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by ohazi 5y ago
That would likely be seen as a feature
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Why is this telescope so small? [video](youtube.com)
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by ohazi 5y ago
The developer would just query the sensitive field either immediately or at a seemingly reasonable moment (along with dozens of other sensitive and non-sensitive fields), put everything into a blob, and then send it to the server as an opaq
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by ohazi 5y ago
Expulsion is one of the friendlier outcomes. Federal prosecution and prison time are also very realistic options here. It's happened to other well-meaning kids on many occasions.
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by ohazi 5y ago
Laughed at the thought of actually getting any reception inside a Home Depot. Maybe it's just me...?
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by ohazi 5y ago
For those with the interest, but with less time or patience, I found that installing Arch on a "For messing around, I don't care if I accidentally brick it for a week" laptop was a pretty good way to quickly learn a lot more
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by ohazi 5y ago
Capital vs. Labor is an attitude that can be completely divorced from the unit economics of how much people are paid. Capital is the owner class that calls the shots, Labor is the people who do the work. "Shut up and do the work, or GT
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by ohazi 5y ago
Unless you're labor . Capital can speak up about whatever it wants (so long as it doesn't start sympathizing with labor, of course)
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by ohazi 5y ago
Made me actually laugh. Touché!
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by ohazi 5y ago
This really doesn't seem like Cloudflare's problem. Did banks sue the Ford dealer for selling big V8 getaway cars to bank robbers? Or the city for operating the roads that they used to get away? Or the toll collector for letting t
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by ohazi 5y ago
Modern high-end phones use OLED displays. Save your battery and set your background to black.
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by ohazi 5y ago
Parent is not refuting that WSL2 performed better than WSL1, they're arguing that a reasonable response to WSL1 giving you slow build times might have simply been to use a VM instead. Microsoft being Microsoft, they didn't want pe
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by ohazi 5y ago
> Have you ever had to pay for your own business internet connection that is offered by ISPs for the purpose of serving unlimited requests? Come on, Amazon is not serving traffic through a Comcast business connection, they're peerin
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by ohazi 5y ago
You jest, but this is almost exactly how arithmetic coding works. If you arrange your symbols and contexts carefully, you can even use this as a technique for progressive or lossy compression -- i.e. the more accurately you specify the rati
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by ohazi 5y ago
In practice, video inspired image compression techniques (i.e. HEVC Main Still Picture) will do a significantly better job on that masonry brickwork image. The algorithm is already looking for patches of image that have moved by possibly hu
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by ohazi 5y ago
I hadn't thought of that, but this is hilarious, and illustrates my point perfectly. If your compression algorithm isn't aware of the exact dither you're using, the decompressor can't reproduce the dither on the other en
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by ohazi 5y ago
The loop filters in modern image/video compression systems don't know anything about dithering. If you want a pixel perfect dither like what you remember from the 80s, you're going to need way more bits to encode the image,
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by ohazi 5y ago
Dithering was never a compression technique, it's a filtering technique for reducing banding on devices/displays/images that have a small color palette. In fact, even in the 80's, dithered images were often larger than
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by ohazi 5y ago
That terminal UI is a work of art...
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by ohazi 5y ago
Oh, you meant a literal modem-with-a-USB-port... okay, yeah. An alternative might be to use one of those standalone cellular-to-wifi hotspots, connect the iPod touch to it via wifi, and then use a VoIP app. That way you can keep the hotsp
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by ohazi 5y ago
> In fact, there used to be a particular Samsung galaxy "pad" or something that was identical to a phones form factor ... but wifi only. EDIT: Samsung galaxy "player" IIRC ? Yup, and on the Apple side there's the
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by ohazi 5y ago
> as every company from the Journal to the Times to Nordstrom would be screwed without ads. The ad industry had the opportunity and the ability to address this problem, but (for short-term reasons) they decided not to. This is the long-t
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by ohazi 5y ago
> How did you "power down" your nvidia card? First I made sure X was working the way I wanted with Intel graphics. There are a handful of ways to do hybrid graphics on Linux, depending on what you want to be able to do, and how
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by ohazi 5y ago
I agree with this perspective as well. Assume your carrier is capable of doing anything on your phone until a thorough hardware and software audit has been performed on the device in question (this kind of audit has been performed on severa
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by ohazi 5y ago
This is already the case on iOS, where every browser must be reimplemented as a Safari skin.
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by ohazi 5y ago
Yes, this is absolutely also true. However, there are some phones (including several iPhone generations) where the entire baseband/sim subsystem is isolated from the primary application processor and operating system, and essentially a
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by ohazi 5y ago
> I think you will have a hard time proving beyond speculation that Apple or Microsoft has backdoors to their OS. This statement is absurd -- they don't need to keep a backdoor around because they control the front door. You do re
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by ohazi 5y ago
Start with this. If there are peripherals you don't use (something as small as a Bluetooth adapter or as large as a GPU), figure out how to power them down, and get the computer to put them in that state by default. On ThinkPads (and p
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by ohazi 5y ago
> As a kid, my god, it was overwhelming. As an adult... Still pretty overwhelming sometimes!
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by ohazi 5y ago
Generally pretty good. With tlp and a 5.10ish kernel, my T480 handles light web browsing at 3-5 W depending on display brightness (wqhd display). Heavier websites, high-res video decoding, etc. will bring it up to 7-10 W. Maybe 20 W when co

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