m0xte

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by m0xte 6y ago
Yeah I bought a Magic Mouse 2 earlier this year and regretted it instantly. Apple need to stop thinking outside of the box when it comes to mice. You’re right about the positioning as well. If you have a full size Apple keyboard the trackpa
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by m0xte 6y ago
Yes. Similar experiences. Basically the position I ended up in was mandatorily selling out to Oracle with no other choice on the table. The key purchasing decision was whether Sun or HP got to bugger us for hardware. This was loudly shouted
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by m0xte 6y ago
This is the thinly veiled next round of Trump vs Bezos by the sounds. Hint: There are no winners.
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by m0xte 6y ago
That’s about it for commercial stuff. The trick is really managing it pre-compliance which amounts to renting a signal analyser / SA / measurement receiver and going at it with a near field probe to avoid having to pay for it more
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by m0xte 6y ago
I have, in defence sector.
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by m0xte 6y ago
Correct. Although it’s possible on older handsets with 3.5 jack that the audio amplifier in the handset itself is possible to receive. I’m not sure about lightning. But I very much doubt at the stated range. The EMC guys would be all over t
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by m0xte 6y ago
It’s physics. There is EMC testing done on these devices. There is little opinion involved in such matters.
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by m0xte 6y ago
I doubt it. That probably wouldn’t pass the EMC testing. Exaggerating I suspect to back up the claim. Really why is this a surprise when you can hear the phone blips and buzzes from the RF induced pickup on shitty hifi equipment.
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by m0xte 6y ago
I am disregarding the whole thing. The author knows nothing of EMC. This is expected at close quarters.
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by m0xte 6y ago
I suspect that’s unlikely from my own experiences on this stuff. Perhaps 20-40cm is more likely.
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by m0xte 6y ago
This is not surprising. We’ve been using AM and FM radios to debug circuits for decades. They can pick up oscillations and instabilities. But the range is centimetres at best. So much so the antenna gets used as a fairly directional probe.
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by m0xte 6y ago
>10Gb - Stick it on a bitlocker encrypted USB stick and chuck it in the post. Next day download if you send it 1st class here. <10Gb - chuck it on S3 and send a link to the other person.
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by m0xte 6y ago
I just get poked on slack. Question answered. Life carries on. The advantage there is I can choose when to respond which is never the case in shoulder tapping office environments and meeting schedule negotiations both of which are disruptiv
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by m0xte 6y ago
Yeah which is why I do neither.
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by m0xte 6y ago
Completely agree. Perhaps we should get on air and outnumber them :)
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by m0xte 6y ago
You want to hear some of the crap I hear on 2m in London UK. I dumped my HT in the end so I don’t get annoyed. CW and FT8 are generally best if you don’t want to deal with that sort. CW is much harder to put the effort in to be a dick and F
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by m0xte 6y ago
That’ll be also because the local club usual incompetence can’t get in the way with social distancing. I had so much trouble even going back a few years getting my license because most folk can’t organise a piss up in a brewery. RSGB were l
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by m0xte 6y ago
More than that. General direction was negative. They’re removing kernel extensions (bye bye corp vpn), terrible historical direction on browser extensions, bugs galore, crazy expensive hardware. I’m done.
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by m0xte 6y ago
95% probably isn’t good enough. 1blocker is fairly awful I find and rather expensive because you’re a captive audience that doesn’t have access to working uBlock. This situation is one of several reasons I recently dumped macOS and went bac
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by m0xte 6y ago
Which incidentally sucks terribly. Ad blocking on iOS and macOS is a complete turd.
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by m0xte 6y ago
Energy isn’t going to get cheaper and neither is the environmental impact of consuming lots of it.
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by m0xte 6y ago
My conclusion is that my home lab was a learning exercise that comes to an end and that having physical hardware was actually detrimental to it. I still have a home lab. It's just virtualized.
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by m0xte 6y ago
So much this. I think my energy bill for my single PC as mentioned elsewhere in this thread works out about $70 (equiv) a year. When I had the full whack server rack it was pulling that a month and 99% of the time it was idle.
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by m0xte 6y ago
Not OP here but it takes me about an hour to rebuild my machine from scratch.
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by m0xte 6y ago
I had a fairly large home lab once. I had a fully topped out SPARCserver 1000E and a disk enclosure in my bedroom. I also once lived with an E450 on the kitchen table for a month. But they’re noisy as hell, inconvenient, expensive to keep r
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by m0xte 6y ago
I’m not saying that it doesn’t result in a saving but that the fact that industry has to exist to keep costs constrained is a net loss. Imagine if pricing was transparent, calculable and easy to rationalise the cost of a change. But it isn’
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by m0xte 6y ago
Well the point is more that a lot of stuff doesn't even need to be in a queue. It's just cookie cutter engineering. "I did this before and it worked so I'll do it again" without any consideration on what it does a
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by m0xte 6y ago
Mine doesn’t give a crap if my outbound is 200 gig a month uploading stuff to onedrive or iCloud. Why should it have that opinion on anything else? I’m paying for a pipe. The only control metric they have is asymmetry and that’s a technolog
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by m0xte 6y ago
Yes I’m a big proponent of stateless stuff. In fact 20 years ago I was crowing this to a deaf audience. Instead I find queues in databases that didn’t even need to exist. And our solutions, kubernetes for example, are complicated Rube Goldb
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by m0xte 6y ago
I think it’s simpler. This smells like a load of marketing to justify the existence of another silo which is controlled by some form of vanity ideology. Nope. We still have plenty of choices which don’t need an ideology shipped with it. I’m

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