zinekeller

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by zinekeller 7mo ago
> What percentage of the population has an ID in a place where it's difficult to get one vs somewhere it is easier? Not the OP, but except for passports (and passport cards)... there isn't really any federal-level ID in the US
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by zinekeller 7mo ago
Because it's SRAM, and therefore it still can lose its electrons because we're working with cells a few atoms thick? The loss is not necessarily in L1 (where it's replaced frequently), but in L3 which now has memory comparabl
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by zinekeller 7mo ago
You can register a (personal, not M365) Microsoft Account without Outlook.com by just supplying a different email address in the signup portion. Also you can have (or was that had - not sure) a (again personal, not Workspace) Google acc
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by zinekeller 7mo ago
Eh, they were definitely from Xerox (so it would be unclear since that both Windows and the Mac System Software derived some of their UI elements from Xerox experiments)
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Nvidia and Global Telecom Leaders Commit to Build 6G on AI-Native Platforms(nvidianews.nvidia.com)
4 points by zinekeller 8mo ago|4 comments
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by zinekeller 8mo ago
In a slightly less bomby way, monopoly on violence ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence )
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by zinekeller 8mo ago
At least if the failed bank is Japanese, all of it will fall under their deposit insurance program ( https://www.dic.go.jp/content/000010138.pdf#page=13 ), although this is actually a rare guarantee (FDIC and SVB comes t
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by zinekeller 8mo ago
There is a point though - Mastercard and Visa treats them as "prepaid" credit cards, which are different from both true prepaid cards (as issued in the US), charge cards, and true debit cards (former Maestro and Visa Electron). Ag
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by zinekeller 8mo ago
> Do you know of any other uses for bytes that are not 8 bits? For "bytes" as the term-of-art itself? Probably not. For "codes" or "words"? 5 bits are the standard in Baudot transmission (in teletype though)
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by zinekeller 9mo ago
> They added auto-playing, full screen video ads to the home screen. I'm pretty sure this is actually Google's fault (even Sony televisions suffer from this bullcrap). Unlike phone Android, Google TV (yes, that's the offic
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by zinekeller 9mo ago
Just read this in the comments ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39899534 ): > I wonder how much polarization affects things; I was once told that terrestrial FM Radio is transmitted with vertical polarization to redu
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by zinekeller 9mo ago
> I believe it's usually not enabled by default. Just verify modern OSes now, they definitely do mediate via systemd-resolver (including in server OSes).
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by zinekeller 9mo ago
The IETF really dragged their heels on CGNAT because they thought that IPv6 is easy™ (of course not, it's intentionally designed not to be "almost the same but wider" but include unworkable stuff like Mobile IPv6[1] which i
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by zinekeller 9mo ago
> For example, "nc" (netcat) is pre-installed on all platforms where ssh is. This is technically incorrect, because Windows now includes SSH too!
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by zinekeller 9mo ago
Just for the record, I am not necessarily disagreeing with "let's replace SMS", but Google can do it via a value-added service, which is much less regulated in most countries. Heck, Google already had it with Hangouts, and
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by zinekeller 9mo ago
> Providers can either host themselves Outside of China, it is de facto a Google thing due to Jibe not really in mood to interconnect with others, plus the fact that Google actually shoehorns RCS in countries where they think they can
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by zinekeller 9mo ago
... that was perpetuated by BIND. (Yes, there are other recursive resolver implementations, but they look at BIND as the reference implementation and absent any contravention to the RFC or intentional design-level decisions, they would foll
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by zinekeller 9mo ago
As black3r mentioned ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46686096 ), it is likely rearranged by systemd, therefore only non-systemd glibc distributions are affected. I would hazard a guess that their test environment have
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by zinekeller 9mo ago
Yes, there have been cases where this has happened ( https://notes.valdikss.org.ru/jabber.ru-mitm/ ), but it's really now into the realm of 1) How to secure routing information: some says RPKI, some argues that&#x27
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by zinekeller 10mo ago
Yeah, it should probably be /64 for IPv6
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by zinekeller 10mo ago
> though I'm not so sure about Microsoft GDK is open-source ( https://github.com/microsoft/gdk ), but to be fair there is a possibility that there are some parts under NDA.
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by zinekeller 10mo ago
(this is just a rant) Honestly, the weird 16-239 (on 8-bit) color range and 60000/1001 fps limitations stem from the original NTSC standard, which considering both the Japanese NTSC adaptation and European standards do not have is rath
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by zinekeller 10mo ago
Worse, "NTSC" is not a single standard, Japan deviated it too much that the primaries are defined by their own ARIB (notably ~9000 K white point). ... okay, technically PAL and SECAM too, but only in audio (analogue Zweikanalton v
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by zinekeller 10mo ago
I was actually researching why PAL YUV has the same(-ish) coefficients, while forgetting that PAL is essentially a refinement of the NTSC color standard (PAL stands for phase-alternating line, which solves much of NTSC's color drift is
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by zinekeller 10mo ago
The NTSC color coefficients are the grandfather of all luminance coefficients. It is necessary that it was precisely defined because of the requirements of backwards-compatible color transmission (YIQ is the common abbreviation for the NT
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by zinekeller 10mo ago
Surprisingly by boatloads by Chinese manufacturers. Nothing really shady about it (standard concerns about raw materials excepted), but it is still used mainly for random embedded stuff where there is a need for a memory module but the desi
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by zinekeller 10mo ago
It's hard to find a source that isn't paywalled, but fortunately it's covered in a paper: https://www.xiaojingliao.com/uploads/9/7/0/2/97024238/ndss21...
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by zinekeller 10mo ago
And this is rather an anemic take. The (proposed) UK VPN ban that was recently discussed here have a definition on what exactly is a "VPN" for the purposes of the ban (basically "VPNs generally advertised to normal consumer
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by zinekeller 10mo ago
There is even a single company in the unique position to actually tell where exactly (-ish, considering CGNAT exists) where an IP address is located: Google. They do use the "enhanced location" data on Android devices to pinpoint
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by zinekeller 10mo ago
looks at Japan, UK (OpenReach), and a lot of other places still using PPPoE (on fiber!) for complicated reasons

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