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by Youden 7y ago
It looks like he didn't reverse-engineer the Netflix data protocol. What he did is use a HDCP-stripper box to get access to a raw decoded HDMI signal. The HDCP-stripper also had a screenshot function which he used to get snapshots of t
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by Youden 7y ago
It's not a counterpoint. Netflix's actions, from a network perspective are not neccessary, at least not Europe-wide. My ISP is more than able to cope with it. I've been checking at peak times and I can consistently saturate m
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by Youden 7y ago
The issue I have with that is that if everything is done by the backup server, it has the ability to both create and destroy (prune) datasets (snapshots), which means it has the ability to erase all of the data and all of the backups. One t
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by Youden 7y ago
For people who don't want a proprietary solution, there's GnuCash on the easier end and Beancount/Ledger/hledger etc. on the harder end. Beancount in particular has Fava which is great for analysing spending and inflow&#
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by Youden 7y ago
The decision isn't made real-time by actual people like I think you're suggesting. The rules are well-known and set in advance by the SEC and exchanges. In this case it's SEC Rule 80B and NYSE Rule 7.12. You can read more abo
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by Youden 7y ago
The DJIA is asinine [0], please try not to perpetuate it. Look at any other index instead. [0]: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/010917/opini...
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by Youden 7y ago
I get your objection but I don't agree with it in this case. As someone who is neither you nor OP, I see GFC as a pretty well-known acronym, especially in this context (recessions, financial troubles).
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by Youden 7y ago
I'm not entirely clear on whether this Github issue would bring feature-parity with Cap'n'proto but apparently Google already has a zero-copy API for Protocol Buffers internally: https://github.com/protocolbuf
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by Youden 7y ago
So long as Google Play Services is installed, there's only so much you can do to limit it. It's essentially equivalent to giving Google root access to your phone. The best thing you can do is cut off Google completely. Install AOS
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by Youden 7y ago
> It is not directly Google's fault, they are required by laws to provide the data. It's Google's fault for collecting the data in the first place. They could have collected it anonymously rather than tie it to a user but
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by Youden 7y ago
I tried the app a couple of weeks ago after hearing about it elsewhere. It looks interesting but as someone just looking to use a potential app, it really put me off with these two "conversations" that you can't delete, remov
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by Youden 7y ago
I concur with the other commenter. I think it's a flaw in Google Assistant/Alexa if they're solely able to function using the online service. The bridge provides a well-documented and stable local API which these assistant de
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by Youden 7y ago
I don't get the reaction here. The online service will be shut down but the bulbs will continue to be locally controllable and Philips is releasing a dedicated app to interact with the v1 bridge. Is it really such a huge deal that
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by Youden 7y ago
> I publish an ad on a handyman site asking for a new shed built for £100. People can place their interest and their proposal. The price is fixed at £100, and I may set other terms and criteria. You have satisfied all the criteria for se
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by Youden 7y ago
It's not just Molekule, consumer air quality products in general are full of dubious junk. This study [0] fairly comprehensively compared the Foobot air quality monitor to a research-grade sensor setup and found that it severely undere
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by Youden 7y ago
> I wonder if USB or Thunderbolt connections are considered reliable for 24/7 use. I think Thunderbolt should be fine since it's essentially PCIe. USB so far has been okay as long as you don't push it too hard. When the th
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by Youden 7y ago
The "canonical" options are the Fractal Design Node 304 and the Silverstone DS380B. If you're willing to go bigger and want more drives, take a look at this thread [0]. [0]: https://forums.serverbuilds.net/t&#
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by Youden 7y ago
I actually did just this. There are two main ways I considered: 1. Buy a 4-bay USB enclosure. 2. Put a HBA in a Thunderbolt 3 -> PCIe enclosure, put the SATA disks in a standard PC case with a SAS port expander, connect the SATA disks to
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by Youden 7y ago
It's essentially the same question as "why would you choose another DNS server?" There are numerous other options like Google, Quad9, OpenDNS, OpenNIC, DNSWatch or Verisign, each of which have pros and cons like speed, privac
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by Youden 7y ago
> a reasonable metric for someones main bank, especially in today's cashless society In Europe, the primary region for Revolut at the moment, cashlessness is highly variable. In a country like the UK or The Netherlands, DAU might be
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by Youden 7y ago
> This would only move the problem later, not solve it. And for teens, that would be a huge improvement. Their sleep schedules are biologically offset to be about 2 hours later than and adult's [0] so the different between having to
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by Youden 7y ago
> If children benefit from sleeping longer, so should adults. People at different ages require different amounts of sleep in order to be healthy. Adults require less than children [0]. Also, one of the big problems for teenagers (the sub
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by Youden 7y ago
If I understand right, if you put CloudFlare in front of Backblaze, you get free bandwidth thanks to Bandwidth Alliance: https://www.cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/backblaze/
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by Youden 7y ago
Some more feedback: When I open the linked page, the page title instantly starts flashing between the actual title and "(2) New Messages!". At that point I knew without a doubt that this was not a product I would ever use. The &qu
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by Youden 7y ago
I feel similarly but I find it to be the Bay Area that's the problem rather than FAANG. All those startups and unicorns being in one place makes people see the Bay Area as some kind of software engineering Mecca and I think engineers b
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by Youden 7y ago
Just want to point out that you can work at FAANG without working in the Bay Area, or even the US. Amazon of course has headquarters in Seattle and both Google and Facebook have large engineering offices not only outside the Bay Area but ou
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by Youden 7y ago
Copyright and data protection are separate issues and even so, FADP doesn't let people off that easily. From the same article 4: > Personal data may only be processed for the purpose indicated at the time of collection, that is evid
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by Youden 7y ago
I admit this is nitpicky, that language is naturally evolving and corporations cannot make rules about how English should be spoken but "Legos" isn't strictly correct. The correct term, per The LEGO Group should be "LEGO
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by Youden 7y ago
There's a simple, practical way to do this: don't make the images public. Limit them to some degree of separation by friend connections. I think this should satisfy most friend-finding use-cases while eliminating comprehensive lar
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by Youden 7y ago
> Can anyone elaborate why it would be considered illegal to scrape data in Switzerland? Speculation but I think it can be as simple as Art. 4, p. 3 FADP [0]: "Personal data may only be processed for the purpose indicated at the tim

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