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Cake day: January 2nd, 2025

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  • Boy, that’s hideous (I know many of you like this).

    The “cassette futurism” part is fine, it’s the car itself is part of the bad design from the era, and I really like the boxy car esthetic. This one’s just not good, because it’s from the transition era - it’s not of the all-metal period (or mostly-metal at least), instead it’s that terrible plastic bleeding to the bumpers. The front looks like a (terrible) 1980’s Chrysler K Car. Shudder.

    A slightly older car (perhaps 1-2 years) would’ve been better in general, but especially with the cassette futurism vibe, since the interior would be a juxtaposition to the exterior design. Or even the reverse, which CF does a lot - great exterior design around conventional internals (the Walkman, especially Sport versions, are peak example of this juxtaposition).

    That interior though, wow, that’s some snazzy design work. The dash just works, it fits with the era so well. Impressive.





  • I don’t see how you wouldn’t have your email on an email providers servers - that’s how email works. You send an email via a provider, they forward it to the destination address you’ve included with the email.

    That destination address is another email provider’s server, which holds it until the receiver connects and downloads it. Email is a store-and-forward system, designed at a time when users weren’t always connected. It still works this way.

    Email is old, so the fundamental mechanics are pretty simple, and encryption wasn’t an option at the time - so it’s sent in the clear. Otherwise it would require both sender and receiver (either at both ends, or the servers) to agree on an encryption to use.




  • At idle, SSD is usually better (like you said if the SSD has proper power management, and that takes research to know).

    Spinning platters are generally still better for power per gig/terabyte, because write time they consume less power than SSD.

    I dont really look at drive power consumption, because even with ~10 drives running in my environment, a single cpu doing anything moderate blows away their power consumption numbers (I’ve tested, not that it was needed, heat dissipation alone makes it clear).

    I have a ten-year old 5 drive NAS that runs 24/7, and it’s barely above room temp. Average draw is a few watts (the number was so low I put it out of my mind, maybe 5 watts - Raspberry Pi territory).

    My SFF desktop is 12w at idle, with either 2 small SSDs (500GB each) or a single large drive (12TB). So much for SSD having better idle power.




  • Scans for open ports run continuously these days.

    Ten years ago I opened a port for something for a couple days - for months after that I was getting regular scans against that port (and others).

    At one point the scans were so constant it was killing my internet performance (poor little consumer router had no defense capability).

    I don’t think the scans ever fully stopped until I moved. Whoever has that IP now probably gets specifically scanned on occasion.

    And just because you don’t run a business doesn’t mean you have nothing to lose.

    DMZ should be enough… But routers have known flaws, so I’d be sure to verify whatever I’m using.