Sure guy.

I don’t want to have to completely redo my whole email stack.

Well, yeah.

Oh wow. AFAIK Boston’s is the oldest one in North America, more than a century old now.

Yeah, the red line is, IMO, Boston’s best line. But, that was also partially based on where I mostly travelled. But, I imagine the red line probably receives a bit more attention than the other lines because it’s the line that serves Harvard and MIT.

And you sound like someone who wants to be able to run red lights without consequences.

They have speed and traffic light cameras made by the same companies and they are pushing them out indiscriminately.

Who’s “they”?

Also why should that company get money if someone speeds or goes through a red light?

Around here, the company doesn’t get money. The fine is sent by the government and the government gets paid. I don’t know why it’s different for you, sounds like you need to change your government.

I made this point in another comment, but these cameras send you bills instead of tickets

Maybe where you live, not where I live.

the T was lightyears ahead of the Dublin metro system.

Wow, Dublin’s metro must suck. Boston’s subway is good by US standards, but it’s one of the worst of any major city I’ve been in elsewhere. The Green Line is more a tram than a subway line, and has that horrible tight turn under Park Street. For a city the size of Boston it has a decent number of different subway lines, but the whole system is old and poorly maintained.

One of the interesting things about Boston is that the average person you bump into doesn’t have the typical Boston accent. There are too many immigrants, international students, etc. for that accent to dominate. But, certain jobs: postal worker, cop, firefighter, public transit worker, etc. that mostly hire locals. So, your announcements on the T are mostly always done with a strong Boston accent.

Boston has better food than your average city. It’s a relatively rich city, which helps. More importantly, it has something like 40 universities in and around that area, and many of them cater to international students. So, you get all kinds of interesting ethnic foods from around the world. Boston also has a small Chinatown, but it has great food. It also has a lot of Brazilian immigrants, so it has restaurants catering to Brazilians.

Some of my favourites:

• Muqueca is Brazilian, but not typical exported Brazilian like meat on swords.
• Peach Farm Seafood in Chinatown
• Penang Malaysian Cuisine in Chinatown

The photo shows a traffic light enforcement, not speed enforcement.

There’s a road near me that has an unnaturally slow speed limit enforced by a camera. That’s a bit annoying. But, it also has red light cameras nearby. Those are great. I really don’t care what someone’s excuse is: I was distracted, I thought I could make the yellow, the light was taking too long… if you think you really do have a valid case, talk to the judge.

Red light cameras may not be effective at making streets safer. But, they’re nearly 100% effective at making people who run red lights pay fines. The first one would be amazing, but I’m happy to settle for the second one.

For people who blow through traffic lights.

The ones around me have a flash that goes off when it’s dark out and someone runs the traffic light.

If they can only get a clear picture with a flash, it’s pretty obvious they’re not continuously scanning cars, at least at night.

The camera only snaps a picture when people blow the traffic light. If everybody obeyed the traffic lights then nobody would ever get their car’s picture taken with the camera.

Web services, and then various components of an email system.

I’m using automated renewals.

But, that just means there’s a new cert file on disk. Now I have to convince a half a dozen different apps to properly reload that changed cert. That means fighting with Systemd. So Systemd has won the first few skirmishes, and I haven’t had the time or energy to counterattack. Now instead of having to manually poke at it 4x per year, it’s going to be closer to once a month. Ugh.

It’s not necessarily a “bulk storage” drive, it’s just not the main system drive. It would probably have less activity than the “C” drive, but other than the OS, plenty of other things might be installed on that drive. If it happens to be where someone installed their web browser, there could be plenty of churn there.

On some filesystems the data is still there but the filenames associated with it are gone or mangled. That makes it harder to recover things. In addition, while it’s true that the contents are only overwritten when you write data to the disk, data is constantly being written to the disk. Caches are being updated, backup files are being saved, updates are being downloaded, etc. If you only delete one file the odds are decent that that part of the disk might not be used next. But, if you nuke the entire drive, then you’re probably going to lose something.

Fucking ai agents and not knowing

Anything. They don’t know anything. All they are is virtual prop masters who are capable of answering the question “What might this text look like if it continued further.”