sanityvampire

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by sanityvampire 8y ago
I've been using http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi for ages. Little bit more dated interface, but same idea. That utility also does some pseudo-alphabets using characters from other scripts.
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
Yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and say that blogs encouraging preteen girls to develop eating disorders are much scarier than furry porn. Unless... unless it's pro-ana furry porn.
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
"Make sure to pipe the output to /dev/null when running this program. This is because the redox ransid ibrary keeps spamming stdout..." Signs of quality software.
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
I'm a fan of the X1 Carbon line; my current home laptop is a 3rd-gen that I grabbed on eBay for cheap a while back. Might leapfrog to the next model when it's released, but the "Alexa for PC" integration is kinda sketchi
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
No offense, but "let's give the poor people cryptocurrency" reads a lot like the start of a satire piece, a lampoon of out-of-touch Bay Area tech culture denizens.
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
Close Encounters of the Third Kind reference, for those who don't read music.
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
You know, I totally forgot this was a thing. I'm sure modern phones do it. Last time I was on an airplane, couple months ago, I was messing around with airmon-ng, and I was amazed at the amount of personally identifiable information th
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
Ubiquitous WiFi kiosks with inbuilt cameras, huh? Ostensibly, they're not allowed to track individual user locations, but the combination of functions present in the devices means it would be trivial to start connecting independent dat
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
>Vim's commands and keybingings interface (not the UI). I recently decided to finally get good at Vim, but the UI, being text-only, can be charitably described as "awful." Solution: Sublime Text 3 with the NeoVintageous[1]
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
Do you think fluid simulation is advanced enough at this stage to simulate something like, "Assuming sea level rises 6 feet at the coast, this is how the surge will propagate across the landscape"? Or will it be more like "If
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
I'm just thinking of all the windshield stickers they're gonna have to hand out...
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
Idea: once you have a steady stream of users, automate some domain name squatting. Buy the cheap ones (.xyz, .website, etc.) for every name, then threaten submitters with libel blogs unless they pay up.
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
While I freely admit that I use a lot of Google services, have an Android phone, and so on... I can't fathom why anyone would think it's a good idea to buy security hardware from an advertising company.
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
Allowing unauthenticated access is the default configuration, but I think you have to go out of your way to make it accessible from external systems, let alone by anyone on the open internet...
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
They got that it's a privacy-related thing, but they still called it a browser...
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
OK Bash: remove objects, recursively, starting at the root directory. Oh, and don't preserve root. Yes, just do it. Thank you!
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
Article title's kind of disingenuous, isn't it? Name-drops Google and Apple, and then the rest of the positions are, like... "You can be a barista at Starbucks, a cashier at Whole Foods, or even a housekeeper at a Hilton!&quo
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by sanityvampire 8y ago
tuple → /tuːp(ə)l/ tupple → /tʌp(ə)l/