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by djfergus 2y ago
Qutebrowser is not perfect but the concept and keyboard control is spot on. Specifically ad blocking is not as comprehensive as eg brave or ublock since they don’t have element hiding - just domain blocking. There was some discussion on Git
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by djfergus 2y ago
So many good options here. Vimium is the gateway drug to the fantastic qutebrowser (more integration and customisation, scripting, based on qtwebkit/engine).
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by djfergus 2y ago
“ I decided to port the project to Rust to learn more about the language and push the algorithm's performance further. We were nearing the limits of optimization in Python, and Rust's capabilities allow for even better performance
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by djfergus 2y ago
Great to see the Sipeed Tang Nano modules being used - they are based on a Gowin FPGA chip and the dev modules (with HDMI and a stack of GPIO pins broken out) cost peanuts on aliexpress compared to equivalent FPGAs from more popular vendors
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by djfergus 2y ago
How does one reconcile the statement below with DEFCON’s claim that they were 60% over budget? > Once a month, we billed for our work and submitted an updated estimated per badge final cost - committing as costs built to discount our wor
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by djfergus 2y ago
Dmitry’s tweet here https://x.com/dmitrygr/status/1822104752253288786 Today I joined a very exclusive club. The club of people who have been dragged off stage at @defcon from the talk there were meant to partici
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Defcon badgemaker escorted off stage, kicked out for adding screen giving credit(twitter.com)
6 points by djfergus 2y ago|3 comments
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by djfergus 2y ago
Amazed at the engineering commitment to Shogi (Japanese chess) games. Can anyone comment on the cultural impact of playing shogi on your tv, with a plastic corded controller? The ability to plug in a coprocessor many times faster than the m
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by djfergus 2y ago
https://github.com/mnemocron/my-discrete-fpga
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by djfergus 2y ago
Would love to hear more details and see the code. I’ve found NICE DCV to be more performant on low end clients (eg chromebooks) maintaining good responsiveness vs RDP.
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by djfergus 2y ago
This looks really nice, I like the design, congrats. I’ve been getting into Arch (with Sway) recently and resisted installing something like this initially since as they say, the manual install process is the tutorial. Getting basic WiFi co
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by djfergus 2y ago
And yet my conveyancer (WA) last year still tried to hock me some expensive additional title insurance. My line to her was “this sounds like it’s protecting me from you not doing your job”. I don’t recall the response but it was unconvincin
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by djfergus 2y ago
I have one too, great device for the price, the review is spot on. Thanks for your repo, good info, starred. The link [1] to rooting is fascinating and frustrating: a reminder that most Android is still far from open. A smart Chinese manufa
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by djfergus 2y ago
I bought the 5.8” inkpalm recently in the regular aliexpress sale, was just over $100. Ask me anything. Which Anki apk do you like? I’ll see if it can be coaxed to install it. It’s fine for what it is, screen is a little reflective and the
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by djfergus 2y ago
Curious, what was the failure mode on the broken kindles? I have a Kindle Keyboard (k3w) and k4 both going strong (including decent battery life) after a decade of use and abuse by my kids and I. The jailbreak on kindles that support it (do
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by djfergus 2y ago
Its a fascinating story, Shkreli is a character to say the least. There is a very poor quality recording of Shkreli playing it on stream available on a shady file sharing site near you. Sounds interesting but probably not worth the flight t
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by djfergus 2y ago
Is this Google acknowledging the same thing that Apple has: that x86 is a dead end and ARM is required for high-quality, portable device experiences? Hence optimising for an Android tech stack vs going further down the ChromeOS/Linux p
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TerraPower starts construction of Natrium reactor in Wyoming(powerengineeringint.com)
1 points by djfergus 2y ago|0 comments
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by djfergus 2y ago
For hobbists buying dev boards note that an ESP32 comes with WiFi and maybe Bluetooth depending on the model, whereas a vanilla Pi Pico has no radio - you need a Pi Pico W for that, which in my experience is double the cost of an esp32 boar
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by djfergus 2y ago
Great project. Spun the docker version up on an Oracle always free VPS instance (server class: potato) in a few seconds and it runs great with my imported OPML with a few hundred feeds. As the enshittification of feedly continues I'm k
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by djfergus 3y ago
The crowdfunded trust bought the building - wonder if it was sold at a premium (to reflect the value of the art) or a discount (to reflect the Grade II listing limitations).
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by djfergus 3y ago
I don’t see any project history or motivation or comparison to other solutions. Why would I use this over Koreader which: * runs great on potatoes like K3W and Kobo touch C (and any Android or Linux system) * has OPDS support (search and pu
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Pepe's PCPU-NANO1 Is a One-Bit Processor Made from a Mere Five Transistors(hackster.io)
2 points by djfergus 3y ago|0 comments
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by djfergus 3y ago
Nice. Very compact for what it supports. Note the version with HDMI port is not available yet (only MIPI CSI ribbon connector available on aliexpress). Also I’m not seeing optocouplers for ATX power interaction so curious how that will work
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by djfergus 3y ago
The PairDrop dev appears to have been shadowbanned by github: https://github.com/fm-sys/snapdrop-android/issues/356#issuec...
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by djfergus 3y ago
Unfortunately does not work with Chromebooks: https://github.com/localsend/localsend/issues/29
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by djfergus 3y ago
Good links thanks. Significantly this post uses a unique screen: EL640.480-AM/AG Thin Film Electro-luminescence (TFEL) screens
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by djfergus 3y ago
I love it. However a cursory search of aliexpress suggests buying one of these screens is about as expensive as buying a vintage 80’s terminal unit. :(
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by djfergus 3y ago
I use Netdata for a few homelab servers in lieu of learning and cultivating a complex grafana/prometheus setup (one docker container with a cut/paste token api vs a needy collection of interlinked pet containers with database conf
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Netdata is introducing a streamlined plan structure, sunsetting Early Bird plans(blog.netdata.cloud)
1 points by djfergus 3y ago|2 comments

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