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by byuu 11y ago
My phone has a call-blocking feature, and I even use a service that routes private callers through an 800-number to get their unspoofed ANI. Yet one debt collector calls me from 200 different numbers. They change the number every 2-3 days.
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by byuu 11y ago
I get that EUI-64 uses your 48-bit MAC address plus 16-bit "ff:fe" token. But I don't really understand why this matters. First, why does your home office need globally unique identifiers for its devices? 48-bits seems re
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by byuu 11y ago
I've wondered about that. My ISP gives me a /64. On the one hand, it seems cheap to give me one-four-billionth of the relative amount of space as the one IPv4 address they give me. On the other hand, I can't possibly imagine
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by byuu 11y ago
Way too difficult and rife for abuse. First, we don't really have static IPs, not even static prefixes on IPv6. You could narrow someone down to their city by their host mask, but that can still be any of 5,000,000 people. And all they
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by byuu 11y ago
Don't worry, I'm sure shelld is on the agenda. After all, why pass around text commands when your shell can send binary D-bus messages?
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by byuu 11y ago
For Patreon and Kickstarter to work, you have to be really lucky, or really popular already. It's not just enough to have a great idea. In a lot of ways, it reminds me of striking it rich on an App Store app: more luck than talent. For
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by byuu 11y ago
> The "build it and they will come" is a stupid Hollywood fantasy. So incredibly true. And even whenever I do try and talk about my software, people usually perceive it as an attack on competing software (you can't say
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by byuu 11y ago
I'm not making any statement on whether it's good or bad, right or wrong, but ... Software developers aren't immune to piracy's effects, either. Whether we like it or not, we're quickly shifting into a world where a
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by byuu 11y ago
I have that problem, and I don't exercise at all. Happens probably once or twice a week. Almost always from going from sitting to walking too quickly. Usually, as long as I grab onto something and stay still, it passes after about 20-3
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by byuu 11y ago
What really gets to me about all this is that I probably see more articles about losethos/TempleOS than I do about the BSDs. There's a whole world of hundreds of small and innovative hobbyist/niche OSes (Sortix to name just o
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by byuu 11y ago
> it's a Japanese word, after all, and is not derogatory in Japanese That reminds me of 外人 (gaijin). Many will argue it's not a negative word, but when you hear people say it, it's almost never said in a very friendly, inc
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by byuu 11y ago
> And how many Linux distributions are there? asks McKusick, rolling his eyes. Fifteen, 20? How quaint ;) I would love to hear what he thinks about that statement and the state of distros today: http://upload.wikimedia.org&#x2
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by byuu 11y ago
Genuinely curious now ... if the trays are meant to avoid hand contact, how do things work in drive-thrus there? Fairly common to get some level of hand-contact there when passing around money, credit cards or food bags.
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by byuu 11y ago
I don't really mind the default search engine all that much, personally. Not gonna lie, I use Google anyway for web search because it's the best at what it does. I do think it creates a conflict of interest when you're a priv
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by byuu 11y ago
> A modern browser engine is millions of lines of highly optimised code long, and that corresponds to hundreds of millions of dollars of investment Currently Firefox is 12,000,000 LOC, so each line of code costs $25 per year? o_O If so,
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by byuu 11y ago
Does Mozilla's track record include their suggested advertising tiles on your newtab page, based off your browsing history? Or their defaulting to Yahoo to send your searches because they were the highest bidder? Now yes, they say the
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by byuu 11y ago
The Zotac ZBOX I just bought came with reinstall media for Windows 8.1. Which was a good thing, because it shipped from the factory in Korean language mode.
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by byuu 11y ago
2014 model. Here's a video showing the procedure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgEBPlz4QB8 5:10 is particularly comical, by the way :)
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by byuu 11y ago
Because you need multiple types of Torx security screwdrivers and have to literally disassemble the thing 100% (including removing the HSF and pulling out multiple tiny ribbon cables) to get the hard drive out; and it completely voids your
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by byuu 11y ago
It's definitely a very neat project. It kind of reminds me of QNX Neutrino. It also fit on a single floppy disk, and had a GUI, web browser, etc. It's also a Unix-like with a microkernel design. https://web.archive.org&
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by byuu 11y ago
> Should web surfers have to right to see who owns a domain (via whois) even if the domain owner doesn't publish that info on the site? By "who owns", this means, "give out their name, address, phone number and e-ma
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by byuu 11y ago
Would you mind paying for a code signing and two wildcard certificates for me then, please? Yearly, of course. I would cover the costs out of my profits, but the $0.00/yr I am pulling in from my open source projects doesn't quite
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by byuu 11y ago
I've been building an HTTP/1.1 server in C++11. Along with a C++ wrapper around SQLite, I've been having a lot of fun putting some lightweight forum software together. I definitely enjoy the code structure and compile-time sa
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by byuu 11y ago
Of course it does no good at all to get mad at the rep. But I think it's pretty reasonable that someone's going to be upset after receiving a no-notice suspension e-mail after spending a million dollars with a company. It's p
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by byuu 11y ago
If that's a full and accurate transcript; then there's a lot of things deeply wrong with that. If you pay a company over a million dollars in advertising fees, you'd expect a phone call prior to service cancellation. And you
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by byuu 11y ago
That's a great question. I've always been partial to "FSF certified" and "OSI certified". Put it right on the organizations that promote the definitions. And it gets those groups extra exposure when people look
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by byuu 11y ago
> TiVoizaton is bad thing of course, but sadly GPLv3 for example won't let to put any app using this code to App Store. That to me feels like more of a problem with the App Store than with the GPLv3. But, I know that idealism tends
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by byuu 11y ago
I wasn't happy that GPLv3 wasn't an option, as I am against TiVoization; but I didn't want to throw a wrench in their efforts, so I accepted GPLv2. (The older license was more permissive in my opinion; but a TiVo product was
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by byuu 11y ago
I don't know what they are doing for people who are no longer reachable online (deaths, disappearances, etc); but in my case, they reached out to me and asked for (and received) my permission.
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by byuu 11y ago
I have tried and tried to get people to acknowledge that "Free Software" and "Open Source" are very different things from "free software" and "open source". Those capitals make all the difference, and

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