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by kevinbowman 6y ago
Worth mentioning as well that there's a good CLI for Arduino these days, at https://arduino.github.io/arduino-cli/latest/ . It's written in Go, and shares config etc with the traditional Arduino UI. I h
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by kevinbowman 6y ago
This is probably what was being referenced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25772462 "macOS Big Sur 11.2 beta 2 is out with full custom kernel support" ... "The OS now finally includes the firmware and b
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by kevinbowman 6y ago
They likely use off-the-shelf bluetooth modules which are already certified, and just talk some kind of higher-level protocol over it which sits above the SiG certification.
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by kevinbowman 7y ago
“We continually search the web for open proxy servers and save the working ones into our database.” They’re charging for access to other people’s open proxies, without the other people knowing. This seems... disingenuous?
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Tech execs: your presence on incident calls *absolutely* influences the response(twitter.com)
2 points by kevinbowman 7y ago|0 comments
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by kevinbowman 7y ago
Yep, 4 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20888817
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by kevinbowman 8y ago
So long, Stan, and thanks for all the stories. I always enjoy looking out for the cameo role in all of the Marvel films.
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Swann home security camera sends video to wrong user(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by kevinbowman 8y ago|0 comments
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by kevinbowman 9y ago
I love the irony of there being several ads on that page.
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by kevinbowman 9y ago
I often use: curl curlmyip.org
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by kevinbowman 9y ago
Amsterdam? It's got quite a tech culture, and is only 30-60 mins' flight from most of the UK. I don't know what the political stance is on tech-sensitive issues, though.
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OpenDropper – Frogger 8bit Game on Digital Microfluidics Device(youtube.com)
2 points by kevinbowman 9y ago|0 comments
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by kevinbowman 10y ago
Maybe it means at runtime, as opposed to at contribution-time?
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by kevinbowman 10y ago
Yep, there's still a common belief in the UK that eating carrots gives you good night-vision, entirely because of that cover story.
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by kevinbowman 10y ago
I'm interested in how this is being reported on in the USA - is there a discussion about the complete fabrication of this story, or is the story itself successfully doing the rounds? It seems amazing that manipulation of the public on
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by kevinbowman 10y ago
Note that this is the UK government
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by kevinbowman 10y ago
From StackOverflow [0]: "We can't implement "AES 512 key size" because AES is defined for key sizes k∈{128,192,256} bits only; much like we can't make a bicycle with 3 wheels." [0] http://crypto.stac
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by kevinbowman 10y ago
"As part of the ongoing consolidation of Cyanogen, all services and Cyanogen-supported nightly builds will be discontinued no later than 12/31/16. The open source project and source code will remain available for anyone who w
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by kevinbowman 10y ago
From his writing about this in Newsweek [0]: > I was carrying my iPad, looking at the still image on the video and, without thinking, touched the PLAY button. Sounds like autoplay was already turned off. [0] http://www.newswee
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by kevinbowman 10y ago
From the wikipedia article [0]: > In the United States, the Richter scale was succeeded in the 1970s by the moment magnitude scale. The moment magnitude scale is now the scale used by the United States Geological Survey to estimate magni
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by kevinbowman 10y ago
Note that the lander is Schiaparelli, TGO (Trace Gas Orbiter) is just the "mothership" which it uplinks to; TGO achieving orbit, though, is still a special achievement.
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by kevinbowman 10y ago
https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/788779693700968448 "#MarsExpress recording of @ESA_EDM descent is now processed and is being analysed by experts at #ESOC #ExoMars" ...then... https://
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by kevinbowman 10y ago
I can't help but feel that this is more for "column-inches" advertising than the direct "eyeballs-on-billboards" advertising. I've not played with drones for a year or two, but consider that drones have a fair
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Automatic Forwarding Re-Enabled in Yahoo Mail(yahoomail.tumblr.com)
1 points by kevinbowman 10y ago|0 comments
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by kevinbowman 10y ago
I'm sure I've seen browsers (maybe Opera?) which wouldn't let a website on a "routable" IP address make any requests at all to anything on a "non-routable" IP address; I assume that 127/8 is included
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Coinbase adds support for Ethereum(coinbase.com)
3 points by kevinbowman 10y ago|0 comments
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by kevinbowman 10y ago
Yes, please, either remove them or at replace them with something more meaningful. Every time I see one I have to hover over it to figure out whether something's actually wrong, and (confession time...) sometimes I even deliberately t
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by kevinbowman 11y ago
Erm, no, no it isn't... I can't find anything official saying that it isn't, but I can find lots of discussion forum posts of people saying that it isn't legal. The only references to it being at all permitted which I
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by kevinbowman 11y ago
Imagine the scenario: person A sends a malformed DNS request to a bunch of DNS resolvers, asking them to send the response to person B. Now imagine that person A is actually part of a large botnet, being controlled by person C, via some s
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by kevinbowman 11y ago
I still, deep inside, hold a dwindling hope that all humans can one day learn to treat humans as humans. Basically, literally, to treat others as they themselves would like to be treated. As humans. It saddens me to hear of times when tha

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