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by gbuk2013 9y ago
A quick search does not inspire optimism: https://citizenlab.ca/2015/05/a-chatty-squirrel-privacy-and-...
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
High CRI warm LEDs exits but you have to go looking for them (source: I have lots of them installed in my house including some very warm lights in the bedroom that are lovely and comfort-inducing, much more so than incandescent bulbs).
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
Herman Miller Mirra 2 and I love it. :)
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
"Node.js: What's Next?" is quite interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVfQ8KtRptM And "Grokking Asynchronous Work in Node.js" which talks about async_hooks API is a good follow-up: https:&#
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
I have a similar Dell 7510 running Debian Sid and my experience is also mostly positive. I had to disable the built in graphics in the BIOS to get my 2 external monitors to work (some Nvidia Quadro mess), suspend doesn’t work properly (comm
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/73n9pm/d_c...
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
As mentioned in the other comment, I’ve been using Funio for years and I’ve had a good experience. My needs are very simple in this case as the site is mostly static pages with a small bit of PHP here and there. They’ve added Let’s Encrypt
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
I’m still using a Funio shared hosting account for a site I am looking after for someone. ~35GB of data and ~11k page views a week. I have a VPS for my own use but in this case it’s very convenient to have a nice Panelbox UI that the onwner
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Emissions comparison: 1994 petrol vs. 2009 diesel(bbc.co.uk)
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
It provides fallback connection methods if WS connection fails, as it can do if you have, for example, a HTTP/1.0 only proxy between you and the client. For example it was not that long ago that nginx did not support proxying HTTP&#x2F
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
Good luck for that site getting indexed by Google ;)
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
Your friend's been played for a tool, but I think you know this already. It happens all the time, especially with naive and insecure developers but not limited to them - our corporate overlords are always looking for some new way to en
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
No, because physical goods and 0's and 1's are not the same.
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
> Excuse me, but did you support Mozilla with time/money? Yes, I have done. Thank you for the snark.
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
I don't buy that argument, sorry. Because it requires something as anti-freedom as DRM to exist in the first place.
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
Thank you for athenapdf and for rescuing me from the pains of wkhtmltopdf - I am a happy user. :) My only small problem with it was the somewhat complex setup for using athenapdf-service with a new project (especially since I use docker-mac
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
I will be happy to do so, once consumers and content creators (and specifically the companies they sell rights to) are on a level playing field in terms of legal protections and lobbying powers.
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
This is interesting :-) I am currently using athenapdf[1] but I will have a play with pdf-bot. [1] https://github.com/arachnys/athenapdf
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
I don't buy that argument, sorry. Because it requires something as anti-freedom as DRM to exist in the first place.
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
> Mozilla fought DRM until the very end and lost. If Firefox is to have any chance at remaining a mainstream browser it needs to support Netflix and the likes. You can't seriously blame them for this, because they are damned if they
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
> Can we at least stop with the FUD please? Can we please stop with using the word FUD for things that are not? The very idea of accepting DRM as a possibility in the browser was a slap in the face to those who believe in internet freedo
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
> No phoning home. No telemetry, no data collection. No "light" version of the same, no "privacy-respecting" what-have-you. No means No. Nada. Zilch. Try and shovel any of that down people's throats and the idea
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
I hope you do :) I hope you also get to practice the real deal, with the real Chi (and the Chuan) ;)
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
I was interested in multiplexing and I got that, as well as a big increase in performance serving static content.
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
I tried that before but it is very slow compared to native https module [1] In the end though I added Nginx to my app container to be an HTTPS2 proxy and to serve static files instead - much better performance :) [1] https://gith
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Oliver Stone Wants to Change the Way You Think About Putin(vulture.com)
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
They can, just not for some things: "With the exception of oil, gas, coal, gold and silver, the state does not own mineral rights in the UK. Generally minerals are held in private ownership, and information on mineral rights, where ava
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
Technically, the Crown owns the land. Everyone else owns an estate in this land. This distinction only really becomes important if you do something silly like die intestate (without a will) and without any heirs, in which case title reverts
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
Those closed systems involve growing algae which is used to feed the fish.
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by gbuk2013 9y ago
The cost of software maintenance is not even close to zero. Unless you are someone like DJB (or even then) your software will need to be updated and bugs will need to be fixed. TFA specifically calls out the assumption that a one off (essen

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