bsdice

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by bsdice 1y ago
His wife, chose wisely.
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by bsdice 1y ago
Just another example of the US government stuffing media and the public and also foreign countries with three outrageous 'things' per day. It's exactly like the quote from a famous movie where Gust Avrakotos says that if you
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by bsdice 1y ago
Compared to the very first test, everything worked better and looked greased. From the HD drone footage (via Starlink I presume), to the fast arriving boats, quick hypergolic fuel leak checks, roping up, loading onto ship, retrieving crew,
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by bsdice 2y ago
Reuters ran the story: https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-broadcom-testing-c...
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by bsdice 2y ago
Biggest issue I have, is not solving all the dependency hell that is Python with its unversioned libraries, but supply chain attacks. Also regressions introduced by new versions all the time. That is why for projects I resolve everything by
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by bsdice 2y ago
A few years after the first battle over Taiwan has taken place. There has been news about Broadcom and NVidia testing their designs on Intel process nodes. Which is arguably worse in at least two respects, they are behind TSMC in density an
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by bsdice 2y ago
The future and maximum freedom lies in open source, where a team of dedicated users or developers actively de-enshittifies products. If you are on Arch Linux, try ungoogled-chromium: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/u
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by bsdice 2y ago
Used to be "buy cheap, buy twice", now it's "buy American, buy twice". One step could be to replace what Israel replaced, for more independance. Wouldn't buy their solution though, they sell bad pagers. Trump h
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by bsdice 2y ago
Took me weeks to perfect our own setup based on Postfix, Dovecot, Roundcube with some patches, rspamd with attachment-type whitelisting and a bazillion other features, clamav with extra patterns, plus the many tweaks and enhancements you ne
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by bsdice 2y ago
Check AislerHQ on Twitter, based in Germany and should not be affected from the block. No affiliation except that I like to look at naked PCBs.
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by bsdice 2y ago
I tried them all (also anything on Linux) and now I just use Roundcube on a local install, which runs in any browser.
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by bsdice 2y ago
I have around 1.2 GB of compressed git commits on disk, still fast on an ancient Intel E3 1275-v6 with 64 GB of RAM and 2 TB Intel P3520. Version 10 also now without any startup errors due to slightly wrong sqlite database structure. Togeth
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by bsdice 2y ago
Majel Barrett voice please.
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by bsdice 2y ago
The scam and spam call problem is really bad in Germany to this day. And has been for 10 years. A couple years ago I would sit at my desk thinking about a really hard problem in silence. The phone rings. Spam call. Every 30-180 minutes anot
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by bsdice 2y ago
Using i3 with rofi on X11 git version (because of new TearFree option) myself. A very thin top bar for virtual desktops, tray icons, email notifications, sound volume and date time is all that I need anymore. Tiling is the best way for me t
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by bsdice 2y ago
Small tip for anyone running a superlight and minimally distracting Linux desktop with X11, i3, and no compositor. Until recently, tear-free video playback necessitated double buffering hacks and older Intel drivers, or using a compositor l
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by bsdice 3y ago
There is no easy way, because you have to be able to identify the greats of a field to find relentless quality. You have to become a nerd of greatness, armed with an RSS reader. Example: You can probably tell what Jeff Beck, Stefan Hauk, Ja
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by bsdice 3y ago
This is actually a big problem for Germany, because the cited StGB 202 ff. penal code paragraphs have made security research in any private sector shape or form impossible, or at least highly unattractive. Now a gap of almost 20 years has o
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by bsdice 4y ago
I'm using a 20 KiB awk script that I wrote from scratch to calculate taxes owed from investments. German tax code is a bit tricky when your broker is abroad because you have to calculate everything yourself. Hilariously some German bro
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by bsdice 4y ago
I'm on Arch and a 4K display and had to hack the package 'xf86-input-libinput' to be able to adjust mouse scroll speed, towards faster. Upstream has been unwilling to implement it. I published the mod here: https:/&#x2F
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by bsdice 4y ago
Arch, i3, RSS sizes, only counting processes from logged-in user: 2.6 GB ungoogled-chromium (Browser) 150 MB kitty (Terminal) 50 MB udiskie (Automounter) 46 MB picom (Compositor) 36 MB pulseaudio (Sound) 26 MB gpaste-daemon (Copy Paste) 21
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by bsdice 5y ago
I have anecdotal evidence that CDs can lose 2x2mm chips of the reflective layer after 10-20 years. Also I have seen Blurays written 5 years ago starting to get read very slow because of alot of error correction and read retries going on. Yo
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by bsdice 5y ago
Think about malware that encrypts everything on every HDD+SSD storage within reach in the company. Assume it somehow got all admin passwords. Doesn't even want money for the decryption key. What now? One method for business continuity
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by bsdice 5y ago
LSI 2008 or 2308 (PCIe 3.0) with IT-mode firmware are good and cheap adapters for LTO. Card's chip will run hot though, so make sure you get a slight air breeze towards it to cool it. Really any fan like 92mm 800rpm within 10cm distanc
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by bsdice 5y ago
Back in the LTO-5 days, there was an issue with MAXELL tapes. See https://sourceforge.net/p/bacula/mailman/message/36060578/ The gist is that HP heads were harder material than IBM heads and if you
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by bsdice 5y ago
Can tar control block size and maximum file size? If you can't set those to 1 MB and 20 GB respectively, then for LTO-5 and later you will be leaving alot of performance on the table. Like half or more, check file size graph in https:
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by bsdice 5y ago
While browser extensions are a security risk (especially auto-updating), you might want to check out https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia
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by bsdice 5y ago
After using TB for 10 years I uninstalled it half a year ago. Because of bad UI decisions and constant extension and PGP breakage. Got to a point where I froze the installation at version 68 just to be left alone. A security nightmare of co