:Social changes (Score 1) 62

Ya know, that piqued my interest in something related to recording every minute of your waking life in video, and I think this is more reasonable, useful, and feasible today.

1. Record audio 24x7. I'm not even going to bother running the numbers - it's a hell of a lot smaller, and the next step means we don't need to calculate out that far.

2. Transcribe speech-to-text.

That's it. That could be done on a nearly any phone today. Could chunk the audio into 1hr segments, or daily, or whatever works for you. I'd probably do daily, doing the transcription at night possibly?

Then you'd have a text file per day of all words you heard or spoke. Forgot what time someone said to meet them? That should be trivial to grep for out of yesterdays file.

Comment Re:Bad Apple Ad (Score 1) 129

Agreed. Though I'm not sure I'd enable any of them. Would be nice to selectively loosen the restriction on complex web apps when needed/wanted without having to disable lockdown mode and all the other protections. If I had an Apple Watch, I'd probably want it allow it to ring. Otherwise, all those settings sounds like they should be the sane defaults it ships with, rather than lockdown-specific restrictions.

Comment Re:It would be nice if they updated the Next doorb (Score 1) 33

... (Next doorbell) ... I'm so fed up I'm ready to switch to Ring or something else.

FWIW, if you thought that was bad, I wouldn't advise the Blink Doorbell. Very similar experience here. The lag makes it nearly unusable.

There are so many cameras out there that are way cheaper and can have a video feed pulled up nearly instantly. Can't we get a doorbell that has works half as good? Anyone happen to know of a Raspberry PI, or similar, sort of solution?

Comment Re: Wait, I thought they liked money (Score 1) 52

The oldest GIMP gripe I've consistently heard relates to CMYK. If you're rendering things for digital use, that doesn't matter.

In the past year, I've needed CMYK for printing the box, label, and manual of a video game cartridge. (Yes, companies are still making new NES games on cartridge.)

I don't doubt that it's needed in some contexts, but TFA isn't about print needs. Also, apparently it has some CMYK support these days, even in editing in newer (3.0+) versions.

Does Photoshop have features and UI that GIMP lacks? Of course! Do you need them? Can you even name any of them[^1]?

GIMP has been improving so fast that some GNU/Linux distributions haven't been able to keep up. GIMP 3, released in March 2025, added nondestructive adjustment layers like Photoshop. Ubuntu LTS still has GIMP 2 and is expected to get GIMP 3 in third quarter 2026, though that isn't a problem for Flatpak or Windows users.

Excellent point! I wasn't aware of that. It's a terrific feature!

Comment Re:GOOD! This product hurt them (Score 1) 52

I haven't tried it, but I was using flash in 96-98 while in art school and it was pretty great. I have very fond memories of it. The interface was surprisingly simple for what it was doing, and the programming language integration was pretty great, especially for back then. I've often thought that an open source version of the older and simpler Macromedia Flash (was it 3.0?) would do very well. It could even use the old flash format with options to export to HTML5.

The whole thing went to shit pretty quickly. Client bugs, proprietary client, 32 bit restrictions in the client, the move to HTML5, meanwhile everyone blocking the plugin for security reasons, and the sale to Adobe to boot.

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