What’s this? A bunker full of billionaires unbothered by bees? My dump truck full of bees ought to put a stop to that!

The OS can cache parts of files in RAM to speed up accesses. That cache is called the page cache. If your file is big enough you can fairly reliably access random parts of it and expect the OS to not have cached them no matter how big the page cache is. So each read hits the SSD, allowing you to observe its performance.

You seem fixated on the idea that OPFS is some kind of ramdisk. It isn’t. When a website stores a file in OPFS, the browser writes some kind of opaque data structure describing all stored files to disk. That data structure can take whichever shape the browser desires excewpt for just dumping those files in a directory in order to isolate OPFS from the regular filesystem.

You can query the browser for the maximum quota available to you and then just tell it that you want a file that big. Boom, now you own that chunk of the user’s SSD.

As has been pointed out elsewhere, that’s still of dubious value for fingerprinting but I don’t particularly enjoy the thought that random websites can just occupy gigabytes of space on my computer without even asking.

You can absolutely have fancy UI elements that provide additional functionality. Most OSes don’t have built-in 3D visualization widgets but that doesn’t mean you can’t write CAD software for them.

My point is that your custom widgets should make an effort to look and feel as much like native widgets as possible. Any skills the user has in using native widgets should carry over to your custom ones. So your custom text field should look and behave like a native one until the user types two left brackets. When they do, the menu that pops up should be a native menu or one designed to resemble one very closely.

Thanks to web-first development and lazy cross-platform UIs, standards in this regard have deteriorated to near-nothingness. Buttons don’t have to look or even behave like anything else on any platform. It’s perfectly reasonable to expect the user to relearn the UI for any application. Modern UIs spiritually follow in the footsteps of Bryce 3D rather than any Human Interface Guidelines. And that peeves me.

For all their faults, Apple got Mac users to have very high standards in this regard for quite some time, which led to a bevy of good-looking and approachable applications, at least until post-skeuomorphic macOS took care of the “attractive” part. The consistent UI across vendors was something I really liked back when I was a Mac user.

Yes. That’s literally the point. The more things look and behave as expected, the easier they are to use.

Of course these days that gets trumped by the desire to shove the corporate design everywhere.

You didn’t hit the page file. This is OPFS, an in-browser filesystem that is sandboxed to each origin (essentially to each website), not directly accessible by the user, and exempt from the security checks that would guard access to the regular filesystem.

Yeah, that sounds to me like it needs a major revision.

Protip: Change your password in the manager first, then copy from there to the form. Your password manager should handle your passwords for you; there’s no reason why that shouldn’t apply when you first set them.

I generally try to keep to a policy where system passwords and the password manager’s master password are the only passwords I ever enter manually. All other passwords are generated and saved in the manager and then copied over.

That works pretty well if the website doesn’t misguidedly disable pasting into one of the password fields. Even then I try to paste into the other one.

That word salad gave me Time Cube flashbacks.

Add conditioner for me because I have super hard water. And my soap is body wash. But yeah, same principle.

Not necessarily. hCaptcha is not very reliable in my experience. Sometimes it wants you to select multiple pictures but only shows one that matches the prompt. Or or gives you multiple matching images but still says you’re wrong. Sometimes it tells you you passed but then doesn’t bother setting the token correctly so you have to do it again. Of course all of these can combine until you solve variations of the same damn captcha thirty times in a row.

hCaptcha is such a horrible buggy mess that my base assumption is that I’ll get trapped in an infinite loop anytime I see it.

Actually, yeah. Apparently the kind of lockout the replacement firmware works around has been defined for BD from the beginning but has only really been enforced for UHD BD.

Practically yes, although they still market it as a multi-device OS.

Most newer drives won’t give you the kind of direct access you need for an accurate copy. Some disc areas necessary for dealing with copy protection are inaccessible except by specially blessed playback software.

Some older drives ignore this restriction but newer ones, especially all 4K-capable drives, don’t.

There’s an alternative firmware called LibreDrive that enables a low-level access mode where an application has direct control over the laser assembly. That plus ripping software aware of this mode (MakeMKV) will get the data off the disc. Add known decryption keys and you can get at the raw video files.

You do need magic firmware for BluRays.

It actually is, although Samsung only released Tizen phones from 2015 to 2017.

A Backstroke of the West screenshot is definitely an inspired choice for the “keep above others” feature.

That’s just misinformation. I put some shows onto a Jellyfin instance and not a single one has disappeared. Not even an email about something being dropped soon. So that’s a core part of the Netflix experience you’re just not getting with Jellyfin.

Heck, it doesn’t even randomly force me to watch in 1080p or 720p despite being on the 4K plan and the show/movie being available in 4K. It’s like Jellyfin isn’t even trying.

Mind you, stealing the internet worked because they effectively had the sum total of human knowledge as a training set. I don’t think that there’s nearly as much detailed data on the minutiae of running a business.

You don’t need a double-blind study to determine if acoustic emissions are the culprit. You just need to measure specifically for infrasound (and ultrasound, for that matter). It’s an unusual form of pollution but very much measurable if you know to look for it.

Unlike the things you mentioned, infrasound is understood to be a thing these days and is sometimes considered in construction. It’s not exactly witchcraft; most equipment (including decibel meters) just isn’t built to account for very low frequencies.

If the data center does put out noise at very low frequencies that’s probably some kind of unintended resonance that they’ll have to stop. It might be as simple as slightly changing the RPMs of some cooling fans or installing sound proofing in specific places.

Yes, infrasound is a fairly well understood phenomenon. Loud noise at frequencies below 10 Hz isn’t commonly picked up by recording equipment but can induce things like anxiety, nausea, and sleep problems. While recently wind power plants have sometimes been accused of generating it, it’s also been caused by industrial fans and even resonance in a building’s ductwork.

It wouldn’t surprise me if a data center’s AC caused enough noise at frequencies not normally monitored to become an issue.