joey_spaztard

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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
I see that you operate a movie recommendation website. Do you want a VPS provider that ignores copyright complaints? Do you care if the VPS is on the other side of the planet so web browsing through it will add a noticeable amount of lag? Y
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
https://archive.ph/9eT7u
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
Various similar services have existed then stopped working after a single-digit number of years when the owner of the domain stopped paying or maintaining. Currently working equivalents lvh.me anything.lvh.me fbi.com anything.fbi.com anythi
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
An acquaintance of mine has a fairly expensive Sage brand toaster that has an LED bar graph showing remaining time and an 'a bit more' button. Overall it is a nice toaster, but the linear variable resistor for the slide control th
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
One aspect of the google plus thing was that google liked to link it to peoples other google services. Some people had their google+ accounts suspended for reasons such as "google is not sure that you are using your real name" or
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
The maximum power of license-exempt transmitters is set by the government of the country. In the USA, there is FCC part 15 which covers license-exempt communications and part 18 which covers 'Industrial, Scientific and Medical'. I
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
For anyone wondering what GMP is: "GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic" https://gmplib.org/
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
The confirm-email and login links sent by email seem to redirect to http://localhost:5173 which might work on your machine but won't work for anyone else.
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
ClamAV is not a good example. Being an open-source volunteer-maintained thing that started as being specifically for scanning email it has a terrible detection rate at finding general windows malware compared to commercial products. Anecdot
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
I think that part of it is central management, specifically Microsoft Active Directory. The whole thing of pushing out software, software updates, central control of user accounts and password resets, logging and more. "Joe Bloggs is f
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
A mouse with a scroll wheel and all the comments fully expanded on one page and a high-resolution monitor showing lots of lines of text at once. The page-down button is a distant second. I find using a laptop without a scroll-wheel mouse mi
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
High street shops in the UK have been struggling for over a decade, this isn't new. In the year 2011 sales tax, called VAT, went up to 20%. Shops that sell food for people to eat at home have the advantage that there is no VAT on most
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
I listened to this forty minute podcast with five minutes of adverts to get the reasons. Games Journalist Ash Parrish has opinions including: The layoffs are because people at home during covid spent more money on video games, which resulte
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
So ... you can run an x86_64 cpu emulator on a smartphone. That's wonderful, and a hundredth of native speed if you are lucky. The example boot log says 2000 BogoMips, so about a fiftieth of the cpu speed of a contemporary entry level
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
Duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40500425
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
Before the single currency, the Euro, the southern countries, aka the PIGS, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Span and somewhat Ireland went through cycles of politicians overspending, running up huge debt then printing enormous amounts of local cu
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
It depends on details that you have not told us. Are you trying to download files from websites over http or https or are you doing something different? Are you trying to spider a million different websites or one source? I'm guessing
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
Tom Scott: The city of golf carts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcVGqtmd2wM
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
I recently saw some photos of an array of solar panels floating in the ocean. Sea birds had pooped all over it. I think that your main problems will be 1 )fouling and 2) getting enough energy from solar panels to overcome wind and ocean cur
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
PKM == "Personal Knowledge Management"
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
discussion on a related article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40238219
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by joey_spaztard 2y ago
I presume that this is a smartphone app. There is nothing on the website that I can read without signing up that tells me if this if for Android, Apple iOS or both. I would like the privacy to say what jurisdiction the to-do lists are being