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by canada_dry 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20211019181426/https://davidepst...
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by canada_dry 5y ago
An aside: his UC Riverside page is full of interesting stuff: https://math.ucr.edu/home//baez/README.html
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by canada_dry 5y ago
Won't Oculus simply add some oculess detection code to their next developer release so that any future apps and updates to existing apps stop working all together if detected?
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by canada_dry 5y ago
Similar thought here. I'd like to track two hands above a real keyboard (size/position established via 2 X QR stickers) to feed into a VR piano training simulation. The tech is all there, really it's just having the time and
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by canada_dry 5y ago
I use voip.ms and is pay-as-you-go so it's nominal e.g. $1-2/mnth. It allows setting up all sorts of call handling rules (time-of-day, CID lists, call trees).
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by canada_dry 5y ago
This is a readily solvable problem i.e. the only phone number I use/give online is a VOIP# that just redirects to voicemail immediately (and blocks the call if it's on my SPAMMER list of persistent annoyances). For friends/fa
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by canada_dry 5y ago
> Vapor - an unreleased competitor to Steam Until Steam has a couple major screw ups, potential competitors better have tons of capital to keep throwing at their platform-in-waiting! Amazon does have the $$$, but they also have hungry s
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by canada_dry 5y ago
Like most things... as soon as you need to deviate from whatever defaults are setup, a really well thought out option/config design wins. I find Syncthing not very intuitive for anything beyond the default setup. Nonetheless, it'
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by canada_dry 5y ago
Arq for Linux in the pipeline?
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by canada_dry 5y ago
I've seen a couple predominant tin-foil-hat theories are making the rounds: - a disgruntled NOC engineer - the company is scrubbing any/all data related to the leak that 60 Minutes reported It seems pretty astonish
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by canada_dry 5y ago
> She also sifted through the company’s internal social network, called Facebook Workplace,...for years the company has been tightening access to sensitive material. Of course FB's highest priority order of business: lock down Faceb
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by canada_dry 5y ago
> find yourself thinking that an entire discipline is neglecting an obvious factor Fair. Perhaps I'd rephrase it to "economists might be able to better understand the inflation phenomenon by recognizing that people are - by na
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by canada_dry 5y ago
> that long-term inflation expectations are not just interesting but are a decisive determinant of real-time inflation I think economists neglect to include an obvious factor: people are greedy opportunists . When inflation first get r
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by canada_dry 5y ago
Perhaps someone here that's familiar with MQTT (and variants) can shed light on how to handle this case: an IoT device that periodically comes to life, queries the broker for the last known state of topic 'xyz', then sends a
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by canada_dry 5y ago
> 70%+ of them will never see a day of off-road I remember laughing my head off when Lexus announced they were making a "Luxury SUV". I'm on my second one and it rarely even experiences a gravel road.
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by canada_dry 5y ago
Being from Calgary (which some call the 'Canadian Texas') and promoting a vaccine passport you'd think the guy would have pretty thick skin for criticism.
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by canada_dry 5y ago
Call me crazy, but another shoe's gotta drop i.e. Oculus will practically brick the device if it's rooted - disallowing some new must-have features due to "security concerns".
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by canada_dry 5y ago
> punting responsibility onto parents The end result will be T&Cs that few parents will read, and they will simply hit AGREE--> FINISH with default settings that don't restrict/monitor anything.
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by canada_dry 5y ago
I'd speculate that China may be considerably faster at ordering the shut down of hydro and telecommunications facilities to protect them from damage. A good analogy is during the 9-11 attack the FAA managed to fairly quickly alert&#x2F
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by canada_dry 5y ago
> ridiculous steering wheels I really don't get how regulators are OK with the yoke steering in a car! To me it says that Tesla really doesn't prioritize safety.
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by canada_dry 5y ago
> we have sentinel spacecraft that can issue early warnings of CMEs providing at least 13 hours of lead time Sadly, I think it's probably realistic to assume that the vast majority of that time will be eaten by bureaucratic indecisi
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by canada_dry 5y ago
https://outline.com/GnrdJf
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Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel?(time.com)
2 points by canada_dry 5y ago|4 comments
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Voip.ms phone services disrupted for days by DDoS extortion attack(bleepingcomputer.com)
5 points by canada_dry 5y ago|1 comments
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by canada_dry 5y ago
I've been able to use voip.ms to make/recv calls this afternoon, but their website, sms and other services continue to be down despite their move to have cloudflare disintermediate their "ddos issue".
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Voip.ms outage due to “sustained DDoS attack” for over 24hrs(twitter.com)
17 points by canada_dry 5y ago|8 comments
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by canada_dry 5y ago
Yup! That, and his LED wrist watch - an absolute brilliant piece of work at the time!
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by canada_dry 5y ago
Yup. His little ZX computer was the gateway drug into programming for me.
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by canada_dry 5y ago
Ditto. I assembled/soldered the thing my self. Went on to using it to learning assembly language and how the internals work (buses, etc). I've retired after a great career in IT/Systems tech and it was Clive's little c
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by canada_dry 5y ago
> backers receive no benefits, rewards, or access to exclusive content. They don’t even get a thank you email. I've sent donations (e.g. $25-$100 via papyal) to open source and technical folks and only once received a reply (thank

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