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New comment by naturalmovement in "My car’s OTA update broke Android Auto"

naturalmovement — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:10:25 +0000

Glad to own a car that will only update via USB and even then only when I want it to.

Which is never, unless something is broken.

Having rolling releases for a CAR is absolutely stupid.

New comment by naturalmovement in "FreeBSD 16 Retires the Last of Its GPL Code from Its Base System"

naturalmovement — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:07:24 +0000

No. As enshittification encroaches onto Linux the user base is moving the other way. To their benefit, I might add. With ZFS on root in FreeBSD it's a no-brainer.

Linux is feeling more and more like a bunch of random tools thrown together as opposed to a complete OS designed to work as a whole.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Starlink unlimited aviation plan to rise from $10k/month to $20k"

naturalmovement — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:58:18 +0000

Do you think tech bros who voluntarily choose to live in the woods should pay the same subsidized price as a rural African schoolhouse? Equity and all that.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Starlink unlimited aviation plan to rise from $10k/month to $20k"

naturalmovement — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:46:55 +0000

Boo hoo.... these same people were previously faced with $40,000 connection fees for Comcast and Verizon to trench a cable 1/2 mile to their property so $1500 seems like a pittance.

Look, friends of mine did this, they bought a country place so they can live the dream and write software in the sticks.

Next thing you know they're drilling new wells and installing a generator to support the fantasy while the bills pile up. When you bring modern conveniences to rural life it costs money.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Starlink unlimited aviation plan to rise from $10k/month to $20k"

naturalmovement — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:41:05 +0000

If you need a specialized amphibious vehicle to get to your shack in the woods, it's not anti-consumer if it costs you more than a Mitsubishi Mirage.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Starlink unlimited aviation plan to rise from $10k/month to $20k"

naturalmovement — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:32:52 +0000

If you're privileged enough to work a six-figure tech job while engaging in a homesteader larp in a "cabin in the woods", you can probably afford the fee. So can "off-grid" YouTuber grifters.

It's like everyone feels entitled to something they didn't know existed a few years ago.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Microsoft has released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes"

naturalmovement — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:13:18 +0000

Sounds like a lot but compare it to Edge also being patched for 428 Chromium CVEs this month.

If 20 years ago you told me a single piece of software had 428 vulnerabilities I wouldn't have believed it.

If Chromium has that many security bugs, perhaps the move fast and break things approach of spraying diarrhea masquerading as code into a keyboard — in a rush to add new features no one asked for — needs to be reexamined.

New comment by naturalmovement in "What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (2025)"

naturalmovement — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:51:37 +0000

Interesting choice of name for a website which contains no actual engineering.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Telegram's t.me domain has been suspended"

naturalmovement — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:31:43 +0000

Didn't the crustacean site temporarily lose its domain a minute ago because someone had to make an in-person payment to whatever Serbian mafia controls .rs?

Vanity domains are beyond stupid and not worth the trouble.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources"

naturalmovement — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:49:24 +0000

Well your interpretation is both rude and wrong but I've learned to expect this level of hubris here.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources"

naturalmovement — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 22:05:24 +0000

How can we use a bucket of mostly useless data to enrich ourselves by building more VC-funded apps? I'm asking the important questions.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica"

naturalmovement — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:57:49 +0000

Cool.

Still doesn't change the fact that this is an untested board design that relies on a difficult-to-source obsolete chip.

If some pins are swapped by mistake e.g. power and ground you are screwed.

Caveat emptor — unfortunately this was buried in the description.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Beavis Ultrasound PnP ISA Sound Card Replica"

naturalmovement — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:50:25 +0000

> If you want to build this board, first make sure you have an AMD InterWave chip, the AM78C201. The design of the card is quite simple since essentially all sound card functionality is built into the AMD chip.

...it's a breakout board for an OOP chip that's impossible to find?

New comment by naturalmovement in "Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity"

naturalmovement — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:48:50 +0000

Maybe we ought to take away society's Spotify etc. and go back to trading cassettes.

I predict it will last all of two days.

You see the mentally ill chaos unfold within hours when DNS or a CDN goes down. Imagine taking their datacenter-dependent toys away for more than a day.

How will they navigate job interviews (in between datacenter protests) without relying on ChatGPT to feed them answers?

Sounds like a circular dependency to me.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Theo de Raadt: "You've been smoking something mind altering" (2007)"

naturalmovement — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:54:00 +0000

If someone purposely dug up emails you wrote 19 years ago, I'm sure they'd find some of your "dumber takes" as well.

I'm not sure what the purpose of revisiting this is beyond provoking a flamewar on a slow Sunday.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Lindsey Graham has died"

naturalmovement — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 08:26:17 +0000

Why haven't you been banned yet? Your comment history is repugnant.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19"

naturalmovement — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:54:33 +0000

This is nothing like AIDS.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19"

naturalmovement — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:44:18 +0000

> as I researched my own fatigue and finding out I likely have this

Please don't do this. It's the medical equivalent of copy/pasting shit you don't understand from Stack Overflow.

Go see a doctor who has a degree and training.

New comment by naturalmovement in "Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19"

naturalmovement — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:29:59 +0000

If you suppose it's all malarkey and conjecture, what is the problem?

When your doctor says that you're wrong, do you accept his advice or tell him he should be more like Dale Carnegie?

New comment by naturalmovement in "Vagal cholinergic denervation of the gastric mucosa in Long-COVID-19"

naturalmovement — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:21:49 +0000

Funny that reactive arthritis has been around for decades but no one dares call it "long chlamydia" I guess it doesn't sell YouTube clicks as well.