freefolks's comments

On: Ward Christensen (of BBS and XMODEM fame) has died

[freefolks]

in the 90's, Xmodem seemed to be a inferior protocol compared to Z-Modem and HS-Link.

[karaterobot → freefolks]

For what it's worth, Zmodem came about 10 years after Xmodem, and HS/Link came about 15 years after Xmodem.

[kragen → freefolks]

Sure, but that's because they were designed later with the benefit of hindsight on XMODEM, and didn't have to run on such tiny machines.

[snvzz → freefolks]

Yet they're both worse than Kermit, which is much older than them.

But XMODEM is still the oldest.

On: Car Dealers Are in Turmoil as Cyber Incidents Stri...

[freefolks]

Why is no one talking about this ? It is a pretty big deal.

On: CDK Global shuts down its DMS again after overnigh...

[freefolks]

I don't know why this isn't being discussed on HN, this is a pretty big deal

On: mRNA Cancer Vaccine Reprograms Immune System to Ta...

[freefolks]

My father went under surgery to get this removed. It was 6cm and completely grew back within 3 months. He died 7 months later.

[feydaykyn → freefolks]

I'm sorry for your loss

On: The Reddits

[freefolks]

Friendster > Myspace

On: Let's build a VORON Trident

[freefolks]

Self Sourced with the best parts and components on the market I spent around $2400+ for my Voron 2.4

On: A wild idea to protect the Great Barrier Reef

[freefolks]

corals are sensitive to rapid and wide changes in water parameters whether it be temperature, pH, alkalinity. Due to the how large the volume of water that is in the ocean these parameters really don't fluctuate as much as you would think besides temperature. pH only dictates how fast coral can grow but corals are much more sensitive to changes in temperature and alkalinity.

[onetimeuse92304 → freefolks]

Ah, what you want to say is you only care for the fast death of coral reefs and don't care for things that ensure its death but will take maybe a decade or two?

pH does not fluctuate much, true, but it drops steadily which is just as deadly to coral.

[winwang → onetimeuse92304]

If it takes a few more decades, we could presumably find/implement better solutions.

[suoduandao2 → winwang]

Corals are more likely to survive a slow than a fast change as well. I don't think we know that much about how evolution bottlenecks work, but I'd think it's easier to adapt to a radically different environment in three generations than one.

On: Mercedes beats Tesla to autonomous driving in Cali...

[freefolks]

>I bring this up only because I bought my X in 2018 with FSD prepaid

Mine came as standard equipment.

On: Discord’s Creator Portal

[freefolks]

Had this for a few months. It's great but lacking in tools to manage the subscriptions.

On: Whatever Happened to Plasma TVs?

[freefolks]

My panasonic plasma I bought in 2006 is still going strong, at 1080i