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by aasasd 5y ago
IIRC Linux has a capability to specify the root partition at some time during loading. (Probably via the bootloader params—this is where Grub comes in use.) This is helpful for booting from a ‘recovery’ floppy/cd/usb drive and int
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by aasasd 5y ago
Many moons ago, you were able to not only install Linux in a DOS directory, using probably UMSDOS or perhaps Syslinux—but also take over DOS with Loadlin and launch straight into full-blown Linux: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by aasasd 5y ago
There's a vaguely similar-ish project Hangover, which integrates Qemu and Wine, to run Windows apps on ARM and whatnot: https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover As I understand it, Qemu in this arrangement only transla
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by aasasd 5y ago
Yeah, pretty sure I was hearing about German cities switching every few months for the past ten years or so.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Even for a momentary shot of a doorknob in ‘The Matrix’, the camera had to be hidden—in the jacket: https://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/matrix-doork...
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by aasasd 5y ago
> Amazon – the logistics expert the world has come to rely on Ah, yes, the really narrow definition of ‘the world’. Meaning the US, as everyone knows.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Until now, I haven't actually thought of what would happen if zalgotext occurred anywhere other than a web browser. Looking forward to the five minutes of fun with the file manager and whatnot.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Yup, it was already everywhere before ‘data science’ was a thing. Turns out, people in actual fundamental science want to slap calculations together fast instead of fussing with memory and whatnot. I have a friend who writes C or C++ (can&#
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by aasasd 5y ago
> The net protein utilization is profoundly affected by the limiting amino acid content—the essential amino acid found in the smallest quantity in the foodstuff. It is therefore a good idea to mix foodstuffs that have different weakness
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by aasasd 5y ago
When people actually want just a subset of `eval` to permit some custom computation, the proper thing to do is to define that subset as a language and make an interpreter that will read only that language. As for mostly-full-featured `eva
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by aasasd 5y ago
Which afaik amounts in that case to a bunch of grayscale JPEGs. Dunno about other cases, but I've never seen a djvu with extra capabilities besides raster images of the pages.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Firefox on Android has a nice feature among the accessibility options: every site is user-scalable, in the zoom-in direction. (I do sometimes wish, however, that zooming out was also always possible: some site authors seem to love children-
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by aasasd 5y ago
Indeed, only absolute losers would run old games and apps that use OpenGL, when there are new shiny ones.
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by aasasd 5y ago
There's a fun podcast episode from 2012 where Siracusa flogs HFS+ and praises ZFS, for two hours: https://5by5.tv/hypercritical/56 With a thorough explanation that filesystems shouldn't ever lose track of int
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by aasasd 5y ago
I, ahem, heard that Rutracker also has games, and that it's pretty alright about marking content in English. Plus there's Google Translate for when the posts aren't that easy to grok.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Gotta say, I would just pirate the game and play it with a vaguely clear conscience since I've already paid for it. Probably would block it in the firewall, though. I think my approach may well be completely lawful in some jurisdiction
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by aasasd 5y ago
You mean like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29042603 ?
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by aasasd 5y ago
Oh funny. Just ten days ago someone asked here in the comments about DDG: > Why, on any planet, would law enforcement issue a warrant to get user data from a company that doesn't have any user data?
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by aasasd 5y ago
Afaik humans also rotate their heads a bit if sound comes from somewhere on the median plane, to get some inter-ear difference. And are not always aware of this behavior.
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by aasasd 5y ago
> https://www.thisfuckeduphomerdoesnotexist.com I'm now more interested in how the transitions are made than in the generators per se.
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by aasasd 5y ago
> HTTP Error 4O4 > 404 Unfound > The Web Server cannot give you the answers you need. Please check your life to ensure the path is correct. Did you press the right keys in sequence, and click with a firm but gentle hand? Are y
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by aasasd 5y ago
Uh uh! While I'm obviously no fan of Google and Chrome, afaik the synced data is encrypted, or at least Goog says so. I.e. it's used just for syncing. Can't remember, though, if it's always encrypted, or just optionally
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by aasasd 5y ago
Frankly, I'm not sure about the current state of things, seeing as it likely has changed several times in the past few years. However, a) I'm not sure why Goog would want to bother with browser accounts otherwise, and b) my use of
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by aasasd 5y ago
> Re: forced Chrome logins. Don't need cookies if you own the browser! ( https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/145209451374118912... ) The swindle with FLOC was pretty obviously tied in this, but peopl
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by aasasd 5y ago
This leaves me curious, though, as to how Google subverted ‘header bidding’. Afaiu from the linked description, it happens on the client side—so how is the Goog able to manipulate it?
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by aasasd 5y ago
> We've been clear about our support for consistent privacy rules around the globe. Truly PR statements can be generated with Markov chains, for a long time now. Every single statement and press release from a major company is at
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by aasasd 5y ago
Pretty sure that every time (or almost every time) when I run `npm install` in a repo downloaded from Github, NPM complains about several security problems in the dependencies. Kinda feels like an unending ‘cry wolf’ situation.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Did a US government site just slap me with a modal popup offering to snatch my email address off me? Before I had a chance to see anything on the site? I absentmindedly closed it immediately at first, and had to delete the site's cooki
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by aasasd 5y ago
Ah, yes, hijacking the arrow keys. So it breaks both arrow-key scrolling and selecting a previous input in a text field—or selecting autocompletion results, or perhaps other ‘rich’ input functions.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Because law enforcement is clueless. Or rather, they won't even bother with these nerdy distinctions.

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