As a result, will be able to offer drives beyond 140 TB in the 2030s.

Um thanks but tell us about 2026?

It’s new roms for the Nokia N8 if you still have one. It’s a 2010 phone so no idea if it has 5g or even 4g. Meh. I still have an N9 which is also unusable today because the 3g network here is gone.

Phone # seems like a scary thing to collect. Also, visiting the web site reveals an IP address, maybe not good. Wonder if there’s a more anonymous way to get the alerts out, like if some larger sites sent out alert geolocations along with regular web pages.

Why were they collecting that info to begin with? Sounds like asking for trouble.

No it doesn’t, you want to be able to turn off JS while it is running, and that is now impossible. Noscript stops it from running in the first place and that breaks too many sites.

Pepperidge Farms remembers when Firefox had a control like that to turn JavaScript on and off. The rest of you are supposed to have forgotten. Oops.

In interstellar space there is no temperature differential for that solar cell scheme to work from. It only works when there is something that is heated by the sun part of the time, and radiates heat into space the rest of the time. Maybe the far (“dark”) side of the moon counts for that, but for a moon station you probably want batteries or RTG’s or whatever. I’m sure there are uses for this thing but they sound very niche. Radiating heat into space on hot nights on the other hand is quite interesting, as an alternative to air conditioning.

The thing about deep space is confusing. When is it dark for long periods in deep space?

Microslop is going to spend 2026 improving Windows 11.

Why bother? Just upgrade everyone to Windows 10.

For a clock or ticker, the 1:2 aspect ratio and 64x128 resolution are way suboptimal. You want something like 16x64 or 16x128 with bigger leds. I got crap free LED clock with 2" tall digits a while back if that is of any interest. Not that configurable though.

I generally get stuff from porkbun.com since I’ve been there for a while, prices are decent and they have some convenient features. But, I should try namecrane.com since they are run by online buddies of mine. They are sort of a spin-off of the original buyvm.net.

Price comparator: https://tld-list.com/

Yes they separate out renewal prices so make sure to take that into consideration. The high renewal prices are a marketing trick of the TLD holders. The resellers can’t really do anything about them.

I guess it’s cool, but why not a regular display? The LED array’s 2:1 aspect ratio (128x64) is kind of constraining.

You have it approximately right, serving from an https domain does nothing to authenticate the thing being downloaded. There is such a thing as signed downloads, authenticated by a “code signing certificate”, used for things like Windows installers. Linux distros tend to use PGP signatures instead. Signing the download can in principle be a more secure process than serving a domain over https, since servers get pwned all the time. The download signing, by contrast, can in principle be done completely offline. There is a catch to that involving connecting to a timestamp server, but that gets into the weeds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_signing