I only watched it now since the last two episodes were so bad I didn't feel any anticipation or urgency to watch. It was a minor improvement though, 5/10

Black and white added nothing other than making it feel like Casablanca. The similarities were too much on the nose, it would have been better if it were just a nod.

The idea of the A plot was fine but as usual the writing is careless and full of holes and implausibilities. The B plot was just a waste of time and the resolution was unsatisfying.

There could have been a small subplot explaining why Number One looked identical to the resistance leader instead of "just a coincidence" (and she matched a retina scan too, very convincing).

Arch has, in parts, Canadian roots and was originally developed by a Canadian programmer. For that I, as a Canadian myself, want to strongly say "you're welcome" in the name of the Canadian people!!

Adding my voice: Podman is great

I'm proud to be incompatible with Apple

He got at least partially Canadianized mid post switching from miles to kilometres.

I'm so used to it I never realized it's unusual.

Pull a docker image of an old distro into an apptainer sandbox, install what you need within, then make a .sif image, should work pretty much in perpetuity. You can also try to make an Appimage.

You can't successfully use a home email server.

Mostly true (server can be home but using the ISP network directly probably won't work)

You can't successfully use an email server on a (cloud) VPS.

Bullshit

You can't successfully use an email server on a bare metal machine in your own datacenter.

Bullshit

As such, it is my distinct displeasure to declare the death of SMTP. The protocol is no longer usable. And as we can see, this devolution occurred organically.

Bullshit

Arch does not directly link openssh to liblzma, and thus this attack vector is not possible.

Astrophysicist here. Yes, space is crazy, but interesting things to keep in mind:

1. The size of a star is determined by something called the photosphere. With those extremely massive stars, you can be hundreds of millions of kilometres "inside" and not yet know it.
2. Similar story with supermassive black holes, from the perspective of an astronaut falling in, they wouldn't really be able to tell when they cross the horizon because the tidal forces there are very small (they will inevitably fall towards the centre and get spaghettified at some point)

Sam also had the ring for a short time (longer than Déagol)

I'm not an expert but I feel like organizations like Wikipedia that are not based in the UK and do not do business in the UK shouldn't fight or comply with this nonsense. If the British government instructs ISPs to block access to Wikipedia, let them, and see the uproar it generates.

I can't wait for public transit to suck less in Canada.

No, it's not normal getting a fax in 2025.

Funny but not so accurate. We don't actually know when Legolas was born, we don't know that the mithril coat was actually forged in Erebor (it could certainly have been brought during the resettlement from the Grey Mountains), and we don't know what "some young elf-prince long ago" actually means and that none was born since the fouding of Erebor (I don't think we have an exhaustive list of noble elves from the text).

BJ almost certainly stands for Beijing here (although the company is apparently Qingdao-based). You see it a lot in China, including very oblivious "I ❤️ BJ" T-shirts worn by old ladies.

2% milk is just water that is lying about being milk.

Wife should have Googled it, she's the buttface.

Daphne Caruana Galizia, the murdered journalist who is referred to, was not the reported who broke the story. She was however murdered very likely due to her work on the Panama Papers and for exposing a dirty Maltese businessman and his political ties.

It's exaggerated but yes, this map really reminds me of many large Chinese cities. It's probably true every major city has a People's Square. I think the map is based on Beijing.