jcynix

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I mostly agree. But the article isn't the main problem, the sloppy script is. When I install such hot fixes, I have them check if the cause still exists (e.g. still running under Monterey?) and, additionally, add a timeout based on a d
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No alt.binaries.* there. The (large) list of the groups they carry is available at ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/doc/news/fu-berlin/active
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Usenet still exists and the store and forward transport mechanism (nntp) and its flooding concept would be fine to transport todays "tweets" or "toots" … I managed one of the top 100 nodes in the nineties. Two reasons m
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ImageMagick is my favorite "go to" for image manipulation and I would start with this example script, if I wanted to add grain: http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/filmgrain/index.php And yes, ImageM
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Eneloops don't leak and are my choice, even for clocks or remote controls. Using them for many years now, without leakage.
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I use "402 Payment Required“ right now, which is sent to the client. Didn't know about 444, which isn't listed on the Wikipedia page about HTTP return codes ...
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Nice animation. Diff is a very helpful tool, as is the patch command working on diff's output. It took me some time as a student (a long time ago) to really comprehend what they where doing, as it looked like magic when I first encount
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On Macs I use Aquamacs ( http://aquamacs.org/ ), which seems quite nicely adapted to the macOS environment and I'm comfortable with it. Switching between macOS and Linux is easy for me, but if I have to use a Windows mac
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France and Germany recently agreed to help each other over the winter. While France will provide gas to Germany, Germany will provide electricity to France (the country with all these nuclear reactors ;-0) https://www.business-st
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> Can also do `oflag=direct` and it'll just skip as much of the caching as it can. Correct, and that's one more point for dd compared to head/tail (which are fine commands by themselves). But wouldn't help much in my
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> commits every block individually It uses a syscall per block write (which would slow it down if you use 512 byte blocks instead of 8M for example), but the OS does the file buffering and final writing to the device, unless you pass the
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Hmm, dd is some kind of the shell user's swiss army knife and sometimes even the swiss army chainsaw ;-) and such tools need a bit of learning to use them properly. actually, this "swiss" metapher is not fair, dd is more simi
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> Why do you put that in quotes? Because the "energy crisis" is actually a political crisis, i.e. the failure of governments to build enough alternate generators, like solar and wind power during the last decade or two. > Yo
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> You still get carbon emissions however. Yes and no. If the energy is recycled (for heating buildings and/or water) you'll reduce carbon emissions from coal/gas/oil. Waste incineration (instead of landfills) is a thi
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If you have a server with a public address, a machine with a private address can simply use e.g. curl to access some (even non-existant) url on the server periodically which can then be extracted from the logs by a script on the server. I a
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Burying plastic in landfills? That would be a waste of resources, as it could at least be burned in power plants as a second use, if it cannot be recycled.
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> If the book attributes its content to Wikipedia, it’s perfectly legal. Sure, but I remember seeing books which didn't attribute their source. I only noted the "similarity" while searching for info on certain topics. Sorr
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It's virtual evolution at work, i.e. spam evolution. It's the Internet Gold Rush (i.e. "make money fast" at work), which we have watched getting "more professional" in the last ten to twenty years. And becaus
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That would mean that the reviewer understood the topic and was capable of writing a proper critique? I'm a book lover who reads a lot of fiction and non-fiction and more often than not in the last few years I have the feeling that many
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> as far as I know the book is still on Amazon I would have expected that. Amazon neither has the staff with expertise to investigate claims nor much interest in removing products that earn them a nice share. Knowledge is fungible nowada
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Every so often in the last n years I stumbled over "books" which simply contain regurgitated wikipedia content. And, of course, all those web pages collecting amazon reviews which simulate product review pages. Or, before that, j
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Not having encrypted drives is some kind of misfeature nowadays, especially for mobile devices. Fallbacks can be key escrow (i.e. put a printout or a physical key into a sealed envelope and deposit it at a family member, friend, or notary),
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> if I lost those keys I'd lose all my messages? Not neccessarily, that just happens with bad implementations (i.e. most of them, sigh). If you get a confidential letter in the physicsl world, you open it, read it, and then store it
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IMHO, for most people the best interface would be a physical key (with software keys on it). That is something like a smartcard or ubikey, and even a way of obtaining multiple copies, like with physical keys. My employer rolled out a smartc
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I use Marcel Bokhorst's excellent Netguard app ( https://www.netguard.me/ ) on unrooted Android devices as a firewall and have it set to "deny" as a default, so no newly installed app gets network access. If an
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Knowledge of plain old CGI on a web server seems lost due to fancy frameworks? And even without the CGI-Interface, you can make it work if you have a script monitoring your web server's logs: I sometimes transfer data with curl via a u
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https://interestingliterature.com/2021/05/orwell-all-animals...
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It's not an "anti-everything" sentiment, it's based on the idea that drivers should concentrate primarily on driving and watching other traffic. Especially in cities. And road noise isn't the best "add-on"
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Among the most important books for me was Summa technologiae by Stanislaw Lem, oldie but (still) a goldie: Despite its age and a number of inaccuracies in specific domains (e.g., mathematics, biology, sociology), the book has lost no mom
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As for the BIOS settings (Asus motherboards for AMD) look under: AMD CBS -> DDR4 Common Options -> Common RAS -> ECC Configuration

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