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by _dan 5mo ago
Honestly that would still be impressive if it were 20 cuts.
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by _dan 7mo ago
Boardsource's alu lily58 case supports using a standard pcb so you can use choc switches with it.
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by _dan 7mo ago
There are a bunch of aluminium Lily58 cases out there, they're not cheap tho. Most of the time keys popping out means your plate is too thick or the switch holes aren't a good fit. You can often improve it (and the sound) with som
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by _dan 7mo ago
It's pretty common for Alice-style keyboards to have two Bs (the one in the pic in the article does) as on a normally-staggered keyboard the B key is basically equidistant from the home keys so it's common to use either. But it wo
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by _dan 10mo ago
Yeah that OSMC box is just running Debian with their stuff coming from its own package repo. You can get a root shell. I realise I could have built something myself (and have in the past) but it's absolutely worth the money to me to ge
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by _dan 10mo ago
Yeah I have a couple of recent Samsung OLEDs and they're fine without an internet connection despite reports that they wouldn't be. If I press one of the annoying streaming service buttons on the remote it'll give me a setup
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by _dan 10mo ago
Well that is ridiculous. ..but sadly within the margin of ridiculousness for our government's approach to the internet.
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by _dan 10mo ago
I mean good luck banning ssh connections.
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by _dan 10mo ago
The uniform stagger is likely to make most keyboard nerds turn their noses up too.
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by _dan 10mo ago
My experience of working with Perl as a primary language from late 90s to today: Perl was dead long before Perl 6/Raku was a real thing. By the time that happened it had already lost massive ground to PHP, Python, Java, etc. PHP had re
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by _dan 1y ago
That seems to be the approach most UK newspapers are taking. Consent or pay. https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...
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by _dan 2y ago
This is the approach I take too. If I need it and I can do it then I'm going to. If you don't want me to then block me. I must say I've had some raised eyebrows over that approach but if the alternative is not getting my sh
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by _dan 2y ago
SSH tunnelling is an utter necessity in the ridiculous corporate environment I work in. Incredible amounts of bureaucracy and sometimes weeks of waiting to get access to stuff, get ports opened, get some exception in their firewalls and vpn
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by _dan 2y ago
I came here to say this. Yes I know https://no-www.org/ is a thing, but browsers have a ctrl+enter shortcut that'll top and tail the domain with https://www . and .com - having that go to an error page is no
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by _dan 2y ago
Oh sure, and their service is great and very much worth paying for.
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by _dan 2y ago
Even running your own local resolver, if you generate enough traffic they'll still block you. I think their definition of open relay is based on traffic volume. (which is their right, of course - just a warning that might help someone
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by _dan 3y ago
Sorry misunderstood. Yes I did mean exactly that. Though he did damage the lid in the process, so who knows how he got it open.
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by _dan 3y ago
Honestly that was pretty much the situation. In our defence, he offered. It had hit hour 6 of both the primary and the backup aircon being down, on a very hot day - everyone was way beyond blame and the NOC staff were basically up for any c
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by _dan 3y ago
Similar thing (catastrophic aircon failure due to a flood in a crap colocated DC) happened to us too before we shifted to AWS. Photos from the colo were pretty bizarre - fans balanced on random boxes, makeshift aircon ducting made of cardbo
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by _dan 3y ago
I have a MongoDB shirt of the same vintage and I can confirm they are indeed soft AF.
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by _dan 3y ago
Typeface is good, but that website is an absolute top tier gem.
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by _dan 3y ago
If they don't enforce their trademark they'll lose it, so as depressing as it is my prediction is that they won't allow it. Even though there's likely little value left in it for them.
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by _dan 3y ago
This is perfectly in the crossover between useful feature and top notch April Fools prank.
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by _dan 3y ago
Wycombe is really close to where I grew up but I did not know this.
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by _dan 3y ago
That’s exactly how it works today, Apollo logs into Reddit as you via OAuth. When you add an account you follow a pretty standard OAuth flow (Apollo sends you to Reddit, you log in, Reddit asks you to authenticate Apollo, then sends you bac
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by _dan 3y ago
That doesn’t sound very far away from how Apollo/etc work today - you authenticate the app with Reddit via oauth and it accesses the api as you. Reddit already implements some features only when you’ve paid (eg you get access to the lo
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by _dan 3y ago
The outrage is usually because those sites deliberately go out of their way to compromise the experience for those that don’t pay.
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by _dan 4y ago
A Macbook's minimum brightness is quite bright. The thing that annoys me no end is that if you hit the "dim" button when it's at minimum brightness, it goes black - but fades out slowly and smoothly. So they're clea
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by _dan 4y ago
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gHR9YQl7ObU ..?
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by _dan 4y ago
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:z0qv4i... Google's cache, for anyone else having trouble with archive.org.

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