cricalix

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by cricalix 20d ago
PayPal is, unfortunately, not dead. It's used by RMV in Germany for a start - only way to pay for a bus ticket in the app/website. No credit or debit card, straight up PayPal account.
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by cricalix 1mo ago
Slow Mo Guys have a Phantom that rocks up around 1.5 million FPS. They've used it to show how glass cracks etc. when you get to that speed though, you need a LOT of light, and a very low resolution.
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by cricalix 2mo ago
Change the device? It works fine. The cable is labeled. I know where to find it. I'm not throwing away perfectly otherwise-good hardware because of that.
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by cricalix 2mo ago
Sometimes it's not the cable. Sometimes it's the sodding device. I have some IP60-something speakers for the shower. Write up says USB-C power. Brilliant says I, I've got plenty of good ones I use for charging laptops and oth
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by cricalix 4mo ago
I have content in mkv and mp4, SDR and HDR, 264 and 265. I stream from a Jellyfin container with an onboard Intel GPU passed through for transcoding as needed. The client is a 8 series NUC on gigabit using the Flatpak Jellyfin app on a Fedo
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by cricalix 4mo ago
Looking at the name that keeps showing up on the linked site, I suspect a collision is most likely (to be charitable).
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by cricalix 6mo ago
I get the name, but for a moment I thought someone had made a RPG IV or similar interpreter/compiler in Rust..
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by cricalix 6mo ago
And potentially get fired for using unauthorised software on a corporate machine. Or find out tha USB storage is disabled (which is better than getting fired).
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by cricalix 7mo ago
Physical letters do not obviate scams, nor is the cost that prohibitive. I remember actual 419 scams on blue airmail all-in-one letters back in the 80s. And that was international post too.
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by cricalix 8mo ago
12‽ I'd swear the Slackware I downloaded was closer to 30+. On dialup. Via a VAX. Using FTP to go from internet to the VAX box, then Kermit from the VAX to the DOS PC using Procomm Plus. Write it all, start the install sequence, find o
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by cricalix 8mo ago
UnRaid does a variant of this; license is tied to the serial of the USB drive. It barely writes to the drive, so wear isn't meant to be much of an issue.
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by cricalix 8mo ago
Tangential to this was the existence of California Software Product's "Baby/36" software. My father was a 36/400 programmer and sysadmin, and in his spare time used Baby/36 to write software for local businesse
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by cricalix 9mo ago
For me, in Ireland, tacking "-ai" on the end of Google searches disables the hallucination engine. For now at least.
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by cricalix 9mo ago
I poked this - the 96 installer from Archive didn't play nice with wine. However, dosbox plus win3.11 and some ingmount commands worked just fine. So yes, you could export to plain text or similar.
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by cricalix 9mo ago
Someone's first impressions on the new version from Commodore International.
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Commodore 64 Ultimate(bigzaphod.com)
4 points by cricalix 9mo ago|1 comments
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by cricalix 10mo ago
On the note of Jupyter notebooks and version control - there was a talk at this year's Pycon Ireland about using a built in cleaner for notebooks when committing the JSON (discard the cell results), and then dropping the whole lot into
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by cricalix 10mo ago
Tangentially related would be Adrian Newey's memoir "How to build a car"; he talks about both F1 and Indy cars he worked on. ISBN 9780008196806
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by cricalix 10mo ago
> How many times a day / week / month do you launch your browser from scratch ? Every morning / day across multiple machines. I don't leave them sleeping or hibernated. Don't think I'd notice a slightly fast
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by cricalix 10mo ago
scoot, you may find the current mini-series by the podcast Unexplainable to be interesting. It's on sound, and one episode is about tinnitus and research into it. https://www.vox.com/podcasts/467048/unexplaina
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by cricalix 11mo ago
They also support FTP without the SSH transport, and it's not FTPS either. Various IP cameras still support FTP as a way to write files out periodically; I use this to provide a "stream" from a camera (8 seconds per frame bec
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by cricalix 11mo ago
"FTP is dead" - shared web hosting would like a word. Quite a few web hosts still talk about using FTP to upload websites to the hosting server. Yes, these days you can upload SSH keys and possibly use SFTP, but the docs still tal
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by cricalix 1y ago
Anecdotally, this rings true for me. Father walked out on mother essentially, when I was in my early 40s. Rocked my world thoroughly, hadn't seen it coming. Several years of therapy to come to terms with it.
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by cricalix 1y ago
It might be better on Debian, but it's absolutely fine on Fedora too - in that I've hit zero snags. Maybe there are problems somewhere, but I've not encountered them yet (with a mix of all three supported ways to run things).
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by cricalix 1y ago
I've been happy with Fedora for my personal systems, and it's the only blessed distro at work for those who don't want Windows or Mac. Heck, I use Fedora Server as my homelab OS to run Incus. Works For Me.
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by cricalix 1y ago
In no particular order: Marine mammals Sunsets with no land in sight. Sunsets framing the land. Sunrises with no land in sight. Sunrises framing the land. Thunder and lightning rolling up one side of an island in the distance, putting on a
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by cricalix 1y ago
Not the person you're asking, but I sail a 7 ton, 10 metre yacht. I can change course by 90 degrees in under 10 seconds if I need to (probably far less, depends how hard of a crash tack I do). people do need to sleep if they're so
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by cricalix 2y ago
Perhaps it depends on your air fryer. Mine just dries the bread out, and toasts one side sorta..
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by cricalix 2y ago
It's not necessarily a technological problem that software has to solve. There's a bunch of processes around reporting and age verification that have to be in place.
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by cricalix 2y ago
Around 1996/97 timeframe, you could fit a kernel and userspace. I remember building a 1.44 setup that booted a compressed kernel and had enough user space tooling to bring up telnet, ftp, and the radio stack to drive the long haul radi

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