zajio1am

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by zajio1am 5d ago
> I remember these transition points, so I can say definitively that there was a time when we thought the newer stuff was indeed an improvement. Exactly. Around 1999, I switched from 17" CRT to 14" LCD, as the sharpness of the
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by zajio1am 5d ago
Note that classical pixel art was not necessary particularly fat/blocky. Since SVGA become common, games like SimCity 2000 or Transport Tycoon Deluxe run in 640x480 on 14" CRT, which is ~60 DPI. Later (in second half of 1990s), hi
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by zajio1am 12d ago
I have no problem with that with XMPP. Conversations automatically reconnects after each switch within few seconds, so it is transparent for users. On IRC that is huge pain, true.
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by zajio1am 12d ago
I use XMPP (with OMEMO) extensively and my main problem with it is absence of some basic key trust chains and bad handling of group chats 1) With OMEMO, each client/device of a user has its own key, but there is no trust relationship b
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by zajio1am 18d ago
None/negligible. It was ISP in Czechia, about 50% was @seznam.cz, 15% together two smaller local freemails, 10% @gmail.com, 25% individual/unique domains.
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by zajio1am 20d ago
When i worked in small ISP, i did some stats on customer accounts (about 2k customers) and only about 10% was @gmail.com. But it was 5 years ago and in EU.
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by zajio1am 23d ago
Why? Here, being registered has significant benefits (direct benefits and health insurance paid by state) and minimal costs (once a month visiting labor bureau, doing some minimal effort) that only people i know that are unemployed and not
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by zajio1am 2mo ago
Well, loss of (control over) shared narrative was one of complains of the Church against the printing press ...
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by zajio1am 2mo ago
> AI will kill the internet because it is killing the incentive to make it. You could make the same argument for Wikipedia (that webs get less traffic if people get their answers from Wikipedia article returned as the first from web sear
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by zajio1am 2mo ago
The replication crisis is not limited to psychology, that was just the first area where it was noted. I saw some meta-study comparing multiple social sciences and according to it replication failure in sociology and educational science was
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by zajio1am 2mo ago
And now the union is an organization whose sole purpose is to ensure that management cannot do anything with it (as any significant reduction of expenses means significant reduction of workforce).
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by zajio1am 2mo ago
When we started wireless ISP in in early 200x, it was common to run 2.4 GHz links with 5+ km distance, having 24 dB antennas on each side. with the basic 17 dBm radio one was 20 dB over EIRP limit... Here in Czechia, there was also another
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by zajio1am 2mo ago
There are already semi-autonomous drones in Ukraine.
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by zajio1am 2mo ago
I agree that they are fully within their rights to decide how they want to run services they provide. However, i do not think it shields such decisions from public criticism. If they were some random corporation making business decision, ev
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by zajio1am 2mo ago
Civil justice is primarily about restoring damages, not about punishing wrongdoing (although common law in US it is more punitive than civil law in european countries). Therefore compensations are based on damages, not on profit from wrongd
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by zajio1am 2mo ago
Not making the specific decision (showing ads) but making the general decision (giving power to Microsoft). Blaming customers for buying MS products is not really much different than blaming Trump voters for voting for him. In both cases ri
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by zajio1am 2mo ago
Also note that ASPA validation prevents only hijack by peers and customers, not by providers. Due to way how ASPA validation works, providers could always announce to their customers routes with valid-looking AS PATH with hijacked ASN appen
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by zajio1am 2mo ago
Note that the first hop has to publish both ROA and ASPA records, as ASPA records describes a set of valid providers.
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by zajio1am 3mo ago
No, it is pretty much the same, both means agreeing to a contract.
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by zajio1am 3mo ago
It is an much simpler task now since you can depend on kernel / mesa drivers for all hardware.
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by zajio1am 3mo ago
It is not really much different than paying for cleaning, the cleaning person also sees inside of house.
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by zajio1am 3mo ago
At least in EU, private book/media rental is not legal without special licensing from copyright holders, while public libraries have exception for this.
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by zajio1am 3mo ago
Tool rental is a service that is commonly provided by private sector. I do not see a reason why this should be provided by a government. This seems like unfair competition to e.g. community hackerspaces.
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by zajio1am 4mo ago
This is not specific to US law ...
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by zajio1am 4mo ago
Yes, but EU would have to convince Google and Apple to get a new root certificate to browsers.
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by zajio1am 4mo ago
> for example I invest in an ESG index for environmental, social, and governance, ie no weapons or drugs So, no weapons for Ukraine?
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by zajio1am 4mo ago
50% property tax is just seizure without compensation, which is generally considered human rights violation. If government wants 50% of shares, it can just buy it (or expropriate it with compensation) and use its ability to get cheap long-t
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by zajio1am 4mo ago
When converting between different depths, the 255-like approach has a property that minimum maps to minimum and maximum maps to maximum.
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by zajio1am 4mo ago
U2F token is used by one eIDAS identity provider in Czechia.
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by zajio1am 4mo ago
> Second, many people think that the C runtime doesn't know the amount of memory allocated to an array, but this is actually false. It's just the C abstract model that for some reason chose to not expose this information. There

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