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by soneil 9mo ago
This was one of the "lessons learnt" from the XZ incident. One of the (many) steps they took to avoid scrutiny was modifications that existed in the real tarball but not the repo.
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by soneil 10mo ago
The sad thing is that's pretty accurate. I do value the inconvenience. When I put an album on, I put an album on. I don't hit next, random, go wandering off down rabbitholes. I put the album on. And I do see the cost as a featur
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by soneil 10mo ago
What you'll tend to notice with "willing participants" is that they're not looking for truth, they're looking for confirmation. No-one asks for proof when you tell them what they want to hear.
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by soneil 10mo ago
In my family it's the other way around - it's the people that used to tell us not to talk to strangers on the internet, and not to believe everything we see on the internet, who are now doing precisely that.
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by soneil 10mo ago
Isn't it great being able to rely on tech that isn't doing what we think it's doing. I don't even need to keep an eye on my cooking anymore, the smoke alarm beeps when I get too close.
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by soneil 11mo ago
My understanding is that the "nugget of truth" that birthed the "routing around nuclear attack" myth, is that it was a consideration in Paul Baran's packet-switching work at RAND. So it wasn't a design consider
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by soneil 1y ago
bps are easy. packets per second is the crunch. Say you've got 64 bytes per packet, which would be a worst-case-scenario - you're down to 150Mpacket/sec. Sending one byte after another is the easy bit, the decisions are mad
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by soneil 1y ago
> How do you physically solder a chip the wrong way around? With effort, and bodge-wire. I've seen chips done dead-bug style when the board's been messed up (eg, the footprint is orientated for the bottom of the board, but pla
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by soneil 1y ago
> Nit: It's the Pi 500+ I really want to hope the name is a nod to the Amiga 500+ (which had twice the RAM of the A500 ..)
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by soneil 1y ago
I think the common mistake they’re alluding to is Europe and north America having conflicting standards for colour-coding the pumps. So here green is unleaded and black is diesel, which can catch American tourists unaware. (Especially so wi
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by soneil 1y ago
It'd be some fluke of an accident. You'd need to be targeting not only debian:testing/unstable, but specifically debian:testing-20240311. And then - making sure not to apt upgrade at any point so you don't accidentally
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by soneil 1y ago
I'm not convinced it was really their strategy on digital that killed them. I mean it's clear their film camera business was a "razor blades" model in support of their film business - then they tried to approach digital
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by soneil 1y ago
I was looking at CIPA stats[0] yesterday. This appears to be a Japanese trade association, so it covers a lot of the biggest names in photography - but not Kodak. But the numbers surprised me much beyond what I thought I already knew. Int
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by soneil 1y ago
Ironically, DB owned many lines in the UK up until recently (via their ownership of Arriva)
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by soneil 1y ago
The part that really feels different to me, is that I'm not sure that a 12yo equivalent of myself would get far with View Source anymore. I think that was my single greatest resource, and on a huge majority of sites it won't get y
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by soneil 1y ago
That's the whole point of the parent comment - you don't trigger customs requirements by leaving and re-entering the country. You trigger them by entering from another country. for example - you don't need a passport to trave
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by soneil 1y ago
There's been a bridge there since the 13th century, and the current bridge is a listed structure built 1857. It's not really something you'd choose to build today.
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by soneil 1y ago
We had an issue like this with a small office lottery at work. So our "setup" was simple. Our national lottery has a 'bonus ball' mechanism. Each participant in the office lottery bought a number. If this week's b
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by soneil 1y ago
"This app is currently not available in your country or region." (Ireland) Seems like a strange thing to be geolocked?
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by soneil 1y ago
Possibly. We'd need to know whether the Siberian equipment could survive Nevada to make that call.
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by soneil 1y ago
I have to go figure out exactly how this works now, as I'm likely affected. When my smtp server connects to, eg gmail's smtp server - I'd ordinarily consider my smtp server the client within the scope of that connection. So a
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by soneil 1y ago
What else would someone who dials 911 be trying to achieve? And does the benefit outweigh the cost? 911 has enough mindshare that it'd be silly to use it for anything else. And if you're not going to use it for anything, a redir
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by soneil 2y ago
The front page has a footer that names a single individual, and links to their personal site which feels a little less suspicious.
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by soneil 2y ago
Interesting observation that the "UK doesn't even own its Trident missiles". Legally, they do. They bought title to 58 missiles, in what's effectively a co-mingled inventory. They're not leased, they're not
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by soneil 2y ago
I have a sibling who was deported from the US (long, stupid story). There was a 6 month gap from when we'd been told he'd been deported, to when he was actually deported. And this was 15-20 years ago, it's not a recent chang
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by soneil 2y ago
Fonts with 'routed' in their names are often a good place to look for this - they're named thus because they were designed to be scribed/engraved with a router, so very frequently have a constant width. (and if you'
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by soneil 2y ago
I don't think I've ever lost a setting from there. the manpage (path_helper) was last updated 2007, so I think it's fair to say it's not a very dynamic corner of the OS.
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by soneil 2y ago
I really like the /etc/paths.d/ mechanism the mac uses. Such a simple thing, I'm surprised I haven't seen it adopted elsewhere.
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by soneil 2y ago
I always understood this to be a trust issue. "We" (loosely, I'm English) tend towards trusting the courts, so we allow them to keep secrets. The US was built on a healthy distrust of the state, so names were released so pe
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by soneil 2y ago
Surely this is entirely the opposite of proving a negative? It's a direct, testable, provable claim.

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