eliaspro

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   by eliaspro 8y ago

   "plus codes" [1] are a far better approach: - no language involved, only ASCII chars and + signs - open source algorithm to derive location codes - works completely offline, as codes are generated on-the-fly - no central DB of sta
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   by eliaspro 8y ago

   Does anyone know whether there will be an API/SDK for building services on top of it or to integrate it into other platforms/products?
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   by eliaspro 8y ago

   IIRC KDE (or was it Gnome) changes the order depending on whether it's a RTL or LTR locale.
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   by eliaspro 8y ago

   Reinventing the wheel... there's the fantastic Calamares Installer Framework which solves exactly this problem: https://calamares.io/
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   by eliaspro 8y ago

   Why not simply Wireguard?
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   by eliaspro 8y ago

   I can't see the huge German Freifunk movement in the list of supporting organizations. Does anyone know why?
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   The Nomad Project(medium.com)

   2 points by eliaspro 8y ago|0 comments
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   by eliaspro 9y ago

   ...a multi-vendor multi-implementation OpenContainerStack. What could go wrong?
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   by eliaspro 9y ago

   We'll, I would have loved to stay in the beautiful green and generally family friendly city I lived in, but once you're at a point where one has to spend around 2/3 of the income on rent to have sufficient room for kids there
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    by eliaspro 9y ago

    Relevant Tom Scott's "Things You Might Not Know"-Video: "Why Hold Music Sounds Worse Now" - https://youtu.be/w2A8q3XIhu0
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    by eliaspro 9y ago

    Why shouldn't it? It works just fine for Germany which gets the same amount of sunshine as southern Alaska.
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    by eliaspro 9y ago

    Could you add a few more details why you think LVFS has architectural issues? Why do you believe firmware shouldn't be updated regularly just like we're used to do it with regular software?
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    Status-Overview of Meltdown/Spectre Patches/Updates(github.com)

    1 points by eliaspro 9y ago|0 comments
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    by eliaspro 9y ago

    Quoting Barton George: > We are definitely looking into the coil whine issue, this has senior management visibility, and pursuing several avenues for the current system as well as solutions going forward. Source: http://en.com
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    by eliaspro 9y ago

    The Porsche Mission-E will handle continuous top-speed just fine without overheating, so I figure Tesla will come up with a competitive cooling solution until 2020 as well.
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    by eliaspro 9y ago

    I wonder why netplan instead of straight-up systemd-networkd? To avoid the usual "systemd takes away all my toys" shitstorm? Does systemd-networkd fundamentally lack anything which netplan doesn't?
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    by eliaspro 9y ago

    I always regarded MIELE as top-notch, so I bought nearly every household/kitchen appliance from them. Can't remember having had to call a service hotline of a specific brand that often. Wash-dryer needed 6 repairs within the first
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    by eliaspro 9y ago

    This should be fixed in 4.12. See also: https://plus.google.com/+ThorstenLeemhuis/posts/fZLWWPJEQts
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    by eliaspro 9y ago

    For tagging and organizing you should definitely check out "beets": http://beets.io
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    Handling Complex JSON Schemas in Python(medium.com)

    1 points by eliaspro 9y ago|0 comments
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    by eliaspro 10y ago

    For all local/non-public instances I just use "tls self_signed" and have Caddy generate a cert on demand.
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    by eliaspro 10y ago

    > Oracle is the industry leader in reliability, simplicity ... ...no need to continue reading at this line.
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    by eliaspro 10y ago

    It just depresses me seeing how many people don't have the slightest clue why this is something incredibly remarkable - the complexity behind each and every component, process, research and engineering making this possible - and then s
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    by eliaspro 10y ago

    I still think a package manager should never execute any code at all. It should extract a package and remove its files at some point again, but that's it.
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    by eliaspro 10y ago

    [XKCD#1098]( https://xkcd.com/1098/ )
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    by eliaspro 10y ago

    Is there any chance those could be synced with KDE Plasma's Activities (which implements a quite similar concept on the DE level)? The biggest issue with using Activities has always been that browsers know nothing about them, so when c
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    by eliaspro 10y ago

    > and it really drives home what massive amounts of exhaust these machines put out. It just looks this massove, but that's mistly due to condensation of water vapor. Sure, those engines have a massive throughput of air, but the visi
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    by eliaspro 10y ago

    Besides many obvious reasons (preventing real bitrot), it's also a security factor acting against attacks like rowhammer.
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    by eliaspro 10y ago

    I always wondered why git doesn't support hierarchic config locations… My homedir looks like this: ~/code-repositories/ +---$company/ (my work related repositories) +---private/ (my personal non-publi
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    by eliaspro 10y ago

    Our product was recently submitted to PH by someone unrelated by us and upvoted quite well but it didn't have any measurable impact. I don't feel like its worth putting much effort into getting your product featured there.