tomxor

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by tomxor 3y ago
At least it works. I find low-res bios screens reassuring... something I can depend on.
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by tomxor 3y ago
Since 2003, a total of 38 people have been extradited from the US to the UK... This is reserved for the most severe of crimes, you really think they are going to use it because a site didn't put up an age verification banner? I mean sh
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by tomxor 3y ago
Please don't do this, there is enough geo-blocking crap going on on the web as it is, it's discriminatory and often inaccurate. This is not international law, so unless you run business in the UK you can just ignore it (and based
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by tomxor 3y ago
:D Hah perfect, I can totally imagine that with the SA accent... and frankly more logical, I never got why they were called floppy disks in most of the world considering their predecessors.
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by tomxor 3y ago
Isn't this mainly an issue of garbage in garbage out? Most of the world's recorded images are not average or representative. People take and share images very selectively. As far as the model is concerned, what it produced proba
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by tomxor 3y ago
It's interesting how something unusual enough can temporarily unseat people from these group behaviours, maybe reaching some more genuine part of their personality.
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by tomxor 3y ago
I don't think so. It seems to be mostly a thing in the US, I presume for aesthetic purposes? In the UK we just leave them. For most roads, pavements and grassy areas (especially public areas), it's usually left alone, the leaves a
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by tomxor 3y ago
"Snooker" would be so much simpler, unfortunately it just turns into super high speed shrapnel.
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by tomxor 3y ago
If you ever wire a loudspeaker channel the wrong way around, it feels very weird as a lot (but not all for a stereo mix) of the sound will cancel with the other channel in the middle of the speakers and you can move your head through this d
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by tomxor 3y ago
Don't worry, Banksy is always waiting to strike just around the corner to spice up the place. Although then there is the risk of someone removing the wall and selling it. Also I noticed his latest thing got immediately scribbled over..
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by tomxor 3y ago
Straw man alert. Free != Lawless
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by tomxor 3y ago
They've been getting far more pragmatic in recent years. e.g non-free wifi drivers are now bundled on the installation images. Before this it was necessary to do a silly dance, manually downloading drivers and either modifying the inst
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by tomxor 3y ago
Missing an important bullet point: * Sleep deprivation reduces immune system function. I was surprised when none of the gov advice during covid included "improve your sleep", because that's one of the best ways to strengthe
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by tomxor 3y ago
Shameless plug, animation trying to illustrate a Trinitron aperture grille scanline effect in 140 js chars: https://www.dwitter.net/d/12335 Although like the author I feel like the Trinitrons don't look so good. A
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by tomxor 3y ago
They mention another post covering broader issues, just highlighting this as the worst: > I want to emphasise that the “Safari not responding” bug is far from the only issue effecting VoiceOver users on Mac. As our recent post on problem
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by tomxor 3y ago
No they just check the "water damage" sensors regardless of the problem and then tell you the price of changing the bottom bit, the top bit, and the price of a new machine, which are conveniently all the same price. [edit] Aha, to
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by tomxor 3y ago
> Car companies make their money from selling new cars, not keeping old ones on the road. I'm interested in how this could be realistically changed. I'm convinced most of the environmental and societal problems caused by econom
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by tomxor 3y ago
Touch screens are actually incredibly cheap off the shelf components compared to all of the bespoke physical buttons and dials required to kit out a car.
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by tomxor 3y ago
> create products that last longer, meaning fewer new ones need to be made Yes this is the solution, but it's hard to not feel apathetic about the whole thing - Capitalism becomes consumerism - One company can have an ethos, but ult
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by tomxor 3y ago
I'd pay to just not have one, but I'm not even sure that's possible any more. I'm really not looking forward to when I'm forced to buy a new car - few things make me more mad than smartphone tech with universally sl
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by tomxor 3y ago
Yeah the only thing that can beat the $5 wrench is plausibly deniable encryption + training to pass a polygraph. Very few people have this threat level and the will power to go that far.
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by tomxor 3y ago
I can't stress this enough, risk of losing (or breaking) your security keys is the number 1 threat when a service (correctly) offers no way to circumvent it's absence. This is the same for encryption: the number 1 threat is lost e
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by tomxor 3y ago
You can do one thing about it: badly train it >:) I've been doing this with bane of the internet "captcha" for ever, where I pass it with incorrect but plausible answers. I'm pretty good at doing this now.. and althou
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by tomxor 3y ago
Somewhere.. Someone.. Who wrote down their wifi password, on their fridge, with giant 3d magnetic letters, is shitting themselves right now./jk Interesting paper though, I wonder what non-infosec applications it might have.
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by tomxor 3y ago
*collaboration, not merging, which is a good thing :)
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by tomxor 3y ago
To be fair they aren't going nuts with them, I've seen worse examples. But I agree with you in principle, it's not necessary, and potentially harmful to overall performance. It also doesn't really belong in a ZFS tuning
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by tomxor 3y ago
Renaming pools is not related. Specifying devices to `zpool create` as path vs uuid vs partlabel vs partuuid makes absolutely no difference to the end result of what is written to the devices , and never did. ZFS does not rely on device pa
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by tomxor 3y ago
> I've read that it's necessary (and other's have said it's not) It is not, it's outdated advice that stubbornly persists. Try it yourself if you are not convinced, create a pool using /dev/sdx and cha
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by tomxor 3y ago
> - Make encryption just on or off instead of offering five or six options You can set "encryption=on", and it will select the default strongest option, currently AES-256-GCM > - Generate the encryption key for me, set up th
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by tomxor 3y ago
I was concerned about this aspect initially, but ZoL has been going for many years now. At this point even Debian (the most purist in terms of GPL considerations) includes ZoL in it's official repository. It doesn't distribute bin

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