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by alufers 5y ago
The knowledge is one thing, because you can always learn how to do things the "Nix way" (either by reading the incomplete documentation or tinkering for hours until the thing works). But the real problem is that software does not
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by alufers 5y ago
Reminds me of the times when you could install Ubuntu via an .exe file using WUBI. This is how I started with Linux on my grandparents' computer without breaking it when I was 11.
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by alufers 5y ago
Yes, it does. Unix permissions can be stored on NTFS, but Windows just doesn't use them.
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by alufers 5y ago
What I would really like to exist, is a VM image for Windows 10, without all the telemetry, updates and anti-virus software. I hate that when I need to test something on IE, my laptop's fans start spinning up, and the VM is unusable, b
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by alufers 5y ago
You would get a lot of false positives, meaning apps that legitimately need the location. For example navigation apps or unfortunately apps on Android which use Bluetooth. This really annoys me, because the dialog looks the same for apps th
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by alufers 5y ago
There is https://www.ddcutil.com/ It has a command line utility and a qt GUI. Unfortunately the GUI is a bit convoluted, because it exposes every option that you can change on the monitor. I once almost bricked my LG monit
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by alufers 5y ago
Do you know what sites do that? I have my own domain and I haven't seen anybody do that. The obvious solution is to configure your mail server to only accept usernames before the '@' that adhere to some rule which only you kn
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by alufers 5y ago
This GUI must have a pretty advanced versioning and rollback support, otherwise I can see one user borking the whole API with a bad change and nowwhere to check what happened.
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by alufers 5y ago
That is one hell of a comprehensive article. I wonder how much impact would such extreme optimizations on a real-world application, which for example does DB queries. This experiment feels similar to people who buy old cars and remove every
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Ask HN: How to approach WiFi roaming in a home network
5 points by alufers 5y ago|1 comments
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by alufers 6y ago
I like how everybody here uses this website for some profound mathematical purposes, but I once won a cordless drill due to the OEIS in high school. At some hackathon Bosh had a booth with a contest where you had to solve puzzles which cons
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by alufers 6y ago
Somebody recently sent me a link to a video on YouTube about the infamous prickasso [1]. I was very surprised to see YouTube hosting a video of him, well, painting on camera. [1] https://youtu.be/4oDT99KKvdE
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by alufers 6y ago
I think it is due to arcing. With AC an arc will extinguish itself itself when the voltage goes through 0, but for DC no such thing occurs and an long arc can damage the relay contacts.
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by alufers 6y ago
To add to this: What interests me is how will they handle accessing the management interface of routers and various network equipment once HTTP gets deprecated.
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by alufers 6y ago
It will probably be a hardcoded exception, just like for enabling microphone/webcam access and other features today.
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by alufers 6y ago
I have added a Sonnoff mini with Tasmota to my light switch in my room. Whenever I cannot see my USB ports on my computer at night I just press a macro button on my keyboard, and without taking off my headphones I can see everything. Kinda
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by alufers 6y ago
For somebody who is nearly 2m tall peeing without sitting down means uniformly coating my legs and the immediate surroundings with pee droplets of high velocity.
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by alufers 6y ago
AFAIK this does not work with apps which have purposefully disabled screenshots, the Android UI is visible on scrcpy but the contents of the app appear black. What is interesting is that Android appears to be rendering every frame two times
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by alufers 6y ago
This reminds me of the time when I wrote a web crawler which saved all unique HTTP headers along with their values. Turns out that those `X-We-Are-Hiring` headers are not so uncommon. I also found a misspelled content security header on som
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by alufers 6y ago
In the former soviet block, moist of the built blocks had garbage chutes, but today almost all off them are out of service and welded shut. They would smell terribly all year long, rats would climb up the shaft to your apartment. And the po
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by alufers 6y ago
Maybe in the future we could have accessible controls which are accessible for non-graphical interfaces such as screen readers and automated systems.
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by alufers 6y ago
As an owner of an ultra-wide monitor I am all for adding margins on the left and right side. I feel like my eyeballs are about to fall out everytime I read something longer on maximized Wikipedia.
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by alufers 6y ago
There is the "plugin" package which seems really cool and fits the simplistic style of Go (tbh I haven't tried this module myself, only glanced at the documentation), but it does not work on Windows, which I think is the reas
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by alufers 6y ago
It seems like you are not the only one. CDPROJEKT has been the top 1 biggest company by trading volume on the Polish sotck exchange over the last few months. It even surpassed the second biggest copper producer (KGHM) in the world.
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by alufers 6y ago
I see a very zealous and illegal, albeit useful application: I could hide an ESP32 with a relay inside of a circuit breaker and install it in my neighbor's breaker box, cutting their power every time they start blasting obnoxious disco
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by alufers 6y ago
Oh how cool, I thought I was the only one trying to mess with scammy sites when I find them. Although I can see that I could improve my methods, since I usually write a short user script which spams the forms with data from faker.js and let
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Ask HN: Best programming language to get a kid intrested in computers?
3 points by alufers 6y ago|5 comments
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by alufers 6y ago
Does this mean that now Telegram will give the Russian government whatever they want, if they think it is "extremist"?
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The inner workings of the Recycle Bin Folder [video](youtube.com)
1 points by alufers 6y ago|0 comments
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Pulse Oximeters; an Use of Light [video](youtube.com)
1 points by alufers 6y ago|0 comments

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