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by gnu8 3y ago
Perhaps not the most beautiful or noble thing, but it certainly has been impactful, like the invention of nerve gas.
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by gnu8 3y ago
I could imagine a company that vaults physical objects and tracks ownership by NFTs. The NFTs could then be traded and the current owner of the thing attached to the NFT could view the object through a web cam. Of course the owner could tak
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by gnu8 4y ago
Has anyone ever seen an interface that plugs into the MII port pictured in that article? I had a Sun machine with that connector but I never had an adapter for it. There was also a normal RJ45 jack so I didn’t need one but I was always curi
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by gnu8 4y ago
Wasn’t Steve Gibson trying to tell us that raw sockets were the end of the world more than 20 years ago? Maybe he is finally right.
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by gnu8 4y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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by gnu8 4y ago
All that means is it’s not broken when you get it. The 30 day window is a reasonable interval for the purchaser to have time to check it out.
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by gnu8 4y ago
I wonder if that is aviation language instead of software language. Permanently repaired like replacing damaged aircraft skin so that no further action is required, as opposed to grinding off the jagged edges and patching the opening, but s
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by gnu8 4y ago
There isn’t a practical way to fractionate their revenue or determine what proportion of their profit is derived from your data. This can be proved by the fact that there is no way to make any money with only the data you gave to them separ
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by gnu8 4y ago
The clown who wrote this thinks the word hacking means cracking. That automatically negates everything he says. I would not take anything in this article seriously.
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by gnu8 4y ago
No one on HN understands reality. The name of the site should be False Consciousness.
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by gnu8 4y ago
This is only a problem in localities with regressive gun control regulations.
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by gnu8 4y ago
Have you used BeOS or Netscape lately? Do you recall when Internet Explorer became the dominant web browser and then saw no development for five years? Do you remember when the most widespread malware on the internet was Windows 2000? Bill
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by gnu8 4y ago
For the disabled people with money anyway. How are disabled people who live entirely from disability subsidies supposed to buy a Tesla?
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by gnu8 4y ago
Does it fuck up your brain, or your computer?
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by gnu8 4y ago
> they co-mingled the contents of all the boxes such that the boxes original contents could not be determined. This is solid evidence to support the idea that the FBI was simply looting US Vault, since confusing the contents without docu
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by gnu8 4y ago
China has been a country for longer than the history of European civilization. They do not subscribe to the view that nothing that happened before 1945 matters the way Americans seem to.
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by gnu8 4y ago
I would say akin to smoking a cigarette. One time won't hurt you in a measurable way but if your job is refilling toners or dealing with broken laser printers you need some protection.
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by gnu8 4y ago
In any situation where you can see toner you want to be wearing an N95 mask. Inhale any of it and it is in your lungs forever. The best thing for cleanup is a 3M electronics vacuum which has a filter that will trap that stuff securely.
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by gnu8 4y ago
Of course they are stealing things for their own consumption. They are merely choosing to steal a particular thing that is easy to steal and easy to convert to cash, which they can then use to purchase the diverse things they need to surviv
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by gnu8 4y ago
This led me to wonder why we still need the -12V supply - I know the -5V supply was removed a while ago because it was only needed for ISA slots. According to Wikipedia, -12V is for RS-232 ports and PCI slots, both of which are hardly seen
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by gnu8 4y ago
It is a uniquely crummy feeling to have your work go unused like that, but you shouldn’t let it discourage you. You reached a level of mastery on this particular thing that few people have, which is evidenced by the fact that no one else in
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by gnu8 4y ago
Tiktok's algorithms should be easily jammed by clicking on the wrong things, but at that point why bother using it at all? I've never tried it.
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by gnu8 4y ago
How is it considered secure or appropriate to mail one's passport to unknown parties to do who-knows-what with it?
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by gnu8 4y ago
Leading me to ask, was the land not offered to the UK or were they not interested?
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by gnu8 4y ago
> If your employment is impacted, you will receive a notification with next steps via your personal email. What about people who don’t have a personal email address?
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by gnu8 4y ago
It doesn't matter which end of the egg.
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by gnu8 4y ago
That’s a good take though. I still hang on to the fantasy of having my mail delivered to my machine like it was big iron, but in the 25 years I have been using Linux it hasn’t happened.
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by gnu8 4y ago
> rarely used in most installs. I was going to object but you are absolutely right. Most Linux installs are instances of something that are created and destroyed without a human ever touching them. However, I wouldn't go so far as t
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by gnu8 4y ago
When did it become possible to use cat and pipes on block devices? I don’t think this was always the case, or was it?
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by gnu8 4y ago
Should the amount of wealth someone can hoard be essentially unbounded, allowing them to become impervious to any civil consequences for their actions?

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