Eh, Jalapeño is weak sauce. I’ll wait for the Habanero.

Update, kernel panic happened today, so I updated the BIOS settings:

• tCL (CAS Latency): Change from 11 to 12
• tRCD: Change from 11 to 12
• tRP: Change from 11 to 12
• tRAS: Change from 28 to 32
• DRAM voltage changed from 1.488 to 1.530

All the initial values were Auto values. I’ll let it sit for at least a month with no reboots before calling it fixed. I’ll set a reminder

That was kinda the plot in 007: First Light

The EULA is not beholden to copyright law. “Limited license” is in direct contradiction to European Court of Justice’s ruling that if a commoner expects a “sale” then all rights given by a sale are protected which cannot be limited by an EULA. Right now regulators are questioning whether having a “Buy” button constitutes a sale and is thus protected by the ECJ ruling in UsedSoft vs. Oracle. Nevertheless they’re trying to combat this behaviour either through interpreting current regulations or by creating new regulations to close potential loopholes.

I’m not American, so no. A contractual term can only be provided before entering a purchase agreement in EU. Copyright law is still in effect, but all the EULAs you read after purchase (e.g. during boot) are void here.

EU is very adamant that you can only present contractual terms before entering an agreement (purchase) not after. All those EULAs showing up in the game before you are shown the main menu are void in EU.

If the EULA is instead embedded in the purchase flow with an “I agree” checkbox then the UsedSoft vs. Oracle case is likely still precedence to argue that you own the copy. Reason is that the purchase flow uses the “Buy” terminology and nowhere outside of the EULA it mentions rental/lease/limited/etc. This would breach the “reasonable consumer expectations” as the storefront didn’t make it clear in their purchase experience that it was only a limited license you obtained and that a normal consumer doesn’t expect “limited” when reading “Buy”. This part has though not been tested in court yet but most legal scholars agree that this would be the likely outcome should someone bring it up.

Luckily the EULA doesn’t apply when obtaining it through unauthorized means since the EULA would never have been accepted upon a purchase that didn’t happen.

(It is though copyright infringement, but you still have more ownership over the bytes on your own disk since DRM would have been removed or neutered)

Almost makes you think that the bible might have been written by humans and is just as flawed in its text as humanity itself.

He’s gonna be an awesome uncle.

I worked in software ops where part of my day was handling incidents and bring anxiety to the room when I came running to a dev team with an incident caused by their recent release. A few times it was caused by someone accidentally running a test scenario in prod. At one point I got enough and said “add a bright orange ‘test’ banner on your UI for dev environments.” Apparently that was a foreign concept to absolutely everybody, and the more I look around the less I see people actually trying to make an effort to distinguish the two to prevent such catastrophic failures. Especially when you’re handling tens of gigawatts of energy on a daily basis.

I’ll try to remember to update you in 1-2 months then!

You could even get a full refund for your purchase. I did with 100s of hours and the original purchase being years ago.

For a project I liked I saw that the translation of the UI was only about 1% complete for my native language. I decided to dedicate the weekend to get it above 95%. This was apparently the part that seemed too hard for most to make a dent in, but across several new versions my language is still 100%. I think my groundwork made it easier for some sporadic contributors to get a small bit of dopamine when updating the few new strings in a release to see it hit 100% again.

I’ll try that next time it dies, see if it helps

And I’ve given up on Facebook ages ago. You should too.

Only thing I wish for Christmas is to be able to replace the RAM and mobo in one of my servers. It is failing with a kernel panic about once a week and it is an old DDR3 platform I planned to upgrade back in January. I have isolated the issue to a hardware fault but left without a solution…

And the realist in me says that no one outside Britain knows what Elizabeth Tower is. And probably half of Britain.

That’s why NIS2 in Europe demands that OT is on a separate network from IT. My old workplace (well, the head of FO Technology and his gang anyway) was up in arms about it because it “was a waste of time” (and completely ruin the ideal architecture he had in his mind).