zitsarethecure

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by zitsarethecure 4y ago
I'm not up to date on spy-balloon technology, but what kind of things can they learn using a balloon that they couldn't have learned by using a satellite?
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by zitsarethecure 4y ago
> "If you put an aluminum heatsink into an RF component, you've basically introduced a series of antennae to interact with the RF signal," Erb says. "Instead, we can put our boron nitride-based material in and around
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by zitsarethecure 4y ago
Once a year I select about 100 of my favourite pictures from my phone and have them printed and bound to a book. I suspect this is likely to be the only way my descendants will be able to see them.
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by zitsarethecure 4y ago
X11 is way too slow to run something like gimp remotely, unless perhaps you are sitting near the other machine connected via gigabit ethernet. Giving that up is an easy win for better everything else.
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by zitsarethecure 4y ago
> Also not having to drop into the command line to change monitor settings is nice. I can't remember the last time I had to do this on Linux. Sometime in the the 90's, I think.
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by zitsarethecure 4y ago
Phyphox really does it for me to get that "a tricorder, but real" feeling. https://phyphox.org/
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by zitsarethecure 4y ago
No it doesn't. Working towards a modest reduction in emissions is massively different than banning fertilizer use overnight.
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by zitsarethecure 4y ago
Reader view is great, but it seems to work on less and less sites every day. I don't know what the mechanism is by which the browser decides whether to allow reader view rendering, but it seems to not work on about half the sites I wi
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by zitsarethecure 4y ago
The AAW have banned the practice because it is so dangerous and have been maintaining a list of the people killed by it, including at least one professional electrician. https://www.woodturner.org/Woodturner/Woodturner&
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by zitsarethecure 4y ago
I keep wanting to switch to bitwarden from keepassxc, I created an account and installed the apps, but I just can't bring myself to actually upload all my passwords to someone else's computer. Am I just too paranoid?
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Hillary Clinton warns of Russian intimidation [2014](cbsnews.com)
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by zitsarethecure 5y ago
Every generation thinks they are too smart to fall for scams, and every generation is wrong.
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by zitsarethecure 5y ago
That's unfair! Many of us also own stock in them.
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by zitsarethecure 5y ago
> They took a profitable RedHat and gutted it, I know they bought Red Hat but I didn't hear that they gutted it. Can you expand on that?
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by zitsarethecure 5y ago
I don't think we need to ask that at all. They make little computers for people to tinker and do interesting (or even boring) things with. The "diverging use cases" are a feature, not a bug.