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by Youden 7y ago
This was written in the article: > Some cats don’t like lasers. They find it far too upsetting when they can’t catch what it is they’re chasing. If your cat starts to pant while chasing lasers, don’t assume it’s just exhausted. Panting c
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by Youden 7y ago
I don't know of any straightforward tools, most people I've seen reverse engineer a format do it with a hex editor and writing custom scripts. It's not directly relevant but the best I've seen is this presentation about
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I think that's the part where we fundamentally disagree, or at least weigh things differently. I don't see buying Chinese networking equipment as a choice about society. I see it as a choice about which device best serves my needs
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What does it matter if China is a dictatorship and America is nominally democratic? America has planted backdoors. We have evidence of this. American equipment cannot be trusted. America cannot be trusted. Perhaps China's government ha
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by Youden 7y ago
And as an Australian living in Europe I think both options suck but at least I'm yet to see any evidence of China putting backdoors into networking equipment. In fact, less biased countries have evaluated Huawei's equipment and fo
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by Youden 7y ago
The internet is a complicated beast. When ISPs connect to each other (e.g. Proton VPN to Comcast), they can't always directly reach each other so they have to go through intermediate networks to make it work. Sometimes there's con
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by Youden 7y ago
The EU doesn't have ginormous behemoths that try to do absolutely everything the way AppAmaFaceGooSoft do but I don't see that at all as a bad thing. There are plenty of smaller EU companies that have successful businesses, such a
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I cloned the Debian Git repository. I'm not relying on Debian patches, which as you've already stated are stored separately (unless they're stored separately and applied to the source code they accompany).
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I'm sure Debian has reasons for doing it that way but the undeniable consequence is that they made a decision that resulted in more complicated package updates. I'm used to Arch Linux where, for the most part, you can just downloa
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This is a tad tangential but has anyone done extensive software development using an ARM device? I was able to get pretty far with a rooted Samsung tablet running Debian in a container (C++ development works great, you can install stuff lik
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A forum being large doesn't have to lead to a loss of cultural identity. My favourite counter-example is /r/AskHistorians. Over a million members (16x larger than 60k) and it has some of the highest quality posting and discus
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by Youden 7y ago
I wasn't actually able to find any real documentation on how Synology's SHR works. Their recovery documentation [0] indicates that SHR is just plain mdadm + LVM and a couple of NAS recovery sites [1,2] indicate the same. In the en
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by Youden 7y ago
I generally agree but I'm heading back from a trip to Russia and I was surprised by how good Keenetic's [0] equipment was. It's a brand that apparently only operates in Russia, Ukraine and Turkey. I was impressed because of h
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by Youden 7y ago
When the headband indicates that I had bad sleep, it always matches how rested I feel. When the headband indicates that I had good sleep, it doesn't necessarily match how rested I feel. However I don't think the latter point is be
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I'm not aware on websites with trustworthy writeups, I think the technology is too new. It's essentially all press releases and marketing pages. I elaborated a bit on what the headset does here: https://news.ycombinator
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by Youden 7y ago
Personally I only use Dreem so I can't tell you much about SmartSleep. > Can you tell me more about them? They both claim to "improve sleep" but their marketing site doesn't really say how. For Dreem, there are a few
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> it's very inaccurate That's going to be the case for any kind of wrist-based or bed-based sleep monitor. It simply isn't possible to derive accurate information about sleep by observing basic heart-rate and/or movem
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by Youden 7y ago
I use RAID6 because it gives me highly efficient utilization of my available storage capacity while still giving me some degree of redundancy should a disk fail. My workload is also mostly sequential, so random read/write performance i
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by Youden 7y ago
If you use LVM/mdadm for RAID, it's not possible for btrfs to correct checksum mismatches (i.e. protect against bitrot).
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by Youden 7y ago
I've tried btrfs without much luck. btrfs still has a write hole for RAID5/6 (the kind I primarily use) [0] and has since at least 2012. For a filesystem to have a bug leading to dataloss unpatched for over 8 years is just plain u
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by Youden 7y ago
Nitpick: x265 is an encoder for the HEVC video codec. When you play back the video, you're playing back HEVC, not x265.
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by Youden 7y ago
I use Plex with Infuse on my iOS devices and Apple TV and the Plex app for Android, this way all my devices know what I have and haven't watched. There's no transcoding or buffering in Infuse (even with subtitles) but you'll
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by Youden 7y ago
Which OS are you referring to? FreeRTOS or something else?
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by Youden 7y ago
Reporting on Australia's encryption laws is wildly inaccurate. For one, it does not allow authorities to compel companies or individuals to introduce an encryption backdoor or otherwise weaken encryption. The law very explicitly addres
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> That's not exactly a fair comparison, since Russia hasn't had the funding to make any large-scale invasions since then I don't understand how this makes the comparison unfair. Whatever the reason (e.g. lack of funding),
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Whatever Russia has done, I don't see it as a threat to the security of the world as a whole. Russia lacks the ability to project force around the world (e.g. it lacks aircraft carriers and a modern air force) and the EU's militar
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by Youden 7y ago
I don't hold much hope. This is the same country that elected the Liberals (the current government) on a policy of "stop the boats" and "the opposite of what the other party wants". Murdoch's ownership of the m
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by Youden 7y ago
> Most western people are very negative about countries like Iran, China and Russia because they are the 'bad guys'. As a resident of Europe, I don't think that's accurate. I think there are negative views of these c
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You have no way of verifying that a VPN lacks that capability. If you want anonymity, use Tor.
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There's no "best", all of them have tradeoffs. I recommend looking at https://thatoneprivacysite.net/ which has an extensive list of various providers along with various privacy criteria. I also think it&#x27

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