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721.
by liotier 8y ago
Nice - until you have kids and health problems... Then you appreciate how much Europe makes these a non-problem - at least financially.
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WhatsApp is getting set to be Africa’s biggest payments and ad platform(qz.com)
1 points by liotier 8y ago|0 comments
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Why the rich love Burning Man (2015)(jacobinmag.com)
3 points by liotier 8y ago|0 comments
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by liotier 8y ago
> I am an atheist and don't need religion to tell me it is wrong to kill another man You do - but religion can be non-theistic. As an atheist, you nevertheless strive towards ideals that have ultimately no reason but your belief in
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by liotier 8y ago
> Nobody but Red Hat makes any money off the Linux kernel Only if you define making money as directly selling... A big point of free software is that it is the user who makes the money !
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by liotier 8y ago
It depends: each subreddit is its own little world
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by liotier 8y ago
Any reason for not using Logwatch ? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Logwatch
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by liotier 8y ago
> file names that are supposed to be in one encoding (UTF16) but contain invalid data for that encoding You just described my music collection, aggregated over two decades and haphazard successive migrations. I've given up salvaging
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by liotier 9y ago
On Android, use the "Reddit if fun" application - classic Reddit, fit for mobile: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.andrewshu....
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by liotier 9y ago
I almost never use my laptop without a power source: to me, it is mostly a transportable workstation with a built-in UPS. I don't know how large that market segment is, but I would say that it is what laptops with full-sized keyboard i
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RTL-entropy: Uses RTL-SDR to turn a DVB-T dongle into an entropy source(github.com)
120 points by liotier 9y ago|58 comments
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by liotier 9y ago
I found the name for that concept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsumption_architecture - subsumption architecture puts some of the intelligence in the lower level systems. While the higher level controls can tell th
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by liotier 9y ago
Sure, you can do it with a couple of analog electrical wires running from each valve and gauge to a central computer... You still have a computer and software (and a thick cable routing mess) and you only took some network protocol out of t
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by liotier 9y ago
> Chemical plants (and other such facilities) should not be Internet connected Ok. > The equipment and tools should not even have a network stack How do you imagine sensors and actuators will be operated instead ? People running about
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by liotier 9y ago
> I don't know of any zionist communists at all I met them yesterday with the vegan nazis and the irredentist panafricanists - but you don't hang out at the cool parties !
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by liotier 9y ago
I plugged French Orange's GPON FTTH ONT into my Debian router's RJ-45 port, added a VLAN interface, added a couple of lines to my DHCP client configuration to pretend my router is some Sagem device and pass authentication to the s
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by liotier 9y ago
Yes, but the SD card may have a short life if the system writes a lot on it - so far that is the common failure mode of RPi, which are otherwise reliable.
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by liotier 9y ago
> Impressive how many of the buildings are still there and recognisable. Nice to see most of the 30+ year old apartment blocks still standing and well looked after. Have you seen many cities where buildings that are merely 30 years old d
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by liotier 9y ago
You meet a random person and wish to connect on a chat/presence system - that is what I mean by "beyond team communications". Acceptability of such a system for that purpose either requires overwhelming adoption of a single p
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by liotier 9y ago
Looks interesting... But it is not federated, so one will not use it beyond team communications (which is a good start though)
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by liotier 9y ago
That was tradition at the first company I joined: every new hire assembles his own Ikea desk, with help from his new colleagues - it was fun !
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by liotier 9y ago
From being an Openstreetmap evangelist and trainer, I can tell you that most people in the world (not an Africa-specific thing) have close to no idea how to position themselves on a map... Which by the way is why turn-by-turn navigation is
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by liotier 9y ago
> European socialism is "not so bad" compared to North Korea, until you learn that Europeans on the whole are also significantly poorer than those in the US. Yes, if you define "poor" in terms of net income. I could a
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by liotier 9y ago
> one of the places where I was staying was just a streak of houses dispersed more or less close to a single road You were in America actually...
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by liotier 9y ago
A friend of mine who distributes consumer goods in Congo (yes, the whole of Congo) through an online shop explained that a phone call is an essential part of the delivery process - even more important than the address because it is how the
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by liotier 9y ago
> You still need an enormous quantity of petrol to send things in space You need to think out of that box - I'm investing my savings in hevea plantations !
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by liotier 9y ago
As a French cyclist, France is paradise compared to the UK - itself a paradise compared to the USA...
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by liotier 9y ago
> Any way to increase the interception surface/volume ? Yes - the usual way is to fit the interceptor with a nuclear warhead (see Sprint, Spartan and Nike Zeus on the US side - Fakel 51T6, Novator 53T6 and S-300PS/S-300PM on th
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by liotier 9y ago
Let's invite Canada to join the EU - they would be a great fit !
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by liotier 9y ago
African megafauna has almost entirely disappeared from anywhere but protected reserves.

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