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by markstos 4y ago
The USB-C spec has 24 pins, making it considerably more complex than USB-A connections, which 4 pins. Only 4 of those 24 pins are used for power delivery. If all you need from the USB-C connection is charging, is OK to implement a 4 pin con
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by markstos 4y ago
This looks not too different than modern versions of the block-based blog editors in Wordpress or Ghost where you can alternate Markdown blocks with rich elements. Ghost persists the data using the Mobiledoc format, which is JSON, not rende
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by markstos 4y ago
I had that same clear landline phone. Maybe from Radio Shack.
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by markstos 4y ago
Besides technical reaosns, it could be to avoid bait-and-switch schemes, where a lot of engagement is built around one headline, and then it's changed to something with a completely different meaning.
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by markstos 4y ago
The energy it takes to fill up the tank in this vehicle once could power a house for a week. Wow. Every household driving an F150 would appear to the grid like bring 7x houses online. It certainly puts the efficiency of writing a bike for s
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by markstos 4y ago
Unless I've missed something, SSH keys stored on Yubikeys are still hampered because you aren't allowed to a touch policy of "touch never". Imagine needing to touch the Yubikey with each "git pull" or using Ans
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by markstos 4y ago
In 2003, “ether” might have referred to “Ethernet”, wired networking. Rot might have referred to decay or a rotation cipher, like ROT13. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13 I think here they are essentially random li
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by markstos 4y ago
Two parts: 1. For dotfiles, YADM: https://yadm.io/ 2. For everything else, like packages to install, I use an Ansible playbook. Both sync via git.
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by markstos 4y ago
It still doesn’t wrap in Safari mobile’s reader mode
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by markstos 4y ago
Toe socks and Body Glide solve blisters. Merrell Vapor Glove are ultra-thin like Vibram Five Fingers while supporting socks.
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by markstos 4y ago
It's no somuch that, as what's in the stack: OS+PHP+MySQL+Nginx+Other Dependencies. How often do they need security patches or major version upgrades that might have breaking changes? How often will you need to replace the curren
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by markstos 4y ago
The challenge with self-hosting is maintenance. The more complexity and more dependencies, the more maintenance. I believe that’s why the author was avoiding NextCloud.
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by markstos 4y ago
I use the feature with the Sway window manager for Linux. With Sway, you can move floating windows like this, and you can also resize or move tiled windows by clicking anywhere in the window while holding down a key.
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by markstos 4y ago
Love it!
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by markstos 4y ago
Most features on Strava are already free.
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by markstos 4y ago
I wonder how these outdoor predation numbers compared to the number of animals killed to make their cat food and the number of animals killed for their owners to eat.
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by markstos 4y ago
A line in an Nginx file is easy to maintain. I’ve been neglecting some Nginx redirects for about 20 years that still work. At some point I did a fairly automated from Apache but otherwise the redirects have been zero maintenance. Notable, t
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by markstos 4y ago
iPad is the best selling tablet in the world and steadily taking over more laptop functions.
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by markstos 4y ago
Photographers use SD Cards. Most Everyone uses keyboard, mice and plenty still have USB thumb drives.
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by markstos 5y ago
Email has privacy controls and is decentralized. Just send HTML emails to the friends you want to get it.
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by markstos 5y ago
End-to-End encryption for group video and audio is now supported. I'm not sure it works or who is supporting besides Signal, but it is apparently not not required that the conference provider decrypt the streams to mix them. https:&#x
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by markstos 5y ago
Quit hoping that software providers change in this regard and demand hardware with physical microphone kill switches. The Framework laptop provides an example of a high quality, repairable laptop with physical kill switches for the mic and
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by markstos 5y ago
Coming from Darcs, Git has a horrible user interface. Something like Jujutsu has a chance to disrupt Git. It can use the Git data store, so developers can in theory start using it without the whole team adopting it. Then it addresses the bi
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by markstos 5y ago
The docs still refer to the the tool as Mecurial/hg: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/eden/tree/main/eden/...
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by markstos 5y ago
So, hard links are being replaced symbolic links. Most people I know prefer symlinks for most uses, so this feels like better UX.
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There is File:Copy to create unrelated copies.
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by markstos 5y ago
You can still use File: Copy for a second, unrelated copy.
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Odds are more likely that you have less than 100 messages waiting and more than 80 of them are stored on major, reliable hosts like Gmail, Amazon and Microsoft.
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by markstos 5y ago
If you are wondering where the original 10,000 steps per day day came from-- it was a nice round number promoted by a pedometer company to sell the devices. https://www.popsci.com/story/health/10000-steps-evidence-
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by markstos 5y ago
The mention of TV doesn't matter here, it's that you are forced to drive to accomplish basic tasks. Yes, you can walk in the neighborhood when you get home, although a lack of sidewalks may discourage even that in some places. But

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