brirec

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1. 181.▲
   by brirec 5y ago

   > It's not really practical to mix and match. Tell that to my computer, with both 6-32 and M3 screws.
2. 182.▲
   by brirec 5y ago

   Is a LUKS key being sent remotely to Intel ME _not_ vulnerable to being sniffed on the LAN?
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   by brirec 5y ago

   I haven’t kept up with this too much lately, but to my knowledge there is very little documentation or working code to set up a Darwin environment from scratch with FOSS, and there aren’t any modern Darwin “distributions” because of this di
4. 184.▲
   by brirec 5y ago

   And Wireguard doesn’t rely on someone’s cloud server, too! I looked into Tailscale because the hype is big, and I’m sure it’s good software… but the biggest reason I pay for a VPS is to get public IPv4 addresses I can connect to. A proxy wi
5. 185.▲
   by brirec 5y ago

   Reading your post I’m sure you know far more about information theory than I do, so forgive me if this is a stupid question, but… 1. How is infinite internal state and output size possible? There has to be some actual limit for internal sta
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   by brirec 5y ago

   I was going to mention that Vim’s website[0] is possibly worse, but then I looked up Neovim’s website[1] which was definitely made with mobile in mind, and isn’t terrible. [0] https://www.vim.org [1] https://neovim.io
7. 187.▲
   by brirec 5y ago

   That’s not true, Xcode 13 still fully supports Intel Macs.
8. 188.▲
   by brirec 5y ago

   Where can I get a three digit terabyte disk?!
9. 189.▲
   by brirec 5y ago

   And the belts haven’t worn out? I believe it, but it’s pretty wild.
10. 190.▲
    by brirec 5y ago

    It would be nice if Verizon was interested in providing IPv6 access via their Fios service at all in 2021.
11. 191.▲
    by brirec 5y ago

    I’d agree with you, but at one point the PowerShell for Mac/Linux binaries were actually named “posh”.
12. 192.▲
    by brirec 5y ago

    > probably the most capable Haiku OS commercial system Not knocking this Caster, but it might also be the ONLY Haiku OS commercial system
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    by brirec 5y ago

    See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27725286 My thoughts on this are that we could do with a better CPU usage measurement, which the author of this article found to be cycles.
14. 194.▲
    by brirec 5y ago

    @dang, could we get a black bar today please?
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    by brirec 5y ago

    There are reports that iOS 14.5 changed some sort of signature system, requiring people that first installed certain apps from long enough ago to redownload the app from the App Store. Chances are that if you delete and redownload Momento C
16. 196.▲
    by brirec 6y ago

    It installed itself on any Win 10 machine I saw (most of which run Pro), except those running Enterprise (or LTSC/LTSB), or an education license. Er, I heard that junk doesn’t install itself on “Pro for Workstations,” but I’m not certa
17. 197.▲
    by brirec 6y ago

    What sort of distance are we talking? What sort of devices? Running a PCIe lane to a client seems a little odd to me, but I figure I’m missing context
18. 198.▲
    by brirec 6y ago

    It’s not that slow...
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    by brirec 6y ago

    This only works for inline images because Google caches them, and then you get the images from Google’s cache. It has nothing to do with external links. If Google redirects you to a website, you’re still going to the website. Unless Google
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    by brirec 6y ago

    The sensor definitely isn’t too tiny to be useful, and you can get some nice C-mount lenses for cheap on eBay and Amazon. Incidentally, my favorite lens for my Canon M50 mirrorless is actually a C-mount lens with an adapter that cost me $30
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    by brirec 6y ago

    >TVs are too smart now This is why I’m so reluctant to look into modern TVs. The quality on my mid-range 2014 Sony is pretty average at best by today’s standards, but at least it’s not smart enough to know what I’m watching and has no ne
22. 202.▲
    by brirec 6y ago

    I can recommend Steermouse[0]. It gave me control over the upper buttons on my Kensington Slimblade
23. 203.▲
    by brirec 6y ago

    > unless you buy their enterprise models (e.g. dell latitude, lenovo thinkpad) with the appropriate warranty you won't get same day hardware support in most of Europe. This is the case in the US as well, but I think it should be sai
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    by brirec 6y ago

    This probably makes me sound like an old man, but probably the biggest thing keeping my interest in Python too low to really learn it was the syntax. I really like the c-like syntax of many languages, and Python’s use of significant whitesp
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    by brirec 6y ago

    There is a beta build of Raspberry Pi OS (née Raspbian) in ARM64 available. https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1668160
26. 206.▲
    by brirec 6y ago

    Why no spinbox?
27. 207.▲
    by brirec 6y ago

    Solaris 2.6 and 7 didn’t have a graphical boot splash, so you’d see this while watching a SPARC box boot up.
28. 208.▲
    by brirec 6y ago

    Both are dumplings.
29. 209.▲
    by brirec 6y ago

    This is correct, but the toxic, racist, alt-right, pro-fascism posts covering the front pages of sites like voat and ruqqus make me and many others wholly uninterested in these sites. If someone wants to provide an alternative to reddit but
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    by brirec 6y ago

    Hi, please let me know. I would also like to learn about this sort of thing myself.