Maxious

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by Maxious 11y ago
Previously: Adblock Sold to Mystery Company https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10318200
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by Maxious 11y ago
Google uses sound for pairing - seems to work okay in reasonably sized room with all kinds of surfaces https://gigaom.com/2014/06/26/chromecast-will-use-ultrasonic...
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by Maxious 11y ago
> In May 2001, a well-known CEO of a security and consulting company, Steve Gibson, released the Raw Socket's warning. According to his Web site, Raw Sockets was a "seriously dumb idea...from Microsoft" that "...spell
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by Maxious 11y ago
IkaLog (Squid-Log in Japanese) is a third-party program to support players of the Nintendo game, Splatoon. IkaLog recognizes what's happening in the game through HDMI video capture devices, and outputs battle logs automatically. In add
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Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Broadcom Wi-Fi Driver(source.android.com)
2 points by Maxious 11y ago|0 comments
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TfL Social Media – Adapting to Twitter’s Changes(blog.tfl.gov.uk)
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by Maxious 11y ago
Having tested it, it seems you can only find friends with a US phone number... or that whole feature just doesn't work.
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by Maxious 11y ago
The next wave of that regulation should come into effect soon - the banks tried some loopholes and merchants like Jetstar claimed they needed to levy huge surcharges so another reform is required: "the Board is proposing to change the
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by Maxious 11y ago
If you're not Australian or especially if you are, this is an fascinating talk by Dick Smith (including quite a bit about his round the world helicopter trips!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1eivQNtulE
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by Maxious 11y ago
Better formatted version of the list archive= https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2016-Ja...
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by Maxious 11y ago
> The FreeBSD Core Team acts as the Project's "board of directors" and is responsible for approving new src committers, resolving disputes between developers, appointing sub-committees for specific purposes (security offic
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Initial FreeBSD Core Team comments on concerns about harassment in the community(marc.info)
5 points by Maxious 11y ago|5 comments
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by Maxious 11y ago
See also: Pioneers, Settlers, Town Planners http://blog.gardeviance.org/2015/03/on-pioneers-settlers-tow...
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by Maxious 11y ago
Inmarsat had previously decided to offer a free tier of their existing satellite data service to allow ADB-C (Contract) where position, velocity, intent, and meteorological data are sent based on events, schedules or requests http:/&#
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by Maxious 11y ago
I seem to recall the Microsoft Mouse drivers for Windows 95 had a key shortcut to make lines radiate out of your cursor. Very useful on the low refresh rate LCDs where that cursor would appear like a submarine on the other side of the scree
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by Maxious 11y ago
Linus’s Rant Rewritten http://catcode.com/comments/2015/cf20151101.html
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by Maxious 11y ago
New York City has 2 programs where companies with vehicle fleets can just pay the parking tickets automatically, often at a discount http://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/vehicles/commercial-stipula... Just the co
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by Maxious 11y ago
IBM IMS (Information Management System, predating DB2) failed for some large banks in Australia over the weekend. http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/business-it/st-george-bank-of-m... "IBM designed the IMS with Ro
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by Maxious 11y ago
See also "Peace" by Marco Arment which uses data from Ghostery (and shutup.css... removing comments from sites like HN) https://peace.land/
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by Maxious 11y ago
If you're interested in working with us and think you've got the skills/experience/expertise we need, we'd encourage you to apply. Any further terms of engagement and employment will be negotiated on a case-by-case
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by Maxious 11y ago
If you visit the URL google.com/foobar it won't do anything unless your google account has been offered the challenge. Presumably random searching wouldn't even activate it, you'd need to be in the right country etc. &qu
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by Maxious 11y ago
Digital Transformation Office - Sydney/Canberra, Australia - Full time ONSITE We’re making Australian Government services simpler, faster, clearer and more humane. Making life a little easier for a huge number of Australians, every day
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by Maxious 11y ago
Well also to comply with https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.
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by Maxious 11y ago
Why put in all that cost/effort when you can sell laptops with MS Access voting apps for the same price?
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by Maxious 11y ago
Iridium device locations can also be requested from the network based on what satellite/beam communicated through which is "accurate to within 10Km 80% of the time"
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by Maxious 11y ago
Mapbox and Hipchat too https://www.mapbox.com/status/ https://status.hipchat.com/
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by Maxious 11y ago
SourceForge has been wrapping adware around executables http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/source...
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by Maxious 11y ago
It doesn't even have to be cameras https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_collision_avoidance_sy... >It monitors the airspace around an aircraft for other aircraft equipped with a corresponding active transponde
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by Maxious 11y ago
The /r/spacex automoderator was set to report KSP references... https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/3dyvta/rspacex_crs7...
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by Maxious 11y ago
Indeed - the power of OSS! The two forks I've followed have been https://github.com/MalcolmRobb/dump1090 and https://github.com/mutability/dump1090 but both are of course supported by contri

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