buddylw

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by buddylw 7mo ago
I have one as a watch bezel that I use in a pinch. Anything you need to scale, divide, or multiply in the real word doesn't need more than 2 significant digits of precision so it works. For example, I've used it to calculate how m
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by buddylw 8mo ago
This problem isn't going until we find a better solution to scraping than using your IP address as a passport.
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by buddylw 8mo ago
I have a Swiss Micros DM42, a modern clone of the HP42s on my desk and I have the plus42/free42 app on pretty much every device I own. Stack based calculators are great because the stack works as a little scratchpad when I'm tryin
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by buddylw 9mo ago
Bluesky is far from perfect, but I think you need a realistic comparison to other social media networks. Twitter is far more toxic if you are unable to curate your feed. Mastodon has a nice community, especially for tech, but lacks breadth.
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by buddylw 3y ago
No one said morality was easy.
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by buddylw 3y ago
Well, there’s one thing I know didn’t cause this: an IPv6 DDOS attack. GitHub, in 2023, is somehow still immune to all IPv6 attacks
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by buddylw 3y ago
If they add ipv6 support I’ll forgive them, but I lost hope a long time ago. It’s almost comical now.
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by buddylw 4y ago
I don’t really like this view of the world. I think they are correct about the lack of certainty and doing things while you can, but often big goals, like having a child, professional success, monetary success, etc. can cause us to miss lif
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by buddylw 4y ago
It’s possible, but I doubt they willingly sold their credentials. It’s more likely that they were scraped by some other means and sold.
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by buddylw 4y ago
I really like having totp functionality. I use a yubikey for TOTP and boot into an air gapped machine with keypass to store the TOTP codes in case I lose or break the yubikey. I don’t store TOTP codes in my main password manager, but it’s n
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by buddylw 5y ago
I read much of my waking hours for work, entertainment, and personal growth. It just isn’t usually (for better or worse) in the form of a book.
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by buddylw 5y ago
I’m not going to pretend I know the future or anything, but I will say that, while this is a common series of events, #4 can absolutely go two different ways. Everyone loves a good underdog story, but I also wouldn’t say that winning is the
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by buddylw 5y ago
Security has always been relative. I feel much safer knowing that an exploit like this is worth hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars. It keeps them closely guarded and selective about use. All of that makes me an unlikely targe
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by buddylw 5y ago
When I was in highschool in the late 90’s, I was really into exploring networks and systems I wasn’t supposed to be in, but it was always about learning technology for me. I found this tool to be extremely creepy. I discovered that my local
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by buddylw 6y ago
I recently made this realization and that eBay is actually better. eBay doesn't want 30% of the sale. I can order one item at a time prices are generally lower and, imo quality and risk are the same.
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by buddylw 7y ago
Wacom tablet drivers have application specific settings for compatibility. We should scrutinize all data collection, and this may be too far, but "[no need for tablet data collection] at all. Ever" is simply not true.
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by buddylw 7y ago
Wacom has application specific settings for compatibility. You can't have that feature without tracking individual processes and that data would be important for any sort of troubleshooting. It should be anonymized and they should be
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by buddylw 7y ago
I'm getting ready to go full Battlestar Galactica in all of my appliances. It's now difficult to find high end washers and ovens without these features. At least right now we can choose not to connect the devices, but what happen
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by buddylw 7y ago
Holy. Talk about nostalgia -- I used to read these all the time when I was a kid in the 90s. I had no idea the internet Oracle was still around!
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by buddylw 7y ago
I actually think there's real potential for these services, especially among kids in the enthusiast gaming community. I don't necessarily think we'll be throwing out our PC's for stadia, but I think there is a market if
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by buddylw 7y ago
If they aren't considering human lives in the process, that may be the real problem.
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by buddylw 7y ago
I do not pretend to know his motives. All I can see are his actions.
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by buddylw 7y ago
We can have a discussion about weather we should have billionaires in the first place, but Gates is employing his vast resources in an attempt to improve the world with a humble data-driven approach to reduce suffering in the world. For tha
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by buddylw 7y ago
I agree there are big differences between these ISPs and Amazon. I was just making the point that Amazon's lack of a profit wouldn't exempt it from these regulations either. Profit is as much a bookkeeping/tax/business
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by buddylw 7y ago
Why do profit margins matter at all here? It's only a signal that there is a problem if margins are very high because there is no guarantee that an entrenched monopolistic company will be efficient or make a strong profit. If you want
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by buddylw 8y ago
It still exists for one. I miss vine.
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by buddylw 8y ago
They are doing this in the US too. My local Aldi was remodeled last summer and looks like the photo.
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by buddylw 8y ago
OpenKeychain and Password-store (paired with a yubikey) is the entire reason I use Android over iOS. I really wish there was hardware GPG key solution for the iphone.
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by buddylw 8y ago
I've been playing with this, and it's mostly good. It solves the key forwarding problem in nested Linux VMs (-A forwarding is kind of bad). I do find it a bit silly that they don't support any iOS or android ssh clients, so t
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by buddylw 8y ago
Most agree that TARP was necessary, but QE2, QE3, and very low interest rates appear to have done little more than inflate asset markets and increase debt. They are trying to unwind that now, but falling back to the mean with this much exc

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