mrspuratic

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by mrspuratic 1y ago
One of the first Spectrum emulators (JPP?) used a VGA text mode with 2 pixel high font where each character was its own ordinal, i.e. 65 was two rows of 01000001 pixels. That meant you could draw individual rows bytewise exactly as the Spec
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
Irish Water/Uisce Éireann have delivered on two new reservoirs in the last few years: Saggart and Stillorgan (technically a rebuild of an 1860s open reservoir). A third, Peamount, is in the planning stage. All of these are around Dubli
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
The Guardian also doesn't double down on factual errors (or mistakes), they correct or retract. I may be biased since that publication is the only news source I voluntarily support.
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
Seconded. Been using Altruist for a few years now. Hybrid mineral (TiO2)/chemical. Unscented, light fluid, slight white cast once dry (Caucasian/north European skin type). Also I don't get eye irritation as with many other ty
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
There's also the old but excellent Tekton, based on architect Frank D.K. Ching's handwriting, albeit designed by David Siegel of Adobe.
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
A long time ago my uncle gave me his old Exidy Sorceror, Z80/S100 system. It came with MS BASIC V1.0 on a ROM cartridge. Sadly I never copied the image. Sold it to a collector in Germany IIRC.
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
I've been using a Windows 95 Beta CD for a coffee coaster all these years. Still works just fine without patching or service packs :)
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
On that topic, it seems backwards to me: intelligence is not emergent behaviour of language, rather the opposite.
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
OMG is it full of yellow. And there I was wondering how one might manage a modem or a mailqueue without a lock file: these are not your father's lockfiles[1] [1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/lockfile
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
I used MFM in the first PC I built from scavenged parts, it used an ISA MFM controller card. IDE came later, those had an integrated controller ("integrated drive electronics") so the PC didn't need to know how to do the low-
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
Reminder that there is the reductive argument that basically everything you download is arbitrary code, but throwing away the code that is run seems uniquely silly.
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
Anti-"image theft" example from Apache httpd documentation that would break with this bug: RewriteCond expr "! %{HTTP_REFERER} -strmatch '*://%{HTTP_HOST}/*'" RewriteRule "^/i
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
For better or worse, mod_rewrite's flexibility meant it got used to add logic, primitive flow control and conditional behaviours. You don't actually need to rewrite a URL path. More recently, "Require expr" can do some o
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
Commonly used in access control to check IP addresses, usernames, cookies, query params, URI paths, environment variables ... Also filtering REQUEST_METHOD to allowed verbs is good practice.
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
And electrically noisy, at least in my experience. Not a property of the Peltier junction, just crappy PWM control afaict.
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
Ironically, renewables tend to put a different kind of stress on the grid: frequency. In Ireland the grid can't handle windy days, so there are ROCOF issues and "dispatch down" events which means clean energy is lost.
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
Yes, but maybe not "tore" since they got reused elsewhere. Solar was (quietly) reinstated by GW, but not on the Whitehouse itself until Obama, I think. https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/object/n
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
Chicago Manual of Style (though it says 1 to 100, er, I mean one to one-hundred). I try to use a CMOS subset for my professional/technical writing, mostly for consistency, but, partly so that I don't need to argue with people with
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
Per-country yes China is #1, but per-capita, oil producing countries are most of the top 10 (with island nation Palau #1, inefficient transport skewed by low population).
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
In 1979 Jimmy Carter installed solar (thermal) panels on the White House roof as part of his fairly progressive environmental and fuel efficiency policies. Now I feel old :/ And also angry that it's been 40 years and electricity g
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
I prefer to think of "smart" as a vector, I'm more interested in the dot-product with the situation at hand.
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
You can search by CPE here: https://nvd.nist.gov/products/cpe/search and search for e.g.: cpe:2.3:a:sudo_project:sudo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:todd_miller:sudo:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* The above pair are the
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
Yes, via PAM, and this works fine with OpenSSH. But the couple of OTP implementations I've used are the same, you can either provide password and PIN or passwordPIN. In the end they get concatenated, passed to the next layer, and taken
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
It does more than that, it keeps a hashed password history (which used to be in the user attr ntPasswdHistory, but is now "somewhere secret" afaik) according to the value of ms-DS-Password-History-Length attribute. OpenLDAP keeps
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
A Long Time Ago I used to admin Apache httpd (back when "Apache" meant "httpd") before it could self-chroot. One of the issues when you did a manual chroot was piped logs (|rotatelogs) was invoked via "/bin&#x2
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
Irish script traditionally used a dot-less "i", something that persists in current road signage (anecdotally to save confusion with "í", or with adjacent old-style dotted consonants, I can't find a definitive source
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
AFAICT it's also (though I'm very rusty) in ModSecurity, if XML content processing is enabled then rules like these will trip: SecRule REQUEST_COOKIES|!REQUEST_COOKIES:/__utm/|REQUEST_COOKIES_NAMES|ARGS_NAMES|ARGS|
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
"mbasic.facebook.com" was a vastly simpler UI, and had notably less noise content. Sometimes "back" navigation even worked properly. They killed that last year :/ Were it not for distant family using it, I would al
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
"V5" article doesn't render (multiple browsers), try the older v4.1 version linked from it at the bottom (the faux "energy efficiency" graph).
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by mrspuratic 1y ago
Double whammy: spray foam attic insulation (aided by goverment grants!) causing sale & mortgage problems. https://hoa.org.uk/advice/guides-for-homeowners/i-am-improvi...

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