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by nieve 6mo ago
They were stuck in a never-ending series of legal battles because the current administration is trying to block all wind power, so their money was not actually going anywhere useful. Coincidentally Trump hates wind power and is still bringi
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by nieve 6mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_fund
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by nieve 9mo ago
> Fediverse users should be able to have private chats with each other, that not even their instance admins can snoop on. > This encryption should be accessible to mere mortals, without sophisticated training or discipline. E2EE seems
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by nieve 2y ago
I liked linuxbrew up until it set up python in a way that broke a lot of apps for me. I keep meaning to give it another try, but there are only so many hours.
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by nieve 2y ago
Gamers in general are not looking at Apple's chips.
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by nieve 2y ago
The only way there'd be shockwaves is if it turned out to be Theo de Raadt.
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by nieve 2y ago
It allows full RCE from an uploaded or opened file. That seems reasonably critical to me.
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by nieve 2y ago
The best modern reason to have as much swap as RAM is to make hibernation to disk more reliable, but a lot of people don't use that anymore. It's more reliable because the kernel doesn't have to work as hard to find space to
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by nieve 2y ago
How does that explain the focus on gender? Admittedly there are countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia where there might be laws about what you're allowed to show women.
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by nieve 2y ago
The thing I never hear mentioned is when your home ISP (or say your favorite cafe's) is known to use your traffic data for marketing purposes or sell it outright. I trust Mullvad farther than I trust my ISP. I could switch ISPs, but my
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by nieve 2y ago
David Weber actually wrote a series once where aliens (actually humans) hollowed out the Moon (dumping the material into the sun) to use the rest as camouflage for a Moon-sized spaceship hiding from other aliens (actually aliens). It was pr
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by nieve 3y ago
"Judge Kimberly Adams agreed to admit evidence of King’s cellphone." So no, at least the judge for this case decided it was fine. Note as well that the case is over the Cop City protests, not even a criminal endeavor. Literally go
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by nieve 3y ago
Sorry if this was a joke and I didn't spot it. Chrome was based on WebKit which was itself based on KHTML if memory serves. Chromebooks are based on a version of that outside engine running on top of Linux which they also didn't c
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by nieve 3y ago
For me everything about rsync.net was great except for the throughput. It didn't matter which continent, isp, or operating system I tested, I couldn't get past single digit Mbps and sometimes had trouble reaching that. Support tri
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by nieve 3y ago
It's because PostgreSQL has inheritance and has almost certainly used the term object relational since before you heard of it.
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by nieve 3y ago
It's not just obnoxious, people hike out there regularly he could have hit and he could easily have started a significant fire in a vulnerable environment. He endangered others for a sponsorship deal and then engaged in a conspiracy to
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by nieve 4y ago
A natural language understanding engine that _makes things up_ is not extremely good.
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by nieve 4y ago
That's directly addressed in the actual post.
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by nieve 4y ago
I did this and heartily endorsed it up until the day I got 1.4 million spams in under 24 hours.
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by nieve 4y ago
Perhaps that one number was a blockchain address or account number?
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by nieve 4y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/crypto-exchange-binance-temp... "Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, paused withdrawals of the stablecoin USDC on Tuesday while it carried out a &qu
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by nieve 4y ago
Discord treats any page load of a confirmation link as good, so to my surprise Gmail happily confirmed someone's attempt to open an account with my email address before I'd even gotten the confirmation mail. A lot of companies are
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by nieve 4y ago
There was a board, but "FTX’s board, though, had only three directors as of earlier this year: Mr. Bankman-Fried, an FTX employee and an Antigua lawyer who specializes in gaming."
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by nieve 4y ago
Anyone know if it handles the rather different usage of SMART attributes on NVME drives?
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by nieve 4y ago
The protagonists of Hackers were way more competent than this crew.
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by nieve 4y ago
As another data point a smallish community that I do moderation for (roughly 6k messages a day) has very large amounts of blatant trolling come from M247-hosted VPNs. Walls of slurs, regurgitated Russian propaganda about Ukraine, rape &
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by nieve 4y ago
But similarly you can't be sure what you're buying in a market like that.
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by nieve 4y ago
Every now and then I'm reminded of what could have been when someone submitted a patch to Dreamwidth (probably easily ported to Livejournal) that provided a bi-directional NNTP gateway that allowed posting. The Dreamwidth devs quite re
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by nieve 4y ago
Un-paywalled link: https://archive.ph/ghdS3
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by nieve 4y ago
On the other hand my linux Thinkpad has worryingly high numbers: Available Spare: 100% Available Spare Threshold: 10% Percentage Used: 6% Data Units Read:

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