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by brirec 6y ago
SET BLASTER No “=” — `SET BLASTER=` will erase the variable, and of course `SET BLASTER=f00` will set it to “f00”. N.b., `SET FOO` will display all variables beginning with “FOO” and remember that DOS/Windows vars aren’t case sensitive
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by brirec 6y ago
I haven't tried it, but gitfs ( https://github.com/presslabs/gitfs ) sounds nice.
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by brirec 6y ago
Not at all a fanboy comment. Apple uses proprietary extensions to Bluetooth in order to facilitate very quick and easy device pairing. If you open an AirPods case while it’s near an unlocked iPhone, iPad, or Mac, an alert pops up asking if
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by brirec 6y ago
I think you’re a little mistaken — it’s been a while since I’ve used Chromium on GTK, but on Mac and Windows it has never really used native widgets/controls. This change is good because it goes from something that looks straight out o
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by brirec 6y ago
It isn’t about tension. In order to display a paused image, the head must continuously rotate and scan that section of the tape. You can literally overheat and wear the tape out in that spot because there is a spinning piece of metal agains
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by brirec 7y ago
> The virus might have multiple modes of transmission. Closing 2 of them reliably a great deal. Sounds reasonable, but how is a face shield a reliable way to close a mode of transmission if people aren’t spitting liquid in your face?
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by brirec 7y ago
An update a good few months ago decreased loading times pretty substantially. Not sure when you stopped playing, but I hardly notice it loading sometimes.
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by brirec 7y ago
In regards to your edits, let me also mention that Let’s Encrypt does not offer (and indeed can not offer) “Extended Validation” certificates, due to things related to the two “bad things” you mention. However, extended validation certifica
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by brirec 7y ago
It doesn’t. It actually opens up more opportunities for error, intentional or otherwise, that can possibly be exploited by a malicious actor.
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by brirec 7y ago
I think you may not be very familiar with Let’s Encrypt’s challenges. Allow me to briefly explain the gist of them: The two most common challenges are an http challenge, and a DNS challenge. The http challenge gives you a response code to h
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by brirec 7y ago
> […] the main "smarts" lives on the backup server (the Snebu binary), whereas the client side just uses find / tar to serialize the data. Backend side compresses, deduplicates, snapshots […] So am I right to infer that th
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by brirec 7y ago
Nope, but it'll get you a lot of unwanted attention to the point where it might as well be.
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by brirec 7y ago
I used Fish for years and eventually switched back to Bash and then to Zsh because I couldn't really deal with all the differences in the two, and the lack of customization in Fish. I'm interested in giving it another shot, but I&
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by brirec 7y ago
> I have little doubt that a POWER architecture could theoretically do it just as well, if not better since it should presumably be a much faster chip. I think it's mostly going to come down to support from both the vendor and the c
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by brirec 7y ago
…is that a sarcastic question? How would typing 'YUM' NOT be faster than 'sudo yum'? I can't deny that something feels terribly wrong about this sort of script, though.
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by brirec 7y ago
Tell that to TV STB manufacturers…
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by brirec 7y ago
As the owner of a couple vanity domains for no useful purpose, no, I don’t “benefit” from it. In fact, each domain costs me a small amount of money. But the amusement I get from them makes it worth it. :)
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by brirec 7y ago
I can't help but laugh at the irony that one of the most popular and most proprietary operating systems in the world uses a forked Mach kernel called XNU, for "X's Not Unix." Anyone at Apple have a beef with the FSF back
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by brirec 7y ago
>> Source? > https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-sci... . > https://www.thedailybeast.com/famed-mit-computer-scientist-r... . >Versus what he actually said. Th
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by brirec 7y ago
> The media then lied about RMS defending a pedophile. Source? I saw an article by John Gruber[0] that retracted some specific allegations about him, saying that for these specific allegations RMS was being conflated with ESR, another kn
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by brirec 7y ago
Not trying to sound snarky here: does _anything_ use Hurd?
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by brirec 7y ago
This is a serious question: has he even contributed anything of substance to the FSF or GNU project within the past decade or two? Has he done much of anything besides give talks scrutinizing non free software?
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by brirec 7y ago
Not necessarily, but often enough that the most expensive part in a mid range or high end gaming PC is an accelerator card meant to offload certain forms of computation that the CPU can't do as fast... Or perhaps the h.264/h.265 c
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by brirec 7y ago
Well, for one of the world's largest CDN's I have to say this is pretty appropriate.
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by brirec 7y ago
Too tired to try it and port if necessary yet, but I'd like to ask: does it work on ZSH?
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by brirec 7y ago
Hi! I’m Brian, and I’ve been doing various forms of computer engineering/SRE for at least a decade now. I’m a generalist through and through, and I want a job making something neat. Location: NYC Remote: Sure, but preferably not F&#x2F
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by brirec 7y ago
It uses some extra pin headers only available on that model. I don't have a PoE hat nor a PoE switch handy, but I'd love to measure the output from the hat. Either way, I imagine there's good reason…
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by brirec 7y ago
$ /bin/sh --version GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin19) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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by brirec 7y ago
Or even “newer” versions of Windows. I think they stopped including it in Windows 7.
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by brirec 7y ago
Privacy.com does this too with debit cards for free. You link it to a bank account, and it generates disposable card numbers that can be locked to a given merchant and given a maximum amount that can be charged at once before they decline.

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