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by rft 2y ago
To add another layer on top of these hacks, Windows has Address Windowing Extensions [1] that allows a 32bit process to use more than 4GB of RAM. Of course pointers are still 32bit, so you need to map the additional memory into and out of t
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by rft 2y ago
I had the same need and also cobbled something together to do it. This project looks far easier to use, so I will also likely switch. Checking the Dockerfile this also uses qemu to run the actual ARM binaries, I really liked how easy it was
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by rft 2y ago
I have noticed multiple YT content creators just casually mentioning things like "like and subscribe for the algorithm" and even "leave a comment for the algorithm", which people do, sometimes just saying "comment f
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by rft 2y ago
I have that keyboard and gifted one to my parents. Our use case is the odd chance you need to input text or use a browser on a Smart TV. Works so much faster than the on screen keyboard. With many Smart TVs just being Android under the hood
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by rft 2y ago
This looks quite interesting, thanks for the link. It does seem to require a native viewer instead of having a web interface. I would really prefer just a website like the PiKVM. Might still get it. I have to do an off-topic rant though. Th
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by rft 2y ago
I can confirm that getting a PiKVM has very much eliminated lugging around my server or a screen. Having some form of display input would be the one feature I would wish to add if given the choice. Not having HDMI-In, e.g. via capture card,
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by rft 2y ago
So that was the name of it! I only had vague recollections of me setting up PuTTY with a proxycommand involving some kind of compiled to .exe Perl script. Worked out in the end with a free VPS and train station wifi. As usual, I spent far l
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by rft 2y ago
Your comment reminded me of this great talk [1] (humor ofc). While it talks about asm.js, WASM is in may ways, IMO, the continuation of asm.js [1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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by rft 2y ago
(Sadly) this is nothing new. Years ago I wrangled a (modified) bug in the font rendering of Firefox [1, 2016] into an exploit (for a research paper). Short version: the Graphite2 font rendering engine in FF had/has? a stack machine tha
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by rft 2y ago
Concerning code signing: Azure has a somewhat new offering that allows you to sign code for Windows (SmartScreen compatible) without having an EV cert. It is called "Trusted Signing" [1], non-marketing docs [2]. The major gotcha i
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by rft 2y ago
Just a word of caution for anyone booking their own train connection, this is usually only done if you book train and flight on the same ticket. The DB calls this Rail&Fly and essentially the train becomes a leg of the flight. So if&#x2
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by rft 3y ago
To add another weird tech issue to this collection: The camera shy Raspberry Pi. A model of the RPi would reboot when photographed with a flash: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31294745 (2015)
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by rft 3y ago
Neat! This is a great replacement for my SSH tunnels when I need a different IP. Somewhat related tool: pproxy, can, among many other things, "convert" different tunnel protocols into each other. Also features routing capabilities
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by rft 3y ago
Another example is some Korean games requiring essentially a Korean ID to play. A few years ago there was a game my guild was hyped about and we played the Korean version a bit. You more or less bought the identity of some Korean guy via a
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by rft 3y ago
Also see United Airlines Flight 232 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232 which suffered a loss of all hydraulics and thus control surfaces. The crew and a check airmen who was aboard as a passenger
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by rft 3y ago
Here in Germany we only have flat fines for standard traffic infractions. If you make it all the way into crime territory we have the concept of Tagessätze (lit. day fines). The court sentences you to X amount of Tagessätze. The actual fine
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by rft 3y ago
Years ago I had some insight into the "crypto" behind a garage door opener. It was essentially a rolling code and the controller stored the counter for each paired remote and checked it. The package sent by the remote also include
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by rft 3y ago
Seems like there is at least a bit of interest [1] to convert lirc definitions [2], which is great, because there are so many of them. There even is a definition for my about 30 years old hifi! A really nice hack I saw is to send the code v
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by rft 3y ago
While this seems weird, it actually somewhat qualifies as an insecure 4 eyes. Ofc the eng director can act without another party, but for anybody else this usually involves at least a short "sure, what are you trying to do?". Goog
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by rft 3y ago
Same, I even put a Thunderbird "New Message" window on mine just to be extra "attractive". Had an extra keybind for that, just in case I need to take my laptop to a customer. Overall the "buy treats for the office&q
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by rft 3y ago
I think the RPi is more of a jack of all trades, master of none. This also applies to performance. It bundles an impressive amount of partially niche, but overall well supported, features (Linux, USB3, gigabit ethernet, okish wifi & BT,
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by rft 3y ago
Thanks for the liquid antenna pointer, I had no idea this was actually tried! Apparently not only the navy thought about this, but there are idea floating around about using liquid metal for variable length antennas. One of the links I foun
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by rft 3y ago
> CLI: I wanted to download songs from youtube, but they were often stitched as complete albums - so I wrote a youtube-cue generator that generates cuesheets that can then be used to split and tag the yt-dlp downloaded audio file. ( http
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by rft 3y ago
Now that is a tool I never knew I needed, great idea! I get by with the compose key or just googling the Umlaut if I have not set it up. I guess I have just nerdsniped myself into building a script/hack that can automatically edit the
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by rft 3y ago
In Germany, if you lay off many people you might need to inform the unemployment office beforehand. There are thresholds based on both the amount of people laid off and the size of the company. This is not exactly a circuit breaker, but com
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by rft 3y ago
The current state is to use guest accounts [1]. If you use that branch instead of master and get a collection of accounts, you can run your own instance. For my personal use instance this is working fine with the initial set of accounts I p
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by rft 3y ago
CC is the reason I can write some Lua, at least after the initial intro when I was fumbling around in the TES 3 editor. I went down that rabbit hole and build some far too complex one-off things. One of them even called out to a PHP backend
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by rft 3y ago
> So yea, it really isn't that simple in the USA. German VAT is also not simple. Before we had a temporary (so another layer of madness) law change, you either paid 19% VAT or 7% VAT, depending on whether you ordered your food to go
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by rft 3y ago
Honorable mention: tech-focused Minecraft (Java!) mod packs (don't laugh), if that floats your boat
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by rft 3y ago
Do you have plans to look at whether higher fluctuations translate into higher failure rates? Not sure whether you have historical data on this, but I would be really interested in this aspect, even if you can only run the stats on a smalle

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