NelsonMinar

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by NelsonMinar 7d ago
Clarion Alley is totally worth a visit when you're in San Francisco. It's right in the middle of the Mission near a bunch of great places to eat and drink. Balmy Alley is a 10 minute walk away and another great street art gallery.
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by NelsonMinar 10d ago
Migration in Mastodon works quite well. You're still confined to the one ActivityPub platform but you can easily move to a new server with a new community and different policies. In the early days of social media it was a standard that
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by NelsonMinar 11d ago
That stopped in 2018. https://www.slashgear.com/library-of-congress-twitter-archiv...
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by NelsonMinar 13d ago
I'm sure Verisign would be thrilled to have a bidding war between the legitimate owners of fraser.name and a bunch of third parties they suddenly enabled.
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by NelsonMinar 16d ago
Yes the Berlin exhibit is really well done with some beautiful artifacts well displayed and explained. The Z1 replica is a marvel: Zuse himself built in 1989. IIRC they also have sensible documentatioin about his Nazi connections that puts
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by NelsonMinar 16d ago
There's a bunch of neat public payphone art projects out there. A friend of mine runs Futel, which has some fairly elaborate voice menus and several phones installed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futel
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by NelsonMinar 19d ago
This sure feels like emergent behavior in a complex system.
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by NelsonMinar 1mo ago
My WiThings ScanWatch lasts a full month. But it's not a phone-on-my-wrist, it looks more like an analog watch and just has some sensors in it.
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FDA says Taylor Farms cyclospora finding was a false positive(reuters.com)
4 points by NelsonMinar 2mo ago|1 comments
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by NelsonMinar 2mo ago
One of my favorite easter eggs in Nethack was the way a Mailer Daemon would arrive in-game and deliver a scroll when you received an email on the host Unix system. Which then became a game exploit because there were some obscure in-game use
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by NelsonMinar 2mo ago
Bazzite mostly suggests installing stuff via Flatpak or Homebrew. (No, really, brew on Linux lol). You can also layer in things with rpm-ostree but it's clunky. I think the immutable OS makes sense for a consumer but not for a develope
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by NelsonMinar 2mo ago
One thing that's lovely about Linux is this kind of analysis is not only possible, but meaningful. These results will get reported back to the graphics software authors and the distribution packagers and the ecosystem will improve. The
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by NelsonMinar 2mo ago
Grok is many things but it is not "neutral". https://www.economist.com/briefing/2026/06/25/ai-models-valu...
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by NelsonMinar 2mo ago
People give them money because of the moral stance. They are either actively fine with the CSAM or just don't care.
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by NelsonMinar 2mo ago
The premise of this statement is wrong.
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by NelsonMinar 2mo ago
I realize as a Californian we may not count as "American" in this particular zeitgeist stereotype. But FWIW we have a firework ban in Nevada County that is widely respected. There are very few violations and the law is actively en
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by NelsonMinar 3mo ago
numerous vulnerabilities in secure boot deployment over many years. e.g. https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/secure-boot-neuteri...
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by NelsonMinar 3mo ago
I'm surprised more people aren't freaking out about this. It seems likely a whole lot of Linux machines are going to fail to reboot in the next few months. The problem affects VMs too. I was grateful Proxmox put a little warning i
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by NelsonMinar 3mo ago
I love stuff like this. But if it's serious as a thing you might use, would be nice to see some example programs and evaluation of how well they work. Also a test suite.
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by NelsonMinar 3mo ago
If you like the idea of smart corvids, Adrian Tchaikovsky's scifi novel "The Children of Memory" is a fun read. https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60850767-children-of-...
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by NelsonMinar 3mo ago
Backrest is so good as a frontend to Restic I stopped looking for anything better. Is there anything better now?
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by NelsonMinar 3mo ago
We once deleted the lost+found folder on an old Unix system* by accident. Things went very badly the next time the system rebooted, fsck did not handle it at all well. * Probably DEC Ultrix 2.2, a BSD 4.2 derivative.
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by NelsonMinar 3mo ago
Summary from the study author: https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2026/06/02/the-quiet-numbers-st... PDF of article (page 62) https://cdn.coverstand.com/61061/865273/2c88ea662e2b57478723..
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by NelsonMinar 3mo ago
This is the classic Terry Moore 3 minute video. It boils down to "tie a square knot". It changed my life too! I love this video because it's both the perfect TED video and the perfect parody of a TED video.
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by NelsonMinar 4mo ago
Is Start9 a well known company? The page by itself seems indistinguishable from a scam, but maybe they have a reputation that justifies their asking for $250,000?
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by NelsonMinar 4mo ago
I like TopoJSON and have used it in projects. But it's weird to set it up as opposition to GeoJSON. It's a complement. GeoJSON is a general data format meant to replace uses of ESRI Shapefiles and other complex formats. TopoJSON i
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by NelsonMinar 5mo ago
This reminds me ChromeOS has some USB-C cable identification superpowers: https://www.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/1pyojjd/comme... Not sure if it's using the same thing this MacOS thing is do
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by NelsonMinar 5mo ago
How did a bug like this get past their testing?
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by NelsonMinar 5mo ago
I keep hearing a lot of good buzz about their product. Haven't tried it myself but I mean to.
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by NelsonMinar 5mo ago
This video is another good demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJLncut79vE

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