Or information on the murder of their whistleblower.

It's odd how every time I need to look at a Vimeo it stutters and buffers like it's 1997 no matter what device, OS, or network I'm on.

Literally the only video site that this happens to me. I thought it was my DSL line back in 2009 but home gigabit has been a thing for a while and oddly similar results.

If I understand what TFS is saying, check out The Why? Files for an example of what people like in a show with good production values (it did have a Midjourney rough patch).

"True Crime" seems lame to me but I'm not a chick so that doesn't matter.

"The Telepathy Tapes" is an investigative series that blew up the Internet.

This sounds like the NPR dweebs realized that their product was popular due to scarce distribution. Now distribution is democratized and listeners have choice.

People have long reported that taking a B vitamin supplement keeps mosquitoes away.

Beer drinking is well known to deplete B vitamins.

Consider that you might be dietarily or genetically deficient in B's. It's probably not your haircut or magnetic personality. ;)

I like Life Extension's Two-Per Day. Good blend, cheap for the potency.

I would have bought at 5.2mm.

The case adds 6.1mm so how can they excuse a gargantuan 5.6mm?

You're sitting on it wrong.

It's weird how the CIA LifeLog project got shut down a week before Facebook commenced operations.

So many coincidences.

> Seriously though... how do you propose we "just do the encryption yourself" in this case? The IOS app doesn't even have an option to export chat history.

I agree - most of my Signal friends can't manage to do backups and their safety number frequently changes when they drop their phone in the toilet. Not something that's happened to me, but wow, it's common. This breaks the assumed security model.

That said, I use Android and my nightly backups are copied by Syncthing to another device most nights. I keep the restore key somewhere safe under multiple other keys.

It's not too hard for techies but it's too hard for normies.

IMO Signal found an excellent solution to the overall security model of its ecosystem. I was asked to teach a Signal backups howto at an event next year and this probably obviates the need. That's good!

> And please, stop with the microplastics while you're at it.

I get it but I'm glad I learned that most chewing gum is made of polyethylene now, so I've stopped using it.

I would not have been chewing it if I knew it was plastic and not tree resins.

Amazingly the FDA Act was first passed to make labeling mandatory. Now FDA allows manufacturers to lie and hide ingredients.

This is what happens when you ignore the Tenth Amendment.

> As for the "death of culture", if Red Hat relies on HR for its culture, they don't have much to lose.

It's not "relies on" it's "actively destroyed by".

The massive civil rights violations by Redhat/IBM HR are the subject of multiple lawsuits and DoJ actions now. Other tech press sites cover them frequently.

I pulled the cord on Redhat when they broke BIND in an update and ignored a community fix (which was posted to rhbz in a day or two) for about a year. IIRC they said if you want this fixed in distro (was it EL6 or Fedora?) get a contract and talk to your support person. It was clear to me that the Redhat I'd installed over Slackware twenty years earlier was gone.

Little did I know that they were in talks with IBM at that point.

On the plus side I learned Puppet first to distribute that patch to multiple machines. Ironically Puppet seems to have gone the same way so I've got OpenVox on my winter TODO now. The pattern predicts IBM will buy Puppet. ;)

JPEG XL is actually pretty cool.

Can replace most non-video image file formats, smart psychovisual modeling, fast, and not threatened by Nokia patents.

Somehow I thought for a while that is was basically JPEG 2000, but that was very wrong. Much more comprehensive and a modern pedigree.

Google seems to have NIH flu about it.

https://cloudinary.com/blog/ho...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...

Yes, you send your packet to the next router and it decides which router to send it to next.

But BGP is how the core routers decide which router to send it to next.

Roughly Microsoft can say "hey, this IP block is over here" with a BGP announcement. If everything is set up right the IP's that were in Herzliya a minute ago could be in Estonia in a few minutes. Hopefully redundancy and failover was properly configured.

Oh, there are some Boomers on here.

Watch: PDP-8

Essays in replies.

The Luddites fear atomic energy and everything else they don't understand.

There may be good reason to fear technology you do understand but that's a separate issue.

They also hate the idea of cleaning up the nuclear waste our grandparents left us, which really is our moral imperative.

Whenever a simple metric is used to grant money and status that metric will be gamed and abused.

Hiring committees could be less lazy and more curious but that would take real thought and effort.