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by pwg 3y ago
> Why? Since the URL is 'google' one obvious reason is to encourage viewing the "live web copy" -- which can have live advertisements inserted. The 'offline pdf' can't have live ads inserted that change
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by pwg 3y ago
Indeed, but sadly, features designed to "keep the program locked in" can also often be miss-used to "keep thee user locked out". Only time will tell where this one goes.
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by pwg 3y ago
> Or do you host your own? Yes. > What open source email server do you use if that’s the case? Postfix: http://www.postfix.org/ > Bonus, what client do you use too, regardless desktop or mobile clients? Desktop: mu
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by pwg 3y ago
Likely "NIH syndrome" [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIH_syndrome
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by pwg 3y ago
> and I still use GMail on the phone to email photos to myself to download onto my desktop computer Nothing wrong with that, it integrates well with the phone's UI (which isn't setup well for the whole "remote access from
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by pwg 3y ago
With uBlock Origin set for default deny all Javascript, there are zero popup's while reading the entire article.
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SoylentNews Site Shutdown(soylentnews.org)
3 points by pwg 3y ago|0 comments
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by pwg 3y ago
> I wonder how this will affect quirks such as A20, ... All oversights and mistakes made by Intel over the years Well, the A20 gate was actually IBM's creation, in order to make the PC-AT system compatible with running real-mode DOS
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Thermal transfer compound comparison (2002)(dansdata.com)
37 points by pwg 3y ago|22 comments
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by pwg 3y ago
> Some are saying this is impossible, that near real time decryption of 256-bit encryption is not possible. This is very possible -- provided the other side has the keys to decrypt. Note that "decrypt" is different from "c
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by pwg 3y ago
> What I don't understand about these programs is the added income clause. Lobbying by the "big tax preparers". Higher income individuals are more likely to have more complex returns and/or be more willing to part wi
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by pwg 3y ago
> Its got the whiff of conspiracy theory to me in that it provides a simple answer to a complex question by having two faceless entities colluding with each other for unknown reasons. There's no need for a "conspiracy theory&qu
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by pwg 3y ago
The description sounds like it does largely the same job as rsnapshot ( https://rsnapshot.org/ ). What does yours do differently from rsnapshot?
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by pwg 3y ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23271084
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by pwg 3y ago
You may want to watch this eevblog video since you just ordered a scope: EEVblog #279 - How NOT To Blow Up Your Oscilloscope! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaELqAo4kkQ It goes into detail about how the ground lead on the
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by pwg 3y ago
The two arrows work perfectly here with Slackware 15 and Firefox 102.9.0esr.
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by pwg 3y ago
Or just download with yt-dlp ( https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp ).
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by pwg 3y ago
Thank you, yes, your improved text is now explicitly clear as to what is and is not included in the kit. No one should become confused over the improved version of the text.
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by pwg 3y ago
The very first line of the "Building" page states: > The DIY-Thermocam V3 Kit from GroupGets contains all required parts to build the device: One has to scroll below the image to see a suggestion that the FLIR sensor and breako
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by pwg 3y ago
> Nope. Semantically they are still semi-colon separated lists. Double nope. Tcl lists, even when they were specially formatted strings in 7.x versions, were never "semi-colon separated lists". For all but the simplest lists
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by pwg 3y ago
This has not been correct since Tcl 8.0 debuted circa 1999. 8.0's Tcl_Obj system allowed for lists to be proper O(1) integer indexed arrays while also retaining compatibility with 7.x's "specially formatted strings". A
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by pwg 3y ago
No
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by pwg 4y ago
> the reason people dump batteries is because doing so the proper way is often onerous. Another likely reason, and likely the biggest one as well, is: how many folks, outside of the HN/techie crowd, are even aware of what "kind
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by pwg 4y ago
The reporter is not a web developer and has, likely, never written a computer program ever. And the reporter probably only knows HTTP as "those four letters at the start of a URL. Due to that lack of domain knowledge, what the reporte
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by pwg 4y ago
Why don't you set a user style sheet that would give you the colors you prefer, instead of expecting HN to provide such for you. Browsers have the alternate name "user agent" because they are supposed to work for you. Setti
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by pwg 4y ago
One of my 'setup steps' when I got my first android phone some years back was to disable as many of the "emergency alerts" as it would allow me to disable. I could disable everything but the 'presidential alerts&#x
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by pwg 4y ago
Or the maintained uBlockOrigin, in "I am an advanced user" mode where you get /almost/ a umatrix level ability to selectively enable bits and pieces.
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by pwg 4y ago
Interestingly, browsing to your example link with uBlock Origin blocking all javascript by default I get a page that looks like indexes to articles. Clicking on one gives me what appears to be the full article. As I can not read German, I
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by pwg 4y ago
> Sure, but the vast majority of websites where I see these cookie prompts aren't even websites I'm logging in to in the first place... often they are websites I am not sure you can even log into at all. Cookies for managing lo
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by pwg 4y ago
Most likely because for protected mode to function, there is a certain minimal amount of housekeeping data tables that need to be setup properly (i.e. LDT, GDT, IDT, etc), otherwise you'll just immediately take a double fault and the C

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