Not a replicant

Fursuits

You’ve heard the term “balkanization”? You’ve just invented “US-ification”.

More states = more politicians 🤮

Rank is less important than the presence or absence of chicken salt.

There are states in Australia that can swallow Texas whole. Long distance driving is unavoidable, so it’s less useful as a metric because it can’t be changed easily. It would mean improving public transport, subsidising domestic flights, etc - and we all know how likely that is.

I’m fed up with gmail requiring an “app-specific” password for Outlook. Not some crusty old 2007 version, the 2021 LTSC version.

Doesn’t require an app-specific password from its own app on android, oh no.

What about the Stay-puft^tm Marshmallow Man?

Talk about clickbait … Article title: trump can pull the plug on the internet and europe can’t do anything about it (my emphasis) First line: the U.S. could unplug Europe from the digital world (not “pull the plug on the internet”) And then further down: “The fatal vulnerability is Europe’s near-total dependency on U.S. cloud providers.”

So first, it’s “the internet”, then it’s “unplug europe from the digital world”, then it’s “europe’s dependency on US cloud providers”

So it’s NOT “the internet”, and it’s NOT “unplug europe”, it’s disconnect european customers from US cloud providers.

Methinks Monseiur Pollet doesn’t understand very much about the internet.

ffmpeg - www.deb-multimedia.org . I edit podcast videos for distribution to subscribers. High-quality video produces very large files but if they’re only going to be watched on laptops, tablets, and phones, I can throw away a lot of bits without noticeably affecting quality on a phone screen.

And nothing does that better or faster than ffmpeg.

OS400 (IBM i)

No, just “farmers”. Qualified by what they raise, e.g. “Bill, a cattle farmer from Dalby” or “Harry, a wheat farmer from the Downs”

These tariffs are having some funny consequences.

1. US places tariffs on Australian beef
2. US has shortage of lean Aussie beef (for those hamburger patties, you know), so demand is still high
3. Tariffs have the effect of weakening the AUD against the USD
4. Oz beef is traded in USD
5. Oz farmers are now earning more for their beef exported to the US

There’s a lot of copper pairs left underground. Many hundreds of thousands of kilometres of it. Use it as a pull-through for fibre-optic bundles, and everyone can have gigabit internet.

Seriously though, there’ll come a time when that underground obsolete copper will become economic to retrieve.

Heh. My batteries are flooded lead-acid, all 1320ah of 'em. No copper guilt here.

So, Blade Runner was a future documentary ? And then Blade Runner 2049?

I hadn’t used my CS6 for years but recently needed Premiere Pro. I hauled out the discs, installed it using an external optical drive, and searched old Outlook PST files for the serial number. It installed on my Win 11 laptop, and it activated when I typed in the serial number.

Long live CS6! Adobe won’t get any more money from me.

I did get lucky when I bought it, though. I ordered and paid for CS5.5 Education version, so that was about AUD$450 instead of AUD$2200, and what turned up was CS5.5, a free licenced copy of CS4 “to help with 32-bit to 64-bit transition” and a download code for CS6, as I’d ordered 5.5 after 6 had been announced. I ended up with licenced copies of CS4, CS5.5, and CS6 for AUD$450

I’ve got two piholes running on the home network, and they are both DHCP servers - with different ranges, i.e. #1 serves 192.168.0.11 - 100, and #2 serves 101-200. Each uses option 6 to specify DNS servers, and they both reference each other. It doesn’t matter if one goes down because each client will have the both piholes specified as DNS servers. I’ve never had an address conflict problem.

JFC it doesn’t become a honeypot on November 1.

Be clear about it - you’ll still get Windows Defender updates, but not patches to the OS or MS applications/Utilities.

New outlook is a steaming pile. Classic Outlook has some very handy features and unless Evolution pulls its finger out, I will continue to use classic Outlook. Hell, I used Outlook 2010 until last year.

It met my needs.

It’s fine. It’s mostly crap-ware free, and it’s more stable than other versions. It’s Long-Term-Stable-Channel, it’s used by corporate, so it doesn’t change frequently. It still gets security updates but not the latest BS, like Recall, and on-by-default Bitlocker. It also doesn’tt require a MS account during setup.