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by jdblair 2y ago
I'm having memories of being asked to remove "the curse words" from the cracker startup screens on AppleII 80s games and stuff. These were almost always graphics buffer files (memory dumps) and the fix was hardly hacking (fi
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by jdblair 2y ago
the new rick rolling is wordpress installer?
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You Blamed DEI for Hurting Your Career. Now What?(wsj.com)
3 points by jdblair 2y ago|1 comments
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by jdblair 2y ago
I thought this would be about ditching the vestigial pedals on electric bikes, especially "fat bikes."
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by jdblair 2y ago
UPDATE: I updated my DNS server config (I run my own already) to use root DNS rather than forward to my ISP, problem solved.
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by jdblair 2y ago
And I was so close! I just disabled forwarding to my ISP DNS on my home DNS, now there is no block.
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by jdblair 2y ago
It appears that the IP of the server is blocked in the EU. I get this from my ISP (Ziggo, in the Netherlands): Deze website is geblokkeerd Europese sancties De Raad van Europa heeft besloten dat de websites van RT (voorheen Russia Today) en
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by jdblair 2y ago
To answer your question, there is no "embrace of opensource tools" and I'm not aware of any in existence. They could exist, I haven't looked for them. Here's a quick writeup of my experience: I'm a very happy G
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by jdblair 2y ago
Lua fits the same niche as Tcl, but the runtime is smaller and way better. Tcl started as a simple, embeddable scripting language (and low performance, it was just string substitutions!) and evolved into Tcl8, a mostly backward compatible o
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by jdblair 2y ago
I've done something similar, but unlike the author, I always reserved one extra byte and I always null terminated the string. This was so I could use existing string output functions.
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by jdblair 2y ago
The first time entrance security put a sticker over my smartphone camera? That would be entering Samsung Digital City in Suwon, Korea. The second time was going to a club in Amsterdam (Shelter) in 2019.
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by jdblair 2y ago
Indeed, many people prefer living in the suburbs, but a big reason for this is the hidden subsidies the US provides for suburban development. When housing units are close together (town-homes, multi-unit buildings) the cost of infrastructur
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by jdblair 2y ago
The design of the DX7 ASIC is really quite astonishing. They used every trick they could think of to make it work given the technology limitations, like a 96-step shift register and using a lookup table to produce the sine wave. The lookup
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by jdblair 2y ago
also know as "malicious compliance"
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by jdblair 2y ago
The Framework has a physical microphone switch next to the camera switch.
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by jdblair 2y ago
or, you can have a physical switch, like the Framework. that also hits your BOM but its not complex!
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by jdblair 2y ago
Mother Earth Mother Board, from 1996, is a better article, but behind a paywall. https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
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by jdblair 2y ago
I read Chaos while I was in high school in 1987. I promptly fell into a rabbit hole, coding the Lorenz attractor on an Apple IIe at my school. I was blown away that no matter where I zoomed in, there was more detail. Did humans create those
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by jdblair 2y ago
Here in Amsterdam, this view is constantly bicycles approaching from the sides, flickering and disappearing, but most of the time the bicycles are parked, completely stationary, without riders.
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by jdblair 2y ago
The term "octet" is used in IETF documentation (for IP addresses, for example) to be specific that the byte is 8 bits in length. Historically the size of a "byte" on a system was machine-dependent. The industry coalesced
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by jdblair 2y ago
> you would see it having a position and velocity but not at the same time!
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by jdblair 2y ago
same here!
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by jdblair 2y ago
expect predates Linux!
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by jdblair 2y ago
hugged to death, its also here: https://github.com/nyxgeek/nyxgeek-readinglist/blob/master/h...
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by jdblair 2y ago
thrusters are also likely not a "field replaceable unit" in current designs
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"They Went to Sea in a Sieve, They Did"(sportsnet.ca)
7 points by jdblair 2y ago|1 comments
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by jdblair 2y ago
I'm really surprised this can work at all in any automated way. You can't just make a line-by-line transcription of a typical c program into rust. Pointers and aliasing are ubiquitous in c programs, concepts that rust explicitly p
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DARPA suggests turning old C code automatically into Rust – using AI, of course(theregister.com)
39 points by jdblair 2y ago|3 comments
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by jdblair 2y ago
Two years ago on our summer holiday we were driving in our camper van from northern Italy to Chamonix through the Mont Blanc tunnel. We were surprised to encounter a similar passport check, before entering the queue to pass through the tunn
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by jdblair 2y ago
CUPS uses it when the print target doesn't support Postscript natively. Many of us still print things, even though it is 2024!

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