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by j-james 6y ago
Do correct me if I'm wrong, but Google's Widevine and similar DRM technologies seem to be. I have to manually install a blob in order to stream video from sites like Netflix. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US&#x2
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InMoov: The Open-Source Life-Size Humanoid Robot You Can Print at Home (2015)(makezine.com)
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by j-james 6y ago
Similarly, a Hacker News post from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3742902
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by j-james 6y ago
Have you given the official online editor a whirl? The last time I used it, I recall it being relatively feature-complete, although there's definitely a tradeoff compared to writing HTML. https://slides.com/
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by j-james 6y ago
The Pi can be powered from the same data port so that it only needs one cable. If you're comparing this project to an off-the-shelf USB webcam, also consider that a Raspberry Pi makes for a very hackable base (for example, I'm pla
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by j-james 6y ago
It's just about the same. The real advantage of making a standalone webcam for me was because my laptop's camera is just above the keyboard and unusable in most scenarios.
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Pretty cool. Recently, I made a Raspberry Pi webcam myself as a replacement to my laptop camera, following Max Braun's tutorial and using the (considerably cheaper) Camera Board v2. Although it takes about thirty seconds to boot up, an
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by j-james 6y ago
Indeed. Its command-line program (libqalculate, as qalc) also stands on its own, with comprehensive unit support and clear output.
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by j-james 6y ago
You could do something like what N-O-D-E.net does. Although I couldn't find a video on their setup, I've heard the administrator is active on their IRC channel, or you could email them at mail at n-o-d-e.net if you wanted to ask.
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by j-james 6y ago
Chromium implements this as a feature by default. Visiting a website with an OpenSearch tag in its `head` or searching on a website without one lets you later search the website itself from the urlbar by pressing "tab". It's
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by j-james 6y ago
Linux screen lockers are somewhat notorious for security-ish bugs like that. There's a project called XSecureLock that aims to address some of those, although I'm not sure if it fixes (or can fix) the restore-ram type bug you deta
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by j-james 6y ago
Termux has recently run into issues with Android 10 and the more recent APIs, which break its form of package management. Their workaround is fairly clever (although not yet implemented) but means that updates to the Play Store version have
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by j-james 6y ago
Perhaps an even better example is Wikipedia's article previews - enormously helpful when reading through a long or technical section.
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There's a tracking issue for this: https://github.com/nim-lang/needed-libraries/issues/77
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Twitter Announces Changes to Image Cropping Amid Bias Concern(npr.org)
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Nope, unless you're thinking of something like `catimg`, which wouldn't really work well for the linked gplot example. `xfce4-terminal` off the top of my head is an example of a terminal emulator that supports neither sixels nor k
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by j-james 6y ago
One of my favorite features of Kitty is its support for printing images in the terminal through its graphics protocol, meant to be a replacement for libsixel. The spec's worth a read - there's few projects linked there that implem
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Lizardman's Constant is 4% – Estimating the Troll Contingent on Surveys(slatestarcodex.com)
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by j-james 6y ago
In my opinion, Signal's UX is better than Element. Element's distinction of rooms / communities is not great, and hindered by the user interface. Although, after checking out Element again, all the other parts of the UI that
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The meeting room hardware virus(rachelbythebay.com)
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by j-james 6y ago
Certainly, but that's where the not-so-steep learning curve helps.
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This project is based off of Jorge Luis Borges' short story, The Library of Babel , about a library filled with books that contain every possible permutation of the 23 basic letters. This sea of information, containing within it all h
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The Library of Babel – Explore every book that has been, or will be, written(libraryofbabel.info)
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by j-james 6y ago
> as deleting repo will delete also its forks I haven't observed this to happen - in my experience, the first fork becomes the new "upstream" for all the rest.
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Particularly relevant: https://arewegameyet.rs/
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by j-james 6y ago
DuckDuckGo "instant answer" infrastructure used to be open-source and community-contributed until a few years back. (But to be fair, searching for GOOG on DDG still gives you a little blurb about stock prices) https://g
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by j-james 6y ago
The Switch hacking scene is also a good example just because of the sheer amount of effort poured into it - Atmosphere, the primary custom-firmware solution, is aiming to be a _full reimplementation_ of the Switch's firmware, kernel an
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by j-james 6y ago
The full book is worth your while. It's admittedly a long read, but one of the funniest books I've ever read, chock-full of absurd conversations and timeless satire. https://bookshop.org/books/catch-22-9781451
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by j-james 6y ago
ripgrep (the binary name is rg) is a faster grep written in Rust.
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by j-james 6y ago
> Not even Epic Games gives away its products for free... Do... do they not? The point being made in that paragraph seems valid regardless, but that's a strange comparison to end with - is Fortnite not free-to-play on Apple devices?

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