Rob Bos @ rbos @lemmy.ca

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Sounds like a Murdoch Mysteries plot. Terence Myers establishes a top secret spy org financed through the Maple Syrup Reserve...

Either that, or we're the only ones who are GOOD at it.

In The Long Dark, making an improvised axe is more a midgame item. Gotta find a forge and a heavy hammer, then enough coal. Not to mention stocking up food and water for the wait while you heat it up and craft it.

The grocery we use keeps boxes by the checkout. Saves them throwing them out, since they get hundreds from suppliers.

It's not even that it's low-tech. Tape is high-tech, it's been updated over the years. LTO10s are targeting 36TB of data per tape.

It's the pig-ignorant newbies thinking "hurr durr tapes are 1970s tech". Hard drives are also 1970s tech.

They have their advantages and disadvantages, is all. They're not well suited for situations where you can't guarantee a clean room (or enclosed tape reader), for instance, since the tape medium is exposed to the air. Dust can mess it up REAL good.

But for some situations, it's indispensable.

Honestly I don't care enough. If I happen to be in the interface I'll probably turn it off, sure. It doesn't inform any decisions, I barely register that the number exists.

Perhaps not. My subjective experience of my Withings scale is that the reported fat percentage has at least remained where I've expected given my general activity level. ie, fat percentage goes up when I'm sedentary, down when I'm active.

But it's more a curiosity than a useful metric regardless.

They're not accurate but I think they can at least track trends consistently. A clock that's five hours ahead still tells you how much time has passed relative to itself. Similarly a scale might tell you what direction your fat level is trending.

Wouldn't the authentication API provided by your DNS host be the ACME server?

I can only wish you good luck.

Aren't IRAs a US tax account? Like the Canadian TFSA.

Yeah. For wildcard DNS from letsencrypt, you can't do HTTP validation, only DNS, which involves creating a TXT record.

Your DNS provider needs to run an ACME server, which runs an API that'll add the required TXT records on request.

As I understand it.

Not all dns providers support acme, I've discovered to my recent annoyance. The one I use at work, for instance.

Yeah, we've got on-prem cloud hosting at a university, and moving away from VMware is an ongoing process. Still. Two, three years after the writing was on the wall. They'd rather pay the Danegeld.

Or they'll just pay the extra money and avoid all that.

Market cap? Which stock symbol is it? 😉

Asdf.txt, asdf2.txt, asdf.m3u, asdf.odf...

Linux has some advantages in that a lot of the basic stuff, someone from 1985 would pick it up pretty fast, I think. Commandlines are very conservative. I have scripts I haven't changed in 15 years.

Entering the lion's den to offer the lion a handjob and offer Alberta as tribute, more like.

The math is pretty simple. We're travelling at 25km/sec around the sun. You have to get that to zero to hit the sun. Getting to Jupiter means getting up to like 37km/sec (made up number). Way easier.

edit: I looked it up because it didn't feel right. Outer planets move SLOWER the farther out you go because gravity is weaker and they don't need as much angular momentum. So the math isn't quite as simple as that. :)