Cold.

I really don't think most RAID implementations check data as it's read so won't catch random bit flips. It protects against known failed devices, which seem to be the majority of issues we see in practice.

RAID Z does check checksums if you are on ZFS.

The objective isn't to create happier healthier dogs, it's to create biological weapons from dogs.

To be fair they were also bumbling about incompetently when they did QA testing.

It's true. At best a VPN or firewall on a endpoint OS is a promise from that OS to behave correctly. A promise from Windows isn't worth much.

I fly 200ish flights a year so figure 70-80 nights away.

2025 was 100% hotels but 2019 was about 80% Airbnbs.

Airbnb will never get my business back. Ever. The professional scammer hosts are so good at finding a way to nail me for a fee. Iâ(TM)ve taken perfect check out video and still had to spend hours fighting fees.

Airbnb allowed making guests do it.

They lost so much money to hotels theyâ(TM)re banning hosts from requiring it.

I totally got that reference.

Wordpress being insecure has been a proven fact for a long time. But this PHP issue is something a bit more fundamental.

The claim that drupal powers 56% of government websites is repeated on a few sites. It seems to be from 2021. It doesn't have a credible source and seems to be false.

I hate clutter too, but if you turn all that off what does KDB have left that makes it better than anything else?

Personally I use sway. Everything stays out of my way. No start menu to complain about. The status bar is simple text and can be configured to display whatever I like in whatever format.

The price of memory also went up leaps and bounds recently.

Some intern got hold the source code and a Claude license and massively improved windoze.. We know from experience Microsoft programmers could not program their way out of a wet paper bag with scissors in their hands.

"I'll america you in your americaing america!" – Smurf Intelligence

How about avoiding those impacts in the first place? Or would that be un-American?

In other news, scientists are looking into geoengineering to cool our planet, so we can continue to drill-baby-drill until kingdom come.