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by iotku 7y ago
Music support exists but needs a lot of love. Currently for my usecase (streaming my music to my Android phone) transcoding doesn't currently work (streaming flac over a mobile data connection is bad news) so I've fallen back to u
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by iotku 7y ago
Grabs metadata for shows and movies (episode titles, actors, summaries, thumbnails, etc) Handles organization and searching for various media Additionally, clients available for smartphones and Android TV devices. And most importantly for s
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by iotku 7y ago
>How do I know that the Samsung DNS servers are being blocked? Would have to know all of the domains that the TV connects through, that they're in one of pihole's blocklists, and the TV actually respects the DNS setting entirel
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by iotku 7y ago
If you install an X server for Windows, yes.
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by iotku 7y ago
Notable reason (for those unfamiliar) is that tee will overwrite the file unless given the -a argument which will append the input to the end of the file.
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by iotku 7y ago
I think there's some selection bias as Seagate drives are fairly abundant in oem systems where the oems included the lowest tier drive possible to shave some cost off which may be less well built and more susceptible to damage over tim
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by iotku 7y ago
Android auto in a rental car got me through quite a bit with Google maps without needing a car mount for my phone, but again I still never really touched the screen much outside of initial setup while parked (getting location punched into t
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by iotku 7y ago
There's something to say about how statistics can be interpreted. Using their their own data on Houston [1] when the cameras were in operation there were 10 fatal accidents, and with them banned there were 13 fatal accidents despite th
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by iotku 7y ago
>The number of IRC users is probably higher than it was in the late 1990s/early 2000s. But back then only geeks used internet, and only they were on irc.. Rumors of IRC's death have been disproven fairly frequently, but at leas
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by iotku 8y ago
I'm not saying it is or isn't, but... >However, it was too fast to be part of a coordinated campaign Being able to act fast doesn't mean something isn't coordinated does it? If I had an army of bots designed to reduce
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by iotku 8y ago
>1Password, for example, extensively details their client-side encryption protocol. Unless they were forced to distribute a compromised client Not particularly familiar with the methods 1Password uses, but that is the general theory. It&
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by iotku 8y ago
>Are those password managers listed really "better" than onepass or lastpass? If so, why? The main point seems to be that they're either local or able to be self hosted. In theory online password manager service providers
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by iotku 8y ago
NVMe specifically, as M.2 is just the connector (which can also use the slower SATA interface) rather than the interface.
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by iotku 8y ago
>Companies have no obligation to allow speech on their platform. Full stop. Despite my whole belief in freedom of speech being an extremely important value I'm going to play half devil's advocate here. I agree that no site owne
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by iotku 8y ago
To expand on this, Gitlab is currently hosted on Azure (Hello Microsoft) with current (now expedited) plans on shifting over to the Google Cloud Platform. https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/06/why-and-how-gitlab-
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by iotku 8y ago
Torrents are very inconvenient compared to many streaming services. Therefore, you would expect most people to opt for Netflix. (And by and large I'd expect Netflix to be more popular in mass than tormenting at this point for places wh
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by iotku 8y ago
It's a reasonably sleek Wordpress theme [1], but pretty far off from Material Design proper [2]. The animation while clicking links/buttons typically gives away if something was designed to implement Material Design or not. https
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by iotku 9y ago
>you have no reason to trust your VPN provider more than your ISP. A lot of people really do distrust their ISP enough that even with knowledge that you're shifting the responsibility to the VPN provider they still trust a random VP
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by iotku 9y ago
Videos might have more weight for the suggestion algorithms or other timeline filtering probably. (or at least they think it's otherwise effective)
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by iotku 9y ago
There's a lot of arguments under the claim that because you are being censored my a private company rather than the government that you don't have the right to complain about it. After all, they're private businesses they can
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by iotku 9y ago
Considering that if you really dislike it you can apply a different theme in about 10 seconds, probably. Personally I'm not too big of a fan of the styling there, but it's far from a critical issue.
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by iotku 9y ago
Not to say that Paypal's security is flawless, but it also depends on your wife's behaviors as well. Not having it attached to her PayPal reduces the attack surface a bit which isn't a bad thing. It's also completely pos
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by iotku 10y ago
>You just "simple" don't trust Microsoft. It's either a mistake/or English isn't their first language, regardless your wording and use of quotes makes this sound aggressive or insulting. (This sets the tone
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by iotku 10y ago
>Twitch has shied away from dark patterns that lock out adblocking users. I don't see any big modals or disabled video if I run an adblocker on Twitch. This is no doubt on purpose. I vividly remember this not being the case, whereas
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by iotku 10y ago
>If you marked your connection as metered, I believe it respected that and wouldn't download it. I don't recall windows 7 having any way to explicitly mark your connection as metered. As for Windows 8 (I believe it's the s
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by iotku 10y ago
>I once used a git animation tool (forget the name of it, sorry) Probably Gource I would imagine http://gource.io/
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by iotku 10y ago
Twitch has had a HTML5 player that doesn't require having turbo to use for a while. The issue is that the source is HLS which most desktop browsers (with the exception of Edge and Safari I believe) don't support. I've used t
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by iotku 11y ago
In a similar situation here, 4 adults in a household currently on DSL (Approx 10mbps down / 0.6mbps up, best available speeds on DSL here). Between two TVs using Netflix (usually no more than one at a time, but frequently) and me playi
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by iotku 11y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if how these "Hackers" were getting around the data limits was far from sophisticated. I've ended up getting around somewhat similar restrictions accidentally due to poor implementations.
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by iotku 11y ago
Well, this would probably thrash my 5GB/month satellite internet cap in a bit under an hour. Obviously I'm not going to try it, but it can serve as a good reminder about how much data you can go thru on a modern (or in my case sim

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