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by saltminer 3y ago
A bit late but I had completely forgotten about KDE Connect. Back when I last tried it, it did not filter out spam messages (though maybe Google Messages' spam filtering operates on its own layer and thus spam classifications are not r
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by saltminer 3y ago
The Steam version is basically dead; WON is what most runners play. (Though it would be interesting if this revitalized the Steam categories.) For those curious, you can download WON from https://www.speedrun.com/hl1/re
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by saltminer 3y ago
> If it is a requirement, consider using a virtual number like Google Voice or even a dedicated SIM that you only use for this purpose and never give the number away. For the second SIM option, that requires a dual-SIM device, which are
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by saltminer 3y ago
> That's actually "once all routers and end devices are updated to support them". As the classic spamsolutions.txt says, "requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once". This point cannot be emphasi
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by saltminer 3y ago
And sometimes, entire nations. Qatar used to share a single IPv4 address, which I found out when news articles started reporting that the entire country could no longer edit Wikipedia without an account, which at the time, was also restrict
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by saltminer 3y ago
> I really do not want this. Then disable it. IPv6 SLAAC privacy extensions are device-controlled, meaning neither your ISP nor your router can force you to use/not use them (unless they're so incompetent that they do things li
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by saltminer 3y ago
That's unfortunate. I got a Lemu4 (Lemur Ultra) back in 2012 and one of the biggest reasons I went with them as opposed to a Dell or another laptop considered to run Linux well was because their support staff were well-trained and quic
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by saltminer 3y ago
> Even if someone is maliciously pretending to be Alice, neither the website nor the phone-carrier has a better malice-detecting tool than simply sending it and seeing if the recipient replies "STOP". I sometimes wonder how man
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by saltminer 3y ago
SBF pulled an Alex Jones. A losing case, answering questions for which objections were sustained, thinking he can talk his way out of everything, going through counsel like candy while ignoring their recommendations...truly, a match made in
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by saltminer 3y ago
>ISPs that offer dedicated fiber lines let you use an SFP with your own switch/gateway directly, if I'm not mistaken. At least with Comcast and AT&T metro ethernet, they provide the modem/gateway - you cannot terminate
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by saltminer 3y ago
That's a really good point about Twitch ads. I leave Twitch ads enabled for channels I regularly watch and I cannot recall seeing any malware or scam ads. Some can be annoying (especially if it queues the same ad 3 times in a row), but
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by saltminer 3y ago
You can manage where mid-rolls are placed, but that requires the uploader to actually care enough to carve out natural pause points and then specify them as manual ad breaks in YouTube studio. Most just rely on the auto-ad placement, which
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by saltminer 3y ago
My thoughts exactly. While there are some categories which are easy to agree on as being unsuitable for kids (and some adults, for that matter), you will inevitably find such content restrictions used to attempt to legislate morality. Look
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by saltminer 3y ago
So when one of my high school teachers had a projector bulb die but they couldn't afford any more bulbs that year, she should've just bought one and submitted it to the county for reimbursement? Or when I repaired their laptop car
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by saltminer 3y ago
I believe the union-busting tactics of the 20th century are a big reason for the corruption of many unions: the ones that could stand up best to union busting were the ones management and politicians were physically afraid of meaningfully c
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by saltminer 3y ago
Related: "Microsoft: State hackers exploiting Confluence zero-day since September (bleepingcomputer.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37851632 "Threat Actors Exploit Atlassian Confluence CVE-2023-225
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by saltminer 3y ago
Related: "US cybercops urge admins to patch amid ongoing Confluence chaos (theregister.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37915413 "Threat Actors Exploit Atlassian Confluence CVE-2023-22515 for Initia
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by saltminer 3y ago
Oil was a big driver of inflation in the 70s, but another factor which tends to be overlooked is population growth: while the US population had been rather stagnant during WW2, the post-WW2 baby boom led to the 70s being filled with the now
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by saltminer 3y ago
Reminds me of a support ticket I had to investigate recently. Performance metrics were taking a dive and triggered automated alerts - average response time jumped from 200ms to 2000, 8000, and eventually began approaching 15000, at which po
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by saltminer 3y ago
Or alternatively, just don't have on-call? It's incredible how many teams have on-call for their internal service which is only used during business hours across 1-4 timezones. If your system has predictable usage and isn't g
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by saltminer 3y ago
You can also just rip the captions straight from YouTube (which Dan generally does a good job with), though you miss all the on-screen visuals, which can be quite amusing to pause and read.
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by saltminer 3y ago
> They'll do just fine with positive word-of-mouth. Sometimes you don't even need that. If you ever want to feel depressed, go to your city's subreddit and search for "what business will you never go to again?" I
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by saltminer 3y ago
I will confess I miss skeuomorphism, but even if Apple never embraced flatness, Ventura's System Preferences.app is horrendous. I've become reliant upon the search bar to find most things in there, which I rarely had to do before.
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by saltminer 3y ago
SSDs may actually worse than HDDs, depending on what NAND chips are in use. Although there are no moving parts to seize up, they do require an occasional power up because they represent data via voltage levels and we have not yet found a pe
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by saltminer 3y ago
Mechanical failure [0]. As perbu found out, when moving parts are left to sit for years, things can fail. Lube can dry up, causing bearings to seize up, actuators to lose precision or get completely stuck [1], and the magnetic field degrade
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by saltminer 3y ago
Ignoring whether this is technically feasible, on its face, it could be a potential strategy to prevent deepfakes if the things it authenticated were immutable. But regardless, any time I read about someone vouching for the authenticity of
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by saltminer 3y ago
LEOs already use faraday bags and cages for devices they confiscate to prevent remote wipes. Some of the products even include chargers to ensure devices don't go dark (searching for signal eats up battery life, after all) and flush va
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by saltminer 3y ago
> But take any successful show in the last few years, it simply could not have made nearly the same audience or revenue on these platforms. The stuff you see there is already hyper optimized for these platforms - it'd be a very poor
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by saltminer 3y ago
This was part of the plot of "Joan is Awful" (Black Mirror S06E01). I sorta expected some sort of AI proposal but I didn't think it would be so drastic, so soon. Then again, it might just be the tactic of asking for a mountai
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by saltminer 3y ago
Here's an alternative explanation, one which I find much more likely: when being LGBT is widely accepted, people who would previously have been in the closet are more inclined to come out. I'm pretty sure my father wasn't tur

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