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by somat 7mo ago
The California law says nothing about verification or immutability, what if someone made a mistake when putting in their age? Why do we need to hide it? Better to just let the user change this at will.
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by somat 7mo ago
No you don't, the compliant user will up date this information as necessary.
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by somat 7mo ago
Here is the exact text of the california law, make your own opinion. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml... What I got out of it was that an os has to provide an interface to applications so th
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by somat 7mo ago
But it's not piracy either. People just want to make the crime sound worse then "infringement" Might as well call it "software rape" as that crime is closer to what is being done than than theft or piracy.
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by somat 7mo ago
The scary thing about a class D fire is that it is self oxidizing. They are very hard/impossible to put out. Usually the best you can do is isolate it from anything else that can burn and let it burn itself out, if you have the space a
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by somat 7mo ago
On that topic, the 8pin modular ethernet plug has a number of downsides, but it has one huge upside that completely redeems it in my books. It is super easy to field terminate ethernet. I wish all connector ends were as easy to replace. I h
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by somat 7mo ago
I like to joke about what sort of idiot designs a round connector that is keyed, the worst of both worlds. Now, a round keyed connector is not necessarily a bad thing, the round shell can be very strong, but the ps/2 mini-din went too
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by somat 7mo ago
Kitty litter is not a bad choice for a class D metal fire but make sure you have the correct type. You want the stuff made out of bentonite clay, not the stuff made out of grain byproducts. https://practical.engineering/blog
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by somat 7mo ago
Needing an app for these things is stupid in the first place, but the real kick in the metaphorical nuts is that the needed app should be stored on the device. Want to use your phone to control the device load the program to do so off the d
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by somat 7mo ago
I love small personal projects like this, especially their writeups. I always have a hard time learning unless I am actually using it for something. For more software in this domain see also the excellent entr https://eradman.com
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by somat 7mo ago
On a pedantic note, that is unimportant to the discussion at hand, but I want to talk about it anyway. quantum computers have theoretical gains in some specific domains but would not do anything for this one. Anyhow I have doubts about even
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by somat 7mo ago
No they don't. Sure, if you are trying to capture the entire web with hourly latency for billions of users, that takes significant resources. But if your goal is to catalog the subsection of the web you are interested in with weekly la
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by somat 7mo ago
It is when the application comes with it's own window manager, blender comes to mind.
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by somat 7mo ago
With regards to the windows key, I have grown to appreciate it, I am on a X11 desktop and map all my window functions to it which makes a lot of sense, then ctl and alt can be freely used by applications however they like. I suspect this is
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by somat 7mo ago
It is situational but I think on a modern wide screen(or screens) if it is a single text-like document(like a web page or a terminal) you want 2 or perhaps 3 side by side. if the app implements it's own window management(like blender)
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by somat 7mo ago
firmware should not have to be signed. it's a user hostile practice to prevent people from owning their machines. The real problem is the online update. put the firmware on a sd card.
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by somat 7mo ago
I have a slightly stupid take on tier lists I put together recently. A perfect chance to try it out. https://compare.outband.net It started as a shower thought on how to rank arbitrary items and ended as a janky web app written
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by somat 7mo ago
I mean, you are right, but.... It's the web, it's not supposed to get local files it gets web files and we don't ole for a reason. microsoft tried that with IE(activeX) and found out the hard way. but despite that it does a p
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by somat 7mo ago
Oh xcalc. My favorite xcalc hack is that every single button is an x11 window and you can reparent other windows into them. xwininfo -tree xdotool windowreparent 0x1e0000b 0x2c0001d great fun at parties
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by somat 7mo ago
After reading an old 1870's sign painting book I really like the historical terms. There is roman style and egyptian style. https://dn790009.ca.archive.org/0/items/signpaintersguid00ga...
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by somat 7mo ago
That will not fix changing networks which will change your dns provider.
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by somat 7mo ago
I wonder if the designers of cold war soviet planes read the same color theory because their cockpits are always a very particular indescribable shade of green. There were also very specific colors for subsystems, yellow for fuel, purple fo
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by somat 7mo ago
No idea on the hard data. but... We classify competitions for a reason. The competition is more interesting when the competitors are categorized into similar ability. You can't bring your formula1 to a touring car race just because you
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by somat 7mo ago
I had to make something like this at work once (allow access during some hours deny it at other times. and they wanted it enforced at the packet level) and I was a new sys-admin and all I had was an old linux box with iptables. It was endin
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by somat 7mo ago
you may be on to something here. "you want to play our game, boot it off a usb drive"
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by somat 7mo ago
A nice joke but... this is an sgi, they pretty much invented accelerated graphics. Original glquake used minigl which was GL cut down and neutered to fit within the glide api, these guys invented and their systems could run the full GL. The
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by somat 7mo ago
Now I am curious, how does the voodoo 1 compare with the native o2 gfx? The o2 used a unified memory scheme so it's graphics were never as fast as it's big brother the octane's impact graphics but because of the unified memor
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by somat 7mo ago
It makes me think of ipsec, ipsec was originally intended to be used sort of the the same as we use tls today, but application independent. when making a connection to a random remote machine the os would see if it could spool up a ipsec sa
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by somat 7mo ago
here is a great video documentary on the m-15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlyO9cJ8hiQ (Alexander the ok: PZL Mielec M-15: One of the Aircraft of All Time)
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by somat 7mo ago
If we are doing a survey, you missed one of the most interesting ones teapot https://www.syntax-k.de/projekte/teapot/

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