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I need "tmux" on remote linux machines that don't allow me to install "screen". If there's an easier way to keep a session running (and interactive) over internet disconnects, I have not found it yet

This levy is not meant for piracy, but for legal access - like copying the CDs you already bought to your phone. Compared to what we used to pay on blank media it's not so bad. If the alternative is that you are not allowed to keep private copies of anything...

The combination of an Iphone Mini and an Ipad Mini really works well - alas apple decided that they no longer will make reasonably sized phones...

Looks like this is eSIM only - which is a show stopper. I'll have to research if they release a SIM mobile option somewhere on earth, if not, I'll probably stick with my current Mini 5 a bit longer (or pick up a discounted Mini 6 for the wait)

AWS doesn't have to check that for every request. They only have to eat the cost if you go over and use more before they shut you down. And the shut down should be in a way that they switch data to read only and give you a day to react before they delete.

They might even offer this as an insurance, so you pay a little more but can be sure you stay in budget.

Yes, any price that's not hard capped is unacceptable. One reason why I quit Amazon cloud after the trial year. No because they were too expensive, but there was no way to guarantee they wouldn't charge me more than planned...

Can you do this on a mobile device like an ipad? Can you do this when not logged in?

If I understand it correctly, as a PeerTube viewer I'm not only downloading the video, but also sharing it. Before I watched it.

This is a problem in countries where uploading copyrighted and illegal material has strong legal consequences (so I'd not want to share a video before I watched it fully so I can at least can see it doesn't have any obvious illegal content)

So far all my projects have targeted a specific database with no reason to change it.

So what I do is write SQL commands, but keep all inside a specific file or module of the project. So that I can decide later to refactor it into an ORM.

I think ORMs are great if you write libraries that target more than one database. Or situations, where you have more than one database and need a proper migration part.

If you don't need migration, but in the worst case can start with a fresh, empty database, then write SQL.

But for production system, the no/manual migration might get old quickly. Writing migration code that just adds fields, indexes or tables is easy. But writing code that changes fields or table structures? Not do much.

Still, you don't need an ORM at the beginning of a project, just don't put SQL everywhere.

Heard about the language about 2 months ago and yes, it's fascinating.

Also it's understood by ChatGPT (at least version 4). I asked it for "my hovercraft is full of eels" and got "tomo tawa mi li jo e kala mute" which a speaker of Toki Pona confirmed is a good translation. (Roughly: "My moving house has many fish")

Asking ChatGPT to translate it back a month later got "My vehicle contains many fish." which is not bad for a language that relies on context a lot.

Once Duolingo starts a Toki Pona course, I'm in.

If you're reading Cory Doctorow books and blogposts, that's exactly what "they" are working on and the part of the population that cares about this may be a lot smaller than you think.

For Australian fans it's probably easy to import the DVDs and Blurays from some other country - since all have the English sound track.

Personally I'm going to miss to be able to collect current Disney and Pixar animations on Bluray and they are going to miss my money in the long run.

Disney already stopped releasing the films in 3D format. First in the US (no Frozen 3D there) then in Europe as well. I had to import the last one from Japan for a price of 1 year of Disney +

Compared to collecting Blurays and DVDs, Disney+ is currently cheap and good value. But that's unlikely to stay that way. They will at some point raise prices a lot and/or introduce ads.

Also even now: There's the problem with the picture quality (and internet connectivity) compared to Bluray. You also don't get to import out-of-area versions. Want to watch Pixar's Coco in the Mexican Spanish Dub? Not possible here.

Want to watch a film without "Skip Intro", Age & flicker warning or the complete end credits? Want to easily pause a film to analyse a scene, without some overlay covering the picture?

With Disney's track record on annoying logos and other distractions, I don't trust them to keep their user interface clean or not suddenly force ads and trailers on their paying audience.

Almost gave up on the Chess notiation, but now "All the vowels in your password must be bolded." clashes with the requirement to include a captcha and reloading this unleashes all kinds of problem, so game over

As someone who is good at Python but knows nearly nothing about javascript:

Very hard. Of course I can just write everything into a big js file, but if you want to structure things, it's hard. You have to learn all about this NPM and NODE stuff, learn how to refresh and debug things.

And if you make the tiniest mistake, this thing will not crash with proper error messages like python.

At first glance this looks very cool.

For me to be able to write a cool test app I'd need a working date picker and some kind of radio button feature (so that I could ask you to select a date and then display a list of offers on screen to select.)

I checked the docs and it seems there's a radio button, but no date picker yet.

Plus maybe the option to push a pdf result.

(My usecase: I'm a backend dev for a booking api and it would be fun to quickly build a frontend to test the API on my phone)