It is ridiculous, slop like that should be permabanned. Ah, right, they tried to do that in-house with that “proud black queer mom of 2” fake account and others

The Verge got official answers to some questions and IMHO the responses are all wrong.

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/21/24349031/bambu-3d-printer-update-authentication-filament-subscription-lock-answers

1. Will Bambu publicly commit to never requiring a subscription in order to control its printers and print from them over a home network?

For our current product line, yes.

2. Will Bambu publicly commit to never restricting the use of third-party filament in any way, shape, or form?

For our current product line, yes.

5. Will Bambu publicly commit to offering and keeping the local Developer mode available in any future printers it releases?

We cannot commit to features for non-existent future printers.

6. Will Bambu publicly commit to its current and future printers permanently being remotely controllable over LAN without user account or Internet access?

For current models: Yes.

Basically it was corp speech for “DRM on filament, subscriptions, and forced cloud mode will come in the next models”. Otherwise they wouldn’t have put such emphasis on “current models” and completely leave the door open for anything that might come out next month

C’erano sondaggi sui media americani tipo “hamas manterrà la promessa di liberare gli ostaggi?” ma andrebbe fatta la domanda opposta

My limited brain can’t understand the concept of pay+ads

People actually do that?

It’s a free service, right? It’s not a paid service, right?

ok, so he valued his life at less than the contents of his luggage

when you value your life less than 130 euro

Circa dieci anni fa o anche di più, ,in un aeroporto comprai entrambe le riviste e quella americana era nettamente superiore in contenuti e qualità.

Considera però che la versione italiana è trimestrale mentre quella americana è “quasi mensile”.

Il costo della rivista stessa è identico, 5 euro qui e 5 dollari là (se vai con una VPN americana il prezzo da 80 dollari scende a 60)

rooted or not? I was under the impression that this kind of mods only work on rooted

If when opened with a browser they have the right stylesheet, you can pirate m0nkrus’ acrobat pro, then select all => right click => convert to pdf

i finally managed to extract the OTP secret.

OMG, WTF. So needlessly hard. If Epic Store did the same of Valve for their OTP, the forums would be filled with hate and outrage

Need to pay an auditor to check the code https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/13465431?hl=en

for FOSS projects, google itself could sponsor the certification, if they really cared about security and not just closing the garden. The code is public and they could definitely write automated tests to check all they need to check, and at every single commit, and not just yearly, done in secret by some auditor.

For google drive integration, i saw that most devs are just removing support for it because doesn’t make sense to pay $500 yearly to support it when there’s a million of better alternatives

for some reason i read xfs instead of btrfs…

their array implementation is stupid and smart at the same time. I love that you can mix and match disks at random, even with different filesystems (you can have one drive in murderfs, one in xfs, one in btrfs and the last one in zfs and all protected with the same parity drive), but i completely hate how my server is locked by a 25% iowait due to how much cpu intensive is their softraid. Maybe when they came out with this system 20 years ago it was groundbreaking, but now it is stupid. Now with unraid 7 released one week ago they’re starting to deprecate it (disabled by default in new install) in favor of native btrfs or zfs arrays

I replaced gmail with fairemail for similar reasons. I can’t stand their interface, designed to maximise clicks on the wrong locations.

Main problem is that now google requires developers of email clients to give $4000 in annual fees (level 3? or level 2 for just $500 is enough?) at their friends at KPMG to do yearly audits of the code, so they will kill most alternatives in few years now that oauth is mandatory

a btrfs “array” in unraid is composed by individual btrfs partitions mounted as /mnt/disk1 /disk2 /disk3 and so on, then there’s a daemon that makes a “unified” view at /mnt/user/, and it uses a different algorithm for parity.

There’s a way to make real btrfs raid arrays, but it has been introduced very recently (1-2 years ago), and it’s not the default that you create when you use the Web UI.

The unraid array it’s not an array, but a bunch of xfs partitions where a third party program is doing softraid. If opened on any other Linux distro, they will mount but parity drives are ignored

If you have new drives: make a zfs array and copy all files there

If you want to recycle drives while temporarily keeping the parity drives: from unraid 7 set a drive as unused, use the mover (or unbalance) to empty it, check if it’s actually empty by going to /mnt/diskX , format it as btrfs, set it as preferred for your shares, choose another disk to empty, use the mover to move all the data from the next disk to the new btrfs one, then remove the empty drive and add it to the btrfs raid. Repeat.

It’s a fucking commodity and not a single player is making money on it except Nvidia. Anyone can pirate content for training, it’s just a question of having the hardware to train/run the models

What I hate the most is that in order to know the pricing I have to watch a 2 hours demo, and at that point I already know that it’s unaffordable because they’re starting to do calculations “this is how much you’re going to save”.

Saw a 100% offline quoting tool that, they wanted $1000 per month because “you and your team will save 200 hours per month so this tool pays back in less than 2 weeks”

1. It’s offline
2. We have to pay for the server
3. It requires a month of training and data fitting (at our expense)
4. Doesn’t require any additional update and once set can be left like that for decades

Why the hell it’s a subscription???