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by tristor 2y ago
Disabling SSID broadcasts is pointless and just makes some client-side WiFi features worse. The real advice is: 1. Don’t trust your ISP supplied router, replace it with a modem only CPE or figure out how to operate it in bridge mode. Then
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by tristor 2y ago
Only due to cost, the majority of that share is not devices that are capable of doing what would be required for an app like Kino to work with these features. The share of flagship Android devices worldwide is lower than flagship iOS device
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by tristor 2y ago
SQL is easy to understand from the perspective of syntax, but quickly becomes challenging to understand depending on the data model how to actually get what you want out of a query. I have spent many years working in SQL across different s
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by tristor 2y ago
> I guess people are realizing that working hard won't get you anything close to what previous generations had. I hear this a lot. It’s also untrue. If you are open to anecdata, it’s trivial to prove this is untrue. What people con
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by tristor 2y ago
It looks like Nebo is an alternative note-taking app? I will email the Standard Notes dev team and see if they are planning to do the lift for OCR on this type of device. I see upthread someone has mentioned Obsidian will do so.
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by tristor 2y ago
I am not an Android user, but I primarily rely on a cross-platform note taking app that supports Android. Does Android with this device support OS-native OCR to convert writing to text? I'm curious if this is usable with Standard Not
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by tristor 2y ago
This triggered a repressed memory. I was once on an ops team responsible for an application that had been turned over to us written in Java. The application ran in Tomcat, and prior to turning it over to us, the external vendor had "
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by tristor 2y ago
I am very well traveled and I spent considerable amounts of time in Europe in various different countries, I am however American, with particularly Midwestern sensibilities. One of the most common threads throughout the culture and society
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by tristor 2y ago
I am far from an expert on cognitive science, however I have given a considerable amount of thought around the topic of consciousness and AGI, and particularly about what the nature of consciousness even is. I would consider myself erudite
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by tristor 2y ago
I really liked the N64, but if we're being charitable it's probably like 30-40 games. For any given console, even those that achieve legendary status, the game quality follows a Pareto distribution, 80% is crap, 20% is worth play
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by tristor 2y ago
I was unaware of people using naltrexone for hangover prevention and did a bit of spot research, it seems naltrexone only prevents the buzz/euphoria from alcohol consumption but doesn't prevent impairment or hangover symptoms, suc
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by tristor 2y ago
Fair point, but I also think something that's /really/ clear is that LLMs don't understand (and probably cannot). It's doing highly contextual text retrieval based on natural language processing for the query, it&#
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by tristor 2y ago
As someone that duct-tapes hidden AirTags in my luggage (replacing former use of Tile, but AirTags have a bigger network and I use an iPhone) this is not good news for me. I have close to a 0% concern about stalkers, and I have a significa
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by tristor 2y ago
> So if I'm reading this right, huge layoffs followed by lots of churn with an overall decrease in salaries. But I must be missing something because the framing & wording seems to suggest that this is a positive thing. You read
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by tristor 2y ago
Having been through similar situations in my past life, I can confidently say that they don't need more CPU cores, they need to start really looking at their architecture holistically and identifying the critical path that can be rewri
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by tristor 2y ago
I am a cynical and curmudgeonly person so I am usually want to agree with your take, however I think you have missed something critically important: Most technical people learn by doing. There is value in doing something even if you throw
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by tristor 2y ago
I used to use AirBnB extensively when I was a digital nomad. After the pandemic I took my wife (I was newly married post-pandemic) and my stepdaughter on their first international trip and had booked presumably nice AirBnBs to stay at. Ev
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by tristor 2y ago
Just another piece of critical infrastructure or technology that’s suffering enshittification. Bureaucratic capture ensures that any technology produced in a regulated environment requires a large organization to produce it, ensuring the ex
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by tristor 2y ago
How? Serious question. This uses DHCP Options to set routes, which is an optional behavior on the client (but on by default), I have it disabled. I also don’t allow setting DNS via DHCP or anything but giving me an IP and gateway. Client
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by tristor 2y ago
Why would you be unlikely to bring your own router in a coffee-shop situation? My travel router fits in a small pouch with its power adapter and together is no larger than a couple of decks of cards. If I have my laptop, then I have my ba
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by tristor 2y ago
I currently carry a GL-Inet MT-3000 with me.
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by tristor 2y ago
There are numerous ways to defeat a VPN on a client device, this is why I prefer to put a router that terminates VPN tunnels with no other available routes between my clients and the Internet when I feel the need for a VPN. You can trivial
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by tristor 2y ago
Honestly, I've had a number of microwaves in my life and I have read the manuals and attempted to use various other types of operation (such as sensor cooking). The reasons why I don't typically use those additional modes of oper
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by tristor 2y ago
Because at the time, the three "official" projects had inter-related codenames. The browser component came first and the name change from Phoenix to Firebird had already happened, then email and calendaring were started which bec
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by tristor 2y ago
This is a relatively accurate recollection. Each of the components of Seamonkey (which was the successor to Netscape, containing Navigator, Communicator, and others as you mentioned) was eventually rolled into a separate standalone project
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by tristor 2y ago
As someone who was heavily involved in the project at the time that this was all going on, the narrative in this blog post is not remotely accurate. Not only is the narrative around bullying patently false, but this post doesn't even
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by tristor 2y ago
Learning QBASIC with assistance from my dad on our family Tandy PC when I was 4-6 years old was a major driver for my career in technology later in life. Who else remembers the simple game Gorillas that came with QBASIC with its source cod
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by tristor 2y ago
I am required to carry full coverage because my car is financed. Even when I've paid a car off, I still carry full coverage, because liability-only policies tend to not help in my past experiences mostly due to the absolute epidemic o
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by tristor 2y ago
Organizations have been doing 2FA for VPN connections for over a decade. The janky way to do it way back in the day (when people still had RSA token keychains) was to use an authentication server plugin that would require the user to enter
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by tristor 2y ago
Same here, been WFH since 2015, however I did do a lot of driving for other reasons previously. Since 2022 however I drive less than 7000 miles a year, and that includes a family road trip each year for the holidays that is ~2500 miles rou

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