ploxiln

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by ploxiln 16d ago
You can forward USB devices into a VM. About 15 years ago I was using a Windows VM on Linux to program PIC18F??? devices with the custom (JTAG based?) programmer provided by Microchip. The upside is that you can preserve and share this wind
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by ploxiln 1mo ago
This blog post is very defensive and argumentative, which I guess is fair considering Dmitry's post is similarly inflammatory, but most of it was really not convincing: > Simply put, the things a high-end CPU needs are diametrically
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by ploxiln 2mo ago
I think it's a reaction to many simpler advocates of Rust saying "it's unsafe and irresponsible of you to not use Rust, you can't write software in C or C++ or Zig (or Go?) and have memory unsafety and put your users at
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by ploxiln 2mo ago
The high data rate cables all need to be stiffer. You can find good 100w or 240w charging cables with good flexibility, so that's a good reason to keep usb-2 data-speed but high-power charging cables. The measure of a good high-power c
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by ploxiln 2mo ago
If they can provide only 20% of the functionality and only 1% of the bugs, that's a compelling trade-off for many use-cases! (and a bit closer to the reality IMHO)
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by ploxiln 3mo ago
But you probably depend on over 500 open source libraries and tools, mostly ones you're not aware of. (Do you ever use a linux VM to run or just develop your stuff? Ever use git or curl etc? Did you know that tools and components in tu
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by ploxiln 4mo ago
You don't have to use Debian stable, if you'd prefer Ubuntu every 6 months, or Fedora (6 months? 9 months?), or even Arch Linux updated daily ... I use Arch on my laptop, when I got it 2 years ago the amd gpu was a bit new so it w
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by ploxiln 6mo ago
Yup, I've had "nomodeline" in my vimrc for years. I used to add the "securemodelines" plugin https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1876 but just recently removed that too (I think I
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by ploxiln 6mo ago
I'm still using Xorg after all these years, on a laptop with 150% scaling, which I occasionally plug into an external monitor with 100% scaling. Somewhat surprisingly, it works great. (Cinnamon desktop, Ryzen 7840u integrated graphics.
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by ploxiln 6mo ago
it's "Enterprise" grade software! need to check the boxes for the procurement process (actually working is a separate department)
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by ploxiln 6mo ago
Just type <enter> without cat, your shell will show you another prompt, and the ssh escape command will also work.
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by ploxiln 7mo ago
This is how it works in NYC, but the wires are almost twice as expensive as the power. (If you add taxes and the numerous weird fees, the total bill is a solid 3x the cost of the power.) It's really all about the grid maintenance and m
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by ploxiln 7mo ago
The previous company I was working at (6 months ago) had a bunch of microservices, most in python using fastapi and pydantic. At one point the security team tuned on CodeQL for a bunch of them, and we just got a bunch of false positives for
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by ploxiln 7mo ago
High school ... 20+ years ago probably
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by ploxiln 8mo ago
In addition to the all the other stuff, including light spectrum differences, you can't just trust that a "37000 lumen" light (cheap from China ...) is such a thing. Some examples of "100,000 lumen" flashlights that
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by ploxiln 8mo ago
I just worry that the voltage of these is a bit too high, if the device takes 3 or 4 in series. They tend to be around 1.8 volts per cell, significantly higher than a fresh alkaline AA at around 1.6 volts, and even after half the energy is
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by ploxiln 8mo ago
Windows 11 officially requires TPM 2.0, secure-boot enabled, and an AMD Zen+ (Ryzen 2xxx) or later or an Intel Core Gen 8 or later. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/10/windows-11-the-ars-t... > ...
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by ploxiln 8mo ago
I think, practically, everyone will need at least a cheap-ish android or iphone, perhaps $300 (and a new one every few years ...), to be their locked-down "agent" for using financial or government services. It's not for you,
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by ploxiln 9mo ago
Theoretically ... in practice, Boeing's most rigorous days in the 80s and 90s were directed by empowered individuals in the manufacturing org, and when it went full "strict process only" in the 2000s and 2010s the quality fel
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by ploxiln 9mo ago
When I update python version, python packages, container image, etc for a service, I take a quick look at CI output, in addition to the all the other checks I do (like a couple basic real-world-usage end-to-end usage tests), to "smoke
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by ploxiln 10mo ago
The "Sony Xperia 5 V" (I have the previous "Sony Xperia 5 IV") has a headphone jack, takes a uSD card, and is somewhat compact. (And no silly camera cutout in the screen, it's in a reasonably small bezel.) EDIT: als
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by ploxiln 10mo ago
For many years (20+?) Vietnam has had huge import tariffs on US/German/etc cars. It varies by origin country and engine displacement, but it's around 75% to 175%. Some trade agreements with other Asian countries result in m
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by ploxiln 10mo ago
> it wouldn't be hard to get a bad update into a package (xz did that) I'd actually call that quite difficult. In the case of xz it was a quite high-effort "long con" the likes of which we've never seen before, a
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by ploxiln 10mo ago
The grievances were rather detailed and concise. The communication channel is right there already. The relevant Mozilla employee should have responded with a detailed and concise explanation, of either why the translator is wrong, or why mo
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by ploxiln 11mo ago
No it doesn't. It's extremely valuable with the scope it already has. These massive corporations do not operate the Wayback Machine nor the various (less controversial) public archives that IA hosts, and makes available at no cost
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by ploxiln 11mo ago
FWIW the cool thing about gentoo was the "use-flags", to enable/disable compile-time features in various packages. Build some apps with GTK or with just the command-line version, with libao or pulse-audio, etc. Nowadays some
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by ploxiln 11mo ago
It probably applies better to users of software, e.g. 80% of users use just 20% of the features in Postgres (or MS Word). This probably only works, roughly, when the number of features is very large and the number of users is very large,
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by ploxiln 11mo ago
hmm how well did that work for Docker ...
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by ploxiln 11mo ago
A multitude of tiny dependencies has a multitude of solo maintainers, who eventually walk away, or sometimes get compromised. A few big dependencies each have a team and a reputation that has earned trust and established release process and
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by ploxiln 11mo ago
I feel like it was around 10 to 15 years ago that some people were excited to eliminate all the setuid on various binaries in a linux distro, by using linux file xattr capabilities. And eventually it became apparent that this wasn't su

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