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Synology’s new Plus Series NAS

This isn’t surprising. SOHO and middle tier business hardware installs have all kinds of these requirements from support vendors. Synology was sort of an outlier on those that just allowed mixed bag and it provide software calculations on hard drive health.

That they want knowns in their machines isn’t surprising. I’m actually surprised it isn’t a complete drop in any assurances if you BYOD.

These features in this product aren’t home or consumer grade and indicating that it’s for the “advance home user” is like saying Arch Linux is the advance MacOS. There’s a lot of detail behind that statement that’s not being addressed.

It is sad to see them go this route, but I cannot say it comes as a surprise. But honestly, if you’re a hobbyist and see yourself using the features in this level of NAS, you’re likely skilled enough as is to build your own. And honestly, you’ll be happier building your own.

I guess I don’t play Mario then. It’s a pretty simple concept.

Ha ha, but for real. They’ll just turn people’s power off, tell them to ration, and/or jack the price per kWh to 500% what it was.

Team Orange let’s no good calamity go to waste. Everything is potential profit if you have no moral compass.

Their creditors are going to be looking for recompense. So I feel like this is one of those times when we use the answer of “yes”.

Yes, yes, now what about the rest of the stock market?

To say, “oh this boycott is self injury” is akin to worrying about one’s stubbed toe all while bleeding out from a severed arm.

Additionally it’s typical American only thinking to believe it’s just the US citizens boycotting the company. You easily forget that sales are down globally, not just the US.

That’s where the game pricing comes in.

Yeah, China sure as shit isn’t going to lose sleep over a US Copyright case.

Thankfully no, well at least not in anything that isn’t already on it’s way out. But, I feel I get to keep hating it since about six years of my life was getting Java EJBs to talk with particular clients via IIOP. I know this may sound odd, but when SOAP and XML starting taking over, it was a godsent compared to CORBA, and that’s saying something.

From the story.

Cursor AI’s abrupt refusal represents an ironic twist in the rise of “vibe coding”—a term coined by Andrej Karpathy that describes when developers use AI tools to generate code based on natural language descriptions without fully understanding how it works. While vibe coding prioritizes speed and experimentation by having users simply describe what they want and accept AI suggestions, Cursor’s philosophical pushback seems to directly challenge the effortless “vibes-based” workflow its users have come to expect from modern AI coding assistants

Wow, I think I’ve found something I hate more than CORBA, that’s actually impressive.

Instructions unclear, jerking all body parts off human and placing them into a neat bloody pile in the corner.

— Future Robot probably

Oh yeah, but the thing that usually offsets the intrusive thoughts is a lot of courts treat this as the crime of “hurting rich people” which comes with like 30 years in pound you in the ass penitentiary.

WHY ARE THEIR ROCKETS NOT EXPLODING!!?

— Rocket X. Hitler

This one is a difficult 3rd party toner isn’t all formulated the same. The main carrier, the thing that picks up the charge and moves the toner onto the paper is usually a blend of polyester and/or polypropylene. Various mixtures have different properties in the presence of a static electric charge.

The charge on the drum and exposure time to the laser are all parameters that are tuned in the firmware and it’s likely Brother would tune those parameters to toner they’ve formulated. So getting sub performance from 3rd party toner can be a hit or miss, because some will have a batch of toner that hits the mark and then the exact same group could have a batch that pulls poorly on the toner. A lot of 3rd party toner is seat of your pants kind of operations with minimum QA process. But most people using 3rd party toner is fine with “good enough” quality.

So even using the same maker of toner isn’t some golden seal of accuracy that you’ll get the same formulation every time. Now bricking functions is concerning and that’s something to keep an eye out for. I’ve got three different printers in the office, all Brother, all using 3rd party, none having bricking issues. But that’s completely anecdotal. Likewise, I’ve only ever heard maybe one or two claims online by folks of bricking Brother printers.

Now don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy Louis Rossman’s videos. But that he’s going off completely wiki data is suspect. Now as for 20Factorial, yes, that is Brother’s standard line for bad color registration to ask for you to swap over to OEM toner. So for those not in the know print registration … well it helps to understand in a color laser printer, you usually have four toner tanks (Yellow, Cyan, Magenta, and Black). Now all those tanks are located in physically different places inside the printer and so there needs to be a way for the printer to understand those physical differences and ensure that the colors overlap each other perfectly to get the correct mix of colors to print what’s being asked. That’s what print registration is, sometimes that’s called color print alignment.

Brother’s MFC-3750 has an “automatic” process by which this is done where a chip passes along information to the printer on the properties of the mixture of toner within the tank. This is where you can run into an issue because the automatic information might be just a copy the 3rd party picked off a used tank and the data passed to the printer matches nothing in terms of the formulation the 3rd party put inside the tank. And a newer firmware might see that copied info as out of spec formulation. Who knows? That’s the gamble with 3rd party you take.

Brother and any other printer maker gets complaints whenever their machines don’t print correctly and sometimes that can be the formulation of the toner. Sometimes it’s a firmware update that tightens the requirements for reported formulations. Sometimes that can be malicious and sometimes that’s just a side effect of tweaking how the firmware processes different formulas. It’s a lot of variables.

So that part about 20Factorial’s printer is something that “sucks when it happens” but not all toner is the same thing. Brother can only assure proper assistance with mixtures they’ve had in their labs. BUT, and a big but here, while not all toner is the same, there’s tolerance here and usually 90% of all toner on this planet falls within that tolerance. But you can never tell with 3rd party toner, it could be a one off batch, or yeah it could have been a firmware update that lost it’s damn mind when it got presented with the chip information from the 3rd party toner.

The whole point is, this is really hard to nail down.

Now what isn’t is when shit starts bricking. That’s 99% of the time the OEM doing that shit to you. Now that could be on purpose or sometimes it’s bad error checking for 3rd party stuff, but it’s absolutely the code from the OEM doing it to you. I will say automatic color registration is a tricky bitch to get right, even when using OEM toner.

I’m not going to defend Brother here if they’re doing shady stuff. But all the claims except fncamo, have that feel of losing the gamble with 3rd party toner, 99% of the time you win, but there’s always that 1% that gets you.

fncamo’s claim of bricking is odd, but at the same time, they may have power cycled while in a critical point of the inline firmware programming and bricked their printer themselves. But maybe not, it absolutely is the only one out of all of this that got my attention. I wish there was more to their comment.

But 3rd party toner SHOULD work, but only OEM toner WILL work. Like I said, 99% of the time the toner is chemically fine. There could be something else to what happened for the others.

I’m curious, how repairable? Like comfortable with a solder iron or slots and what not like a PC?

Repairable phones would be great but the demand for them hasn’t undone the cost of design for them. There’s a lot of tech in an incredibly small package, so repairable phone would still require people to have specialty equipment to repair.

Like very few people own an oven for working with BGA chips. And if we go with socket based chips, the thickness of the phone has to increase or the battery has to decrease.

Don’t get me wrong, I think an open and repairable phone would be great. But having one is an engineering challenge that most phone makers have opted to just skip putting dollars into because the demand for one doesn’t justify the cost. Your average buyer is just chasing shiny and doesn’t see repairing their dinosaur as valuable.

But yeah, I’m sure there’s plenty here that would love such a device. Sadly we are not the majority.

This doesn’t release any copyright work in the game. So you will need to go through and remove any sprites, images, audio, etc that is copyright. Which means you will need to own a copy of the game (to have a right to the copyright usage) to use any binary produced from THIS source.

Additionally, it indicates that you must include in any derivative that the source of your code is from the EA drop here.

Outside of that, it is GPLv3. Of course it has hard dependency on DirectX 5.0. So a fully free version will need to redo those parts. Also the code is very MS VC++ heavy. Don’t expect gcc to build you a binary.

You did amazing. Keep up the good work!

Fucking CyberTruck like fucking pile of shit website. What kills me the most is that the fucking things they’re screenshoting, those pages have literal “export to XML” buttons that they could fucking export, save the XML to some shared drive that gets swept, and the put it in some actually secure database.

This whole fucking thing reeks of some fucking weeb ass Roblox hackers whose last project consisted of Lua Script emulating some fucking redstone calculator they wrote in Minecraft. And the export fuction on the thing? It’s just one dimension SUM function CSV exports. Literally no other dimenstions of values to add, shit I would be fucking surprised if a single one of the people writing the goddamn have ever heard of OLAP.

And to top it off, we already have a fucking website that does what this fucking place does, but 846 decillion times better. And it doesn’t have a fucking Instagram esque reel of Tweets of people taking fucking screenshots of an open database.

I can’t wait till the next dumbass gets into the White House and turns this pile of grabage off. Paying these idiots millions to power and run the hardware this pitiful excuse of a website runs on. And all we got for that money is some shit that is about on par as the shit you get from some O’Reilly book called “Building a Government Website Crash Course” with a Bald Eagle dying of bird flu on the cover.

This fucking idiot maybe wants to fucking learn what the hell SQL is.

Distrowatch doesn’t research anything and cries foul without second thought because Meta is evil

But it’s not Distrowatch’s job to verify an opaque censorship process. Meta is the one who created their filters and their filters are not open for public review. So it is entirely incumbent for Meta to handle the matter.

Distrowatch is correct to cry foul because that’s literally all they can do. It’s not like they can suggest a patch on github or something.

We have to remember that black box logic is wholly owned by the author of the logic. If it ain’t working, then yeah, cry foul, there’s no additional research to be done. That’s literally the entire point of obfuscating logic in a service, to ensure that nobody else can review the internals.

Meta was completely in the wrong. Distrowatch called them out on their fuckery. That is exactly how the system is supposed to work when a company blackboxes their shit.

Facebook support (person making around $3.5 per month in some third world country) doesn’t know difference between specific Linux distro and Linux itself, tells Distrowatch that Linux is now banned

Very likely. Run a shit company, get shit results. Distrowatch running with “Linux is now banned on Facebook” is not a result of lack of research, it’s the result of a company that just gave up on giving a fuck.

Our standards for companies have really fucking eroded over time and boy oh boy do CEOs eat that shit up. Meta has a systemic failure on-going in their company to which the C-Staff do NOT care one bit about. This episode is a manifestation of those failures. Meta has to up their fucking game here.

This notion that Distrowatch should have… That’s like saying someone who cut their mouth on glass in their McDonald’s burger is to blame for not first checking their burger for glass. The glass shouldn’t fucking be there in the first place. Customers have a reasonable expectation that a company isn’t a dumpster fire and it isn’t incumbent on the customers to ensure they aren’t stepping into a goddamn disaster zone.

I just really need people to understand, we have got to upper our expectations of companies. Because every time we let something like “oh well Distrowatch should have known they were talking to a complete moron”, we are letting these asshats who are currently enriching themselves on the United State’s taxpayer’s dime, get away with it.

Meta was fucking up badly and Distrowatch was letting everyone know in medias res how Meta was fucking up. This is 100% Meta fucked up. Don’t want $3.50/mo employees giving shit answers? Likely a good way for Meta to solve that is to NOT have fucking $3.50/month employees. It’s a pretty clear strategy for them to consider. Till then, they’re likely going to be handing out bullshit answers that contain no sense of logic and we ought to fucking call them out on it.

We live in everyone is dumb timeline

I’m not going to have this, “well people should have known better.” We ought not excuse Meta for this monumental fuck up. This is theirs to own. Everyone cannot randomly research every line of bullshit that’s pandered off by companies. There is just no time for that non-sense. If Distrowatch says “Meta told us Linux is banned” and provides the email to back it up, then until Meta says otherwise, that should be taken as the gospel of the company. If Meta thinks that it shouldn’t have gone the way it went, then Meta needs to fix their fucking hiring policies.

WE HAVE GOT TO STOP EXCUSING THESE PEOPLE. They are NOT going to act better if we give them even a single centimeter.

I get what you are saying, but this isn’t Distrowatch’s thing to reevaluate how stories hit the front page. Meta fucked up every step of the way. And for a company that’s pulling down a seven digit multiple value to what Distrowatch pulls in a year. Meta can fucking figure it out because they have access to a ten million fold more resources.

That’s just my two cents on this explanation.

this means deepseek is based on an openai model?

It doesn’t sound like it is. It sounds more like it’s hallucinating which DeepSeeks has a really light end fine-tuning. But who knows? While their stuff is Open Source, no one has yet to test it and see if they can reproduce the results DeepSeek got. For all we know this is just a Chinese con or the real deal. But not knowing how you landed into this point of the conversation it comes off as a context aware hallucination.

It knows about openai and it being a LLM but it’s mixed up self identity in specific with identity in general. That is it is start to confuse LLMs and ChatGPT as meaning the same thing and then trying to wire back this bad assumption to make sense again.

Again, who really knows at this point? It’s too new and it being in China, there’s likely no way to verify these people’s claims until someone can take what they’ve published and made a similar LLM.

Copenhagen-hosted DistroWatch says it has tried to appeal against the Community Standards-triggered ban. However, they say that a Facebook representative said that Linux topics would remain on the cybersecurity filter.

Nope, this one isn’t ignorance, it’s actual malice. They fully intended to start blocking Linux topics.

When you take this and pair it with what Larry Ellison just recently said:

AI will ensure “citizens will be on their best behavior”

There tends to be a pattern forming that I really don’t want to draw because I like tinfoil on my head.