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by avian 9y ago
While the hack itself might be interesting, this is horrible, sensationalistic writing and lacks any kind of technical details. It even manages to mistype the microcontroller type (it's STM32F205, not ST32F05).
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by avian 9y ago
> Compare the size of the Saturn 5 rocket to get to the moon with the size of the rocket needed to come back. That is not fair comparisson. Saturn V needed to also lift the rocket that came back.
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by avian 9y ago
I'm probably not the typical user, since I like to listen to music off-line. One thing that annoyed me about SoundCloud is that I often come across music on YouTube that has "download at SoundCloud" links. However, the SoundC
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by avian 9y ago
This is an extension for the Jupyter Notebook [1]. Jupyter Notebook is a tool that allows you to combine runnable computer code, Markdown text, TeX equations and (generated) figures in a single document. It's quite popular in education
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by avian 9y ago
Are you confusing digital with electronic? Ones and zeros carved into a tree are still a digital record. Digital refers to the fact the you operate on a set of discrete values, in contrast to a continuum of values. Medium is irrelevant. Jus
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by avian 9y ago
> A cryptocurrency does not necessarily have to be stored or generated digitally. How would a non-digital cryptocurrency work? While signal scramblers, an analog equivalent to digital cryptography, did exist, I have a hard time imagining
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by avian 9y ago
According to the author the video should be posted soon. https://blogs.gnome.org/jrb/2017/07/29/gnome-populum-est/
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A Brief History of Gnome [pdf](blogs.gnome.org)
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by avian 9y ago
Gratipay (formerly GitTip) used to do that. Not sure how they are doing these days. I haven't heard about them in a while. https://gratipay.com
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by avian 9y ago
You can send BLE advertisement packets with nRF24: http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=15&proj=11.+Bl...
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by avian 9y ago
If it's coupled with some Wi-Fi physical layer data (signal strength, etc.), a big dataset might be useful in making a better model for in-door signal propagation. Roombas are already quite popular in the research community as a cheap
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by avian 9y ago
In my experience IPv6 support in home Wi-Fi routers is still hit or miss. I recently had to replace a new TP-link router because some wireless devices refused to get a IPv6 address due to failing duplicate address detection (it was some kin
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by avian 9y ago
HTA (basically a HTML page launched chromelessly with elevated privileges) was a thing back around the Windows 98 era. Everyone I knew at the time universally considered it a horrible and misguided idea by Microsoft. Funny how the history r
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by avian 9y ago
Interesting. I'm probably confusing some things. I was under the impression that the term "open source" was older than both the free software movement and "open source" as defined by Eric Raymond et al. Not sure whe
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by avian 9y ago
"Open source" historically meant just that: that you could look at the source, in contrast to machine code-only software. Only later did the term got confused with "free software" idea from Stalman and the "preferre
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by avian 9y ago
I imagine a company with its funds running out will not be particularly interested in dedicating resources to the archive team. Not to mention that doing that would be kind of signing their own death certificate. It's hard to argue tha
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by avian 9y ago
Firefox ESR 52.2.0 on Debian still prints a whole bunch of assertion errors if you run it in a terminal: (firefox-esr:345): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion 'object->ref_count > 0' failed
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by avian 9y ago
But on the brighter side: > Conclusion 2: the great filter is likely in the past Is there an article to go with these slides? I'm somewhat competent with probability theory and I found it hard to follow with all the unmarked graphs
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by avian 9y ago
Not mailing lists. These are Usenet posts. Years ago Google bought a service that was archiving the Usenet network and integrated their data into Google Groups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet
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by avian 9y ago
I didn't have any significant MATLAB background when I started using matplotlib and I found it a joy to use. I think "organic" part of the API is very well integrated and completely optional in most places. For instance, you
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by avian 9y ago
Current situation in Debian: Jessie is not vulnerable. Stretch is vulnerable (no patch yet), but systemd-resolved is not enabled by default. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9445
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by avian 9y ago
Old overhead projectors used to have a big lens that focused the light from the lamp. I was present at a lecture where one spontaneously ignited because it was left standing (turned off) near the window where the sunlight was falling on it.
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by avian 9y ago
Circa 2000 I was using a Compaq Contura 4/25cx laptop with Debian Slink, 2.0.36 kernel. It had a 486 at 25 MHz and 4 MB RAM. I also got a parallel port Ethernet adapter from the same dumpster dive. Even with Slink installing with 4 MB
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by avian 9y ago
I was tangentially involved in a project that invested quite heavily in developing a device based on Edison. I don't recall hearing about any hardware problems you describe. In fact, I remember being surprised at how easy it was to set
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by avian 9y ago
I tried and you're right. Did they disable that recently? Or is there a popular IDE that does render Markdown in commit messages? I had to ask a few people not to use Markdown and I just assumed it was a Github thing.
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by avian 9y ago
> Use Valid MarkDown format in Message Body. I like to keep Markdown away from my repos. After a while people get clever with their Markdown and it makes reading commit logs using command-line tools increasingly difficult. It also encour
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by avian 9y ago
In my experience a SSH service on a random, non-standard port gets surprisingly few probes. I look after several machines and I see less than one attempt per year (versus hundreds per day for port 22). I have yet to see somebody probe a SSH
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by avian 9y ago
Sticking a piece of black masking tape over webcams on my devices is pretty much a reflex reaction for me these days. EFF also sells a nice set of stickers for this exact purpose: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/laptop-
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by avian 9y ago
By the way, I checked the source and it appears that setting SSLStaplingStandardCacheTimeout to a large value (larger than typical OCSP reply validity) effectively creates this behavior. Apache checks if cached reply is still valid and if i
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by avian 9y ago
Thanks for pointing this out! Going through the documentation, another thing that surprised me was the SSLStaplingStandardCacheTimeout setting. If I understand this correctly, by default Apache will only cache OCSP responses for 1 hour, eve

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