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by NGRhodes 2y ago
Some people treat all open source projects as products that they use, when many are labours of love and charity, sometimes pet projects that have become useful to [many] others. They expect product support at a business level like all the o
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by NGRhodes 2y ago
I have donated hundreds to charity purchasing my used DVDs from charity shops.
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by NGRhodes 2y ago
Nice to read they are significantly contributing back to OpenStreetMap.
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by NGRhodes 2y ago
I'm surprised the article did not mention speaking to a doctor about the possibility of underlying medical conditions (physical/mental health/neurological), if all suggestions fail.
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by NGRhodes 2y ago
I suspect that means waiting for Debian to do it.
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Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30(theregister.com)
10 points by NGRhodes 2y ago|2 comments
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by NGRhodes 2y ago
Shimmer, body doubling - inspired by the film Annihilation ?
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by NGRhodes 2y ago
As a fresh example, we (a University) have just this month had delivered about 9000 cores (and about 80 GPUs) of machines, these are being added to our existing 6000 cores (approx 5 year old) machines. This is a modest HPC system.
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Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification and Throw It into Reverse(pluralistic.net)
8 points by NGRhodes 2y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch(arstechnica.com)
3 points by NGRhodes 2y ago|1 comments
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by NGRhodes 2y ago
Finally decided that there are too many papercuts with WSL2. As new features and enhancements are introduced, new bugs appear at a similar rate. This is not just me, but colleagues in the team using a mixture of personal and corporate dev
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by NGRhodes 2y ago
From https://support.google.com/a/answer/14229414#zippy=%2Cwhat-i... ---------------------- Starting February 1, 2024, all email senders who send email to Gmail accounts must meet the requirements in this section.
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
Been many years since I used REQ (as I've not changed my setup in a long time). Don't forget a decent soundcard (does not have to be expensive). I use a USB (can't remember the brand/chipset) and an old Audessy calib
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
I would not trust the statistics, Firefox blocks tracking cookies by default. The statistics in the article come from companies that use 3rd party tracking cookies. > By default, Firefox blocks the cookies that track your browsing activi
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
I've got an old Skylake HP elite SFF machine. Without modification it can hold two 3.5in drives and a single 2.5in drive. Also with great cooling design (cowling to direct heat from the cou straight out of the back) and an efficient PS
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
FYI 21.1.9 was released less than a month ago ( https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg/2023-October/061515.html ), they are still fixing bugs.
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
> This blog is now STATELESS. The entire post is contained in the URL that you are visiting now. All my "blog" is now is a hard-coded main page that contains links to posts I claim authorship of. Of course the entire post is co
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
My parents house was built before development of the area. The original road was built on and another road built on the other side of the house, both the old and current street names are still valid postal streets (the old street name is st
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/adverse-inferences
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
Plex collects plenty of information to identify who is running these servers and who the users are. I suspect resellers put layers of obfuscation in place. What would Plex gain from collecting information about user content ? Is Plex capabl
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
Simplephone got abandoned.
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
> I don't have the link to the github issue handy, but I remember that the key was to ask for a lower version of python and then supply the `--force-reinstall` param. The fact that it only happened to some students was evidence that
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
Not sure on your issue with reproducibility using conda is. We (team of RSE working with many researchers) have had good success with storing conda environment files in git along side the code, only a few commands to get a working envir
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
I was earlier this week watching NHK news on the same subject. They are still globally number 1 for car sales, the EV market is still small/new on a global scale and Toyota has by far the biggest spread of cars around the world compare
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
Magic Earth (proprietary app that uses OSM maps) allows you to choose the maximum hilliness you want your cycle route. I've never used cycle routing, so can't comment on how well it works.
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
These are most likely not legally binding in the UK as consumer contracts and notices as a whole have to be fair (transparent, in good faith and intelligible) to consumers under the Consumer Rights Act 2015.
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
You are right, on the about page: >Team > >We are a team of 46 – young yet experienced. The founders of Magic Lane also build the very first route planner which ran on the Mac and PC in the 1990, formerly known as Route 66. Route 6
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
I've only had an Nvidia GPU laptop for 2 years so no experience of using older series of drivers, but Nvidia's 5xx series of drivers work great on my T460s running the latest Mint, drivers installed using the Ubuntu driver tool.
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
It exists in the Q3A code: https://github.com/id-Software/Quake-III-arena/blob/master/c...
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by NGRhodes 3y ago
My guess is Meta are trying bribe admins to ensure they federate Project P92.

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