joey_spaztard

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by joey_spaztard 23d ago
The content of the file remains accessible to the process that has it open and continues to take up disk space. ... and a new file with the same name (and path) and different content can be created that exists at the same time. This can be
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by joey_spaztard 2mo ago
Amusing. So, in the year 2001, NZ telecom provided most of the telephone lines and a much smaller company called Clear sold phone service in some areas. When a customer of one phone company called a line provided by the other they had to pa
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by joey_spaztard 2mo ago
The "internet explorer" browser-in-browser on the website somewhat works, but it is connecting to websites from an Alibaba cloud datacenter in China, user-agent claims to be an Apple computer and it is using many different exit ip
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by joey_spaztard 3mo ago
From casual observation of people, I feel that alcohol consumption has a large effect on ability to learn.
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by joey_spaztard 3mo ago
Tim Hunkin's The Secret life of Machines. It is on youtube. I see a couple of dozen hours of TV a year because the nearest pub has often has a TV turned on with subtitles, sound off, I would like to watch less.
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by joey_spaztard 4mo ago
It was posted to hnn as a 'public beta' in January 2024, so about 2 and half years.
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by joey_spaztard 4mo ago
Nice idea, this reminds of of the few models of USB stick drive with a physical keypad for entering a PIN.
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by joey_spaztard 4mo ago
"Remember to set the BIOS to not try to boot from floppy, to avoid people leaving a disk in the drive then complaining that the computer does not start up, and boot sector viruses."
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by joey_spaztard 4mo ago
I presume OP is referring to Microsoft Windows Vista, released at the end of the year 2006. It had a poor reputation. My vague recollection is that I experienced an irritating number of driver-related BSODs. To me, it now feels like a stand
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by joey_spaztard 7mo ago
see also "Douglas Adams biscuit story"
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by joey_spaztard 1y ago
I did read what you wrote above and I'm confident that it is entirely incorrect for reasons that have been explained.
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by joey_spaztard 1y ago
Current quantum computers are toys for physicists that are of zero practical use. See the recent research paper about recreating quantum factoring records using a dog, an abacus, and a vintage computer
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by joey_spaztard 1y ago
Tell them a UDP joke and don't care if everyone gets it.
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by joey_spaztard 1y ago
Matthew Prince the cloudflare CEO has, in 2023, denied that Cloudflare is extensively participating in mass surveillance of USA people. His hnn account is Eastdakota. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36937413 I'v a
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by joey_spaztard 1y ago
Five months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42915664
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by joey_spaztard 1y ago
For clarity: Do you mean "I want to block incoming spam email to my email addresses" or "I operate an email mailing list and I want to block bots from joining the list" ?
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by joey_spaztard 1y ago
I typed my intrusive thoughts in to a document and analysed them. It turns out I had a hundred of them. It really helped to write up why they don't matter now, such as "I was a child when that happened, I'm now an adult who k
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by joey_spaztard 1y ago
There is also Hack::Soho
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by joey_spaztard 1y ago
There is dc4420 which is this evening near Euston and the last Tuesday of the month. They have talks and the people who attend are mostly corporate IT and infosec company people. First friday of the month is London 2600, which is a bunch of
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by joey_spaztard 1y ago
CB radio Specifically 27MHz CB radio. People miles away can hear your conversations with your friends. Sometimes in the daytime the radio signals bounce off the ionosphere, the noise level goes way up and local chatting range is reduced bec
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by joey_spaztard 1y ago
Somewhat facetious technological solution suggestions: 1) Old laptop (because it has separate volume control and loudspeakers) that once an hour plays an audio file of a voice saying "are you wearing your glasses?". Perhaps even
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by joey_spaztard 1y ago
Also, Facebook/Meta said they would not be able to link WhatsApp accounts to facebook accounts. After they were allowed to buy WhatsApp they unsurprisingly began using metadata for things like knowing who Facebook users are talking to.
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by joey_spaztard 1y ago
This is an ok way of doing things but you don't need Caddy server (or similar), you can put all the http servers on different localhost ip addresses eg 127.0.0.1, 127.0.0.2, etc. They can all use port 80 but on different ip addresses.
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
https://torrentfreak.com/laliga-blocks-cloudflare-again-new-...
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
My response would be along the lines of: "The USA fought a war in part because they did not like the use of general writs of assistance to allow agents of the British King to search peoples houses and papers where their suspicion chanc
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
There is a piece of software called CloneSpy that is a utility for finding duplicate files. I like the user interface. https://clonespy.com/features/ I find it useful for finding that I have four copies of a 50MB pdf i
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
This brings back memories of being a clueless script kid in the 1990s. I knew those tones as CCITT5 tones. In the days of blueboxing I had a 486 laptop that I acquired because the harddrive died and booted from floppys, a DOS program called
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
I am not a lawyer. I would be a little worried about the possibility that the SEC would consider this to be an investment contract, thus making it a security, thus requiring it to be registered with the SEC, which will be a huge hassle invo
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
I reckon that 'gnutella reborn' would look like Retroshare in the year 2019. (and probably today, I haven't tried it recently) Same as all p2p systems, Retroshare has the problem of NATs and firewalls preventing two thirds of
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
There were a few aspects of early p2p filesharing that I thought were technically interesting. Original Napster was completely centralized. All searches went to central servers. Notification that metallica_enter_sandman.mp3 could be downlo

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