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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

Slack killed IRC integration mid 2018.

What exactly did Slack "allow" though? The continued existence of an ancient protocol with a niche but dedicated following of predominantly "old school" tech people?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Maybe. Or this will play out like Slack and IRC.

Initially, Slack integrated with IRC. Which was great! It meant I could use xchat to talk with folks, and could set up simple bots using standard IRC tools.

And then Slack killed that feature...but it absolutely didn't kill IRC, because die hard IRC users never cared about Slack in the first place.

My prediction is it'll be the same


what sort of people will be attracted to Threads vs a smaller "proper" instance? Probably the sort of people who would never consider a federated platform in the first place.

Just speculation and I could certainly be wrong...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 22 points 1 year ago

Other comment says there is a way from inside, just not outside (which doesn't help with a young kid/toddler/baby is the inside passenger of course).

Either way, glad this is "only" a huge embarrassment, and not a dead kid.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago

We really need to see info from the BIOS


exact CPU model, RAM speed, etc.

As others have pointed out, this is a pretty anachronistic build


i586 with DDR1 is just weird, so it's possible there's some really niche hardware and you may need an exotic kernel (or kernel options) to get anything to boot.

That said: have you just tried running a standard live or install CD from that time period? You could try booting a 2001 Slackware installer to see what happens.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Can you post the CPU info? I think it should be available from the BIOS.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 points 1 year ago

Basically sounds like the Tesla game plan, which was super effective: roadster (which is purely a toy for the rich) and a little later the Model S (practical EV), and then introduce an affordable model.

This implies that eventually people will strap rusty boxes to their head though, so grain of salt with the analogy...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 77 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers...

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I went with "cheap mikrotik router + cheap used enterprise APs (3x Aruba 325)," and I've been pretty happy.

What hardware you running for pfSense?

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've heard that RawTherapee is good, but not quite on the same level.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 9 points 1 year ago

I'd definitely recommend getting a credit report (not from the websites that advertise with an insane jingle, but from the actual credit bureaus


you're entitled to a free report). Mine had debt from a relative with a similar name; I was able to get that removed. They will also tell you in more detail what goes in to calculating it.

I agree that it's not perfect, and often very opaque, but you should be able to get some understanding of why she doesn't have good credit.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 40 points 1 year ago (10 children)

...except that it used to be that your ability to secure a loan was based on where you went to school, how firm your handshake was, and if you happened to have the right skin color and sex organs.

The current system certainly isn't perfect; and if you're denied a loan you have a legal right (in the US) to know the reason.

There are systemic issues, to be sure. But the nominal goal is absolutely better than what we used to have.

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