rekabis

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by rekabis 2y ago
Agreed. This is what Genuinely Good People do.
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by rekabis 2y ago
> "firmware" in this context can sometimes be referring specifically to the firmware that runs on the WiFi radios Congrats, you have just identified DD-WRT and OpenWRT. > The WiFi firmware is closed-source and comes from the
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by rekabis 2y ago
In order for Signal to provide this history, said history would have to be stored on their servers, massively nerfing one of their core competitive advantages. This “limitation” is the ultimate advantage from the perspective of Signal’s cor
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by rekabis 2y ago
> Every one had a .ru domain. Brand-new to the Internet, are ya? Just because you cherry-pick Russian informational sites doesn’t mean that third-party firmwares have any connection to Russia whatsoever. Third-party firmwares are op
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by rekabis 2y ago
I would be fully open to the FTC/CRTC or whatever network/ISP regulator that exists in your country be the determiner of what should be exposed to world+dog. Let them do remote vulnerability scans once a day on all IP addresses as
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by rekabis 2y ago
> Even with the WRTs, the firmware is probably built by the manufacturer. Say you know nothing about router firmware without saying you know nothing about router firmware. OpenWRT and DD-WRT and other open-source third-party firmwares a
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by rekabis 2y ago
Their firmware is absolutely riddled with flaws and exploitable vulnerabilities. Unless you are willing to re-flash their hardware with third-party firmware such as DD-WRT or OpenWRT, I would always encourage anyone to go with a company tha
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by rekabis 2y ago
At least you got your name on something. Posterity forever!
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by rekabis 2y ago
Bold of them to assume we’ll survive the century at any level above the Iron Age, and with any population above the high millions to low billions. Capitalism is keeping us locked into the “Business As Usual” model that will bring us to civi
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by rekabis 2y ago
Even if you do have access, building a set of services in close proximity with each other - yet still working on separate containers or even containers on separate container hosts - still needs a single source of truth where time is concern
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by rekabis 2y ago
I find the stats between the 250 and 270 to be particularly bizarre. The 250 depends on a user-supplied SD Card, while the 270 is plumped out with 512Gb of flash space. And yet, the RAM drops from 512Gb in the 250 to 128Gb in the 270. How d
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by rekabis 2y ago
When wholesale collapse does come for humanity later this century, things are going to get very ugly for people in terms of the lack of modern dentistry and medical care.
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by rekabis 2y ago
I was there in the era when hitting a website on the wrong day spawned so many pop-overs and pop-unders that it ground your browser to a halt. And that by trying to close any one of them, another 10 windows were launched with more ads. Even
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by rekabis 2y ago
> I don't know anyone who likes receiving cold email. I enjoy submitting cold eMail to SpamCop. But beyond that, no.
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by rekabis 2y ago
For a business site, seven minutes can be devastatingly long. For a personal site, seven hours is usually nothing unless it’s happening daily or weekly. Yes, going offline sucks. But seven minutes once a year is a small price to pay for
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by rekabis 2y ago
Boomers are so insanely out of touch with what younger people are suffering through, it’s insane. In my corner of the world, my own house was built and sold for $15,900 back in 1972. Minimum wage at the time was $2/hr, or $4,000/y
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by rekabis 2y ago
> More recent research has been hinting that we may even hold certain types of memories outside our brains. Not just hinting - the evidence is strong and accumulating rapidly. The gut, in particular, has so many neurons that it is consid
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by rekabis 2y ago
> By the end of the experiment, six of the eight pigeons developed nonsensical "superstitions" to get food Almost every human will do this for something IRL. As semi-irrational creatures, we tend to forcibly seek out patterns w
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by rekabis 2y ago
Sometimes we need to release a little chlorine into the gene pool. Tear the warning labels off of products. That kind of stuff. Sure, Science has been having a bout of issues lately, and isn’t doing so hot. But it’s the best self-correcting
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by rekabis 2y ago
> That advice comes from people with no other leverage other than the fact that they can remain in a (in a case like this one) miserable job indefinitely if needed…doesn’t sound like much in the way of leverage to me. Better to have some
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by rekabis 2y ago
Considering tankies: Is it possible to be an anti-authoritarian, anti-dictatorship, pro-democracy communist? Especially one who thinks that most power structures beyond regulation, the legal system, and public services should be utterly dis
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by rekabis 2y ago
Is this a social-media parody project?
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by rekabis 2y ago
> By the end he seemed intent on making my team out to be underperforming Just like a male lion defeating the old king and taking over a pride, he’s looking to clear out all the “dead wood” (kits from the prior king) with his entrance. Y
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by rekabis 2y ago
Bailouts are constructive under only one circumstance: when all shareholders lose a proportional stake in the company in exchange for financial intervention, with said stake going to the government/taxpayers as a public control/in
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by rekabis 2y ago
A rising tide lifts all boats.
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by rekabis 2y ago
Let’s rewrite copyright law: 1. The author gets to say, “I produced this”, and to control if it gets published. 2. Exclusive copyright for 15 year terms. 3. Renewal possible if author still alive. Non-human rights holders (corporations, etc
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by rekabis 2y ago
The installer could be made a lot more user-friendly by including both sets of binaries, and then running AVX2 code as it’s first step. Whether an exception is raised (and caught) or not will then determine which set of binaries are insta
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by rekabis 2y ago
They are also missing a key aspect of Ockham’s Razor: that if two different explanations of a question are supported by the evidence equally well, then it is the simpler explanation which is invariably correct. It is the equality of the e
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by rekabis 2y ago
The collapse of the AMOC this century will spike this to a guaranteed total-failure rate of up to 60%, with another 20-30% of agriculture being “significantly impacted”. The most-likely due date for this collapse is around the late 2040s to
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by rekabis 2y ago
BeOS used to be big in the online radio scene. Just curious if any software packages are still being maintained and adapted for Haiku.

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