I never had an Twitter-Account but lurked around a couple of interesting Hashtags sometimes. Never though enjoyed it.

I can not remember when I last used X.

Totally irrelevant now. Reddit... okeyish. Lemmy... partially worse than Reddit, Mastadon... maybe I was there by accident sometimes. In fact I am using the discussion forums of Youtube a lot lately.

Every Pi Zero for $5 can do 4k. There simply is no technological reason for offering a seperate 2k version.

FTP is an outright horrible protocol and should die as fast as possible!

It uses an utterly stupid separation between command and data channel, rooted in a time far before the internet even remotely became what it is today.

it is overloaded with old burdens and has an atrociously lousy structure.

It depends on a shitload of outdated libraries and frameworks.

It scales HORRIBLY!

Fixing all that is wrong with FTP would basically create a totally new protocol. We don't need a new protocol.

alt.ftp.die.die.die

I personally like Prodigy and Strange New Worlds. I like Star Trek Prodigy for being an actual child-friendly series with moral, good story and likeable characters (unsure about Kate Mulgrew and a bit too much deus ex machina though), in short, a ton better than the Star Wars Kids shows.

Strange New Worlds on the other hand feels a bit like a cross over between TOS and TNG in a competent sense. Guess what, you have characters which aren't totally incompetent crybabies, psychopaths or angst filed backstabbers.

Oh and Lower Decks. First nude shower scene in an all-gender shower. Lower Decks is what Orville tried to do and Orville is what Discovery tried to do. Discovery on the other hand... tried to emulate the Tele Tubbies and utterly succeeded.

> I thought that region encoding, etc. was handled by the drive's firmware, not the software playing it.

It works both ways. DVD-Region locking requires a DVD firmware able to count the region changes. Many modern drives, especially from Lite-On, can be set back to non-Region Code.

In addition the licence for the codecs requires the software (eg VLC) to also count region changes. Which actually noone cares about any more as there are no commercial licences left and VLC simply has no licence and therefore no requirement to fullfil its requirements.

Having lived through the 1970ths I have to agree, there was some consent about high potential of an ice age over the next 100-200 years. That thesis even made it into popular media quite a lot.

This was mostly based on older finding from back to the 1930ths when climate scientists where mostly focused on older small ice ages like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which repeated regularly.

But as one can see in the linked Wikipedia this should be of the table for good. People back then simply didn't fully account for human intervention. Look, back in the 1930th total industrial output of the world was like 5% of today and there were like 2 billion people instead of 8 billion. It simply was another time.

Guys, the 1930ths are a century away, the 1970ths half a century away. They are basically the dark medieval age of climate science.

The absurdity of all of this:

Germany has giant deposits of uran, coal, fracking-gas and fracking-oil.

They just don't use any of it.

> - no compression build in

  who cares? PDF, JPG, ZIP are already compressed and I don't see any real need to compress other small files.

> - converts the 8bit to 7bit, usually by base64, actually increasing the file size by a good percentage
>- the emails are many times stored in the plain text format, so also waste disk in both in the local sent and remote inbox

  Again, who cares about 20% overhead in the age of the Websites preloading Javascript-Code in the 100MByte range for a simple Guest Book?

> - no dedupe, so you end with the same file multiple times, even worse because emails clients today like to quote everything and keeping all attaches when replying

  Honestly I do not know any relevant communication protocol having effectivve deduplication.

> - the smtp server tries to send, but the other side may not accept that big file, ending being rejected and bounce back to the user

  Which is a simple act of sending an envelope with some hundred bytes of data. No resources wasted in current All-in-Connect-SMTP-enviroment. Back when mail was actually routed that was really bad but nowadays it just means the server in the next room tells youo after a second it can not send the data.

> there is no valid standard for that max size, the old unofficial standard was 10mb, but each server can use whatever they want... but others may choose a different value, so it is not reliable to increase it

  True. But name one alternative which does this better. At least it leaves the choice to the administrator.

> - if the remote server timeouts, gets out of disk space, whatever, the all email will be re-transmitted, there is no resume, no fallback... so yes, i already seem many times huge emails timeout day after day and waste a huge amount of bandwidth

  Honestly, in 30 years of using email I haven't seen this more than once or twice. And Email was my mail business.

> - the same for receiving, pop3 or imap, you have basically the same problems... cloud email is https for the client, but still stores the email in the 7bit expanded version and still have not deduplication nor compression (at least for the user quota, the backend may really have some tricks hidden)

  Are there really any Webmailers transmitting the binary data in base64 over HTTP? Doesn't make any sense at all.

> - if you send a 200MB file to 200 persons, you will in worse case transfer that file 200 times too

  Actually: No. Carbon-Copy transfers copies in a very efficient way, basically only sending it once per target domain and in case of routed SMTP maybe even only one copy for several domains, no matter how many people are inside those domains.

> - again, it is almost impossible to change the smtp, you have a huge amount of old servers that will never change their config or software versions, and so break any attempt to fix the issue

  SMTP alias the MTA is very easy to expand. Only the MUAs tend to be a big pile of crap, especially if they are from Microsoft. Using MIME you could do all sorts of shit but eg Outlook, mostly Outlook tbh, simply says "fuck you" to standards.

> So this compared with something like a webdav, that is basically a https file share, 8bit native and that can be access by browser OR mounted by all OS, just
> like a USB driver, well, smtp is a bad way to transfer files, it is much better to send a email with the webdav or cloud storage url than to attach the file

  WebDAV is as much an alternative to SMTP as the London Speakers Corner is an Alternative to a drivers licence.

>you may say that bandwidth is not a problem, but not all people have high speed internet connection and again, everything compared with something like https download, webdav or cloud storage, email is still a bad way to transfer files

Well, we are talking about 20% overhead at best. Even Slashdot loads like 15MBytes of useless Javascript-Crap for EVERY SINGLE Page. I won't care if my JPGs grow by 0,5MByte in an email therefore.

Currently I have a limit of 1 GByte per Email on my personal SMPT-Server. I run it all by myself and don't have to argue with anyone about it.

I have been using this limit for like 15 years.

Before I had 64k from 1990 to 1995 due to software limits of the FTSC vs UUCP protocol. But back then it wasn't too bad because we could use "File-Echos" to transfer binary files along instead attached to mails and those had exactly NO limit at all. So technically I could link as many files as I could put into the email without any size limit at all - in theory several thousand files with each filling out entire hard drives. Only when I went full UUCP/SMTP I was faced with new limits of around 1MByte.

On my own servers I quickly raised that limit to 16, then 100, then 1000GByte over the next 15 years and then kept it another 15 years until today.

I once considered raising the limits even beyond 1GByte but never found a real use for it.

Also, SMTP and IMAP scales pretty bad at large sizes, a single 1GByte mail can nearly lock up a pretty beefy modern system for several seconds.

> Environmentalists calculate that It produces about half the CO2 levels as natural gas plants

And that straight forwards is a dirty lie by the moscow payed Anti-Nuclear-Church. Ask for evidence and they usually quote some pretty weird sites doing totally fake calculations.

The only relevant CO-Emission from a nuclear plant are created while building the infrastructure. And that is miniscule in comparison to oil, gas and even wind and photovoltaic. Not joking.

Uh, toying around with Blizz Basic will not result in good Amiga Games. You might something gamy but not what really made the Amiga stand out.

Check this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Some of that stuff was so far ahead you couldn't do it on a PC until 20 years later.

And just to make sure, the Amiga WAS a great system. From 1985 to 1995 no money in the world could get you a better overall computer. And I claim that it took at least a 2x2Ghz PC running XP to really beat it in most aspects. Honestly, I never understood why people back then were willing to pay ten times more for a lousy Mono-Mac, Textmode-PC. The only computer even comming close was the Atari ST and that one was only better in niche applications.

If looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck it is most likely a duck.

And if it openly denies being a duck, then it is a russian duck.

Tanks are not about armor but about weapon plattforms. Show me anything else which is able to pump out 120mm shells at hardened, hidden targets.

I might be willing to discuss if the MBT is outdated even though I doubt that. But that would still leave the IFV and APC relevant. Not too mention SPGs..

In fact for the current russian army casualties to fatalities ratio is 2:1 because their field surgery is rather mediocre. But then this would be still 14k deaad and 28k wounded, totalling 42k.

And btw, the 14k-number was first mentioned two weeks ago. After that russia, ukraine and NATO never updated the numbers again. I guess the numbers are now somewhat higher.

The Absurdity of the situation is the following:

As long as a criminal investigation is backed up by a court order, you are allowed to do even more in many EU states than in the USA. And there really are judges 24/7 in the EU who can approve an investigation. And they do. Even if the application comes from the USA. As long as it is justified, it is an administrative act of 15 minutes.

And even if these 15 minutes are not available, self-defence or danger of collusion apply, in which case an application can be granted retrospectively. Self-defence and danger of collusion are much broader than in the USA. So why not just agree on the interchangeability of judicial orders and have everything go smoothly, simple as that.