HDHomerun is the commercial solution that is relatively painless assuming you have something that can run a client that supports it

Open source, you probably want to look at tvheadend and a USB DVB-T tuner (hauppauge still make decent ones I believe) attached as the next most straightforward option, it can take a little bit to get set up but it’s pretty seamless once it is. Same caveat about clients

They just spent £1.3bn on building that office

Even the most egregious caricature of a union buster is gonna baulk at throwing that investment away

I prefer the gnu 2-in-1, in order to have a different implementation to the BSD version they optimised for speed over space.

The lengths people will go to, to not visit their local library smh

Polling has been getting increasingly worse for decades now.

Their accuracy died with the monoculture and no amount of multilevel regression and post-stratification seems to compensate for that

Not just the government

Yes, that’s why it’s in Office

Mullvad is based in Sweden and is the main interest of its seemingly decent, also Swedish, parent company

Enjoy some related vaporwave:

Sunday Television | 猫 シ Corp. https://catsystemcorp.bandcamp.com/album/sunday-television-2

Edit: typo

The engineers and managers at NASA are not stupid, and they are not cavalier with astronaut’s lives. They’ve read the Rogers Commission and CAIB reports, and many of them remember Challenger and Columbia firsthand. But they exist in a context.

That context is a moon program that has spent close to $100 billion and 25 years with nothing to show for itself, at an agency that has just experienced mass firings and been through a near-death experience with its science budget. The charismatic new Administrator has staked his reputation on increasing launch cadence, and set an explicit goal of landing astronauts on the Moon before President Trump’s term expires in January of 2029.

I really don’t think it’s a stretch to say the first thing isn’t really a factor at all in why this is being rushed, this is 100% down to Trump wanting either a distraction or to be able to say “well I put someone on the moon”

Wait we’re two days early

Sorry yes, I meant that separate from the first point

I feel like BSDs being more over in the corpo-lib corner would make more sense just from a licensing perspective

If you’re memeing, hard to omit Red Star OS

I’m not sure if they’ve degraded, but I’ve got one of those CD-R spindles with a few disks left on it somewhere

I could burn a mix CD this afternoon if I felt like it?

Thing is if I gave half of the people I know a mix CD I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t actually have a means of listening to it

Yes of course

But every single scrap of information in Wikipedia exists somewhere else

Its value is twofold and exclusively these two when you boil everything down:

• It is enough information to answer any question that has an empirically known answer
• It is available to anyone on the planet with ease and without cost

There’s very little else we’ve created that hits both of those, but the second is by far the most important.

Already got a copy on my NAS, I update it every year or two when I remember to.

But you’ve missed the point, my personal access to a Wikipedia text snapshot is not equivalent to the free access of information to everyone. The information just existing somewhere isn’t enough.

And anyway a person can’t practically keep their own copy of the Internet Archive. It takes up something like a quarter of an exabyte

I feel like this has been one of my soapbox things for a while now, but

Americans, the Internet Archive and Wikipedia stand as two of the biggest contributions to human knowledge preservation in all of history. To lose either would be a huge backslide for us as a civilization, and it never really seemed like a genuine threat until recent events over there.

I know there’s a lot of other shit going on right now, but you must do what you can to ensure both are able to continue their work.

I more meant now they’re not being made because Micron recently killed the Crucial brand to focus supply towards data center customers

TBF that is a crucial ram stick in the picture, those are rare shinies now

You know what’s really stupid about this

Notepad existed for decades, resisting the general trend of Microsoft software, and it continued to do one thing, and do it well (for the purposes of this argument, let’s not get started on line endings)

If someone wanted to do more than just view text files, there was wordpad, a stripped down word processor, that would have been the perfect application to add support for markdown to.

Except they killed it, because enough people must have realised that the word processor bundled with the OS did everything they needed without having to pay Microsoft a subscription for Word.

So now Microsoft is trying to turn notepad into the rudimentary word processor that people expect to come with their OS, destroying the aspect that made it useful