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by ksangeelee 7y ago
It also brings to mind the section of The Castle where the chairman is explaining to K. how it came to be that a surveyor had been summoned. A miscommunication had led to a string of events that were never questioned due to the unwillingnes
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
I don't see this as idealism vs a selfish human nature, not directly at least. The maintainer has been delivering a low level open-source product within a proprietary operating system. That's got to be tough, and as the article st
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
The words 'mass surveillance' in the project title seem to me sensationalist. From his repository list, I suppose the author is involved in ads and marketing, which would figure. Had I parsed Usenet feeds into a relational databas
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
The web has, since the very beginning I think, had the notion of public and private resources, where access to private resources requires authentication. I view facebook as an almost entirely private resource, protected by a user name, pass
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
I don't see why working for Google would make someone irrelevant. There's every reason to think that his choice was a reasoned one. He gave a talk recently, broadcast by the BBC, which he used to raise the issues we have with trac
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
While I'm glad these efforts exist, it's wrong to have to fight my operating system in this way. In my experience, it's a losing battle. Microsoft seem intent on having full control of your system, and they are in a position
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
Roland perhaps deserve some credit for the JP-8000 which, while sporting a two line display, was also accompanies by knobs, buttons, and sliders to control pretty much everything. To my ear, it never quite had the smooth richness of sound t
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
Having the PRUs as supporting microcontrollers can be great where timing is critical. For example, it's possible to decode signals from an AM receiver and pass them to the host, or monitor sensors and have immediate responses (such as
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
I think so, yes, though I do think it's nicely drawn and not unartistic (e.g. the kiss being implied). In my opinion it's offensive, for a few reasons. First is that the woman's pose derives from images of 'feeble'
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
There's a lovely Sean Carrol podcast interview with Kip Thorne where he discusses the people and the work that led to the discovery. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2018/11/26/epis...
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
Warning: that site is definitely NSFW. Please remember to mark as such. It's also not what I am aiming for.
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
It's hard to say, since this is really just scratching an itch. It'll be on GitHub as soon as the first meaningful version is available, contributions will be welcome.
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
I recently registered 'twitbook.uk' when the .uk TLD opened for general registrations, with the intention of running a satirical social network that would blatantly ask for personal information, allow open bidding to access the da
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
In a way, you are buying commercial. The Ardour people are selling downloads of their binary builds for $1 per download (or more, if you choose), along with some access to support I think. It's also possible to, for example, 'apt-
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
This what I did to replace my iRiver running Rockbox. One problem to watch out for with cheap phones is that the audio can be noisy, even if only when charging, which will be particularly annoying when listening to audio books or talks. I f
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
Thanks, that was interesting. If anyone is excited enough to try driving peripherals in userspace via hardware registers, I can recommend starting with a Raspberry Pi, since it has several well documented peripherals (UART, SPI, I2C, DMA, a
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
That is good fun. What's interesting is the amount of thought I'm willing to give something that's virtually hanging on a wall over an onscreen sentence in a list. On a different note, one of the images from a Bloomberg post
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
The first Linux distribution I remember using was Slackware on floppy disks, at a time when building a kernel was pretty much necessary to get a working system. A great learning experience, all in all. However, the point I'd like to ma
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
Whether or not Microsoft has changed, I don't think this talk is has much bearing on that question. I believe that Microsoft's foray into free and open-source software is simply a response to the increasing irrelevance of their op
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
The Dead Malls site links to another treasure trove of retail history - http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com/ For example, the clip in this post is a fascinating glimpse of Los Angeles in 1954. http://pleas
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
To be fair, it's Gvim that's listed, which presumably is bundled with the main vim package. I had some vague awareness there was a GUI version of Vim, but only just checked it out after spotting it in the list. The menus serve as
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
I use Gandi - yes they offer auto-renewal of domains, configurable on a per-domain basis.
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
If the purpose of the project is learning and experimentation, then there's not much to recommend veroboard. I have to think so carefully about how to place components, where to cut tracks to make connections, how best to route jumpers
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
From experience, Akismet works well, so reCaptcha is not the only anti-spam measure that works for WordPress.
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
On a purely technical note, it's factual to say a group is over-represented in prison, because there are records to back this up. However unless you know the entirety of crimes committed, you can't say that a group is over-represe
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
I struggle to see how the past five or ten years could ever be seen as a "golden age", if so then the future must be bleak. I would argue that too much of the content that is paid for is created purely to generate page-views to ca
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
In that light, I agree with your original comment, though it's amusingly ironic that their portal site was negatively impacted by mitigation measures against the kind of things their public site engages in.
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
I just visited the AutoTrader site (from the UK), and uBlock Origin blocked 34 requests related to ads and tracking. I recall in the past having been surprised at the number of extra requests being made via their site. They don't serve
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
I think there's more involved than simply undoing a change. Apart from the obvious tedium of chasing upstream code changes, the extensions themselves have to be installed from a willing (and trusted) repository. The chrome web store
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by ksangeelee 7y ago
The very existence of 'things of value' is what motivated people to build crawlers and search engines in the first place. There are many reasons to create 'a great piece of content', even if nobody else is likely to see

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