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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Because that is very explicitly illegal. Consent to harvest personal data that isn't necessary for pure access to the site must not be used as a condition of access.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Not in a large number of countries in the world.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The problem with that is security bugs.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Consider the statement "2 + 2 = 4". If there were no people to express what that meant, it would still be true and have meaning.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
> People give meaning to things. Bible, Quran, etc have meaning only because people express that meaning. A fairly central part of the philosophy of quite a few religions is that there is a God who is quite capable of giving meaning to t
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The ADC just pretends to be a serial port, so I just (sleep 3570 ; echo "~.") | cu -l /dev/ttyUSB0 --speed 115200 to get an hour's worth of telemetry and pipe that into very simple analysis software I wrote. The one
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
It not only works on Linux, but you can choose between having all keyboards work together (default) or sending different keyboards' inputs to different consumers. For instance, you can have two monitors, two keyboards, and two mice, th
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I have a DSLR with video capability, so I bought a HDMI to USB input dongle. Works fine with MS Teams, but for some reason Zoom selects the lowest possible resolution setting which has the wrong aspect ratio and makes me look squished. Ther
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I have a 10-input analogue-to-digital converter plugged into one USB port, which allows me to log environmental things like current outside light levels, and a one-wire adaptor plugged into another, which lets me have a string of thermomete
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
There was one very amusing bug. The author had clearly put huge effort into building a polished interface, but then added a new button at the last minute. That button is available if you have a flag right next to a straight road. If you pre
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Widelands [0] is an attempt to make a similar-ish open-source game. [0] https://www.widelands.org/
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The mouse interface on the Amiga was remarkably and elegantly simple too, which would have made it easy to interpret the mouse inputs on a joystick port even if there wasn't built-in support for it. Basically, the mouse buttons were wi
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Siphons work best once air has been excluded from the path. In fact, they work exactly as the opposite to why this maze isn't draining the whole source tank. In a working siphon, the head of water in the downwards direction is greater
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The official reason is insurance, and ensuring a small trial area. Basically, in UK law, the scooters count as motor vehicles, and therefore must have a licence, which they can't for other reasons. So, they're illegal to ride on t
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
He's wrong about why that maze towards the end of the video doesn't empty out the supply tank. It's not surface tension, but rather it is the fact that the path goes up and down. The down parts of the path will be filled with
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Only a short time ago, the word "computer" meant a person (who calculates things as a job).
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I'm British, and I'm still sore about this one, even though that "recommendation" was before I was born. The long scale is the right one, darnit. Just because the government says otherwise doesn't make it so. The be
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
For reference, "cr" is an abbreviation for the Indian word crore, which is 10^7, so this is 669 million people.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I did buy a (Brother DCP-J4120DW) colour inkjet printer all-in-one device. And (surprisingly to me) it actually doesn't suck. The Linux drivers work. Sure, the ink is pricey, but it has generally been trouble-free. I left it for a coup
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Lithium is not a rare earth metal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare-earth_element
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
> Does this happen in the real world, rather than be a theoretical concern? Heck yes. 99% of the stuff advertised to me in big money advertising campaigns is stuff that I will never want. If that doesn't count as "bogus project
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
It's easy to see countersteering in action if you have a quiet damp road. Try riding in a straight line and then turning to the right. Then dismount, walk back to where you started your turn, and have a look at your tyre tracks.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
A fair bit of the stability of a bicycle (especially at low speeds) is due to the fact that you have a human holding onto a bar that behaves exactly like a thing that a human would grab onto to steady themselves. If you grab this bar and ro
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Yeah, this is definitely something I would factor into my purchasing decisions. My phone is showing trouble after just 3.5 years of use, which is unacceptable in my view. It isn't even as if I have used it heavily.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Is there an app that can tell me the wear stats from the storage device? A bit of googling tells me that a service called storaged processes them, but I can't immediately find an app that does this.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
I just benchmarked the storage on my phone, and it seems fine. But I'm guessing the benchmark doesn't touch the most heavily-worn parts of the storage.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
The flash chips in the SSD in my actual computer don't seem to have done this, and they're older and have had higher write traffic. If this is a thing, does this just indicate the phone manufacturers are saving a few pence on each
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
That's weird. For reference, I'm on Chromium.
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
On a similar note, I have a Motorola G8+, Android 10. It has 4GB of RAM, plenty of free space in storage, and the CPU isn't actually that bad still. The battery is in good condition. A brand new phone doesn't necessarily have any
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by mnw21cam 4y ago
Must be some Javascript you're allowing the page to run, because it works fine for me.

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