mortenlarsen

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by mortenlarsen 8mo ago
Then they would need to deal with drivers.
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by mortenlarsen 2y ago
What about the internal resistance of the battery? Doesn't that increase with higher current? As in 1A for 2 seconds uses less actual battery power than 2A for 1 second due to internal loss in the battery? I may be remembering this wro
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
I still have a Cobalt CacheRaQ (caching proxy server) and a Cobalt VelociRaptor (Firewall) (the blue Cobalt branded one from before they became Symantec products).
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
Same here in Denmark. Maybe it is easier due to a flat company structure, and micro-managment being less common. It is not expected or even tolerated by workers, who will just jump ship if it happens.
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
There is no need to call cat to read from a file. > temp=$(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone1/temp) temp=$(</sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone1/temp)
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
Like money...
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
Doesn't work on all phones, like my Pixel 4. That was a big surprise. There is no way to connect anything else but BT.
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
Anything not based on libvte, it is like a CVE magnet.
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
In my "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools" (the dragon book). A few National security Agency Post-Its with notes.
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
Only if they are being told the truth. A functional free market requires symmetrical information (ie. both seller and buyer has the same information about the product). It is just a theoretical thing. But you can get closer to that ideal wi
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
It sounds like a free market working as expected. Maybe something important like this needs regulation to prevent optimization based on only one parameter ($).
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
The recent issues did not have renewable energy as the main cause. Fox News is entertainment, not news (by their own claim).
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
> Why is the root password hash even in memory in the first place? Maybe /etc/shadow is in the filesystem cache.
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
I have lost a few save-games, so I can relate. In my case it was because I forgot about them or the fact that, I did care if they were lost (I rarely game at all). I have an "offline" Windows 7 gaming PC (only connected to a dedic
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
So it only needed a "turn-table" base?
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
Yes. But we don't have the stupid gaming aspect where people take on debt that they don't need in order to "build a credit" score. It is only a proof of income, outstanding debts (that you are required to reveal), and th
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
Are you sure? A cache miss might be very expensive.
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
This video explains and show the same concept for copper cables in a very simple and hands on way: "Cheap and simple TDR using an oscilloscope and 74AC14 Schmitt Trigger Inverter" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
It is not that I do not know that GPS is unreliable. But I wanted to read about what OP had experienced specifically.
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
> GPS is just not 100% reliable (ask me how I know) How to you know?
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
I don't have any annoying router or CPE from my ISP. Just fibre to the basement and an ethernet plug in the wall in my apartment providing 1Gb Internet access. So I have a few EdgeRouter Lite 3s doing NAT and port forwarding (IPv4) bec
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
FreeBSD has two repositories of packages, quarterly and latest. $ cat /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf FreeBSD: { enabled: no } # disable the default config FreeBSD-latest: { url: "p
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
I was told by someone I met, who is working at my very cool ISP (Fiberby), that I should just as customer service for IPv6. One day later I had a static /56 prefix routed to me on a /64. I had just assumed that it was not an optio
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
The earliest Sound Blasters had IRQ7 as default. This conflicted with LPT1 so the default was changed to IRQ5. There are a few games like "Gods (1991)" and "Space Quest III (1989)" that have IRQ7 hardcoded, so for best c
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
Yes, malware is a broader category. But one that includes spyware.
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
I don't. I have thought about it a few times.
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
I would call that malware. Telemetry is just malware with a marketing department.
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by mortenlarsen 4y ago
10+ Retro PCs from 386 to Pentium 4 (with all the obligatory graphics cards (3DFX, TNT2 Ultra, PowerVR etc.), sound cards (GUS, Adlib, SB Pro, AWE32/64, etc.) and MIDI modules (Roland MT-32, SoundCanvas, etc.) And the parts to build 3
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by mortenlarsen 5y ago
I use a small two-way KVM-switch for my main setup in the living room (GF demanded that my main setup was in the living room so that I wouldn't spend too much time in my lab). The KVM-switch has an external button on a wire to switch b
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by mortenlarsen 5y ago
The script can change any time, and maybe even just for some people without leaving a trace. Updating a package in a OS distribution repository requires that it is signed, and spread to all the mirrors (it is unlikely that an attacker contr

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