ultramancool

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by ultramancool 10y ago
Yeah, if your rationale isn't "it's easy and cheap", you're probably full of shit. When it's to the point where I can push a button and have a TV show pop up on my NAS viewable on all my devices in a few minute
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Sounds similar to the China Dos Union MS-DOS "7.1" which used the DOS from Windows 98 and included FAT32 support, long file names and a CD-based installer. https://winworldpc.com/product/ms-dos/7x
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by ultramancool 10y ago
This is why I frequently ask up the chain to confirm requirements in a "is it ever possible we might want to do X?" way quite often. Getting outright "no"s will often help to simplify your design and if it comes back to
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Well said. I was recently passed off a project from someone who didn't have a development background but had been working on C++... the amount of copy-paste, repetitive if statements and fixed length arrays makes the original code almo
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Well... that's one interpretation of it I suppose...
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by ultramancool 10y ago
I don't think that's necessarily true, I use Synergy on my desktop - 2 machines, a windows box for gaming and windows dev and a Linux box for most general uses including most dev work, ops work on servers, etc. Something like WSL
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Reminds me of Psycho-Pass where everyone is basically assigned a criminality rating and you're arrested or killed on the spot if it gets too high.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Yeah, might work if you have a bookmark or something which would store a title locally though.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Thunderbird by default doesn't load external web content, you have to explicitly allow it.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Check out librevault, it does encrypted file sync using a DHT to find peers, allows for encrypted-only nodes which cannot decrypt your files (so you can throw them up on cheap VPSes, or friend's machines without worry) and in a nice op
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by ultramancool 10y ago
It would be so easy to beat this though (if you want the analog hole route), ultimately that gets decoded and sent to the speakers in the headphones, rip the headphones apart. Unless they start doing serious hardware anti-tamper in headphon
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by ultramancool 10y ago
I can no longer charge my phone and listen to audio at the same time. Something I do at my desk every day.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
> More often than not the wired headphones become the hassle, whether it's tangled cords or just keeping them out of the way. I'm sure there are plenty of people who use wired headphones every day but there are also plenty of p
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Happened to me in about 4 or 5 months. Ridiculously crappy, quicker than the ones Lenovo and Dell ship even. I expected better build quality from Apple but given the heat and noise issues I have I don't really think I've seen it.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Local IP will remain consistent across sessions and so can be used to identify you as certain device at a given public IP.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
PDF viewer is over the line too, Evince and Sumatra are so much faster and render nicer.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Yeah, but let's be honest, if I had a job as a manager at a theater and a moderate amount of reverse engineering skill or a small team of friends with those, well, time, access and tools combine quite well... Sure, they make it look al
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by ultramancool 10y ago
This is why you should use Tor only with a series of VMs, one with internet and tor access to act as a router and the other which can only access the router vm. This lowers the attack surface to just that of Tor's proxy interface and y
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Let's compare with Google's: 1. Play Store 2. hamburger menu 3. Account 4. Subscriptions Not a lot better, but at least makes more sense than "View Apple ID" I think.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
As I said, certainly there are many websites which stand to profit from this who could contribute. Of course, with something this small and basically one-off, given the number of open source devs building bitcoin projects I'd be surpri
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by ultramancool 10y ago
If the system was designed right any infrastructure could be distributed (put a bitcoin address and a notification URL in your HTML or something dead simple like that) and development could be sponsored by interested parties if needed. Ther
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Yeah, I mean if it won't beat a CRC wouldn't ECC RAM be a reasonably easy solution to this and wouldn't most servers already be secured against it?
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by ultramancool 10y ago
http://notreddit.top Not much political stuff on the past day right now but if you look at the past month's posts about the US presidential candidates you'll see what I'm talking about.
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by ultramancool 10y ago
There's a site that indexes reddit's most downvoted posts and quite often it's about 75% right-leaning political news being posted to major news and politics subreddits, if you visit those subreddits, the upvoted stuff is ind
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by ultramancool 10y ago
What on last.fm ever needs a secure password though? Maybe someone can listen to my premium radio if I paid for it, or scrobble as me, but I really don't care about either of those. As a user, a less secure password for sites that need
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by ultramancool 10y ago
You missed a key point: > unless your terminal emulator filters out the bracketed paste characters when pasting! Any sane terminal should already be doing that, if not there's not really any point in offering bracketed paste in the
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Yeah, I keep stuff like that disabled for this reason, and because random sites like to add urls when you copy text. Just set dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled = false. Some shells also handle the paste and try to detect anything funny goin
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Unfortunately speech recognition often produces results so unusable that it might be harder to clean it up later as you wouldn't be able to tell what you were even trying to say. ... or, for the sake of argument, the same thing by spee
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Yeah, I started looking around the market for smart watches recently and a Pebble seemed like the only realistic option. Does the notifications perfectly, uses an eink display so you get maxed out battery life and don't have to do obno
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by ultramancool 10y ago
Yeah, this is why acquiring the "taste" for a new alcohol often boils down to getting drunk on it a few times. And annecdotally, most pot smokers didn't like the smell at first, but are now quite pleased by it.

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