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by BuildTheRobots 11mo ago
I wonder how much of it is low quality adapters vs poor drivers. Whatever Bluetooth module they used in my £20 Chinesium car stereo connects quicker and works with less niggles than any other device I've tested in the last 20 years.
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by BuildTheRobots 11mo ago
> I've often thought about that when there's a work crisis: If I'm the second on the scene, what can I do to support those fighting the fire right now, before jumping in. A lot of it depends on the size and skill-set of yo
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by BuildTheRobots 11mo ago
Except unpowered SD cards (and SSDs for that matter) don't claim to hold data for more than a couple of years. I'm a big believer in thinking you have backups being worse than knowing you don't, so anything that encourages pe
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by BuildTheRobots 11mo ago
It's something I've done myself in the past. First sort is because it needs to be sorted for uniq -c to count it proper, second sort because uniq doesn't always give the output in the right order.
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
It was one of those situations where the internet was part of the lease, and the property owners got the MSP to provide for multiple companies on the site. Sadly I wasn't a customer of either Juniper or the MSP, and it wasn't some
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
It did see a lot of use. I forgot to say, but the majority of 3G UMTS and 4G LTE radios (operator level and even down to tiny things like femtocells) required it to connect back to the $(core network) and encapsulated a mix of control and u
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
Very interesting. I had a similar problem a few years back with a technophobe Grandma who wouldn't use whatsapp and a stingy aunt who'd moved to the states. Used a Fritz!Box as it'll act as a DECT<->SIP server so my gra
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
Coming from the telecoms space, I was slightly amazed to see how little well known SCTP actually is in the networking world. My old company/offices had site internet provided by one of the top 50 UK Managed Service Providers. They swap
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
Bigger orgs for the most part use whatever vpn solutions their (potentially decade old) hardware firewalls support. Until you can manage and endpoint a Wireguard tunnel on Cisco, Juniper, Fortigate (etc) hardware then it's going to tak
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
My understanding is that they're glitching the game to inject data into memory, in this case processor instructions. And then they use another glitch to jump to and execute that code. No modifications needed to the hardware or ROM, you
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
Not just swappable, but in a lot of corporate laptops with a locked down CMOS, the swappability is still one of the shortcuts that a user level user can change in the BIOS. I thought Ctrl being in the right place on the new keyboard would b
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
Yep, you're totally right. I had double and triple on the brain from the Fisherman's; standard climbing knot is but a simple figure-8.
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
HowKnot2 have been making empirical testing videos on climbing knots and gear which have proved fascinating and often unintuitive. If you'd like to see a break-strength test comparing single, double and triple fisherman’s knots, you mi
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
There's also the Iodine project if you want to tunnel raw IPv4 over DNS [53] [53] https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
Interesting. It prompted me to install the microsoft store version which, when launched manually is identical to the web version. As the keyboard key brought up a web window telling me to install it, I assumed it just launched that.
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
We get Copilot at work. From what I can see the Copilot app is just the Copilot web interface in its own container and webview, though I've not gone poking at it. Considering the web page in a browser can easily eat >5gb RAM just to
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
The magnets work too well. Having one Thinkpad Yoga sat on top of another closed Yoga tricks the sensor into thinking it's in tablet mode and it disables the keyboard. I only lost 30min or so trying to work out what was happening... Th
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
> The absolute lack of self awareness [...] Did you forget that... I think I forgot that some people have an absolute lack of sarcasm awareness :\
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
> What I do instead is scan my QR codes into two apps on different devices when I make them Amazingly, I'd never even considered this as a possibility. Thank you for the paradigm shift.
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
You really shouldn't. The colloidal silver probably isn't that harmful in small quantities, Jäger's just herbs, but there's some really nasty chemicals in those energy drinks.
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
They kinda do - microcode translates x86(_64) into micro-opts for actual execution. If you go back far enough to the P6 the actual execution core was essentially RISC [1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36380149
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
> I always thought these workarounds were odd - does God have no objection to using proxies to get around the rules? Then again, my friend is not Jewish, so perhaps he can freely break the Sabbath because he’s outside the scope of the ru
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
"It would have been the year of the Linux desktop too, if it wasn't for those pesky trans hackers!"
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. I think your logic is backwards. Parent isn't saying the freedom of online technical spaces turns people trans, but that trans people in those spaces are more likely to make themselves obvious because of the
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
> I’m on the board overseeing Linux graphics. Half of us are trans. If all you care about is Linux, resist the attacks on trans people. > If you have any decency, fight back. https://web.archive.org/web/2025052018
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
I'd worry it's only a small sector of the counter-fitting operation.
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
It'll let me keep a folder in sync, automatically, across multiple machines. There's no faffing with accounts, it has a GUI simple enough for me to talk entirely non technical people through setting it up and it doesn't matte
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
By 99 it wasn't that bad. I remember screaming along with V.92 56k modems. Futurama episodes were about 50mb encoded as RealVideo and took a mere two and a half hours to download o.0 (and it really was v.92; I still have the double-bon
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
In this case yes, absolutely. It would have basically been going back to doing what I was doing 20 years ago, and I've grown a lot since then. Though a mix of impostor syndrome, desperation, depression and medical reasons that stopped
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by BuildTheRobots 1y ago
> can you help me with my CV please. It's awful and I think the whole thing needs reappraising. It's also too long and ideally needs tailoring to a specific job i've found. Then it asked me for the job role. I gave it a UR

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