brianaker

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by brianaker 4d ago
Create an open Xfinity Wi-Fi network, as well as an AT&T one. See if the TV connects to them. This is probably obvious to most people, but I will mention just the same: do not install the antenna that the TV comes with.
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by brianaker 6d ago
A propane generator will not buy you much time or output. If the home owner has natural gas? They should could get a natural gas generator, that way they have a continuous supply of fuel if the grid fails. Grid and gas failure? That happens
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by brianaker 6d ago
While in the US making a bathroom a "wet room" is rare, it can be quite common in other countries. You can totally remodel bathrooms to be "wet rooms" in the US, it is well worth it. Kids flooding the bathroom via the tu
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by brianaker 1mo ago
Trees are wonderful for a number of reasons, and the need for them for local climate, which includes shading and their contribution to local humidity, is important as well. They are not, though, a significant sequestration for CO₂. A helpfu
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by brianaker 1mo ago
The funny part is that people think that Zigbee and Matter are open :) All three of them have their shortcomings. Matter requires an unsecured IPv6 network to operate; I have my doubts about it having any longterm future.
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by brianaker 2mo ago
A mixture of threads and processes that can be used to match processors, disk I/O, and network interfaces. A very long time ago, there was once a feature called "Data Blades" which tanked a commercial database vendor. A badly
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by brianaker 5mo ago
Why not use a crossover driver? The loudspeaker would have used one; a driver is both cheaper and of higher quality.
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by brianaker 6mo ago
If you don't need to manage cooling? Then you are likely needing to manage humidity.
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WolfSSL Doesn't Suck, Author Reflects(blog.feld.me)
5 points by brianaker 7mo ago|0 comments
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by brianaker 7mo ago
It does have its use cases :)
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by brianaker 1y ago
"I’ve noticed that we just don’t have outdoor cats in our neighborhood" Stop neutering cats, encourage alley cats.
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by brianaker 1y ago
You obviously have not been following Subaru, while what you are saying was once true, it has not been true for several years now. Google "Subaru battery", read about all of the additional electrical problems that are the result o
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by brianaker 2y ago
US Law, i.e. Federal Law, for e-bikes is 15 U.S.C. 2085(b) and additionally Title 28 Chapter I Part 36 Subpart A § 36.105. Pedaled vs throttle is an ablest issues; not everyone has picked up on this.
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by brianaker 2y ago
MySQL never had a problem with scaling to multi-core systems; Linux on the other hand did have a problem and its problems became everyone's problems. In the early 2000's the answer to multi-core Linux issues was to buy a system ru
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by brianaker 2y ago
A number of years ago when my daughter was in the second grade the school expected them to turn in homework via this crappy power point knock-off app that would constantly crash. I had her eventually just take screen shots and send them to
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by brianaker 2y ago
Trump's attorneys did not say "the special counsel that prosecuted him was not properly appointed by an act of Congress", Justice Thomas brought this up in oral arguments. Trump's attorneys admitted in oral arguments tha
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by brianaker 2y ago
How would Meta/Facebook accomplished this without reading Amazon's communication with its customers? You have at least two parties in any conversation, I don't see where Youtube or Amazon consented, nevertheless, the recordin
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by brianaker 2y ago
Running a VPN service would not be wiretapping, but that is not what they were doing, and understand they had multiple avenues that they explored. If you want to focus on just the VPN bit though; running a VPN would not break Amazon's
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by brianaker 2y ago
That story links to a different document filed with the courts. Additionally, the scope is wider than just what Onavo did for Facebook. There are comments being made in that post as well where people are assuming all of the communication on
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Zuckerberg personally ok'ed wiretapping both Amazon and YouTube [pdf](storage.courtlistener.com)
50 points by brianaker 2y ago|24 comments
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by brianaker 2y ago
What I find really surprising is that Amazon has not sought criminal prosecution of Meta. Even if in all cases a user selected to allow Facebook/Meta to see what they were communicating, which from reading all of the attached documents
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by brianaker 3y ago
Has Subaru been doing this as well with their STARLINK?
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by brianaker 3y ago
With vim you can restrict syntax highlighting by scope and/or folding, limelight.vim provides a good example how to implement this.
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by brianaker 3y ago
Privileged myopia is certainly is alive in thriving! I say this as someone who bikes their kid around most of the time; I love biking but it is way of life that only a minority of people can make work.
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by brianaker 3y ago
The description on the OpenThings website is misleading, the add-on module is an off the shelf commerical remote that is being shorted in order to operate the door. The ratgdo device is decoding the line version of the Security+ 2.0 protoco
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by brianaker 3y ago
You are describing the plot to Robert Heinlein's short story "Coventry".
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by brianaker 3y ago
The film "War of the Worlds(2005)" has effects going down to 20 Hz; to play it you will need an ATMOS AV receiver that has an LFE port to feed the signal to an amp that has LFE input. Not all amps which have an LFE input can clean
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by brianaker 3y ago
There are no announcements by Hue to developers that the CLIP API is going away, so I suspect there is a lot over speculation based on a clueless Twitter post made by some droid that most likely doesn't even understand the questions th
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by brianaker 3y ago
Just stop for a moment and ask yourself "could the author of this post be wrong." Philips just introduced Matter support which requires local access, and continues to support Apple Home as well. There are dozens of apps which can
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by brianaker 3y ago
Passive Thunderbolt Cables run at speeds of 40Gbp at 0.8m, otherwise they run at half the speed. Active Thunderbolt Cables run at speeds of 40Gbp at 1.8m/3m. All of Apple's Thunderbolt 4 cables are 40Gbp, the same cannot be said a

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