HarriPotero @ HarriPotero @lemmy.world

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Sounds like it's localStorage. But I'd expect that to be covered by "site data" in that option.

It's a bit like cookies, but just for one site. Some think they can avoid cookie consent banners with localStorage.

Firefox has a page on the topic.

This week it's been Megaman II (1988).

I feel like games before that era had a lot of coin-op focus. Not much content, but hard enough that you'll be pouring more credits into the machine. That said, I've been itching to play Alley Cat (1983), but I don't have a good setup for MS-DOS games at the moment. I'll have to see if my Miyoo mini is up for the task.

I haven't heard of it before, but if Google bans it they must be doing something right.

I'll check it out.

Richard Petty's Talladega

My ISP enabled native IPv6 for me a few months back. It's pretty great. I don't have any windows machines, but I doubt my wife has disabled it on hers.

Anyway, our router is set up to drop incoming IPv6 traffic by default, sanely enough.

Life begins at erection.

Ramen.

MF8 sounds familiar, but I might have had some other puzzles of that brand.

What brand of gigaminx did you have?

I can't recall. It's been well over ten years. I think I solved it two or three times. It was just tedious. Whatever cheap brand they had on dealextreme at the time.

Thanks, but it's no longer an issue. I had a work-issued Mac, but now I'm all Linux.

Even-dimensioned cubes (4x4x4, 6x6x6, ...) are harder because they introduce some parity errors. Odd-dimensioned keep their fever center piece in the right spot.

Otherwise the size just makes it more tedious. I keep up with a 4x4x4. I had a gigaminx dodecahedron that I solved a few times, but it just made my hands tired from the weight and kept popping out pieces because of their tinyness.

Even without the privacy concerns, I think it removes the sovereignty of your own computer.

I decide what code I run on my computer.

A few years ago I had some peripheral that started iTunes Music.app every time I plugged it in. (Bluetooth headphones, I think). As I don't use it, and there was no way to disable it I figured i could just delete it.

Nope! Music.app is a system application on a read-only partition shadowed on your root filesystem. Apparently it is possible by booting with the partition in read-write developer mode, but you'll get to do it all over again with every update.

Back when we met she looked me up on Facebook, where I had listed my faith. She thought it would be a deal-breaker for a minute or two until she read up on pastafarianism.

She has come to accept my faith and has even read the good book cover to cover.

My wife is atheist, but I'm pastafari.

No. It kind of falls on Dijkstra's old statement. "Testing can only prove the presence, not absence of bugs."

You can prove logical correctness of code, but an abstract thing such as "is there an unknown weakness" is a bit harder to prove. The tricky part is coming up with the correct constraints to prove.

Security researchers tend to be on the testing side of things.

A notable example is how DES got its mixers changed between proposal and standardisation. The belief at the time was that the new mixers had some unknown backdoor for the NSA. AFAIK, it has never been proven.

On that level it usually falls on computer scientists. Formal methods can prove that any implementation is correct, but proving the absence of unintended attacks is a lot harder.

Needham-Schroeder comes to mind as an example from back when I was studying the things.

Linus says no.

I'm sure it's great and all, but the hassle of having a filesystem that's not in the kernel is a no-starter for me. Maybe one of those fancy NAS-distros that are based on some *BSD.

Well, snapshots, too. I just consider them to be a special case of de-duplication.

I had an issue when I ran out of space during conversion between RAID profiles a few years back. I didn't lose any data, but I couldn't get the array to mount (and stay) read-write.

Been running BTRFS since 2010. Ext2/3/4 before that.

Using it for CoW, de-duplication, compression. My home file server has had a long-lived array of mis-matched devices. Started at 4x2TB, through 6x4TB and now 2x18+4TB. I just move up a size whenever a disk fails.

Isn't that the definition of off-grid?

The routing is simple. Every node repeats everything it hears. A message goes out with a counter - defaults at 3, maximum 7. Every time it's repeated the counter is decremented. At 0 it won't be repeated any more.

You can DM nodes you've seen. You can create your own encrypted channels with a pre-shared key. You can link meshes over the internet through MQTT if you have an internet connected node on each mesh.