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by hvgk 5y ago
RPi has always been a Broadcom alumni pet project with commercial interest. I am not surprised. As for the same intro to computers as the 1980s, you can give kids a trash PC and monitor running Linux for less than a whole RPi setup these da
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by hvgk 5y ago
This is a common problem I see across many things. We had a guy who spent two weeks writing a report script that collated data uploaded into S3 and wrote out another data lump into S3 after some post processing then sent this data lump to a
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by hvgk 5y ago
The whole thing is about maintaining anticipation of the next horror, which it does really well. Also it’s a complete dystopia which is always a good thing to have around as it keeps reality in check. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Also to reflec
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by hvgk 5y ago
I don’t disagree. I self taught myself my entire degree.
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by hvgk 5y ago
I have worked in the defence sector on similar things and agree with the not invented here thing. At the same time it breeds tools out of necessity. My only tale on tale is that I pretty much designed and built ansible in Perl in 1999. Of c
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by hvgk 5y ago
I bought that with my student loan. No regrets :)
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by hvgk 5y ago
Digital signature tells you that the owner of the key signed it. Not who currently owns the key.
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by hvgk 5y ago
With modern software distribution infrastructure you are entirely fucked at this point. It’s number one business critical risk from our analysis. And it’s not just from developer workstations but from stuff sneaking into production during a
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by hvgk 5y ago
I don’t think they’ve ever sat in a crap car either. Most of those are better. The four Teslas I’ve been in feel like I’m sitting in a bottom end Android tablet or some hospital equipment.
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by hvgk 5y ago
A friend owns a 2020 model 3. The paint job was worse than my ass end 8 year old Citroen C3 so he spent the entire value of my ass end 8 year old Citroen C3 on a ceramic coating for it. And it still looks worse. I’d be so pissed if I’d spen
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by hvgk 5y ago
Oops! I nearly lost my lunch on that one :)
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by hvgk 5y ago
That’s the one! The XR did manage to upload all the photos to iCloud when we got in range of a cell tower. Also the rear glass didn’t break, only the screen. Apple replaced the screen under AppleCare and my daughter still has the phone.
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by hvgk 5y ago
This is really cool. I never even thought of using Prometheus and Grafana for other applications despite pretty much looking after the stack full time.
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by hvgk 5y ago
Yep they are damn near perfect. I love mine.
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by hvgk 5y ago
Go to settings -> iCloud -> storage -> manage storage -> backups. You can delete the old backups there. It does keep backups of old devices for some reason. I tend to use this feature though as intended. I dropped my XR off down
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by hvgk 5y ago
Conversely I actually use most of their services and am happy. I spent too many years self flagellating by running local servers, own email server, manually managing backups, mp3 collections and stuff. This didn’t scale with the size of my
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by hvgk 5y ago
Back to gopher. Use native compiled apps and APIs for everything else. I’m serious. Probably shave a few gigawatts off the grid killing off electron apps.
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by hvgk 5y ago
To be fair Microsoft have no accountability either. But it’s easier to tick the ISO 27001 or SOC compliance box when they pretend they have some accountability.
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by hvgk 5y ago
Well in my case there is always something hideously broken. For example I had a problem a couple of years back where libreoffice would take 3 minutes to open a sheet when my printer was turned on. Then there’s days where if I close the lid
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by hvgk 5y ago
Oh yes that’s a nightmare. They turned saving a file into a kafkaesque dystopian hell hole. This is one of the things I like about Numbers etc on iOS. It abstracts this away so we’ll I don’t have to give a crap and it appears instantly on a
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by hvgk 5y ago
That is exactly how my employer works. I use O365 outlook web access begrudgingly.
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by hvgk 5y ago
You don’t have to use their crap. I don’t. It is chosen by businesses and individuals because it’s about the only complete solution out there (even if it is a monumental shit show) which is cost effective. Either that or they are ignorant o
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by hvgk 5y ago
Risk is zero if it’s powered down and disconnected from the circuit under test. The main risk is from the circuit under test leaving dangerous voltages inside the multimeter or the power supply of the multimeter only if it’s a mains powered
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by hvgk 5y ago
The battery swaps don’t need to be done with the instrument powered. You can solder a “surrogate” pack with a series current limiting resistor across the or diode and ground while you swap the battery out. You can also recalibrate it from t
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by hvgk 5y ago
I’d be really pissed about this if they hadn’t pissed me off for the last decade and I hadn’t eviscerated every trace of Microsoft from my existence already. Thus I shall merely respond with ”meh” and ”I thought edge was only used to dow
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by hvgk 5y ago
They’d probably be more interesting to eat.
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by hvgk 5y ago
I’m using a Linode $5 running nginx for static here.
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by hvgk 5y ago
Conversely I feel I wasted my time learning emacs and moved to vim eventually. I also only religiously use a subset of vim functionality which is fulfilled by most of the vi equivalent editors. This turned into a massive advantage for me as
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by hvgk 5y ago
I don’t think so. This is the failure of having a choke point in semiconductor manufacturing and centralisation of all manufacturing infrastructure. No business is going to turn down the largest pile of cash being thrown at them. AMD and Qu
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by hvgk 5y ago
Good times. Sort of. I had one of these boards and I couldn’t get it stable. After about two months of being annoyed by it I replaced it with an Intel board and single slot Pentium III and sold the rest to a friend who was convinced they co

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