And if you were teenage college students way more risque clips than Star Wars :-) One of my fondest memory is when a sophomore buddy of mine does a telnet and sets the display to local ip and starts clicking on random audio files. The operator on the other side is a freshman. Comes running to the other room sees my bud and being one year senior asks - dude that SGI is making weird noises. Realizing what has happened my buddy quips - ah it makes those noises when it is heavily loaded :-D
Do you work in GIS field and it is useful? I am trying to see how a GIS tool will help a typical audience here that may be a little interested in maps + data.
Not directly related to antitrust but rather national industrial policy - there is a really good article on "Industrial policy without National Champions"[1] where the author also touches upon antitrust - worth a read.
"During that event, Cardiff Garcia did a fascinating interview with Paul Krugman, at the end of which Joe Wiesenthal asked a critical question. The United States, under Joe Biden, is embarking on an aggressive program of industrial policy even as it pursues increasingly vigorous antitrust enforcement. Aren't there tensions between these goals? Responding to an antitrust investigation of NVIDIA, Dylan Matthews similarly asked, "Here you have a tremendously successful national champion in a strategically critical industry. Is that exactly what you want[?]"
I must be old because first thing I thought reading AlphaChip was why is deepmind talking about chips in DEC Alpha :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEC_Alpha.
It will be interesting to see how users will use the new dedicated camera touch control. Other phonemakers have tried it in the past (Sony Xperia comes to mind) but capacitative is probably the first. Also how developers will adopt for their apps. It is a small change but definitely differentiating for Apple at least for now.
I have pretty much landed on a similar simple solution for my homelab. A minipc with dietpi + docker + dockge + bunch of homelab apps using docker compose. Important config backups on a S3 compatible bucket in cloud + photos backup on connected USB HDD.
Wow - wordstar makes a mention on HN. During the college days mid 90s some of the admins in our lab used Wordstar. For us kids it was Framemaker or Word. We couldn't convince the admins to move to a Windows 3.1 based hot modern UI :-)
I used to have my own local root CA as well but now trying the Let's Encrypt with DNS-01. What is the easiest combination of software to try it? I have failed miserably trying Opnsense + ACME client plugin + Cloudflare DNS + HAProxy / NGinx. I would get 100% ssllabs certs but somehow the reverse proxy won't forward to internal services. Next I am gonna go caddyserver for reverse proxy as it has SSL with LE inbuilt. Let's see.
It's almost as if everything on this earth is a reflection of Sun. We finally figured out how to harvest it at scale without depending on nature in the middle.
It will be cool to send a buddy drone with these landers. A minute or so before the touch down, detach from lander and shoot the landing. Then go back and attach with lander for charging and do periodic flights.
"La Zona Blanca" ad [1] mentioned in the article is funny. But I do agree with the note "When did we decide on Hare Krishna cult members?" There must be better ways to spend the ad money OR may be Sega marketing was using Hare Krishna members as purple cows [2]
I used to do Algo with a VM on GCP. But fly.io and tailscale has made this really simple. Try this if you are looking for an easier alternative https://github.com/patte/fly-tailscale-exit
Razing money or not as a self proclaimed PaaS geek I have always enjoyed reading fly.io blogs. Two of my favorites are How they run containers as VMs [1] and How they outgrew Hashicorp Nomad and wrote their own scheduler [2]
At the risk of sounding old - this is called mediation part of the usage based billing in the Telecom/Utility billing, which happen to be the OG of usage based billing with millions of record. I have worked with Digital Route for this in the past. Definitely good to see newer architectures and thinking applied to this problem for newer use cases. Godspeed to OpenMeter.
Homeassistant is such a useful project. I use it for self hosting bitwarden, ubiquiti addon and bunch of smart home devices. For SSL I have been using local root authority but is a pain to maintain. I am able to access HA client from browser and Android phones but iPhones don't want to play. How did you do LetsEncrypt with HA?