Syonyk

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by Syonyk 4y ago
> ...because it paints a deceptive portrait of the past. I assume this is at least partly deliberate, because it's a major part of what has been termed the "Religion of Progress," in which the history of humanity, when y
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Yeah... living in the Treasure Valley area (Boise metro region), it's been getting pretty bad out here. And they don't have 2021 data listed, which, IMO, was worse than 2020. It just settled in early and never left all summer
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Starlink supports IPv6 addresses, I'm sure it would help. My network infrastructure is just lacking general IPv6 support, as I've not cared to get it set up in great detail, and my testing has demonstrated that my IPv6 addresses
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Because my other connection is a 25/3 WISP link that mostly doesn't. I generally see about 5/1 in the evenings, if that. I've had several area WISP connections, as there's no wired infrastructure to my area, and th
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Cloudflare is a regular problem for Starlink users. We're on CGNAT so users share IPv4 addresses. I see CAPTCHAs when using Starlink ten times as often as on my other ISP. I don't think it actually breaks things the way this
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Campfires or similar events, ideally lubricated with limited amounts of alcohol, possibly a pipe or cigar depending on wind, going late into the night on evenings when nobody has anything in particular early the next morning. In the wint
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Well, that's terrifying. The people who built the ejection seats seem oddly casual about their material sourcing, and "if the damned things would actually work if needed." You're having a very, very bad day if you need
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I've been using Lockdown for a month or two now with the beta, and did some writing on it: https://www.sevarg.net/2022/07/20/ios16-lockdown-mode-browse... Results of enabling it and using my phone as I n
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> The article says that in LM, you can't enrol the device in MDM My understanding is that you can't change the MDM settings/enrollment while in Lockdown, but you can enroll in it, and then enable Lockdown, and be fine.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Indeed! I just ran it through the inspector, it only transfers 257kb in the initial load! Impressive! The images are super tight, too. Buuut , it loads the "Two girls sitting on couch" image even though it doesn't display
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by Syonyk 4y ago
If the security of your military operations are vulnerable to "random nobodys running bots that post on Twitter," your operations aren't secure in the slightest, because any slightly competent adversary can do exactly the s
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'm on a proper concrete foundation with 4' stem walls - related to the slope of the hill. It's not cinder block. Our major risks are local grass fires, not tornadoes - rural mountain west. If we got one out here, it would
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Can I ask what rough year the homes you're familiar with were built in? And if you've been around anything ~recent (2010 or later)? The standards changed in the 80s, and quality has continued improving since then. If your experi
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by Syonyk 4y ago
But they also come at the expense of control. Once you pop the chute, you're a passenger, you no longer have the ability to control or point the airplane in any preferred direction. If you've lost that ability already, the chute
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Any reasonably sophisticated jet (of which this is clearly one) will have access to more or less realtime weather data, as well as NOTAMs (notices to airmen) regarding closed runways and such. I'm not familiar with the system's de
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Genuinely curious, what's wrong with a mobile/manufactured home? Do you object to the "trailer park" aspect, or simply the entire concept of the structure? I'm a detached, on-our-own-land double wide with a foundat
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Have we reached that level of the civilisation that goes extinct, for forgetting how its own inner machines work? Probably. Almost nobody under the age of 40 works in the "deep weeds" anymore (firmware, kernel, casually &q
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by Syonyk 4y ago
This is a very real thing, and it works both ways. The study I linked in another comment actually calls this out in the abstract: > Their scorings of pleasantness correlated negatively with the degree of MHC similarity between smeller
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by Syonyk 4y ago
It makes a lot of scents! er, sense. There have been quite a few studies over the years on "partner compatibility and smell." There's some bit of the genome (MHC) where "most opposite" works best for creating heal
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I don't think SSDs allowing rapid swapping is as big a deal as SSDs being really fast at serving files. On a typical system, pre-SSD, you wanted gobs of RAM to make it fast - not only for your actual application use, but also for the
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> * I'll be sure to keep your wisdom in mind next time I have to reset the way too conservatively sized circuit breaker integral to the contractor that runs in my fume extractors.* You might enjoy the NEC section on fire pump system
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by Syonyk 4y ago
If I recall that paper properly, they chose to do their work on the M1 because it was the only available chip with PAC at the time.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Neat, but ferret ? It's going to run off with your variables and stash them in a cache in the corner. Every time I've moved, I've found little hoards of something or another from various ferrets I've had. In broadly
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by Syonyk 4y ago
First Law: You can't win. Second Law: You can't break even. Third Law: You can't opt out. So far, anyone who has claimed to break one of those laws is either missing some experimental error source, or is trying to sell someth
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by Syonyk 4y ago
That's about how it works for us as well. I make the money, and she spends it exceedingly efficiently for our regular purchases (squeezing a dime and finding a quarter).
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Yup. I've used that with my normal "last name backwards" company name before. I tend to send Christmas and Birthday gifts to siblings with the company field filled in. "Kinetics," "Orbital Bombardment Divisi
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> Kinda silly that we're putting motors on bikes that outclass the braking system though, yeah? What are you doing with the bike, and under what conditions are you riding it? Riding an ebike in the midwest flatlands is very differ
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> My main complaint about the RadWagon is that it doesn’t have hydraulic disc brakes, instead using a less effective mechanical version, which don’t have the stopping power that their more complicated counterparts do. So... replace the
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> That is until someone comes up with a debilitating Xen 0-day But you're adding layers. A Xen 0day, alone, isn't useful. You have to be able to deliver it, which probably implies local root. To get something useful out of a
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I haven't seen a good answer to the question, "Does Lockdown on iOS 16 prevent whatever this exploited?" In any case, there was a Chrome 0day recently patched too, an Element Desktop RCE... so... Qubes is looking less and les

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