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by pwg 2y ago
> I'm sure airport displays don't need MPEG2, VP1 and so on codecs, for instance. They don't, until the day the airport managers are approached by an advertising company waving the wads of cash the airport could be 'e
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by pwg 2y ago
> that I cannot for the life of me figure out why the FTC/DOJ haven't been constantly trying to break up Because Luxottica is not a US company, they are an Italian company based in Milan ( https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by pwg 2y ago
With uBlock Origin by default blocking all the javascript on the site the entire article is readable.
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by pwg 2y ago
Git is a source code control system, not a backup. You might be referring to 'bup', which is a backup system using git packfiles to store backup data. As for advantages, you'll have to compare the feature set of both and deci
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by pwg 2y ago
> It's not like sending an SMS to my phone is any more secure or harder to access than sending an email to my phone. It's not, but much like 'fax' hanging on in the medical environment because it has been labeled &quo
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by pwg 2y ago
> I agree with you and I also want to add that I've had problems with trackers penalizing me because i can't get my ratios up since hardly anybody is torrenting the same outdated 1980s mecha animes i am. Small trick. Pick one,
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by pwg 2y ago
> why does anybody use Usenet for pirating rather than torrents? With the exception of the rare, well seeded torrent, a Usenet download will proceed at full speed while the torrent will trickle along at 34kb/sec. > It seems so fu
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by pwg 2y ago
> How is sharepoint involved in any of this? We have no way of knowing. But as a guess, possibly because MS is trying to use sharepoint as the new "windows" -- the tool around which they cement their monopoly and keep the mone
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by pwg 2y ago
> My first thought for a “fill” algorithm would be to just fill with zeros, and hence read out the pad, since it is going to be used up anyway. That also would use up the pad when there are no messages, requiring some secure way to get a
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by pwg 2y ago
> This probably can’t actually work in practice. Why? It often does. Because of the asymmetric penalties in the DMCA. Yes, they are required to process all "properly submitted DMCA notices", which means they can legally ignor
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by pwg 2y ago
Mergerfs plus SnapRAID comes close to your ask: https://perfectmediaserver.com/02-tech-stack/mergerfs/
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by pwg 2y ago
Lacking a twitter account, the thread is hidden.
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by pwg 2y ago
The politicians writing the law were likely unaware (or ignored) the Cobra Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect#The_original_cobr...
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by pwg 2y ago
> why don't more companies just set up their own IRC server > The pricing for Slack You've answered your own question there. Because "pricing" an open (as in RFC defined) IRC server is significantly more difficult
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by pwg 2y ago
> Is it safe That depends upon your definition of "safe". Note that, for most web users, they will see "somepart.domain.com" as just another part of "domain.com", and so if there is something on "somep
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by pwg 2y ago
> Another reason: I'll often come across a blog post from 12 years where the author writes "in my next post, I'll continue to discuss..." Worse than that is the "part 3" blog post, where the opening paragrap
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by pwg 2y ago
From reverse engineering a few low cost Chinese imports (i.e., the 'odd brand names one finds on Amazon') I discovered that some Chinese engineers also design electronics using the convention of current flow from negative to posit
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by pwg 2y ago
Not "for printers" per se. What it was designed for was to accurately represent a printed page in electronic form. So the innards of a PDF look more like "instructions" for a virtual printer telling it where to positio
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by pwg 2y ago
> I'm pretty terrified that the gears of capitalism will eventually lead to remote work being outlawed. Unlikely. The current "RTO" push is simply executive management not wanting to take the write-down hit on all that un
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by pwg 2y ago
If iOS mobile will run bookmarklets [1] then this bookmarklet will delete the fixed header from the page (note, this is all one long line in the bookmark URL field): javascript:(function () {var i,elements=document.querySelectorAll(&#
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by pwg 2y ago
Look to the level of preparedness that happened for the prior pandemic. The level of preparedness at CDC/NIAID now is likely about as /good/ as their level was then. I.e., they will likely be caught out flatfooted yet again,
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by pwg 2y ago
> you have to tell it (twice!) that you don’t want to log in. That's the result of the advertising department desperately wanting to track you for their metrics. > Each one of those is a whole new screen. On a 40”-ish monitor! It
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by pwg 2y ago
> You might be surprised how many people absolutely hate using apps, and do not want to interact with a business through a mobile phone. Older folks especially It is not just older folks. It is also anyone mildly or more security/p
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by pwg 2y ago
This feels like the same outcome that results from just about any voice recognition telephone answering assistant.
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by pwg 2y ago
> why this would happen and I don’t know if this was done by, hacker news done by people who saw the article. Flagging is done by regular users. So it would have been regular users who saw your submission and then flagged it. Why? -- we
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by pwg 2y ago
> What tools or strategies do you use Linux CLI tools, and cron. This little bash script is run by cron once a month: #!/bin/bash DOMAINS="... space separated list of domains here ..." for dom in $DOMAINS
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by pwg 2y ago
Joe's Own Editor: https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/
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by pwg 2y ago
> Can computers auto adjust screen brightness via your pupil constriction? Only if they had some form of pupil constriction sensor. Without a constriction sensor the computer has no way to know how constricted your pupils are.
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by pwg 2y ago
Given that the article says this, part way in: > There were 366 numbers drawn because men born in 1944 and 1948 were affected by the lottery, and those years were leap years. This was not for the WWII draft (1944 is just before the end o
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by pwg 2y ago
If you want to study one that is in a somewhat different vein, TCL will give you a broader viewpoint. Its syntax tends somewhat towards the LISP end of the spectrum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tcl

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