dan @ dan @upvote.au

Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Not all of the manufacturers are available in the USA though.

Hyundai Ioniq 5 is a good car for the price. I see them quite a lot too.

It's quite amazing he continued using it up to the 2010s

Yeah I'm surprised it lasted that long. He never used the internet or mobile phones and the Windows 3.1 PC was probably the only piece of modern-ish technology he used.

For what it's worth, SVN is a much simpler object model compared to Git, which makes it easier to understand.

It's centralized rather than distributed like Git is, which has some disadvantages. Most operations require access to the server, as opposed to Git where you usually have a copy of the entire repo and can work offline. Git users can clone the repo from other users rather than relying on a centralized server.

On the other hand, a centralized server also simplifies some things. For example, instead of commit hashes, SVN has revision numbers, which are natural numbers that start at 1 and are incremented for every commit. A lot of software that used SVN used to use the revision number as part of the version or build number.

Git is definitely the source control system to choose today, but SVN can still have its place.

My grandpa had a monitor like this - it came with a Osborne computer he bought in the mid 1990s. It was either a 486 or Pentium 1 (can't remember) and came with an Osborne-customized version of Windows 3.1 along with some floppy disks and CDs with Osborne software on them.

He was still using that same computer, with the same OS, until he moved into a retirement home in the late 2010s. He only really used it for writing stuff in some old version of Word, and playing Italian card games (Scopa, Briscola, etc).

I'm not sure what happened to the computer since it was all gone the last time I visited his house after he passed away. I live in the USA but he was in Australia so it was hard for me to try and keep on top of things like that.

Visual SourceSafe

Yes! That's the one I was struggling to remember the name of. My previous employer started on Visual SourceSafe in the 90s and migrated to Team Foundation Server (TFS) in the 2000s. There were still remnants of SourceSafe when I worked there (2010 to 2013).

I remember TFS had locks for binary files. There was one time we had to figure out how to remove locks held by an ex-employee - they were doing a big branch merge when they left the company, and left all the files locked. It didn't automatically drop the locks when their account was deleted.

They had a bunch of VB6 COM components last modified in 1999 that I'm 80% sure are still in prod today. It was still working and Microsoft were still supporting VB6 and Classic ASP, so there wasn't a big rush to rewrite it.

Before Git, we used SVN (Subversion), and CVS before that. Microsoft shops used TFS or whatever it's called now (or was called in the past)

It's annoying that it says "data from Edmunds published on Thursday" but doesn't link to the data.

Yeah you'll need some way to allow incoming connections to seed and maintain a ratio. You could look on the LowEndTalk forum for a seedbox at a good price, or use a VPN like AirVPN. The VPN must support port forwarding.

Once you break it a few times, you start to understand the value of btrfs or ZFS snapshots.

I wonder if this will work with MVNOs too. I'm on US Mobile (who are excellent) on Verizon's network.

Have you tried using IPv6? ISPs that know what they're doing usually have native IPv6 in addition to CGNAT. (although, to that point, ISPs that know what they're doing usually use technologies other than CGNAT).

To maintain a ratio, you need inbound connections, which you can't get at all over CGNAT. I know you don't want to use a VPN but honestly the best solution is to use a VPN that supports port forwarding, like AirVPN.

I stopped using Linux on my desktop PC in 2007. Last year I switched back, and wow everything is so much smoother now. Video, sound, webcam, networking, all worked perfectly out-of-the-box. No more messing with fglrx for hours to get ATI/AMD graphics working. No more figuring out ALSA vs OSS vs PulseAudio vs whatever else. I don't know what the sound subsystem is even called now, because I don't need to know. It just works.

KDE is beautiful now, too. I tried a few desktop environments and liked KDE the best.

Great time to switch. I've been using Linux on servers since 1999, but it's totally viable for desktops these days too.

Your accounts where? 🤔

You have to instead blindly trust the company that runs the VPN, though. Some of them intentionally obscure who owns the VPN service given they're often used for things like P2P and spam, and the larger VPN providers (the ones that you see commonly advertised online) aren't always truthful in their advertising.

The best VPN is one you run yourself. If you're on an insecure network like a coffee shop, you can route traffic through a known secure network like your home or a VPS/server you rent. It's very easy to do with Tailscale.

Tesla used to have it, but they removed it since Elon Musk only wanted them to use cameras. They even went as far as to send a software update to older cars to disable the extra sensors and only use the cameras.

I would not trust a robo-taxi that relies entirely on cameras. It really does need lidar/radar and other sensors to work well.

Aren't some Amazon warehouses unionized too?

I've heard it in Australia too, which has the same tax bracket system as the USA. I think the fact that this stuff isn't taught in school is a major issue.