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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
It's the followup line that got me on a recent rewatch. For context Marty is trying to show a video, played back on a futuristic camcorder, and The Doc is more amazed by the camera. "This is truly amazing, a portable television st
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
If you use the web (or older java) console to share the ISO as a virtual drive then it tends to be dog slow. If you SSH into the iLO then you can point the virtual CD drive at a HTTP web server hosting the image which seems to be significan
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Makes backups cheap and easy. Also if you _know_ it won't restore, you stop worrying about whether it might or not.
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
That was one of the Jokes from David Gunson's "What goes up might come down" [1]; an after dinner speech given and recorded in the early 80's. It's 50 minutes long, which briefly takes you through his history as a f
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Where's the technical details for how this works? Are they just broadcasting wifi hotspots?
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
I'd be curious to know _why_ your wife felt it was playing too fast. Was it out of tune, out of tempo or something else?
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Couple of thoughts > The combination of the ICCID and the IMSI basically tells the mobile network, “hey, this person paid for a plan.” As far as I remember, the ICCID never actually appears in standard network messaging. It might be poss
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
The only time I think it makes sense if if you're doing a belt+braces with colo'd stuff in a datacentre. The DC will have its own UPS system, but in the event it all goes wrong (which happens more often than I'd like) you pro
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Can I be cheeky and ask what VF service and in what country? I've been using their CityFibre backed broadband in the UK for about 3 years and really can't complain - £32/month for 900mbit synchronous (which mostly actually li
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
The _biggest_ selling point with mumble (though I've not used it in anger in about a decade) was the way it tied in with the game you were playing and gave you in-game spacial audio. Stand next to someone in game and they came through
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
That was my first thought, but my takeaway from reading the article is that they weren't doing cremations in-house or on site, but had to pay another company for the work. It mentions that they were slapped with a judgement for failing
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
> My understanding is that a device that converts heat into power would violate thermodynamics. I'm probably missing the point entirely, but aren't we doing this already with Thermocouples as used in RTGs?
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
AnyDesk seems like the most obvious drop-in replacement. It's not awful either, I've used it for remote video editing quite successfully. I'm less thrilled that for both AD and TV the client and server is the same application
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
I've got an old NUC with Intel vPro support which allows out-of-band management including remote desktop, like you'd expect from drac/ilo on a dedicated server. Headless box living in a cupboard, sounded perfect. It turns out
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
> but unlike the extension cord case, nothing would catch literal fire I might be taking this too literally (I fell down the Kunsberg Bridge rabbithole recently), but with only one input on nearly all extension cords, I don't see ho
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
I'm still baffled xz took off so massively in the first place. The USP seems to be existing LZMA compression but made significantly more fragile and prone to never decompressing again.
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
It might be worth contacting NameCheap who the domain is registered though. I'm not actually sure if they'd be in a position to (legally) act at this point though.
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
Root beer is another one of those flavours you either love or hate, and Bundaberg's is particularly excellent. Sadly it's the only one I've found that contains liquorice, making all others seem lacking by comparison. Slightly
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
I remember saving up for and spending money on a VAIO in the very late 90's or early 2000's and being bitterly disappointed. It looked OK from the outside but was horribly underpowered on the inside. Stunning amounts of cost cutti
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
> Our postgres db is about 2TB and pgdump stopped being viable a long time ago. Due to the time it takes to export, or because it can't handle a database of that size at all?
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
They seem to have removed pirate too. Pieces of something at any rate :\
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by BuildTheRobots 2y ago
SMS also suffers massively from sender id spoofing and quite happily lets senders use an arbitrary text string as the "from" address.
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by BuildTheRobots 3y ago
If you want to use an actual analogue phone, then you'll probably want to connect it to something using an ATA (Analogue Telephone Adapter). Modems are expecting a powered phone line which can be worked around but I wouldn't recom
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by BuildTheRobots 3y ago
> If so, do you have a backend for the dialplan? not wanting to take away from the ops work, but on FreeSwitch you could do the SIP side of this with the default config and a free or cheap sip provider. As default it'll provide voic
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by BuildTheRobots 3y ago
I'm amazed more people aren't talking about the "off list" part or asking Colin if he's willing to provide those emails/conversations.
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by BuildTheRobots 3y ago
Well it is April Fools; it's nice to see some companies still have a sense of humour.
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by BuildTheRobots 3y ago
The XZ attack is (seemingly) exclusively targeting openssh. Considering it's a library that isn't even a direct dependency of ssh and someone was willing to put in over two years of effort, it doesn't seem crazy to start wond
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by BuildTheRobots 3y ago
I'm always amused by the joke "Of course Kubrick faked the moon landing, but being a perfectionist was only willing to film on location", when in reality he was nothing of the sort. A lot of his filming locations were within
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by BuildTheRobots 3y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. WinDirStat (which used to be my goto) took over 6 minutes and ate 625mb of ram. TreeSize Free took over 30 seconds, I'm not sure how much ram as it doesn't report it. It also kept trying t

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