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by heffer 3y ago
I do feel they are increasingly modelling themselves after the US system, seemingly only impeded by stricter data protection laws. Schufa, as you said, used to be mostly the exchange of negative-only debtor information (i.e. Schufa having n
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by heffer 3y ago
podman works great with docker-compose through the docker socket emulation. I just use the upstream vanilla docker-compose with it (also works with docker compose as a plugin for Docker CLI). Podman Desktop also offers to set the socket emu
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by heffer 3y ago
"By default, the VM distribution is Fedora CoreOS except for WSL which is based on a custom Fedora image. While Fedora CoreOS upgrades come out every 14 days, the automatic update mechanism Zincata is disabled by Podman machine."
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by heffer 3y ago
This is what I was really afraid of when I reverse engineered my fireplace BLE controller last year. Especially since the "Set password" command accepts raw bytes for input but the OEM app only ever sends length-limited numeric da
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by heffer 3y ago
I'd argue this cost has always been there and was never zero to begin with. Mass producing non-repairable, cheap throwaway items is an excellent way for industries to externalize a lot of the lifecycle cost of an item onto society. So
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by heffer 3y ago
Cloud Native, the only type of native that matters these days ;-)
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by heffer 3y ago
You'll find many varieties of boards with different SoCs being sold mentioning the D1 Mini in their model number or product description, as it initially defined the form-factor being referred to. Similar to the ESP-12F, which you can a
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by heffer 3y ago
Here's an explanation: https://cvs.afresh1.com/~andrew/o/why-cvs.html
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by heffer 3y ago
As an application developer I not always have a need to observe protocol traffic as it happens on the air. So for reverse engineering BLE protocols (especially between IoT devices and their apps) I've usually found my Android phone wit
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by heffer 3y ago
For a second I thought this would be about an issue with damage from iron oxide on Espressif chips. Yes, it's a weekend and also a holiday today ;-)
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by heffer 3y ago
And the IMF blog post that is the source of that article is here: https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2023/06/26/europes-inf... I recommend reading that instead, as the original submission pr
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by heffer 3y ago
Python is slated to become a choice for the 2024 season: https://wpilib.org/blog/bringing-python-to-frc
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by heffer 3y ago
Depends on your jurisdiction. In Germany, for example, a court has recognized that Facebook enters in a contractual relationship with you when you register on the platform. As such, Facebook agrees to store and let you access your informati
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by heffer 3y ago
> Not to mention such a disparity in feature between different regions is pretty huge. And at the same time not at all that uncommon. If you are in a market outside of the US I'm certain you will have experienced this first hand mor
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by heffer 4y ago
> what drives them Don't know. A stolen car presumably?
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by heffer 4y ago
If you're in the US or Canada check out FIRST Robotics Mentor Network: https://info.firstinspires.org/mentor-network You would be helping out teams of high school students build and program their robots for competition
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by heffer 4y ago
Good 'ol UART. I was thinking of maybe doing a write-up of how I reverse engineered my Fireplace controller's UART using a sniffer cable and two USB-to-UART dongles. I've documented my findings here: https://bonapa
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by heffer 4y ago
I have not had any problems with the newer CH343. See this tweet by WCH Technical Director Patrick Yang: https://twitter.com/Patrick_RISCV/status/1516015859877093376 WeAct Studio makes a beautiful compact CH343P a
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by heffer 4y ago
The path from Permanent Resident to Citizen in Canada is pretty straightforward in my eyes and most Permanent Residents eventually do become Citizens [0]. Given that there are many pathways available for people to immigrate to Canada and Ca
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by heffer 4y ago
Yes, other countries too, like Germany. It's supposed to compensate banks for lost profit from you not paying interest for the entire term. Equally, a bank can't cancel your mortgage before the term ends for the sole reason that i
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by heffer 4y ago
I understood it as meaning a social and academic environment that is supporting them in getting into Stanford.
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by heffer 4y ago
> Books and publishing industries are a result of a technology: paper, printing, binding. Now in the digital age an ebook should cost close the the amount the author get 1$-2$/book. This is a very technocratic view of book publishin
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by heffer 4y ago
> and almost all major medical advances and research comes out of the US Are you're basing that on the number of clinical trials compared to other countries or regions using the data from the WHO [1]? As someone who worked for a lar
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by heffer 4y ago
This sentence doesn't necessarily imply she currently owns two Teslas. She may have bought them consecutively. Heck. Semantically her first electric vehicle could have even been a different brand. English is a weird language.
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by heffer 4y ago
There are a few examples of where this is done. One that comes to my mind would be JOSM: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ You download one JAR file for any platform you intend to run the application on. There are installers f
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by heffer 4y ago
I'm mentally preparing for the inevitable "Microsoft Office Ribbons UI"-esque resentments from the power users in the comments. Give it time.
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by heffer 4y ago
I agree with your assessment. I am not US American though. I live in America (Canada specifically) but I was born and raised in Europe. I'm afraid the cynicism in my original comment requires this context to be received. In my opinion
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by heffer 4y ago
Exactly my point.
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by heffer 4y ago
US is the default on the internet. So unless explicitly mentioned I tend to assume content is geared to a US audience. But I did not know Poland was big in apples. Interesting. I noticed the strong regional variances in Apple availability e
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by heffer 4y ago
German in Canada here. I used mine to cook water for pasta as it's usually faster and more efficient than my electric cooktop. Bought one in Canada and it's close to useless for that purpose. My German kettle would bring 1.7L of t

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