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by wolrah 4y ago
Well this is a surprise turn of events, at least at this time the ElonJet account is back (though the author's personal account and his other interesting aircraft tracker accounts remain suspended at this time). https://twit
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Elon didn’t make the data available so we can discount that. Did you miss the part where this data is legally required to be broadcast openly? This isn't private information, so whether or not Elon wants it to be shared is irrele
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Not to mention a doxing that is my understanding violation of T's policy. But yes, you then have to ban Gatesjet, Puinjet and so forth. https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/personal-info... Twi
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by wolrah 4y ago
> How is this different then doxing? Because it's public information that's literally broadcast to anyone listening by every aircraft above a certain size/speed. This isn't information that is considered secret or ev
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by wolrah 4y ago
> This is a thin wrapper around ffmpeg, which does all of the real work here and is a much more powerful and versatile tool. Why does this ship an entire web browser? Why does this even exist? The world may never know. You answered &quo
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by wolrah 4y ago
I do it all the time, first cutting up my long GoPro videos in to the actually interesting segments and then merging those all together. Works great.
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by wolrah 4y ago
LosslessCut does work with HEVC, but the GUI doesn't support playing them so it generates a low-res H.264 video to use as a stand-in for previewing and then does the actual cuts on the real file. I mostly use it for cutting up clips fr
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by wolrah 4y ago
> It isn’t symmetric. Being X kph faster than traffic is significantly more risky than being X kph slower than traffic. You're neglecting one very important fact: A driver who is correctly taking advantages of the freedom of a deres
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by wolrah 4y ago
X.509 technically does support a parameter in CA certificates called Name Constraints which allows them to be restricted to issuing certificates within a specific set of names. Historically this feature has not been well supported though i
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by wolrah 4y ago
> When I got vaccinated for various diseases, it gave long term immunity, not 4 doses over months to lessen the symptoms. Which works for some diseases. Others are only effective for shorter periods of time and/or against specifi
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Everyone’s different, but to me it does not seem worth giving up the convenience of the Switch. To me, the Switch's portability is irrelevant. I'm not really a "game on the go" guy, it's just the console I had
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by wolrah 4y ago
Hey now, that dihydrogen monoxide is dangerous stuff. Extended contact with the solid form can cause severe injury, and the gaseous form in significant quantities doesn't even need extended contact, it does its damage almost immediate
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by wolrah 4y ago
I definitely found it fun, and back then I was working with limited disk space so I enjoyed the challenge of optimizing for quality and encoding speed while still getting the file size down to a reasonable target. I lost interest in HD ripp
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Why not buy the movie you want to watch (so that the creators get paid) and then torrent an .mkv you can play anywhere and keep forever? This is exactly the approach I've taken for the HD era and it works great. Back in the DVD er
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by wolrah 4y ago
Expanding on this: Windows expects the system clock (the one you can set from the BIOS that keeps time when you don't have NTP) to be set to the local time zone by default. Linux and most other operating systems expect the system cloc
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by wolrah 4y ago
When a person does bad things and then is accurately described as having done those bad things it's not poisoning the well, it's putting up a sign saying "this well was poisoned".
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by wolrah 4y ago
I recently built something similar with a 4.2" panel based on these instructions: https://georgik.rocks/weather-display-for-lilygo-ttgo-t5-4-7... I think I might have seen that link here, either here or Reddit. I tweak
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by wolrah 4y ago
> What if he(and others like me) believe that working in-person really is truly necessary for accomplishing great work? Well, it's his (and your) right to be wrong but that's a belief that was already on very shaky ground befor
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by wolrah 4y ago
For what it's worth I have around 25 Linodes active, mostly in Newark but a few in Atlanta and Dallas as well. Of those I had two in Newark which actually had their leases expire before we were aware of what was going on and then found
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by wolrah 4y ago
Non-mobile link for those of us using desktop browsers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library (can someone explain to me why every site in the world will redirect mobile browsers to a limited page but won't redi
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by wolrah 4y ago
Anything that can reasonably be wired should be wired. Anything where consistent performance matters should be wired. Wireless networks are for convenience, not as a default. They're for things that need to be mobile more than they ne
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Is TSLA at risk for a rogue CEO I'd argue that somewhere between "Funding Secured", eliminating the entire PR department, and being unable to keep a general counsel for more than a few months they've already been th
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Considering that Google's own login screen suggests using a private window if you're not using your own computer, you'd think that this would work. It will, and does, normally, but it likely increases a "suspicion&q
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by wolrah 4y ago
The primary contributor to this project for the last two years is this one individual who for obvious reasons isn't interested in putting further effort in to a platform that doesn't want their work. The project isn't refusin
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Presumably you understand how DNS records (and more generally the entire domain name system system) work. Do you think your system would work for someone who did not have any of this background knowledge? I feel like this is still a si
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by wolrah 4y ago
> Imagine having an email address that you could move from Gmail to Yahoo Mail to Outlook, and all the emails would keep reaching you. You mean like...email? Or Jabber? Or Matrix? Or SIP? I've moved my email a half dozen times, m
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by wolrah 4y ago
A monitor driver, at least in the form most people remember dealing with on Win32 systems, wasn't even a piece of software. It was just a .INF file containing the Windows equivalent to X modelines describing what modes and was only ne
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by wolrah 4y ago
This isn't a monitor though, it's another standalone computer that you're streaming an image to. The wired connection option isn't using DisplayPort or HDMI signaling over USB-C, it's establishing a network connect
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by wolrah 4y ago
> If only I had a way to write a phone app for my phone with my phone. Press 1 if you're not a robot. That's one of the things Google Voice does, and there are a bunch of other similar "find me/follow me" service
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by wolrah 4y ago
> As long as you have bandwidth latency really isn’t that important for most activities. As someone who recently spent a week at a vacation house that had HughesNet, you have no idea how wrong this is. Every single individual request you

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