Neat. The potty mouth adds nothing.
Readit Newsscifi commented on Show HN: Smart email filters to unfuck your email unfuck.email... · Posted by u/kilroy123
The writing is hard to engage with—possibly trying to be funny, but it comes off as overly antagonistic. Phrases like “—presumably in a conference room with aggressively modern furniture—” feel distracting and undermine the point.
scifi commented on Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color support.microsoft.com/en-... · Posted by u/ShaneCurran
OK, but the article seems to focus on boot time and not performance afterward. During the netbook craze, it seemed like a big performance boost to remove a hi-res desktop in favor of a solid color. At least that's my recollection years later.
scifi commented on NSA can track powered-down phones boingboing.net/2025/01/28... · Posted by u/belter
OK, but to most folks reading this, the ads on that site probably invaded their privacy to a more substantial level than the NSA will.
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scifi commented on Ethernet History Deepdive – Why Do We Have Different Frame Types? lostintransit.se/2024/08/... · Posted by u/un_ess
(Intentional) jumbo frames at layer 2 and expanded MTUs at layer 3 are certainly available (as you may know). In fact it seems (I am, it should be obvious, not an expert) that using jumbo frames is more or less the common practice by now. There does in fact seem to have been some standards drama about this, too: I can't find it now, but IIRC in the '00s someone's proposal to extend the header protocols to allow the header to indicate a frame size of over 1500 bytes was rejected, and nothing seems to have been done since. At the moment it seems that the best way to indicate max. Ethernet frame sizes of over 1500 is an optional field in LLDP(!) https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/u... and the fall-back is sending successively larger pings and seeing when the network breaks(!) https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E36784_01/html/E36815/gmzds.html .
I'm not certain what my point is, but I wanted to mention that jumbo frames don't work over the Internet. More of a LAN thing.
scifi commented on Plane Barely Recovering from Spin in Mountains avweb.com/aviation-news/h... · Posted by u/asix66
The point is not that he merely continued flying, but that he made the same reckless decision to fly over the mountains a second time. Most people who have a close call on the road drive with more care afterward.
Possibly, heading over the pass was the return route to the airfield. (Pure speculation on my part.)
scifi commented on Daily Usenet Feed Size Hits 300TB newsdemon.com/usenet-news... · Posted by u/xhrpost
Serious question: why does anybody use Usenet for pirating rather than torrents?
It seems so fundamentally ill-suited to the task.
And if the answer has something to do with privacy or warnings from your ISP, it seems like VPNs would be the answer.
What am I missing?
Usenet, in my experience, is reachable through a variety of easy-to-use web-based providers. Easynews, etc... I agree that it's ill-suited in the sense that often the files are split into parts and often need re-assembing or other such work. But it's fairly trivial stuff that a user may already be familiar with. Other than that it's super easy. Torrents, at least in my experience are not so straightforward due to the required installation of a client. I think users are hesitant to install it on their machines. Just my take based on limited experience.
scifi commented on Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings (2019) ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... · Posted by u/Jaruzel
I just wanted to add something I didn't see mentioned in the article or the discussion. In the Christian tradition, figures are often portrayed with their pinky and ring fingers curled up, while the thumb, index, and middle fingers are extended. This is done to symbolize the holy trinity.
I work for a school. We reached out to So Cal Edison to ask what percent of the power they deliver comes from non-renewable. They said 40%.