photon-torpedo

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by photon-torpedo 4y ago
> What are people using VPNs for mostly, if they're living in a country without internet censorship? Current example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31248250
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
Also, rsync can create more faithful copies than scp. E.g. scp can't copy a symlink as a symlink, instead it will follow the symlink and copy the file or directory.
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
To add to the list: Song titles that cannot be fully represented in Unicode. Example (also to plug my favorite band): Magma, a French progressive rock [*] band that's been (on and off) active for more than 50 years, mostly uses their o
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
Heartbleed was OpenSSL, not OpenSSH.
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
BorgBackup can be made to operate in pull mode too, see: https://borgbackup.readthedocs.io/en/stable/deployment/pull-... At work I've implemented a variant of the ssh-agent method described there. Admitt
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
Love the list of notable "features". :)
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
Wouldn't "409 Conflict" be more appropriate?
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
Yes... there are some nice models we'd like to buy. But we are business customers of Dell, and they tell us that these have 95 working days lead time (almost 4 months). While on their regular web page for consumers it says that these a
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Taiwan invents chip able to identify asymptomatic Covid cases rapidly(focustaiwan.tw)
1 points by photon-torpedo 5y ago|0 comments
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
TIL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vozhd https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waqf How many such (arguably) obscure words are there in the Wordle word list?
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
This, minus the cryptocurrency, is IPFS. (Though I've never used it, so I may be wrong.)
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
Yes, lead author is the EM drive guy.
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
> Correct. Google will give you better results with full-sentence-like input. Please show how to use a full-sentence natural-language query to search for images of a shirt without stripes. Thanks.
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
"If they don't have bread, let them eat cake." Edit: I think in the kind of countries that GP mentions, access to stable foreign currencies will be very restricted, especially during times where the country's native curr
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
Why not use both? Recommendations are to have two backups anyway, one local and one remote. I use borg to make local backups to a USB HDD, and restic for remote backups in the cloud. Using different software guards against implementation bu
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Fastmail under DDoS attack again(fastmailstatus.com)
5 points by photon-torpedo 5y ago|1 comments
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
Indeed, on seeing the pictures in the article I got the feeling that these might as well be structures used for playing a kind of sport, requiring a standardized shape and size like today's football pitch etc. People today like to pla
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
For easier reading in the browser: https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/cond-mat/0205297/
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
Already in the past I've been (ab)using Fastmail's email alias feature for this kind of purpose. Though it was a bit inconvenient as the UI always said that it takes 15 minutes for the new alias to become fully active. Great to
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
I think this is technically possible. Relatedly, can they jam Starlink?
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
1. Find a place that takes RMB and gives you crypto. 2. Send crypto to your wallet or foreign exchange. 3. Abroad, sell crypto for non-RMB fiat currency. No mining needed. China can't ban 2 (or perhaps they could by putting the great f
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
Can't see any long neck, so my vote goes to the Star Wars walker.
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
That's odd, I'm in London/UK and when I use Mullvad's London servers I can usually nearly max out a Gbit connection.
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
I agree it's better, just I doubt it'll be popular.
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
> to show his/her concern for the people While I'd be happy for this plan to go through, I don't think most of the people will be happy with the side effects. Especially because of the spare parts requirements, I guess man
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
Mullvad supports split-tunnel. Sure you can somehow set that up manually with the standard clients, but with Mullvad you can simply run a command with "mullvad-exclude" and the process will be exempt from VPN. Pretty convenient.
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
If many miners move to another cryptocurrency, the difficulty for that network will go up, to the point that it's no longer profitable to mine it (electricity costs exceed income). Unless the price for the cryptocurrency goes up as wel
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
Prices for used GPUs are also inflated, though I think they have started to come down a bit. Once Ethereum moves to proof-of-stake (early 2022?) the market will probably get flooded with used GPUs.
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
TLDR: Severe Covid infection can cause histamine storm (similar to allergic reaction). Mechanical ventilation can make this worse as physical stress on the lungs can also cause histamine release. Remedies: 1) Give antihistamines. 2) If vent
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by photon-torpedo 5y ago
Just installed "Nitter Redirect" browser extension. Thank you, Twitter, for finally making me avoid your site entirely.

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