arthurfm

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by arthurfm 8y ago
> Why would an e-ink device even need a screensaver To display adverts?
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> And the Urus manages to be even more flagrant brand engineering since it's an Lamborghini version of a Porsche Cayenne, which is just an Audi Q7, all based off an VW Touareg. The Lamborghini Urus shares the same VW group platform
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My first mobile phone was a Motorola V50 flip phone [1] which cost £500 in 2000. Despite being released four years before the RAZR V3 [2] it was both smaller and lighter (although slightly thicker). I reckon it would still look cool today i
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by arthurfm 8y ago
The only bad thing about Apple supporting APFS on Fusion Drives is that it gives them an incentive to continue selling future iMacs and Mac minis with Fusion Drives. Having had to replace failed HDDs in Fusion Drive iMacs at work, it's
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> And even the search tricks, such as using "" don't work as before. While it doesn't have quite the same effect [1] as the double quote marks, you could select the 'Verbatim' option [2] from the search tool
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Also "Libr Library of Congress ary"!
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I wonder if logo generators such as Hatchful could have designed a better logo for the Library of Congress than Pentagram did recently? https://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/new_log...
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Could the tracking pixels not be blocked via a uBlock Origin filter list?
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If Apple added ports to the front of the new Mac mini, they would all have to be USB-C ports (either USB 3.2 or Thunderbolt 3). I can't imagine Jony Ive would find a mix of USB A and C ports aesthetically pleasing.
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It would be very strange for Apple not to considering the functions of the T2 chip. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208862
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Okta's PassProtect Chrome extension also uses k-anonymity. https://www.okta.com/blog/2018/05/add-passprotect-to-your-we...
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> If you did plop down ~$2800 today for a CPU or two, you'll have 28+ cores at your disposal. In just over a weeks time you will be able to get a 32 core / 64 thread AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990X [1] for around $1,500-$1,800 whi
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Techmoan's recent video on extended play (2.5 hour) CDs is also quite interesting. https://youtu.be/5fG1crhGqI0
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> If you look at the boxes now[1], they only have the Amazon curved-arrow logo on them. Another thing I noticed is that some third-party sellers are using similar yellow curved arrows in their product images [1][2]. I guess this results
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> You don't even see it's Firefox anymore Are Mozilla's designers simply following the 'debranding' or 'decorporatizing' trend? [1] [2] [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/business/arch
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> I keep the BLE key in a desk drawer for the purpose of authing my mobile devices as it's pretty much the only way to auth on iOS Krypton Authenticator [1] is another option for iOS. It can turn an iPhone (or Android smartphone) in
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by arthurfm 8y ago
Thanks to the USB 3.0 Promoter Group, USB 3.1 Gen 1 (a.k.a. USB 3.0) devices have been rebranded as USB 3.2 Gen 1x1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0#USB_3.2 The USB 3.2 standard is backward compatible with USB 3
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Quinn Nelson (a.k.a. Snazzy Labs) recently did a couple of videos where he replaced the stock thermal paste on a 2017 MacBook Pro with a liquid metal thermal paste [1] and then 3 months later with a standard thermal paste [2]. With the liqu
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by arthurfm 8y ago
Shouldn't Norway's be Norwegian [millennials] in the title? I have never heard of a Norwegian referred to as a 'Norway'. To me, the title reads as: "Unlike most millennials, the Norway countries are rich" which
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How difficult would it be to do the same with Super Mario World on the SNES?
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Thanks! I will give that a try.
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One feature I wish HIBP had was support for sub-domain addressing [1] and plus addressing [2]. My main email address has the format 'example@fastmail.fm' and receives alerts from HIBP if found in a data breach, but all of the rela
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> I write "images" to it in ISO format but I keep wondering how long boot media will depend on emulating a spinning CD/DVD drive. Could UEFI HTTP Boot [1][2] replace the need to boot from ISOs? [1] https://firmw
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> I just wonder how one could create such a program that the users will have some guarantees that it will not leak stuff. You could do what Okta does with its PassProtect [1][2][3] browser extension and use the Have I Been Pwned API alon
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> The mini has Thunderbolt and and digital audio in/out. The NUC has neither of these. The NUC I am using at the moment (a NUC7I5BNK) has Thunderbolt 3. The current Mac mini is stuck with Thunderbolt 2 and doesn't have any USB-
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> Did I miss something Yes. See the section titled 'Arguments against securing the web'. https://scotthelme.co.uk/https-anti-vaxxers/
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With Google recently investing $20 million in GitLab [1] and helping them migrate from Azure to Google Cloud Platform [2][3], what are developers going to do when Google inevitably acquires GitLab? Move their repositories back to GitHub, sw
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EVGA forgoes driver DVDs: it’s all about the USB flash drive(anandtech.com)
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Do you think twofactorauth.org would be willing to list the regional Amazon websites separately so that your extension can pick them up automatically?
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Great idea for an extension. One thing I noticed straight away that I thought was worth mentioning is that a notification doesn't popup when visiting the regional Amazon websites like Amazon.co.uk/.de/.es/.it, despite it

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