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by solstice 7mo ago
Hi. Interesting idea. Just a heads up: the text is not displayed on my Firefox (140.8.0esr 64bit, Win11) however. On Edge it is displayed correctly.
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by solstice 7mo ago
> The trick is not to play zero sum games. This is what I have been saying the whole time. Go create value for others and don’t worry about the returns. If you create more value than you consume, you are welcome in any well operating com
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by solstice 7mo ago
Very cool idea, documented in a calm and clear video. From the description: > Upcycling a phone LCD into an optical contraption. > Pairing a DSLR lens with a mirrorless camera body leaves a gap that has to be filled by an adapter moun
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by solstice 7mo ago
Whoa thank you!
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by solstice 7mo ago
After quickly googling, it seems that the plans do not go as far as they make them out to be. The things to be catalogued are only those relevant in the fight against money-laundering. That's hardly "full commie style inventory of
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by solstice 8mo ago
Oh yeah I remember that. I use to hang around the customize.org forums a lot in 2003 trying out a lot of the visual styles for XP and winamp themes.
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by solstice 8mo ago
To scan photo albums I found that the book scanner at the local library worked very well. You probably take a slight hit in quality but the overall result is still very good I find.
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by solstice 8mo ago
I had a similar experience with Kubuntu on a xps13 from 2016 with only 8GB of RAM and the system suddenly freezing so hard that a hard reboot was required. While looking for the cause, I noticed that the system had only 250 MB of swap space
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by solstice 8mo ago
I regret wasting ten minutes on reading all of that...
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by solstice 8mo ago
See my sibling comment about fraidc.at
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by solstice 8mo ago
There's fraidyc.at which is quirky but does exactly that for multiple platforms and is based on RSS (i think)
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by solstice 9mo ago
I get your general point but as others said things are getting better. > Want to find any file anywhere instantly (including newly created)? No, impossible, there is only NTFS Everything app that does it. Fsearch exists and is pretty muc
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by solstice 1y ago
What I meant was: Why are you talking about Sanders polical views when the issue at hand is Framework's tonedeaf response to the OP's concerns. Your comment about Sanders might be true (although I doubt that he would espouse the s
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by solstice 1y ago
What does Bernie have to do with this? #whataboutism
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by solstice 1y ago
While it can certainly be difficult for anyone to be aware of intra-community drama (especially if it's in semi-transient media like Discord), the moment someone makes you aware of deeply problematic issues is the moment when you have
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by solstice 1y ago
This bookmarklet to shrink the width has been in my toolbox for a long time: javascript:(function(){%20var%20myBody%20=%20document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];%20var%20myBodyWidth%20=%20myBody.style.width;%20if%20(!myBodyWidt
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South Korea raises cyber threat level after datacentre fire – hacking fears(theguardian.com)
1 points by solstice 1y ago|1 comments
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by solstice 1y ago
> The fire broke out on Friday evening at the national information resources service in Daejeon, a major technology hub 140km (87 miles) south of Seoul. The facility is one of three operational government datacentres managing critical di
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by solstice 1y ago
Oh thank you! Should have listened to my inner voice pushing me to verify the quote's origin
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by solstice 1y ago
Mindblowing to see the staggeringly high tower of tech upon which modern chips are build. Machines capable of nanometer-precision movements at speeds subjecting their parts to 7G of acceleration... 25KW lasergun pew-pewing tin droplets 50k
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by solstice 1y ago
Oh wow, the second link I randomly clicked turned out to be the one on the Mr. Money toy robot I had as a child: https://www.theoldrobots.com/mrmoney.html What a "coin"cidence (ba-dum-tss). It's probably stil
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by solstice 1y ago
AFAIK they recommend using a dedicated chatmail-enabled provider to avoid problems with using a "normal" email provider. https://delta.chat/en/chatmail
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by solstice 1y ago
Would be cool to use "ten giga-euros" to express "10 billion €". A bit like giga-gram in ... astronomy?
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by solstice 1y ago
Germany and France do. It can be a PITA when dealing with English texts... But then again when dealing with things in an international context you'll also encounter Chinese and Indian systems for large numbers. Chinese: 1 yi 10 s
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by solstice 1y ago
Trevor Noah had a good take on the absurdity of stocks and unrealised gains with their Schrödinger's-cat-like qualities: https://youtu.be/Gqlbn2nPO-A?t=84
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by solstice 1y ago
damn, that sucks. I fully agree with the sentiment of your last sentence.
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by solstice 1y ago
I use them and like them. One thing to be aware of with the dialer (that might not be unique to Fossify): when dialing the number of an emergency service (like 112 in Germany), there is no indication in the app's UI that something is h
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by solstice 1y ago
You might be thinking about Charlie Stross' text/speech from 2018 in which he talks about corporations as slow AIs: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you...
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by solstice 2y ago
Could we stick an rtg-powered tracking beacon on it during its next flyby so that we can better calculate its orbit?
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by solstice 2y ago
That could work (given sufficiently good build-out of the data network), but for the mid-term you'd still need to have a way to receive SMS for 2FA etc.

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