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by flingo 4y ago
I once signed up to a service (privately run VPN thing) run by a university club that required confirming a real university student email address without having such an address. So, you needed to click a confirm link sent to "studentfo
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by flingo 5y ago
Meta-warning; I'm more into the juxtapositions of interactions between idiots vs experts, specialists vs generalists, startup-billionaire vs unemployed-drug-addict-hacker, and the level of insight that can be gained from these conversa
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by flingo 5y ago
How did you do this? Is the process repeatable?
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by flingo 6y ago
Is there a list of devices anywhere for which this doesn't work? It's worked in anything I've tried (haven't tried latest iphones) with only a momentary power switch on it. I was under the impression it was some kind of
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by flingo 6y ago
It's one additional resistor, I think. The first lot of raspberry pi 4s had that same problem, and I've seen it in other hardware that uses type-c to charge.
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by flingo 6y ago
Cosmic rays can come from any angle, and even pass through the entire earth without impacting anything. (millions of them are zipping through you and your RAM, right now! electrons barely dodging out of the way in time.) I think (but have n
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by flingo 6y ago
Are there any details on who's providing this app, who's running the site, and what they'll do with collected data? The ToS and privacy policy are identical, and only refer to an app called "velo" and a company call
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by flingo 6y ago
Here's one that's Firefox exclusive, and still seems to work: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_att... It's something I've used on a few sites, and it's a
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by flingo 6y ago
I don't think my original comment was clear about how I view the ToS as a hammer Apple made for themselves to wield. Not for the good of anyone, but apple. Their goal here being to cover their ass and have a rule, that you already &quo
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by flingo 6y ago
Using a blowtorch as a heat-source is common in extreme overclocking, to heat up VRMs and memory modules up enough to boot the machine, and keep it working. liquid helium might get into the device itself and cause other problems. (e.g. ipho
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by flingo 6y ago
Apple's iOS ToS specifically forbids downloading and executing code by the app. (with a definition of "code", and "execute" somewhere in the document) While you could technically hide this from them during the revie
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by flingo 6y ago
> I'm more drawn to the fact that the American government can greenlight this, even though it has global implications. They only need to greenlight the launch, and radio-transmissions over the US. As far as I know, there is no centr
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by flingo 6y ago
Does npm or whatever package manager is in vogue not have a hack to make a "package" out of a URL pointing to some javascript? (even if someone has to write some automation to package every version from github, as it comes out.) A
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by flingo 6y ago
Key points, ripped straight from the website; * Exxon Mobil’s been in the Dow in some form since 1928, but its tenure as the longest-serving component is coming to an end. * On Monday, S&P Dow Jones Indices announced the largest changes
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by flingo 6y ago
You could probably get alright performance running in the browser using webassembly. No idea if anyone's working on anything like that.
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by flingo 6y ago
How did you find this comment?
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by flingo 6y ago
> * Having a relatively big number of tabs (~600 in multiple tab groups) I have found this extension[0] useful, for saving my machine when I leave too many tabs open. Just make sure to whitelist things you don't want unloaded. Like
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by flingo 6y ago
Thankfully, they saw this coming, so wikipedia's licensing allows you to re-host the entire site. Useful if they ever turn crooked. Stack overflow has the same sort of setup, for the same reason. (though, that site is far more likely t
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by flingo 6y ago
The keyword here is "linking exception". It is a hack to sidestep the licensing problems caused by dynamic linking. e.g. If I encase gcc in java, and release gcc.class under GPL3+, but use it extensively in a separate proprietary
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by flingo 6y ago
Is there any way to get a GPL-compatible version of Sciter? I couldn't tell, just from glancing at the website/github.
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by flingo 6y ago
Last I checked, 888 still works on satellite, and most digital TV. Nothing there, but a page 100 telling you that there's no teletext, but page 888 still has subtitles on it.
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by flingo 6y ago
I found it more tolerable running it at 50% resolution. Still horrible though.
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by flingo 6y ago
> And this is how backwards compatibility comes to kill innovation. With all of the novel and esoteric programming languages that exist, I wonder why hasn't there been a "I can't believe it's not c/c++" lang
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by flingo 6y ago
I'm still not following why it'd require so much data? I thought the goal was to have the commit hash collide with an existing commit hash, is that not enough? I looked around, and it seems like the right place to hide the added d
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by flingo 6y ago
Why would it require that much data? I always thought you wouldn't need to add or change more bytes than are in the output. Also, git hashes aren't just based on source code. You can add that data anywhere that git uses to generat
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by flingo 6y ago
Step 1: Get 3 pigs. Step 2: Number them 1, 2, and 4. ...
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by flingo 6y ago
When I saw the title, I thought it was going this way. Or, more specifically, a driver to turn an IDE port into GPIO pins that PC programs can control. Closing the gap on making a feature-complete Windows 95 arduino core.
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by flingo 6y ago
A lot of the "breaches" added to the site are from unknown origins. Like, a large mixed collection sold online that somehow found it's way to Troy. Last time I used HIBP, it told me what site the leak was from. If your passw
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by flingo 6y ago
See also: detaching from, or quitting a tmux/screen session.
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by flingo 6y ago
Why do you think that? Are you just guessing?

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