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Time Machine support is also dropping support over SMB1 so whatever new solution needs to support SMB2/3.

SMB2 came out with Vista and SMB3 was Win8 so they are not new protocols either.

That just ended up inadvertently reminding me, Windows Vista is actually almost old enough to be at the minimum legal drinking age in the US.

Windows 8 is nearly a decade and a half old as well.

Time really does fly.


I've added support for Samba 4 (running SMB3) to the Time Capsule so it can work with modern macOS: https://github.com/jamesyc/TimeCapsuleSMB

Where "new" in this case could be a NAS running Samba from 2011? Samba added official support for Time Machine much later, but I think it was possible on earlier versions with some extra steps.


That's when Samba gained official easy to use support for being used with Time Machine. I'm pretty sure it was possible long before then, IIRC by changing a setting on the Mac to allow selecting unsupported network volumes.

I don't recall when I stopped running netatalk on my NAS and switched to pure Samba, but I think it was before 2018.


I only meant new as in someone currently owns a Time Capsule and has to replace it with something "new" that supports newer SMB versions.

SMB1 has major security issues but even those ignored (which a lot of people on private home networks shouldn't be too worried about) it's also slow as hell on MacOS

> people on private home networks shouldn't be too worried about

philosophically I would beg to differ about any premise assuming we can trust the castle and moat model. Even on home networks.


philosophically, it depends on who you are. If you're Sam Altman or Vitalik Buterin, yeah, your private home network should be considered to be under attack by hostiles trying to steal from you, but for the rest of us, the NSA isn't going to make an international incident trying to get at your Plex server.

For the rest of us we have IoT devices and guests malware filled devices constantly probing the internal network.

Ah but the solution was an X.500 directory where you just look up the recipient! So you never type the e-mail address, you just look up "Joe Smith" to send them an e-mail. Like looking them up in the phone book. Ignore the fact that the directory may return multiple Joe Smiths at the same large organization, not return Joe Smyth you wanted to message, or that there's not even a hint of anonymity with such directories. Oh yeah the internal organization of a company could be easily enumerated from the outside.

But theres a reason why "White Pages" of peoples' phone number books are gone.

Its the same reason why fingerd isnt run.

And why the LDAP for an org isnt exposed.

You do not give information of all your users to the public/enemy. Its the cybersecurity "principle of least privilege" and need to know.


If you remember Nokia's batteries they were covered in a relatively thick ABS shell. They were also, compared to today, had laughably little storage. A Series 40 Nokia just did not draw that much power. The single GSM/PCS radio also sipped power.

Even if you stripped a 5G phone down to a Series 40-esque interface the 5G radios alone would use more power than a whole 3310.

In order to get the power density modern phones need they require high power Li-poly batteries. An extra 3mm worth of ABS shell is a lot of lost capacity. You can't sell user serviceable Li-poly batteries without a protective shell. You'd never get a UL rating because Li-polys are dangerous if mishandled.


I found out somewhat recently that those Nokia batteries (like BL-5C) are still used in hardware. You can still pick them up on some stores.

I came across them in portable radios (portable FM radios, small global radios, plane listening radios and similar).


The N95 had something like 995 mAh. A modern iphone would have about 4x that.

Also interesting to know is that BYD was supplying a lot of phone batteries back then. I think they also supplied to Nokia. Phone batteries is what made them big.


The money laundering won't go away. It'll just move to administrations-approved money laundering vehicles like crypto. And needlessly disrupt or ruin the lives of millions. Neat.

What's the solution, no laws? Since laws just shift the venue for the crime in your view?

The goal is to de-bank any opposition to the government. It starts with an easy out group like immigrants. Then more and more groups will get de-banked or otherwise disenfranchised.

>The goal is to de-bank any opposition to the government. It starts with an easy out group like immigrants.

Or an easy out group like the Freedom Convoy protest truckers.


I did not realize that the number of Freedom Convoy truckers was roughly the same as number of immigrants. That is a big issue!

I did not realize that the number of Romani was roughly the same as number of Jews. That is a big issue!

No reply. Not surprised.

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Holy crap, it's been a long time since I saw that dopey Obama/tea-party line. Fox News bullshit from the past seems down right quaint by today's standards

It's a fact though, so label it how you like but it happened.

You're gonna want to look into the context and framing. Elements connected to what you claimed are "fact". The framing is very much not.

If you still believe that nonsense after all these years nothing I can say that'll change your mind.

This is one of the all time greatest examples of "lying with facts". It's technically correct, the IRS absolutely singled out a bunch of non-profits due to administrative fowl ups, but trying to say Obama "targeted" the Tea Party intentionally was so hilariously stupid I'm amazed anyone bought it.


It starts with an even easier out group like "actual criminals or other groups that are fairly strongly hated by a lot of people".

The groundwork for this crap was laid in the 1870s when they were going after the klan, the 1920s bootleggers, then the 1940s-50s mobsters, 1980s drug traffickers, 2000s terrorists, etc, etc. Every step of the way people cheered.

Of course some people looked at the "hurricane cone" of public policy at the time and said that we were not on a good path. Of course they were ignored.


> The most charitable interpretation is that most rich/powerful people are just as flawed as everyone else.

I can't believe that. They pulled themselves up by their bootstraps at their private schools and then had to claw and fight as a legacy admission to the school their parents attended. From there they lived hand to mouth destitute with barely a million dollar loan from their parents!

Then there was the existential crisis of meeting with their college roommates' parents and their own parents' bridge buddies to secure millions in loans. It was their flawless vision and skill that let them be at the right place and the right time. If they wouldn't have had the foresight to fall out of a lucky vagina we would all be worse off.

You see they're scrappy go getters that started from the absolute bottom. They're infallible supermen whose greatest assets are their humility and unerring genius.


Even with centrifugal "gravity" the toilets need to be designed for the worst case scenario (no "gravity"). Even if you could use a "regular" toilet the system needs to sequester and process the septic waste. That precludes even using the likes of an airplane toilet.

It's a significant amount of engineering effort, testing, feedback, and iteration to build effective life support systems for manned spaceflight. Long duration spaceflight is orders of magnitude more difficult.

Toilets are systems that can incapacitate or even kill the crew if they malfunction. In a low or microgravity environment aerosolized septic material can get in astronauts' eyes or lungs. It can also seep into electronics or other ship systems causing malfunctions. Even just clean water spraying into the cabin could be dangerous in microgravity.


Maybe they could vibe code some sort of, I don't know, a Web Service Description Language. That could describe how to interact with a service.


Inside of the cage it'll be fine. It just won't do great traversing the boundary. As long as there's a WAP/antenna inside the cage everything inside the cage will get a signal.


So...XForms[0] but involving AI.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/xforms/


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