whoopdedo

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by whoopdedo 2y ago
I don't believe the "Digital Video Express"[1] (aka DIVX[2]) discs were ever cracked while they were on the market. But that's only because they were only sold for 1 year and nobody bought any. Even now finding informati
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
Discord isn't IRC. Discord is AIM.
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by whoopdedo 2y ago
This is a double-brood year. But also, one of these broods is infected with the Massospora fungus. It's one of those mind-control parasites that makes the males "hyper-sexual"[1]. The zombie cicadas are driven to mate more ag
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Clever headline writer making me think he didn't like the Ubisoft games.
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Seeing so many commits that are "skip failing test" is a very strong code smell.
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
It serves the purpose of redirecting public funds into a private company's coffer. > collecting data from prople's phones ... and then sharing that information with the town By "sharing" I assume they mean "selli
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Does this still work if you have user namespace covered by AppArmor? https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/spec-unprivileged-user-namesp...
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Because US vs MS (2001) was overturned and a slap-on-the-wrist settlement offered instead. Microsoft was never punished for tying MSIE to Windows.
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
> I would argue the Chinese are focusing more resources in Australia compared to the US. It's in their interest to influence Australian politicians since that's where all the TLAs intercept Chinese communications from.
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
I'd like a content ID system for AI generated media. If someone tries to pass an image to me as authentic I can check its hash against a database that will say "this was generated by such-and-such LLM on 18 Mar 2024." Maybe e
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
I'll add this to reasons why I'm opposed to always-on telemetry. A hackintosh should know that its crash reports will be unhelpful to Apple and not bother sending them. It's a waste of your time to deal with data coming from
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
> Fiddlesticks After some brief research, it seems that most any wood can be used, so it's possible there were redwood bows made sometime. The preferred wood is pernambuco. (From the Brazilian paubrasilia echinata tree, now an endan
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
That was DS9, "Take Me Out to the Holosuite"[1]. And the date is 2042. That doesn't exclude a different reference that was made somewhere in TNG but I don't remember any and this episode is very memorable. [1] https:&#x
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
>Adblock settings are typically found under: Services -> Adblock Network -> Adblock That's incorrect. There is no "Adblock Network" navigation. > There should be a tab or section labeled "Whitelist". You
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Are there? This seems to be one of those illusion of choice industries where the different brands are only relabeling of the same factory reference designs.
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
> Google Search is currently expanding the test of a "forums" filter that lets you browse through results from sites with human discussion, like Reddit Yeah, about that whole "human discussion" thing...
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
I'm pretty sure both AOL and cellular phones pre-date StuffIt. Not that WinRAR or 7zip would have helped as I don't believe either of them ever supported SIT archives.
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Even without a proper modulation monitor, simply tuning a radio to the station will tell you if you're on-air or not. The operators knew. They just didn't care. Or they may not have known that the tower had been stolen and assumed
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
It's more that I half-expected well-known mappings to be baked in. Like "Times" -> "Times New Roman". Didn't they also name one of their new fonts "SanFrancisco" much to the ire of Susan Kare fans.
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Did you attempt to extract the pictures so they could be converted directly by another program? Archive Team says that LibreOffice can read vector PICT files[1]. And then saved as SVG. Of course you still have the font problem if it has tex
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
I consider it more of not knowing how much better we could have had it. Small monitors were "normal." But I imagine people who got to work with the Portrait Display[1] (an impressive 640x870 resolution!) felt then as we do now whe
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
> That way I can see actual fonts, font sizes and layout to confirm how the document should have looked. Or you would if you had the original fonts. Word 4.0 was released for System 6 with support as far back as System 3.2. Fonts at that
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
I support increasing the legislature because it changes the economics of lobbying. Right now you can wine-and-dine half dozen representatives and lock in a vote. In a larger House the lobbyists would have to spend that much more to "bu
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
> probably for a magical or divinatory purpose rather than determining whether your wizard made her saving throw. Why should I assume humans playing recreational games is a recent invention?
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Systems are built to be fault tolerant because hardware errors are inevitable. Bit-flips in RAM and disks, line noise in transmission circuits, voltage fluctuations, etc. And these problems are statistical. In a new machine the chance of er
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Uh-oh. Will Portal for Apple II be next? http://www.deater.net/weave/vmwprod/portal/
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Intergraph[1] workstations based on the Fairchild Clipper CPU included a 80186 for booting into PC-DOS. At $30K in '80s dollars that might have made it the most expensive way to run DOS. But I think when booted into UNIX the 186 was us
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
Then later on there was Azile[1], the evil twin to Eliza. Instead of being trained with data to make it sound helpful and supportive, it uses hostile and insulting language. [1] https://www.civilizr.com/communication/az
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
CREATE TABLE even_or_odd ( is_odd NUMBER(1); is_even NUMBER(1); is_zero NUMBER(1); is_one NUMBER(1); is_two NUMBER(1); is_three NUMBER(1); -- ... ); INSERT INTO even_or_odd (is_odd,is
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by whoopdedo 3y ago
This becomes even more apparent when you turn the circumference of the fixed circle into a straight line. (As the video suggested but didn't show in the same way.) The center of the rolling circle will trace a line parallel and equal l

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