#comments | Logs for 2020-04-30
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[00:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:25] <exec> 08└─Blessed are the patient- he's chiseling away on the stone tablets.
[00:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fancy That: Comcast's Network Holding Up Fine Without Usage Caps - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:26] <exec> 08└─Ya gotta admit, it'll kill the virus!
[00:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo is Joining Dell in the “OEM Linux Laptop” Club - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:25] <exec> 08└─And the reason they did stuff like that is because if the processor was too good, or there was too much ram, the hardware didn't qualify for the cheap/free Windows XP license, and later, the cheap/free Windows 7 Starter license. There were some premium netbooks with better specs. But between the cos...
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[00:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:09] <exec> 08└─You can buy a Raspberry Pi anywhere, while Hardkernel's DHL shipping cost from Korea doubles the purchase price.
[00:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TAMA300 Blazes Trail for Improved Gravitational Wave Astronomy - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:19] <exec> 08└─...vacuum squeezing...
[00:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:47] <exec> 08└─They aren't better at athletics, they're more likely to focus on that, because there's less resistance to black athletes.The cost of entry is also, often much less than other ways of succeeding. Also, keep in mind that it's not all sports, it's mostly sports that are cheap to get into, black hockey...
[00:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:48] <exec> 08└─For people with actual learning problems, it's largely a matter of finding them, more often, it's got nothing to do with ability, it's entitlement. People largely learn the same way, the main exceptions tend to have sensory or neurological abnormalities. The differences that people cite, only accoun...
[01:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fooling Natural Language Processing Systems Through Word Swapping - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:29] <exec> 08└─That works in duckduckgo as well.
[01:01:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:10] <exec> 08└─A cat? Of course sir, black and white or tabby? Oh, any colour, it's for the python.
[01:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:26] <exec> 08└─Congress should legislate that abandoned products must become fully open.
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[01:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:51] <exec> 08└─A proposition that something like say speed of light in vacuum is constant is similar to that the Earth is flat. That's exactly why I am a member of Flat Earth Society. Our main goal is to get this simple idea to the unwashed scientific masses.
[01:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:43] <exec> 08└─I seem to be good at thinking outside the box or seeing things that are obvious to me but not others: When i was a kid taking driving lessons in school, we had to watch a video: the guy in the video does all this stuff and then at the end he looks in the rear view mirror and says something like "Uh...
[01:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:45] <exec> 08└─Great story, Grandpa. My Tesla drives itself so I don't have to worry about accidents.
[01:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:47] <exec> 08└─At first, it was just so many lines on a page.
[01:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:49] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus and his Hulk Hogan fanclub call it "alt-right".
[01:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:51] <exec> 08└─No, you have common core, failing schools and falling standards.
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[02:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:20] <exec> 08└─No really - over there. Look over there. Stop looking here.
[02:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:28] <exec> 08└─Bought a C1, that I now use as video player in a waiting room with kodi 8h/day, pretty stable. Only gripe, the stable kernel stayed at version 3.10 or something, newer ones are experimental. I also got the hifi DA converter, which sounded clean enough for my needs. Then this happened, https://forum....
[02:58:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TAMA300 Blazes Trail for Improved Gravitational Wave Astronomy - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:38] <exec> 08└─You had me in the first half! It is pretty crazy how tech advances, glad some people have the patience to work out the kinks.
[02:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TAMA300 Blazes Trail for Improved Gravitational Wave Astronomy - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:40] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure the noosphere would take it in stride and find a way to make the squeeze work.
[02:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TAMA300 Blazes Trail for Improved Gravitational Wave Astronomy - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:43] <exec> 08└─If' only they'd given it a fancy name like The God Field then maybe I'd be impressed but if they're not even bothered, meh.
[02:59:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:34] <exec> 08└─If it's shared by a large percentage of the population is it a disability or a character trait?
[02:59:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:43] <exec> 08└─The answer depends on who can capitalize on it.
[03:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:16] <exec> 08└─I tend to agree. However, I'm more concerned about the pure nonsense they are teaching rather than how they teach it.
[03:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:18] <exec> 08└─Did you mean to say that Runaway was unbalanced?
[03:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:20] <exec> 08└─I had written out a length reply about why the driver was making the correct action, and then reread your comment and noted that the scenario had the driver being rear-ended; as soon as I realised that, your point made sense to me. Appropriately, this is exactly the sort of visual/spatial reasoning...
[03:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Shade (Troldesh) Ransomware Shuts Down and Releases Decryption Keys - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:27] <exec> 08└─The interesting question is why now? Maybe they got saved by religion or something bad happening around them Or somebody caught them and suggested they retire Or they found a new business model (This should make a market in antivirus s/w?) Or if they publish, then there will be less interest in trac...
[03:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:36] <exec> 08└─Haven't read it since the late 90s. It's sad to hear they lost their minds.
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[03:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 1228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah just go ahead and ruin that segment of entertaining hobby too you asshats. The fun of this whole thing went right down the drain when the OG UFO guy - one of like 3 who were actually involved - died. For some reason people think MUFON is worth its dumbass acronym. Even the notion that UFOs are...
[03:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:18] <exec> 08└─Probably a bit of oil, moisture and dirt getting caught between the lenses and moving around as the jet tilts and the focus auto adjusts much like a floater [wikipedia.org].
[03:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:20] <exec> 08└─That looks to me like a missile radar lock. The one that makes pilots shit their pants cause they can hear the alert while on the receiving end.
[03:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:22] <exec> 08└─No, its a bird! No wait, that is just the resident shit-poster. Damn, thought we had something worth publishing in the tabloids. Might as well run with the anal probes again, at least it tracks.
[03:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:18] <exec> 08└─Hows about you jackasses try to find a reason you might be getting unexpected results that don't require a change in the fundamental laws of nature first? Yes, they may be wrong. It's a whole lot more likely that your ass is wrong than that every physicist to come before you was wrong though.
[03:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:20] <exec> 08└─But maybe this will let them get rid of "dark energy". FWIW, the Copernican Hypothesis is definitely false, because when you look in certain directions you see big voids, and when you look in other directions you see lots of massive galaxies. How significant that is isn't clear. Some have calculated...
[03:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:22] <exec> 08└─Oh there's plenty of stuff that's been wrong in the past and will be wrong in the future. It's just a dipshit move to go there with fundamental assumptions before you've ruled out every other testable explanation. When did science turn into clickbait?
[04:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:22] <exec> 08└─I'd arguably be diagnosable, I have absolutely no ability to visualize anything and any tasks that require visualization are impossible for me without converting to something else, either kinesthetic or just purely abstract. On top of that it can be extremely difficult to plan as I never know what s...
[04:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:23] <exec> 08└─That's not quite right, they appear somewhere between teenage and late 20s typically. And that's coincidentally the period between peak brain growth and the point where the brain largely stood growing any larger. Which makes sense since schizophrenia is largely a neurologic disorder where the brain...
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[04:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:01] <exec> 08└─You need more vodka, comrade.
[04:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:03] <exec> 08└─How would we know if the infected people who survive aren't aliens taking over a host, and the people who died from the virus aren't failed alien takeovers or something more.... food. TPTB demand human flesh in order to maintain their human appearance. 3rd crack rock from the ghetto instructed us on...
[04:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:05] <exec> 08└─Okay, now that the government officially acknowledges UFOs exist, I don't believe there's any way UFOs exist. Clearly this is little more than a recruitment strategy. Partialy joking, partly not. These videos were 'leaked' back in 2017. That was following announcements of the US military becoming so...
[04:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:07] <exec> 08└─Not sure if this is some weird joke, but... no, just no. You're looking at heat signatures that the jet and camera are having to move rapidly to keep up with. And multiple pilots were spotting them simultaneously.
[04:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:17] <exec> 08└─"GIVE ME FIVE PENISES FROM MEN AND NOW I HAVE SIX." - cardinal anus biter
[04:58:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases "Unlocked" GPU Driver - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:39] <exec> 08└─Sneaky fuckers wanna backdoor my computers? Well fuck you. Just as I'll never buy from Sony again after the Sony BMG Rootkit. Intel could release a vaccine for old age and I'd die with a middle finger raised up at them like at the end of THEY LIVE. Marking this as redundant is just another way to st...
[04:59:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 1984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:11] <exec> 08└─He didn't start with fundamental assumptions. Ever the sceptic, when Professor Webb first came across these early signs of slightly weaker and stronger measurements of the electromagnetic force, he thought it could be a fault of the equipment, or of his calculations or some other error that had led...
[04:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:12] <exec> 08└─When did science turn into clickbait?
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[05:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:58] <exec> 08└─Apple //c and //e are still very useful. What I really like most about them is you can run it with just a floppy drive, load up a word processor, and do your work. When finished, save to floppy. Done. No support for networking, be it wireless, ham radio, packet radio, whatever. No other ugly, non es...
[05:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:14] <exec> 08└─That was following announcements of the US military becoming somewhat increasingly desperate for recruitment.
[05:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases "Unlocked" GPU Driver - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:45] <exec> 08└─Another useless step I can bypass with Linux and a GeForce card.
[06:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:20] <exec> 08└─You're a cog. Grow some independence. In the real world, we personalize our environments. We seek jobs we can succeed (or at least not miserably fail) at. We buy and make objects to suit our physical and mental needs. Some of those are very common between humans (eg. we almost all live in environmen...
[06:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:21] <exec> 08└─Most people who commit suicide have a diagnosable mental disorderMost people who commit suicide have a diagnosable mental disorderMost people who commit suicide have a diagnosable mental disorder fuck me put it all on black and spin the fuckin wheel!
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[06:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 1632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:54] <exec> 08└─I had (actually still have, but misplaced somehow) a //c that I got for free when they were cleaned out for Wintels in an office. It's got an 8 MHz ZIP chip, real-time clock, and a RAMWorks III (iirc) compatible memory extension to 320K that I designed myself (upper bank of 4164 went out, 41256 went...
[06:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:12] <exec> 08└─Classified, declassified, leaked, or whatever, there is a lot of footage out there, of UFOs that remain unidentified. Starting with the earliest foo fighters, right on up through those bogeys off of California in recent months, there's a lot of stuff we haven't identified. One of the more amusing ex...
[06:59:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:38] <exec> 08└─If it's shared by a large percentage of the population is it a disability or a character trait?
[06:59:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:59] <exec> 08└─I'm with you on that, I've solved the problem another way - by adopting new terms. I have "right" and "the other right".
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[07:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:04] <exec> 08└─A previous employer of mine was quite proud of the fact that most of the computers on the shop floor were "old enough to start secondary school!" ("640x480 should be enough for anyone" is probably true if you are still using a stock control system originally written for vt52s - or buy computers from...
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[07:58:06] <exec> 08└─This editor can vouch for plenty of life in old boxes. For the past 4 years, a now-nearly-decade-year-old Core 2 Duo Laptop with 6 GB RAM has been my primary computer.--martyb
[07:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:08] <exec> 08└─The only problem with old unbroken computers is mainstream media story web sites. Story pages shouldn't be programs. They should be plain text with optional picture, sound an video embeds (not auto-play, please). I can do everything I want to do on my 10 watt, 11 hour battery, fanless HP Stream netb...
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[07:58:10] <exec> 08└─And I was rather horrified the last time I saw Gmail, recently. Yick. Pay for an alternative like FastMail. Their web app is faster than Thunderbird running locally.
[07:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:36] <exec> 08└─The difference is that with a Hardkernel system you get a well-engineered, competently designed system while with a Pi you get something that looks like an undergrad cribbed it together from ideas off various vendor data sheets. I've had Pi setups where I spent more than the cost of the Pi itself on...
[07:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases "Unlocked" GPU Driver - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:00] <exec> 08└─I thought everyone just wiped windows and installed a GNU/Linux distro when they purchased a new laptop?
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[07:59:01] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/linux-on-laptops-asus-zephyrus-g14-with-ryzen-9-4900hs/ [arstechnica.com]
[08:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Explore the Power of Radio Waves to Help Control Fusion Reactions - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:49] <exec> 08└─For sure. They were experimenting using it to cook bats.
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[08:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:21] <exec> 08└─angels, or demons, or lost souls
[08:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:23] <exec> 08└─Not sure if this is some weird joke...
[08:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:25] <exec> 08└─Is it just me or is the second one just a gif of some choppy water? I can't see anything out of the ordinary. There's a moving white square dot in the upper left quadrant that seems out of place, but that's clearly from the info overlay. Where's the UFO?
[08:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:35] <exec> 08└─I cheated and read TFS (the proper soylentil comments after looking at the title, not TFS or TFA, that's cheating), it says 4 USB ports, which is true but not automatically comparable with guys who have one USB2 and one USB3 host. The C4 site says "The average ~340MB/s of throughput should be accept...
[09:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:12] <exec> 08└─Well, the alternative would be to give everyone their money back. The buyers never owned the feeder anyway, they just leased the use of it. Likewise, the rights holders never owned the money either, but they did get the use of it. If they want to play that game, the rules need to apply to both sides...
[09:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:14] <exec> 08└─I wonder if anyone here develops an Arduino board for this, he could rescue all these feeders... Can't be too much more than a programmable timer, a couple of motor drivers. A fancy Bluetooth phone interface would be icing on the cake.
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[09:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:02] <exec> 08└─Martyb, thanks for the reformatting. It's elegant compared to the sloppy Anon submission. For the life of me, I don't understand why Ubuntu's downloads on their official site are all HTTP. It's refreshing to find SSL mirrors.
[09:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:03] <exec> 08└─even if there's no prompt ALT-F2 works
[09:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:05] <exec> 08└─For the life of me, I don't understand why Ubuntu's downloads on their official site are all HTTP. It's refreshing to find SSL mirrors.
[09:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:08] <exec> 08└─I don't know about the current version but in older versions there was a difference in the installer. The mini version had the old, usable installer, while the full DVD had an abomination that forced HDDs to GPT (on a non-UEFI system), had half the settings of the old one and of course because it f-...
[09:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:10] <exec> 08└─Attacks on Package Managers [arizona.edu] _________________________ - Other Attacks https://www2.cs.arizona.edu [arizona.edu] - FAQ https://www2.cs.arizona.edu [arizona.edu] - Papers https://www2.cs.arizona.edu
[09:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:12] <exec> 08└─https://onion.debian.org/ [debian.org] onion.debian.org This is a list of onion services run by the Debian project. Most of them are served from several backends using OnionBalance. Updating via Tor hidden service is even more delicious! The meat of this post: hxxp://vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion *...
[09:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:30] <exec> 08└─grow box? [youtube.com]
[09:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 1881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:31] <exec> 08└─It appears my main, and in some cases most powerful machine is 10 years old this year. A lenovo t410 with i3 (2 cpus 4 cores 2.4ghz) with no systemd no pulseaudio and spectre mitigations off (there's a new experimental respin called antimixxx), a realtime kernel and not well optimized setup (working...
[09:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:34] <exec> 08└─Plex all the way!
[09:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:54] <exec> 08└─FYI, The Grauniad [wiktionary.org] is a thing! When I used it in my original submission [soylentnews.org], it was on porpoiselike this one If you accept "El Reg" and "the Beeb", you need to accept Grauniad too
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[10:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:00] <exec> 08└─What I don't understand is, one could just use the mini.iso and be done with it. But there are people recommending a so called, "minimal install" option on the DVD release. I tried this once and it spent 1/2 hour or more REMOVING packages it had already installed, so that it would be a minimal insta...
[10:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:01] <exec> 08└─This mini Ubuntu - why? I have for a decade now, learned to patiently wait another 6-8 weeks and get the next Mint. All the bumps sorted out, any spyware removed or disabled. Sorry Canonical, but 'trust' takes many generations to rebuild once it has been destroyed.
[10:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:04] <exec> 08└─If you not in X then it is just Alt, if you are in X then you need the CTRL+Alt https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[10:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:06] <exec> 08└─From the official Ubuntu blog: the next version of systemd will make Ubunti too large to fit on a CD. so they're moving towards a BluRay-only distribution model to stay one step ahead of Poettering.
[10:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:27] <exec> 08└─why not grow box?
[10:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, Pi-Hole [pi-hole.net] is not just for the Raspberry Pi anymore, although given the cost of a suitable Pi setup and the likely power consumption compared to an old PC you might be better off with just buying the Pi after a few years runtime. Then again, for a newbie, sticking Ubuntu onto an old...
[10:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:50] <exec> 08└─This sounds like one of them cryptic messages from CIA operatives in the field back to the HQ. Busted! Makes 0 sense, but nice use of punctuation and spelling is good. So AC being off his tits on drugs is not my first conclusion.
[10:58:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:52] <exec> 08└─It not because the pentagon did not find an explanation that it is automatically extra-terrestrial, they are the pentagon not captain disillusion. And there are this three videos that present actually good explanations for the phenomena and were posted at the time these videos were first released: h...
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[11:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:01] <exec> 08└─Haven't bought your crap since you stopped making good products, around the time Bill and David moved out of the garage.
[11:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:19] <exec> 08└─I trust Debian over Mint/Ubuntu and most other distros. I'll just leave this here: Don’t trust us? Erm, we have root [markshuttleworth.com]. You do trust us with your data already. You trust us not to screw up on your machine with every update. You trust Debian, and you trust a large swathe of the...
[11:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:20] <exec> 08└─rob_on_earth, Do you want to see the ruins, my friend?
[11:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:22] <exec> 08└─Remember this. I called it years ago. It will happen. What did Novell get with their "partnership" with MS? They got fucked in the ass. Look where they are today.
[11:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:25] <exec> 08└─BDXL or Archival Disc?
[11:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Memory Misfires Help Selfish Maintain their Self-Image - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:32] <exec> 08└─Good liars believe the lie while telling it. Very useful skill, that.
[11:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:51] <exec> 08└─I've also run in to a lot of sites lately that completely break if you are running a desktop or even a window of 1024*768 or less. Usually what happens is that the crap scripting libraries they use automatically switch to a narrow "small screen" or "mobile" layout, but the idiots never even check th...
[11:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:52] <exec> 08└─amazing - actually 11 years [canstarblue.com.au] there are some still available [lightonline.com.au]
[11:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:17] <exec> 08└─You're glowing! Terry Davis would've loved you. Terry had a car. They had to take him out via train.
[11:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:29] <exec> 08└─It will encourage rockchip and allwinner to lift their game. Up the RAM to ≥ 8GB and we might see the year of the ARM64 Linux desktop!
[11:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DancesWithRobots [3810] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:31] <exec> 08└─If you're in the states, try Ameridroid. Base price costs about 10% more, but you have a whole range of shipping options. But no stock on the C4 at this time.
[11:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:33] <exec> 08└─I like having the complete state of the board contained on the flash card. All Pi's are identical - there's no "oops, I flashed version X onto this one and version Y onto this other one." Pick one out of the pile, stick the flash card in, and off you go.
[11:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:35] <exec> 08└─I have an old C1 on the shelf, it was replaced by a C2 a couple of years ago. Used as a media centre running LibreElec (now running CoreElec). The C2 does hardware accelerated H264, and it does 4K at 60fps so it's been great. Uptime must be over 6 months, never misses a heartbeat. I'm talking to a m...
[11:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:37] <exec> 08└─Then you’d appreciate the eMMC module option. Removable yet way faster than SD/TF.
[12:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:36] <exec> 08└─It's more like 137 ...
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[12:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:56] <exec> 08└─The last HP inkjet I owned died after a few months with officially approved HP ink dripping out of the machine. Been using an Epson and cheap knock-off ink ever since.
[12:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 2223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:58] <exec> 08└─A good lawyer would need to sort this out, but it looks like the judge gave them an opening to fix this problem. "As HP points out, however, the Support Page, which is incorporated into the FAC, contains a number of reasons for the firmware updates that are allegedly beneficial to consumers and to c...
[12:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:00] <exec> 08└─It's so confusing. I want a mono laser printer for Linux, but when I look around all I find are companies which provide their proprietary bullshit deb or rpm, rather than Linux just detecting it and having it work. People say, "Use Brother!" or "Use Canon!" No, I won't trust their fuckin files. It s...
[12:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:02] <exec> 08└─Cheap-ish Sumsung Laser printer owner here. No more dried up ink when the printer is needed. That alone is worth the switch to laser printer. Yeah - I know - no colours but that's not an issue for me.
[12:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:04] <exec> 08└─Brother printers. Brother goes to the effiort of providing perfectly working drivers for Linux, MacOS, & Windows. My best ever printer is Brother DCP-9015CDW colour laser printer. Well done, Brother!
[12:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:06] <exec> 08└─Floridaman fights for our rights! DRM-free ink cartridges! The right to stalk newly reopened beaches as a the Grim Reaper! The right to build home-made airplanes and crash them in Missouri!
[12:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:08] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty happy with a Brother color laser printer. It was about $350. The stock cartridges are good for a few thousand pages.
[12:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:10] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you want a 30 year old HP laserjet.
[12:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:13] <exec> 08└─Are the drivers open source?
[12:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:15] <exec> 08└─> Cheap-ish Sumsung Laser printer owner here. Hello! Model number, please? Does it require proprietary drivers in order to function in Linux?
[12:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:17] <exec> 08└─the “process for authenticating cartridges” is to “protect the quality of [the] customer experience,.....). Plaintiff raises no allegations to refute these alleged benefits, or to show that they are outweighed by the injury he suffered. "
[12:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:19] <exec> 08└─Whatever gets the job done! I mean, fuck it, if I can't find anything which works without blobs, I may as well just buy an ancient dot matrix printer. To add to the insult, every fucking printer has to be WIRELESS. What if I don't want wireless? Dot matrix, how I've missed you.
[12:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:21] <exec> 08└─How's the toe-jam today, Mr Stallman?
[12:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:24] <exec> 08└─So, I'm on the market for a new printer, HP used to be the best choice for linux but I won't deal with this shit. I'm looking for suggestions since the market is flooded with printers and the user reviews aren't very consistent. Here are my requirements, if any of you can kindly make any suggestion:...
[12:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:26] <exec> 08└─And I'm very happy with a ~90€ Kyocera color laser Printer. It's built like a tank, has good print quality and all sorts of features that one would expect to find only in more expensive office printers, such as a network interface and double-sided printing.
[12:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:28] <exec> 08└─Second-hand office-grade Kyocera. Great printer, still actively supported despite its age and when I chuck in a random budget toner cartridge it reports "Genuine cartridge installed" and starts printing.
[12:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:30] <exec> 08└─How's the toe-jam today, Mr Stallman?
[12:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:32] <exec> 08└─That pretty much answers my question, thanks.
[12:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 1346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:18] <exec> 08└─Core2 Quad Q6600 Debuted at $851, $530 3 months later 4 cores, 4 threads 105 W TDP Ryzen 5 1600AF Refresh debuted at $85, 1600 non-AF was $219 6 cores, 12 threads 65 W TDP Passmark: [cpubenchmark.net] x2.17 single, x7.02 multi of the Q6600 [cpubenchmark.net] Obviously, this is an imperfect compariso...
[12:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:20] <exec> 08└─Nevertheless, you get 50% more cores, triple the threads, 2-7 times the performance, using less energy, for 1/6th the price.
[12:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:22] <exec> 08└─It depends on your use case. If we nix gaming, we'll have to get creative. Fancy launching your own DeepFakes studio? The hardware has to come before the software. Achieve a 1000x speedup, and something interesting will follow.
[12:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:46] <exec> 08└─what's RT?
[12:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:48] <exec> 08└─Russia Today (rt.com), rebranded as just RT in 2009. https://en.wikipedia.org(TV_network)#Development_and_expansion [wikipedia.org] In 2009, Russia Today rebranded itself to simply the "RT" initials. Simonyan denied that the name change was an attempt to hide its Russian origins, stating th...
[13:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:05] <exec> 08└─Some SBCs out there have 8 GB of RAM, it just isn't common yet. RPi 5 will probably include an 8 GB SKU, since the 1 GB SKU of RPi 4 has been eliminated, leaving only 2/4. So expect it to be normalized within 2-3 years. If you meant that the SoCs themselves need to support the amount of RAM, in RPi...
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[13:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:03] <exec> 08└─I bought and used a couple of the WeMo WiFi connected relay switches to control lamps & similar, after about a year I tossed 'em in a drawer and replaced 'em with cheaper Chinese versions (Smart Life) that are physically much smaller and have much better performing WiFi range. In the recent unpleasa...
[13:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:05] <exec> 08└─Four things are certain: the three stated, and IoT devices shall never be part of my home network.
[13:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:07] <exec> 08└─Well, would you look at that? Oh wait, they can't! I am glad these IoT news stories are hitting so close together. I sure hope people who bought these bitch about it loud and clear to everyone they know so they can dissuade others from buying crap like this. If there's anything that makes it clear t...
[13:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:33] <exec> 08└─OP here. I have not checked whether there is a corresponding source package available, but after installation of the driver package there appears to be a mix of shell scripts, binary firmware blobs, and about 3 executables.
[13:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:34] <exec> 08└─OP here. Printers break; badly engineered printers break more quickly. It is my feeling that the world's best engineering quality is found in Japanese made products. I love that Brother printers, more than any other make, are still largely made in Japan. The engineering quality, the attention to det...
[13:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:36] <exec> 08└─Model #? I've been impressed with the office-grade Kyocera's at work, but the only thing a quick search turns up in that price range is jumbo toner cartridges.
[13:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:39] <exec> 08└─Why should God have to pay for it?
[13:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:41] <exec> 08└─> Been using an Epson and cheap knock-off ink ever since. Be careful. I bought an Epson after many HPs precisely because of HPs ink DRM. I print a lot, so I have CISS installed on my Epson. Thing is, a few weeks ago a pop up appeared on my PC telling me a new printer firmware update was available an...
[13:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:43] <exec> 08└─Former Samsung laser printer owner here. Yes, you do need to download custom drivers, which, apart from the PPDs contain a few executables (x86 and x86_64 only). What's more, you need to download them from HP, who now own Samsung's printer division.
[13:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:45] <exec> 08└─Why should God have to pay for it?
[13:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:47] <exec> 08└─I'm using HP OfficeJet 8710 - it has separate ink cartridges (3 color and one black), works with the libre hplip drivers on GNU/Linux without blobs (double sided printing and scanning using flatbed and feeder work although feeder tends to cause paper jams when I tested so I don't use it often), has...
[13:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:50] <exec> 08└─There are small color laser printers, but AFAIK, they don't have scanner/all-in-one of functionality. If you care about software freedom, one important thing to remember is that the printer's own OS is all proprietary. Can you trust it on your network?
[13:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:11] <exec> 08└─How would we know if the infected people who survive aren't aliens taking over a host, and the people who died from the virus aren't failed alien takeovers or something more.... food. TPTB demand human flesh in order to maintain their human appearance. 3rd crack rock from the ghetto instructed us on...
[13:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:12] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you should try Slackware.
[13:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:14] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you should try Slackware.
[13:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:45] <exec> 08└─I wish they would make that more cross platform than a stupid docker container. It's just a collection of ip chains scripts right?
[14:00:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:06] <exec> 08└─FYI, The Grauniad [wiktionary.org] is a thing! When I used it in my original submission [soylentnews.org], it was on porpoiselike this one If you accept "El Reg" and "the Beeb", you need to accept Grauniad too
[14:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:13] <exec> 08└─Thanks
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[14:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 1375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:58] <exec> 08└─Belkin does not support anything that is not currently bringing cash flow, period. They are buy a good name to push quick cash solutions. Like Linksys was a good name in home networking, now another zombie in the Belkin stable. I had an IoT device, a MONSTER Power Switch, used with my Christmas lig...
[14:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:00] <exec> 08└─If you buy this kind of crap, and the OEM bricks it, which they will, then you got exactly what you deserved. Don't give me that surprised face. You expected all these little pay-for-creeping services to have honor? This is capitalism. There is no honor here. No, this is humanity. There is no mercy...
[14:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:02] <exec> 08└─The Chinese WiFi relays I bought are about $9 a piece, work really well (integrated with Google Home, etc.) and, I suppose if they brick someday I'll still have been better off than attempting to "roll my own" with all the not only cash expense that entails, but countless hours fiddling with it to g...
[14:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:04] <exec> 08└─Well of course. If you don't want host your own infrastructure, you're at the complete whim of the company providing it. Be responsible. Host your own infrastructure.
[14:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:06] <exec> 08└─Amen, look at the "cloud" feeder for your pets. They just shutdown because of "COVID-19". I looks like they were trying to get out of the business after being off-line for a week earlier. Now they have something to blame it own, vs there own mismanagement.
[14:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:41] <exec> 08└─I'm confused how Florida Man sued in his home state of California... Do I misunderstand his super powers?
[14:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:43] <exec> 08└─Actually, I just installed Ubuntu 20.04 and it automatically installed my wireless HP printer - I didn't even ask it to. This is neat, but due to this article, I'll be reconsidering ever buying anything HP again. Who knows? Maybe their computer lineup will only allow HP-branded USB drives in the fut...
[14:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:45] <exec> 08└─People say, "Use Brother!" or "Use Canon!" No, I won't trust their fuckin files.
[14:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:47] <exec> 08└─but i bought my gallows from HP and the blade is blunt.
[14:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:49] <exec> 08└─It will go with OP's perceived age. His "Get off my lawn"-style printer rap is classic!
[14:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:51] <exec> 08└─At home, I have a Brother laser printer, admittedly an older model, hooked up to my Linux Mint distro. It was automagically setup when I plugged in the USB cord. Maybe there's a binary blob involved -- I don't know. At work I'd been using Brother stuff for ages which all worked great until recently...
[14:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:15] <exec> 08└─Trusting the security of the ISO to random 3rd parties? tsk tsk. Always check the hash of the file. Additionally, HTTPS is NOT needed everywhere. HTTP is perfectly fine for a LOT of content. Additionally, HTTPS breaks some nifty things such as mass download parties that cache downloads locally.
[14:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:16] <exec> 08└─if you can still use deboostrap, any bootable linux iso is fine. antix has one, debian should too. I personally see no future in an ubuntu server/embedded solution, so start looking elsewhere anyway.
[14:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:19] <exec> 08└─In the time needed to come to terms with systemd (= infinite time, as per published manifesto, "never finished") you can learn the slackware way and openbsd.
[14:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Memory Misfires Help Selfish Maintain their Self-Image - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:28] <exec> 08└─Yep. Then they lose their shit when you show evidence of their lies. Bonus points if the liar has a menstrual cycle, then you get #metoo'd. Unless you sniff her hair.
[14:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Memory Misfires Help Selfish Maintain their Self-Image - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:30] <exec> 08└─Another cargo-cult academic farce called "research" these days. That's why most of the modern PhDs deserve no more than to ask their superiors "would you like to supersize them?"
[14:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:54] <exec> 08└─While some suggestions are good, many are horrible. The always-on solutions NAS/access point/Folding-at-home/... are outright abominations. Apart from being economically terrible (in Europe, calculate wattage * 2 as a lower bound for cost in Euro/year), they are a total energy waste in themselves th...
[14:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:55] <exec> 08└─https://old.reddit.com/r/apple2/ [reddit.com]
[14:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:58] <exec> 08└─Here's a better option. Use a simple no frills text editor and a Raspberry Pi. Or you could do something like this, if you're really serious about writing. https://www.raspberrypi.org [raspberrypi.org] That way your computer was made this century and consu...
[15:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:26] <exec> 08└─This is misinformation. The red dresses are perfectly capable of synthesizing their own human skin and other tissues. They're actually vegans.
[15:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:44] <exec> 08└─If you meant that the SoCs themselves need to support the amount of RAM
[15:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:45] <exec> 08└─It's true, the PI has a number of warts and blemishes that range from minor inconvenience to truly annoying. But the difference between a Pi and a Hardkernel system is there are thousands upon thousands of hackers posting fixes and work arounds for every conceivable problem. You're not alone when yo...
[15:01:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:22] <exec> 08└─If a. I don't understand it and/or b. I can't explain it then it's weird!!
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[15:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:12] <exec> 08└─Under CFAA, web sites get to make their own laws and sue you in US court for breaking their made up rules. Every computer system you access might as well be its own separate legal jurisdiction. They don't even have to pay the costs of maintaining their own enforcement! It's the perfect Libertarian p...
[15:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:27] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with getting off your sorry fat asses and flipping a switch a few times a day ? The major causes of morbidity and death in first world countries are obesity, diabetes, cancer, heart failure and stroke, all overwhelmingly caused by poor nutrition and lack or exercise. And what do you do...
[15:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:29] <exec> 08└─The real surprise is I guarantee there will be amazon and ebay 3rd party resellers selling the devices for full list price after the servers are decomissioned. Personally, I'd buy a device for $2 to $5 just to disassemble and screw around with the camera component. Is it SPI or I2C or something weir...
[15:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:31] <exec> 08└─Meh... One day you'll wake up and your bank account is drained, you got fired for a post you didn't make on facebook about your bosses genitalia, your wife left you because of all the goatse porn she found on your phone, and there's 3 black vans with gov't plates sitting in your driveway. All becaus...
[15:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:33] <exec> 08└─Unless you're already a quadriplegic bed-bound person whose only ability to exert control over one's environment comes from such means. But got it - you're more than willing to give me cancer from secondhand smoke because you insist upon using a fireplace instead of a clean burning alternative. Oh,...
[15:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:35] <exec> 08└─Do you even know what second hand smoke is?
[15:58:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03epitaxial [3165] 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:49] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty happy with a Brother color laser printer. It was about $350. The stock cartridges are good for a few thousand pages.
[15:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:17] <exec> 08└─You going back to a 60mA current loop for an interface?
[15:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:18] <exec> 08└─What does God need with a printer? Probably nothing, but maybe a less helpful spell checker?
[15:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:20] <exec> 08└─Are the drivers open source?
[15:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:22] <exec> 08└─My read is that the judge agrees with you, and suggests how to put the allegation in the correct form to be heard.
[15:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:25] <exec> 08└─The same way New York man keeps his taxes in his home state of Florida, of course!
[15:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:27] <exec> 08└─A church office might use a printer. Name it: Prints Of Peace
[15:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:29] <exec> 08└─I hear you and I wish that was the case, but there is a thing called "frivolous lawsuit". Not everyone is fully rational. Or, they may be caught up in whatever the issue is, and not fully understand the other side's case. (which is why we have courts and judges). You would hope a lawyer would advise...
[15:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:31] <exec> 08└─At beaches you can practice social distancing by using binoculars.
[15:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:33] <exec> 08└─There used to be a company that refurbished HP LaserJet 4050Ns and would replace all the wheels and cogs with brass replacements. The resulting refurbished unit was far better than when it was sold new and would only need a set of belts every 10-20 years (depending un usage). They'd even repair the...
[15:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:35] <exec> 08└─Some more history about HP for you. Decades ago, they did a survey as to why they were losing printer sales and who their chief competitor was. The result came back that HP was HP's main competitor and the reason they were losing printer sales was because the old ones were still working well. So, at...
[15:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:37] <exec> 08└─I just got the Epson ET-2750 Eco-tank yesterday, bought it so my college kid can have my old printer (an Epson Artisan 730). No cartridges, just fill the tanks with bottled ink, which appears to be reasonably priced for the Epson branded ink. It comes with 2 years (YMMV of course) worth of ink for p...
[16:00:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fishscene [4361] 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 295 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:01] <exec> 08└─Trusting the security of the ISO to random 3rd parties? tsk tsk. Always check the hash of the file. Additionally, HTTPS is NOT needed everywhere. HTTP is perfectly fine for a LOT of content. Additionally, HTTPS breaks some nifty things such as mass download parties that cache downloads locally.
[16:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 1323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:05] <exec> 08└─Why Ubuntu? Specifically, in this case, why Ubuntu? I already know why Ubuntu for the masses who are migrating from Windows to Linux. Everything is pretty dummied down, so you aren't facing a Sisyphus learning curve. But, in this case, somehow, that doesn't seem to apply. If you're doing a minimal i...
[16:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:07] <exec> 08└─I switched from SuSE to Ubuntu in 2006. Then Ubuntu jumped the shark with Unity. Trillions of users screamed out in terror and were suddenly silenced. Like you, I fled to Linux Mint. Liked it. Stuck with it. I did play with Debian edition. But the ubuntu packages are so addictive. I also tried Mate...
[16:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Memory Misfires Help Selfish Maintain their Self-Image - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:18] <exec> 08└─Good liars believe the lie while telling it. Very useful skill, that.
[16:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 3900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:46] <exec> 08└─The old PC is... let's assume up to Pentium I. A nice criterion would be a lack of NPU. These machines were perfectly working in word processing and some spreadsheets. Even few years ago I was doing spreadsheets on industrial machine - 8MHz 80286, 1MB of RAM, Lotus 1-2-3 2.2. AFAIR the machine is st...
[16:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:47] <exec> 08└─some of their examples don't make sense from an electricity cost standpoint
[16:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:49] <exec> 08└─(in Europe, calculate wattage * 2 as a lower bound for cost in Euro/year)
[16:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:52] <exec> 08└─I'm a little unclear why the answer isn't leave it on the desk and keep using it, right next to the new box. An interesting angle on changing things is instead of changing the software change the hardware. Maxing out the motherboard memory AND buying a new SSD larger than the old spinning disk will...
[16:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:54] <exec> 08└─To clarify. An "old" Apple computer is a modern Mac more than two years old. It stops getting OS updates. Which makes the browser stop working. (Because a browser should be hyper sensitive to which OS update it is running on.) To make this travesty even worse, be sure to build the computer into the...
[16:01:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Lagg [105] 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 1228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah just go ahead and ruin that segment of entertaining hobby too you asshats. The fun of this whole thing went right down the drain when the OG UFO guy - one of like 3 who were actually involved - died. For some reason people think MUFON is worth its dumbass acronym. Even the notion that UFOs are...
[16:01:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:08] <exec> 08└─You need more vodka, comrade.
[16:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:24] <exec> 08└─Mostly, we're 'Muricans. We don't accept beeb, reg, or gremlins. We're just going to deport the lot of them back to Merry old England. Or, to Mary's Old England.
[16:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:26] <exec> 08└─They aren't green men. The green ones are female, the purple ones are men.
[16:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:28] <exec> 08└─Kind of ironic, I think, if enlistment trouble has anything to do with Trump. Just spitballing here, but I personally would feel like the last thing I want to do is put my life in the hands of that crazy person. Who knows what might happen? Practically speaking, though, he's pretty trigger shy. He m...
[16:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:48] <exec> 08└─On top of that it can be extremely difficult to plan as I never know what something is going to look like beyond a spoken description.
[16:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:49] <exec> 08└─They all start with just a gradient from one point to everywhere else (little Xs with the brush), and it looks like nothing... I found it funny my sister-in-law who does graphic design for a living hadn't ever seen him before. About 20 minutes in, she exclaimed, "He's STILL using a 2 inch brush?!?!...
[16:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast Extend Vow to Not Cut Off Service Amid COVID-19 Crisis - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:42] <exec> 08└─In other words, they're doing what would be expected of them if they were held to be the common carriers that they actually are. It's nice of them and all, but really nothing that shouldn't be unexpected, and I'm surprised that no states so far have mandated that anyway. In my state there is an orde...
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[16:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:58] <exec> 08└─It would be best to read the entire article before commenting as there are several nuances and historical precedents that it addresses.
[16:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:00] <exec> 08└─It's reasonable for the law to deal with damage caused but an attack. Not much more.
[16:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:02] <exec> 08└─> The law shouldn't even exist. Have you not seen War Games? That sort of thinking can start World War III
[16:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:04] <exec> 08└─How many Soylentils read the entire terms of service of all the web sites they visit?
[16:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:06] <exec> 08└─If this specific law disappeared, don't we already have a bazillion laws on the books to deal with "damage caused but (sic) an attack." I mean we don't specifically have a law to handle if I stole your paper files and shredded them. We have general laws about destruction and stealing that do just fi...
[16:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:09] <exec> 08└─Have you not seen War Games?
[16:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 1369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:29] <exec> 08└─The problem with this IoT business model is I'm not sure how they ever expected to monetize the PII. I mean... they were not seriously going to upload nudez to pr0n sites where they? I'm just sitting here trying to figure out how they ever expected to run a profit off the private data that home secu...
[16:58:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:30] <exec> 08└─I'll still be ax-splitting my ten chords of firewood each year, well into my ninethies.
[16:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:32] <exec> 08└─If you use https://www.home-assistant.io [home-assistant.io] which does not phone home and is 100% local install, you can install ESP8266 and ESP32 based gadgets using https://esphome.io [esphome.io] and the two interoperate and plug and play to a level that's actually boring and not very educatio...
[16:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:25] <exec> 08└─How about a printer that supports Postscript direct printing? The original "lower-cost" example was the first Apple Laserwriter and I strongly suspect that any printer with a built in PostScript interpreter can be installed as a Laserwriter (or something newer). My first laser printer was an NEC Sil...
[16:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:26] <exec> 08└─LaserJet Pro M402dne serves me well. Todays' LaserJet Pro M404dn seems not any different besides a different (a bit pricier) cartridge.
[16:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:29] <exec> 08└─Is it an HP blade or is it aftermarket?
[16:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:58] <exec> 08└─Gentlemen, with all due respect, I liked Unity. I seriously could never understand all the hate. Does everything have to use a Win95 paradigm (looking at KDE, Mint, Mate, XFCE, etc.)? I'm really missing it since Ubuntu switched to GNOME. I liked WindowMaker too back in the day. Who knows where we'd...
[16:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:59] <exec> 08└─I seriously could never understand all the hate.
[17:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:01] <exec> 08└─>I liked Unity. I seriously could never understand all the hate. Changes disrupt workflows. If the change is justified, and mostly if it is optional, then people will not hate it. Enter UI changes in this millennium: mostly about increasing the difference between my ecosystem and the ones of the com...
[17:00:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03progo [6356] 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 433 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:23] <exec> 08└─The only problem with old unbroken computers is mainstream media story web sites. Story pages shouldn't be programs. They should be plain text with optional picture, sound an video embeds (not auto-play, please). I can do everything I want to do on my 10 watt, 11 hour battery, fanless HP Stream netb...
[17:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:44] <exec> 08└─I draw the line at what a modern Raspberry PI can do. If an old PC isn't at least as good as a Raspberry PI, then it should be junked. Going forward, more Ras PIs today mean fewer big junk PCs tomorrow. Monitors typically last across multiple generations of computer. (Hey Apple, hear that!?)
[17:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:45] <exec> 08└─Another thing. What you mention about electricity cost is even worse for old servers. Rewind to about 2008 . . . Hey, cool, I can get some old servers from work for personal use! Woo hoo! (after they've been thoroughly wiped) Not so fast. These may look like an over sized desktop mini tower, but: *...
[17:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:18] <exec> 08└─Sure, link to the new series of X-COM games . . .
[17:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:20] <exec> 08└─To be fair, that whole thing where companies say "our acronym doesn't stand for anything anymore" is pretty commonplace now.
[17:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:22] <exec> 08└─Yob! Yob! Where's my Yob?!
[17:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:24] <exec> 08└─'...TBH, I'm surprised the metaphysical types haven't claimed UFOs to be angels, or demons, or lost souls, or some such.'
[17:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:43] <exec> 08└─Also, with a Raspberry Pi, there's a whole world of hobbyists that are playing with it. Sure there are a few people using ODROIDs, but the Raspberry Pi community is massive in comparison. Which leads to more support, because there's more of a market. I'd choose a Raspberry Pi every time.
[17:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:44] <exec> 08└─It's a dimensionless number and it involves the speed of light, something called Planck's constant and the electron charge, and it's a ratio of those things.
[17:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:51] <exec> 08└─Either you missed where I wrote "many", or your logic neurons are broken. I wrote "many" mental disorders, right? I did not write all. Nor did I write "none develop before mid-twenties." Please follow the context, too. I'm not disputing what you wrote about brain growth, etc. All true. But you did n...
[17:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:53] <exec> 08└─Just you wait until Runaway's truck loses the brakes and smashes into your rear end, at a light. Then you will know why he chose that handle...and why your Tesla is like paper to a big rig.
[17:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:55] <exec> 08└─Why is tennis any harder to get into than basket ball, the court size is about the same, and a racket and balls doesn't cost much more than a basket ball...
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[17:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:12] <exec> 08└─48% of Americans are infected with Toxoplasma which "could potentially influence brain development and behaviour of offspring", and nearly the same number of Americans vote the Democratic ticket every election.
[17:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:24] <exec> 08└─That's right! "By using this website, you agree..." No, no I don't agree. And I'm not going to waste my time reading that garbage. I find especially ridiculous the assertions that you agree not to use the website for illegal purposes, not to violate the website owner's copyright on every letter of e...
[17:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:26] <exec> 08└─It would be best to read the entire article before commenting
[17:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:28] <exec> 08└─Recently on SN I pointed out that CFAA [wikipedia.org] (computer fraud and abuse act) was inspired by the movie War Games. Yes, really. Lawmakers asked about how well military computers were protected. Naturally making hacking illegal would prevent it from happening. Just as laws against murder have...
[17:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:30] <exec> 08└─> Have you? Yes, but it was a long time ago. I had to check on wikipedia that it was the film I was thinking about! I'll put down "Last Starfighter" next [checks wikipedia again]
[17:58:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 929 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:41] <exec> 08└─Well, would you look at that? Oh wait, they can't! I am glad these IoT news stories are hitting so close together. I sure hope people who bought these bitch about it loud and clear to everyone they know so they can dissuade others from buying crap like this. If there's anything that makes it clear t...
[17:58:54] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 478 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:54] <exec> 08└─You're probably not doing it right. I have a number of devices. I flash them all with Tasmota and point then to my Home Assistant (Hassio) manager on one of my Raspberry Pi's. If I need to make a change while I'm offsite, I run my VPN client on my phone and connect to my PFsense router. No leaks. No...
[17:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:56] <exec> 08└─Fair price to pay for having shit that works.
[17:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:58] <exec> 08└─https://www.amazon.com/Clapper-Activated-Detection-Appliances-Technology/dp/B0000CGKLR [amazon.com]
[17:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:00] <exec> 08└─You're probably not doing it right.
[17:59:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 836 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:31] <exec> 08└─> Been using an Epson and cheap knock-off ink ever since. Be careful. I bought an Epson after many HPs precisely because of HPs ink DRM. I print a lot, so I have CISS installed on my Epson. Thing is, a few weeks ago a pop up appeared on my PC telling me a new printer firmware update was available an...
[17:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 1368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:56] <exec> 08└─My Brother colour laser printer works fine, and understands a variety of well-known printer protocols,a s well as understanding Postscript. I do have the ppd from Brother installed on my old laptop. It was quite a effort to get it to work *without* installing that massive inscrutable blob of printer...
[17:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:58] <exec> 08└─When I look to buy a new Linux printer, I find a few printers I am considering, then I go to https://openprinting.org [openprinting.org] and check the status of the print drivers. It tells you if you need binary blobs, third party PPD files (usually with download link), or whether it "just works"...
[18:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:32] <exec> 08└─Does everything have to use a Win95 paradigm
[18:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:33] <exec> 08└─Changes disrupt workflows.
[18:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:35] <exec> 08└─Gee, Danny...you're not still mad about that "QUERTY" thing, are you? Not replying to argue the point (strangely enough 🤣), just here to say... But don't cry when people flee in droves.
[18:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:37] <exec> 08└─I was never mad. But I guess that doesn't come across in text. I did NOT get that memo. Interesting. So will they have some kind of graphical interface? I guess I'll have to do some googling. I find it amusing that when an LTS Ubuntu comes out, everyone is waiting for the versions with a non-Unity d...
[18:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:40] <exec> 08└─Don't know if you got the memo or not, but Unity is EOL'd...for a while now.
[18:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Memory Misfires Help Selfish Maintain their Self-Image - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:51] <exec> 08└─I don't know why that was modded down, in my experience, sociopath types transparently show their anger in exactly that kind of situation. Hell, they show their anger everytime the other participant(s) in the conversation steer the conversation even slightly in a direction out of the sociopath's con...
[18:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:27] <exec> 08└─Eh, the new massive thread count chips would be nice for folks who do a lot of compiling but I'm not getting one until I have a fair degree of certainty I can disable the hardware rootkit.
[18:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Avoid the Trash Heap: 15 Great Uses for an Old PC - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:28] <exec> 08└─No it's not. You can pick them up at Home Depot or Lowes any day of the week. I grabbed a half dozen 250W incandescents just this past winter because LEDs and CFLs put out a light that's damned near worthless when you're trying to read a paperback, deal with something's tiny components, or get a spl...
[18:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:37] <exec> 08└─> ...keep it on the line, and just sort of pull one end back along the line, flipping it over without ever taking it off the line Great minds think alike -- did the same thing for my Mom. We had a long outdoor clothesline and with sheets & towels it was quick to walk along the line, flipping/inverti...
[18:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual-Spatial Learning Disorder is More Common Than Thought, Finds Study - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:39] <exec> 08└─Username shaming! How trite.
[18:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Explore the Power of Radio Waves to Help Control Fusion Reactions - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:52] <exec> 08└─you forgot to allow for the phase angle concern in the imaginary wave vector surface TEM reflection due to the placement of the antenna in the window or on the fender.
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[18:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:11] <exec> 08└─It's actually 11%. Which explains flat-earthers, anyone in the Kardashian family, and CNN.
[18:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/search?q=toxoplasmosis+makes+you+love+cats [google.com]
[18:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:31] <exec> 08└─Under CFAA, web sites get to make their own laws and sue you in US court for breaking their made up rules.
[18:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:33] <exec> 08└─Oh fuck... SN has a TOS?
[18:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:35] <exec> 08└─There oughtn't be a CFAA, but, Otherwise, I'm just another lawless asshole, doing what he wants to do.
[18:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:59] <exec> 08└─At beaches you can practice social distancing by using binoculars.
[19:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:00] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/01/hp-completes-purchase-samsung-printer-business.html [cnbc.com]
[19:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Memory Misfires Help Selfish Maintain their Self-Image - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:49] <exec> 08└─Watching the transition from "he didn't say that" to "he said it but it was sarcasm" that occurred in about an hour was remarkable.
[19:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:03] <exec> 08└─Thanks that was very informative.
[19:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:25] <exec> 08└─I don't have a good sense of scale for performance, how practical is it to run applications in an 8GB SBC ARM processor that actually use more than 4GB of memory? My vague, completely made up on the spot sense is that if you ran program that needs 6GB of memory on a SBC ARM processor it would be so...
[19:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Suggest Laws of Nature 'Downright Weird,' Not as Constant as Previously Thought - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:28] <exec> 08└─The article seems to go out of its way not to mention how much variation they think they have observed in the fine structure constant.
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[19:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:06] <exec> 08└─The idea of *random* mutations being responsible for the progress always looked BS to me. Environment is what triggers changes and then selection cuts bad ones. Lysenko was right https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and so Stalin.
[19:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:08] <exec> 08└─everybody loses, no matter who "wins". Lysenko's theory became the dogma, then the mendelian genetics became the dogma in its place, and then it took 60 years for the mountain of inconvenient facts to grow too high to keep ignoring. The synthesis is happening now instead of 80 years ago. This, child...
[19:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:29] <exec> 08└─Not quite, Code of Conduct last time this topic came up.
[19:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:57] <exec> 08└─Thin Clients are not out of style. Just like Timeshare is not out of style. All web pages are Timeshare. All web oages are thin clients. They are not created by your your system, nor are they showing you data from your system (mostly :) ). Now of days "fat clients" are these poor programmers trying...
[19:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:58] <exec> 08└─The point is IoT COULD be good
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[19:59:58] <exec> 08└─There's also this libre Brother driver: https://github.com [github.com]
[20:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:37] <exec> 08└─Are you referring to Unity being replaced by GNOME 3? That is just as bad, IMO. Others may have differing opinions.
[20:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Memory Misfires Help Selfish Maintain their Self-Image - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:50] <exec> 08└─And your alternative is to believe the shit dropping out of Trump's mouth? Color me unimpressed.
[20:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pentagon Releases Official Footage of UFOs. No, Seriously! - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:03] <exec> 08└─wait, so females are the ones with the anal fixation? poor purple ones...
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[20:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064-Billion-Year-Old Nitrogen-Containing Organic Molecules Discovered in Martian Meteorites - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:13] <exec> 08└─You know what contains nitrogen? Penguin crap.
[20:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:25] <exec> 08└─Nope, Lamarck was right. Environment causes changes directly... the giraffe stretches its neck to reach food, those giraffes that learn to stretch furthest get the most food and then teach their children the best stretching techniques. Two giraffe parents with good stretching technique can offer twi...
[20:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:49] <exec> 08└─Libertarianism opposes excessive laws and excessive government. Allowing anyone to create their own laws is directly opposed to libertarianism.
[20:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:18] <exec> 08└─I have a number of devices. I flash them all with Tasmota and point then to my Home Assistant (Hassio) manager on one of my Raspberry Pi's. If I need to make a change while I'm offsite, I run my VPN client on my phone and connect to my PFsense router. No leaks. No exposed services.
[21:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:19] <exec> 08└─Parziale sued the IT titan in its home state of California
[21:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:21] <exec> 08└─In fact, fresh animal blood would be cheaper. You can probably get that for free. Per unit volume, inkjet ink is more expensive than fine wine. Currently, I'm using a years old Samsung CLP-320 color laser printer with no binary blobs. So of course HP bought out Samsung's printers so they could kill...
[21:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:23] <exec> 08└─My old Samsung "laser" printer (more likely LED) does color and isn't any larger than an inkjet printer. It's been a while since printing in color with toner required a behemoth.
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[21:58:08] <exec> 08└─You know what else is penguin crap? systemd
[21:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 064-Billion-Year-Old Nitrogen-Containing Organic Molecules Discovered in Martian Meteorites - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:10] <exec> 08└─Bzzzzt. systemd will contain penguin crap. This is because systemd will grow to contain everything in the observable universe. Including the boot loader (systemd-boot) [freedesktop.org] and the kernel (systemd-kernel). You know how parking enforcement can put a boot on your car for unpaid parking ti...
[21:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 064-Billion-Year-Old Nitrogen-Containing Organic Molecules Discovered in Martian Meteorites - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:12] <exec> 08└─Given the vastness of space and how even the few planets in our solar system are like a dozen golf balls across a massive golfing estate - how a tiny rock can get thrown from Mars to Earth, hit Earth, be found, be identified as Martian, then dated... Boggles my mind. Now we may know more about Mars,...
[21:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 064-Billion-Year-Old Nitrogen-Containing Organic Molecules Discovered in Martian Meteorites - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:14] <exec> 08└─It seems as we progress through history, one of the findings we keep making is that we are not all that special. At first we were the only village that mattered. Then we realized there were many villages. Then we realized we weren't the only villages, we realized we all lived on the earth. Then we...
[21:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:49] <exec> 08└─The Code of Conduct has not yet been successfully compiled. An work this noble requires the efforts of many artisans before the compiler will be inclined to accept it.
[22:00:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 1068 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:09] <exec> 08└─Some more history about HP for you. Decades ago, they did a survey as to why they were losing printer sales and who their chief competitor was. The result came back that HP was HP's main competitor and the reason they were losing printer sales was because the old ones were still working well. So, at...
[22:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:23] <exec> 08└─Confirmed. It's only a little over 20 years old, but an HP Laserjet 4000 w/ Jetdirect gives you a networked attached printer in 1997. I've never been worried about the inkjet mafia, because I had access to laser printers from the beginning. Except for the dot matrix stuff with the punch holes and bu...
[22:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:24] <exec> 08└─In court and Federal Courts in particular, you have to be explicit. In cases like this, you can only win in court if you have damages. Therefore, you have to tell the court you have damages. Same with the CFAA, he says they weren't authorized to access the machines. So he loses, despite it being obv...
[22:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:03] <exec> 08└─I remember reading about Gnome 3 being the replacement. But it is not important to me to remember that fact. They both look exactly the same, as delivered in Ubuntu. So what's really the difference? The BIG difference is that Ubuntu does not have the UI that everyone has been using for the last thre...
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[22:58:14] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/Zk11vI-7czE [youtu.be] Makes Moore great again. Strange timing huh?
[22:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:15] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for an analysis to be done, and it's just a matter of time, into the greenhouse gas emissions reduction due to COVID-19. It's got to be pretty major, which is good for buying time while the world pivots away from high emissions. But the bushfires here in Australia in January released as...
[22:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:17] <exec> 08└─I'd have expected renewable projects to also be negatively impacted given the wholesale energy price has dropped
[22:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:42] <exec> 08└─The idea of *random* mutations being responsible for the progress always looked BS to me. Environment is what triggers changes
[22:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:43] <exec> 08└─So, you're saying to never get involved with a cat owner if you want your kids to grow up healthy? Makes sense to me! Given the level of infection across the globe, I'm surprised there isn't more research into how to eliminate T Gondii.
[22:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:08] <exec> 08└─Naturally making hacking illegal would prevent it from happening.
[22:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:10] <exec> 08└─No, that is pretty much the plot. He unwittingly breaks into the computer and starts the countdown to Armageddon. They catch him and bring him to the vault in Colorado and Dabny Coleman locks him in an office. Then when the shit is about to hit the fan, they let him decide how to interact with the c...
[22:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:12] <exec> 08└─Heh heh...huh huh...you said "CoC." And as somebody who is penilly challenged, I feel that the term "CoC" discourages diversity and inclusivity and fosters an unsafe atmosphere toward the penilly challenged and penis-envious. I will hereby protest that grave injustive by posting the word NIGGER. And...
[22:59:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 305 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:23] <exec> 08└─If you buy this kind of crap, and the OEM bricks it, which they will, then you got exactly what you deserved. Don't give me that surprised face. You expected all these little pay-for-creeping services to have honor? This is capitalism. There is no honor here. No, this is humanity. There is no mercy...
[22:59:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 575 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:28] <exec> 08└─The real surprise is I guarantee there will be amazon and ebay 3rd party resellers selling the devices for full list price after the servers are decomissioned. Personally, I'd buy a device for $2 to $5 just to disassemble and screw around with the camera component. Is it SPI or I2C or something weir...
[22:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:42] <exec> 08└─And, that's the ideal - I'm perpetually pissed when Comcast takes a dump and my internal systems go down with them. On the other hand, my IoT dependent devices are all basically toys - if I just walk over to the outlet and push the button the switch will switch. If there's an analyst warehouse somew...
[22:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:44] <exec> 08└─I smoke a cigar and my wife smokes my penis....right?
[22:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Three Things in Life are Certain: Death, Taxes, and Cloud-Based IoT Gear Bricked by Vendors - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:46] <exec> 08└─Based on their support page, it looks like they were charging about $10 a month for their "premium" service. I guess that wasn't enough money for Belkin, even though the service stores videos for just 14 days, so there's no ballooning storage costs. What I suspect really happened is that this iSecur...
[23:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:53] <exec> 08└─+1 Ouch
[23:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Injecting Sneaky DRM Update Into Printers That Rejected Non-HP Ink? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:54] <exec> 08└─I see HP managed to upsell you a blade... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:34] <exec> 08└─Not unless you do https proxying. But then you end up with security warnings on everyone's browsers. Unless you install your certificate on them and set it to trusted. That's what my old work did. IE and Chrome worked silently but Firefox kicked up a stink.
[23:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:36] <exec> 08└─When I run into that, I just use : to make a ":" or do another entity like that and do the link myself. The best part is the URL gets through and the processing seems to get rid of the entity, so you'll never tell after the fact. Can be a bit of a pain, but it works when I can't think of...
[23:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:38] <exec> 08└─I don't know about the current version but in older versions there was a difference in the installer. The mini version had the old, usable installer, while the full DVD had an abomination that forced HDDs to GPT (on a non-UEFI system), had half the settings of the old one and of course because it f-...
[23:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Memory Misfires Help Selfish Maintain their Self-Image - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:52] <exec> 08└─TFA basically describes one of Trump's daily COVID briefings!
[23:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 1866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:28] <exec> 08└─Just by using the web browser and opening browser tabs (not an insane amount of them), I can eventually tie up most of the RAM in cache/buffer until it starts dipping into the default 100 MiB of swap on the microSD card. Clearly, JavaScript is partially responsible, but there you have it. If there i...
[23:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:29] <exec> 08└─I didn't look at the RK3399Pro: https://www.seeedstudio.com [seeedstudio.com] 4 GB has been given to the CPU and GPU, with another 4 GB dedicated to the "NPU". I'm guessing that 4 GB is still the limit for the CPU/GP...
[23:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hardkernel Launches ODROID-C4 Single-Board Computer - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:32] <exec> 08└─I notice that the C2 is only $4 less than the C4. That seems a bit odd.
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[23:58:16] <exec> 08└─What is strange? What timing?
[23:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:17] <exec> 08└─In the last few years, the Saudis have been trying to transition out of petro-economy, and this pandemic must be a hella jolt to hurry the fuck up. It would be interesting to see how the petro states change their stances in the post-pandemic days, particularly the Middle East and North Africa with a...
[23:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:20] <exec> 08└─That the left are now attacking Moore for calling out the government subsidized "renewable" green energy scam in a film he released as petroleum futures went negative. Greens understand thermodynamics about as well as socialists understand economics.
[23:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:22] <exec> 08└─Michael Moore makes the case that green energy is largely a sham in that its long term environmental cost is no better than fossil fuels Full rebuttal here https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com]
[23:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Renewable Power Surges as Pandemic Scrambles Global Energy Outlook, New Report Finds - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:24] <exec> 08└─That's not a rebuttal, it's an opinion piece.
[23:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 064-Billion-Year-Old Nitrogen-Containing Organic Molecules Discovered in Martian Meteorites - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:36] <exec> 08└─I'm going to guess that rock blasted off Mars has a slightly higher chance of hitting Earth, due to the Sun's gravity being so dominant in our solar system. Once a rock starts falling towards the sun, it has a (small) chance of being caught by our gravity well. The thing that caught my eye is that...
[23:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:52] <exec> 08└─It looks to me that environment triggers specific changes and randomness of them is simply a crude approximation of luck of knowledge. And that's me who is probability idea life long fan. As per fascism, I guess there is a border somewhere between developing a better potato and a better future human...
[23:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:54] <exec> 08└─IIUC, however, it doesn't make you love cats. It just causes the smell of cat urine to not be unpleasant. This would be associated with loving cats, but would not be a direct causal factor.
[23:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:56] <exec> 08└─Sorry about that. You're wrong, but it's not the simple thing that news stories make it out to be. In the first place, most serious mutations end up dead well before birth. So you never see them. The largest number of mutations are "neutral drift", which isn't really quite neutral, but is pretty clo...
[23:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offspring May Inherit Legacy of their Father's Toxoplasma Infection - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:58] <exec> 08└─'Cat Scratch Fever' is not a new ailment, and has been referenced for a long, long time. We are learning more about it though, as referred to in TFA.
[23:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:25] <exec> 08└─borefest 2020
[23:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:26] <exec> 08└─Uh oh...I likely just broke the law. I wanted to read the WaPo article but they threw up a pop-up tied to JS and tried to force me to subscribe. So I just go into my browser settings and site permissions and blocked cookies and site data, then nixed JS and pop-ups for https://www.washingtonpost.com
[23:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:28] <exec> 08└─Libertarianism is a fairy story told to gullible fools by billionaires.
[23:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Finally a Supreme Court Battle Coming Over the Nation's Main Hacking Law - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:30] <exec> 08└─If we did require people tp RTFA, it would sure speed up reading the threads.