mmwelt

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by mmwelt 3y ago
Looks good, but as a personal user, €5 per month to be able to call other users [1] feels quite expensive! [1] https://olvid.io/pricing/en/
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by mmwelt 3y ago
Fortunately, the MV3 implementation in Firefox has the necessary tweaks to continue supporting add-ons like uBlock Origin[1]. So, even when MV2 is eventually dropped in Firefox, ad-blocking add-ons written for Firefox will continue to be ab
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by mmwelt 3y ago
As I understand it, this is now being addressed by ESNI[1] and ECH[2]. Hopefully ECH will continue being more widely deployed. [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/what-is-encrypted-sn... [2] https:/
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by mmwelt 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20231109002258/https://www.teleg...
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Pratt and Whitney Engine Flaws Will Lead to over 3k Inspections(simpleflying.com)
4 points by mmwelt 3y ago|0 comments
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by mmwelt 3y ago
Things are changing with Windows. Windows 10 will only be supported until 14 Oct 2025[1], and Windows 11 explicitly does not support some relatively recent hardware configurations, e.g. 7th generation Intel processors[2]. [1] https:/
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by mmwelt 3y ago
Fixes a CJK bug[1] that's been around since 2011. The bug was originally tested on Windows XP SP2. [1] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43671
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by mmwelt 3y ago
My solution has been to use PDF-XChange Editor in Wine. Yes, this isn't a Linux native solution, but it works really well.
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by mmwelt 3y ago
The clock is also pretty cool: https://oimo.io/works/clock/
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by mmwelt 3y ago
I'm not the person you asked, but one way would be to mount the backup drive just for the backup, then unmount it once the backup is complete. This would limit the time the backup is exposed to ransomware.
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by mmwelt 3y ago
Restoring backups on a 32TB drive would also take a very long time! Other comments have mentioned that it would probably take more than 13 hours to fill the drive. On a related note, remirroring or rebuilding a 32TB RAID drive would probab
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by mmwelt 3y ago
I reckon because it's not possible to pay for the product directly, Firefox is getting less financial support than it could. For example, I may not want to support many of the goals of the Mozilla foundation, but paying for a product
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by mmwelt 3y ago
Is there actually any way to pay for Firefox directly? I don't need their VPN service, but would probably be willing to pay something for Firefox.
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by mmwelt 3y ago
Such hotels may simply be blocking UDP traffic entirely.
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Fixing VirtualBox IPv6 connectivity on bridged wireless adapter(gist.github.com)
1 points by mmwelt 3y ago|0 comments
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by mmwelt 3y ago
To have a fixed internet point of presence, when frequently travelling. Otherwise, all kinds of services start complaining that you're logging in from a new location.
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Crash of private Japanese moon lander blamed on software, last-minute changes(abcnews.go.com)
15 points by mmwelt 3y ago|6 comments
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China state-sponsored cyber actor living off the land to evade detection [pdf](media.defense.gov)
107 points by mmwelt 3y ago|50 comments
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by mmwelt 3y ago
In case anyone's wondering, this is a TV series: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0808491
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Regular internet usage associated with half the risk of dementia(agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
3 points by mmwelt 3y ago|0 comments
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by mmwelt 3y ago
Screen sharing seems to be a difficult problem to resolve. Zoom only just resolved this recently[1], Webex has been promising a fix for a while[2], and Skype still hasn't done anything[3]. [1] https://support.zoom.us/h
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by mmwelt 4y ago
This is often called 提笔忘字, translated to English as character amnesia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_amnesia
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Voicemeeter – Professional virtual audio mixer for Windows(vb-audio.com)
1 points by mmwelt 4y ago|0 comments
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Google announces sweeping Android changes in India(bbc.com)
1 points by mmwelt 4y ago|0 comments
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by mmwelt 4y ago
About IrfanView: I've found nomacs to be a good Linux native replacement.
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by mmwelt 4y ago
I've found the main problem is when on a DFS channel and doing something real-time -- a Zoom/Skype call, for instance. Very noticeable then. Also, don't use hidden SSIDs on a DFS channel: https://badfi.com/blo
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Windows clock app now asks you to login(old.reddit.com)
2 points by mmwelt 4y ago|0 comments
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by mmwelt 4y ago
I tried this a couple of times but the main problem I encountered was: on Android, it doesn't seem to be possible to delete a conversation without also deleting the contact.
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by mmwelt 4y ago
Hm. Pixelation may still work well with other languages, such as Chinese, though.
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by mmwelt 4y ago
What is interesting is that, "even after weight loss surgery, a formerly obese person would need to eat far fewer calories than a normal-weight person in order to maintain their weight loss." In other words the MF didn't chan

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