roelschroeven

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by roelschroeven 10mo ago
Lots of politicians haven been pro-spying for quite a long time. Lots of people are quite indifferent about it. The massive shift of communications to digital channels has put mountains of data right there for the grabs, which is extremely
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by roelschroeven 10mo ago
Let's Encrypt certificates last even only 90 days when unplugged.
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by roelschroeven 10mo ago
Are company names even unique within the UK? Sure, there can be only one bank named Barclays because of trademark laws, but can't there be a company in a different sector with the same name? Like Apple the computer business vs Apple th
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by roelschroeven 11mo ago
Politicians like campaign on reducing immigration because it's an easy thing to campaign on. They don't like to actually do anything about it because (1) it's hard, especially when you want to comply with laws and treaties an
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by roelschroeven 11mo ago
So, ok, under a whole bunch of stated and unstated unproven assumptions, a smaller motor of the same power delivery as a larger motor is more efficient. There's no relation to reality here. I don't even know why I thought the idea
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by roelschroeven 11mo ago
We only know that the large and the small motor deliver the same power. I don't see how we can conclude from that the temperature differential is also equal. In fact I would expect a smaller motor to have a larger temperature different
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by roelschroeven 11mo ago
Is it always true that a smaller motor with the same power has less heat dissipation? It doesn't seem all that obvious to me.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
Probably combined with a bunch of unrelated laws, in an unrelated legislative committee, all to try to keep it out of public attention.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
While I agree that dedicated devices can be more efficient than Windows-style user interfaces, and even more so than browser-based user interfaces, many people don't use those modern interfaces in efficient ways. I have observed countl
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
In that example str.split() has the same result as str.splitlines(), but it's not in general the same, even without custom delimiter. str.split() splits on runs of consecutive whitespace, any type of whitespace, including tabs and spac
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
By changing "non-developer" to "developer" (moving "beginner" from the end to the beginning doesn't really change the length). That's quite an intrusive change, it seems to me.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
This recently came up in a conversation with family, and my nephew of 17 years old knew about it, and said it still exists. Personally I haven't seen it in a long time. I didn't have the guts to tell my family about goatse.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
In a way agree with that, and I don't use sponsorblock because of that, but there's another side too: sponsored segments are a dick move too. Well, probably not all of them, but certainly a lot of them. YouTubers proudly proclaimi
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
Wait, are you saying that audio from the ray bans will be heard by anyone around??
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
Software in Dutch has a bit of a tension between je/jouw and u/uw too. Je/jouw sometimes seems to familiar, u/uw too formal. And I feel the balance between the two is different in Flanders vs the Netherlands. For somethi
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
OK, makes sense.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
The version of pdns-recursor in trixie uses a different configuration file syntax then older versions. (There is a tool to convert the old configuration syntax to the new, but it requires a working installation. There is a command line opti
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
I opened it in Firefox and it was perfectly smooth.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
A cookie banner still doesn't prove compliance. You're still going to have to prove that you don't track users who didn't opt-in. A cookie banner doesn't help anything with that.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
> The worst part about this is that it didn't get so much as a mention in the Debian 13 release notes. I read through that document before going for it and never encountered it. Indeed, even now, you won't find "tzdata&quo
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
To expand on that a bit, the moon is directly lit by the sun. A proper exposure for the moon is not different from any other scene brightly lit by the sun. We often associate moon with night, and night with needing high ISO, long exposure a
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
I always thought: - com, example.com, foo.example.com are all domains - com is a TLD - subdomain is a relative term, not an absolute one: . example.com is a subdomain of com . foo.example.com is a subdomain of example.com
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
"And your argument about comma separators is wrong; the string 1,234 in a CSV file SHOULD mean "two values: 1 and 234", regardless of the local decimal separator." Yes, I agree, it SHOULD mean that, but that is NOT what
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
> [...] the same 27 hours as the 16Pro. That’s pretty good for such a thin device. Maybe pretty good for a thin device that they made so thin for no good reason at all. Making it so thin is not something to be proud of, and we certainly
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
It still can't properly deal with CSVs that use different decimal separators than the UI setting in Excel / Windows. It's still too stupid to understand that UI localization and interoperation should never be mixed.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
I think this network effect and the discoverability aspect are the main reasons why it's extremely hard to compete with YouTube. Why would people use another site if the content they want to see is not there, or is too difficult to fin
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
We don't really know that messages really are end-to-end encrypted though, do we? Is there a way to actually check that the messages in transit are encrypted in a way that only the other end can decrypt them? If not, we have to take Me
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
Both Russia and the USA have cables there though, they're just not connected.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
Python's queue is for communication between threads. What's the use of such a thing if it's not thread safe?
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
Once upon a time they did, but I've been buying DRM-free music from iTunes for a long time now. The songs might have a watermark though? I don't really think so, but even if they did, I don't really have a problem with that.

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