Ohhh nice... where is Communist China again... ?
One'a these days, Alice...
He'll probably feel right at home in Klantee.
by the end of January, the game's director, Steven Sharif, and "much of" the senior dev team quit "in protest," claiming that its management board had asked him to do things he "could not ethically support."
What the hell did they ask for?
Interestingly, without any context or introduction, a standard member, Karen L. Boreyko, addressed the community earlier today (February 3) across several Discord channels, writing: "Hello everyone — my name is Karen L. Boreyko, and I want to take a moment to speak directly to this community as we begin a new chapter for Ashes of Creation.
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At this time, because her account isn't tagged as an official team member, it's impossible to determine who Boreyko is or how she is involved in the game's development, if at all. A Leanne Boreyko is attached to a multi-level marketing wellness company called Vemma, and, coincidentially enough, a different wellness company called 310 Nutrition and run by a man called Tim Sharif who has just dropped a load of Ashes of Creation merch onto Amazon.com. Make of that what you will.
WTF is going on in this company?
It looks like the pivots are on opposite sides of the disk platters, which means that if one fails you essentially lose access to the data on that side.
That's not really appreciably different from the same failure happening in a single-pivot drive, though it is more mechanical complexity packed into the same amount of space.
I'm not sure what the failure rates on HDD pivots are like. In my own experience the control board or motor is more likely to fail.
That is you can take the heat and radiate it into space as Infrared radiation. IR radiation is able to travel through space as it is made of photons.
I'm not sure how effective this would be for the amount of heat generated by servers, but it's not actually fully disqualified as I thought it would be.
This is how the International Space Station deals with waste heat: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/473486main_iss_atcs_overview.pdf
It's very slow compared with convective cooling, definitely not practical for running any high-powered computer hardware, slow enough that it can be considered disqualified.
Every obscure website was a passion project. Forums were mainly for people being enthusiastic about something.
Though as a side note, those forum discussions would go on for years, with possibly months in between new posts. Enthusiast forums were mostly small communities with only a handful of users adding content.
Here on the Fediverse we have similar small communities sustained by small groups of active posters, but it feels like most users lose interest in posts and comment discussions very quickly, usually less than a day.
I guess my point is that one of the aspects of the Internet of the 90s/00s is that it wasn't immediate, and people tended to show more patience with each other and with the technology. Even an IRC conversation might stretch out over days or weeks, especially if you were talking to someone multiple time zones away.
Neocities: https://neocities.org/browse!
Webrings: https://www.brisray.com/web/webring-list.htm
Usenet: https://www.spocket.co/blogs/what-is-usenet
Zombo: https://zombo.com/
Chans: https://allchans.org/ but also... here be monsters... lots of unmoderated content, NSFW, NSFL, etc
Also:
The Internet wasn't just in everyone's pocket all the time. Frequently, using a computer network was an activity that you did with other people in the same room, e.g. in the Computer Lab (computers were expensive and complicated and not every room in a school or office would have the necessary power or communications wiring, so all the computers were kept in one special room) or an Internet Cafe (not everyone had Internet-capable wiring at home, so you might go to a business that offered Internet-connected computers as a service just to check your email) or a LAN Party (people used to physically haul their beige boxes, CRT monitors and network devices to a place to meet, connect and play games together - frequently just someone's garage). You went to a specific place to use the Internet, typically with other people around, and then when you left the place you left the Internet also, it didn't just follow you around everywhere all the time.
Hmm, I think Windows and most Linux distros support mounting disk images directly at this point.
Literally just Right-click -> Mount
I'm not sure why you'd bother writing the disk image to an SD card and then using this hardware to mount it.
This whole Alberta separatism thing feels very similar to separatist actions in former Soviet-bloc nations:
Russia has this pattern of supporting "separatist" movements in nations where it wants to carve out some territory. They get agents embedded with local malcontents and stir up trouble, eventually legitimizing themselves as a political movement, and then destabilize the national government.
I don't have any evidence that actually links Russia to Alberta, but we know that Russia has intent to destabilize Western nations and to me this fits the pattern:
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".