classic959

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by classic959 5mo ago
The technique I've used to fill a balloon with rice: - Take a small plastic drinks bottle. - Cut the bottom half off to make it like a funnel. - Remove the lid, and stretch a balloon over the neck. - Invert the half bottle so the ballo
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by classic959 5mo ago
If a balloon is made of a thin neck and a round body, you're chopping the neck off near the bottom of the neck. You're then left with a round rubber pouch for the contents (rice). Use two balloons in opposite directions so the clo
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by classic959 5mo ago
I helped administer the CheckPoint commercial version of this before 2010 in a large enterprise (Checkpoint Integrity it was badged as). Really good product though we did have some bugs with it - I do remember the developers from Israel got
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by classic959 5mo ago
Depends what you mean by Dark side! In traditional definitions, Far side = Dark side If, when you say Dark side, you mean the side not receiving sunlight, then you're using a less informed, though more literal, definition of 'dark
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by classic959 5mo ago
I think we call it "dark" because the term was coined when the English language was used in a more poetic sense - at least it seems like that to 21st century-me. "Dark" = "it has not been made visible to us". I
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by classic959 5mo ago
"Dark side" is used to describe the part we never see from earth's vantage point, not a part that gets no light from the sun. Definitely confusing for the uninitiated though.
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by classic959 7mo ago
Oh yes - run Frigate on a mini PC or home server. It runs best in Docker. And it should work with any cameras that support RTSP and provide H.264 video. I'm not affiliated btw, but I found the instructions really useful - they walk you
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by classic959 7mo ago
You can also stream Reolink video to a Frigate box (free software) and access that from wherever. No cloud involved if you run your own VPN. Or even better, _just a little_ cloud involved if you expose through Cloudflare tunnel for just y
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by classic959 2y ago
If you're plotting primes, all the coordinates where you're not plotting are non-prime - so every 2nd coordinate will be blank. As will every 3rd and every 4th, 5th, 10th, 11th. etc etc. Surely that's where the pattern comes
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by classic959 7y ago
I think relying on the internet to have a trust mechanism built in is a bit like relying on our road-builders to ensure our vehicles are safe. While the average internet user will just trust the sites and apps they use, there's nothing
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by classic959 7y ago
I drop photos (from whatever device) into a folder on my NAS and they get automatically sanitized of EXIF data, and resized/bordered ready for posting to the internet. It's simply a cron & bash script on a server that monitors
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by classic959 7y ago
Using kdenlive for video editing on Linux has served has a good reminder many times to save often. Cloud and mobile apps are often very good at taking this task away from a user, but it's worth remembering to take responsibility for sa
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by classic959 7y ago
The interactive guide on that page is an effective way to visualise the components in relation to the attacks. Does anyone know what this would have been built with?
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by classic959 7y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. I'd expect it to be quite high (deaths per TWh) while the technology is new or advancing fast, both because the energy production will be low, and because there must be more risk in newer industrial-scale t
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by classic959 7y ago
Wow, this comment just got me thinking. If I've got good at taking well composed photos, according to common photography techniques, might they have less of that time-machine, memory-jogging quality? I'd like to have both - maybe
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by classic959 7y ago
I think this may have been the result of banking malware (e.g. Zeus back in the day) which was hooking OS calls to capture keyboard input and steal passwords. I'm not sure whether the on-screen keyboards would be vulnerable in other wa
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by classic959 8y ago
I have 4 RPi's in frequent use. The one in my kitchen (music player, Pi 2 model B) needs a clothes peg to squeeze the SD card into the reader otherwise it won't boot. So that's a 25% failure rate for me as far as hardware iss
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by classic959 8y ago
I used the 'slug' (NSLU2) to run my first NAS. For me, that was a great introduction to setting up useful linux devices on my home network. (A wee pang of nostagia there when I saw it mentioned)
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by classic959 8y ago
I can see some benefit, even if it's just keeping their brand visible to the market. It shows they're not going away any time soon and might just help keep momentum. As a multiple* RPi user, it's always heartening to see them