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by brirec 3y ago
Try embedding a real neovim into vscode: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=asvetlia...
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by brirec 3y ago
If you deploy a Windows Server AD domain (do people still deploy new AD domains?) it makes things a lot easier and simpler to be able to make it the authoritative DNS servers for a real domain name, and by default it will stomp all over the
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by brirec 3y ago
TFA mentions GalliumOS for repurposing end-of-life Chromebooks, but it should be noted that GalliumOS hasn’t been receiving updates for at least a year, possibly more like two. On the other hand, if you have an x86 Chromebook and you can sw
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by brirec 3y ago
Eh, my Chromebook makes an excellent VT220, and it won’t stop doing that well unless I drop it quite a few times. I bought a 2-in-1 Chromebook for $65. It’s got 4 GB of RAM, a 32 GB eMMC, and a dual-core Pentium CPU, but when it only needs
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by brirec 3y ago
I scripted Inno Setup running on Wine with bash for a really hacky internal CI thing for a while. The compiler will even run (via Wine) without X!
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by brirec 3y ago
You forgot HyperTerminal (which is still available as a commercial product, by the way!) https://www.hilgraeve.com/hyperterminal/
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by brirec 4y ago
I’m just looking for a position where I can feel like I’m making something cool! Location: New York, NY, USA Remote: full or hybrid Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: all sorts of virtualization, especially KVM and Hyper-V. Network rout
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by brirec 4y ago
Pengwin is really nice for a Linux distro that is explicitly designed for WSL. It’s just Debian with some custom glue that works really nicely. It’s not free, but it’s $20 (and I got it on a sale for $10)
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by brirec 4y ago
So Sydney is an audiophile? Got it!
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by brirec 4y ago
Not OP, but for me I reverse proxy things behind public IPs in an effort to trade a little bit of security and digital footprint for a lot of ease.
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by brirec 4y ago
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog
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by brirec 4y ago
You sure about that? His site says Switzerland, and I’m pretty sure _they_ didn’t vote leave
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by brirec 4y ago
Ligatures (the kind mentioned in TFA) are inserted at the font rendering level. Screen readers don't even know ligatures exist, because the server sends ordinary characters that your browser's engine then groups into (and replaces
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by brirec 4y ago
It’s not like the original URL is somehow encoded in the short URL, so this bot still has to request from t.co (and everywhere in between) to get the target.
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by brirec 4y ago
Theoretically, sure! But that's an enormous effort. This is actually what the goal of GNUstep is and has been from the start, and I kind of doubt there's even a single codebase (apart from, maybe, example code) that will compile o
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by brirec 4y ago
The short answer is no, it’s not legal. The longer answer is that the Internet Archive’s goal is preservation of content and ensuring that it can be accessed and used as time goes by. Notice there’s no Donkey Kong or Donkey Kong Jr. there —
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by brirec 4y ago
TFA suggests that the official git repo for the Linux kernel is on GitHub. I wonder if they really did their research
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by brirec 4y ago
That’s not the case at all, and never was. I remember when Microsoft gave out free upgrade licenses for Windows 10 Workstation when it first came out, and it’s just an upgrade. The weird CPU spec thing is that Microsoft doesn’t let you sel
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by brirec 4y ago
I’m not saying it makes it okay, but the “Professional for Workstations” edition does not have any sort of sponsored start menu items or auto-installs.
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by brirec 4y ago
For that matter one can use Windows’s built-in WSL or Hyper-V functionality to run the Linux tailscale client, too. In fact, I do this anyway because their Windows client’s subnet router functionality is documented as being less performant
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by brirec 4y ago
I don’t expect any laws to really change this any time soon, but the billboards in Times Square are about as egregious in this regard as it possibly could get.
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by brirec 4y ago
I am pretty sure there is support for changing the size of fonts and titlebars, but I’m not sure if there’s anything else that scales. I doubt anything scales _well_. The thing is, CDE predates high DPI monitors by so long that most of the
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by brirec 4y ago
Huh, that’s pretty neat! But it’s not able to manage Wayland applications, is it? From the Phoronix post it almost sounds like this might be really intended run X desktops on systems that can only use Wayland?
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by brirec 4y ago
This sounds better to me than EasyEDA since I don’t want to be _stuck_ with JLCPCB (though a friend uses them and I’ve really only heard good things about them, so I’ll probably use them for my next project anyway…) Does EasyEDA lock you in
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by brirec 4y ago
I haven’t tried LibrePCB, but I should really give it a go. Designing PCBs can be fun and useful when hacking around electronics. I know my way around Eagle, but the free version is way too restricted and I can’t justify spending that kind
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by brirec 4y ago
Thinking back on it, I don’t think geohot ever even disclosed the specifics of the bug, or publicly released any PoC before Sony sent the lawyers after him, and he was legally (and morally) prevented from hacking on Sony products after
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by brirec 4y ago
GP isn’t necessarily assuming bad faith. Suggesting that women are any more or less likely to be offended by something is Considered Harmful because it enforces gender binaries and stereotypes. Most people don’t have malicious intent. The b
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by brirec 4y ago
Any signal jammer is illegal (at least in the USA as per the FCC)
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by brirec 4y ago
Oh my, no, there wasn’t any “responsible disclosure,” but rather some serious animosity from Sony. They sued Geohot, and won an injunction against him hacking on any Sony products.
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by brirec 4y ago
I don’t remember with complete certainty, but I’m pretty sure developer mode on the Xbox can be turned back off relatively easily. You can use it like a dual boot and keep your games and data. Still a pain in the ass, and I never did it bec

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