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by avian 6y ago
Python 3.5 is the latest you can get on Debian Stretch (oldstable) from official repositories. Stretch is still in the Long Term Support program until around 2022. Dropping support for Python 3.5 means you can't use latest pip on Stret
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by avian 6y ago
Texas Instruments AM335x the BeagleBone uses is also fully documented. There's a huge PDF manual publicly available that describes every functionality. It's such a welcome change from Raspberry Pi's mostly undocumented Broadc
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by avian 6y ago
You give life and computers some special place in the universe for being to able "ask computations which can't be reduced". I don't think that's warranted. In the end, it's all fundamental particles and forces
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by avian 6y ago
The OpenWRT security advisory has instructions on how to disable vulnerable features or upgrade the package: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/security-advisory-2021-01-19-1-d...
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by avian 6y ago
What you still can’t turn off AFAIK is the video starting to play in the background if you go to the “more info” menu. At least on the Android TV app.
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by avian 6y ago
> Blog [...] Different post-type or tag for 'like' vs 'post' See also Webmention for a way to have likes and replies on a blog that behave more like what you see on Twitter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by avian 6y ago
As someone who also ran a similar test myself and haven't seen a bit flip, I'm also skeptical of the 96% figure. I'm too lazy to run the exact numbers right now, but with "4 GB, 96% percent chance, three days" as th
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by avian 6y ago
This story explains why every workplace safety exam I ever took had at least one question similar to "who is responsible for fire/machine/... safety" where the only correct answer was "everyone".
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by avian 6y ago
I had similar thoughts when reading the article. It's written in a quite an unusual storytelling style without clearly summarizing the key points.
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by avian 6y ago
Back in the days when public phone booths were still a thing, the local telecom introduced pre-paid chip cards that you used for paying for your call. They were widely advertised as “fraud proof” because the chip physically burned polyfuses
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by avian 6y ago
The Wikipedia article says it’s a combination of dangerous shallows and unfavorable winds all year near the shore. The way to avoid those was to sail around it, beyond the sight of land. This was something ancient ships couldn’t do because
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by avian 6y ago
This. ISP treating delegated prefixes the same way as a dynamic IP in IPv4 (as in, change it often and randomly) is one of my major pains as a user of IPv6. The whole network stack is very bad at handling this - it results in a very annoyin
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by avian 6y ago
> only works on near constant noise of airplanes and other near constant sources of noise. That is simply not true - at least in my experience with an old model of Sony headphones. It's possible that prediction plays some role, but
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by avian 6y ago
> We could probably send a probe to Centauri for the price of one Iraq war. Pricing planet-sized stuff like this in monetary value is problematic. Taking figures from a quick Wikipedia search, "one Iraq war" buys you 10 years o
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by avian 6y ago
> Thermonuclear Orion could reach as much as 10% the speed of light I wonder how much such a mission would cost in terms of total Earth resources. I've read Dyson's book on the project some years back and I don't remember
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by avian 6y ago
While I prefer Firefox over other browsers, with 10 unchecked checkboxes (and counting) in my “email preferences” they are also guilty of using the same dark pattern.
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by avian 6y ago
> Then they give the product a hilariously user-hostile product name, like “PQS GRT46782-WT” as an extra f-you to the user. That is also a strategy to prevent product comparisons and unbiased reviews. They quickly cycle through product n
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by avian 6y ago
Google's results were significantly better than other search engines, but only for a while. Soon SEO caught up with it using link farms and other forms of link spam. Then it was basically the same as old engines which were already spam
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by avian 6y ago
If anyone is curious, it seems all this does is add a <script> element that defies _gaUserPrefs on all pages. At least the Firefox version. Here is all the code in it: (function() { var a = document.createElement("scrip
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by avian 6y ago
I'm not sure it's that clear. The fact that free services with ads manage to thrive means that they somehow manage to extract money from those 99% of people. I'm pretty sure it's not only the richest 1% supporting the wh
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by avian 6y ago
No, the paradox as described in the Wikipedia article doesn't assume the infinite level of sensitivity. The figure explains it visually - the further away you go from the observer, the more stars you capture in your camera's field
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by avian 6y ago
"Escape from New York" from 1981 used a similar fluorescent paint + UV lights trick to simulate futuristic computer displays that appear in the movie. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_New_York#Fil
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by avian 6y ago
There is still plenty of space between the individual stars in the Hubble Deep Field image. From that point of view it just confirms the paradox - even with a powerful telescope stars don't fill up your entire field of view. I think a
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by avian 6y ago
I remember people used to say the same thing in early days of Apple mobile devices that shipped with (then) unusual white in-ear headphones. White headphones -> high probability of an expensive gadget in a pocket.
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by avian 6y ago
> Once you understand a system – deeply understand – it can do things that its designers never thought possible. I often wonder to what degree that is possible in modern computers. Their complexity so hugely beyond that of old 8-bit micr
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by avian 6y ago
A bit tangential, but Wix lost all reputation in my eyes with the dumpster fire that is the redesigned DeviantArt after their acquisition. They took a nicely functional website and created an unusable monstrosity that takes tens of seconds
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by avian 6y ago
A domain with a DMARC record specifying a strict DKIM checking policy and an absent DKIM record can't realistically be considered a legacy domain.
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by avian 6y ago
Why create a dummy wildcard DKIM record with an invalid/empty public key? Is this in some way different to an absent record? EDIT: My reading of the RFC is that an absent DKIM record is a PERMFAIL [1], exactly the same result as a reco
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by avian 6y ago
I've met Dennis years ago at a vintage computer festival. He later visited our hackerspace to present his MyCPU project - a computer he built from ground up, including the CPU, graphics card, operating system and everything else. He&#x
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by avian 6y ago
Some more clues where this comes from are in this issue: https://github.com/DaveGamble/cJSON/issues/255

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