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by ploek 3mo ago
> DACs are copper, and they're happy. Yeah, but DACs are pretty short and tend to have much thicker cables than regular copper Ethernet.
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by ploek 11mo ago
Yes, the decryption happens in hardware. For your OS (and potential capturing software running on it) the place where you see the video is just an empty canvas on which the hardware renders the decrypted image.
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by ploek 2y ago
I think the noise emissions of a successful launch already make it an unattractive and potentially hazardous (for your hearing) place to live, especially considering SpaceX' launch frequency.
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by ploek 2y ago
> AMD supports it on all chips Unfortunately not. I can't say for current gen, but the 5000 series APUs like the 5600G do not support ECC. I know, I tried... But yes, most Ryzen CPUs do have ECC functionality, and have had it sinc
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by ploek 2y ago
They have a video where they have an eInk display show video at 60 Hz. In contrast to a previous video, where the display was running at 2.4 Hz and the video then sped up by 10x, this is not sped up. What kind of black magic is this? https
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by ploek 3y ago
> As you'd expect, the embryo was only tiny and measured just 27cm long. 27cm is not exactly what I would call tiny. For comparison, this is what Wikipedia has to say on the topic of ostrich eggs: > on average they are 15 cm (5.9
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by ploek 3y ago
The BSDs have diverged significantly since then and not just in userland. Unlike Linux distros they do not all have the same kernel. There are of course common parts in their kernels, many of which date back to Unix, but there are also big
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by ploek 3y ago
I recently used this (via https://depenguin.me/ ) to install FreeBSD from a Linux Rescue Image on a Hetzner root server. Hetzner sadly discontinued the FreeBSD Rescue Image. This installation method uses KVM to boot the mfsB
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by ploek 3y ago
> Surely they can transfer data through water efficiently enough? Actually, no. Water absorbs most of the electromagnetic spectrum pretty well, severely limiting the communication range. So you're limited to low frequencies or acous
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by ploek 4y ago
No, there is no defragmentation for ZFS, unfortunately. A way to get around that is to send the pool's content to another (fresh) ZFS pool, where it would be written sequentially. But for that you would need a set of drives of same (or
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by ploek 4y ago
When pointing out that HDDs can outperform these SSDs, 'sequential' is the key word. I regularly pull remote backups with syncoid (i.e. `zfs send | zfs receive`) and over time that fragmented the receiving side considerably. In th
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by ploek 4y ago
At home: - a FreeNAS with a bunch of Samba file shares and a Plex. I tried Jellyfin, because I got annoyed with Plex trying to force me to create an account on their cloud stuff, when I just want to use it locally. But the Playstation would
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by ploek 4y ago
Not sure what the confidence intervals of these numbers are. For example, the BH14NS40 drive is listed with an accuracy of 99.4937, whereas the WH14NS40 is listed with 98.0869. These are the same model of drive with the black and the white
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by ploek 4y ago
> Getting newer versions of software. Often the version available in pkg is several major versions out of date. The default settings for pkg use the quarterly branch. Remove the comment from the line for using the latest branch in /
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by ploek 4y ago
Adding to the banking data points: I have an Xperia 10 II running Sailfish. MobileBankID and Swish (Sweden) as well as the ING Banking app (Germany) work on it. I was pleasantly surprised by that. I upgraded from an Xperia X, where Sailfish
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by ploek 4y ago
Ohh, interesting. From the foto [1] this appears to be the same AC057TC1 panel that the Inkplate 6COLOR [2] uses. [1] https://core-electronics.com.au/media/catalog/product/cache/... [2] https:/&#x2
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by ploek 4y ago
It's what you get support for. At my job we run several third party applications that are targeted at RHEL/RHEL-clones. Sure, they might run on other distros, but if you need the vendors support, you better be running RHEL/Ce
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by ploek 5y ago
relevant Video excerpt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCRzaGUKEFA&t=408s
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by ploek 5y ago
I guess it's always a question of perspective. Coming from Germany, there definitely is _more_ of a cycling culture in Sweden than in Germany. The cycling infrastructure is better and better maintained (snow plowing, etc.). Of course t
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by ploek 5y ago
Similarly I discovered yesterday that the systemd service definition for auditd includes the `RefuseManualStop` option for this exact reason. When stopping (and thus also when restarting) the service via systemd, auditd is unable to log who
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by ploek 5y ago
If you understand German and like 4 hour long podcasts, Tim Pritlove just released a CRE episode about Terravision where he speaks with Pavel Mayer: https://cre.fm/cre222-terravision (I haven't seen The Billion Dollar
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by ploek 5y ago
Hm. With (only) uBlock I get a subscription overlay that I can't get to go away, keeping me from reading the article. With uMatrix and uBlock I can read the article, but get the subscription thing at the end of it. (Hi CW! It's Fr
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by ploek 5y ago
There is no web browser on the ReMarkable. On purpose. Their mentality is that the device should be a distraction-free note-taking, idea-sketching tool. source: https://remarkable.com/blog/inside-remarkable-2-chapter-2-
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by ploek 5y ago
You are right of course. I was primarily thinking of phones, where the battery life is sacrificed for half a millimeter and laptops, where ports are eliminated for a millimeter or two.
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by ploek 5y ago
I'm going to guess it is to keep it slim. And while I normally think this fad to make everything thin is stupid, in this one case I feel it makes sense. You want the thing you're writing on to protrude from the table as little as
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by ploek 6y ago
I use KDE and I have this problem. Similarly when I switch vterms (I have separate X11-Sessions for my personal and my work-from-home user account), I can briefly see the content of the session that I switched away from (without having lock
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by ploek 6y ago
It wasn't fully open source, but mostly. It was merged with Intel's Moblin into MeeGo. Once Nokia stopped working on that, MeeGo was forked into the fully open source Mer. Mer is nowadays used by Jolla as a basis for Sailfish OS (
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by ploek 6y ago
> Do Not Draw a Penis functions as an agent to collect inappropriate doodles from people who are not willing to stay within the moral guidelines set by our social network providers. Contrast to this fairly broad stated goal, it is very s
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by ploek 7y ago
Oh wow! For reasons unbeknownst to me, my father had that game for the PC. It was one of two games in our household at the time (The other being "Mario Is Missing!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Is_Missi
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by ploek 7y ago
In Sweden Perilex seems to be somewhat common for stoves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perilex

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