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  • Be careful with mailbox.org and their "your contract period ends soon" email. It actually means "pay us or your data will be irrevocably deleted under 60 days". The mail sounds inconspicuous enough, is rather verbose, and even contains the phrasing "you may silently ignore this email". And you will not be getting a single warning before your data is entirely, irremediably deleted.

    And even if you only wait 30 days, not 60, your account gets deleted (but not your emails), so you lose any and all ways of contacting their support (rescuing your emails after that gets much trickier). Speaking of which, make sure you use a widespread browser on a computer to use their support platform: otherwise you will get a visual confirmation that a ticket was created, but none will ever be.

    TL;DR: mailbox.org good, but (A) make absolutely sure you always have up to date local backups, and (B) beware of the unexpected caveats and the clumsy, confusing wording.

  • Rooted devices are not secure.

    This reeks of servitude/wishful thinking mentality. You do realise that vendors have root access, right? So what, when they do it it's secure because of their magical vendor status? Or is it because they hide the implementation details?

  • And now you know why French companies are literally pegging users with total impunity. Seldom anyone sues companies in France, and when people do, most of the time it ends up ruining their lives with a giant slapp suit.

    ISPs especially, since there are only 4 for the entire country, and consequently, they have enormous resources at their disposal.

    To make matters worse, the French judicial system is extremely dated, has no understanding of technological matters, and is slower than the Deutsche Bahn processing a broken engine situation.

    This is a far cry from Germany, where there are dozen of ISPs per land or even major city, and where lawsuits can happen over the course of months.

    When you think of French administrations, think of people who are playing pretend-beamter, but who have neither the tools nor the skills (save for maybe 10% of them who have to manage literally everything by themselves with a stupidly low salary). No accountability, no expectations, and no barrier of entry aside from the "luck of the draw" ended up creating a system where too many people tried forever to work there, only to be paid better than welfare and do less work (let's be honest, being on welfare is no walk in the park, the state will fuck you up if you keep refusing to take underpaid, exhausting labour "offers").

  • I mean I also don't really care about the temperature of my ram unless it prevents it from working. RAM overclocking isn't that useful, and unstable ram sucks ass.

    However, it doesn't matter what the component is: the original difference over ambient is the amount of heat that operating the component generated. The difference after cooling is essentially the amount of heat that the specific cooling solution was able to handle. No matter the component. And dividing the latter by the former gives out the amount of cooling the cooling solution provided, relative to the amount of heat operating the component generated. This works for any component and any cooling solution. Cooling it further than ambient can be desirable for some use cases, that's why chillers exist, and that will essentially give out a percentage over 100.

  • I would argue that what makes sense when considering temperature percentages wrt dissipation, is the difference between old and new, divided by the difference between the system at rest and the old temperature.

    Which is then a ratio of offsets, rather than a ratio of one offset and a difference with an arbitrarily defined origin.

    In this case, it is fair to assume the temperature at rest of the system around 292K, or 19C.

    Which would give: (78.5C - 70C) / (78.5C - 19C) = 14.29%, or (351.65K - 343.15K) / (351.65K - 292.15K) = 14.29%.

  • They're on Zulip, not discord: https://radicle.zulipchat.com/

    I wrote that the community was on discord. And open that link, you will see, discord is literally at the top of the page, the first 3rd party thing that you can see...

    Although I will admit that their "radicale" project has no mention of discord, and has a couple links to zulip, discord is likely going to be the preferred platform for many, given how relatively niche zulip is (I never heard of it before, and I have had accounts on matrix, signal, and simplex for years - or months for the latter. To illustrate my point, the zulip app on f-droid is barely more than one year old, while the element app is much older, especially as it was preceded by RiotX before that, which was a rewrite of the original Riot client).

    So, while I salute them promoting zulip on the project page, the criticism still stands, as anyone searching for anything a bit more widespread to contact them will only find discord.

    They're DAO-funded but there's no crypto in the code

    DAOs have nothing to do with funding. It is all about governance. This type of organisation is based on "smart contracts", that are entirely a "blockchain" centric concept, and (AFAIK) rely entirely on ethereum. Aside from the fact that this type of organisation is as fragile as the underlying cryptocurrency, the summary of this video disagrees with you (emphasis mine):

    [...] to create Radicle and how it fits into the DAO ecosystem

    I hardly see how one can make software "fit into an ecosystem" without a single line of code integrating it with said ecosystem.

    install by sh is shit

    I think you mean "install by piping the internet to sh". If so, yep. That's a wild understatement, but yep.

    If not, well, " install by sh" is literally what the overwhelming majority of package managers do... So... Nope.

    that's a red flag for a bunch of things: nix, rust, nvm, and a bunch more

    Yep. Although in the case of rust, fortunately, any sane developer will use their OS's package manager, but yep.

  • Edit: alright, I stand corrected.

    FOSS and OSS mean the same thing. Apparently this stems from MBAs failing to understand the difference between free speech and free beer, and automatically assuming the later.

    So this is "source available", and the label "open source" is bogus.

  • Mitch McConnell, seen here getting a hand job from Trump, has endorsed Trump.

    I would guess that it is trump who is getting handjobs from mitch rather.

    He surely has kompromat on mitch (and 90+% of GOP), and that's how he owns them.

    Now that I come to think of it, this must be why so many republicans are focused on passing laws that decriminalise paedophilia. Because once it is decriminalised, the kompromat trump has on them will likely be useless...