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by pwg 2y ago
The GP did not mean "individual crimes". The meaning was: "most crimes that an individual will commit turn out to be easy to prosecute". I.e., shoplifter steals candy bar, surveillance camera has clear view of the shopl
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by pwg 2y ago
Does yt-dlp still work? https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
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by pwg 2y ago
> Sorry for the poor experience with the current design, still experimenting. It also is simply a blank page when browsed with UBlockOrigin blocking all the java script from executing.
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by pwg 2y ago
And yet, almost every private PBX uses "9" as the magic "get an outside line" number. Which then if one is calling a "long distance" number, one's next digit is "1", and "9" followed b
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by pwg 2y ago
If a given retailer gets the same number off your card each time you do contactless, then that retailer /could/ track you via that number. If all retailers get the same number, then they can each track you, and correlate your purc
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by pwg 2y ago
RSA [1] is directly based on the difficulty of factoring very large numbers where the factors of the number are also prime numbers. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(cryptosystem)
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by pwg 2y ago
> someone has used that (along with a local area code) as the phone number for a store loyalty card. Usually because for far too long, noisy retailers wanted a "phone number" upon checkout (even if one was paying cash -- Radio
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by pwg 2y ago
When you ship millions of units of the kit, you only need a small savings per unit for the sum total to become a big enough saving to be noticeable to the financial dept. bean counters.
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by pwg 2y ago
No idea on that one. That seems an odd choice for them to have.
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by pwg 2y ago
Or maybe it is running on faster hardware, but the UK budget office decided not to pay IBM's fees required to make use of the extra speed, so it has been "throttled" to run at the same speed that it ran on the old hardware.
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by pwg 2y ago
> You have the right of way! Which, while true, in no way guarantees the driver sees you. If they miss seeing you for some reason, you very well may end up on the losing end of the physics of a collision between a 150lb object and a 300
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by pwg 2y ago
You are likely looking at this design from a modern system perspective. But the PDP-11 system that many of these designs were made upon had a minimum memory size of 4K bytes and with varying models that had different maximum memory sizes th
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by pwg 2y ago
The action to take upon no match is configurable in recent Bash versions. The 'failglob' shopt option will cause an error to be generated if a glob matches nothing. The 'nullglob' shopt option toggles between no match ex
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by pwg 2y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/
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by pwg 2y ago
For the same reason that "FAX" is still used in the medical world for transmitting records electronically. Because that's how its always been done, and no one questions the "how its always been done" method.
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by pwg 2y ago
> I’m not sure I want friends and family opening my mail, I’ve been thinking about subscribing to one of these mail scanning services, but was curious I’ve anyone had experience with them? I’m a little concerned about security and privac
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by pwg 2y ago
> Developer B thinks A's game is a bit too similar and decides to sue. Unless you are one of A or B I don't see why you care. As well, I doubt you can preclude this possibility via a code license. > Another option is GPL, b
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by pwg 2y ago
> There is no jack point (in the manual at least) at the front allowing you to jack the vehicle (with the single included jack) and put in jack stands for both sides. That is not how you put the front up on stands with one jack and the m
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by pwg 2y ago
Try this one: https://xcancel.com/elonmusk/status/1874354745709904147 After some anti-robot juggling, the tweet thread should appear.
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by pwg 2y ago
> Currently, it seems paid newspapers are developing their own solutions, meaning I have to subscribe to each one individually to read the news. You've answered your own question right there. Follow the money: Actual subscriber: $X
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by pwg 2y ago
> A convincing phishing attack might trick you into manually entering a code into a fake page. Sadly, for a far too large population of users, a convincing phishing attack will be successful, even if the tech. is flashing ten different w
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by pwg 2y ago
For some sizable amount of the user base, assuming they can even be convinced to use a password manager in the first place, not being able to also store 2FA codes in the manager will become their excuse to not use 2FA codes. A great expanse
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by pwg 2y ago
FreeOTP+, available on FDroid [1] provides for import/export of one's stored codes. The problem with "phishing" is not the technology. Phishing is 100% a human issue and no matter what tech. you might use, those humans
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by pwg 2y ago
> Many docs use a dollar sign `$` to indicate a shell command. Given that the default unix shell prompt has traditionally been a dollar sign, this use in documentation is likely just a result of attempting to make the docs more closely r
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by pwg 2y ago
> Aren’t they already used in early high-school math books? No, or at least they were not in the high-school math books I was assigned. There were no explicit referrals in any way to visual representations of the algebra involved.
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by pwg 2y ago
> It happens everywhere, we forget why we do things a particular way, fail, and then re-learn the lessons (the hard way). https://theknowledge.io/chestertons-fence-explained/
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by pwg 2y ago
The answer depends upon what risk you wish to protect yourself from. If that risk is: my 'free email' provider decides to shutdown my email with no notice, then the risk mitigation is: "buy a domain name". Do note that &
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by pwg 2y ago
> I was also hoping that, because open <dialog> elements exist in a distinct top-level layer, that they might even able to escape the bounds of the browser viewport, which would provide real value to the end-user in a lot of places
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by pwg 2y ago
https://kno.wled.ge/ Many 'effects' already prepackaged. Plus the ability to schedule time based changes (on/off/change pattern/etc.). Includes a web server to provide "app like" control
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by pwg 2y ago
> It's not my fault if other people are too dumb to comprehend TCO because I would buy the $25 bulb if it had a 30 year warranty. A 30 year warranty would certainly make a difference in the decision making. But more typically you s

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