Dave.

Article talking about a little robot taking images of the lander, no images given.

So here’s an image of the faceplanted lander that I found in a 5 second search, because Gizmodo couldn’t be bothered to show it in the article, preferring to link to one of their other articles instead to get those juicy clicks.

< sad lander noises >

And the press release from the toy manufacturer’s website.

(Side note: I love Japanese websites. Their designs seem to be stuck in the late 90s., along with their floppy disks and fax machines)

You know what?

I’d love to hear a little “toot-toot!” and have a little train pull up outside my window, with my parcel on a carriage behind it.

Brave’s been making, uh, some controversial philosophical design choices lately.

I mean, they had some before, but now they also have a few more lately that have riled people up a bit.

I use them for a bit of coding leverage, and they require a fair bit of… not hand holding, but explicitness, maybe. Otherwise they wander down the path of statistical averageness, and the average code they saw during training was shit.

So they’ll happily serve up a pile of inefficient dogshit, complete with working tests and docs and all of that. And then they’ll happily refactor it at your suggestion to slowly turn it into something that’s resource friendly and generally secure and generally expandable.

But there’s no way for them to do that by themselves if you don’t have the basic domain knowledge to guide them in the right direction. You’ll just get average code, and once you’ve been in the game for a few decades, you realise that nice, efficient, quality code is the rarity, not the norm.

And last mile how?

Progressively smaller gauge railways, until your Amazon parcel arrives via a 1-inch track on the regular 3.15pm service from the end of your street.

TURBO PASCAL FOR LYFE

There was a good guide by Linuxbabe on building an email server from scratch with all the bits and pieces and antispam/email verification stuff you need to send mail to the big players, I used it a few years ago to do my server.

Here’s the collection of various guides for various ways to do it:

https://www.linuxbabe.com/category/mail-server

Yeah you also need a vps. Home addresses are pretty much all marked as spam generators these days, and most ISPs proactively block all the common inbound ports for mail servers.

I’m quite happy to use their compute power for frivolous bullshit if it hastens their enshittification and demise.

“Hey Claude, can you begin work on an e-commerce site written in visual basic?”

*Two microseconds later… *

“Your free usage limit has been reached”

“Ok Claude see you tomorrow, maybe we’ll think about a rewrite in Turbo Pascal”

Remember kids, never update software when the change log just says, “bug fixes and performance improvements 😎👍🎉”

Although Meta has their own internal update system that invisibly runs outside the normal channels, because fuck those people who disable auto update on their devices, right?

Been a while since I’ve done this kind of thing, but you should be able to create a pool of sockets primed with the first batch of IP addresses, then send the packets.

On reply or timeout, you don’t destroy the socket and create a new one. Instead you alter the connection information in the socket descriptor in the existing socket to point to the next address to check, and then go again.

Yeah, probably won’t even dismantle it, just bulldoze this 10 billion dollars into a pit and bury the lot. Then go spend another 10 billion on a shiny new tent+compute

If you’re not creating more than 800GB a day of new data you can just let it run with a faster drive as a buffer in front of it.

Or get 10 of them and run them in parallel. Maybe get 11 and throw in a bit of parity, just in case bitrot surfaces after the first 1000 years or something.

It’s often not possible on other operating systems. Especially the consumer versions of a certain operating system starting with “W”, that system will refuse to have duplicate IPs.

But essentially it’s always been possible (but, probably not preferred these days) to have redundant routes/paths on Unix systems. The way you have it now is more of a side effect of being able to do more complex network setups, like using different interfaces to talk to different subnets, or using a slow link as a backup to a fast link.

With your current setup you should get a slow failover ability, for example if you ping some other device and then unplug your Ethernet cable, you’ll have a bit of a pause in replies and then they will start again as the stack switches to the other link.

The “metric 600” on your Wi-Fi adapter indicates to the system that it is a higher cost route than your Ethernet one. So the IP stack will prefer sending packets out via the Ethernet port.

Local devices who haven’t heard from you lately will send to whatever device gives them a response to their ARP (“who has IP address X?”) request first, and seeing as Ethernet is lower latency than WiFi, they will mostly use your Ethernet adapter as their target when sending data to you.

Devices that have received data from you already will have the MAC address of your Ethernet adapter in their ARP table, so they’ll just send packets to that without bothering to issue an ARP request.

Devices off your subnet talk to your router, so they don’t care about your MAC address, they’ll just use IP to talk to your router, who will then do the ARP request and hand the packets on to your computer via whatever interface answers first.

Orrrr - and hear me out - maybe that rag-tag collection of state and federal governments you’ve got going on over there in the US should have a way of online filing that’s free?

You know, like how most civilised countries have been doing for the last decade or so.

Yes, they artificially limit the reach of your posts, and then you pay them to get more exposure. You can also pay to have your posts more visible to particular demographics.

And of course that payment is on a sliding scale, and no amount of money is enough to reach all of your target audience, and it’s also for a limited time window.

that has the potential to

Of course it has “the potential to”, that’s the whole fucking point of this change.

The compute hardware required to give you that obsequious-chatbot-on-demand is phenomenal. AI as a whole has been burning billions upon billions of dollars getting to these lofty heights where it’s alleged that everyone’s job is threatened, any day now.

And now’s the time to get to the other side of the equation, the dreaded return on investment, where people have to pay what it actually costs. Plus a modest amount for that actual return of course, that’s the thing that all those investors actually want.

Whether Microsoft has actually managed to get enough people hooked on the particular brand of crack they’re selling is questionable. In any case it’ll be fun to watch at least.

You’re a bit behind the times. adduser has been asking for your full name since the dawn of Unix.

Edit: and if you don’t put in your full name, how will people know who they’re fingering?!

There used to be a place at a local shopping center that was all glass and mirrors and was staffed by very serious young Asian men in sharp suits.

They sold - and only sold - boutique toffee apples.

Do not remove my spam

If I want to find something, I’ll look for it.

Don’t dump a truckload of unsolicited information in my inbox/workflow/field of view.

Otherwise you’re as bad as door to door religious folks. Oh yes, I’ve heard about Jesus, thanks. Now let me get back to what I was actually doing a few minutes ago before you begged for my attention.