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New comment by n5NOJwkc7kRC in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

n5NOJwkc7kRC — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:47:35 +0000

Oh, so... not at all? No, seriously, K-12 education is pretty infamously bad at giving you the information you need.

New comment by n5NOJwkc7kRC in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

n5NOJwkc7kRC — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:08:26 +0000

And yet for the past five years, every time I've looked at it, the top answers are all uselessly outdated.

Simply getting rid of the stupid dupe policy would've helped solve this a lot better than time-weighted voting.

New comment by n5NOJwkc7kRC in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

n5NOJwkc7kRC — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:59:11 +0000

The moderation was a lot of the problem, but not the whole problem. Honestly these days a larger part is that old, low-quality answers are usually stuck as the top answer on old questions, despite the fact that the situation has changed massively in the past decade and there are newer answers further down that give the new answer. Or better yet: when the top answer is a decade old and says "that doesn't even make sense, why would you want to do that, it's impossible, but you can look at literally the entire Handbook to see what you can do" (with a link to the frontpage of the FreeBSD Handbook) and you have to scroll down nearly to the bottom to find the one answer that actually answers the question (how to add an on-link route on FreeBSD) (and that it's not actually impossible like the arrogant jerk on top claimed)...

New comment by n5NOJwkc7kRC in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

n5NOJwkc7kRC — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:49:43 +0000

Anyone who uses SO often enough have seen them for themselves. We don't really need proof. Besides which, this isn't court. The burden of proof is on the person who wants to know, not the strangers around them who have no responsibility to them.

New comment by n5NOJwkc7kRC in "How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM"

n5NOJwkc7kRC — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:40:45 +0000

What was "covert" about it? What is "measurement data"?

New comment by n5NOJwkc7kRC in "How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM"

n5NOJwkc7kRC — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:39:24 +0000

> why the device might show up with an additional MAC/IP at the upstream switch port

> the thing acts as an Ethernet bridge

A USB-C NIC has its own MAC and would thus get its own IP.

New comment by n5NOJwkc7kRC in "How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM"

n5NOJwkc7kRC — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:32:28 +0000

The Austin airport has, or used to have, such keypads in places. (Doors from the baggage carousel area through to the airside ground staff areas, for example.)

New comment by n5NOJwkc7kRC in "How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM"

n5NOJwkc7kRC — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:30:03 +0000

Intel AMT? Whatever AMD calls theirs?

New comment by n5NOJwkc7kRC in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

n5NOJwkc7kRC — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:36:09 +0000

SSS is from 1979. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_secret_sharing

New comment by n5NOJwkc7kRC in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

n5NOJwkc7kRC — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 19:15:36 +0000

I definitely heard about another nonprofit group that got similarly punted last quarter, or maybe the quarter before... shame I can't remember it now.