marcjuul

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by marcjuul 2y ago
While that's an interesting thought experiment and there are definitely good reasons to make it more difficult to sit on an unused patent, it's already difficult enough for lone inventors and small organizations to get and keep a
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by marcjuul 3y ago
Yeah this seems to be a fairly important missing piece. Is there some special boot mode with a ROM-hosted unmodifiable adb?
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by marcjuul 3y ago
Why do you think this is the case across all of Europe? You can definitely buy SIM cards in vending machines in Denmark still.
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by marcjuul 4y ago
The author seems to be making an assumption that the average person cares as little about preventing centralization of power and having any semblance of online privacy as they do about the speed of their dishwasher and that the projects tha
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by marcjuul 4y ago
Is is, in fact, neither silly nor off-topic to discuss the politics, economics or ethics of the product being advertised. The fact that this makes you uncomfortable or annoyed is disturbing. As you well know there are plenty of different bu
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by marcjuul 4y ago
Nice feature but what is the use case for saving to PDF? If you want to save a web page for later offline reading then epub would be both much easier to implement and more useful given that it retains ability to reflow to fit different scre
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by marcjuul 4y ago
Absolutely not an expert here and would love to be corrected but my poorly informed personal impression is that the whole idea of a sustainable amount of fishing and whether all species even have a number that is safe to harvest (especially
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by marcjuul 4y ago
It's actually simpler than a table of voltages. It's a series of trinary values that indicate whether to use positive, negative or zero voltage. The actual voltage used is static (even the specialized EPDC PMIC (which _is_ a separ
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by marcjuul 5y ago
zxing does not have a usable datamatrix decoder last I checked. it's there but it's no good.
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by marcjuul 5y ago
It's not great but libdtmx is the best open source datamatrix decoding as far as I know.
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by marcjuul 5y ago
Does anyone happen to know where in the Chromium code base the implementation is hiding? The android version seems to use a library that's part of Google Play Services: /** * Implementation of mojo BarcodeDetection, using G
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by marcjuul 9y ago
You know what would replace the web app if it was replaced today? Some corporate locked down solution subtly or unsubtly controlled by a single conglomerate or interest group. Recently certain corporations have been whispering about replaci
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by marcjuul 10y ago
Completely agree that Kobos are better than Kindles for hacking purposes. Generally not as easy to find cheap used though.
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by marcjuul 10y ago
Cool! I did not know this existed!
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by marcjuul 10y ago
If you just want to modify the existing OS and write apps for it the look at the kindle hacking community on the mobileread forums. The best devices are probably up to and including 5th generation kindles since I believe they are the latest
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by marcjuul 11y ago
We're engineering yeast to produce a vegan source of cheese protein and in the long run make Real Vegan Cheese: https://realvegancheese.org We're now hosting Bay Area Applied Mycology (formerly Bay Area Radical Mycolog
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by marcjuul 11y ago
I'm part of the team so ask away! We're working towards having a larger BSL-1 (bio-safety level) lab for work with safe and well-known organisms and a smaller BSL-2 lab for stuff like growing certain environmental isolates and eve
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Biohackers starting new lab in Oakland(kickstarter.com)
20 points by marcjuul 11y ago|7 comments
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by marcjuul 12y ago
We all moved in together. Hackers, anarchists, social justice, mad scientists, poets, dancers, documentary film-makers, etc. in one big space in Oakland!
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Oakland hackerspace, citizen science lab, mesh group and free school(indiegogo.com)
1 points by marcjuul 12y ago|1 comments