Lammy

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by Lammy 1y ago
> That question took me into the guts of the ZIP format, where I learned there’s a tiny index at the end that points to everything else. Tangential, but any Free Software that uses `shared-mime-info` to identify files (any of your GNOMEs
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by Lammy 1y ago
I strongly disagree, because that argument just becomes an attack on people's freedom of movement rather than an attack on the structural issues which led to long commutes being the least-worst option for many people. This is evident i
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by Lammy 1y ago
Caused by commute sure is a funny way to say caused by lack of housing near jobs, like it's the roads' and rails' fault? :p
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by Lammy 1y ago
My REDMAGIC Android phone is like this too and I love not having a stupid notch cut out of the screen. I've hated them since the very first time I saw a iPhone X. Can't believe such a ridiculous design defect infected Macbooks too
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by Lammy 1y ago
I really like the concave analog sticks on that controller. The convex DualShock ones get slippery as hell once the controller is a few years old. The analog face buttons of the DualShock 2 are cool in concept but always made me press too h
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by Lammy 1y ago
> Minimal Abstract Markup Language Pardon my naming nitpick and lack of commentary on any technical aspect, but I don't think this is a markup language. What is being marked up? HTML is called that because it's marking up text
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by Lammy 1y ago
I swapped my dead C2750 (Supermicro A1SAi-2750F) board for my cold-spare C3558 (A2SDi-4C-HLN4F) and was right back running again. I guess if you're talking about an appliance it's a little different, but this was just my home fire
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by Lammy 1y ago
That was almost certainly the Intel Avoton clock degradation issue. It hit Cisco and lots of other networking vendors too. I lost Supermicro and ASRock boards to the same thing. Soldering on the resistor gets the CLK circuit back into spec
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by Lammy 1y ago
Same setup here with a Supermicro Denverton board except in an iStarUSA chassis that I got brand new: https://istarusa.com/product/product-detail/?brand=istarusa&... Though it looks like their SFF-8087 miniSAS
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by Lammy 1y ago
Apologies for trying to guess, but: PayPal freezing SomethingAwful's Katrina fundraiser?
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by Lammy 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37384911
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by Lammy 1y ago
> It had a fancy scripting language and a lot of neat stuff already built in Rexx mentioned! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rexx
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by Lammy 1y ago
Get yourself arrested some time and you'll wish you could remember someone to call lol
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by Lammy 1y ago
I recall the original Windows 95 release shipping with TCP/IP but the protocol having to be manually added in the Network CPL: https://eml.berkeley.edu/wp/win95/isp.html
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by Lammy 1y ago
> If you dont care about security Microsoft's idea of Security is security from me, not security for me. They use this overloaded language because it's so hard to argue against. It's a thought-terminating cliché. Oh yo
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by Lammy 1y ago
If HTTPS were for privacy it would be called HTTPP. Security features tend to make things less Private, like how opening apps on a Mac makes it phone home for OCSP check.
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by Lammy 1y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them have like a Crypto AG thing going on and have the capability to use paying customers as exit nodes as a way to launder consent-manufacturing bot bullshit through legitimate-looking residential a
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by Lammy 1y ago
This is outdated information. These issues have been solved by various BitTorrent Enhancement Proposals. You do create a new torrent, but you distribute it in a way that to a swarm member is functionally equivalent to updating an old torren
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by Lammy 1y ago
> So it's not really hallucinating - it correctly represents "seahorse emoji" internally, but that concept has no corresponding token. Interesting that a lot of humans seem to have this going on too: - https://o
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by Lammy 1y ago
QNX 6 was the first non-Microsoft non-Apple OS I ever used, even before Linux, and after trying and failing to pirate OS/2 Warp 4. It came on the Maximum CD with the March 2001 issue of Maximum PC alongside the “Alt OS” article in the
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by Lammy 1y ago
Some non-Surfaces too. I’m using a Microsoft Surface Pen “Model 1776” a.k.a. “Ver.4” a.k.a “Surface Pen with no clip” with my Framework Laptop 12 folded all the way around into tablet mode.
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Windows 3.1 in a Windows 95 Virtual Machine (2022)(geoffchappell.com)
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by Lammy 1y ago
Ironically Microsoft had exactly this in 1999 with Internet Explorer 5: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application - https://www.geoffchappell.com/studies/windows/ie/mshtml/cla
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by Lammy 1y ago
Yep, despite the extremely FUD-y variable name, though there's still no way to opt out on iOS or Android: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/13174 There's an unmerged PR for the Android c
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by Lammy 1y ago
The privacy tradeoffs are much worse :/ https://tailscale.com/kb/1011/log-mesh-traffic “Each Tailscale agent in your distributed network streams its logs to a central log server (at log.tailscale.com). This
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by Lammy 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45464355
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by Lammy 1y ago
My comparison is more appropriate because the Dock and the Taskbar are both the thing that shows the list of running programs and open windows.
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by Lammy 1y ago
https://admx.cengizyilmaz.net/policy/configure-windows-spotl... “Note: This policy is only available for Enterprise SKUs” https://admx.cengizyilmaz.net/policy/force-a-specific-defaul... “Note: Thi
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by Lammy 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNOa5Uvjpwo
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by Lammy 1y ago
> Can you move the menu bar on Mac? Can we not just accept that this is a design decision and move on? Yes, you can put the Dock on any side of the screen, plus you can pin it to the beginning or end of the chosen side. Those options hav

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