lordelph

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by lordelph 1y ago
Here's recent article going into how the EU and some of its members are responding https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-exploit-dunald-trump-...
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by lordelph 2y ago
I got strong "The Nine Billion Names of God" vibes from this! Just as the last video is uploaded, without any fuss, the stars start going out... https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...
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by lordelph 2y ago
Jeff Minter-esque! Nice work!
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by lordelph 2y ago
That's exactly what he did - if you look at this history section, he was broadcasting analogue TV signals to his house, and embedding his own Ceefax service in the signal!
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by lordelph 2y ago
Very interesting tool! My Yorkshire grandfather would often say "kirk" instead of "church", which I always thought was more of a Scottish word. Doing a place name comparison of those words shows a fairly clear division o
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by lordelph 3y ago
It was available online at http://www.domesday1986.com/ but this now redirects to https://www.domesday86.com/ (which references the duplicate project in the linked repo) I remember participating in the Dome
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by lordelph 4y ago
I'm sure I've read a much older short story, possibly by Frank Herbert, where in the future computers do all the calculations so humans have forgotten how to do basic arithmetic. It is rediscovered, only now it's much cheaper
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by lordelph 4y ago
I recall accessing Prestel at 1200/75 - 1200 baud coming down, but a measly 75 baud going back up!
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by lordelph 5y ago
FWIW, I recently switched from an Intel to an M1 Macbook, and found shared volumes with Docker Desktop were unusably slow (previously, I'd used VirtualBox host docker and shared files into it via NFS). However, using https:/&#x2F
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by lordelph 6y ago
There must be some kind of law "Every company will forget to renew a TLS certificate once" I know I can't throw stones in this particular greenhouse :)
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by lordelph 6y ago
I rather enjoyed the somewhat flowery translation!
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by lordelph 7y ago
I have a pi with a Displayotron HAT which is designed to wake me up with a loud klaxon noise if it detects service outage. It also emits a soft glow to show that all is well. Aside from valuing my sleep, I have a lot of incentives to ensure
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by lordelph 7y ago
That's a good point, and I must admit I didn't know what a route leak was or that it could inflict this kind of damage. I appreciate now it's not CloudFlare's fault, and my hat is off to the CTO for posting more detail h
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by lordelph 7y ago
We've been evaluating Cloudflare mainly for doing failovers faster than DNS. This morning I ran some tests to generate graphs to show the typical delay incurred in preparation for a show-and-tell with some key people. I started seeing
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by lordelph 7y ago
Honestly, it's painless. Fire up a cloud server, run the omnibus installer and you're away. I can't remember having any serious issues in five years running it that way.
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by lordelph 7y ago
There's a maker group local to me that constructed a drivable version called BigHak! http://hackhitchin.org.uk/bighak/
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by lordelph 8y ago
This is up there with the 500 mile email problem - the nature of headers inside an XLS file embedded in an email caused a signalling error in a T1 line when the email was retrieved!
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Troubleshooting emails with Excel attachments that crashed a T1 circuit(np.reddit.com)
1 points by lordelph 8y ago|1 comments
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by lordelph 8y ago
One possible issue, I've got a file showing in "Untracked Files" which is not shown when do git status That aside, I like this a lot, and normally I only use the git command line.
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by lordelph 8y ago
But it's a godawful small affair
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by lordelph 8y ago
I'm 47. I don't worry about age that much, but I recently had a fitness checkup at a gym. I'm no great athlete but I do run and cycle a bit. I mentioned I was training for a marathon. The instructor, in her 30s, encouragingly
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by lordelph 8y ago
I have a friend into binaural recording, he has a rig shaped liked a head with 3d-printed ears. He wanders around the woods recording birdsongs with it. I would imagine that provides a fair degree of verisimilitude.
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by lordelph 8y ago
He was indeed banned for 18 months - the article must have misinterpreted the story. Here's a BBC News article covering it http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-439345...
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by lordelph 8y ago
Looks promising - I found I couldn't edit sample text - anything I typed in the sample area was added to the end of the sample, not the caret position.
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by lordelph 8y ago
You're looking at it's current orbital parameters - if you look further down you'll see how the orbit degraded from approx 350km in 2017
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by lordelph 9y ago
It's an elephant on a skateboard in the rain - the elephant sucks up some falling water, and then shoots it horizontally from its trunk to scoot gracefully across the savannah.
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by lordelph 9y ago
"Hal, perform the earth orbit insertion burn" "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that" "Hal, come on, not this shit again?" "Dave, the reactor core cannot be ejected, and cannot be allowed
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by lordelph 9y ago
But the ACME protocol, the automation underpinning Let's Encrypt, supports validation via a DNS challenge (adding a specific TXT record to the domain). Would it not be possible to issue wildcards if-and-only-if a DNS challenge succeeds
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by lordelph 9y ago
Captain: "Scotty, we need more lift!" Scotty: "We're giving it all she's got. If I eject the empty batteries we might just lose enough mass, but I cannae guarantee it" Captain: "Do it, do it, do it!"
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by lordelph 9y ago
Any of you that follow Bruce Schneier might remember he has these "movie plot" contests, to come up with plausible threats which would incur another bit of security theatre. The winner in 2007 was a plot where water would have t

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