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by asix66 5y ago
Cell phones use Radio Frequency (RF) signals, and so emit RF "radiation". This is non-ionizing radiation, which cannot strip electrons from your cells, ergo cannot cause cancer. RF can burn you, physically because of heat, if the
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Malformed Wi-Fi name bug can require iPhone factory reset to fix(appleinsider.com)
9 points by asix66 5y ago|4 comments
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by asix66 5y ago
OP here. The original title was not really wrong nor misleading, however I'm not opposed to it changing. Prior to TRUST, you did NOT need a license to fly any drones for recreational purposes. The FAA has had Part 107 in place for a wh
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FAA releases TRUST: Free online training required to fly drones recreationally(dpreview.com)
167 points by asix66 5y ago|167 comments
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by asix66 5y ago
Agreed! In my world of Asic design, I use Wavedrom[1] and Latex/LyX with tikz-timing[2] to make drawing timing diagrams less painful and more predictable and good looking to. Bonus, as you mentioned, they are source based text, and so
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by asix66 5y ago
Interestingly, at the bottom of freenode's website [0] is a link to a non-comercial CC license [1]. So not sure how anyone could "sell" freenode. At the top of the site is a link (not given in this post) to a commercial produ
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by asix66 5y ago
The data extraction piece is bad enough. I find the problems of integrity in that data to be worse. Tying right into that narrative is "Coded Bias", a documentary investigating the bias in facial recognition algorithms [0]. Availa
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by asix66 5y ago
Try the "crowdsourced" ADS-B Exchange site, which shows unfiltered flight data. [0] For more info, check their FAQ. Live data: https://globe.adsbexchange.com [0] https://www.adsbexchange.com
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by asix66 6y ago
Gosh. I wish I knew. This thread is rife with alternatives, so other's guess is as good as mine. The unifi wifis I have running are still good and work extremely well. So my suggestion is to keep using them, but only if you host the co
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by asix66 6y ago
Yes. I run the controller on a raspberry pi 4. Local only. I too am disappointed in UniFi’s direction. I used to recommend them. I don’t now.
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by asix66 6y ago
There was a timeline discussion on HN recently [0] Keep working on it, Tesla, but Elon needs to stop making obvious fraudulent claims about FSD readiness. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26519357
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Yaphet Kotto, Star of ‘Alien’ and ‘Homicide: Life on the Street,’ Dead at 81(rollingstone.com)
14 points by asix66 6y ago|3 comments
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by asix66 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20210311232132/https://www.ispre... Because the real link has too many redirects behind my pihole. ;-)
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by asix66 6y ago
Please, please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives there. Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What?! I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as sort-of-
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by asix66 6y ago
For a trip down memory lane—-for some of us old farts—-or just to play a “new” retro game, check out Nox Archaist [1]. What is Nox Archaist? Nox Archaist is a new RPG for the classic Apple II platform, playable on Apple II hardware, Windows
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by asix66 6y ago
Gas is NOT “much better”. When boiling a pot of water, induction is 74 percent efficient at transforming and transferring input energy to the water, and the gas range comes in at 32 percent. The induction method was 32 percent faster and co
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by asix66 6y ago
One problem is that Bitcoin has the most expensive energy cost for its consensus algorithm. https://www.wired.com/story/bitcoin-mining-guzzles-energyand... More generally, trust: https://www.schneier.com&#x2
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by asix66 6y ago
Self hosted on a Synology server. Custom domain, ddns, Letsencrypt certificate.
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Professional-grade games in the 2020 ABBUC Atari Software Competition(vintageisthenewold.com)
2 points by asix66 6y ago|0 comments
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by asix66 6y ago
If you want to make this configuration local for your login (user) only, put the xml config into: $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf Rather than the global one in /etc/fonts Reference: https://wiki.archl
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by asix66 6y ago
I'm assuming those moving to fastmail from gmail are not concerned about mass surveillance. Fastmail is an Australian company, a 5-eyes country, subject to the Assistance and Access Bill [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by asix66 7y ago
I also like my Roku. Recently upgraded to an Ultra so I could take advantage of a free year of AppleTV+. WRT advertising, I run a Pi-Hole and it does a great job blocking such things.
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by asix66 7y ago
And those who don't understand, or need a refresher on, exponential growth should watch this great video by 3Blue1Brown. Exponential growth and epidemics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kas0tIxDvrg
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by asix66 7y ago
This reminds be of a talk I watched by Richard Hipp, "Git: Just Say No" [0] where he discusses a "top 10 git enhancements" list, as of the time (4 years ago.) It's a good talk, and caused me to discover Fossil SCM.
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by asix66 7y ago
MR and AR are essentially equivalent in the "industry". MR is Mixed Reality. For "mixing" digital images with the real world.
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by asix66 7y ago
So their rollout methodology here was to go live with beta software, on production servers, to paying customers, and force them to find the bugs. Brilliant!
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by asix66 7y ago
I’m a long time VI(m) user, who started with emacs. I’m proficient in both editors, but use vim as my daily driver. When I started my career, my mentor was an emacs user, and the reason I started with emacs. I became very proficient with th
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by asix66 8y ago
I understand people like BBEdit, and this article is more than just about the popular editor. FWIW, I tried it, but for me, BBEdit just can’t “defeat” vim, even on mac. Vim is now 27yrs, and actively maintained, and once learned, its power
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by asix66 8y ago
I have a RPi connected to my sprinkler solenoid valves via an OpenSprinklerPi board. It’s running the SIP [1] controller and a custom garage door plugin [2] I wrote. It’s been running 24/7 in my garage since 2014. YMMV I guess? [1] ht
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by asix66 8y ago
Agreed and confirmed. I’m a GenXer, and my instant interpretation of this headline (before I read your comment) was the abandonment of the bill by the Democrats.

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