Or you could take the hit once and spend half a day writing a script that requests certificates from LetsEncrypt
Part of the cost of using Let's Encrypt is the cost of registering and periodically renewing a domain, as the CA/Browser Forum's Baseline Requirements forbid issuing certificates for hostnames in made-up TLDs (such as.local or.internal) or IPv4 addresses in reserved private ranges (10/8, 172.16/12, or 192.168/16). But not every device on every network has a fully qualified domain name. For example, not everybody who runs a home LAN already owns a domain. Is the head of household in every home with a router, printer, or NAS supposed to spend $15 per year (source: Gandi.net) on a domain for said device now? And in the present case, would it be practical to associate a FQDN to each of these IPMI management consoles?
Let's Encrypt does not require a server to be Internet accessible, only to have a hostname in a public TLD. The Certbot client requires a server to be Internet accessible because it uses the HTTP challenge. But other ACME clients, such as Dehydrated, instead use a DNS challenge that works for servers that do not receive connections from the Internet.
I basically youtube-dl | mplayer so I can watch the fscking video instead of watching a browser.
Which works as long as you're watching YouTube or another site supported by youtube-dl. I tried grabbing this video in youtube-dl, and I got the error "Unsupported URL". What's the second line tool for sites that youtube-dl doesn't support?
If x265 implements the same encoding methods as HEVC, which it probably does if it creates a compatible bitstream, it's covered by the U.S. patents that cover HEVC. That's the whole concept of "essential patents".
This is very much like the problem with the United States Postal Service. Now that we have e-mail, text messaging and all kinds of other ways to deliver digital content to each other, people don't write as much snail mail.
Which might very well be canceled out by the increase in online shopping compared to driving to brick-and-mortar stores. But then perhaps my perspective is warped by my day job. In the warehouse next door to my office, I can see a cart full of parcels that we mail through USPS because it's cheaper than shipping them through UPS Ground.
Is Royal Mail seeing the same shift in its business away from letters and toward parcels?
My cell phone can be answered upstairs or downstairs because I would have chargers in both places
Unless you're upstairs and the phone is downstairs. Getting in the habit of always carrying it with you whenever you leave a room is fine if you always wear clothes with pockets suitable for carrying a cell phone, but a lot of my clothes lack pockets.
Also, doesn't POTS still work when the power goes out?
Most cell phones have a built-in battery backup, which still works as long as the tower also has battery backup.
And elderly tend to stick with what they know, the learning curve from an old landline to a cellphone (even a dumb phone) could be too steep or daunting for the elderly, not to mention ergonomically difficult.
Here in the USA, both Verizon and AT&T offer cellular radios into which the subscriber plugs a POTS phone (source; source). (I haven't used them and can't speak for their quality, ability to handle extensions, or ability to run off batteries in a power outage.) In addition, GreatCall offers Jitterbug phones with large buttons and large display specifically for seniors.
I imagine that all DSL providers in all countries charge a fee for maintaining the copper. But I thought Virgin had laid a separate fibre network in much of Britain (source).
"Line rental" covers the cost of maintaining a phone line used for POTS and/or DSL. POTS (plain old telephone service) is the "old skool phone" you mention, and DSL (digital subscriber line) is an Internet connection delivered over higher frequencies on the same copper.
This probably raises a question among some of you: "So why even subscribe to POTS in the cellular era?" Even without considering the pricing structure differences between the U.S. and British phone markets, an advantage of POTS over cellular is that POTS lets you have an extension on each storey (as they spell it), so that you don't need to go upstairs or downstairs to answer the phone. In addition, POTS allows use of a fax machine. I know some federal and state government agencies in the USA still require certain tax records to be faxed; does Britain?
A page should not contact more than 5 or say x count of other sites.
By "other sites" do you mean other origins, where an origin is a (protocol, hostname, port) tuple, or other registrable domains as defined by the Public Suffix List? For connection overhead purposes, you want origins, but for privacy purposes, you want registrable domains.
There is little or no value to a full I frame anymore.
Adding more intra-frames reduces the time that a throbber is displayed when the user has chosen to seek to a different point in a recorded video or join a live stream in progress. And as you pointed out, "scrubbing" is the upper limit of seeking speed.
I frames only provided good quality based on a timer, not based on when it was needed.
That depends on the video encoder. Older real-time MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoders had a rigid "group of pictures" (GOP) structure that inserted I frames on a timer. Apple's HTTP Live Streaming breaks a video into a playlist of four-second segments, each of which needs to start with an I frame. But if you don't plan to let viewers seek or join a live stream in progress, you can use automatic keyframe detection with I-to-I intervals capped in the hundreds of frames.
Installing that and then not whitelisting any sites makes interaction with web applications require a full page reload for each update. Good luck getting web-based chat to refresh in a timely manner or making web-based image editing programs respond quickly without script. I assume that web users who find full page reloads inconvenient outnumber web users who are paranoid about a site owner running code in a sandbox on the user's computer.
Then perhaps Hugo's Les Misérables might benefit from an approach akin to that of Julio Cortázar's novel Hopscotch: the main story at the front, with the rest relegated to appendices. Readers could then choose to read the main story first or read with the appendices inserted before each related chapter.
I use a different method of blocking ads: Firefox with Tracking Protection enabled globally. It blocks only those ad networks and exchanges known to track viewers from one site to another to display interest-based ads, but that's pretty much all of them. Running a tracking blocker rather than an ad blocker also provides plausible deniability against those who claim that ad blockers take food out of writers' children's mouths, as a publisher could in theory instead sell ad space directly to advertisers without such a network.
The featured article states that background audio still plays.
A laptop connected to mains power through a transformer still draws power through the transformer, which still counts against your subscription to electric power. In addition, you may want other tasks running on your computer to have priority over ad exchanges' real-time bidding scripts.
And don't forget my epic cookie clicker run, which I've left in some background tab somewhere for well over a year now!
Is that literally just clicking a cookie over and over?
No. Cookie Clicker by Orteil is sort of like a distilled version of an RTS tech tree: you spend cookies to buy buildings and upgrades that produce cookies over time.
sometimes I'll listen to a podcast/music in a another tab while surfing in the visible table. This is my biggest beef with firefox on android, background tasks are stopped
You can blame that in part on streaming providers' freemium model of requiring a paid subscription for background listening, particularly YouTube.
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Or you could take the hit once and spend half a day writing a script that requests certificates from LetsEncrypt
Part of the cost of using Let's Encrypt is the cost of registering and periodically renewing a domain, as the CA/Browser Forum's Baseline Requirements forbid issuing certificates for hostnames in made-up TLDs (such as .local or .internal) or IPv4 addresses in reserved private ranges (10/8, 172.16/12, or 192.168/16). But not every device on every network has a fully qualified domain name. For example, not everybody who runs a home LAN already owns a domain. Is the head of household in every home with a router, printer, or NAS supposed to spend $15 per year (source: Gandi.net) on a domain for said device now? And in the present case, would it be practical to associate a FQDN to each of these IPMI management consoles?
Let's Encrypt does not require a server to be Internet accessible, only to have a hostname in a public TLD. The Certbot client requires a server to be Internet accessible because it uses the HTTP challenge. But other ACME clients, such as Dehydrated, instead use a DNS challenge that works for servers that do not receive connections from the Internet.
I basically youtube-dl | mplayer so I can watch the fscking video instead of watching a browser.
Which works as long as you're watching YouTube or another site supported by youtube-dl. I tried grabbing this video in youtube-dl, and I got the error "Unsupported URL". What's the second line tool for sites that youtube-dl doesn't support?
If x265 implements the same encoding methods as HEVC, which it probably does if it creates a compatible bitstream, it's covered by the U.S. patents that cover HEVC. That's the whole concept of "essential patents".
[POTS is] Far cheaper than a mobile subscription.
This is rapidly becoming no longer the case, particularly for subscribers who use a flip phone and therefore don't need a data plan.
This is very much like the problem with the United States Postal Service. Now that we have e-mail, text messaging and all kinds of other ways to deliver digital content to each other, people don't write as much snail mail.
Which might very well be canceled out by the increase in online shopping compared to driving to brick-and-mortar stores. But then perhaps my perspective is warped by my day job. In the warehouse next door to my office, I can see a cart full of parcels that we mail through USPS because it's cheaper than shipping them through UPS Ground.
Is Royal Mail seeing the same shift in its business away from letters and toward parcels?
My cell phone can be answered upstairs or downstairs because I would have chargers in both places
Unless you're upstairs and the phone is downstairs. Getting in the habit of always carrying it with you whenever you leave a room is fine if you always wear clothes with pockets suitable for carrying a cell phone, but a lot of my clothes lack pockets.
Also, doesn't POTS still work when the power goes out?
Most cell phones have a built-in battery backup, which still works as long as the tower also has battery backup.
And elderly tend to stick with what they know, the learning curve from an old landline to a cellphone (even a dumb phone) could be too steep or daunting for the elderly, not to mention ergonomically difficult.
Here in the USA, both Verizon and AT&T offer cellular radios into which the subscriber plugs a POTS phone (source; source). (I haven't used them and can't speak for their quality, ability to handle extensions, or ability to run off batteries in a power outage.) In addition, GreatCall offers Jitterbug phones with large buttons and large display specifically for seniors.
I imagine that all DSL providers in all countries charge a fee for maintaining the copper. But I thought Virgin had laid a separate fibre network in much of Britain (source).
"Line rental" covers the cost of maintaining a phone line used for POTS and/or DSL. POTS (plain old telephone service) is the "old skool phone" you mention, and DSL (digital subscriber line) is an Internet connection delivered over higher frequencies on the same copper.
This probably raises a question among some of you: "So why even subscribe to POTS in the cellular era?" Even without considering the pricing structure differences between the U.S. and British phone markets, an advantage of POTS over cellular is that POTS lets you have an extension on each storey (as they spell it), so that you don't need to go upstairs or downstairs to answer the phone. In addition, POTS allows use of a fax machine. I know some federal and state government agencies in the USA still require certain tax records to be faxed; does Britain?
There are no longer any requirements for license or royalties for the use of the HEVC components for most cases of decoding BPG images.
Citation? And what license is required for encoding, such as a server that makes BPG thumbnails of uploaded JPEG or PNG images?
A page should not contact more than 5 or say x count of other sites.
By "other sites" do you mean other origins, where an origin is a (protocol, hostname, port) tuple, or other registrable domains as defined by the Public Suffix List? For connection overhead purposes, you want origins, but for privacy purposes, you want registrable domains.
There is little or no value to a full I frame anymore.
Adding more intra-frames reduces the time that a throbber is displayed when the user has chosen to seek to a different point in a recorded video or join a live stream in progress. And as you pointed out, "scrubbing" is the upper limit of seeking speed.
I frames only provided good quality based on a timer, not based on when it was needed.
That depends on the video encoder. Older real-time MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 encoders had a rigid "group of pictures" (GOP) structure that inserted I frames on a timer. Apple's HTTP Live Streaming breaks a video into a playlist of four-second segments, each of which needs to start with an I frame. But if you don't plan to let viewers seek or join a live stream in progress, you can use automatic keyframe detection with I-to-I intervals capped in the hundreds of frames.
Lossy compression of javascript works fukin awesome.
If you're referring to minification, I'm inclined to agree. It loses variable names and internal comments, compressing them to a table mapping minified JavaScript files to their source code.
Its called NoScript. Loses it entirely!
Installing that and then not whitelisting any sites makes interaction with web applications require a full page reload for each update. Good luck getting web-based chat to refresh in a timely manner or making web-based image editing programs respond quickly without script. I assume that web users who find full page reloads inconvenient outnumber web users who are paranoid about a site owner running code in a sandbox on the user's computer.
Then perhaps Hugo's Les Misérables might benefit from an approach akin to that of Julio Cortázar's novel Hopscotch : the main story at the front, with the rest relegated to appendices. Readers could then choose to read the main story first or read with the appendices inserted before each related chapter.
"Ow My Balls" premiered in 1989, and I'm guessing it's part of the reason Tourette's Guy shouts "BOB SAGET!"
Your argument 1. Fear of getting stolen because it is in a bigger bag, Is a stupid argument.
Even if it isn't more likely to be stolen, as you claim, it's still bulkier and heavier.
Oddly enough most of the bloat in modern software is Security and Stability features to prevent unexpected inputs from causing unpredictable results.
I'm interested. Where can I read more about this being the cause?
You get what you pay for.
Or, in the case of a business limited by its finances, what its customers are willing to pay for.
So would it be a good idea to make a web application available without charge but put corresponding native applications behind a paywall?
Free web hosting services insert advertisements into HTML documents hosted thereon. GeoCities died long ago, but Tripod appears to be still around.
Javascript image transforms are still grossly inefficient compared to any native image tool.
Is it substantially less efficient than running a native image tool in a Vagrant box and using an X server on your machine to view the Vagrant box?
Now I just want this feature for firefox
It's not quite the same, but opening about:config and setting privacy.trackingprotection.enabled to true will blacklist a lot of abusive adtech.
I use a different method of blocking ads: Firefox with Tracking Protection enabled globally. It blocks only those ad networks and exchanges known to track viewers from one site to another to display interest-based ads, but that's pretty much all of them. Running a tracking blocker rather than an ad blocker also provides plausible deniability against those who claim that ad blockers take food out of writers' children's mouths, as a publisher could in theory instead sell ad space directly to advertisers without such a network.
Other people use tools to configure an operating system's built-in DNS blacklist. But that doesn't work quite so well on mobile operating systems, where only the device manufacturer ordinarily has privileges to modify the device-wide DNS blacklist.
The featured article states that background audio still plays.
A laptop connected to mains power through a transformer still draws power through the transformer, which still counts against your subscription to electric power. In addition, you may want other tasks running on your computer to have priority over ad exchanges' real-time bidding scripts.
And don't forget my epic cookie clicker run, which I've left in some background tab somewhere for well over a year now!
Is that literally just clicking a cookie over and over?
No. Cookie Clicker by Orteil is sort of like a distilled version of an RTS tech tree: you spend cookies to buy buildings and upgrades that produce cookies over time.
sometimes I'll listen to a podcast/music in a another tab while surfing in the visible table. This is my biggest beef with firefox on android, background tasks are stopped
You can blame that in part on streaming providers' freemium model of requiring a paid subscription for background listening, particularly YouTube.