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by avian 5y ago
Good luck trying to beat ReCaptcha if you're doing anything that puts you outside of the normal web browser behavior as imagined by Google's Algorithm. If User Agent Client Hints become the new normal, I'm sure anyone exces
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by avian 5y ago
This is the referenced study: https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.E...
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by avian 5y ago
Famous code examples are also much more likely to be noticed. For all I know, the thing might be spewing random GPL'd code from the long tail of GitHub all the time and nobody notices because it was written by some random guy and not J
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by avian 5y ago
> a local store was insisting on wiping down the entire checkout conveyor with alcohol between every single customer until very recently, when we’ve know for a long time that you won’t get COVID from that. As someone from a country where
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by avian 5y ago
I'm not from NL, but I am someone that did not install the COVID tracing app that our government provided (for voluntary installation). My reason was that I was not convinced by the PR that it is actually privacy safe. Just repeating &
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by avian 5y ago
This project certainly seems to have the documentation on a higher level than what I'm used to. It's rare to see such a readable schematic with extensive comments on specific parts (FPGA programming, RF path, ...).
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by avian 5y ago
I doubt that FGPA will do anything else than interfacing between the AT86RF215 and the Raspberry Pi. It is pretty small in terms of the number of gates - but also cheap (around $3 at quantity).
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by avian 5y ago
Somewhat related on the topic of blogging. I've recently lost a lot of motivation to publish things on the web after I found that sites like Laptrinhx exist that fraudulently monetize on my content. They blatantly copy all content, reg
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by avian 5y ago
This reminds me of an old ViewSonic LCD monitor I have. It occasionally corrupts its EDID memory for some reason, which causes the computer to not recognize the monitor anymore. The procedure to restore it sounds similarly weird. You plug a
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by avian 6y ago
I wouldn't say that Firefox specifically is worse at it than other browsers though, but I kind of agree with parent comment that the "new web" doesn't care about printing. On more and more pages I encounter issues like t
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by avian 6y ago
Can't have contributions when the images likely aren't even under a license that would allow use like this. I guess it's better not to say where they are from and hope people don't notice... The image of the girl lying o
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by avian 6y ago
> There's really no reason a human would try to fly instead of take a train. My anecdote: Some time ago I did a lot of business trips around Europe. All business travel was organized by a subcontractor. They sometimes wanted to rout
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by avian 6y ago
I wonder if this kind of experimental approach just leads to software slowly getting worse and worse over time, in many small steps. I feel like human response to changes like this isn't linear: make a thing slightly worse, and most pe
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by avian 6y ago
Monochrome adapters (Hercules) indeed had a DB-9, but it was a different gender than serial (COM) ports. Monitor output had a female DB-9 and COM ports had a male DB-9.
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by avian 6y ago
I find it funny how people used to complain about the sheer number of times they had to explain to family members exactly the opposite: "No need to ask. If you can plug it in, then it will work. Computers are fool-proof like that. No,
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by avian 6y ago
> it turns out those are more explosive-barrel sprites, just squished down real thin. It turns out the Build engine was designed so that if you make sprites super thin, they just don't render. A small correction. If I remember corre
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by avian 6y ago
I always thought the intention was to make people angry at lawmakers for coming up with GDPR. “Look what your government made us do to you” kind of thing.
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by avian 6y ago
> there is little emotional investment in Europe regarding Brexit As someone from the continental Europe, this is not at all my experience, but I'm sure this depends on the specific social bubble I'm in. There are plenty of peo
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by avian 6y ago
> An NFT is like a piece of paper titled with the name of the artwork and signed by the artist. I know nothing about NFTs, but in the last few days I’ve seen a few people turn their Twitter accounts private where they previously posted t
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by avian 6y ago
I really like the layout of your website and the way you present your art on it.
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by avian 6y ago
1 W laser is in the “a diffuse reflection can do damage” safety class. It’s the kind of laser where you lock doors to the optics lab to prevent people without eye protection accidentally entering when the laser is in operation. Having a com
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by avian 6y ago
This reminds me of a similar issue in Apache: it will log 500 “internal server error” when (if I recall correctly) clients close connection before SSL handshake is complete. Quite frustrating to try to figure out where your application is c
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by avian 6y ago
I've been bitten by this as well. In general, having two types that are mostly, but not always, interchangeable, often leads to hard to debug problems. A similar situation that comes to mind was str and unicode types in Python 2. Somet
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by avian 6y ago
Seems unlikely, since they are all from the same subnet: x.x.x.25, x.x.x.26, x.x.x.27
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by avian 6y ago
Rules are written on their submit page [1]. They prefer non-commercial, content-focused websites with lightweight HTML. The submit page also suggests they don't do link crawling, but only allow submission of individual URLs. [1] https
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by avian 6y ago
~50 EUR, random no-name USB microscopes are surprisingly good these days. I use them for inspecting PCBs and SMT solder jobs. Model names seem to change daily, but they are all very similar. Standard USB video device-class, so no software n
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by avian 6y ago
In fact, Feedly was the only large centralized feed reader that didn't do subscriber count reporting via UA string for the longest time. They made you do a GET request on some API endpoint if you wanted to get your subscriber count. Th
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by avian 6y ago
I have about the same distribution of RSS clients on my blog as well. Feedly seems to be the largest, with about 10x reported subscribers than their competitors. Newsblur, The Old Reader and Inoreader are all about the same, but far behind.
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by avian 6y ago
Microelectronics cutting edge has been moving to smaller processes for the past 70 years. This is nothing new. If anything, the progress has slowed down. Some fabs get closed down/rebuilt for a different process, some stay and produce
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by avian 6y ago
> We can estimate how many comets are out there with orbital mechanics models, but what about objects originating from outside the solar system? We can estimate the frequency and size of impacts, regardless of the origin of the impacting

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