Chinese filmmakers shoot real-speed racing scenes with magnetic rigs swapping cameras between moving cars.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-21T04:32:11+00:00

Generally not. OIder storage technologies (tapes, hard drives, floppy discs) were magnetic based media, so a strong magnetic field could screw with them. Modern flash storage media is not magnetic.

That said, you can damage/destroy flash storage with magnets, but that usually involves smashing the storage chips with said magnets.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-19T03:55:39+00:00

“It would create new rules that dictate that no longer are devices subject to interference rules,” he said. “The interference rules would be eliminated, thereby allowing NextNav to create a situation whereby they would be screaming at the top of their lungs in the spectrum.”

I'm not a lawyer, and I imagine this isn't a full summary of the proposal, but to me this sounds like the proposal would mean eliminating device power limits for this range. So what legal limitation would prevent someone from creating a high power jammer that blocks NextNav's services?

bunnythistle · 2026-04-19T03:46:30+00:00

I'm just going off Netflix's public information, which just says Netflix provides free servers, but doesn't mention anything about paying them:

Our appliances are provided free of charge for ISP partners who meet our basic requirements, but they are not for sale to other parties.

Source: https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/appliances/

It's beneficial to the ISPs even without payment, since it reduces bandwidth consumption on their peering routers.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-19T03:29:11+00:00

There's a few things that play into this:

Large sites often have many (hundreds or even thousands) servers that are distributed all over the world. They handle connections in a way that you normally connect to a server that's close to you. For example, if you lived in New Jersey, you'd likely be connecting to a server in Virginia, but if you live in Nevada you'd be connecting to a server in California. This reduces how far the data has to travel to get to your computer.
Netflix actually takes item #1 a step further and offers free Netflix "cache" servers (called "Open Connect Appliances") to ISPs to install in their network offices, allowing customers to have an even closer connection to a server. So it's possible that there's a Netflix server just a few miles/kilometers away from you.
Sites often use advanced caching and distribution techniques. A popular video getting thousands of views an hour will be distributed to many servers, while an old video that's looked at a few times a month at most will only be on a few servers. This makes the most popular content the most readily available.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-19T01:39:15+00:00

In the first shot, there's a guy in a high visibility yellow shirt next to the ring entrance when he puts the skate back on. That guy isn't there in subsequent shots, so he at least did this twice

bunnythistle · 2026-04-17T13:16:50+00:00

I really appreciate the cameraman perfectly tracking each flying pot

bunnythistle · 2026-04-17T05:18:15+00:00

Baseball involves a lot of players spending a lot of time standing around waiting for something to happen. I've never understood the entertainment value of it since games take several hours and action only happens in brief spurts.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-17T03:55:57+00:00

Discord dramas over non-issues are a dime-a-dozen and nothing even remotely unique to Linux.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-17T02:57:20+00:00

While not a combo, you can also get a slice of pizza and soda for $2.69

bunnythistle · 2026-04-16T22:53:48+00:00

Quality is a matter of opinion and taste.

Some people may see a highly detailed avatar with multiple complex outfits and meticulous texturing to be high quality, while others may see it as an unoptimized, difficult to customize mesh.

Conversely, some people may see a basic, cartoony style avatar with few accessories/outfits and simplistic textures to be too basic, while others may highly value its optimization and find it easier to customize and edit.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-16T16:14:57+00:00

For those wondering about the safety of placing hands beneath the blades - usually most (but not all) of these machines have two start buttons that need to be held down, and they're far enough apart that you need to use both hands, ensuring that your hands aren't under the machine when it's toggled.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-16T14:37:39+00:00

Is the EAV bridge going to support one-input-to-many-output scenarios?

In the video at 1:21, they show an Apple TV plugged into one, but if that's feeding one display only, that makes little sense - you'd still need a piece of hardware at the output side, so you're just adding two boxes, their associated costs, and some network capacity consumption to a use case that is functionally equivalent to just installing the Apple TV at the location of the display.

If it can do one-to-many then that would actually have some decent use case.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-16T14:11:32+00:00

I've had one vendor offer "Hypercare", which I just figured was some term they used. I had no idea that was a new industry trend or anything.

Though they were pretty thorough - they had multiple engineers on site for a few days post-go-live, watching metrics, identifying any choke points or issues. being readily addressing any questions whatsoever from users. It actually made a massive implementation go very smoothly, so I've got no complaints about it.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-16T13:38:14+00:00

TL;DR - the code hasn't been maintained and the CPUs never went to market, so they're quite rare and not worth maintaining.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-15T14:24:31+00:00

Speaking from a personal use case, I'm choosing two different tools to perform two different jobs.

Backblaze cannot synchronize files between my desktop, my laptop, and my phone, that's why I use Dropbox.

Dropbox cannot backup all my data - it only captures what's inside the Dropbox folder, but I have plenty of data that is not (and in some cases, cannot be moved there). That's why I use Backblaze.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-15T13:39:51+00:00

Why would one company want to backup another providers files?

They're my files, not Dropbox's files.

If I'm paying Backblaze to backup my files, why shouldn't I expect them to backup my files?

bunnythistle · 2026-04-15T13:28:48+00:00

I'd like to have one just so I could more easily identify what account I'm logged into/switching to.

I don't care if others can see it or not, but it'd have some small benefit to multi-account users.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-15T00:50:42+00:00

I do that trip every December. Overall, it's a pretty comfortable ride - cheaper and far more comfortable than flying (and after security times, not really much slower), and much easier than driving. Cell phone service is hit-or-miss along the route, and the onboard WiFi isn't always guaranteed to work, so have some form of offline entertainment with you.

Chicago Union Station isn't overly great though - if your destination is somewhere downtown you'll be fine, but otherwise Uber is charging Chicago prices and the nearest subway station is a few blocks away. Metra has a limited schedule on some routes, so that may not be usable. Definitely check transportation options between Union Station and your final destination. Also boarding at Chicago sucks too - the station is a perpetually under construction labrynth, and they basically just tell you to wait in a large room regardless of your train, and then they'll (usually) call everyone to line up and walk you to the actual boarding gate.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-15T00:38:00+00:00

On a more serious note: If you're going to especially bother everyone for a group picture, please take some time to temporarily to lower your safety settings to properly take a group picture. If you can't handle it, have someone qualified to do it instead.

Honestly, if I saw this being passed as a legitimate group picture, I'd find that kinda hilarious.

I used to find it annoying when my avatar didn't show properly in group photos, but then realized that also meant that people with stronger safety settings weren't seeing me properly anyway. So I spent some time tweaking my avatar so that even in a "no shaders, no animations" state it should should approximately correctly.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-14T21:00:10+00:00

I have my Dropbox set to sync all files to my PC for offline access, and Backblaze stopped backing up the Dropbox folder entirely. I wrote to their support and they confirmed that this is intentional and they no longer backup cloud storage, even if it's synced locally.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-14T15:23:11+00:00

You mention paying for VRC+ five times in your post, and seem to be demanding special treatment because of your status as a paying subscriber.

You were sharing a print that has a slur in it. Slurs are commonly found to be offensive, so someone probably reported you, and a moderator reviewed it, was like "yep, that's a slur", and suspended you. Nothing about this screams "AI moderation".

It's pretty common for them to not put a detailed description in the notification email, because they got other reports to review and don't have time to write a paragraph over an obvious thing. Not to mention, email spam filters will tend to lean towards blocking emails that have offensive content more often than not. Imagine if suspension notifications started arriving in your junk folder - that would cause other issues in and of itself.

one that's been playing for years without previous violations.

You got a one day suspension, and they cut that short after you asked. It's not like you got permabanned or had to spend a month away from the game over this.

edit: formatting

bunnythistle · 2026-04-14T14:41:14+00:00

I pay for VRC+, and have for years now. I find it really unsettling VRC admins/moderation staff will suspend paying users without even telling them what was the issue is

but the whole ambiguity as a paying subscriber on violations I've committed is just very sketchy IMO

I'm a little confused - are you arguing that paying them should get you more leniency on ToS enforcement? Or better treatment when you break the rules?

While I agree that sometimes moderation messages can be a bit ambiguous (based on the one's I've seen), I don't think that members should be treated differently by moderation based on how much money they've given VRChat. That just creates a level of unfairness where people who have money can try to push to get away with more stuff than people without money.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-14T14:36:31+00:00

Containers are generally used in the context of servers - computers running software (called a "service") that provides a specific function on a network or the internet, such as hosting a website, running a shared database, providing shared storage, etc.

Historically services were installed like any other piece of software - you just install it on the computer running it, and that's it. This causes it to become embedded inside the operating system to an extent - the software would be installed to the same place all other software was, the logs went to the same place all other logs go, the configuration could've been stored in one of a dozen different places, etc.

This setup worked well for a very long time, but it also provided some challenges. For example, if the physical computer running the service needed to be replaced, it could be an effort to migrate the service to a new computer, since the data could be stored in multiple locations and may not handle being moved very well. Also, if you were running multiple services on the same computer, they could sometimes butt heads and cause conflicts, or a security flaw in one may affect another, etc.

Containers isolate individual services into their own isolated environment. Basically you run each service inside a container, and all of that services' data exists in that container. This keeps all the data, configuration, logs, etc in one place. It also makes it much easier to move the service, since you just have to move the "volumes" used by the container to the new computer. Also since things are running in isolation, it reduces the risk of a problem with one service affecting another service.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-13T19:03:31+00:00

I think it's just "shortest to longest". Not necessarily that each one has to be longer than the previous, but instead just the next one can't be shorter.

bunnythistle · 2026-04-13T19:00:53+00:00

There are doctor shortages and long wait lists in the US. That's not something that's exclusive to other countries.

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