vman81

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by vman81 5d ago
Just because something is easily available does not mean that it isn't easily banned. That doesn't make it go away, but it gives a dystopian government a lot of excuses to go after people breaking the law.
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by vman81 11d ago
To be fair, the vegas loop is operating - shipping a few racks to space to save face/muddle the issue won't be a problem. Operating/scaling it in a commercially viable manner is the issue.
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by vman81 19d ago
Blocking DNS doesn't do much if the device isn't resolving hostnames and just pushes data to a bunch of preconfigured IPs tho...
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by vman81 24d ago
> The average person could care less about following politics Could they?
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by vman81 2mo ago
They'll argue you're "buying" a license that they can revoke when they feel like it. My feelings on the matter have been summed up by someone else more clever than me as: If buying isn't owning, then piracy isn&#x
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by vman81 2mo ago
> And yes, USB as main connection standard was driven by Apple. But USB as main charging standard was set by the EU. Hard disagree. Yes, they were quick to say that if you want to connect a device to their computers, you'd better be
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by vman81 4mo ago
What do you base "its international waters" on? It is considerably narrower than the 12nm limit for territorial waters.
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by vman81 6mo ago
Well, I may want to have a say in what websites the employees at work access in their browsers. For example.
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by vman81 6mo ago
> I’m generally with you, but I am not prepared to say companies should be forced to host and distribute content they believe reflects badly on them. If Apple and Google are hell-bent on killing sideloading, and they control 99% of the m
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by vman81 6mo ago
It's pretty, but almost exclusively focused on ATI/AMD and Nvidia with an intel thrown in for fun. Not actually a list of important GPUs.
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by vman81 6mo ago
Honorable mention, the Rendition Vérité 1000 https://fabiensanglard.net/vquake/index.html Released before the Voodoo 1 with glquake and gl support for Tomb Raider.
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by vman81 6mo ago
Yea, add a VNC jump host and a flaky spice based terminal and there are a bunch of things that can make your input not register properly.
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by vman81 8mo ago
Plenty of bad habits that cause chemical dependence would still benefit from a pause, even if temporary.
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by vman81 8mo ago
Managing documents on the back end can be very sensible, depending on your work context. Not having to deal with installations is also a real advantage in a heterogeneous environment with a mix of US-controlled operating systems and unencum
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by vman81 8mo ago
About half of all Faroese traditional food is fermented mutton or fish - air dried and boiled/roasted it triggers a lot of savory flavors that simply aren't on the spectrum of food you can buy at a supermarket. All of these meth
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by vman81 10mo ago
I'll allow it.
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by vman81 10mo ago
After seeing Grok trying to turn every conversation into the plight of white South African farmers, it was extremely obvious that someone was ordered to do so, and ended up doing it in a heavy-handed and obvious way.
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by vman81 1y ago
There's also a good case for geothermal plants at these sites, if the geology permits it. There has been a good deal of development, and more sites are usable.
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by vman81 1y ago
Writing top to bottom, and even left to right has/had advantages for mostly right-handed writers to avoid moving your hand over and smudging previously written text.
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by vman81 1y ago
Reminds me of the youtube video where Ahoy recreates one of the classic 4 Byte images from the 80's 4-Byte Burger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4EFkspO5p4
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by vman81 1y ago
> Entrenches Google, Facebook, etc. because they are the only people that have enough money to comply with the regulation. I have very little sympathy for the idea of NOT storing user data is some sort of onerous regulatory burden. Just
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by vman81 1y ago
> As long as a market exists that can profit from exploiting PII, and is so large that it can support other industries, data will never be radioactive. The EU bureaucracy machine can be slow moving, but has the potential to fix this. The
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by vman81 1y ago
Much like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is nominally democratic.
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by vman81 1y ago
Corner to corner with their hinge opened to 180°
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by vman81 2y ago
There have been plenty of pictures of older landing sites. Most of those people have a part of their identity tied up in contrarian ideas, and would find a way to call it fake, even if you personally flew them up to the landing sites to
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Pin analysis – patterns in user-selected PINs(datagenetics.com)
1 points by vman81 2y ago|0 comments
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by vman81 2y ago
I'm guessing poorly configured log files?
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by vman81 2y ago
If anyone needs a palate cleanser after listening to a depressing ATC recording, I can recommend this heartwarming first time solo flying teenager dealing with her landing gear coming off after takeoff. https://www.youtube.com
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by vman81 2y ago
Regarding sci-fi; Joshua "Lagrange" Calvert did a fancy maneuver in Peter F. Hamilton's Reality Dysfunction involving a lagrange point that gave him that nickname.
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by vman81 2y ago
Just dropping a link like that about a car manufacturer doing even worse without any argument attached just comes across as coping or soviet style whataboutism. They just edged out Honda - a company with 4% of their market cap. Not reall

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