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by Vexs 11y ago
There was some server company I can't remember the name of right now (bare metal or something?)that offered roughly rasppi sized servers for rent from them- they weren't offering it yet, but they said you should be able to buy the
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by Vexs 11y ago
You can just imagine the circumstances that led up to that being made. I suppose there is a market for weatherproof server racks nowadays with all these pesky kids and their gosh-darn cellphones at camps. The dataloo: https://upl
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by Vexs 11y ago
I actually read your thing a long while ago too! I took it a step further, and made a small coil and amp, and played the recorded data back through the coil, and placed the coil next to a one-track card reader. It actually worked, which was
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by Vexs 11y ago
That blanket basically means everything even involved with a computer. This is a completely unenforceable law.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Insult golf sounds kinda fun. Try to come up with the most insulting thing possible in the least characters. On a more serious note, I agree with you. There's some alarmist reactions to things like this, but in reality I don't thi
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by Vexs 11y ago
Seriously, a 12% increase in a low number is not even statistically relevant. As it so often is, there is a relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1252/
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by Vexs 11y ago
The whole recent controversy has been strange in general. There's this incredibly pervasive sense that the management in general is completely disconnected from the community, only stepping down from on high to dish out shadowbans. I d
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by Vexs 11y ago
There was one website that got posted here a while ago [1] where everyone that's looking at it is hosting it- if everyone stopped looking at it, the page would die. A neat concept. [1] http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/2bbbf
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by Vexs 11y ago
According to some of the amazon reviews, it doesn't work within 50 feet. I suspect it does in fact use GPS, as 50 feet would be far enough that you're going to be somewhere in the frame. Couple that with just measuring the delay t
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by Vexs 11y ago
That's golden. It's like social engineering SQL injection. Fun stuff! I wonder if there's any sort of sentence you can make that isn't actually "xbox shut off" but is interpreted by the xbox as such.
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by Vexs 11y ago
As far as I know, electric cars failed then because of the same problems we have now- power storage. As bad as LiPos are, what they had was even worse. It didn't help that gas engines had a lot of improvement possibilities then, and we
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by Vexs 11y ago
Seems to work pretty well after messing about on ?HN, lotsa people testing bad LaTeX though.
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by Vexs 11y ago
It's hard to write titles under the char limit, but the just of it is that the code appears to edit a user's browser history to include child porn and bomb blueprints, or something to that effect. It then edits the date and time t
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Leaked Hacking Team code to edit browser history?(github.com)
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by Vexs 11y ago
I've toyed with the idea of it before- it's actually pretty easy to transcode files into images, and if you were more clever than I you could probably figure out how to use color to represent larger chunks of data instead of just
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by Vexs 11y ago
Does it really? That's neat- it's one of the few extensions that can actually curb chrome's memory eating without being intrusive.
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by Vexs 11y ago
As far as I know they really don't worry about it- there's a lot of space up there and considering how small satellites are the chance of hitting anything is astronomical.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Reddit enhancement suite has a similar setup.
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by Vexs 11y ago
You can also use a tumbler, which is basically where you and several other people all run your coins into one wallet, and then withdraw random amounts up to the amount you put in. Obviously the issue there is someone needs to keep track of
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by Vexs 11y ago
I really hate the move to webapp everything, at my workplace we used to have this great terminal interface as a server database, it was easy to script with, automate with, and use. Need a server? Just query it in terminal for data. Now we h
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by Vexs 11y ago
Wow, that reminds me so much of Simon Stalenhag's work. I had to check that it wasn't the same guy! http://www.simonstalenhag.se/
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by Vexs 11y ago
That's pretty dang cool. Might cause issues if clearbit ever looses the data and a bunch of websites link to it, but that's pretty standard.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Chromium has a bit less bloat than chrome, but less features correspondingly. Aside from that, firefox seems to be the big contender.
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by Vexs 11y ago
I was about to post this, pentagon wars (and the book it's based on) so elegantly capture the whole problem with the military ATM, the terrible distribution of funds.
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by Vexs 11y ago
I doubt you'd be flying in the conditions that would block a laser from hitting it's target. In practice, there really aren't that many ways to "jam" a rocket, radio jamming really can't hit all the bands, and
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by Vexs 11y ago
It's an interesting sentiment really- you see the same thing in pro-slavery sentiments during the 1800s- "oh, the Irish immigrants in Britain have it so much worse, look at these slaves, they don't live in cold tenements! The
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by Vexs 11y ago
The only time I've ever had any sort of ease with graphical programming was with scratch, and that was because you could type the name of the blocks in, just.. like.. regular.. programming... It's like comparing controllers/j
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by Vexs 11y ago
It was always interesting reading about bitcoin in the news and seeing matrix-esque numbers with proud gold coins embossed with a B on it. There's a wonderful disconnect between media depictions of tech and tech.
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by Vexs 11y ago
Looks like they've fully abandoned the external trackpad mouse buttons. That's a shame, I hate integrated trackpad buttons. That being said, it's neat that there's the possibility of a retro thinkpad- they remain one of
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by Vexs 11y ago
IIRC, the reason given was security reasons. It's black box security coupled with y'know, not being able to run anything modern, like a virus. And besides, does it really need anything else?

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