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by rolandog 3y ago
I wonder what size of potatoes they were back then? How many kilograms of potatoes that was? I imagine they may have been much smaller than today's varieties.
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by rolandog 3y ago
Kind of like those "small boy sells limonade so his bed-ridden father can buy artificially expensive treatment" articles that are meant to showcase community, but actually show the heartlessness of insurance and medical for-profit
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by rolandog 3y ago
Thanks for the link. I don't mean to dissuade people from reading it, but to point out a possibility that, because it is hosted in Russia [0] [1], the archive.today service may become unavailable (or potentially be compromised) if Russ
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by rolandog 3y ago
I've long felt that working under people who practice this management style make people feel like they can hang their hats, stop focusing on the rat race, and really strive for bringing creative solutions to their teams. It may sound s
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by rolandog 3y ago
Living in an unregulated capitalist society doesn't mean we should reward people or companies that are racing to the bottom putting values and customers aside, once their market has been "cornered" (these companies bet on the
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by rolandog 3y ago
// TODO remove ductape; temp fix of https://ia.cr/2023/923 Edit: Joking aside, capacitors and black tape are actual countermeasures: Fig. 15. A circuit that leaks information via its power LED (
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by rolandog 3y ago
Ooh, I never considered the rolling shutter effect. That's amazing. The paper is called "Video-Based Cryptanalysis: Extracting Cryptographic Keys from Video Footage of a Device’s Power LED" [0]. Edit: Also, worth viewing the
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by rolandog 3y ago
What an interesting read! Thanks for sharing!
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by rolandog 3y ago
> FreeCAD is the closest, but unlike the Eagle vs Kicad comparison, it's miles behind Inventor and Solid works. That just means we have exciting changelogs ahead of us. In my case, I remember running into some edge cases with parame
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by rolandog 3y ago
Security-wise: encryption at rest? In high security scenarios you may be required to shutdown so you're forcing "attackers" to go through several layers: motherboard password, disk password, encryption password, OS user pass
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by rolandog 3y ago
For me, Dutch, as I'm still learning it!
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by rolandog 3y ago
The Citizens United of Spy laws.
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by rolandog 3y ago
This is great news! Congrats to Kent Overstreet for his efforts!
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by rolandog 4y ago
I would stop buying from a company that "decides to go public" (for me, it's just code for "we're now OK with whittling our product's quality to make profits for some people that have found a captive market&quo
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by rolandog 4y ago
> An Uber spokesperson said: “We are disappointed that the court did not recognise the robust processes we have in place, including meaningful human review, when making a decision to deactivate a driver’s account due to suspected fraud.
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by rolandog 4y ago
Can planes fly ? Can computers play chess? If by flying we mean traverse from point A to point B without touching the ground... And by thinking we mean to conjure up a set of concepts (thoughts) that can be exported to a standardized los
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by rolandog 4y ago
I'm of the opinion that he doesn't have to be a perfect human being; sometimes it's hard to disentangle facts from all the character assassination attempts that are thrown at him, and that's why I think we should rein in
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by rolandog 4y ago
Man, I might sneak a reference to that paper in my next technical report.
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by rolandog 4y ago
Add the privacy protections of Purism, and I'm sold! I'm looking to buy another laptop in the near future, and I'm torn between the offers put forward by those companies. Openness, Modularity, Privacy... choose two?
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by rolandog 4y ago
Maybe the banks shouldn't be able to lobby for relaxing the regulations without which situations like these arise.
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by rolandog 4y ago
I filed a year ago a couple of bugs because Firefox was crashing when I tried sorting 2000 tabs with two different extensions [1]. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/multi-account-containers/issues/2...
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by rolandog 4y ago
This! And Spyder can work as a jupyter notebook by evaluating on a cell-by-cell basis.
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by rolandog 4y ago
You're totally right that this would be something that the users would be using... perhaps the only requirement as a website owner would be to properly configure the Content Security Policy (CSP) HTTP headers [0]. [0] https:/&#x2
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by rolandog 4y ago
Have you tried Hypothesis[0]? It also seems like a nice solution that offers other features in addition to comments. [0] https://web.hypothes.is/
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by rolandog 4y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll see if I can get my hands on a voltmeter. I too miss the days when things were engineered for safety and durability.
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by rolandog 4y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I realized something was amiss when I was placing a rinsed plate on the dishwasher and by accident touched the wet steel of the kitchen sink. I was lucky that it was only a small tingly shock. However, I've h
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by rolandog 4y ago
Congrats, Drew! SourceHut is a breath of fresh for FLOSS, and I'm genuinely excited to see --- and hopefully contribute to --- the upcoming projects.
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by rolandog 4y ago
I've felt that faux-texture phenomenon if I rub a finger on the stainless-steel surface of the dishwasher's door in the apartment I'm currently renting (living in a ~50-year-old flat I'm the Netherlands, though the dishw
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by rolandog 4y ago
> Personally I would have preferred matrix/element but hey Discourse>mailing lists for me. Seems like there will be a Matrix bridge; FTA: > GNOME Infrastructure Team Coordinator Andrea Veri [...] > [...] also mentioned redu
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by rolandog 4y ago
Oh, agreed. I just wanted to make an analogy about groups that have, in theory, competing interests but can in some cases have common goals.

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