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iPhone 7 audio-adapter delivers lower quality sound(heise.de)
60 points by smartbit 10y ago|8 comments
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by smartbit 10y ago
Signal fixed it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12510461
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by smartbit 10y ago
Rule #5: Repeat to remember . http://www.brainrules.net/short-term-memory Rule #6: Remember to repeat . http://www.brainrules.net/long-term-memory From John Medina's book Brainrules. Highly recommend
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by smartbit 10y ago
Easy pick: the Apple version is natural, the Microsoft one is artificial. Maybe some cultural thing and Americans like the unnatural steady shot, I'm from the old continent and am completely distracted by the unnatural look of the Micr
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by smartbit 10y ago
> take photos on your phone and push them to your Nixplay. Good you mention the Apps, I forgot. Indeed the app is quite useless and how difficult could it be to have a Send To action? With an option to add comment, like in WhatsApp. Inde
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by smartbit 10y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look. I learned a lot from Kelsey's "Taming microservices with CoreOS and Kubernetes" at OSCON EU 2015 https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/oscon-amsterd... and h
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by smartbit 10y ago
Nice! Container Solutions did a great job. Suggestions where I can find internals documentation/book? Other that the obligatory 'look in the source code'.
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by smartbit 10y ago
Elderly people love, really enjoy, their Nixplay[0]. I call it "Facebook[1] for grannies". Putting the names of people below the pictures helps people with mild forms of dementia to repeat & remember the names of their beloved
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by smartbit 10y ago
Nice comment by Trevor Pott http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/09/07/my_dell_merger_wish_... > More precisely, they didn't understand their own irrelevance. > EMC's brass – along with that of m
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by smartbit 10y ago
A Palo Alto Networks NGFW has a category 'Media' which includes Video, snapchat, etc. Deny Media is quite effective against any form of behavior with a computer that supports NEET.
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by smartbit 10y ago
More longest flights here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-stop_flight#Longest_flight...
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by smartbit 10y ago
See previous discussions on Taler GNU Taler 0.0.0 released https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11840453 GNU Taler – Electronic payments for a liberal society https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10258312
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by smartbit 10y ago
IMHO you can always travel without a car if you want to
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by smartbit 10y ago
More of these abandoned railways exist. The one in West Surinam [0] is "going from nothing to nowhere " ;-) Some pictures [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Suriname_Plan#False_start [1] http:/
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by smartbit 10y ago
> For encrypted HTTPS or SSH transmissions the worst that can be done is to break the connection Another reason to only use encrypted connections.
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Scott Atran on Why People Become Terrorists(schneier.com)
3 points by smartbit 10y ago|0 comments
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by smartbit 10y ago
This is a variant of the Verkeerscirculatieplan [0] introduced on September 19, 1977 in Groningen, The Netherlands. This map http://www.regiocanons.nl/beeld/Groningen/Groningen/_250/Y39... [1] shows how
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by smartbit 10y ago
Now it is too slow and I got bored waiting ;-)
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by smartbit 10y ago
Nice! What color shrink tubing do you use? I use Snow white Sugru molded against the case and around the cable for about an inch. At a DevOps conference I got a freebie package in Red, later I bought a package of 6 Snow White which looks be
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by smartbit 10y ago
Have you tried "Retina HDPI support" in Advanced VM settings?
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by smartbit 10y ago
are you willing to pay a 50% premium for that? Nice! I'll remember that one.
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by smartbit 10y ago
Excellent idea, similar to what Snowden used three years ago with a fridge. Don't forget to turn off your device or put it in airplane mode because you batteries will run down quickly as it will try to find a GSM transmitter. Unless of
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by smartbit 10y ago
Maybe this is not an option for you and you prefer turning it off if you want to protect yourself against nation state attackers . I assume the DFU mode ROM is hardcoded and therefore more difficult to attack, but if you have heard of DFU
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by smartbit 10y ago
Sorry, link [1] is http://youtu.be/bITIiGswjFI
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by smartbit 10y ago
The poor mans way of stopping your iDevice from transmitting, is by putting it in DFU mode [0]. This regretfully will prevent you from using it for anything else too, unlike airplane mode . And some will probably argue that a nation stat
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by smartbit 10y ago
http://archive.is/nfHk2 without paywall
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by smartbit 10y ago
>It looks a bit like Steve Gibson's SQRL (which uses QR code rather than bluetooth) or you could combine them: when Bluetooth isn't available then use a QR code
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by smartbit 10y ago
Maybe Roger turned a blind eye on Jacob's behavior, maybe he didn't and tried to bring it up. Roger has many qualities, but handling a diva like Jacob and at the same time maintaining their long-term cooperation, is something th
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by smartbit 10y ago
slides http://www.systor.org/2016/slides/ssd_failures_systor2016.pd...
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by smartbit 10y ago
What I miss in this article in using MDM to harden an iOS devices in the first place. Eg. you can prevent the ability to make backups [0] diminishing that as a route to exfiltrate information. Secondly an always-on VPN [1] to a fixed IP add

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