I migrated from pinboard to raindrop this year, can confirm.
I was on Pinboard's lifetime plan. No subscription, just a single payment of $15 back who knows when. A few years ago I was asked if I wouldn't rather pay $5 per month instead, and declined. I wonder if all the outages and throttling were a result of underestimating the running costs.
Regardless, service quality had declined to such levels that I switched to raindrop this year. Ironically, raindrop is free to use, and may run into the same issue eventually.
I got the same e-mail and also declined to move off the lifetime plan. I would have considered it to support the site but I could see where the owner's attention was going to be focused. Politics is a hell of a drug.
There's a reason why I took my inverter offline after making sure that it was installed correctly. A cheap power meter now serves to measure my power generation instead.
Taking it offline doesn't protect against supply chain attacks in the form of built-in kill switches. A satellite could transmit signed instructions by modulating light below the noise floor, inverters must sense the voltage/current state of the PV panels anyway for MPPT to work.
Only deep inspection of the silicon and code can improve the situation.
Perhaps Western blocks could develop provably secure silicon IP and code, formally verified, and perform continuous random sampling on imported goods, including full multilayer silicon inspection; publish it for free and refuse to import products that don't cooperate.
I'm curious about the feasibility of modulating light onto a solar panel. I feel it would not be feasible, except possibly onto a single panel at a time over a long time period. Just a gut feeling based off radio stuff (GPS).
GPS can provide the coherent reference, if you mean transmitting signal (say sound) while the panel is illuminated by the sun theres youtube videos of people doing that, with a laser pointer, but in sunlight and without information theoretic justified modulation scheme.
Nothing prevents the satellite to transmit the commands at night, if that feels more convincing to you.
Ask yourself what is the active area of a photodiode in your TV/... ? What is the active area of your light-bucket on a roof?
I'm not at all claiming this is happening, I'm claiming this is very feasible to do. Consider the aperture (area) of a camera or telescope, how many times can you fit this area into a domestic solar panel installation?
If we are discussing the solar panel that powers your outdoor garden light, I don't suggest to apply the precautionary principle, but we are talking about products that sum up to a significant fraction of grid power generation.
On the other hand, the throughput requirements on image processing are often far more stringent than in audio. A full-resolution stereo audio stream is only 200kb/s = 12 Mb/min after all, whereas a video system might have to chew throw many gigabytes in the same time.
When I was working on desktop audio software, our rule of thumb was to keep CPU occupancy below 30%. More than that, and you'd be sure to get hitching in your audio stream. (This factors in thread contention, other background tasks stealing CPU cycles, file system pauses...)
A much different experience from embedded programming, where 99% occupancy is no problem at all.
Photo editing is my last holdout. And a European-compatible banking software.
Everything else works well on Linux. Gaming included. I've run Linux many years, in fact.
But Capture One and Lightroom are not available over there, which is what draws me back to MacOS. Of course I could just use darktable. Have done that for several years. But at the end of the day, I just prefer Capture One, and that's enough reason for me to switch my OS.
Some european banks are still struggling with the whole internet concept and have win32 apps using emulated dial up for both home and business customers.
The few I had a pleasure of using have a really good browser and mobile app support. The only problem I ran into is that sometimes mobile apps refuse to run on rooted Android devices.
Raiffeisen in Austria is/was? one of the stragglers, but I haven't dealt with them in 2 years or so - a company I worked for was stuck with it, but I noped out for Erste Sparkasse ASAP, and they let you do everything in browser. (Since 2011 at least.)
Raiffeisen in Russia let one do everything in a browser on Linux since 2008 for personal accounts. Possibly earlier, I did not have an account with them back then. For business accounts, it's since February 2016.
A good, HBCI capable software that can list transactions and make transfers from and to multiple banks. Think Quicken or MoneyMoney.
The browser will only ever log in to one bank per tab, and with different UI per bank. If you have more than one bank, it becomes a hassle quite quickly.
I was on Pinboard's lifetime plan. No subscription, just a single payment of $15 back who knows when. A few years ago I was asked if I wouldn't rather pay $5 per month instead, and declined. I wonder if all the outages and throttling were a result of underestimating the running costs.
Regardless, service quality had declined to such levels that I switched to raindrop this year. Ironically, raindrop is free to use, and may run into the same issue eventually.