kallistisoft

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by kallistisoft 9mo ago
At this point the primary thing that's keeping me from switching to Wayland (KDE) is lack of support for remote desktop software, especially with multiple monitors... Hopefully AnyDesk and Remmina will address this issue before KDE end
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by kallistisoft 9mo ago
At this point I'm convinced that they're not a 'real person' and the 'Fabrice' is an operational code name for a very mature hacker collective. Real people have to sleep at some point!
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by kallistisoft 11mo ago
This sounds like an interesting project. Do you have any plans to publish a tutorial/journal article + source code?
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by kallistisoft 1y ago
> Why would someone in their right mind ever buy a Nintendo product? Correction: Why would someone in their right mind ever buy a Nintendo product and use it accordance within the manufacturer's guidelines? I purchased a first gen (
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by kallistisoft 1y ago
I'm sorry... please take this adorable tribble as a consolation!
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by kallistisoft 1y ago
> The thesis is that immigrants have no constitutional rights because they aren't citizens... The constitution is quite clear on this issue and it has been affirmed repeatedly over the last 100+ years by the high courts. Anyone and
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Trump seeks social media profiles of all green cards applicants(independent.co.uk)
15 points by kallistisoft 1y ago|1 comments
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by kallistisoft 1y ago
Note: original title was too long -- "Trump wants green card applicants already legally in the US to hand over social media profiles"
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
There's an issue with the flow you described; the party requesting verification shouldn't directly interact with the verifying agent (the state) as this leaks to the state the identity of the requesting 3rd party. The correct flow
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
Found a weird bug... I've got a 3 monitor setup and the background animations (rain + pinwheel) only appears on 2 of the monitors... If the window straddles two of the monitors the animations only play on one half of the window!
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
I was big fan of my HTC Evo, I found the 3D images to be immensely helpful when taking documentation photographs. I could take just two images and get all of the info I needed to capture vs taking ~8 from multiple angles and having to menta
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
I've been using IONOS (formerly 1und1) for the last 20 years for all of my DNS and hosting needs and couldn't be happier. Their uptime, non-obtrusive policies, and customer support have all been top notch . Can't recommend en
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
Very interesting approach! Question: How do you deal with environmental noise and unexpected flux from nearby devices?
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
> Unlike marking only on the surface of a 2D piece of paper or magnetic tape, this method of encoding uses two optical dimensions and three spatial co-ordinates to write throughout the material - hence the ‘5D’ in its name. Ummmmm.......
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
Many many moons ago I connected a pickle to a 10kv transformer - in that case at least it was definitely the result of arcing :)
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
This is really quite laughable! What kind of adversary, that would elicit the deployment of these types of resources, would have their critical security infrastructure connected via wifi??
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
I absolutely adore this series of videos! Analog/mechanical computing is a fascinating field that is often ignored. Also the pedagogical style of these videos is fantastic, simple, to the point, with no unnecessary distractions. It&#x2
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
This is very well polished! Obviously took a lot of hard work and it shows in the results. Well done! Question: I see the that the code for the examples can be pulled from github, but I don't see anywhere to download the text of the bo
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
Tangentially related is the yearly Graphème publication from Smallest Functional Unit. It's a curated collection of experimental music scores; part art magazine, part avant garde musical journal, and thoroughly delightful :) https:&#
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
It never fails to amuse me that the "exciting" things that Microsoft does to Windows always falls into one of two categories: 1. Implementing features that have been available in Linux/MacOS for years 2. Adding interoperabili
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
> Did you read the cited articles or are you basing your assertions only on this Web article? I did not read any of the cited articles! > There might be a lot of detail on the evidence in the cited articles which are just not mentio
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
Thank you for posting an article worth reading :)
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
> Well I'm pretty sure they have some evidence to support that claim [...] > article: To this day, it is unknown how the Incas worked with these calculators. There are several hypotheses about their use [...] It appears, that the
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
I really enjoyed the pictures, but that's an incredible amount of baseless speculation! For all we know these 'devices' were ancient board games who's sole purpose was entertainment!?
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
I'm happy this invention is still in the news cycle after the initial announcement 10 months ago... [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36958531 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36993411 [
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
Not to detract for your overall statement as you make an excellent point... > ... brake dust ... I would hope/assume that EVs would primarily use regenerative braking and only use friction brakes for emergency stops, thereby dramati
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
FYI It looks like you can purchase that board direct from TI for $199.99 https://www.ti.com/tool/ADS1299EEGFE-PDK
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
As far as I know the plan has always been to use the martian regolith and water as primary radiation shielding -- same as the moon. Here is a recent (2022) paper[1] on the concept, but you can easily find scholarly work on this going back m
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by kallistisoft 2y ago
I really like the concept of the M5Stack product line and was ready to suggest it to some friends that were looking into getting into embedded programming / gadget building, but a recent experience has given me some pause... I was debu
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by kallistisoft 3y ago
On some Android phones pressing the power button 5 times in a row will call emergency services. I learned this the hard way when I was very drunk and fumbling with my phone - cue a call back from 911 where I had to awkwardly explain in the

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