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by khobragade 3y ago
Here's how... 1. Find out where the Edge executable is; copy its path. 2. Open 'Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security' 3. Select Inbound Rules (Left pane). 3.1 Click on 'New Rule' (Right pane) 3.2 Set the
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by khobragade 3y ago
I ended up blocking Edge in the firewall so it would at least close quickly without loading any useless stuff. Even then the firewall rule would reset periodically so I made a new one that points to the Edge binary.
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by khobragade 3y ago
The reason I'm sharing this episode is the format (also that this is Douglas Adams :D). I've never seen quite anything like this. They have Arthur, Ford and Marvin! form the Hitchhiker's Guide TV Series and the Electric Monk
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The South Bank Show – Douglas Adams (1992) [video](youtube.com)
4 points by khobragade 3y ago|1 comments
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by khobragade 3y ago
The South Bank Show had a delightful episode with him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMn_1vN7pi0 (p.s.: The video only has the right audio channel; switch to mono!)
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by khobragade 3y ago
When you embed Google Fonts on your website, the IPs of your visitors, the URLs of the pages they visited, and the User-Agent of their browser is sent to Google. Now they say[1] they don't use this information for profiling and target
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by khobragade 3y ago
There's this phenomenal app for font conversion called Webfont Kit Generator. The feature I like the most is Subsetting, it greatly reduces the file size. You might find it useful. https://github.com/rafaelmardojai&#x2F
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The World’s First U2 Spy Plane Photo Shoot at the Edge of Space(petapixel.com)
89 points by khobragade 3y ago|73 comments
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by khobragade 3y ago
Exactly as Gavin from The Slow Mo Guys describes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO-SAzFaN18
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by khobragade 3y ago
Oh don't make me tear up, I already cried at Cassini's grand finale
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by khobragade 3y ago
> although I cannot find any link to the code nor license It's here: https://github.com/Daniele-rolli/Beaver-Notes linked via 'Resources' at the top.
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A New Spin on String Art Machines [video](youtube.com)
2 points by khobragade 3y ago|0 comments
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by khobragade 3y ago
I tried this briefly about a year ago but didn't see myself using it. They had an hour long induction session over zoom to teach how to use the tool before they sent the download link iirc. It was too complicated. Moved on to Zotero an
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by khobragade 3y ago
Oh cool! When I tried, I didn't detect any network activity; figured the setup isn't even downloading the files.
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by khobragade 3y ago
It didn't work the last time I tried it.
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by khobragade 3y ago
I use a non-synced Zotero instance. It saves everything about the pages, has snapshots for offline access and I reflect on the content in the notes. It's nice.
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by khobragade 3y ago
Thorium is cool! It's open source (BSD 3) and has support for LCP to read borrowed books without the Adobe Digital Editions app (The archive is currently still working to make it available as an option though. See https://he
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by khobragade 3y ago
I chose electromechanical prototyping and product design when I had the chance precisely because I'd rather use computers as tools without having to basically live inside of them :P
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by khobragade 3y ago
Looks nice! Edit: hey vermilingua! I wish I could configure the width in ch and have the submission title left-aligned. Is this open sourced?
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by khobragade 3y ago
It is a fun story! Guy Raz interviewed him for How I Built This ages ago https://one.npr.org/?sharedMediaId=497820565:497945288
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by khobragade 3y ago
I really like kagi.com
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by khobragade 3y ago
Oh yeah, they're way behind on that! It took them this long just to acknowledge the new email plans on the website I don't even care any more.
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by khobragade 3y ago
I'll be moving my domain to Porkbun and my emails to zoho to start with, then decide what to do later on. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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by khobragade 3y ago
> you get ransaked by all the emails reminding you to renew a domain Just saw the 'Let a domain lapse' section in the domain overview. It'll stop all non-mandatory reminders of the domain's end-of-life cycle, as they
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International Orange(en.wikipedia.org)
136 points by khobragade 4y ago|55 comments
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by khobragade 4y ago
True! Even my diploma in ME course has a subset of MatSci in it. Fascinating stuff.
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by khobragade 4y ago
Looks wonderful https://www.albawildlife.com/
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by khobragade 4y ago
Love these! Also check out Didder https://github.com/makeworld-the-better-one/didder https://vladh.net/dithering
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by khobragade 4y ago
Yeah me too! Sadly unmet dependencies in Debian Sid; it doesn't work anymore :/
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Video series by engineerguy on Faraday's The Chemical History of a Candle(youtube.com)
2 points by khobragade 4y ago|0 comments

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