I have said it before and I’ll say it again.

Adblockers are a critical part of any modern computer’s security suit, and everyone should use them.

I won’t even consider removing mine unless the owners of a site with ads take full responsibility for any dammage to my computer coming from visiting their site with out an adblocker.

This is due to the fact that ads can be hijacked and infect your computer with malware just by accessing the site.

I have also experienced my browser being hijacked by clicking a link that was compromized, it redirected my browser in a loop, then opened a javascript password popup box that took all focus from the browser window and refused to go away, while the page below displayed a message that I needed to call tech support.

It was very annoying to resolve, Firefox would by default restore any pages that was open in a tab if the browser crashed, and since the password prompt was stealing focus from the browser window, I had to kill it through the Task manager, which restored the page on start up…

I had to create a new profile, then it it solved it

Yeap, CCs are mostly BS.

Some poop releases methane, a much worse greenhouse gas than Co2.

Fun fact, when striking oil, you often encounter methane pockets as well, the gas is commonly just burned in a giant flare, this is mainly done for safety, to prevent gas from accumulating on the ground and risking an explosion, but also far reduce the greenhouse effect of the gas.

Hehe, I was really sad when it happened, but it was more than a decade ago (:

I then ran a Nokia 300/Nokia E72 combo for a while, and then a Nokia E72 for a few years untill I got an iPhone 5S

I used my first paycheck to buy myself an E7, less than a year later it was stolen ):

It was a gorgeous phone but DAMN slippery!

The 5800 was a nice phone, but for me the king of Symbian phones was the E7, I am still pissed mine got stolen ):

Loved the fold out keyboard, it made the phone absolutely amazing, I remember running Putty Touch on my E7, sshing into a friend’s server to access irssi and go on IRC.

Looked like such a hacker, and felt badass.

You don’t really need a self hosted app, you can write a sceipt to do the following:

1. Check if file X exists.
2. If file X does exist, delete it
3. If file X doesn’t exist, delete directory Y

Then create a new scheduled task to run the script every week.

The result is that you have a deadman switch with a weeks delay

Unless you recreate file X every week, directory Y will be deleted.

This is a very simplistic example, but it would be decently difficult to figure out.

I am a hobby photographer and usually take a few hundred GBs of photos every year (I shoot in JPG+RAW), I have other media as well, but I am mainly concerned about my photos.

I have them currently saved to a single HDD in my computer, which has worked ok, but I have seen bitrot in some files…

So I was reliable storage, currently thinking of a zraid1 with four normal disks, one parity, one hot spare and one cold spare, I am looking for it to last a minimum of ten years with normal maintenance.

I will probably put 64GB ram in the server, and possibly an SSD cache over time

I am currently building a home server, this project timeline has been extended as I had no idea hard drives would be THAT expensive at the capacities I want…

I do have an old computer that is not in use, but I don’t want to run a Bulldozer plattform…

So I am basing my new server on the AMD Ryzen 4600G, should be fine

You absolutely can judge your own behavior when you are impaired, I have done that plenty of times and decided that I needed a break when driving plenty of times.

The issue is that you are a worse judge of your own behavior when impaired, so you need to take that into account

Fair point.

I suddenly got very tired today when driving, and noticed my car drifting out of lane as I was unfocused, I was far from home, didn’t have any snacks or anything.

Luckily I found a place to park soon after, pulled over, and rested for 20 min or so.

Tiredness can come sudden, it doesn’t mean you should loose your license as long as you can deal with it in a safe manner.

I have never ridden a Tesla, and I plan on requesting a non Tesla car from now on when I have to take a taxi.

Cars in general, Teslas in particular, should have a standardized blackbox data recorder that third parties can open and access the logs, we have had this kind of tech on aircrafts for many decades.

It is terrifying that Tesla can just say that there was no relevant data and the investigative agency will just accept that.

I remember watching an episode of Air Crash Investigations, where a plane crashed, and they could not find an immediate cause, but the flight data recorder was able to be analysed far back, way before the accident flight, and they noticed that a mount for the APU turbine had broken many flights earlier, and the APU had broken free during the flight, causing the crash.

It is not Tesla’s job to tell the investigators what is relevant and not, it is Teslas job to unlock all data they have and send it to the investigators, if they can’t or won’t, then Tesla should lose the right sell cars in Europe

The only way I have seen people actually make money with crypto is through luck.

I maintain that crypto should only be used as a hobby, nothing more.

Interesting, I have to look into that, I am taking it slow, and will buy storage drives over a few months to spread the cost out, so I have time to think about it

I am also working on building a new NAS, I didn’t realize it was going to be so damned expensive though…

Currently I am thinking of going for ZFS with six drives, four pure storage, one parity and one hot spare, I would also need another drive as a cold spare…

I am interested in ZFS due to it’s bitrot protection, I have already seen some of my photos affected by bitrot…

Answer to the title question:

First place: Japan
Second place: Sweden

Hummm, they should line the walls will geothermal energy pipes, and re use the heat to heat something useful, like a public pool

KF?

I have heard about the “evolve or die” concept in business, this seems more like “devolve and die while taking everyone else with you”.

When did the US start to enjoy paying for more petrol?