Yetanfou

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by Yetanfou 7y ago
SYS 32768, not POKE 32768 As an aside, reading and understanding the entire disassembled "kernal" and BASIC rom for the C-64. All of it taking up less space than just about anything on just about any site nowadays - in that respec
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
No, I'm not sure. It deem it unlikely though as those sound snippets are rather short and uncomplicated, something which I'd think any reasonable STT-system should be able to handle - which makes it vulnerable to those systems as
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
When confronted with reCAPTCHA I always switch to the audio-version as that: - is generally easier to solve (download the sound clip using curl or wget, type in the nonsense it says, done) - does not turn me into a mechanical Turk training
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
No, in the age of CRT monitors it did not make sense to mess with subpixels as those do not have a fixed relationship between actual display RGB-triplets and the displayed bitmap. Apart from that the C64 could only display 16 colours which
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
As did I on SpeedScript and TASword, that is until I bought a broken Amiga 500, fixed it by replacing a single capacitor, modified a CGA monitor (i.e. RGBi, 16-color digital) by adding a preamp so it acted like an analog RGB monitor and us
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Not so amazing for those who, tired of the 40-column limit of their Commodore-64 or similar machine, took to such tricks to get up to 80 columns of text on screen (e.g. SpeedScript did this [1] as did TASword [2]). Was it easy to read? No,
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
I used to listen to the (Dutch) radio when I did my homework in the '80s. There was much less choice than there is nowadays which meant that a fair portion of my class mates also ended up listening to whatever program I'd listen
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Android gives both the user as well as the developer more freedom to do as they see fit. This can lead to abuse or just sloppy programming which drains power. It can also lead to devices running for a week on a single charge, running only s
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Like so many - probably nearly all - issues picked up by the current tide of 'progressive' political factions the issue has been turned into a black-and-white, with-us-or-against-us, quasi-religious mantra. The slightest deviation
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Why do you make such a snide remark on a reasonable statement? $200 for a metal cross with 4 screw holes is egregious no matter whether it has a picture of a partly eaten apple on it or not. This is unrelated to any other qualities the mo
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Try claws or sylpheed (from which claws is derived), these work just fine on older hardware. Startup time (with cold cache) on my 14yo T42p is under a second, RSS is 48MB with 4 active multi-gigabyte IMAP accounts. There is a bunch of exten
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
The server sits in a special cupboard I made which has servers, a switch and storage on top, drying racks on the bottom. All the way in the bottom is a forced draft fan (meant for modern air-tight homes, low-power and -noise) which pulls th
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
How about 'neither of them'? Trusting Google with your data is like trusting a fox with guarding your hen house, trusting Apple with your data is trusting a fox which claims it turned vegetarian. Run your own mail server and you&#
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Of course it is. I moved from the Netherlands to Sweden at 37, not that far from your age. Find a country which fits your needs and wants and start exploring the possibilities. Make sure you're able to learn the language of whatever co
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
5 years' worth of email addresses is going to be an interesting exercise in futility as I use different mail addresses for any commercial or public entity I communicate with. If I hand them a list of ~2500 mail addresses and tell them
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Adding new blocking rules to uBlock (et al) is part and parcel of how to use these extensions, I don't see any difference here compared to adblock+. If you see something you wish to avoid you either right-click it and select 'bloc
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
> the good news is that turning SMT off gives you additional ~200Hz of overclocking headroom That'd be 200 MHz, not 200 Hz?
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Smartphones are universal data collection devices, each of which is capable of gathering audio-, video-, RF-, location-, motion- and activity-based intelligence. Some add various other capabilities like air pressure, temperature and humidit
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
If that 'Honda service centre' happens to be an independent repair shop with loads of logo's on the front window, sure.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
The Swiss might have something to say on this, living in one of the most stable and prosperous countries in the world which happens to be governed under something resembling direct democracy.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Silly Valley. Some people insist it stands for 'Silicon Valley'.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Ethanol is less energy-dense than 100LL, let alone JetA. This means you need to carry more of it as specific fuel consumption will go up by ~20% - 25% (estimate from the increased fuel consumption of multi-fuel car engines running on E85 (
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
The placement depends on the tractor model and make but it generally comes down to clutch on the left side, left and right brake pedal on the right side, foot accelerator either behind the brake pedals or below them. While working in the fi
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Anyone who has ever driven a tractor will find this article strangely familiar. Tractors generally have two brake pedals, one for each wheel. When driving over roads or hard surfaces those pedals are locked together to keep the vehicle from
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
...unless you see the political spectrum as a circle where the opposites meet at the top. There is a lot to be said for this given the resemblance between authoritarian-left and authoritarian-right regimes. While they might sound different
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
I don't think he uses Apple products so in that respect he is unlikely to fit the category. He has been implicated in giving Apple a bad rap in other ways though.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
Another reason Apple gets a bad rep is the often obnoxious behaviour of a group of people who defend the brand's every step and misstep with an almost religious fervour.
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
A Xiaomi Redmi Note 5, a bunch of Motorola Defy/Defy+ devices, a RK3066 'Cherry' tablet and some other random devices. The Redmi Note 5 runs LineageOS (nougat), the Defy(+) Cyanogenmod (kitkat), the tablet also Cyanogenmod. I
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
For the same reason that I do not use Windows or MacOS - I like my software to listen to me, not to some remote dictator no matter how 'benevolent' he might portray himself to be. My phones run Android but do not run anything Goog
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by Yetanfou 7y ago
To which I can reply 'come back in 20 years and tell me about your experience maintaining something based on npm and friends'. At least those old crufty systems had the good grace of not having a best-before date measured in weeks

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