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by fmajid 2y ago
He's talking about how these books are padded with unnecessary filler material because people expect a nonfiction book to be a certain number of pages.
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by fmajid 2y ago
A good intro to the OSINT methods the KGB used to identity CIA agents: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/10/identifying_c...
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by fmajid 2y ago
That, and the constant shilling for their useless services like Apple News or Apple Fitness
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by fmajid 2y ago
Not just that but between 3.51 and 4.0 many NT drivers like graphics were moved to ring 0, trading performance for robustness.
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by fmajid 2y ago
That hasn’t aged well because the microkernels of the day like Mach failed to keep their promises. There are newer ones like the L4 family that were designed specifically for performance, but they have not been deployed as a base for a full
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by fmajid 2y ago
Oddly the Hungarians, Bulgarians and Slovaks seem to. Stockholm Syndrome?
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by fmajid 2y ago
I had to go to Hyderabad, India for a family emergency. Electricity here is on a progressive scale from 1 rupee/kWh up to 9 rupees. 1 rupee is about 1.25 cents. It’s got to be subsidized, just like how water is free.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Yes. I used a Huawei 5G router as cellular backup on my home network OpenBSD router/firewall but I ran Wireguard over it because I trust neither Huawei nor my cellular provider.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! I do use Delicious Library for other things than media like electronics or cameras, however.
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by fmajid 2y ago
The only caveat is limited WiFi support, essentially not 802.11ac or later, so you will need a separate AP.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Also the fact most of the UK’s newspapers are owned by non-UK, non-European citizens. The US doesn’t allow foreigners (non US persons, green card holders are US persons) to hold a controlling stake in the media, or to contribute money to th
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by fmajid 2y ago
You also have all sorts of ancillary fees like the Information Commissioner’s annual charge.
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by fmajid 2y ago
No. The last thing we need is yet another subscription priced data silo roach motel that sequesters your data. Any replacement I would consider will have to be open source with an open database.
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by fmajid 2y ago
It's interesting that in India, which inherited some of the worst aspects of British governance from the Raj (like perfecting red tape), there is also strong centralization in Delhi, but the richest and best educated parts of the count
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by fmajid 2y ago
Perhaps one day Trump will remember (or learn, more likely) that the Nazis would have murdered his autistic son Barron without a second thought.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Except IP works far better than Zigbee's alleged mesh networking, and all the other home network technologies because somehow home automation is a special snowflake that can't use the same network technology everybody else uses.
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by fmajid 2y ago
It could also be downloading the database of known malicious sites from Google Safe Browsing: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/overview
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by fmajid 2y ago
If Bloomsbury caved to Amazon, that is not a good outcome. Just one of the many reasons why I refuse to buy books on Amazon.
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by fmajid 2y ago
I found this one at B&H: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1789487-REG/epson_c31...
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by fmajid 2y ago
Yes, a great and educational episode, which is exactly why it's fiction. Although I would expect anyone working at the White House to have seen an actual globe. Well, perhaps not this White House.
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by fmajid 2y ago
Heh. I hosted on a Joyent OpenSolaris zone for a long time (before you joined) and, ahem, enjoyed a period of instability as that useless site (Twitter, not DTrace.org), also hosted on Joyent, took off and had scaling troubles causing noisy
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by fmajid 2y ago
Remember that "The West Wing" episode where geographers petition the White House chief of staff to replace the Mercator projection with the more accurate and less Euro/US-centric Peters one? This one looks designed to stroke
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by fmajid 2y ago
Well, I have my primary browser (Vivaldi) set to block ads with uBlock Origin and reject any cookies or persistent storage request that is not specifically allowlisted. The number of websites that fail to load with a JS error, for what is b
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by fmajid 2y ago
Read Bryan Cantrill on how unimpressive Dorsey is to anyone with a clue: "I, like many people, have a complicated relationship with Twitter. As Adam and I regaled in a recent Twitter Space, it started when debugging the Twitter fail wh
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by fmajid 2y ago
Since Europe is to the left of the US, whatever the US is doing right (pun intended) is bound to be something the Left won't like. The US also has plenty of bureaucracy, and what's worse, a lot of it stems from Common Law and capr
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by fmajid 2y ago
In the UK’s case, feudalism is alive and well. The entire tax system is designed so parasites descended from thugs like the Duke of Westminster or Charles of Battenberg-Saxe-Coburg und Gotha never have to pay property taxes on their extensi
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by fmajid 2y ago
Funny, I have a HP DevOne, a Linux-first, Ryzen-powered laptop they made in collaboration with System76, that has both the trackpad and trackpoint, when neither HP nor System76 usually include a trackpoint in their laptops. Sadly they sold
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by fmajid 2y ago
And also Symantec, and now Entrust. All of these CAs have incredibly sloppy vetting procedures and/or control over their resellers. In many cases they didn't even check CAA records to see if they'd be authorized to issue new
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by fmajid 2y ago
The problem is not productivity porn but productivity tool yak-shaving, where the tool undergoes constant churn with no or marginal justifying productivity improvements
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by fmajid 2y ago
Using half of what Meta, the smallest of the FAANG, spends in a year alone on AI datacenters.

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