dark-star

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by dark-star 6mo ago
can you elaborate a bit on this? How much do other companies pay for, say, a 30 second slot promoting their product? I'm not in the monetization business yet, but I'm thinking about creating a YT channel and stream some DIY/h
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by dark-star 6mo ago
I am German but the test says I'm neither (31%/36%). I will now think about this result for a few days, if not weeks.....
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by dark-star 6mo ago
by default, yes. Can be disabled with a single click. That's something that even your Grandma can do, as opposed to installing VeraCrypt (with dozens of options on what to encrypt, and how, and when, ...)
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by dark-star 6mo ago
you should protect your account with a password of course. that will be used to decrypt your drive/data
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by dark-star 6mo ago
Neat! Too bad it's proprietary closed-source though (at least the daemon is).
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by dark-star 6mo ago
I mean, the super-easy option would be to just use BitLocker for FDE. No hassles, just works. But I fugured since everyone here on HN hates MS I wouldn't even bring that up. Don't trust MS? Enroll yourown keys
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by dark-star 6mo ago
your grandma is probably fine with BitLocker....
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by dark-star 6mo ago
you can always either disable secureboot and driver signature verification, or (the better solution) just enroll your own certificate in your TPM and sign the driver with that...
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by dark-star 6mo ago
How they pulled that off on a stock A500 (okay, a stock A500 with 512kb RAM expansion, but still) is far beyond me. It's pretty awesome and really deserved the 1st place
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by dark-star 6mo ago
or you can unpack the executable (it's packed with UPX) and extract the MP3 from that ;-) You can also get high-res PNGs of some of the scenes that way (e.g. the floppy disk pan, or the fake Windows desktops)
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by dark-star 6mo ago
because then it will never get done. There are still people using old Nokia phones, for those there will never be a solution. The usual 80/20 rule applies here as well. And if you really are a German citizen, you know how slow the whee
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by dark-star 6mo ago
The more I think about this, the more it seems they're not talking about linker map files[1].... [1] https://www.tasking.com/documentation/smartcode/ctc/referenc...
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by dark-star 6mo ago
guys, it's just a friggin data field in a local config file! Nothing that will end the world. You can all come back when that supposed "law to force OSS to implement an actual age verification" is being discussed. Otherwise,
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by dark-star 7mo ago
but nobody is tracking anyone yet. The API is not yet in place, in fact there isn't even any idea on how that API should look like. This will likely take a few years to finalize (if ever). Right now this is just one more field in a dat
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by dark-star 7mo ago
so what will keep you from just doing "sudo vim" on that config file afterwards? Right: Nothing
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by dark-star 7mo ago
To make it easier for software to get a sane default? Same as why you put in your real name, it'll be used as default. For example I don't want to have to select my birth year on every website I visit. If there's a way for th
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by dark-star 7mo ago
> The birthdate, however, has a legal mandate to be correct and checked for correctness by the software developers of the OS. please tell me which law mandates that the birthdate that I put in a config file on my PC has to be correct?
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by dark-star 7mo ago
systemd also stores the real name of the user using this computer in the same user record. Why not remove that as well, as it could uniquely identify the user of the computer? Or the uuid field...
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by dark-star 7mo ago
It goes nowhere of course, but people seem to think that the age verification laws that are currently being drafted everywhere somehow make this the obvious next step. They don't understand that it's still all on your computer and
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by dark-star 7mo ago
yeah, seemed I had an error in that key, it cut off 2 characters at the end. Works fine now, thanks!
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by dark-star 7mo ago
Tried it. Doesn't work. Does not show any vessels for me, list (and map) stays empty, console is full of "WS closed: no close frame received or sent. Reconnecting in 10s" HN hug of death?
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by dark-star 7mo ago
Chuck Norris didn't die -- Death just became Chuck Norris
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by dark-star 7mo ago
yeah, same happened to me, the first site I was sent to was a list of people sending in random "sunday thoughts" (or whatever it was called) on (actual physical) postcards which then got scanned and posted. There were some good th
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by dark-star 7mo ago
muscle memory mainly, I guess? Sure, switching might not be that troublesome, but I can tell you the first 48 hours or so will be painful, you'll insert stray ":" and "i" characters everywhere :)
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by dark-star 7mo ago
Kana is a phonetic alphabet, you write things exactly the way you pronounce them. Since both "brown" and "braun" are (roughly) pronounced the same (at least to Japanese ears), they are written the same.
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by dark-star 8mo ago
I don't see why platforms would have to store the data indefinitely. Once you are verified, you just flip a bit "verified" in the database and delete all identification data. No reason to store the data indefinitely
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by dark-star 8mo ago
I don't think telling people to directly look into sunlight is good advice
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by dark-star 8mo ago
The problem with that approach is that S3 object names are not compatible with POSIX file names. They can contain characters that are not valid on a filesystem, or have special meaning (like "/") A simple litmus test I like t
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by dark-star 8mo ago
> I think that in any human-2-human interaction, we are all entitled to at least basic courtesy Why? If you are hostile towards me, mock me, or attack me or are in some other way a douche towards me, I reserve the right to handle you in
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by dark-star 8mo ago
to be fair, you don't need a credit card to create a Discord account. And yes, I don't think there are ZERO seven-year-olds on Discord. I just think the number is pretty dang small

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