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by aftbit 8mo ago
>Anecdotally, fence phones were still being used throughout the 1970s and perhaps even later. C.F. Eckhardt describes calling his parents who lived in rural Texas and still used a fence phone; their number was simply 37, designated on th
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by aftbit 8mo ago
Some of it might come from True Names by Vernor Vinge too, where the cheapest place to buy bulk compute is giant satellites orbiting on geosync orbit. This became possible because they were developed early on for communications, then obsole
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by aftbit 8mo ago
Yeah I think the problem is that most of the main chains had astronomical transaction fees; most of the side chains that solved this problem had a trust problem; and Bitcoin Lightning was sorta dead on arrival, though it had both the trust
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by aftbit 8mo ago
It almost seems like someone ought to be able to build some kind of digital currency with low transaction fees and no centralized payment processor that could power microtransactions. I wonder why nobody has done that yet.
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by aftbit 9mo ago
3M 6800 have all but sold out on Amazon, probably because of this review. I had almost forgotten about Portland in 2020. This author has some great writing about the double standard of non-violence as well. 10/10
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by aftbit 9mo ago
5 clicks on power button is auto-911 on my Graphene/Android device
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by aftbit 9mo ago
FACE covers "physical" obstruction or threats of violence or force. Standing in the room and yelling is not physical obstruction, and none of what was yelled was threatening violence. Regardless, Don Lemon himself didn't take
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by aftbit 9mo ago
No, there's basically no reason you'd ever want an alkaline battery except cost. For your use case of long-term storage or a rarely used flashlight (e.g. in a car emergency kit), you'd want a Li/FeS2 as the parent poster
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by aftbit 9mo ago
>If Newsom is elected President, he wants to go door to door in search for illegal guns that illegals are harboring.
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by aftbit 9mo ago
Huh? Are you saying that if Gavin Newsom is elected, rather than turning down the rhetoric, restoring the rule of law, and taking the pressure off of the immigrants and brown people who are scapegoats of the current administration, he inste
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by aftbit 9mo ago
Oh boy, just what we need. Drama between open hardware vendors. Neither of these responses feels like the complete story to me. I hope there's a path forward to heal this rift in one way or another. Both SparkFun and Adafruit are doing
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by aftbit 9mo ago
I'd say the opposite - any fibre in a wall should probably be single-mode fibre (SMF), simply for future proofing. Single mode optics aren't much more expensive and single mode fibre hasn't changed nearly as many times as mul
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by aftbit 9mo ago
The interesting bit is that Trump and many of his supporters seem (to me) to be openly working to bring an end to US dominance and promote the likes of China to the top spot instead. The US got its global power by being relatively undestroy
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by aftbit 9mo ago
Pretty much as you say. Legal exists within a system of laws. Hypothetically these laws might not have a carve-out for "CTO doesn't like the behavior" but they almost certainly do have a carve-out for "national security
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by aftbit 9mo ago
The one thing they relied on "my buddy told me" for is actually not really in dispute as they say. Between CALEA, the Snowden leaks, and the earlier stuff (like the beamsplitters in Room 641A), we have known clearly based on a num
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by aftbit 10mo ago
I was an Orkut user from the USA for a few years. The vibe was way nicer than Facebook. I think I was with them from 2007 to 2011 or so. killedbygoogle.com says 2004 to 2014 so a decent chunk of the service's run.
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by aftbit 10mo ago
This opens up new possibilities for interactive phone services. Retro-futuristic for sure.
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by aftbit 10mo ago
You can run two nodes both behind restrictive full cone NATs and have them establish an encrypted connection between each other. You can configure your devices to act as exit nodes, allowing other devices on your "tailnet" to use
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by aftbit 10mo ago
Once upon a time, MySQL/InnoDB was a better performance choice for UPDATE-heavy workloads. There was a somewhat famous blog post about this from Uber[1]. I'm not sure to what extent this persists today. The other big competitor is
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by aftbit 10mo ago
Has anyone tried to add up the track file size from the metadata dump? In spotify_clean_track_files.sqlite3: SELECT count(*), sum(filesize_bytes) FROM track_files; 255966403|15970064861274 That's only 14.5 TiB, nowhere ne
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by aftbit 10mo ago
Can you do PTP over the internet? I have only seen it in internal environments. GPS is probably the best solution for external users to get time signals with sub-µs uncertainties.
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by aftbit 10mo ago
It's amazing what this technology can do. I wonder what the interface in the cockpit was like, who activated it and why, how it chose the runway, and other details that will likely come out in the final report if not earlier. I think t
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by aftbit 10mo ago
I always thought having day laborers chilling in Home Depot parking lots was a net positive thing for the store and a bit of an untapped potential. Companies pay a lot of money to insert themselves in the hiring stream, and here is Home Dep
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by aftbit 10mo ago
I've considered setting up an ASN and grabbing an IPv6 block for myself for a while now, but have never had the gumption, time, and funds at the same time.
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by aftbit 10mo ago
tell me more fellow traveler - who has read my mind, and how?
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by aftbit 10mo ago
That is ... basically all of them? Other than general purpose desktop/laptop computers that is. Show me a TV or smartphone that does allow you to push new roots to it...
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Big sky
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by aftbit 10mo ago
Yeah that LE root certificate change broke our PROD for about 25% of traffic when it happened. Everyone acts like we control our client's cert chains. Clients don't look at the failure and think "our system is broken - we sho
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by aftbit 10mo ago
Yeah, I meant "at least" 4-8 hours. Even if you get bored and give up after that, you've gotten your money's worth, in my opinion. I have almost 270 hours in Helldivers 2 myself. Like any multiplayer game, it can expand
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by aftbit 10mo ago
Ah sorry, I thought "at least" would carry this statement. I've played Helldivers for more than 250 hours personally. For some reason, though, I tend to compare everything to movie theater tickets. In my head (though it'

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