Jonnax

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by Jonnax 7y ago
It's easy to say that "oh, phone calls have no security at all, what do you expect?" It's true that we can talk to friends and family with internet services. But for businesses we use our phones. Personally I don't
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by Jonnax 7y ago
1) They make a low cost computer where they've put significant work into making it more open software wise. Their revenue stream is through the sale of their hardware, why do they need to allow people to make clones? 2) Maybe it's
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by Jonnax 7y ago
Currently there's a rewrite in development for Firefox Android: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix The difference between the nightlies of this and the current Firefox Android is night and day. Perhaps wait u
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by Jonnax 7y ago
Is there a public N64 compiler? Might be a fun project to make an N64 game
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by Jonnax 7y ago
Get this since you don't need display support. https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2.htm
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by Jonnax 7y ago
The Great Smog of London in 1952 was a 4 day smog that potentially killed 12,000 people. [1] Today things are much better but living in pretty much any city around the world means that you will exposed to higher pollution. Reading the stats
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by Jonnax 7y ago
The link you posted is about someone hacking Windows 3.1 into their own laptop's UEFI. There's no reason for Lenovo to put a DOS based operating system into their BIOS :/
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by Jonnax 7y ago
Is that because of Beachy Head or it being some seaside town?
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by Jonnax 7y ago
Intel's customer improvement program thing does that when you accept.
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by Jonnax 7y ago
Nvidia has an initiative to get manufacturers to make G-Sync capable large displays. Some of these are non smart but large. https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/geforce/products/big-format-gam...
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by Jonnax 7y ago
What about space debris? Isn't there a non zero chance that a satellite could hit some debris and cause a chain reaction?
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by Jonnax 7y ago
At the end of the day you live in a global world. Is it acceptable for this company to sell it to Saudi Arabian police where it's a crime for a woman to run away from home? https://www.businessinsider.com/saudi-arabia-i
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by Jonnax 7y ago
According to the Wikipedia article some urban explorers found this logbook from one of its previous transmission sites. http://www.numbers-stations.com/media/sample-uvb76-logbook.p...
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by Jonnax 7y ago
From what I remember Thunderbolt is Intel proprietary even though at launch they said it will be open. Does anyone know if that has changed?
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by Jonnax 7y ago
What are the chances that China will extend their Firewall over Hong Kong as well as a result? I presume business wise it'd be a bad idea.
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by Jonnax 7y ago
I was only aware of Keepass itself. What are the differences between KeypassXC, KeepassX and Keepass?
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by Jonnax 7y ago
It's a luxury brand writing a fluff piece to sell more expensive pianos. Though they have another page with more info: https://www.steinway.com/news/features/victory-verticals "identified by their milita
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by Jonnax 7y ago
Well if you want to pay just to support them, you can subscribe/buy. And then not sign into the browser that you use to browse the internet.
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by Jonnax 7y ago
Can someone provide some context for this post? Are there calls to change Blender's license? Are add-on developers violating GPL? The post mentions that a bridge between open source and proprietary needs to be open source but the add-o
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by Jonnax 7y ago
I'm surprised that privacy focussed Apple allows you to leave your phone broadcasting itself indefinitely. At least that's how I presume Airdrop works. I'm surprised they mention getting lots of requests can crash or slow dow
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by Jonnax 7y ago
Who is this commenter? Containerised applications are commonly used. At this point it's a proven technology with clear use cases.
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by Jonnax 7y ago
You don't seem to know what you're talking about. 1) A user wouldn't stream Netflix from a data centre in America. It would be local to the country on the Netflix CDN 2) The stream is encrypted. Firstly with whatever DRM the
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by Jonnax 7y ago
This doesn't really make sense. American English which they propose adopting is removes more of the European roots of words. For example removing the 'U' from words like Colour. Ireland is also an English speaking country in
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by Jonnax 7y ago
Is it going to be that much faster? 300mhz faster than the current top one according to the article.
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by Jonnax 7y ago
I've met many people that romanticise the role of executives as those burdening an incredible responsibility and therefore are compensated as such. But this is one of the first times where I see there's some potential consequence
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by Jonnax 7y ago
Or maybe it's a complex engineering challenge? The Firefox Devs aren't just sitting there not clicking a button called "enable hardware acceleration"
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by Jonnax 7y ago
Effectively what this opinion piece is saying is that monetising people's data generated revenue. Therefore why stand in the way of American innovation?
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by Jonnax 7y ago
Here's the quote below which is quite reasonable, it's their time mentoring so they should mentor how they like. I feel like the article is designed to kindle the fires of internet drama. “It’s not just about writing the code, bu
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by Jonnax 7y ago
What happened to all the security implications?
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by Jonnax 7y ago
You've an inflated sense of the importance and value of the work you do. As well as trying to pretend that creativity is not work. At the same time you talk about pirating so you feel entitled to have the fruit of other people's

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