I’m more interested about the 5k/d. That must be excluding compound interest. Like, all the money if just being stuffed into mattresses, or something. OTOH, having your money in a bank account might have reset you to zero in 1929.

There used to be WYSIWYG GUI designers for both GTK and KDE. There was even one that generated XUL, which Firefox used for a while, IIRC.

Did all those disappear?

I just too everything in TUIs; since I program in Go, that means tview for me. It’s really low-effort to get into. But if you want a GUI, surely there’s still a UI builder for KDE.

Does TOR get government funding? I guess I’d be more surprised to find them - or any OSS - getting funding from the US gov. EU governments, sure.

I have used todo.txt for, shit, over a decade now. Jesus. Anyway, I just sync files with whatever - in oelden days rsync, nowadays SyncThing. But I’ve occasionally speculated about syncing with VTODO instead.

Whenever I start to think through it, I eventually come to the same conclusion: it seems out of place, and more fussy than just copying a file via SyncThing or even just WebDAV put-ting a file. I guess the value would be conflict resolution?

If I have one criticism of SyncThing, it’s that there’s absolutely no facility for conflict resolution, even after all these years, there’s no way to configure a client to say, “if you get a conflict on a .txt file, try running ‘automerge’. If it exits with an error, leave it a conflict. If it exits with success, sync it resolved.” There are merge tools for a variety of file types, from txt to ODF to json. It’d be an almost trivial feature to add, and it’s frustrating that it’s still missing.

I used to say restic and b2; lately, the b2 part has become more iffy, because of scuttlebutt, but for now it’s still my offsite and will remain so until and unless the situation resolves unfavorably.

Restic is the core. It supports multiple cloud providers, making configuration and use trivial. It encrypts before sending, so the destination never has access to unencrypted blobs. It does incremental backups, and supports FUSE vfs mounting of backups, making accessing historical versions of individual files extremely easy. It’s OSS, and a single binary executable; IMHO it’s at the top of its class, commercial or OSS.

B2 has been very good to me, and is a clear winner for this is case: writes and space are pennies a month, and it only gets more expensive if you’re doing a lot of reads. The UI is straightforward and easy to use, the API is good; if it weren’t for their recent legal and financial drama, I’d still unreservedly recommend them. As it is, you’d have you evaluate it yourself.

Right? Crazy. Next they’ll say BASIC is still around.

Ak-shually… you’re completely right!

But you left out an important option for OP: they can just turn on auto-login and bypass the login screen entirely. If they want any security, they’ll need a display manager, but maybe they don’t care. Also, while this doesn’t apply to them, I discovered accidentally that after I log in to herbstluftwm, it goes directly to screen lock. I don’t know what I did to make that happen, but I’ve realized I can just disable the display manager, have auto-login, and still get security. Probably not as much, and if I ever get around to encrypting home that won’t work anymore, but I’ve been considering doing it because typing my password in twice is a drag.

You can put headers on any TCP packets, and they’re supposed to be preserved by intermediate routers. It affects all TCP packets, not just HTTP; the only way to bypass it is by using UDP, which is used by some protocols, but not most.

A TCP implementation MUST be able to receive a TCP Option in any segment (MUST-5).

RFC9293

This weeks MVP. Thanks!

You’re absolutely right about not being good for businesses; most of those don’t use Wireguard, though, unless that’s changing. It’s usually some proprietary crap.

The problem with renting a VPS - of which I already have several - is that at some point you have to pay for the data. Either it’s uncapped, but throttled at a certain number of GBs, or you pay a rate per GB. The hell I’m going to pay T-Mobile and have to pay more because they don’t allow VPNs.

But, it’s starting to sound like they don’t block them, so it’s probably all good. Worst case scenario, I suppose I can always go crawling back to Comcast.

You know, I don’t remember this from that episode, but I don’t think I’ve seen it since it aired. But the more I see it posted, the more creepy it becomes.

It reminds me that I like First Contact so much because it makes the Borg menacing. The Borg in the series was never - to me - more than another antagonist, but seeing the inexorable infiltration and subjugation of the Enterprise reminded me a lot of the direction in Alien.

Yeah, this is creepy.

Harvesting tracking data is a revenue stream. T-Mobile and Verizon home internet have both been caught attaching tracking headers to TCP packets. A VPN strips those. If enough customers use VPNs, it really can impact their bottom line, as they have data on fewer customers to sell.

That’s the “why they’d bother.”

The reason I asked here was because my search popped up some results from people saying they had trouble with VPNs on their T-Mobile service.Some were on Reddit, which I can’t get too unless I bounce around and find an exit node they aren’t blocking, which I’m too lazy to do; and all of them were AFAICT about cell data service. I didn’t find anything that mentioned fiber.

But, if they block VPN on one business unit (cellular), they’re more likely to block on others, so I thought I’d check.

Does RustDesk run on Wayland? I’ve had a good experience with it.

Fair comment about the Korean war; I incorrectly mentally lump it together with the Vietnam war as part of the general “war on communism,” and it wasn’t the boomers.

It’s also forgetting the Korean war, and several smaller wars in between (Panama, Honduras).

Vietnam was bad, but don’t forget so easily that we only just got out of the longest running war the US was ever been in, and it wasn’t Boomers or Gen X fighting in it. It spanned two generations. Now, because there US just can’t not be involved in a conflict, we’re casting about trying to find a good enemy; I think the next one will be with a developed country. We’ve realized that we don’t do so well with insurgencies, so maybe Russia or China. Or, maybe India and Pakistan will finish everything for us! They both have nukes, and China isn’t just going to sit there while they trade nukes across the border.

Anyway, it’s a little depressing that y’all have already written off the 800,000 veterans who fought in Afghanistan as being unworthy of notice.

Most people attribute it to Spock, but Kelly’s Bones does the one-eyebrow arch nearly as often.

What boot loader do you use? Grub and REFind are the most common, but there are others: Clover, LILO, Lemine, systemd-boot, syslinux… how you tell your computer which thing you want you boot from depends on your boot loader.

However, I suspect the issue is more simple: did you go into your BIOS and switch where the firmware which device to try to boot from? If you’ve added a new HD and you want to boot from it, this is _always_¹ required.

1. Ok, not always. I suppose there exists some BIOS that always shows you a menu and asks which device you want to use, but that’s uncommon.

I… I really hate to be that guy, but… “phasers”.

It’s absolutely more common in Mastodon, and it’s a common feature of clients to prompt for alt text when a user is posting an image. It’s as much cultural, and is considered good etiquette. I agree that software would dramatically affect this, not by showing it by default (where, for people who don’t need it, it’s merely distracting) but by recommending it when posting. You’re absolutely right that it’d be more common if folks were reminded of it.