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I have encountered multiple IPv6-only domains - certain random domains were accessible through Chrome, but unreachable from any command line tools. Turns out they were IPv6-only, and Chrome was doing its own DNS resolution, while anything that was using the platform DNS stack was hitting a black hole between OPNsense and my ONT.

Twitter's video story is not their strongest. I used to run an account that posted a lot of video content, and their compression quality was so mixed that I ended up writing a little mobile app that would transcode videos to Twitter's advertised optimal format (720p 30fps H.264 5Mbps + AAC LC) before uploading them.

Even then, it was a crapshoot whether or not the video would look like a pixel collage, and I'd need to delete the Tweet, tweak the video a bit, and try again.

That doesn't mean you should default to a slower implementation for new code. If you do, you're just creating more low-hanging fruit that nobody will find time to solve.

Any domain that isn't one of the Top Level Domains is also a subdomain.

And, unofficially, MacOS9Lives can boot directly to OS 9 on FW800 PowerMacs, which have 1.42GHz processors with 2x the L3 cache. Officially, those machines only supported OS 9 via Classic.

I used it to install OS 9 on my G4 Mac mini, and, aside from an annoying bug where the USB mouse is completely unresponsive after booting 50% of the time, it works great.

It's also just a wrapper around getenv that provides consistent behavior across platforms, and passing a NULL name to the POSIX getenv function is UB.

Some corporations prefer Apache 2.0 for projects where they'll be accepting contributions, because it includes patent protection and retaliation clauses. In case like this, where source code is just being published for reference and contributions aren't accepted, those risks don't exist.

Supermicro sells Atom-based SKUs with enterprise features like a BMC+IPMI, 10Gb SFP+ ports, ECC memory, SFF-8087 ports, chassis intrusion detection, etc.

It was supposed to be Copilot, with access to your Xbox account. So you could ask it things like "what achievements do I have in [game]?" It would also know what game you were playing, and answer questions like, "I'm stuck on [puzzle], give me a hint," etc.

The "on mobile" part was that it would be integrated into the Xbox mobile app.

(I say "supposed to be" because it was just a beta, and hadn't even made it to consoles yet – just PC and mobile.)

> You basically just need a metal tube, and well... a pipe from home depot does that much better than trying to 3d print something much less reliable.

Why would you buy a pipe at Home Depot? A gun barrel is not a firearm, and is not required to be registered or serialized. You can drive to Arizona or Nevada and buy an actual barrel, with rifling, manufactured to meet well-known specifications, without showing an ID. Until this year, you could have a barrel shipped to your California residence without an ID. There's no need to build the Shinzo Abe contraption.

> So my assumption is immediately that some relatively large lobbying group feels threatened by 3d printing, and is using this as a driver to try to control access and limit business impact.

Occam's razor. This isn't a shadowy manufacturing cabal, threatened by 3D printing. Gun control lobbyists are trying to prevent the printing of handgun frames and Glock switches, because they're the easiest parts to print.

> Either way, this is bad legislation.

California legislators haven't met a bad gun law that they don't like.

The best part of the 10NES design, as a consumer, was that it was fail-safe, rather than fail-secure. The console defaulted to booting. So, if your NES started having the infamous boot-reset flashing light, all you had to do was unscrew the NES enclosure and clip the power pin on the 10NES chip. And these were huge pins, it didn't require any subtlety. You could do it with a nail clipper.