Insurance never covers damages from war, because that’s a good way to bankrupt the insurance company. Even they don’t have infinite money.

I was skeptical, but the source checks out.

Luminet, J.-P. (1979). “Image of a spherical black hole with thin accretion disk”. Astronomy & Astrophysics. 75: 228–235. Bibcode:1979A&A…75…228L

I have a very similar setup (Vive + 4070) working under Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The only special workaround was to install Steam natively, downloading directly from Valve instead of using the Snap provided by Canonical. Aside from that, everything worked immediately right out of the box.

OK, now explain why you can’t find a decent ISP in a major American city. (That’s right, it’s because of monopolies and enshittification.)

Counterpoint: Every developer should have to test their app on a machine with 1 GB of RAM and a dialup modem before inflicting their bloat on the rest of the world.

Strictly speaking, there are also do-not-angles.

JAQing off

Were you talking to John Carmack or John Connor?

What? This is a press release from the California Attorney General literally taking about what they are doing in court right now.

How do you go from that to “thEy’Re DoiNg NothIng”?

That’s why every good library or bookstore has a cat.

They want US$7,000 for a chair and some monitor support arms? I want to try one, but not that much.

Why would they name it “Visio”? That is already the name of a different Microsoft product.

This is just for city of Los Angeles, which is a small portion of Los Angeles county, let alone the entire state of California.

NVR = Network Video Recorder. It’s the box that has the hard drive(s) to record all the video streams coming in from the cameras over WiFi or Ethernet.

I have a Reolink setup that’s entirely air-gapped. No app required, just configure everything through the NVR unit.

As a wise man once said, “If it bleeds, we can kill it.”

Jokes aside, I have been blocked many times by overzealous email validation. Yes, my email has a plus sign in it. This is allowed under RFC5322, so deal with it. It is better to have no validation at all than incorrect validation.

The sign in the right says “bees”, but the picture shows a creature with eight legs, two body segments, and no wings. That’s no bee, that’s a spider!

Ah, the classic “all eggs in one basket” strategy.

A lot of open-source software uses copyleft licenses like GPL. If a company uses that code to build its own products, then some or all of their new code may also become open source. This is an important part of how open-source projects stay open. Organizations like FSF have taken big companies to court over this and won.

AI companies trained their slop-generators on that open-source code. In many cases, it will reproduce it line-for-line. But courts currently hold that the generated code is no longer subject to the original copyright restrictions. It’s nearly impossible to publish open-source software without being scraped for AI training.