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by pwg 4y ago
> BookDepository they told me they cannot offer a refund. A dispute through the card is not the same as a refund. Making a large number of assumptions (US Laws, standard US credit card) if the bank that provides the card finds in your f
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by pwg 4y ago
> using a prepaid card I have from MercadoPago Does the "prepaid card" offer any of the dispute options that a normal credit card offers. If so, file a dispute with "prepaid card ... from MercadoPago".
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by pwg 4y ago
> The number one complaint / request I receive when I build a PC / workstation for the grad-students after they get it? Can you please install Chrome? Have you tried changing the desktop Firefox icon to be chrome's icon an
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by pwg 4y ago
HP produced the HP-16C for programmers a long time ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-16C Swiss Micro seems to be producing clones: https://www.amazon.com/SwissMicros-DM16L/dp/B01DYTVZF2
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by pwg 4y ago
> I think most people would be surprised to learn just how repairable things actually are. True, but those are also the same individuals who would lack the knowledge, and willingness, to do what you did on your HVAC. They, instead, call
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by pwg 4y ago
> We are talking about transporting tons of equipment trough light years of radiation many times stronger then the one that is already frying computers in satellites and probes within heliosphere, heck even on Earth's surface it&#x2
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by pwg 4y ago
> Very strange. Not at all. The google mothership wants to keep you within the play store's walled garden. Fdroid allows you to escape the walls, so naturally google complains about that.
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by pwg 4y ago
> Second step is, of course, if you can even fix them yourself. It is very likely GP could fix them themself. OpenStreetMap allows for tagging the same map item with different language labels for exactly this reason. OsmAnd is likely s
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by pwg 4y ago
If you postulate a species that has solved item #0 (faster than light travel or very near light speed travel) then you have also postulated a species that is likely technically advanced enough that #1-5 no longer matter (i.e., they have fou
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by pwg 4y ago
The invention is effectively just an evaporative cooler for the tent. The unique aspect is using the tent fabric itself as the wick. It will have all the same limitations as all evaporative coolers. It will work very well in a dry climate
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by pwg 4y ago
And, just today, this floats across the HN front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34545010 Click through to the CVE and you will find this: > NOTE: the vendor's position is that the password database is no
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by pwg 4y ago
True, but licensing the software under the GPL does provide for "right to repair". If your plan is to change copyright law, then just require all software be GPL licensed.
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by pwg 4y ago
This is an already solved problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl
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by pwg 4y ago
> Is recursion really worth it? It is a useful tool. Knowing how to do recursion is better than not knowing. > My CS teacher told me to avoid recursion when possible. Bad CS teacher. There are some algorithms that are much more eleg
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by pwg 4y ago
Another suggestion, from the previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34495797
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by pwg 4y ago
> and my master password for the vault every time. Are you using both a master password and the key file? > Any suggestions to overcome this reduction? Not and continue to use KeePassXC, as this is inherent in KeePassXC. Ultimately, y
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by pwg 4y ago
> I still don't feel comfortable, No loss pointing out that you also publicly show the decryption script. If your system is not resilient against an attacker that knows everything, except the key, then your system would violate Ker
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by pwg 4y ago
You have not explained how the token relates to decrypting the vault. You have also not explained how the vault is encrypted (I'm assuming it is encrypted somehow, otherwise an attacker simply downloads the vault and has your credentia
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by pwg 4y ago
> I am not a cryptographer, so please keep that in mind. What that says to someone who is a cryptographer is that there is almost a 100% chance there are "cracks" somewhere to exploit. How does the token relate to the vault?
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by pwg 4y ago
> I should have said that the token file is several kb in size, about 1/20 of my vault size, and of course random noise. None of which matters. What matters as to whether an attacker can decrypt it is the algorithms used to encrypt
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by pwg 4y ago
> So there is no possibility to brute force. Brute force is the one option that is always available to an attacker. What makes brute force untenable in most instances is the amount of time the attacker may need to wait for brute force
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by pwg 4y ago
> While desktop Linux distributions get hiccups and freezes regularly This may be caused by the "desktop environment" you are running and not Linux itself. I do not run DE's (simply Fvwm2, no 'desktop environment&#x27
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by pwg 4y ago
Have you posted anything explaining how the chip senses, and responds to, the external interrupt pins? I.e., the circuitry that handles detecting a level change plus how the microcode reacts when an interrupt signal occurs.
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by pwg 4y ago
> Intel had weird beliefs about keeping the pin count down. They might seem weird by today's standards, but by late 1970's standards, a '40 pin' package was significantly cheaper for others to incorporate into their d
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A dozen USB chargers in the lab: Apple is good, but not quite the best (2012)(righto.com)
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by pwg 4y ago
> What's the most painful thing about online shopping? 1) broken search (as in returns everything except the thing I am looking for); 1a) search that does not index model/product numbers -- if I have obtained a model/produ
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by pwg 4y ago
> we have to wait for someone to comment the link (or do it ourselves), It is not hard to "do it yourself" Start by putting this bit of javascript below into the URL field of a bookmark, give the bookmark a name you like, and
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by pwg 4y ago
<blockquote>To use such a thing, where would I get downloadable DRM free music these days?</blockquote> <p>One option is the same place you used to get downloadable DRM free music in the past, your local bittorrent cl
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by pwg 4y ago
> Does there exist a nice way to play your own mp3s on a phone today? Lots, but you do have to venture outside of the app. stores where every app. wants you 'streaming' so they can also monetize the metadata they can collect fr
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by pwg 4y ago
> This was done to both increase play time and discourage copying. I doubt copying figured into the decision process (at least not a deliberate "anti-piracy" thought process). The CD was released in 1982 [1]. This was only one

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