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by bityard 3d ago
The modern web seems to know nothing about it at this point, but back when CGI scripts were a new curiosity, there was a Shakespearean Insult Generator which was popular and quite a lot of fun.
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by bityard 4d ago
I guess I hadn't been paying attention. Is this just the Windows SPICE client that Red Hat has abandoned, or are they moving toward dropping SPICE altogether? Does Red Hat no longer have a VDI product? (I'm sure they did at one po
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by bityard 5d ago
I have the same complaint about oh-my-pi's readme. The tone is obnoxious. It's somehow jaded and matter-of-fact at the same time. Like it was written by that one guy at work who never misses a chance to brag about how clever he is
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by bityard 5d ago
It totally does. Every approach briefing includes instructions on what they will do in the event of a missed or unstable approach. The procedure is generally full throttle, nose up, gear up, retract flaps, head in the direction briefed, and
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by bityard 6d ago
You're not wrong, but many times I've gone looking for a specific adapter (because I already had a similar cable) and found out that the adapters _usually_ cost as much or more than just buying the cable.
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by bityard 6d ago
Yeah, this is pretty much what I was going to write. I group my cables into boxes for USB, power, network, audio/video, and power supplies. The boxes are a finite size, and when no more cables will fit into the box, I go through and do
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by bityard 7d ago
I feel like most tech-oriented folks are just simply all about solving problems. I've always enjoyed doing stuff in the physical realm MUCH more than doing pure systems and software stuff. There's something about everything about
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by bityard 8d ago
Maybe, maybe not. Floppies were always on the verge of dying all the time, even in the 80s and 90s. It's why anyone who cared about their data always had at least one backup copy of any important disk or data. (Most software explicitly
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by bityard 8d ago
I wonder if it would be possible for researchers and scientists to submit their papers to an organization which would then collect them, submit them for peer review by other experts in the field, and then release them in periodical form ONL
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by bityard 8d ago
I don't see why that should be a problem, as we already know the answer is 42 in any case.
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by bityard 8d ago
Ha. Not knowing any better, I took a class in high school that turned out to be actually reading the daily newspaper and writing a one-page report _every single day_ about international issues that literally never impacted our day-to-day li
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by bityard 8d ago
HN drew me in years ago because it had a higher signal-to-noise ratio, and deeper conversations than you'd find in other places popular with tech nerds. There was an overall culture of technical optimism, which I like to sum up as: Lea
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by bityard 8d ago
Heh. Nothing else says, "I have so much money that I literally don't have to care about anything ever again," than spending millions on a big-ass boat to go partying on and snort everclear or whatever it is that the ultra-ric
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by bityard 8d ago
Consider yourself lucky. I routinely run into tarpit Google reCAPTCHAs and I don't even use a VPN. I think it's because I run Linux and the site admins treat anything besides Windows, Mac, iOS, or Android Chrome as suspicious enou
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by bityard 8d ago
The README makes mention of The Adult ADHD Tool Kit by J. Russell Ramsay and Anthony L. Rostain which looks like a pretty good resource.
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by bityard 8d ago
It turns out that most of the things that ADHD people use as coping strategies just to be functional, are actually things that most (non-ADHD) people can use to be more effective and productive in their lives and work. So, no, not everyone
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by bityard 8d ago
> I am not a cryptography expert > How do I verify such claim? Step 1: Become a cryptography expert. ;)
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by bityard 8d ago
ChapGPT (and all other hosted L To me) still use a search engine behind the scenes whenever you ask a question. Often, it uses those seo slop sites as primary sources when formulating an answer. Which is why, even though hallucinations are
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by bityard 9d ago
Literally none of what you said is true. Go read the GPLv3 license and/or ask yourself how Linux distributions are able to ship a mix of GPLv3, v2, MIT, BSD, etc licensed software all in the same image. GrapheneOS may or may not have a
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by bityard 12d ago
Most devices should be using temporary dynamic IPv6 addresses, for this exact reason. I believe this is the default on most Linux distributions, not sure about others.
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by bityard 13d ago
I stay out of the way of fast-moving buses! But more seriously, my domain and VPS is on auto-pay, so it doesn't just shut off the day I die. My survivors will have plenty of time to back up their emails and do whatever they want with t
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by bityard 13d ago
They caught them and preserved them to keep them from spoiling, to eat them later.
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by bityard 13d ago
Wow. I ran into a subset of a few weeks back when all I was trying to do was record from a specific microphone connected to my laptop. I thought I just didn't know what I was doing! I gave up after 20 minutes of fiddling and used somet
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by bityard 13d ago
I manage the email accounts for the others in my household because it's free for them and I'm happy to do it. Plus, they trust me more than they trust a random tech company. Maybe that is not a universal thing among all families o
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by bityard 13d ago
Well, nothing, but it does assume that Verisign doesn't have an unstated plan to do something else with .name. Domain registration is the real estate of the Internet and very little has happened in the last 30 years of domain name poli
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by bityard 14d ago
I skimmed the docs for this but couldn't find an answer: Is there something that says what each of those services is actually for and what the trade-offs are for disabling them? Clearly not all of them are strictly bloatware. (Some peo
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by bityard 14d ago
"Xodus"!
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by bityard 15d ago
On the other hand, doing the same work (let alone the same job) for all of my adult life would be actual spirit-breaking torture for me. I respect people who can do it, who can live a simple life doing the same thing every single day and be
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by bityard 15d ago
I stopped listening to Pandora well over a decade ago because its algorithm eventually decided that I only liked 12 songs in the whole world.
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by bityard 15d ago
I never thought ubiquitous human-written marketing wank was any better.

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