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Comment · 2 years ago
You know how films and TV show different, fake UIs when a character works on a computer? GUIs and their elements are copyrighted.
Comment · 2 years ago
Distrowatch.com is a site promoting use of Linux and BSD.
"eject" is a Linux command which attempts to safely disconnect removable media.
https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/noble/en/man1/eject.1.h...
TFA doesn't mention filesystems at all, sort of jumps in where we find the block device. Things could become messy if the device were mounted while the copy is attempted.
Comment · 2 years ago
Around 2015, I authored my résumé in LibreOffice, and I sprinkled in an assortment of bullet points. Some were indented. I used open squares, filled squares, open and filled circles, right-arrows, stars, etc.
I brought it into an employment center for critique, and my mentor informed me that those shapes all had different meanings and functions. It was a wake-up call for me.
I am not a UX/UI designer, so my experience with the UI elements in applications had been intuitive, and moreover, disconnected from the activity of authoring a non-interactive document.
So I believe that these UI features were imitating paper-based forms. Those ovals or circles on Scantron sheets: you'd better not fill in more than one per line! And being named "radio buttons": yes, if you pressed "AM" then the "FM" button popped out. If you had six presets in a car--wait a minute, those were oblong...
Comment · 2 years ago
For removable media, I believe that finishing up with "eject" would be the safest way to ensure that all writes were committed to the hardware.
Comment · 2 years ago
Speaking of managing at scale and splitting well:
the reverse lookup domain name corresponding to the address
4321:0:1:2:3:4:567:89ab
would be
b.a.9.8.7.6.5.0.4.0.0.0.3.0.0.0.2.0.0.0.1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.1.2.3.4.IP6.
ARPA.
Comment · 2 years ago
> Châteauneuf-du-Pape
That reads more like "[The] Pope's New Castle" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teauneuf-du-Pape_AOC
In fact, Avignon was the site of the Apostolic See and indeed, seven canonically-accepted Popes resided there, plus two antipopes. https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/avignon
This period also featured Italian antipopes! It was dramatic! https://www.catholic.com/encyclopedia/western-schism
Comment · 2 years ago
Well, the headline promises A Wild Claim!
Comment · 2 years ago
Couple things here:
The GP describes resolver software, which corresponds to item 6.3.3, not a caching server. This does specify the same behavior.
In RFC terminology, "MUST" > "SHOULD" > "MAY", so there is some wiggle room there.
6.3.2 permits Chromium and other apps to hardcode localhost names as such, instead of using a resolver.
A very popular vector for adware/malware is to take over the system resolver, or replace the DNS client configuration, so this is one reason Chromium jealously guards 127.0.0.0/8
Comment · 2 years ago
Sending SMS costs $$$, and the gateways are closely-guarded. There are bad actors hammering on logins to elicit SMS codes, and Zelle is charged for the service according to that volume.
Comment · 2 years ago
"Here's a nickel, kid." http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/eta/doc/dilbert.gif
Comment · 2 years ago
Brahmic scripts such as devanāgarī, Gurmukhī, and Bengali are noted for joining glyphs with a long horizontal line across the top (shirorekhā). However, other examples such as Tamil use more curls and curves, and lack the shirorekhā.
I am told that one reason for this change was because manuscripts in certain regions used parchment or vellum, and in other regions used palm leaves. Writing on a palm leaf, if you made long, straight horizontal marks on it, you could split the fibers.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiruvaymoli_palm_ma...
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palm-leaf_manuscript...
Comment · 2 years ago
Stopping at red lights can add 10-15 minutes to a motorist's cross-town journey. So does the Pythagorean Theorem. What can you do.
Comment · 2 years ago
No, they use a proxy to a virtual private server. Depending on the nature of the proxy and exit node, it may have a uniquely bad reputation, or is collateral damage from other bad actors in that cloud service.
Here is the FCC Complaint Center: https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us
Comment · 2 years ago
The last time I set up DNS at home, I decided to use a fictitious and undelegated subdomain under my ISP's domain name. This structure did not create any "extra" problems in the short term.
But I suppose that I still ran the risk that the subdomain could "become real", or draw attention from security admins, or I would change ISPs.
I self-identify as a clump of cells.