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by alterom 5mo ago
There's not much bandwidth in HAM radio either. Any bandwidth is better than zero.
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by alterom 5mo ago
>This is so debunked that I consider other opinions held by you as a sign they are wrong as well "So debunked" by whom exactly? Please cite which parts of this report[1] you believe are false. Insofar as this discussion is co
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by alterom 5mo ago
>You seem to assume that I'm an American? No. What made you think that? Please cite. I assumed you aren't. People here wouldn't describe MAGA/Democrat standoff as "cat fight". >You're not an Ameri
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by alterom 5mo ago
>Två kan spela samma spel, frågan är vem det nu är som läser eller lyssnar och vem inte gör det. Det hjälper inte heller att kalla allt som inte passar åsiktskorridoren som 'extremhöger' eller amerikanska versionen av samma ko
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by alterom 5mo ago
Dziękuję bardzo! Ale oni i tak nic nie przeczytają :(
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by alterom 5mo ago
You really ought to call out Nawrocki and PiS by name (populist president/party), for all the non-Europeans out there. For anyone new to Polish politics, here's an easy mnemonic: PiS = piss. >Fortunately somehow they didn&#x27
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by alterom 5mo ago
>11 years ago in laptop terms is still useable 11 years in human terms isn't "not long ago". Nether is "never", which is the time when Chrome was under 30mb installed . >To get so upset over this is crazy,
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by alterom 5mo ago
>Many americans suffer from this I'm a Ukrainian-American who's lived in Ukraine, Poland, and the US; have property/bank accounts in all three countries, and speak three languages and Russian. The "Americans suffe
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by alterom 5mo ago
>Ehhh, because only MAGA complains No. Because Russia has specifically invested in propaganda efforts influencing rural voters in Poland to support Polish far-right parties (and PiS), using it to foster anti-EU and anti-Ukraine sentime
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by alterom 5mo ago
>Those guys in the middle of nowhere are the biggest geeks in LoRa networks Population dynamics in Russia are vastly different than in the West. Geeks don't exist or survive in the countryside. Not only it's abject poverty, i
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by alterom 5mo ago
Like HAM radio: nobody needs it, until a real emergency strikes. Then everyone does.
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by alterom 5mo ago
Russia and Ukraine both use meshed drone control networks now, dunno which tech stack, but likely this or similar.
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by alterom 5mo ago
Mesh networks are already used by both Russia and Ukraine to guide drones. With the obvious solution of putting mesh nodes on the drones , foregoing the scattering part. For everyone else, IoT is already there. And good old paying people t
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by alterom 5mo ago
>I have family in Poland, they are from smaller villages and they ALWAYS complain about EU and the economy Ah, the Polish MAGA. Probably Russian-influenced as well.
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by alterom 5mo ago
>Not too long ago my chrome install was 30mb, this isn't anything different. "Not long ago" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. The install file for Chrome 42 circa April, 2015 was 46MB [1]. That's eleven years
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by alterom 5mo ago
In short: no, not to the extent that it'd make rich people use public transportation. Their personal driver can pick them up if needs be.
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by alterom 5mo ago
TL;DW: there is interest in supporting Typst, but there are roadblocks: * Higher priority work currently being done on ArXiV (moving from Perl to Python/cloud) * No "standard" Typst distro * Support team needs to be re-trai
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by alterom 5mo ago
>“this is a pain for my specific and unusual use case”. Since when "being tight on storage space" is a "specific and unusual" case? That's the whole marketing strategy of selling devices with small built-in sto
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by alterom 5mo ago
>4gb storage isn't outrageous, Windows barely runs on anything below 128gb storag So, 4GB is outrageous because it takes the very little space left after the existing bloat. It also still makes Chrome install at least 5X larger.
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by alterom 5mo ago
>A product like Chrome probably has 10,000-ish features, maybe more. It doesn't have 10,000-ish features that take 4GB of space. Chrome doesn't take 40TB on my hard drive. The machine I'm typing it on has 10GB free right
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by alterom 5mo ago
>along with a memorized password— So, your solution is passwords with extra steps. Thanks but no thanks. >I personally keep a separate YubiKey that—along with a memorized password—is sufficient for me to retrieve my password mana
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by alterom 5mo ago
The people were up in arms against the Notepad++ author doing something about the deception. Which was why they felt they had to write this post. Read the article.
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by alterom 5mo ago
>Yes, it means that in the event of catastrophic failure I might not be able to log in to some services until I get to one of the backups. I haven’t been able to imagine a scenario where that would be truly problematic. No need to imag
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by alterom 5mo ago
And if you whack someone with a wrench until they tell you the password, it's even easier! Seriously, if someone is getting physical access to the machine to the extent where they can remove the hard drive... I doubt that it makes a di
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by alterom 5mo ago
>It could be very difficult to login to an account like Gmail from overseas in the event of PC+phone[+hardware key] theft Literally happened to me in Poland, which is why I avoid passkeys like the plague. (The thief got caught months l
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by alterom 5mo ago
>We have now gone from having to “redo everything” to being asked to switch to a passkey by a grand total of one website. Yeah right. When passkeys were rolled out, I was told it's OK because "passwords are always going to
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by alterom 5mo ago
You say this as if accessing that file was any easier than accessing memory.
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by alterom 5mo ago
>your hardware dies Or your backpack gets stolen. Oops. I swear, people who idolize passkey security must never travel anywhere. PS: "just have more devices with passkeys", they invariably say. Yeah right because people are mad
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by alterom 5mo ago
"High volume"? Coming from Tesla, I'll believe it after they actually ship a high volume of those units.
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by alterom 5mo ago
Indeed.

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