mr_sturd

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by mr_sturd 7y ago
Thank you. I did some digging and my router, the Asus RT-AC68U C1, being Broadcom-based, has no working WiFi. Guess I'll stay put.
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by mr_sturd 7y ago
Think they tried to scan it for malware?
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by mr_sturd 7y ago
Running DD-WRT on my router, currently. Would people tend to recommend OpenWRT, these days? I haven't been in the loop WRT open router firmwares in a while...
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by mr_sturd 8y ago
I'm still very much in favour of managing my own private keys in an encrypted database on my desktop/laptop. I feel like everyone is blindly trusting these devices, having been scared in to it by horror stories of malware lifting
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by mr_sturd 8y ago
In 2018, the world rediscovered stereo.
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by mr_sturd 9y ago
Don't worry, I'm a dreamer too.
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by mr_sturd 9y ago
One can always hope. But, we all know where "this is the year of..." gets us in the software industry.
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by mr_sturd 9y ago
I've made payments to merchants who acknowledge that the price can change over the process of sending a payment. The Bitcoin price is fixed at the point that the transaction is acknowledged in the mempool, so any fluctuation during th
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by mr_sturd 9y ago
> DuckDuckGo: I find myself hitting !g often enough for more "fuzzy" searches I find myself doing this, too, from time to time, but I have come to rely on the "bang shortcut" feature for so many other sites. It'
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
Thanks, I imagine that could be quite a hit-and-miss game to play. I can't see black-market tabs of LSD containing an even distribution of the molecule, at that scale. One day you might feel nothing, then that nail might look very
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
Given that active doses are at a µg scale, what sort of mass constitutes "microdosing"?
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
Is that the case on a Windows machine though?
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
There's nothing wrong with having a referendum over it. But a horrible media industry has made a circus over the entire thing, leaving many people misinformed.
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11953691 I'll point you in the direction of bsimpson 's post, just above.
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
> Faster and more flexible submodules I have a big, monolithic repository which I'm looking to break up in a migration to Git. If I run; git submodule split -P <path_to_sm> -b <name_of_branch> --jobs=4 Will I se
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
Just had a look at KeePassX, as it looks as though it has a sleeker UX, when compared with KeePass2. It may be considered a faux pas, but I have come to like the http plugin, for KeePass2, which allows Firefox to reach into my database when
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
This paper was linked, on a MotherJones article, found via the "web" link. http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/05/26/055699.f...
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
As altruistic as this may appear, I really don't want my data altered, on-the-wire, in any way, by my ISP. It should be my choice as to what is to be blocked, and I think time should instead be taken to educate users on how to insta
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
Doesn't work for rooted phones [0]. I guess I'll have to wait a little longer before mutilating my contactless card. [0] https://i.imgur.com/Pkx4SRP.jpg
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
They'll be met with some opposition, in the EU and Canada. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/11/facebook-...
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
Facebook ToS [0]; > You will not collect users' content or information, or otherwise access Facebook, using automated means (such as harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers) without our prior permission. Rate Limiting on the G
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Face recognition app taking Russia by storm may bring end to public anonymity(theguardian.com)
132 points by mr_sturd 10y ago|96 comments
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
> An IPFS-based Twitter is probably a better way to start Did you see the AKASHA discussion, last week? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11678810
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
I'd imagine it's something like this; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syringe_driver
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
If you send an email to someone without Tutanota. They email the recipient with a link to their server. Allowing the recipient to decrypt the email in the browser, using a password agreed on, by the communicating parties.[0] [0]- https:&#
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
IPFS is largely the reason for me battering F5, on this thread, this afternoon. I've only briefly looked into it, on its website, upon originally reading about it. I will definitely give it more attention, have a deeper read, and have
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
Good luck with this, I'm really excited to give it a go. You say that Akasha "doesn't need any servers" . If a user is to run a "node" on their PC, how will the network react if a friend/follower is offl
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
It's a shame that it's using BitTorrent Sync . Use of something open source, with an API, like Syncthing , could allow for a smoother experience in finding users to follow, rather than manually copy-pasting shared secrets. I ha
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by mr_sturd 10y ago
If it's a feature that has made it into the std/Boost libraries, we'll be talking atomic utility functions which are being removed, in favour of calling the std/Boost ones. Not actual API-level features.
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by mr_sturd 11y ago
> Try telling my mum: "you need to compile your own drivers". > was a bit put off by comments of people doing it before me on forums listing the features that would work and that would not work. I have known wifi to be a p

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