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by dale_huevo 1y ago
Why is this e-waste when compared to old Mac laptops - many of which are in perfect working order, save Apple arbitrarily stopping OS updates because they were too lazy to maintain or update device drivers. Somehow MS requiring TPM2 for Win
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by dale_huevo 1y ago
One of the fringe benefits of going on a cruise is that you can disconnect from the Internet for a week. Hit up the bar, make love to your wife, gamble a bit. All without your phone constantly buzzing in your pocket. If you go on a cruise t
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by dale_huevo 1y ago
> the Cray had about 160MFLOPS of raw processing power; the Pi has... up to 30GFLOPS. Yes... that's giga FLOPS. This makes it almost 200 times faster than the Cray. Imagine traveling back to 1977 and explaining to someone that in 2
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by dale_huevo 1y ago
> The HR person had called to phone screen him and called him "Vlad" or whatever in greeting. Is that measurably worse than the current new normal? Call him Mr. Vladsky, tell him he's a great fit and schedule an interview,
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by dale_huevo 1y ago
Odd that visiting Google.com these days requires at minimum two clicks, the first to dismiss the "Sign in With Google!" dialog that steals focus from the search box.
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by dale_huevo 1y ago
It's well-known Apple is a big RHEL customer, including Linux on Azure, lending credence to the saying that every Mac is built upon Windows (Hyper-V). Fairly certain the iTunes store, their web store, etc. are all built upon enterprise
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by dale_huevo 1y ago
The world has been waiting for the Dunning-Kreuger bottle cap engineers to start meddling with operating system design. If it weren't for them, I could reuse all my lightning cables rather than re-buying them all as USB-C.
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by dale_huevo 1y ago
Literally nothing stops any app from hard coding launching msedge.exe or chrome.exe
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by dale_huevo 1y ago
That's a rather melodramatic interpretation. Have you opened a lot of .mht or .shtml files lately? What about ftp:// links? (Most browsers have removed FTP support and if HN is to be believed, FTP users should be beaten and l
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Why 'wrench attacks' on wealthy crypto holders are on the rise(apnews.com)
4 points by dale_huevo 1y ago|0 comments
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by dale_huevo 1y ago
This is great. Until now I thought CUPS drivers had to be written in C in order to link against its internal APIs. Most inexpensive Chinese thermal printers ship with blatantly GPL violating drivers and they are precompiled binaries. Which
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Dilbert creator Scott Adams says he will die soon from same cancer as Joe Biden(thewrap.com)
452 points by dale_huevo 1y ago|610 comments
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by dale_huevo 1y ago
Nitrokey
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by dale_huevo 1y ago
> And I really don't liek the idea of having the keys stored in the home directory in plain text. so encrypt them. or store them in a hardware token. or on a USB stick (poor man's hardware token). > There is also a risk of l
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Students Are Short-Circuiting Their Chromebooks for a Social Media Challenge(nytimes.com)
2 points by dale_huevo 1y ago|1 comments
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by dale_huevo 2y ago
I've been flagged as a potential shoplifter by the self-checkout at the grocery store based on some video analysis of CCTV footage of my hand motions. (It was wrong, of course.) After leaving the store I wondered if it really was softw
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by dale_huevo 2y ago
Yes, apologies, original post was misworded and corrected. Everyone is assuming this guy was maliciously 'disappeared', but no evidence has been presented proving that vs. that he vanished on his own. Everything is rage-porn specu
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by dale_huevo 2y ago
> This hasn't hit mainstream media yet. It should have by now. Is it typical for the media to write stories when spies surreptitiously sneak out of a country? I speculate this guy was long gone before the feds kicked in his door. As
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by dale_huevo 2y ago
At least she has a future modeling coats once BS completes its ascendence onto the heap of tech obscurity, joining Gab and Parler.
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Ask HN: Would you reapply to a company that ghosted you?
13 points by dale_huevo 2y ago|27 comments