Microsoft continues to outdo itself as the best advertisement for migration to Linux.

Above or below the equator?

That would be funny.

Did someone from another table take a group photo at your request?

Apparently we had umami fries with erotic mayonnaise last night. Might have to tell the chef to update their menu.

Around the turn of the century I built a “middleware” layer for an Oracle to MySQL bridge which enabled legacy systems to keep running while modern and open source tooling could be built.

The biggest challenge was moving from columnar to row based data … that and compiling Solaris tools using Oracle libraries.

Oracle is like sendmail, user friendly, just very picky whom it makes friends with.

I’m getting flashbacks to debugging an Oracle connection file.

Indian national Puneet Puneet fled Australia after pleading guilty to culpable driving causing death for a 2008 accident.

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/melbourne-mornings/puneet-puneet-jacinta-allan-india-trip/104360434

And just so we’re clear, he still hasn’t faced justice in 2026.

So … just so we understand, the radio is physically connected to a running power supply but the radio itself is switched off when the noise occurs?

Wow, smash bugs, be in the running for prizes, including a skateboard … might give that a pass.

there isn’t a big privacy issue as compared to the benefit in the health and safety and property of others.

So, now we’re measuring invasion of privacy based on “the health and safety and property of others”?

I strongly disagree with your assertion that “there isn’t a big privacy issue” here. From the top of my head:

1. Did the rental company advise the customer before they got into the car?
2. What other details were recorded?
3. What is the process to erase the data?
4. Who has access to it under which circumstances?
5. How long is it retained?

Puppeteer and Chrome were my go-to, but that was before AI bots started hammering sites, and Cloudflare and others started offering blocking processes to stop them.

I’d be surprised if the service you’re currently using will be effective for much longer.

As for text comparison, lynx -dump will give you the text and diff will show you the changes, but as you mentioned, that won’t show you the graphics and banners, unless the site actually uses accessible content.

Writing software is about problem solving skills which improve with practice. Often the process involves breaking down a problem into smaller pieces and breaking each of those down, until you know how to “solve” each problem.

Writing down each “solution” and stringing them together is then the actual “programming” part of this activity … which brings with it a whole new layer of “problems” to “solve”.

It’s as much art as it is accounting and the more you do it, the better you get at it.

Source: I’ve been writing software since 1982.

We just rewatched The Dish and drank a glass to both Sam Neill and Tom Long.

The last time we watched, it was projected onto a bedsheet hanging off the back of my delivery van at Aileron Roadhouse in the middle of Australia surrounded by optical telescopes, a 2m “portable” broadband vSat dish, with the Sungroper solar car team during the 2003 World Solar Challenge … vying for the Yahoo! most remote internet cafe … we lost out to Mount Everest 😁

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My 10 mW signal was heard 13,945 km away on 28 MHz.

We’re going to need a lot of popcorn.

Excellent. Thank you.

Now look at the questions again and when you read the word “you”, insert “preludeofme”.

I’m asking because you’re also wanting to offer a service to customers.

AI bots will hammer your endpoints into the ground if left unchecked. They’ll happily compromise your services while they’re at it.

Here’s some questions:

• What happens when you die?
• What happens if your house is burgled or catches fire?
• How do you protect against pe(s)ts making themselves at home in your server?
• What happens with a power or internet outage?
• What happens with hardware failure?
• What happens if you suffer dementia?
• How are you dealing with AI bots?
• How are you mitigating hacking attempts, security, authentication and exploits?
• How are you dealing with data corruption?
• How do you mitigate against ransomware having entered your systems?

Note that I’m not picking on you, nor is this list comprehensive or in priority order. I’m trying to determine if you’ve considered these common issues and concerns associated with hosting stuff that has great sentimental value, if not actual value.

Did you try it?

Factory reset?