gerikson

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by gerikson 5y ago
No, they are distinct words. En älv - a river. En älva - an elf or fairy. Älvens strand - the side of the river. Älvans öron - the ears of the elf. Älvdalen - the valley of the river Älvans dal - the valley of the elf. Although they do seem
572.
by gerikson 5y ago
Apparently there's iOS software that can do this. It generates the RF signals using the speakers(!).
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by gerikson 5y ago
As far as I know Sweden does not have a time transmitter. My RC controlled watches get their signals from Germany ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCF77 ). It follows CET.
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by gerikson 5y ago
This is my understanding, but I don't remember where I've read it.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Betteridge's Law of Headlines points to "no".
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by gerikson 5y ago
It would be more interesting to compare how gamers catch fraudsters compared to, for example, the fraud department of major financial institutions.
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by gerikson 5y ago
This is what makes the recent Freenode takeover so sad - it was a more mature version of IRC that was hijacked by a gang of people with "old IRC" ideals.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Poe's law tells us that a parody of a viewpoint is essentially indistinguishable from a sincerely held viewpoint. The best trolls are the ones who are playing true believers.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Comment sections on big WP and Movable type blogs were a thing when Facebook was still growing. The march has been towards continued centralization. Disqus offered to offload busywork for bloggers - spam, identification etc. The "indie
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The Scaling Hypothesis(gwern.net)
2 points by gerikson 5y ago|0 comments
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by gerikson 5y ago
Article is from 2017.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Which no longer exists, since Freenode is redirecting double-hash channels to single-hash channels now.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Shouldn't that be a Catalan jail?
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by gerikson 5y ago
Title kind of implies Alaska was part of the USSR...
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by gerikson 5y ago
The app ("IRC.com") already exists, it's a re-skin of KiwiIRC
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by gerikson 5y ago
I'd trust it to stick around more than a few years, that's for sure.
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by gerikson 5y ago
> The developers seem to have been earnest in their attempt to create a new kind of stablecoin , one that was only partially collateralized by a “real” stablecoin. This space is a giant house of cards.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Author here, any further info, clarifications, logs etc. is welcomed. I've worked off memory and my own logs but times etc. might be a bit off.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Is it #techrights?
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The End of Freenode(ariadne.space)
62 points by gerikson 5y ago|37 comments
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by gerikson 5y ago
This is what makes the current situation so amazing. Literally not doing anything apart from keeping the servers up would be infinitely better.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Freenode's BNC is free, it should have no problem competing with a paid service like IRCcloud.
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by gerikson 5y ago
"Leaving" is a nice euphemism for "channel seized, group contact nicks k-lined, and ops handed over to random buddies of Andrew Lee".
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by gerikson 5y ago
#techrights have migrated to their own server and are bridging to Freenode.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Blogs without timestamps ought to be illegal.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Gemini needs a "Cool pod of the day" or similar. The stuff in the original post is very much something you'd see on "Cool site of the day" - back in the days ;)
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by gerikson 5y ago
This site would be hard to replicate on Gemini seeing that it's quite heavy on both imagery and design.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Uh, you knew that going in, right? Aren't all answers CC0?
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by gerikson 5y ago
The list contains "Bitcoin Core" but the link points to https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2021/05/26/ , which seems like an unrelated project.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Not sure if using the verb "to hit" is the best choice in this sort of story...

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