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by davb 10y ago
Keep in mind that if you're using the boot.sh method, the NIC's MAC seems to be hardcoded in the script [1]. You might want to change that. [1] https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM/blob/476ae8b082088049
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by davb 10y ago
Actually, at the time I left for MacPorts, "brew analytics off" wasn't an option. Analytics was turned on without warning and without any obvious way to turn it off. They added an environment variable but still left it opt-ou
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by davb 10y ago
The devs' justification was that if it was opt-in, most people wouldn't do it. They thought it better to turn it on and force users to go manually disable it. I disagreed in the GitHub issue about this. Debian's Popcorn (pack
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by davb 10y ago
I switched to MacPorts following the Google Analytics debacle [1] and how it was handled [2]. I had this expectation that MacPorts would be backwards and full of ancient packages but it's not - it's fantastic! The package reposito
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by davb 10y ago
OP's probably never been to a region so dry that people actually appreciate a bit of humidity. Living in a relatively humid region, it's easy to see humidity as a nuisance that no-one would actually desire. I didn't get it un
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by davb 10y ago
Interestingly, I had exactly the same thing happen with an EasyAcc five port USB charger. I wonder if Anker and EasyAcc use a common component on those products, one which is prone to this sort of failure.
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by davb 10y ago
I've only ever had one Anker product fail out of 50+ over the years. It was a USB A to micro B cable - the micro B connector started to bend and eventually snapped off. There was a lot of complaints on Amazon - it seems that it had aff
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by davb 10y ago
That's probably true to some extent. The security of these older systems also undoubtedly benefits from the much smaller attack surface. They typically have far fewer services (network or otherwise) and simpler interfaces between compo
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by davb 10y ago
I haven't but I've never had vim perform anything slower than perceptively instant. Even on the lowest of specification virtual machines and servers I've installed it on. I'm not sure how, in my use case, neovim could im
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by davb 10y ago
I use tmux + vim on my Macbook and it runs really well! (vim built from MacPorts).
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Amazon caught scraping email addresses from Google Play(reddit.com)
3 points by davb 10y ago|0 comments
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by davb 10y ago
It's an obfuscated reference to a popular open source data recovery toolset. I think the parent was trying to avoid potentially "outing" GP against their wishes, by making a vague reference that some might get.
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by davb 10y ago
The popup asking me to subscribe is an annoying trend I'm seeing on a lot of sites. It's the first time I've been to the site, why on earth would I sign up for anything without even knowing if the site is any good or of any
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by davb 10y ago
I once had something similar, if not worse, happen. I was researching some network equipment, looking at lots of websites and comparing products. Then my desk phone rings. A call being passed from the switchboard - someone asking for the pe
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by davb 10y ago
> That's the right way. It's the lazy way. You're right that it adds complexity. Every line of code contributes to complexity, and increases the number of places a bug could manifest. That's just the nature of softwar
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by davb 10y ago
I've been planning to diversify my domain registrars recently, and have seen plenty of discussions on HN comparing the alternatives. While I'm looking at possibly splitting registrations across other registrars, I'm more inte
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by davb 10y ago
> but there are still multiple simple ways to distinguish the current speedtest testcase Like looking out for DNS queries for fast.com then handling traffic from that client differently for a period (such as the A record's TTL).
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by davb 10y ago
I presume the DRM encrypts only the video data, not metadata (video titles, etc).
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Apple releases 100 new emoji, replaces gun with waterpistol(arstechnica.co.uk)
47 points by davb 10y ago|42 comments
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by davb 10y ago
This is great news. Now that the transition is in full swing, it's encouraging to see more projects adopt a Python 3 First attitude. I only wish Ansible would catch up (a recent release broke the core Python 3 support that was there, a
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by davb 10y ago
My city is the same. Borders used to stock a fantastic selection of technical books. Since they closed down, our only other large (multi-story) bookshop is Waterstones. Their computing selection gradually dwindled to a couple of bookcases,
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by davb 10y ago
> I've written grants before for funding open source projects Is this a common thing? I would absolutely love to be funded to work on a bespoke open source project for such a good cause.
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by davb 10y ago
I'm leaning towards ARM just because Nintendo already has a huge supply chain and manufacturing complex geared towards this architecture. They're extensively bought into the ARM ecosystem. They already have a NES emulator on ARM (
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by davb 10y ago
I'm guessing they'll use the same emulator design as they have on the 3DS, where a number of the listed games are available.
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by davb 10y ago
I'm really interested in the architecture of this thing. I'm guessing ARM running a NES emulator (rather than ports of the games), since they've got such great experience doing that on the 3DS. If it's hackable, this wou
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by davb 10y ago
Personally, I'm glad to see less devices ship with a USB AC adapter. I've got too many to count. I've slowly started giving them away to friends and family when someone's breaks, but I've still got a few ranging fro
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by davb 10y ago
Hi, well thanks for listening :) I'll take a little look at the Google Group tomorrow and would like to give some feedback! I think the project is fantastic. I've got a couple of little follow-up comments on accessibility... One i
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by davb 10y ago
I incidentally found Open Tech Calendar for the first time a few days ago and really like it. Besides a few small design niggles, I think it's great. The data export (and the fact the data is in the public domain) is really useful. The
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by davb 10y ago
Maybe a better idea would be a Google Forms instance to submit listings, then some manual validation and normalisation, and s script to pull it from the Google Docs spreadsheet and generate a static web page. Makes for cheap and easy hostin
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by davb 10y ago
It isn't just their website either. I noticed over the last few years that they've gone all-out on advertising in the magazine too. It's not just so bad in the US where the magazine is around $1.50 an issue on subscription, b

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