daneel_w

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by daneel_w 22d ago
I run OpenBSD at netcup.de for €2/month. It's very low-spec, but it's enough.
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by daneel_w 23d ago
Unless I'm mistaken, Apple's push notifications network ("APN") and a few other macOS/iOS under-the-hood things are also built on top of XMPP.
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by daneel_w 23d ago
I think that's a symptom of the provider you chose, not the XMPP sphere itself. I've used Jabber/XMPP for just over 15 years and while I've seen plenty of bullshit going on in various highly popular MUCs (join-floods, ph
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by daneel_w 25d ago
> So the people that talk about bitrates where it's transparent are basically delusional? In my opinion they are not. A lot of people won't pick up on differences unless something is pretty off, even if they were intimately f
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by daneel_w 26d ago
It's just that you have different (or no) post-processing filters running between those two video players. MPEG cannot be arbitrarily decoded, only arbitrarily encoded.
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by daneel_w 28d ago
Yeah sure, a few example that spring to mind would be... Poor encoder: FAAC/FAAC2, the first open-source encoder for AAC audio, produce terrible audio no matter how much bitrate you let it work with. The AAC standard itself facilitates
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by daneel_w 28d ago
It was absolutely a good enough solution compared to the long wait for DVD releases and shelling out tons of money.
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by daneel_w 28d ago
Agreed!
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by daneel_w 28d ago
> There's no such thing as a codec that looks good or bad in an absolute sense. There are plenty of examples of both awful codecs (software; encoders) and of digital audio/video standards (e.g. Vorbis and MPEG-4 ASP) sufferin
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by daneel_w 28d ago
If anything it would be an issue with the encoder , but it's not. Both DivX and XviD are prime pieces of software but they live within unbridgeable limitations of the MPEG-4 ASP profile. This or that individual may not care about the
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by daneel_w 28d ago
DVD Video uses the much older MPEG-2 standard, not MPEG-4.
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by daneel_w 28d ago
With emphasis on shit . Really. I can relate to the rose-tinted memories, but DivX and XviD both encode to MPEG-4 ASP which has a lot of shortcomings that manifestly result in the infamous sludgy green-purple banding artefacts of the time,
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by daneel_w 29d ago
Thank you for an absolutely fantastic game (most notably the first part) and also thank you to Michiel for an equally fantastic soundtrack.
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by daneel_w 1mo ago
The ones to really bear the consequences are legitimate businesses and the customers of these businesses. It sounds like your desire to see offenders punished, instead of the problem actually being solved with the help of functional regulat
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by daneel_w 1mo ago
Sweden has such a system*, and a couple of related laws, since the early 2000s. In my personal experience it works very well here, and I've never heard friends or acquaintances complain either about getting unsolicited calls despite ha
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by daneel_w 1mo ago
No, that's a bad idea. There's no hurdle or legal issue, and money isn't behind it either. Those "prefixes" (area codes) are all the same segments of this or that national numbering plan that are also allocated by l
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by daneel_w 1mo ago
What you mean to describe is a free tenancy vs a paid tenancy , the latter having provided a validated payment method which gives them a higher priority on allocations, even if they are of the "Always Free" kind (a single x86-6
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by daneel_w 1mo ago
It has for me. I've had several permanent Arm-VPSes running in OCI for almost 4 years, without paying a single cent. But I'm on a paid tenancy , by having provided a verified payment card, which I think is the distinction that th
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by daneel_w 2mo ago
Anonymizing network proxy.
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by daneel_w 2mo ago
No "credentials" are being "harvested" here. It's all worthless data, save for the statistics.
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by daneel_w 2mo ago
The "logical OR" of DMARC is absolutely a glaring caveat. I run my own MX and would personally under no circumstance omit SPF, because I consider neither SPF nor DKIM complicated enough to warrant consideration.
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by daneel_w 2mo ago
Yes and no. DKIM signs part of the envelope to help recipients detect alteration (by verifying authenticity), SPF locks down the permissible origins for the sender. SPF is in itself imperfect and can in some situations be exploited on open-
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by daneel_w 2mo ago
I personally run iOS but have given GrapheneOS an extended run on a development phone I use for work, and I have to say it really is a much tidier, less distracting, smoother and more responsive experience than any other Android setup I&#
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by daneel_w 2mo ago
No one is stopped from backing up important data. It is, in fact, kind of boneheaded to keep all "valuables" on a single device. I don't understand the scenario of not trusting a device to safely access the Internet or the te
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by daneel_w 2mo ago
You're misinterpreting. They mean that there are additional options next to only keeping these things on your phone .
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by daneel_w 2mo ago
I personally consider these people European more than their specific nationality, but more importantly they to me represent European humanities, science, and so on.
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by daneel_w 2mo ago
There's also some irony in people happily ignoring that so many of these products live-stream the inside view of their homes and offices to some foreign corporate cloud - and in the case of suspiciously many Chinese security cameras, a
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by daneel_w 2mo ago
I don't understand the article. It tries to shroud a plain tape recorder in mystery, but the whole thing is just eye-rollingly underwhelming because tape recorders/decks are still easy to find, and so many of them have common line
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by daneel_w 2mo ago
In this case you can just crack it open and see that the SD card inside is larger than the 8 GB block device exposed.
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by daneel_w 2mo ago
Well, you don't understand databases. Or software.

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