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by dingaling 1mo ago
Unfortunately ( for the WiFi Alliance ) that doesn't sell new kit.
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by dingaling 2mo ago
Like their G-Shock watches, the actual area dedicated to showing the time is overwhelmed by superfluous elements. Must be barely 20% of the top surface that actually performs its primary function. When I look at my watch I want to see the
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by dingaling 2mo ago
"Solo geniuses don't have the money to operate the patent system" Very true, a friend patented a design, that he had developed over a decade, and tried to license it to established players in the astronomy field. They looked
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by dingaling 2mo ago
And when the crack came out on the same day as the CD release it was called a zero-day. A term that has long since lost ita original meaning, in fact it has been inverted.
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by dingaling 2mo ago
You're fortunate if that's the case for where you live. In the UK weeding is at the discretion of the Branch Librarian. Books I checked out 15 years ago have now vanished from the system.
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by dingaling 2mo ago
Yes, I think that identifying patterns and applying the appropriate combination of A+B to solve is true intelligence. It's a combination of knowledge, insight and inspiration. In the UK organisations such as GCHQ ( Brit NSA ) use brai
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by dingaling 2mo ago
> but that can hardly be blamed on cloudflare They are installing the gates with configurable locks that the site owners use. They are absolutely to blame.
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by dingaling 2mo ago
> convince rich people to give the non-profit large amounts of money And yet Google's funding remains 85% of Mozilla's income, so that 'convincing' doesn't seem to be worth paying for.
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by dingaling 2mo ago
> The UK already has so much CCTV. But most of it, the overwhelming majority, comprises standalone installations at best networked into a corporate HQ but most commonly just recorded on site. It's not like in police drama programmes
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by dingaling 2mo ago
If you do an ADSB playback the C-32 was flying as SAM112 In trail of AF1 https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?replay=2026-07-08-21:06&icao...
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by dingaling 2mo ago
Yes, though a Snickers is the same in both countries.
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by dingaling 2mo ago
Yes, when I introduce my interests to new people these days I say "night-sky watching", instead of astronomy, just to avoid this problem. "Astronomy? You don't really believe in all that nonsense do you? Jane, this guy b
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by dingaling 2mo ago
Lying is a subversion of morality and strawmanning doesn't change that. If you can't state the truth, then don't answer.
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by dingaling 2mo ago
"But there is something a little...alienating about advertising that's not meant for you." The vast majority of advertising isn't for any specific individual. I've no interest in perfumes, fashion, electric cars or
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by dingaling 2mo ago
Syncing directly from a 4G signal would be a lot more practical than VLF or HF time signals, but I haven't found a wall clock that does so.
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by dingaling 2mo ago
Because reproduction is reactive. If an organisation only clones others' style then they'll always be behind the curve and will be widely recognised to be derivative and lacking their own 'taste'. Look how long it takes
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by dingaling 2mo ago
"Device attestation is how you can use private keys you don't actually have access to." Read that phrase back and then ask "is this the future of computing that we wanted?" The likes of passkeys, essentially user-ho
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by dingaling 2mo ago
I use my bank's card reader to authenticate in the hopes that it will signal a need to keep supporting it. But the vast, vast majority of people just use a banking app so I fear it's a lot cause.
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by dingaling 2mo ago
Russia seldom publishes NOTAMs for offensive GPS interference
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by dingaling 2mo ago
> No big deal. Sure, if it's obvious it's happening, like GPS being completely knocked-out. If it's a GPS spoofing nudge by a few dozen metres per minute, then it's not so obvious. Enough to make a OWA drone miss its
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by dingaling 2mo ago
> Yes. Be locked in. That'd be fine if the decision just affected the decision-maker's system. But the secondary effects are that it binds the external users of that system to the vendor's ToS.
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by dingaling 2mo ago
Which is now bigger than the Accord used to be, thereby proving the point.
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by dingaling 2mo ago
Sadly, also hyper-unrealistic. Very few people can afford to save 20% of their income whilst maxing pension contributions, let alone maximising other accounts. Points 1, 3 and 5 are probably the key ones and would still stretch most people
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by dingaling 2mo ago
I'll check it out. I'd love to learn more about John Bell, being from Belfast and having sat through many lectures in the Bell Theatre. But not being from a mathematical background I've never found an approachable layman&#x2
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by dingaling 2mo ago
The problem these days is that many drivers conflate 'beastly performance' with 'good to drive'. When a basic sedan weighs 1700kg, you can't fool physics - it's never going to corner or respond like it's p
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by dingaling 2mo ago
> Saying they're not fit for purpose doesn't seem correct. I'll quite happily say they were never fit for purpose. C had a role in bootstrapping early software development in the absence of anything better but once Lisp,
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by dingaling 2mo ago
Unfortunately, being a weak VLF signal, it's very susceptible to interference and screening. My MSF clocks at the front of the house keep perfectly synced, the ones deeper in the house wander hopelessly
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by dingaling 2mo ago
https://github.com/elegantalchemist/literaryclock
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by dingaling 2mo ago
Clocks on microwaves seems to be a curiously American custom, driven by the fact that US outlet sockets generally don't have switches. In Europe, and the UK particularly, every socket has a switch so the microwave is turned off after e
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by dingaling 2mo ago
Libraries in my area dispose of 'weeded' books by covert means, so that public ire isn't aroused by finding dumpsters full of discarded books. They are most assuredly destroyed.

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