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   by ale42 2y ago

   Which is kind of normal, we don't need infinite batteries ;-)
2. 362.▲
   by ale42 2y ago

   Problem is, those batteries are not there (yet)...
3. 363.▲
   by ale42 2y ago

   probably, now it doesn't even respond at all...
4. 364.▲
   by ale42 2y ago

   This is the difference between /usr/bin and /usr/ local /bin. The things managed by dpkg, rpm & co. go to /usr, and any non-packaged software should go to /usr/local (stuff built by compiling loca
5. 365.▲
   by ale42 2y ago

   What key are you referring to, the backtick key, or the Alt+[KEY] used by the app?
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   by ale42 2y ago

   > The paper seems to found a hardcoded A/B key A396EFA4E24F for a particular brand of RFID cards (I just skimped the paper and its been years since I worked on RFID. I might be wrong on the detail). Actually, if I understood the pap
7. 367.▲
   by ale42 2y ago

   Not directly because it can't handle retransmitting the existing HDMI signal. You probably need to add a HDMI/DVI switch IC like this one: https://www.analog.com/en/products/ad8196.html
8. 368.▲
   by ale42 2y ago

   There are some amateur radio operators who operate in QRP (max. 5 W power) and have a DXCC award (so they have contacted at least 100 different countries). So the range is much more than 80 km, especially if you use digital modes able to re
9. 369.▲
   by ale42 2y ago

   > But if it's a mesh, how do you know whether the transmitter generated the message or it is just relying it? I didn't check the protocol in detail so I don't know for sure, but I assume it's possibly impossible to kn
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    by ale42 2y ago

    Crossing the Atlantic with radio is totally doable, even with low power if you accept communicating at a few bits per second (see for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FT8 and https://wsjt.sourceforge.io
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    by ale42 2y ago

    Web site says: > does not reveal any identifying information about Alice or Bob In my opinion this is not really true, any radio transmitter can be triangulated (see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direction_findi
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    Redbox app axed dashing people's hopes of keeping purchased content(arstechnica.com)

    1 points by ale42 2y ago|0 comments
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    by ale42 2y ago

    Same for datasheets of most electronic components. The manufacturers don't want the responsibility to avoid possible multi-million lawsuits.
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    by ale42 2y ago

    Had the same on journaled ext4 on Linux. Lots of NULL bytes in the middle of the syslog because of unclean shutdown.
15. 375.▲
    by ale42 2y ago

    The thing is that, despite the file has a confusing .sys extension, it's not the driver, but rather a data file loaded by the Crowdstrike driver.
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    by ale42 2y ago

    There's NPR (new packet radio) on the 430 MHz band, never tried myself but it looks interesting. See for example https://hackaday.io/project/164092-npr-new-packet-radio . It can transport IP and goes up to 500 kbps
17. 377.▲
    by ale42 2y ago

    Same here! In 1997 or so, I was so excited that I could put a 1-minute track on a floppy and play it back in real time...
18. 378.▲
    by ale42 2y ago

    ... for 10 minutes of music! You can't do everything with them, but module files are awesome for some kinds of music...
19. 379.▲
    by ale42 2y ago

    I wouldn't expect anything else from Google...
20. 380.▲
    by ale42 2y ago

    Oh well, so we had at least 2 countries counting COVID cases by fax. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/science/crunching-the-numbers_w... (couldn't find a better source, I think they even ended up weighing fax pil
21. 381.▲
    by ale42 2y ago

    > Famously - or rather notoriously, during the pandemic local German health authorities faxed case numbers and other relevant data to federal authorities, which led to massively delayed response times and a general unavailability of depe
22. 382.▲
    by ale42 2y ago

    > Did we even have hover in windows 95/98? Hover how? Changing the appearance of a control when the mouse passes over it? Or having a tooltip appearing? Both can definitely be implemented quite easily. For the tooltip, I just checke
23. 383.▲
    by ale42 2y ago

    > it saved me a call with a live human Because you prefer interacting with a machine, or because you feel like the live human should do better things?
24. 384.▲
    by ale42 2y ago

    I think it's fine as a marketing argument, like in the page where you present your product. As much as citing the big names already using it. What isn't fine is when you try to book an hotel room and you get nagging messages sayin
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    by ale42 2y ago

    Actual research paper about the influence of a name on career and other "major life decisions": • Why Susie sells seashells by the seashore: implicit egotism and major life decisions ( https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2
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    by ale42 2y ago

    Shouldn't it be (2023) rather than (2013)?
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    by ale42 2y ago

    I'm wondering if the problem has something to do with TCP retransmissions exploding the number of DNS requests. In the iodine client terminal there was a continuous flow of DNS requests and (most of the time) answers, so the communicat
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    by ale42 2y ago

    Did they forget to block UDP? Or they left it totally open for DNS to work?!
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    by ale42 2y ago

    I guess the airlines want to monetize all they can... so probably not.
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    by ale42 2y ago

    iodine worked for me (on another airline/wifi) 6 years ago. Fun for the idea and principle, totally useless in practice given its speed, unless maybe you run an IM on top of UDP ;-)