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by ale42 4y ago
Yes, I was thinking to this when I've read the OP. I have source code I wrote in the 90's that was displaying text boxes with the border on the actual border of the characters, without any color bleeding. But I was just using the
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by ale42 4y ago
I would say this is not completely true. I spend a lot of time using CLI applications, but I _do_ care about how the terminal contents look!
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by ale42 4y ago
Some are quite hilarious, like a plane with impossible shape and pieces of wings detached from the rest (see https://thiswallpaperdoesnotexist.org/i/111-abstract-grey-ho... )... By the way, too bad the resolution is so
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by ale42 4y ago
JBIG2 is not specific to fax machines... Adobe Acrobat proposes CCITT group 4 (which is probably the most widely supported compression type on fax machines, by the way), and two flavours of JBIG2, when compressing scanned monochrome documen
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by ale42 4y ago
But AFAIK you can't do non-square QR codes. Plus, at small sizes, you lose a lot of space for the alignment marks.
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by ale42 4y ago
Swiss post has a similar thing, you can buy a stamp (on the form of a 9-letter code) via SMS. Never used but seems it works. No barcodes for regular stamps for now, but datamatrix barcodes are used since more than 15 years for bulk mail and
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by ale42 4y ago
I work almost daily with RDP when I'm working from home, and I have to say that most of the time I almost can't tell if I'm on the remote machine (I'm working full screen) or on the local one. Unless I'm playing a v
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by ale42 4y ago
As far as I understand it, Firefox is not reading QR codes out of images and automatically opening links, but rather reloading already opened URLs that were coming from QR codes. Maybe not ideal, but far better than having the OS scan for Q
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by ale42 4y ago
It should be related to amateur radio, so if it is about broadcast radio probably not.
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by ale42 4y ago
Telephones and asynchronous communication have very different use cases. There are many situations where asynchronous is much better, but when some complexity comes in and would require lots of exchanges, a phone call is much more effective
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by ale42 4y ago
E2EE doesn't prevent the app itself from analyzing messages locally, and sending updated interest profiles to meta... which can be a vector of weights or whatever thing they might be using to know what ads to show. If the logic is in t
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by ale42 4y ago
> Websdr started a 3 year journey/obsession into SDR for me. Proceed with caution. Maybe you should get a ham radio license then :-)
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by ale42 4y ago
SMS text messages could be intercepted (ab)using SS7, which is the protocol interconnecting the various phone carriers. You "just" need to get access to the SS7 network... hard but by no means impossible.
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by ale42 4y ago
Given the detection code is in a separated library, it should be relatively easy (supposing the code is not obfuscated) to find out where it is loaded/called.
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by ale42 4y ago
It already started... not in Photoshop, but don't forget the plans Apple had for the iPhones...
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by ale42 4y ago
Only in inches? That's pretty annoying outside of the US ;)
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Boxes.py – Create boxes and more with a laser cutter(festi.info)
88 points by ale42 4y ago|15 comments
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by ale42 4y ago
:-D don't forget "undefined"!
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by ale42 4y ago
Or an Ethernet card... there is software supporting Ethernet on DOS. Even almost-contemporary Intel card still have DOS drivers...
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by ale42 4y ago
I guess it would sound like a old telephone modem ;-)
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by ale42 4y ago
... games that come on multiple floppy disks! :-D
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by ale42 4y ago
103.0.2 on Windows 10, with NVIDIA GPU
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by ale42 4y ago
Works fine on Firefox for me
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by ale42 4y ago
> I'd pay extra not to have Fox News, for instance, even more for nobody within a 10 mile radius not to have it) With old-school analog TV, injecting noise at the right frequency in the cable will blank the channel of your choice fo
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by ale42 4y ago
Of course not! That's why people do black-box reimplementations without ever seeing the original source code.
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by ale42 4y ago
There's a big difference here. DALL-E (or any other similar tool) is not an artist, it is a commercial product that can produce something that might be considered art. The usage might be ok, but the product itself might not... if I pai
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by ale42 4y ago
People want a lot of things, but people can be egoistic. What people want is not necessarily good for the society as a whole. That's why laws exist.
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by ale42 4y ago
I really hope that interoperability between (some of) these platforms, mandated by EU, will actually come true. Thing is, SMS is ancient technology, but it does work everywhere, on any kind of device, even on the dumbest one. All the other
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by ale42 4y ago
Except if someone can sniff your outgoing RF... given that the power reflected back from the very distant object would have a gigantic attenuation (just the path to the moon has ~250 dB attenuation), you would have to use an enormous RF out
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Wanted: Console text editor for Windows (2018)(virtuallyfun.com)
2 points by ale42 4y ago|0 comments

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