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by tlavoie 4y ago
Alternatively, used Thinkpads and Dells are probably quite affordable for the capability, which includes the ability to repair and upgrade.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Right, that's usually when I go into story-telling mode, to paint a picture of exactly the sorts of things I'd be doing with the problem as an attacker. Technical vulnerability descriptions provide useful information, but people o
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Sure, there are reasonable use cases. It's worth pointing out where those use cases are not reasonable though, because those devs that don't know better will be inclined to treat obfuscated inputs as if they're trustworthy.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
As usual when I see this sort of thing, I have questions around the security needs of the application. Storing all of this information on the client means that the client has to be trusted to not mess with all of this state. If it's im
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I always have too many books started, but one on my to-do pile is Shoshana Zuboff's, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism." I ordered the paperback, so it's here, glaring at me.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Indeed, I have found mine handy for things like contacting the logging company whose sign indicated a closed hiking trail. I think I startled the gent by popping up on the radio, but was able to confirm that they were done for the day, and
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Also languages like OCaml, which while less known, are still getting improvements all the time. This was an interesting blog post series from a few years back: https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/06/06&#x
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Speaking of Scrabble, is there a decent online version for playing against other people? My wife loved the version that worked on her iPad, despite some clear bugs. I understand that it got killed off, to be replaced essentially with "
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by tlavoie 4y ago
This story is about my son and his girlfriend's experience, with a raven sort of wind-surfing off the front of their jeep as they drove down the highway: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/raven-dempste
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Not quite the same thing, but there are certainly places where people will choose to live, without conventional fire department coverage. I live on an island on Canada's coast, where there is a fire department, funded as a local improv
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by tlavoie 4y ago
My Kobo Libra H2O has quite a warm backlight, with variable brightness. I don't recall if the colour temperature is adjustable however.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
You might think that the average is not too terrible, but wow, there are some people at that one pointy end of the bell curve that make you shake your head. I present, "Canada's Worst Driver," a series that I watched quite a
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by tlavoie 4y ago
And then going beyond, for days, outside of BC. My son and his girlfriend went to work for a few months in Eagle Plains, YT. I had thought of northern BC as a long ways away, but then plotted out their route that just kept going, and going.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
An old manager used to like giving me PITA (Pain In The Ass) Projects that solved something useful, but were a bit arcane for some reason or other. A couple were printer-related, for our customers. One customer had a cheque-printing routine
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Presumably the self-driving car would do a controlled stop for the fake stop sign, so the asshole should be the human driver who rear-ends them for stopping in the middle of the block.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Ah, OK. Haven't tried that, mostly camera-off for work.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
What do you find to be missing for Google Meet? Firefox is also my daily driver, and my workplace is heavily into the whole Google ecosystem. Meet seems to be fine enough, but maybe I'm not looking for things that aren't shown to
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by tlavoie 4y ago
At the server level, nothing. What they're not getting though is the tracker data from all the _other_ places that the users of that instance go to. It really is refreshing to pull up uBlock, and see... zero. Just nothing at all that n
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I did minimal hardware DIY for temp/humity/pressure, with some Adafruit ESP32 boards and BME280 sensors. The inside unit has one of their e-paper displays to show inside/outside info, and sits in a box from the dollar store.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I'm fairly new to NixOS, but suspect that a NixOS install might end up smaller over time. With the ability to try out one-off package installs that don't become part of the more permanent config, and the "garbage collection&q
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I think the cool thing (regarding toxicity) is that with moderation at the instance level, and instances able to choose their federation partners, there are natural limits that aren't in place with a half-assed moderation in a centrali
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by tlavoie 4y ago
But people are moving in quantity, because tools like this enable the network effect to follow them to the new place(s). So no, this is not pointless.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I can add smart locks to my home alarm system. Which is also a subscription, of course.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Newer ferries run by BC Ferries (in British Columbia, Canada) are being set up as optionally-electric. Two will be in service where I live soon, replacing a slightly larger single ship today. The new ones have diesel engines running a gener
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Related, there is an excellent short (5-episode) series following Vancouver's North Shore Rescue. https://www.knowledge.ca/program/search-and-rescue-north-sho... It certainly puts their efforts into perspective, i
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by tlavoie 4y ago
I think the similar one I had was the Super Snapshot cartridge, and it was quite magical. If a game could fit in RAM, you could dump the works to an executable file, and then the cartridge had a speed-loader that made the drive much faster
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by tlavoie 4y ago
Right, sorry, I meant back-handed for Electron. I have used VS Code a bit for a class, but am usually an Emacs user.
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by tlavoie 4y ago
That's quite the back-handed compliment though, isn't it?
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by tlavoie 4y ago
And here I thought it might be a variant of the Dutch Reach method to avoid killing cyclists. ( https://www.theaa.com/driving-advice/safety/dutch-reach )
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by tlavoie 4y ago
There are services that will take your film, and get you a pile of images back. I did that some years ago, as my folks had hundreds of slides.

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