Notices by Luna R (lunarood@mastodon.gamedev.place)

@hipsterelectron @dalias it's always so nice of them when they put the receipts right in their own readme! /hj

It sure saves us all a lot of time and effort.

@dalias @lanodan @annaaurora huh, fascinating! I guess it's just whatever we happen to have stumbled upon, because my intuition is exactly reversed!

I've come across various companies doing platter-level recovery commercially (i.e. not just in an academic setting), but I haven't really come across flash recovery.

That said, it's all super expensive, and I wouldn't rely on it. If hardware failure threatens data integrity, that generally points towards the storage being improperly configured.

@lanodan @dalias @annaaurora yeah, I agree regarding spinning disks in mobile devices. I touched on this elsewhere in the discussion as well.

@dalias well, fwiw, USB flash tends to be just about the least reliable storage medium we have nowadays!

In any case, no matter the medium, it's going to degrade over time, so there's no point in relying on the robustness of any particular storage device... if you want reliable uptime, you need RAID, and if you want data integrity, you need backups. There's just no way around this.

In my view, the only actual gain from solid state storage is performance, not reliability. So it's HDDs for me!

@annaaurora @dalias that's a fair point!

@dalias oof, around $90 per TB!? That's over 3x the cost of helium-filled mechanical drives, and even rivals the cost of high-end SSDs!

Is there a particular reason you want to go that route?

On an entirely unrelated note...

Behold my super clever plan for building a little storage server without spending much!

Out of touch things tech bros say #830635626148257: "Storage/RAM is cheap"

Just because storage and RAM cost you a fraction of the price of the other components in your gaming rig, doesn't mean those things are actually cheap!

Firstly, you're confused about relative cost vs absolute cost. Secondly, you're forgetting that not all computers are designed for the very same purpose.

@r @dalias it's so bad that depending on the lab, their request sheet may only include an option "T4 (if TSH is abnormal)", with no possibility of requesting T4 unconditionally... *sigh*

@whitequark I'm pretty sure the answer is no, sadly.

It looks like none of the violets are trans (some purples are though!). However, it's worth noting that there is Mx Violet! But they don't identify as trans.

Source: https://www.bricklink.com/catalogColors.asp

In a landmark 5-4 Supreme Court decision, the court has ruled that the equal protections conferred by the fourteenth amendment do not extend to women, overturning longstanding precedent established in Reed v. Reed.

The court held that the term "person", used in the constitutional text, cannot be assumed to have been intended to include women, citing a 6th century CE definition by Roman philosopher Boethius, which based personhood on rationality.

@janneke @Lana please, no!

FATCA is the reason why a non-US-citizen, who's never been to the US, who has no relation with the US, when creating an account at a non-US bank, in a country which is not the US, must check a box saying "I am not a US person".

So on top of the *severe* harms FATCA causes to US citizens all over the world, it also intrudes on everyone else's business. It's high time the US stops getting special treatment, now more than ever.

I find it fascinating that the response to the latest "outage" has been "ThE sUpPLy ChAiN!!!" rather than "WebPKI is a fundamentally broken mess".

Some impressive mental gymnastics going on among those who understood the incident and nonetheless reached this nonsensical conclusion.

I'm sure this has nothing to do with corporate interest permeating the discourse. /s

@dalias yep, I'm increasingly convinced of this!

I'm interested in building systems which reduce our reliance on corporate power and promote autonomy and agency of individuals on the internet. While reflecting on these ideas, I keep running into the need for DNS-based trust.

This is really fundamental to unlocking a bunch of stuff.

Omg, the timing on this!

I literally *just* learned that the current "sUpPLy ChAiN" drama is about... *Certificate Transparency*

I couldn't have made this post at a more fitting moment if I tried, and I didn't even know that something was going on! lmao

Now that ECH is happening, which implies SVCB... can we pleeeeease get DANE/TLSA and in-band DNSSEC in TLS?

In-band DNSSEC addresses the complaints from browsers about DNS queries, and SVCB could be a perfect solution to the downgrade issue with in-band DNSSEC.

Or better yet... just replace TLSA with an SVCB SvcParam, drastically simplifying the whole thing.

I have little hope, seeing as everyone seems to have gotten burned last time. A real shame, since the argument may as well be moot now.

@hipsterelectron @dalias @kopper "unless everyone hosts their own server" do you mean AP (or AP alternative) server, or do you mean identity server? If the latter, I'd tend to agree.

@whitequark @r yeah, that does not surprise me.

Though what does surprise me is that you presumably took that screenshot on a US-facing website? I wonder what iDEAL is doing there. Though I'm guessing that list is just not localised, judging by "Payment method may vary by country".

@r @whitequark yeah, was gonna say... Klarna is everywhere over here, and iDEAL, being NL specific, is niche af on a global scale.

@ivy @hipsterelectron @gwenthekween Yes! This is one of my primary criticisms of the currently available license options!

They simply do *not* do what they *appear* to do in plain English (and often what they appear to do differs wildly from person to person).

Licenses fundamentally *cannot* be useful to people, if they're can't be understood by people.