edarchis

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by edarchis 1y ago
They're not battling, they're profiting from it. We all reported an obvious scam and been told "sorry, this doesn't break our standards of community, we know you're not happy but don't give a damn".
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by edarchis 2y ago
My brother is a wifi expert at a hw manufacturer. He once had a case where the customer had issues setting the transmit power to like 100 times the legal limit. They happened to be an offshore drilling platform and had an exemption for the
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by edarchis 2y ago
Starts with I18N in SMS. There should be a trigger warning on those. SMS is dreadful in itself. In an international setting, it's a nightmare. But once people wonder why they costs exploded since they changed their welcome message with
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by edarchis 2y ago
Pause and rewind have been features since the phonograph. Vinyl and tapes could do it. Youtube did it (yet somehow they botched it for YT Shorts). Tiktok did it. Now Instagram feels like they invented something...
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by edarchis 2y ago
VMS had asynchronous programming to its core. Most system calls could be performed synchronously or async. You just had to give the async call a flag that would indicate when the response was ready. So you could read a file or connect to th
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by edarchis 2y ago
The amount of us who clicked no is amazing. I loved my Pebble Time but I'm going to give money to yet another Kickstarter and have it be killed shortly after.
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by edarchis 2y ago
Damn, OVH broke the TLS. I migrated it to my server and it's not properly served with a valid TLS. I'll let it run for a few days before publishing the details and insisting at their security contact point. Thanks
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by edarchis 2y ago
Update: they responded to my disclosure with a canned response "there was not enough information to answer your question, please go through our contact form again". I guess that's an invitation to publish. So here is the prim
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by edarchis 2y ago
It's not a bank or payment provider per se but still processing a large amount of money. I sent them a new notification. I hope that they won't take too much time to respond.
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by edarchis 2y ago
It's funny because I own such a domain. A large financial institution in my country changed its main domain name to something that had a very clear potential for a typo. I informed them, was ignored and just registered the domain mysel
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by edarchis 2y ago
The fact that Altria (ex Philip Morris), a tobacco brand, made it to this list is telling IMO. There is no way that the cigarette packaging produces that much identifiable plastic trash. My guess would be that in some countries, the stores
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by edarchis 2y ago
Yes, moreutils has a lot to offer. vidir to quickly reorganize files and folders (even delete files), chronic to run commands silently... unless they fail, sponge to be able to pipe from a file and back to that file without a temporary on
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by edarchis 2y ago
That illustrates the difference between anterograde amnesia and dementia. Dementia is a general degradation of the brain that includes memory but you can have amnesia with an otherwise perfectly functional brain. A patient with dementia wou
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by edarchis 2y ago
Cross-compiling ? Aren't M1 and Pi both ARM processors ? I've been building apps for my M1 to run on Pi without any issue. Some optimization options maybe ?
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by edarchis 2y ago
I use it on so many platforms and even sometimes in three-way like my Obsidian vault that syncs between my laptop, my phone and my tablet. I barely ever had any conflict. Amazing software.
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by edarchis 2y ago
Please consider that many of us have been burned before. I've been in business for over 25 years now and I am still supporting several apps built with now forsaken technologies. That includes a web app built with Dart back when Google
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by edarchis 2y ago
uBlock, not much but SponsorBlock is very useful. I am using all of those with YT Premium and I do have issues. I was recently offered their redesign and it made it a lot worse. It's hard to watch a video uninterrupted now. Note that I
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by edarchis 2y ago
"Google was accused of enacting a policy instructing employees to turn chat history off by default when discussing sensitive topics, including Google's revenue-sharing and mobile application distribution agreements." They did
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by edarchis 2y ago
It's maltodextrin and designed to be digestible by babies. You can buy it in a fine powder marketed as "Caloreen" from Nestlé. Our pediatrician pushed us to use it in supplement to breast-feeding because the baby was below th
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by edarchis 3y ago
Agreed. Such a valuation would be different for a Japanese buyer, an American one or one that has a special project or affinity. A value should be an objective amount and the real amount paid varies depending on what you bring to the table.
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by edarchis 3y ago
> Conclussion Is that a mix of conclusion and concussion that requires some ibuprofen ?
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by edarchis 3y ago
Nice work and thanks for sharing, it's a good source of inspiration for similarly antiquated government web sites.
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by edarchis 4y ago
I've been trying to use this technique to alert banks (in Belgium where I live) of online fraud for a while but failed. We are getting lots of phishing by text, email and hacked IMs. They use a bunch of redirections to get you to &quot
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by edarchis 4y ago
Yggdrasil was seriously badass, first live-CD, overlay filesystem and much more. Details and video of what was my first Linux distrib: https://retrocomputingforum.com/t/yggdrasil-first-live-linux...
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by edarchis 4y ago
"A Napster Client Library" "DeCSS" "The 0th annual obfuscated code contest" Good old times :-)
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by edarchis 4y ago
That's all nice but we used to recommend systematic PSA screening for all males over 50. We later realized that there was a lot of false positives and that the intervention often brought more risks than it cured actual cancers. So it&#