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by ale42 5y ago
Just worked for me after the redirection, but it's super slow. Still downloading, I am at 210 MB, at a rate of around 190 kB/s... Direct ZIP download link = https://web.archive.org/web/20210418214109if_/h
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by ale42 5y ago
So happy that people can still write & compile code for Win3.1 or other vintage OS!
933.
by ale42 5y ago
... being an ham radio operator, I was hoping to see a shortwave-to-snailmail gateway... or maybe some historical information about some shortwave telegraphy system used somewhere in the past century to send actual mail from abroad...
934.
by ale42 5y ago
Sure, but keeping logs for legal reasons doesn't mean transmitting those logs to all the web sites you visit. I think the point here was untrackability by websites rather than pure anonymity.
935.
by ale42 5y ago
... unless your ISP would change your prefix regularly (like every day), like it's now the case for those who have a public dynamic IPv4. If they give you a static IPv6 prefix, it's like giving you a static IPv4 now, i.e. somethin
936.
by ale42 5y ago
Nice, didn't know about this! Do they happen to have also regular DNS? Not all systems/programs can do DoT or DoH...
937.
by ale42 5y ago
... but the cave link uses relatively high power levels (20-30 Watts if I remember correctly)
938.
by ale42 5y ago
see e.g. https://www.mit.edu/~fadel/papers/TARF-paper.pdf for those who didn't hear about TARF (translational acoustic-RF communication)
939.
by ale42 5y ago
How huge? Aviation uses HF (shortwaves) and not VLF as a backup for translatlantic flights (see for example https://thepointsguy.com/guide/how-pilots-communicate-with-a... ). HF antennas can already look huge ;-)
940.
by ale42 5y ago
Have been to the Argentinian side of Atacama desert a few years ago, it also has impressive landscapes!
941.
by ale42 5y ago
As a native Italian speaker I think that the tradition is safe from AI for now... Uussimanto or Dantentandim doesn't quite sound like Italian ;) And there might be a bit too many "Effusione" names :)
942.
by ale42 5y ago
Is this just doing the same as the ages-old SUBST command, or is there some enhanced functionality?
943.
by ale42 5y ago
not sure it's just a throughput question... the thing is, there's only a single PCIe lane exposed, and multiplexing it to multiple devices (i.e. a SATA controller plus a USB3 controller) requires more electronics, and of course th
944.
by ale42 5y ago
Why should it be JavaScript? If we generalize to other languages, Qt does it very well in C++. You might like Qt or not (I'm not a big fan, but heavily prefer it over Electron), but it definitely does the job using much less resources
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by ale42 5y ago
indeed... :-(
946.
by ale42 5y ago
There are comments elsewhere in the thread about this, but storage is not the only thing in play here: bandwidth (even in modern countries some rural places have very slow connections), energy use (it takes proportionally more electricity t
947.
by ale42 5y ago
A bit off topic (not related to street design in any way): to me the "interface designed by engineers" looks much better than the one made by UX designers. Ok, it doesn't actually _look_ better from a purely aesthetical point
948.
by ale42 5y ago
In Switzerland, public radio & TV are funded by a tax every household pays, whether you have a TV/radio or not (note that the websites of public TV & radio use quite some trackers... but are ad free; the TV is NOT ad free thoug
949.
by ale42 5y ago
Indeed, I've seen so many weird places program wrote license/demo timer data to... not sure if it was the same software as you (can't even remember which one it was) but a shareware writing to a legit Adobe key reminds me of
950.
by ale42 5y ago
Windows also uses it for metadata, e.g. if you edit the "Comment" of a DLL file. The problem with NTFS alternate streams it's that they are very easy to find if you know what you're looking for. It might be better to hid
951.
by ale42 5y ago
Yes they still do, at least for floating licenses, I'm running a FlexLM server for our lab with several Autodesk floating licenses on it. MATLAB also uses it, and so do many others scientific software packages (e.g., ANSYS).
952.
by ale42 5y ago
Actually many programs write license/demo expiry/... data to very hard-to-find registry keys... maybe just in plain sight under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion which has so much stuff that basically no
953.
by ale42 5y ago
I had a case of a program that had to run with admin rights, it was storing the info in some of the first sectors of the HD (yes it's possible without direct hardware access, you "just" need admin rights). Of course it corrup
954.
by ale42 5y ago
Same for me. I prefer buying FLACs (or actual CDs) of the music I want to have and keep it on my devices, so there's no future risk of losing it (I do have backup). Plus, streaming requires a working connection, uses more energy, etc..
955.
by ale42 5y ago
Or have JavaScript removing nodes from DOM after they are actually there... might require some attempts with Reader Mode and reloads (as it's timing dependent) but it's worth a try if you want to read a specific article.
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by ale42 5y ago
I wont comment in terms of features, but in my experience Borg is slower than Restic. This might be worth considering for low-end servers, and for big amount of data. Restic used to have an extremely slow prune (purge unused old data) featu
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by ale42 5y ago
Actually they do. A relatively cheap 13" laptop with a Full-HD screen is already considered HighDPI by Windows 10, where it uses a default of 125% scaling (or maybe 150%, not sure). Applications not supporting HighDPI (aka Retina) prop
958.
by ale42 5y ago
Similar story with a company I was struggling to contact (in 2019?) to solve an invoicing problem. Phone calls and e-mails were no success, I was always getting useless answers (when I got any) and interminable wait lines. Magically the pro
959.
by ale42 5y ago
Read receipt pixel/trackers can't prove something has been read. Thunderbird for example doesn't load remote images by default, by design, as they can be used for tracking purposes (including by spammers).
960.
by ale42 5y ago
Possibly because the channel on which the "fax" would travel (e-mailed PDF) is not the same as an actual fax (although nowadays it is probably going to be over T.38 transported over IP, so in the end probably not much changes in t

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