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by wolrah 4y ago
As is Something Awful, which OP lists as inspiration. The forums are apparently still self sustaining financially, but I don't believe the user count has moved significantly for around a decade. It's unfortunate that classic web
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> We aren’t going to modify our security protocols so a handful of people can mod their STB, sorry :P Don't try to pass off lockdown nonsense as "security". If your "security" depends on a locked down end user d
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by wolrah 4y ago
OP isn't saying the person is barely tech literate because they didn't expect the image to be restorable, but that they're likely barely tech literate because they were using a word processor as an image editor. Abusing Micro
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by wolrah 4y ago
It sounds like you're a Quest user. You should be aware that Bigscreen was released on PC in April of 2016 as one of the original VR titles back when the Vive and Rift were brand new, years before Quest was even possible. The "s
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> It’s one of the reasons I think the “prioritizing profits” narrative rings hollow. Any profits they would have preserved by not-stopping for the first hotbox detector? Already burned by the costs of the closure and the response so far.
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> But if the internal storage of the TV (or the processor) can't handle above 100Mb/s it'll never practically matter. UHD Blu-Rays already exceed 100mbit/sec. That is current commercially distributed consumer content
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> I'd love to invest in a color laser but last time I went through this it was close to 600 bucks to just get started. A color laser is effectively four laser printers in one box, so it is inherently going to be multiple times the c
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by wolrah 4y ago
>You can already do this by effectively getting a pool of wildcard certs. That is absolutely not "effectively" the same. If I had a constrained CA cert for my domain, that CA cert would be the high value target which could pote
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by wolrah 4y ago
> At least my car runs QNX. Somewhere. Ford's Sync 3, Sync 4, and Sync 4A in-dash systems are all QNX running a HTML5 based UI, though the next revision will apparently be changing to Android. As far as I'm aware most of the fu
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> The power to compel others is dangerous. When one side already has massive power, it takes massive power to balance it. It is very rare that an individual will ever have the ability to stand up to a multi-billion dollar company on thei
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by wolrah 4y ago
When your "source" is a group that is basically the textbook definition of dishonest media, you should probably consider your entire position suspect. > This law seems like an extreme reaction, but to what many people believe i
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by wolrah 4y ago
You should really emphasize your first sentence in some way, it was really easy to have eyes drawn to the second part when skimming down the thread.
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A classroom library is a bookshelf in the class set up and stocked by the teacher of that class, usually so those students who finish work early have something quiet to do to kill time. Most of the classrooms I remember fondly as a kid had
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by wolrah 4y ago
I know it sounds really good to say no DLC ever, especially as a counter to so many abusive microtransaction implementations, but I think it should be obvious to anyone that development of new content needs to be paid for somehow . Sometim
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by wolrah 4y ago
> If it's not a distribution-level amount of drugs I think police just don't give a fuck, especially in larger cities. As someone who has a record over an ounce, lol. Cops LOVE weed being illegal. Claiming to smell weed prov
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Washington National has no 18, but only a 19 Depending on how long ago this happened that could be the same runway. There was an article that made the front page here in the last month or so about how the movement of the magnetic pole
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by wolrah 4y ago
> The machine doing the torrenting is tied directly to the access point, everything else is over wifi. That still doesn't make it faster to just torrent them again. If the LAN is slower than the WAN then a large file where the tra
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by wolrah 4y ago
> You do know that Touch Screen got included in Cars due to government regulations right? The government mandated Backup Camera's and once you had to put in a screen to serve as display for the backup camera then it only makes since
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by wolrah 4y ago
> my imaginary EU legislation would also prescribe that all essential vehicle information (speed, outside light status, fuel level) has a physical representation (lights, dials, etc., in the sense that there is nothing that could be desc
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by wolrah 4y ago
I am actually using an Android, but while I have Firefox installed I generally don't use it unless I have to. It just never feels like it works as well as Chrome, plus there's the entire sync ecosystem with desktop Chrome that al
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by wolrah 4y ago
The first browser extension I ever installed was the original Adblock for Firebird (maybe even Phoenix, I don't recall exact timing), and to this day an ad blocker is the first extension I install on a new browser profile. These days
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> There is a lot of security that relies on things simply being inconvenient. Remember how in the mid-00s it was pretty trivial for any nerd with a Linux laptop to sniff traffic on a WiFi network and intercept passwords? For years the s
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Is it possible for the magnetic poles to ever exist far from the geographic poles? The north magnetic pole has been south of 70 degrees as recently as the mid-1800s and the south magnetic pole is currently north of 65 degrees. Every h
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by wolrah 4y ago
> CANBUS was broken reliably, and if my memory serves me they even had a car you could take a shot at hacking yourself. This statement shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how automotive computer networks operate. The CAN bus is
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by wolrah 4y ago
> I am not saying that it is better to store files in SQLite, just saying that nothing wrong with it, if those files are below 1Mb. There is one very obvious thing wrong with it, the fact that those resulting images aren't files tha
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by wolrah 4y ago
> CPUs were single core back then You could still have multiple CPU cores via multiple sockets.
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> No, I specifically pointed out the first part mentions data not shared by the person in the first case. You missed that. In what universe is "the person's aircraft is actively broadcasting this information" not data shar
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> Having a battery on your server does nothing for being a UPS for your website if you don't also have one on your source of internet. Having a battery specific to your server allows the UPS for your network to last a lot longer. I
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by wolrah 4y ago
In my experience 40G gear can often be had for cheaper than 10G. I have a pair of Mellanox 40G Infiniband cards that cost me about $20 each on ebay and could be turned in to Ethernet cards with a few commands.
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by wolrah 4y ago
And they banned it again. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33992412

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