Orca Slicer is open source and as far as I know a fork of Prusa Slicer. I suspect that you can compile from source with whichever version of OpenGL you want … if any.

Disclaimer: I’ve only just started looking at it for a different use-case, but it seems like it will do what I’m suggesting.

With?

I run projects inside Docker on a VM away from important data. It allows me to test and restrict access to specific things of my choosing.

It works well for me.

Apparently the person steering the ship confessed that he was asleep.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e6jp6z6lgo

Hands up if you have done this at least once in your life…

The SCSI solution requires making sure that you have the right terminator connector because of course there’s more than one standard … ask me how I know … I think the Wikipedia article on SCSI says it best:

As with everything SCSI, there are exceptions.

Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_connector

When you discover something that’s been missing in your life that you didn’t know you needed.

Welcome to the club!

So … hot air doesn’t float … that’s a thesis right there.

Before you start consolidating, consider what might happen if the switch is in an unexpected state. For example, someone turned off the heater or pump and you were expecting it to be on.

In other words, you need to consider what a “safe state” is for each thing and how your code, when it fails, reverts to that state. This is an example of “failsafe”.

Note that I said “when it fails”. This is true for all software, even on mission critical systems.

Source: I write software for a living.

Removed by mod

All fine and dandy … got any realistic alternatives?

I can absolutely guarantee that you are not the only person to have spent quality time getting to know the intimate backwaters of a codebase tracking down a bug that you introduced whilst tracking down a bug.

Source: I’ve been writing software for over 40 years.

From the article:

A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the company has been aware of the issue since at least August 2023, but maintains that changing the behavior could break compatibility with existing applications.

• Changing your Microsoft or Azure password does not immediately revoke RDP access for old credentials.
• There are no clear alerts or warnings when old passwords are used for RDP logins.
• Microsoft’s security tools, including Defender and Azure, do not flag this behavior.

So … this article published today, 5 May 2025, says that the Microsoft policy will start on 5 May 2025.

Some questions:

1. When did Microsoft announce this and where?
2. Is this a reasonable rollout timeline that affects pretty much anyone on the planet who does email?
3. As a society we run most of our activities through Google and Microsoft. At what point does this get classified as a utility and get regulated.

Education.

About that.

Just because I’ve done it this way and haven’t had issues, doesn’t mean it’s the best or only way.

You dared to ask a question and the tools to explore answers are readily available.

This is how we as a society make progress.

Please don’t feel like my experience is the final answer to your question … my experience tells me that this is rarely … if ever … the case.

So … please … explore!

If you genuinely attempting to quantify this, you can create a swap file of any size right there on your drive. You could iterate and test every setting for every scenario. You could even change settings dynamically if you wanted to.

That said, I leave it to the kernel to figure out and over the past 25 or so years that’s been fine.

Or you just block them.

I will note that in my experience the bot army from META is by far the most aggressive and destructive. At one point, traffic from their systems was tenfold all the others combined.

I’m guessing in the same way as Bit Torrent and others before it … with big flaming headlines, politicians foaming at the mouth, lawyers rubbing their hands with glee and the world for the general public becoming a little bit more shit whilst the actual miscreants carry on with impunity on some other platform or get funded by venture capitalists who make everything legal but no less palatable.

Source: I’ve been here for a while.

Pretty sure that they already shared it with copilot, so I’m guessing that it’s only a matter of time until everyone has a copy…