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@Cacotopos @aurynn Nothing fundamentally, though with most providers this would be significantly cheaper to recover from (typical industry pricing for traffic is $1-$5 per TB depending on datacenter and quality of connectivity), and you'd need unambiguously-illegal-DDoS levels of traffic wasting to reach amounts of money like this

(Most providers would also suspend your network connectivity or server above a certain threshold instead of automatically billing - that wouldn't prevent the attack, just reduce the level of surprise a bit)

something i dont think people really get is that when development of a game is say, 80% finished you don't have 80% of a game, you have 0% of a game and 80% of the disparate parts that would make up a game if they were actually 100% done and put together

frustration, tech industry and academia 

If you've ever wondered why I do not value academia highly as an institution for technical innovation, this is a pretty good example of why.

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Emergency housing needed for tonight in Jackson Michigan 

Is there literally anyone that can house my partner for one night in jackson michigan the place he has been staying cant house him after last night and the person that was going to take him and help cannout for a few days please reply to this post if you can help and i will get you in contact with him Please its going to be below 25f tonight and he has nowhere to stay and shelters are full
he is literally willing to sleep in a garage if need be
#emergencybegpost #begpost

frustration, tech industry and academia 

So fucking typical. I am so sick of this happening over and over again to what could have been interesting resilient/community tech.

"Roofnet, a real mesh network deployment [...] Open participation without central planning [...] No central control over topology [...] Roofnet's technology formed the basis for Meraki, a mesh networking startup founded by members of MIT's Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group. Meraki was acquired by Cisco Systems in 2012. [...] Since then, Meraki discontinued this public service, though many access points remain active, but with no connection to the Internet. [...] Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Their products include wireless, switching, security, enterprise mobility management (EMM) and security cameras, all centrally managed from the web."

What would a computing environment look like that simply didn't support proprietary code on a technical level?

@Dee I immediately started looking on that picture for the blown capacitor, because that is usually the reason people post close-ups of PCBs and I hadn't noticed the thread context

AGAB, subpost but this time it's on main 

I'm tired of people using AMAB (assigned male at birth) and AFAB (assigned female at birth) as a glorified replacement for MTF (male to female) and FTM (female to male)

the latter terms are much more obviously bad but people still keep using the former ones like they're somehow also good

like by AGAB (assigned gender at birth) do you mean:

people perceived as "biologically X" (note: does not necessarily match assigned gender)
people raised as a certain gender
people with certain genotypes (chromosomes and genes contained within them)
people with certain phenotypes (secondary sex characteristics)
people with certain genitals or reproductive organs
I'm not listing everything

like you're oversimplifying in the same harmful ways cis people do, so, stop

a few others while we're at it: the opposite of AMAB is not AFAB, and vice/versa (not all people are forced to conform to a binary gender at birth)

if you find yourself using any term as a substitute for "biologically X", then you're doing what cis people do, and you should stop. do use these terms to point out the way that cis people oppress, but don't use them as if they're actually representing any meaningful class of people, because I promise to you that any perceived benefit is not worth it

OH: "in nixos you write little fanfics about the computer you wish you had"

I’m so fucking tired of “click your AI mouse on this AI button to receive an AI generated web page from our AI that does AI things to use AI on the AI Internet computer with AI”

@someonetellmetosleep@queer.party @thibaultmol I don't think that would fix the startup time issue?

@someonetellmetosleep@queer.party @thibaultmol It reloads the tabs on start, but only loads the page content of the currently-focused ones, the rest remain unloaded. No Auto Tab Discard though.

@tastytea@very.tastytea.de (Err, to clarify, that's a general suggestion for train tickets anywhere, I haven't used them for Poland yet but so far every single country I've tried them with has worked)

@tastytea@very.tastytea.de I've found Rome2Rio to give decent estimates, though they are not always 100% accurate (and sometimes it requires clicking through to the actual ticket booking to get the exact price)

Tussen de 73.000 en 175.000 huishoudens in Nederland lopen het risico op vervoersarmoede, becijferde onderzoeksinstituut TNO deze week. Dat betekent dat je door te hoge brandstofkosten en weinig openbaar vervoer in jouw buurt niet overal kan komen, zoals het ziekenhuis of andere voorzieningen. Ook kun je soms een baan niet aannemen die je eigenlijk wil graag zou willen. Pointer liet eerder al zien wat dit voor mensen betekent:

#pointer #TNO
pointer.kro-ncrv.nl/vervoersar

storing the delay of db trains in minutes in an u64 just to be sure...

What would a computing environment look like that simply didn't support proprietary code on a technical level?

So, I'm sure this is a thing, but I know nothing.
I'm looking for a fictional historical account of how the world would be if the English, and specifically only the English, never colonized the Americas. Everyone else who did is allowed.
It's just something I've been thinking about recently for some reason.
#bookstodon

@someonetellmetosleep@queer.party @thibaultmol Varies from a couple hundred to about 7k max (above that, Firefox starts just breaking)

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