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by gbil 10mo ago
Personal anecdotes from my early mid teen years 1. Touching the circuit board on the back of the CRT tube by mistake trying to troubleshoot image issues, “fortunately” it was a “low” voltage as it was a B&W monitor…. 2. Throwing a big b
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by gbil 10mo ago
A couple of years ago ARIN increased their fees considerably - way higher than fees paid to RIPE for way less resources - and had a call with their management to express my frustration, not because I was paying from my pocket but because of
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by gbil 10mo ago
Curtains should also fall under the same category because they do make it more difficult for UK security and intelligence agencies to monitor suspect activities. Then of course you also have walls... The argument is so fundamentally stupid
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by gbil 10mo ago
I learned British English starting in the 80s and using s whereas z was used in American English, together with tre instead of ter (eg. theatre), was a big difference. And I can tell you that MS Word back then was just not there so this sou
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by gbil 10mo ago
> At some point, though, Enzor-DeMeo will have to tend to Mozilla’s own business. “I do think we need revenue diversification away from Google,” he says, “but I don’t necessarily believe we need revenue diversification away from the brow
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by gbil 10mo ago
The article is from 2022 and is good enough summary. Specifics for sure can vary in between but that is why you are more than able to do an individual search.
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by gbil 10mo ago
Is inflation included? Otherwise 5,5 billion in 2005 is >8billion in 2025.
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by gbil 10mo ago
nope, check the link I posted in another comment: https://onomondo.com/blog/2g-3g-sunset-2/#europe please note that the list is not fully up to date, eg. in Germany Voda and Telekom have said that they will sunset
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by gbil 10mo ago
Depends on the country and provider but is sooner than later in Europe and I hate it that 2G is going away since all my old devices are not going to work again… https://onomondo.com/blog/2g-3g-sunset-2/
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Paramount makes $108.4B hostile bid for WB(reuters.com)
6 points by gbil 10mo ago|2 comments
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by gbil 10mo ago
Immich is wonderful in docker setup passing the gpu for ML which works pretty good and the amazing new OCR feature does miracles, I’m able to find notes that I photographed for this purpose but then forgot, I’m able to find memories just by
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by gbil 10mo ago
Now thinking of this from the other side, 2 big DRAM producers are taking the risk to dedicate a very big part of their production to AI and if we assume they also have similar deals with other AI companies or big datacenters, what is their
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by gbil 11mo ago
A few things I've experienced: - In many new cars the headlights do indeed appear as very bright. In the Xenon era the headlight height adjustment per occupancy was done automatically but at least in a few new cars I've been in wi
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by gbil 11mo ago
The irony is that if you follow the relevant link [1]in the error page , you get this > If the problem isn’t resolved in the next few minutes, it’s most likely an issue with the web server you were trying to reach. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by gbil 11mo ago
I'm not talking about anything HD, basic mouse keyboard via BT and simple SBC for the headset. Never had any issues with that combination on Windows in the past before jumping on to Mac 6+ years ago. To add insult on top, I still remem
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by gbil 11mo ago
try to connect more than 2 devices simultaneously on your mac and "enjoy" the sound you get then. I had this problem with either intel or m* mac and it seems from a search on the Internet that it is widespread to the point that is
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by gbil 1y ago
> I've been "obtaining" ebooks for years > So let me get this straight: I paid money for this book One can say that no DRM doesn’t bring issues but one can also say that there is a very polarized approach from the post
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by gbil 1y ago
On top of that, what is the strategy from Apple on gaming? Advertise extra performance and features that you only get if you upgrade your whole device? This is non-sustainable to put it mildly. There are egpu enclosures with TB5, developing
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by gbil 1y ago
This gives me Apple Aladeen[1]vibes /s [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYJ2w82WifU
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by gbil 1y ago
Isn’t garmin connect IQ exactly that ? Edit: damn autocorrect
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by gbil 1y ago
It is quite different here as the OP stated headscale which is own hosted and I understand they use just the tailscale clients. That is mine setup too after using tailscale first and then wanted something own hosted without my traffic going
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by gbil 1y ago
adb backup is gone
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by gbil 1y ago
>It said that rules under the act affected the way it provided users access to apps. “Pornography apps are available on iPhone from other marketplaces – apps we’ve never allowed on the App Store because of the risks they create, especial
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KeepassDX has landed passkeys support (beta)(github.com)
5 points by gbil 1y ago|1 comments
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by gbil 1y ago
A few months ago the discussion of cross platform support for passkeys based on keepass apps was raised, now finally we have this since KeepassDX landed in beta relevant support and it works great! Many thanks to Jeremy (the dev) for his w
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by gbil 1y ago
I can only comment that their communication on the incident is lacking, I've read about the incident yesterday and only today I received the relevant email. On top, it seems that all of a sudden I started getting marketing emails from
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by gbil 1y ago
I would assume that this is valid for most Android phone, in the backend using google systemwide to check for internet access and here we are...
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by gbil 1y ago
A side question, both this and the VW power unlock payment from the other day, are targeting UK market, so is legislation (lack of it) such in the UK that allows for such practices?
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by gbil 1y ago
On a similar note, I have some Daikin AC units, expensive ones and of course they didn’t come with wifi module which Daikin prices at 100+ Euro per module. After some searching around I found the Faikin [1] project and got one module to tes
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by gbil 1y ago
Too many connections on too many levels for this to happen, from MS having a huge R&D office in Israel to political connections between the countries involved etc.

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