jimbobthrowawy

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by jimbobthrowawy 3mo ago
Aren't the vast majority of web pages nowadays signed? Almost nobody downloading and storing the content on websites will retain these signatures, but they exist and can be verified with enough information. IMO archive.org and archive.
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by jimbobthrowawy 3mo ago
mu.social is a "client". An "AppView" is the API server that most clients connect to that aggregates data from the network and serves it in a more useful way. mu.social still uses bluesky's AppView (api.bsky.app). T
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by jimbobthrowawy 9mo ago
I think there's a quote from Linus himself saying this.
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by jimbobthrowawy 9mo ago
Wine works on windows too. It's used by the shorthorn project to get software for newer versions of windows to run under XP.
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by jimbobthrowawy 9mo ago
Reminds me of a thing Steve Mould mentioned in a video about a claim in a book "The temperature outside an aeroplane is six times colder than the temperature inside a freezer." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C91gK
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by jimbobthrowawy 9mo ago
Multi talented. He also wrote the fastest standards compliant json library.
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by jimbobthrowawy 9mo ago
Crimmas!
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by jimbobthrowawy 9mo ago
Did you forget to double space between the lines, or put leading spaces? Also, I had to turn off firefox's enhanced tracking protection for the font to load. Before that it was unicode tofu.
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by jimbobthrowawy 1y ago
Can you still buy Olestra to use in your own cooking for that purpose? I have seen a video by Applied Science on youtube where he made some and fried chips in it.
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by jimbobthrowawy 1y ago
So, a "Grocery Positioning System"? I wonder how much better this does than CCC's attempts at indoor navigation for their conferences. Those are usually pretty fun to read about.
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by jimbobthrowawy 1y ago
I was going to shout out Tesco specifically, for a similar feature they have on their website/app in Ireland/UK. If you find a product's page, there's an "other items on this shelf" section which shows items th
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by jimbobthrowawy 1y ago
Glad to hear something's being done with the data from the weather radar most commercial jets have. The thought occurred to me about halfway through reading the blogpost. I hope that data's available publicly, though likely not as
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
ESA isn't part of the EU. The UK and Switzerland are members of it.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
I appreciate that the site tells you when you create something that's never been discovered before. Especially when it happens with what you thought were pretty common combinations.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Youtube has multi-stream capability and I've seen one streamer use it years ago to let you pick which multiplayer user to spectate. I assume they used separate streams inside in the .m3u8 file used for HLS, much like how you'd do
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Are you using something like an ESP32 to run the thing? I ask because a lot of them have a surprising amount of random sensors tacked on, like accelerometers. (capacitive, and hall-effect sensors too) Auto-orientation is probably a thing yo
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
If anyone is in the situation that they need to put an untrustworthy app on their android device, the "work profile" feature can segment it off further. Insular is an app that lets you create and manage one of these profiles on th
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
ICANN expressly forbid google, and other companies from operating these gTLDs as "dotless" domains back when they approved them. Annoyingly, URLs like "maps.google" aren't set up to go where you'd expect.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Is it really 3/4ths the language? (mostly culled libraries, or features?) I remember reading an old pdf published by the US air force about the subset of c++ features you're allowed to use for contracted software, and it's so
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
I think they had a similar system before to replace all the audio in your video with something from the youtube audio library. The first thing in the list was a song called "009 Sound System Dreamscape" which became notorious as t
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
I try to refer to local time in an area I'm not in as <location>-time rather than the timezone's canonical name to avoid this kind of confusion. Then use a world clock to tell when that is. e.g. "That livestream should
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
> Every system can handle a leap-hour, they happen twice a year in many countries, courtesy of DST. Any DST aware system I've checked handles this as a timezone change rather than changing the underlying time, expressed in UTC. Even
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
How many of these VPN services can be used without the app by configuring them in iOS settings? I know "private internet access" can be used that way.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
I didn't know the display on the inside was only 16K, that seems pretty low for the size of the thing. Seems like the author got the best non-VIP seat he could too. I wonder how the worst seat (or non-seat, like an isle) in there fares
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
I think all of the blogposts are just transcripts of videos from his youtube channel. You could use the feed from youtube to tell when there's a new release. Wait, I just checked the page source after writing the above to confirm and i
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Also: Yahoo Pipes End-Of-life Announcement - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9660682 - June 2015 (178 comments)
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
Is decimal really that important? Hitting ctrl+u <codepoint in hexadecimal> Enter has worked on every desktop linux machine I've tried it on. e.g. U+A0 instead of ALT+0160 for no-break space. U+fdfd is probably the character I us
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
It's an easy analogy to say in <10 seconds that non-technical people can understand. Had they not mentioned "bioelectricity" at all, it might have been harder to nitpick.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
The last video on the page gives me massive Universal Paperclips vibes.
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by jimbobthrowawy 2y ago
I think GNU Octave is the free software MATLAB alternative. Since it aims to be highly compatible and run the same code. Various python stacks do more things, and do them differently.

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