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by Jenda_ 5y ago
This seems to be a cool service, I was actually thinking of creating something similar (but was deterred by the hassle of setting up billing and user management apart from the interesting technical stuff). I sometimes get asked by someone n
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
I don't like these "simple" formats because of non-obvious escaping and overloading too many "common" characters, which is even context sensitive (in HTML, it's just three characters anywhere, & → &
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
At least, I have a script that runs every minute, and if the clipboard contents has not changed, it flushes it. This really helps in preventing accidental paste of sensitive stuff that remained in the clipboard. I also have script that stri
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
I think MEAN WELL LRS-50-5 (5V/10A) can easily run 2 or even 3 Pis at full power and costs $13 ($15.5 incl. VAT) at EU reseller. Or is it not "awesome" enough?
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
> A rooted Android smartphone with Nix is a full Linux computer. I'm not sure. You still have the "Android ecosystem" interfering with common computer access that I'm using on normal Linux: - There is no standard V4L2
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
> A 3A boost/buck converter to power the Pi from a battery is not going to be cheap, either. LM2596 costs <$1 and it powers my rtl-adsb for 4 years so far (yes, this is in step-down mode, but you either want a 2S/3S battery
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
Maybe it's including time invested into development? The F1C100s is $5 for one piece on AliExpress, all the parts seem to be solderable by hand/manual reflow in an hour (the passives can be populated by JLC for like $30 for a batc
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
There are also cheap SDR transmitters: https://osmocom.org/projects/osmo-fl2k/wiki (repurposing a USB-VGA dongle as analog source) https://github.com/F5OEO/rpitx (repurposing bitbang/PWM
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
I would suggest these two as a crashcourse to the math that is used in SDR: https://www.dsprelated.com/showarticle/192.php https://www.katjaas.nl/home/home.html We are maintaining a long list with
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
I would suggest not starting in the 2.4GHz band, the protocols used there (wifi, bluetooth) are very complicated to understand. Get a rtl-sdr and start with something simpler: FM broadcast (my blogpost: https://www.abclinuxu.cz&#
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
Except Epson does this too. For example, they won't print black and white when the printer thinks (based on counters) that color cartridge is low. There are even "chip resetters" to circumvent this: https://eshop.i
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
So… when are we going to see made up numbers in photographed documents again? https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres... Superimposing other's people face onto a photo from a crime s
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
They are "great" from the perspective that the non-tech-savvy user somehow can get into using these. This did not work for XMPP (they need to learn that they need to pick a provider and a client; then they need to deal with enteri
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
Another insane feature of WhatsApp (besides using phone number for an internet service) is that it only runs on Android and iOS (the web client is only some kind of "remote access" to the app, which requires the app to constantly
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
I see it the opposite way. I send a business email, it does not arrive, or it arrives after 20 minutes. When using the company's gmail, I cannot get any diagnostics - is it stuck somewhere in the queue? on their side, on our side? is i
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
I'm watching almost anything between 1.21 and 1.77 (these are the default speed-up steps in mpv - 1.1^x), depending on speaker. I just cannot keep attention to most things when played at 1x. When I miss something, I seek back a few sec
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
It's interesting that both the school and the job "security agent" ran on Linux on ARM. I would expect these things to be Windows-only, or at least x86-only.
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
There is a Soviet children's book with the same topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunno_on_the_Moon#Lunar_capita...
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
> This is absolutely false. I think that for example the law forbidding you from burning plastic trash in your furnace, or running a diesel car without a DPF, can be well classified as "to prevent individuals from bringing harm to o
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
> had less registered side effects than only BioNTech in one year Isn't this just some kind of bias? For example reporting and spreading information is easier than it was in 1970s, or that we take any suspected side effect for real
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
throwaway55421: …and increase the number of deaths as the healthcare collapses? Or are there other options, unknown to me?
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
Some countries have chosen the other way: they left the vaccination up to people, and now nobody can take part in everyday life because of lockdowns.
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To mRNA vaccines?
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
There is another problem even after asking for your ID - how can they verify it's you (based on the photo on the ID) when you have a face mask?
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
> If you are worried about getting covid, vaccinate yourself. That's it, you don't need anyone else to be vaccinated. What if I'm worried about healthcare system collapse by surge of unvaccinated people, resulting in disru
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
Offline method also helps with privacy, as there is no central online database where the validation requests can be observed.
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
There was a case, which I cannot find now, where the compiler decided whether the function is small enough to inline based on its source code size, including comments. Edit: found it https://medium.com/@c2c/nodejs-a-qui
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
I don't use spaces, because I want to be able to run ad-hoc shell one-liners when working with my data without worrying about quotation and similar stuff. I also don't use :, as I have ran into problems with both Bash and its comp
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
How do you make sure these are the reputable websites and not some interceptor, when using plaintext protocol?
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by Jenda_ 5y ago
You can scan for extra files too. Yeah, backdooring configuration/bashrc is a problem, unfortunately, you will probably copy the configuration after the reinstall, thus copying the backdoor too.

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