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>I ran local experiments with Minio, SeaweedFS, and Garage. My primary objection to all of them was the operational complexity


Out of the listed options, Garage is actually really simple for something that runs on multiple servers. It was also the only easy option I found that can replicate over WAN and isn't super latency sensitive.

If you swap in the extension cable head, that does indeed have a ground pin, at least in Australia anyway. The grounding comes from that metal ring that the connector uses as a guide. https://www.apple.com/au/shop/product/mw2n3x/a/power-adapter...

only two prongs of which make it through. Usually the regulation as I understand is that it's fine if you can prove the case can never get in contact with anything electric, for most laptops that's just being made of plastic.

As has been established in other threads here, the metal button thing the prongs slide onto is an earth connection.

Just take an apple charger and a multimeter, try to find a path to ground from the computer side, I'll wait. Plugs have regulations on how they can be built which are different from how they must be connected.

> only two prongs of which make it through

The big recess above the pins is what encases the button of the charger and provides grounding if it includes metal strips. Assuming the charger itself has a metal button.

In the EU a grounded cable has been the default forever (I have a grounded cable from my 2010 MBP which I use as travel cable for my 2021 MBP)


Cancelled my YT Premium and just installed SmartTube on my TV instead.

My previous blocker was that there was no (easy) way to bypass ads when I was using an AppleTV, so I just started using the Android side of my TV.


https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47527015

Spoiler alert: it's still LVDS


With Ofcom I'd say the UK falls into that group nicely.


At least now I'll be able to view all those broken Imgur links here in the UK.


>Japan disallows many forms of such loot boxes due to addictive nature.

Crazy to say this when they've basically pioneered and perfected gacha games.


Both things are true, though.

The fact that gacha games are so popular is _why_ they had enough attention to explicitly ban the most toxic patterns at the time. [1]

There's an interesting question of how far to push the bans, though - "in theory" your goals should probably be "don't let people prey on addictive behaviors" and "minimize people impulse buying more than they can afford", but the latter especially is...very hard to make an empirical rule for, and then you get into logistics like people just making additional accounts to get around it...

[1] - http://www.vg247.com/2012/05/18/kompu-gacha-freemium-systems...


I'll chime in and say personally I do this all the time and have never experienced a system crash from this.


So what?

They achieved their goal of digitising their family videos and allowing their siblings to view them in a coherent way, which they very likely would not have been able to accomplish without the help of AI. Not without like triple the time investment.

They aren't releasing a product here, it's bespoke software which serves the exact purpose they need it to. This is exactly what AI is good for.


Perhaps because the admins of archive.org don't go around DDoSing random blogs I'd reckon.


Instead they execute source page JS and allow it to doctor the archive copy.


Sure, but in this case they definitely are a hacker still since they did write code to achieve this.


The comment I am responding to says that people should be amenable to lockpicking because it’s “hacker” news. But he’s using the wrong meaning of hacker. So the argument doesn’t hold.


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