Uhrheber

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by Uhrheber 5y ago
Obligatory xkcd link: https://xkcd.com/2030/
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Well, I proactively quit both my Amazon and Ebay accounts. The occasion was trouble with Chinese dealers, in which both Amazon and Ebay weren't helpful at all, but the main reason is that I simply have enough of soulless mega-corporati
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Before the Internet, there was Fidonet, and before that, there were mailboxes. And you know what? All that shoot that's going on today was already happening back then: Shitstorms, Bullying, Doxxing, it all happened. Only that it was a
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Any reason why the F-Droid version is behind the official one? I mean, you should now have learned that you can't rely on one single distribution channel.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
The USA had always had a tendency towards witch hunts. And that's exactly whats happening now. I'm not saying that there aren't people that had it coming, but it's never a good idea to switch your brain off and run with
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
And nobody is concerned about running an obscure third party binary blob, that is only meant to annoy you, on an otherwise open source OS?
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Fortran is still popular in scientific computing, and modern compilers are pretty good.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
We now know that light pollution also kills insects, which will in the long term also kill us. Reducing it should therefore be a priority. Instead, it's increased worldwide, mainly thanks to cheap power LEDs.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
CircuitPython is a toy language made for running on Adafruit's halloween/cosplaying gadgets. It doesn't even support interrupts. Better use Micropython.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
I bet that future Raspberry Pi boards will have a RP2040 or successor chip onboard, to do the bit banging/realtime jobs on the I/O port. Or they will even integrate it into their SOC. Shame though, that they didn't make the I
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
That's rich, coming from a company that tramples over everybody's privacy.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Amazon sellers keep complaining, that more and more users only bother to write reviews when something is wrong with the product, but not when everything is OK. Well, I wrote three 5 star reviews during the last year, and I put a real effort
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
I recently suspended my Ebay account. One of the reasons was the fact that, although I used 2-factor login, Ebay forced me to solve captchas every second login. What am I? A trained monkey jumping through hoops? Ebay even sells FIDO2 sticks
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Please die a screaming death. All of you captcha services. I hate you.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
More for young developers with eagle eyes, that can't afford it, not for elder developers with enough money, but presbyopia.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Finally, spring powered Trains and rockets like in Syberia.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Can I try PureOS, as it runs on the phone, in a simulator? I can't seem to find it anywhere.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Please turn JavaScript on and reload the page. DDoS protection by Cloudflare They probably know what I think they can do to themselves.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Seems that Mint also inherited this vulnerability.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
The main reason why companies like SMS 2FA: It costs next to nothing, and it shifts the responsibility to the customer. Your account got hacked? Not our problem, we have 2FA. Must've been your fault.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
What a dick move. I can understand that they won't accept any new apps, but also not accepting updates? A lot of apps for media playing and social media for the Go are still under active development. Not allowing updates will effective
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
I stopped trusting reporters about 35 years ago, when I personally witnessed an occurrence, where a reporter was at the scene, and later read what he had written about it in the newspaper. It had practically nothing to do with what really h
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Do they also ban apps that show public transport schedules, because you can't buy tickets through them?
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Of course not, why are you even asking?
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Website needs javascript to even display something -> ignored.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Embrace, extend, and extinguish. Microsoft being Microsoft. Some things never change.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Artificial intelligence? More like dumber than the dumbest human.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Joghurt. I've started to make my own joghurt. I'm too afraid to go shopping, and I don't need to, because I bought a lot of long-life food, including milk. But I missed joghurt, so I started to make my own, and it's grea
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
Streisand effect. I may have heard of Popcorn Time before, but I never used it. Now I do.
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by Uhrheber 6y ago
I'm working in the automotive industry for over 15 years, designing components for both conventional and electric cars, and I've never heard of this company. Very fishy.

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