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by foodstances 9y ago
That is from June, this is the latest from December: http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/os-applications/f/46... A motherboard change and a BIOS update (2.4.2) are supposed to lower the noise as much as t
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by foodstances 9y ago
Does it still have that awful coil whine?
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by foodstances 9y ago
HN used to natively support sending push notifications through Notifo, but that company folded and the feature went away. I guess one of these HN-comment-e-mailing websites needs to apply to YC to actually have a chance of getting integrate
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by foodstances 9y ago
Using the values directly is not the same thing as feeding the values into a RNG.
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by foodstances 9y ago
To the "X86BSD" user who commented here: you are shadow banned so your comments are showing up as dead by default so most users can't see or reply to them. Just thought you should know.
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by foodstances 9y ago
> I sit here with my Moto and the last patch from February... > I don't like the closed culture What good is an "open" culture if you can't patch things yourself anyway?
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by foodstances 9y ago
https://www.openbsd.org/goals.html
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by foodstances 9y ago
Boring yet still very volatile. I wonder if or when Rails will settle down and stop changing everything between major releases causing all documentation to be out of date, gems to break, developer habits to break, etc. Not to mention all o
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by foodstances 9y ago
Where? https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/1password-beta/phi... still says it requires the separate Mac and Windows apps.
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by foodstances 9y ago
Because an iPhone is easy to use for the vast majority of people and OpenBSD is not.
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by foodstances 9y ago
The article talks about a new Ruby/SQLite backend, making it no longer reliant on .NET, MSSQL, or Bitwarden's servers at all.
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by foodstances 9y ago
Either the computers in these mysterious corporate environments are exposed to the internet, in which case they'd be reflected in these public stats collected by them visiting public websites from IE, or they aren't, in which case
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by foodstances 9y ago
This argument for the GPL only wins in a fantasy land where all software has to be released under GPL or not at all. In reality, companies reject the GPL and just write their own code or adopt and contribute to permissively licensed project
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by foodstances 9y ago
I don't understand this logic. You get free software with few restrictions on what you're allowed to do with it. In what way is that "respecting" you less than similar software with more restrictions on what you can
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by foodstances 9y ago
What license allows one to take credit for another's work?
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by foodstances 9y ago
I guess this project isn't for you then.
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by foodstances 9y ago
FWIW, both sites showed my real information initially, and now one of them shows that bogus info. I think they're just showing that default data due to load problems.
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by foodstances 9y ago
In addition to both sites correctly showing my full name, phone number, mailing address, and e-mail address, (and the Danal site showing my T-mobile phone plan info) the Payfone site shows this ominous description: https://i.imgu
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by foodstances 9y ago
I just visited both sites and both showed my full name, e-mail address, physical address, and T-Mobile billing plan information. I never opted into anything on T-mobile's site (and I can't find any opt-outs that I don't alre
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by foodstances 9y ago
Macs use the ACPI Smart Battery Subsystem. The Linux SBS driver should be polling regularly and also receive GPEs when the battery reaches certain thesholds. But the polling frequency should be in the order of seconds, providing constant b
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by foodstances 9y ago
How is that any different than them forcing your finger onto a TouchID sensor?
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by foodstances 9y ago
https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/dev/acpi/dsdt... https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/master/sys/dev/acpi/dsdt...
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by foodstances 9y ago
There's a TV series "Alone" where they drop people off in the remote woods (far from each other) and the person that can survive the longest by themselves wins $500k. As the season goes on, you can see a clear decline in the
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by foodstances 9y ago
Cool story.
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by foodstances 9y ago
What am I supposed to do here? Does it require some weird incantation in order to load the kernel? It turns out you just have to hit enter. Did you really think every server running OpenBSD requires someone to hit enter on the console to
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by foodstances 9y ago
I use Plaid for my own bank account access, which I used to replace my own OFX code because my banks kept randomly breaking their OFX interfaces. Plaid was fine with creating a developer account for just a few bank accounts, they didn'
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by foodstances 9y ago
How is this different than something like https://plaid.com/ ?
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by foodstances 10y ago
And yet Apple introduced a first-class ad blocking mechanism into iOS that even works in 3rd party apps (using SFSafariViewController). There are dozens of ad blocking apps available on the App Store, which are much more accessible to the
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by foodstances 10y ago
I wonder if archive.org or archive.is have anything cached...
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by foodstances 10y ago
Google's Cloud Print service (used on Chromebooks at least) has to constantly keep your printer in communication with the internet. To print to a printer on your LAN from a Chromebook, it goes out through the internet to Google's

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