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   by patchtopic 5y ago

   great work guys!
2. 122.▲
   by patchtopic 5y ago

   thanks google for bringing this handy looking extension to my attention!
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   by patchtopic 6y ago

   The current Australian govt ruling party are a bunch of scumbags. Google is not much better.
4. 124.▲
   by patchtopic 6y ago

   thanks! I missed that, yes now it makes sense, and is in the right ballpark.
5. 125.▲
   by patchtopic 6y ago

   A simple "back of the envelope" power use calculation of the possible power use of the bitcoin network, using the total hash rate from https://www.coinwarz.com/mining/bitcoin/hashrate-chart ( 151.55 EH&#
6. 126.▲
   by patchtopic 6y ago

   is this stating the "meme complex" idea using a different analogy?
7. 127.▲
   by patchtopic 6y ago

   A colo company could change the locks or pull the cable if coming under comparable legal pressure. Depending on the colo company? I'm surprised that Guerrilla Mail havent at least put a temporary status web page up on their domain yet
8. 128.▲
   by patchtopic 6y ago

   Now go stick some Dell servers in a colocation joint and run the numbers again :-)
9. 129.▲
   by patchtopic 6y ago

   find me a 55 inch monitor for $1000 AUD to use as my TV (with dedicated HTPC) and I'll be all over it..
10. 130.▲
    by patchtopic 6y ago

    "why are they spending so much time on guillotine web sites"?
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    by patchtopic 6y ago

    let us compare this with the case of Vorayuth Yoovidhya and Wichian Klanprasert https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wichian_Klanprasert
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    by patchtopic 6y ago

    The scripts still run, my ancient (1st or 2nd gen) Raspberry Pi gets 0.54 seconds for the multi .. 6 benchmark
13. 133.▲
    by patchtopic 6y ago

    https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ :-)
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    by patchtopic 6y ago

    It's exactly because of this kind of stuff I replaced my kindle with a Kobo when it wore out.
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    by patchtopic 6y ago

    A tabular, instantly updating set of information is one I'm frequently discussing with groups of people online, it is ridiculously handy even with the overhead of a web browser slowing things down, if it's updating live. Of course
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    by patchtopic 6y ago

    as utilised by Stringer Bell in The Wire
17. 137.▲
    by patchtopic 6y ago

    "First, you work all month, and then you give half of the money to those who couldn't work." fixed the wording for you.
18. 138.▲
    by patchtopic 6y ago

    Since it has the GTUBE you are intentionally making an email that will get bounced almost everywhere so you may as well not send it.
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    by patchtopic 6y ago

    Do we have a non-Murdoch propaganda machine source for this article? Yes FB is bad, but the Murdoch press is not a reliable source.
20. 140.▲
    by patchtopic 6y ago

    my first thought was "if it's self hosted, don't I have to index the entire internet first before I use it..?" .. before I read it's actually a frontend/proxy to google, not a separate thing. This is fine, but
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    by patchtopic 6y ago

    yes, SUCK.COM was awesome.
22. 142.▲
    by patchtopic 6y ago

    it's not perfect, but I had a positive experience recently creating a small web site with Publii: https://getpublii.com/
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    by patchtopic 7y ago

    so do people who proudly crow that they didn't watch GoT get rewarded with little gold stars or something?
24. 144.▲
    by patchtopic 7y ago

    Perhaps they should step back and see what the successful healthcare system (read: longer lifespan) countries outside the USA do ..
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    by patchtopic 7y ago

    How does this compare against S3QL? Does it do multithreaded compression when backing up? So far S3QL is the least worst of all these deduplicating/compressing/encrypting backup solutions I have tried, but I havent tried borgbacku
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    by patchtopic 7y ago

    Looks great, except the search seems very limited.
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    by patchtopic 7y ago

    this is possibly the real reason why the right wing press are/have been banging the brexit drum so hard.. tax havens...
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    by patchtopic 7y ago

    There are lots of laws in Thailand that are sporadically, selectively, unevenly or not at all enforced. The TM30 foreign resident laws in Thailand were put on the books in 1979 but they only decided to start enforcing them (albeit extremely
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    by patchtopic 7y ago

    if it is a good design, this is a positive feature.. constantly breaking a good UI just to be hip and cool is not. I'm not against new designs if they bring improvements to the table, but mindless bandwagon jumping is a waste of time.
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    by patchtopic 7y ago

    I don't know about the technical tradeoffs in hearing aids, but the other stuff in this article is breathtakingly ignorant.