There’s M-discs which are supposed to last for 1000 years, but obviously nobody has fully tested that yet. They’re readable by normal DVD and Blu-ray players and go up to 100GB capacity.

There’s LTO tapes as well of course, but they’re not rated to last for as long (only 30ish years).

You could archive a description of the file format alongside the files. Maybe a pseudocode implementation too, or actual code (although who knows which programming languages will exist 300 years from now).

Or the dreaded .doc and .xls that even Microsoft has problems with today.

The US Library of Congress recommends archiving data in SQLite databases, since it’s a simple, well-documented format, SQLite is public domain, and SQLite devs have promised to support it for a long time and retain backwards compatibility indefinitely.

CSV and TSV are okay too of course, but it’s often much easier to deal with large datasets if they’re in an actual database format.

I really hope the Internet Archive survive their lawsuits. They’re important not just for archival of websites (the Wayback Machine) but also of books, audio recordings, etc. There’s a large amount of old content that’s only archived at the Internet Archive.

I used to work for an Australian company that produced HR software - recruitment, 360 reviews, etc. Our job application form had a fairly standard list of titles (Mr, Mrs, Miss, Mr, Dr, and maybe one or two others) that nearly all clients were happy with. However, a university asked us to add maybe 60 more, much like the list in this screenshot. Some understandable for a university (things like “Prof” or a suffix of “Ph.D.”) and some… less understandable (Colonel, Lieutenant, General, Father, Capitan, Sir, The Honourable, …)

The customer is always right… We had to add a “huge list of titles” feature flag to the system, that was only enabled for this one client. All other clients were fine with the standard list.

I love paying double in rent what I would pay for a market-rate mortgage

It’s totally different where I live (in the San Francisco Bay Area)… Renting is cheaper than buying here. A lot of the landlords bought their property a long time ago when it was much cheaper.

AWS didn’t exist until after Amazon became profitable. They were already making good long-term decisions before AWS.

I still sometimes find cheap things that are reasonably priced. These keystone wall plates for Ethernet/HDMI/etc are 99 cents for example: https://a.co/d/hAYsejh

now it’s almost all overpriced junk items sold by shady sellers now.

It’s not too bad if you avoid all third-party sellers and only buy items sold by Amazon directly.

Unfortunately, other stores are going in the same direction. Walmart’s and Target’s sites both have third-party sellers on them now too, and you need to remember to filter them out.

In my area I can order something popular at midnight and receive it by 10am. If you’re in a major metro area, they can usually do next day, same day, and overnight on a lot of items.

Amazon, the store. the store that sells stuff at “unbeatable” prices and has convenient fast shipping options. exists because Amazon, the corporation, makes most of its money through platforms that are NOT the store.

They were also famously unprofitable for a very long time, longer than most businesses would consider reasonable. They were founded in 1994 and it took until 2003 to make a profit. They were investing a lot of money back into the business.

Target also have free 2 day shipping and 5% discount if you use their “Red Card”, which is free. It’s available as a debit or credit card. I’m using the debit card version which doesn’t require a credit check or impact your credit score.

Sure, it lets them track what you buy, but they can already do that if you pay with credit or debit card. The only way to not get tracked is by paying cash or buying prepaid Visa/Mastercard gift cards and swapping them periodically.

No I’m trying to use it with my work phone. I can’t connect my personal phone to the work wifi since it needs a certificate (802.1x) but there’s a separate guest network I can use if needed. Guest network is entirely isolated - different hardware, different backhaul, different IP range.

I love KDE Connect but I can’t figure out how to get it to work at work. Probably some firewall thing. It works fine at home, but can’t find my phone at work.

Why not Matrix via Conduit?

Why are there that many beans and a Chick-fil-A box of some sort near a computer? I’m so confused lol

This is beans! This is food!

Metrics are usually tracked using a tracking pixel, which is invisible. They don’t need a visible share button to do that.

I don’t think Windows will ever fully escape Win32 cruft. One of the major features of Windows is backwards compatibility.

100% agree. Note that some cheap VPS providers are single-homed (only have one internet connection) with a budget provider like Cogent, but the good ones are usually multihomed.

Hetzner are great. One of the providers I use (HostHatch) is trying to have pricing similar to Hetzner, but in a larger number of locations. Their sale pricing during Black Friday is even better though.

How old are you? The reason I ask is because it was very common to watch movies with ads via free-to-air TV in the 90s, at least in families that didn’t have cable TV. Not all families could afford to buy more and more movies on VHS.