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Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 263

You have a predictable blind spot with regard to the hundreds of local radio markets in the US, each broadcasting their own local stuff. There is nothing like the BBC as a primary national source of programming. Satellite radio wishes they were that influential, but the two companies had to merge into one. It's not possible to replace ground radio with satellite for those who want more than just music. There are some national talk radio shows, but those are individually contracted with each station, which may even decide to time-delay the content to put another show on at a given hour, and they also have to deal with four time zones.

As for the middle of Texas, in my limited experience they upgraded those towers away from 2G and 3G first. Of course you still won't get those magic 5G speeds that depend on being a few blocks away from the antenna.

Comment Re:Hell, No! (Score 1) 263

DIN slot radios were already killed off over a decade ago in the US by the requirement for back-up screens (with no requirement for a standard camera interface), because a few dozen soccer moms every year can't keep enough track of their kids, and run over them in the driveway. And all I get from that is a crappy rear view screen that is mush in the daylight (at least I still have mirrors), and having to buy a replacement factory radio off ebay (thankfully I could!) when the original LCD screen failed. At least the screen's UI is only for the "entertainment system", has nothing for driving the vehicle or running the AC, and has no satnav crap.

Next up is currently they want to mandate automatic brakes that suddenly engage when they freak out from a sensor glitch while you're on the freeway.

Comment Re:Go On, Take The Money & Run (Score 1) 74

Before Rockefeller purchased Congress and Standard Oil was made a permanent corporation, they only existed for limited times and for public purposes.

It would be crazy to create an unaccountable immortal entity, they knew, from the mercantalist Chartered companies of the King.

Corporate America is unAmerican.

Comment Re:About 82 million people still listen to AM radi (Score 1) 263

It's the National emergency information system.

For when cell goes down (again) or in a scenario where nrad hardened comms become necessary.

Assuming the existience of a nation state this is the least dumb car mandate.

That thing that kills starters and engines at stoplights is the opposite.

Technology

Is Self Hosting Going Mainstream? 132

An anonymous reader shares that IPv6rs has debuted a new one-click self hosting system: Everyone seemed like they were talking about self hosting, but we didn't understand why it wasn't more prolific. Thus, we conducted a survey to hear reasons. It turned out the two most common reasons were:

1. Lack of an external IP address 2. Too difficult to setup and maintain

Our service already solves the first issue. We set out with a self-hostathon to figure out what the blockers were in setting up and running a self-hosted server.
... writes IPv6rs on their blog. We needed to make things easier, so we created Cloud Seeder, a one click installer that instantly launches a fully encapsulated server appliance that is externally reachable.

At the time of launching, the current version of Cloud Seeder supports 20+ different appliances - from Mastodon which federates with Meta's Threads to Nextcloud which provides an enterprise-level, self-hosted alternative to the big-name collaboration suites.

It also automatically handles updates/maintenance.

We hope this will bring a new era to self hosting and, in turn, will bring the decentralized internet forest back.
Is the self hosting era making its return?

Comment Re:improvement? (Score -1) 299

Presumably since systemd runs as uid 0 run0 is just some glue code to tell systemd to run a process as uid0.

So on a systemd machine you get to throw out almost the entire sudo codebase which is redundant in that sense and has been a recurring attack vector.

But the bellyaching greybeard retards here will continue to get pwned because they refused to ever learn anything new after their brain got old and now they're hopelessly behind.

It sounds like if you need LDAP etc you just keep using sudo.

Comment Re:AND IN "NO SHIT, SHERLOCK" NEWS.... (Score 1) 46

They were popular but they were famously bug-ridden and unstable. Nobody misses Windows 95 or XP, btw.

Hell, NT was the first moderately stable OS they had, and that was just because someone had the bright idea to halt new feature development for a period of time and focus on fixing what they already made.

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