lathiat

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by lathiat 6d ago
I think for phone calls this only works on Facetime and for calls maybe only on Wifi. SMS syncing is true. But if you have a phone and you're out and about you also need mobile data, so would otherwise need a second mobile plan. Or to
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by lathiat 7d ago
“Post Hoc Rationalisation” https://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/2013/11/14/post-hoc-r...
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by lathiat 11d ago
LTT Labs are writing up a lot of nice content of late.
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by lathiat 24d ago
Long before AI, I used the domain sixlabs.org for many years from about 2002-ish through 2012 when I managed to lose the domain and someone has had it registered and parked ever since with no active services and no obvious for sale sign. St
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by lathiat 1mo ago
The sad part is how expensive it is (I’m in Australia too). Seems up front like a cheaper alternative to pavers but both the moulded plastic and the soft plastic that fans out versions are a solid $40-$45/sqm AUD. Can buy brick pavers
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by lathiat 1mo ago
Not to mention it’s built into the OS: https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/digital-color-meter/we...
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by lathiat 2mo ago
Much of the Canonical & Ubuntu documentation uses it now. I am not sure which are the best examples though. https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/
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by lathiat 2mo ago
I am so very happy to have a 2010s Samsung TV with no Wi-Fi and an AppleTV. I do not lock forward to needing to upgrade the TV.
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by lathiat 2mo ago
Yikes. Going to need containerised vscode in this world.
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by lathiat 3mo ago
Apple includes these in digital purchases from the iTunes Store. It’s part of “iTunes Extra”. But I never see them anywhere else. Especially streaming. A real loss.
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by lathiat 3mo ago
The problem with asserts is that they are pretty dramatic and you crash the entire program. We generally did this in the avahi libraries, be fairly liberal with asserts that "shouldn't happen", it is a source of complaints th
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by lathiat 3mo ago
Most of the ARM Servers support this, in any case.
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by lathiat 4mo ago
Currently my biggest problem isn't ads, it's all the apps now will find ANY excuse to send you a notification in order to keep their "Daily Active User" count high. You turn off more and more categories and they'll
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by lathiat 4mo ago
Right. Sydney is at 33.9 S and Darwin is 12.4 S Quote from the article: In Sydney, south-facing panels typically produce around 30% less energy than north-facing ones. The steeper the roof, the less they’ll produce. They’ll also produce m
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by lathiat 4mo ago
This is sort of over stated generally. In Australia where North is “optimal”, even South facing panels produce only 20-30% less and East/West about 15%. It does vary a bit by latitude but it’s not at all pointless to install them in ot
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by lathiat 5mo ago
First heard about this I think on the Penn’s Sunday School hotel. I hope to visit one day. This hotel and the one which has a red phone “Popsicle Hotline” at the pool to order a waiter to bring your kids a tray of icy poles: https:/&#
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by lathiat 6mo ago
I remember the talk about the Wii/WiiU hacking they intentionally kept the early boot code in cache so that the memory couldn’t be sniffed or modified on the ram bus which was external to the CPU and thus glitchable.
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by lathiat 6mo ago
Only if you reuse the same random name. Which would be silly.
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by lathiat 6mo ago
They are one step ahead of you: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/ Sort of though. Still private beta since July 2025.
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by lathiat 6mo ago
Have been using that weekly since probably 20 years. Will change your life :) My other favourite is I very often SSH with -v to figure out why the connection is hanging, you rapidly figure out if DNS is failing, the TCP connection doesn&#x2
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by lathiat 7mo ago
Back in the day (MySQL 5.0-5.5 era, when I was working at MySQL/Sun/Oracle in the MySQL support team) the MySQL documentation team was truly amazing and sets the standard for me even today compared to many other docs teams I see.
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by lathiat 9mo ago
Yeah. As noted in the video the only way to get a new one was via a support process with Nintendo and they ran out of stock in 2024.
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by lathiat 9mo ago
I still have one of the early green OLPC laptops kicking around that I got at linux.conf.au 2005, in part because they were (or were thinking of) making use of avahi as part of the mesh stuff. They are quite fun to look at. The project was
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by lathiat 10mo ago
This entire thing was a masterpiece I love it.
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by lathiat 10mo ago
I would argue that iPadOS (built on iPhone's coat tails) moved the field forward significantly in terms of isolation and user security. While this has left a long tail of inconveniences, many resolved and some not, I am very confident
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by lathiat 10mo ago
It wouldn't surprise if Apple had fixed this, it's the sortof thing they would fix, but it may be worth trying with 2 devices not from the same iCloud account. Wouldn't surprise me if the code paths were subtly different in t
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by lathiat 1y ago
Captain Disillusion did a great breakdown (diss :) of that: https://youtu.be/1qSTcxt2t74?t=1273 (21m10s on for ~5 mins)
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by lathiat 1y ago
Right. Everyone seemed to be struggling with problems in python now that we’re already solved in Ruby 2007-2010.
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by lathiat 1y ago
Not everything uses qemu. Some do. More use KVM. Not everything does. Example: https://firecracker-microvm.github.io/
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by lathiat 1y ago
That's a fairly impressively sized list.

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