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by pwg 3y ago
The reddit you linked to said to force update your filter lists and things will be back to normal. Have you done this? Meanwhile, for a less "ad-full" youtube experience, try yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/
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by pwg 3y ago
Google groups is a source of a huge amount of Usenet SPAM, and google seemingly does not care, as they do nothing, and reporting via their 'report spam' button also appears to do nothing.
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by pwg 3y ago
> It is a shame Adobe designed a format so hard to work with PDF was not designed to be editable, nor for anyone to "work with" it in that way. It was designed (at least the original purpose circa 1989) to represent printed pag
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by pwg 3y ago
The Atari 400/800 computers had available as an extra cost purchase (IIRC about $20 in 1984 dollars) a "technical reference manual" that included full schematics for the computers, a printout of the 6502 assembly for the ROM
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by pwg 3y ago
The Atari (400/800, from the Warner Brothers ownership era) also had full schematics /available/ (you had to buy the 'technical reference manual') but they were available. And part of that tech. manual was a printo
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by pwg 3y ago
The monitor reports an EDID resolution/refresh value to the system that is incorrect for the actual monitor's capabilities. Linux happens to be choosing to use that invalid EDID resolution/refresh value and the default resul
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by pwg 3y ago
> TV's are becoming intrusive and abusive; what to do about it? What do do about it? Do not, under any circumstance, ever buy a smart TV.
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by pwg 3y ago
Sigh... Be the adult/parent here. Tell them they must, always, use headphones. And that if they do not comply they will lose the ipad for X hours (potentially increasing amounts of X for each subsequent infraction). Then, actually ap
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by pwg 3y ago
With Ublock Origin set to block all the Javascript, there are no cookie popups and no scroll breakage.
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by pwg 3y ago
Setting up postfix to be a receiver is actually quite straightforward. Most of the defaults can be left alone, and you'd just need to edit one config file (main.cf) and the comments provided in main.cf all but guide you through the pro
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by pwg 3y ago
> do people really find color schemes like this easier to read I simply turned off style sheets in Firefox (Alt+V Y M [View menu->Page Style->No Style]) to get rid of the website color scheme and have it render using the colors I h
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by pwg 3y ago
Here is how it renders with all JS blocked: https://0x0.st/HLFl.png
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by pwg 3y ago
If you create the base page as static html plus css then there is no need for "detecting" blocked JS, because the page will display properly everywhere. And if what shows with the JS blocked is all that is there, then there does n
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by pwg 3y ago
Breadboard specific cut and formed wires such as these: https://www.amazon.com/AUSTOR-Lengths-Assorted-Preformed-Bre... [1] will make both wiring, and verifying, bread-boarded circuits much easier. Plus the actual circuit
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by pwg 3y ago
Does not work with javascript blocked via ublock origin. Instead, a giant blue bird svg takes up most of the page, scrolling down there is another giant svg, and then a tiny amount of unformatted text.
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by pwg 3y ago
> Invulnerable to SIM Swapping? As long as humans are allowed to "override" settings in the systems, none would be "invulnerable". More difficult, maybe, but not "invulnerable". If a t-mobile employee with
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by pwg 3y ago
Ken, you have this statement in a footnote: > I haven't been able to find any instruction set before the Datapoint 2200 that required memory addresses to be loaded into a register. For a direction to look, look at the CDC mainframes
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by pwg 3y ago
True, but the third paragraph includes this statement: > So Devengenzo, an engineer who has built technology for NASA and Google, and who charges consulting clients a minimum of $300 an hour, spent the next three hours teaching Lathework
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by pwg 3y ago
First paragraph of TFA: > Roman Devengenzo was consulting for a robotics company in Silicon Valley last fall when he asked a newly minted mechanical engineer to design a small aluminum part that could be fabricated on a lathe—a skill nor
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by pwg 3y ago
> What would be nice is some automation to allow yt-dlp to subscribe to channels and pull down the latest videos for you. Point yt-dlp at the channel url, and use yt-dlp's --download-archive option. Result, new, not before downloade
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by pwg 3y ago
> anyone else getting continuous adverts from Youtube No -- because I download anything I might want to watch from youtube with yt-dlp ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation ) and then watch w
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by pwg 3y ago
> I think I noticed a point reduction - is this common? Why does it happen? Yes. You received a "down vote". As to why no one can say without knowing what got downvoted.
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by pwg 3y ago
> Usually they’ll force sign you up for some captive insurance company or insurance of last resort, This has been my experience when the lender screws up and fails to accurately record the insurance information. Then, near the expiratio
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by pwg 3y ago
That is not how things work in the US with banks and loans, they (banks) do actually create "money out of thin air" when they make loans: https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/022416/why-b.
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by pwg 3y ago
> How to send mass email ... ? Don't. Just don't.
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by pwg 3y ago
According to this post: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/219/80286... attempting to set the PE bit back to zero has no effect: > The CPU is put into protected mode by setting the PE bit in MSW
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by pwg 3y ago
> You are shifting the goalposts by trying to say it's about scale and reach, Not at all, unless the meaning of "massive" has changed since I last looked the word up in a dictionary. I said "no such massive campaign e
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by pwg 3y ago
True, there were Firefox advertising campaigns in the past. How many days did that NYTimes ad run? How does that compare in size to Google being able to spend somewhere around ten to twelve years constantly advertising "switch to Chrom
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by pwg 3y ago
> Can a static personal website get fucked over badly? A pure static website (i.e., only a webserver and files on a filesystem) avoids all exploits that involve "hack into the CMS". It is vulnerable to "hack into the serve
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by pwg 3y ago
It is doubtful they cared one bit. The 186 was really targeted at the embedded market (which is why it integrated so much of the usual support chips roles onboard the CPU). So it did not likely figure much here. For the 286, do keep in mi

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