Yikes, that’s rough!

Are you 100% sure it was a form from a bank?
Everything stinks of a scammers phishing form, leading to scammer calls.

I expect the only time a bank is going to want your phone number is when you initially sign up with them. After that, they should know who you are and your contact details.

I almost got caught out by a “sorry we missed you” delivery message, until it was asking for my date of birth.
Some of these random emails and SMS can catch you off-guard and seem legit

VMix popularity exploded during the pandemic. A lot of conferences became a blend of teams/zoom/Google and VMix.

Might be hardware based like a multi-m/e video mixer (blackmagic make cheap ones), or maybe more of a screen manager (like barco e2, analog way livecore). But, unless there are production requirements, vmix is much more likely. It’s (now) proven, and much cheaper!

OBS can absolutely do it. There are other open source softwares that can do it.
I’ve seen people bastardise Resolume into something that looks decent.
There are some online studio systems so everything you do is virtualized. Streamyard used to be like this, till it was bought by hopin (I think it was hopin)

Ah, yes good point

But it is a fixed ratio.
If it was in pounds, metric tons, moles or atomic mass units… It doesn’t change the ratio, the actual number.

Would it be acceptable to drop the unit all together?
“Lethal dose is 0.000000012 : 1 (substance : bodyweight)” (I made up the number).
I’m not sure if there is a better way of writing the ratio.

Could a fraction be more applicable?
“lethal dose is 1/600000 of bodyweight”

I’m sure it’s written as ng/kg to show the base units are the same, and the rest is just “fiddling” scientific notation

Oh man, spoilable items? Spoilable agriculture research packs?
That’s pretty intense

Just booted? Better wait 45 seconds and many failed searches, because DNS isn’t resolving.
Doesn’t matter that you are trying to launch a local program, it absolutely must delay the user experience until it can successfully resolve a DNS query.
Disgusting

They need to add seals to their seals, and valves to their valves.
If 1 is good, 2 is better!

No idea. Probably cause it’s a bit gate-keepy in the way I say “any tuner worth their salt” as if it’s the only way to achieve good results.
I haven’t met a tuner that uses anything other than forks. Maybe that’s because all the pianos I’ve worked with have been in good condition, so haven’t needed drastic measures applied. As I haven’t met a tuner that uses anything else, I can’t say if they are better/faster/whatever. I just assumed it’s the industry standard, like how orchestras tune by ear

I haven’t, but I’ve had many grand and baby grand pianos tuned after being moved onto stage, and a guy comes in and does it by ear.
I asked them why they didn’t have a stroboscopic tuner or something, and they’ve always found it easier with a couple forks and by ear

Im 99% sure any piano tuner worth their salt tunes by ear

Oh, gotcha.
Yeh, call it out when appropriate.
I guess it’s good that those people are recognising some discrimination. Just need to guide them towards calling it discrimination instead of a qualified discrimination (or positive discrimination).

What the hell is reversism?
Google gives me urban dictionary with equally bad phrasing:
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Reversism

“Just because it’s harder to recognise when it’s the other way round”.
Recognise what? Other way round from what?

So, people apply “reversism” to a discriminatory phrase/act/joke to make it easier to recognise that it is discrimination? Because, with “reversism” applied, it now applies to themselves, and they can then empathize with the original target of the discrimination?

And you are painting empathy as a bad thing?
Or, something else?
These are all questions, because it’s my thought process and I still don’t understand your phrasing or premise. So, maybe someone can answer?

I looked up your symptoms online, and it says here you might have “internet connectivity issues”

If you pay for your VPN using crypto, then they can’t tie it to your name, when they’re reselling the traffic it’s harder to tie it to an identity

Surely that only works if you have personally mined the crypto yourself.
And if you only use that wallet for paying for the same VPN service.
Crypto isn’t anonymous, the ledger of all transactions (IE the Blockchain) can be read by anyone.

She’s just been through her junk email folder and found a “We’ve noticed a new login” email from instagram yesterday

The junk-ing security notices is so common.
A few months ago, my dad said “uh, I got some email from my bank, and now my credit card doesn’t work”.
The email was describing some problem with his account which would have been so much easy to fix before they cancelled the card.
Similarly, I lost a domain name because the registrar notifications for renewal ended up in my junk mail.

It’s probably quite a significant issue. Companies can go “well we tried to contact you” and wash their hands.
Doesn’t matter that they also spammed bullshit marketing emails from the same address that issues security/renewal notifications.
Doesn’t matter that spam email has been such an issue it is near-impossible to host your own email server (and expect delivery) for a decade or so now.

but it looks very recently alive

Bruh, that’s what “fresh” means.
This might as well be 1 of your 5-a-day, it’s so fresh

Training will never stop, tho.
New models will keep coming out, datasets and parameters are going to change.

I feel like Talos Linux is NixOS applied to a very specific purpose: kubernetes.
I’ve recently been playing with kubernetes, and talos linux feels like cheating.

I think NixOS could has a huge market unexplored of server side deployments. Install NixOS, connect to the fresh install via a CLI tool, apply the patches (flakes?), and have an easy way to reset to base NixOS when you make a mistake so you can try a different set of patches.
All from the cli, all with idempotent config files.

Unimogs are exciting