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by billpg 6y ago
Back in the 80s, I had a device that was powered by a 3.5 connector. This same device had another two 3.5 connectors for the headphones and microphones. Somehow, I got through that time without ever having plugged the power into the microph
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by billpg 6y ago
A few years ago, I had a phone with a micro-USB port, along with a few tablets, portable batteries and other gadgets, all using micro-USB. I had chargers around the house, in my car and at my desk at work. Life was good. Then I upgraded by
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by billpg 6y ago
What I don't get is the idea of trusting a criminal to live up to their promises if the victim pays up. "They would lose a lot of reputation if they broke their side of the deal." What reputation? Is there some sort of websit
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by billpg 6y ago
Hi Richard.
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by billpg 6y ago
Yed it soed.
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by billpg 6y ago
I saw an ad for some VPN provider on a YouTube video. My eyes rolled so far I ended up looking at my own brain.
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by billpg 6y ago
"Dash" sounds very similar to "slash".
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by billpg 6y ago
I saw a report on the news that garden centers were offering to collect used plastic plant pots. I thought "Great idea, just rinse out the pots, peel off the labels and put them back into use for new plants." The report went on to
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by billpg 6y ago
I use a podcast downloader/player daily. I paid something like £5 maybe ten years ago for it. Around a month or so ago, one of my feeds had weird description text that caused the download button to be bumped off the visible area, meani
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by billpg 6y ago
"How do you play this game?" "The area shown has lots of hills and valleys. Your first job is to raise and lower the land to make it flat." "That's the game?" "Just for the first few minutes."
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by billpg 6y ago
Free software has the same problem. I know people who have switched off Firefox updates because an update changed something in a way they didn't like. In order to fix their issue with the new version, they worked out how to roll-back b
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by billpg 6y ago
"I do so like green eggs and ham. Thank you. Thank you, Sam-I-Am." At this point, the character has realized that his quite firm refusal is having no effect. Growing weary of being ignored, he makes a show of capitulation and eats
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by billpg 6y ago
This is a story of capitulating to bullies. "Sam" is a bully.
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by billpg 6y ago
While NAT works very well for home users, servers still need distinct IPs if they are to be accessible by the public. You can get away with shared IPs with some protocols but sometimes you need a whole IP to yourself.
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by billpg 6y ago
I avoided ring-tone services entirely. There seemed to be next to no regulation and it felt like if I just wanted to download one ring-tone I'd find myself consenting to be charged to receive unwanted text messages for ages with no way
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by billpg 6y ago
We call it the "Do I qualify for health insurance?" test.
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by billpg 6y ago
They can always sell their buildings, meh.
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by billpg 6y ago
Are you saying that the law requires you to advertise the minus-tax amount? You can't work out what the hotel tax would be and include it in the price? I understand that showing prices without the sales tax is commonplace in the USA. I
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by billpg 6y ago
outline.com appears to be located in the USA. The decision to not show the content to European IPs will have been made inside that server, not "in Europe". (I acknowledge it isn't doing that now, so please consider this a com
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by billpg 6y ago
Why?
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by billpg 6y ago
"We need to roll-back (JS file) to an earlier version." "Which one?" "The one at (archive URL)." "I'm on it."
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by billpg 6y ago
If you send money with the expectation of a perk or reward, (other than the continued production of the video/podcast/etc) than you're not really a patron any more. You're a customer.
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by billpg 6y ago
Not necessarily an integer. On the 8086, a pointer is a structure made up of two 16-bit integers.
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by billpg 6y ago
Is adding "(2019)" really necessary? Are the contents no longer valid or only meaningful when set in its historical context?
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by billpg 6y ago
Will I be able to have an executable file with all of 68k, PPC, x86 and ARM versions included?
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by billpg 6y ago
I'm old enough to remember strikes and protests for coal mines being closed down. Now we're celebrating it.
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by billpg 6y ago
So this isn't a vulnerability inherent to TLS 1.3 that we need to start designing TLS 1.4? Edit: The title has since been fixed.
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by billpg 6y ago
I was surprised to see addition in there. Hash functions use bit-wise operators. This is a world where "integers" are simply convenient fixed-sized blobs of bits and all bits are equally significant. Addition is an arithmetic oper
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by billpg 6y ago
If you'll excuse me, I'll be purchasing some tiny violins.
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by billpg 6y ago
One of my pet peeves. If you sign up with Patreon to get perks, you're not really a patron any more. You're a customer.

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