poronski

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Ask HN: Good resources to brush up on firmware reversing?
1 points by poronski 3y ago|0 comments
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by poronski 5y ago
To each their own. For a lot of people it’s way more fun to make a new thing than to fork and patch someone else’s.
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by poronski 5y ago
Gotta say kopia does have a very strong restic vibe to it. Not a bad thing, just means that restic managed to get lots of things right.
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by poronski 5y ago
Clickable - https://www.bvckup2.com
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by poronski 7y ago
$99 a pop is still pretty expensive.
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by poronski 7y ago
Had an Orkut account once. It proved to be more than enough :)
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by poronski 17y ago
MS DOS was Microsoft's lucky break. It's not like they were established as an OS developer that needed 6 years to get noticed.
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by poronski 17y ago
Also, do you think you or anyone else is going to have much trouble telling who baby_rutabega_spoon is when he talks about his bingo business or ruthless_carrot_fork when he gets exasperated about password hashing? These are exceptions. I
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by poronski 17y ago
> ...which would address the same problem. I don't think it would. Points determine the rank, so people would still be inclined to upvote their favourite users' comments if they see them engaged in a debate with someone else. Anonymiz
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by poronski 17y ago
Never used "leaders", but "ask" sounds like something that I would actually click on when the front page is lacking readable content. (edit) Oh, and while you are reading this, pg - what happened to the idea of anonymizing all posts? I vis
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by poronski 17y ago
In the next episode - "How to use sparks to dial a phone number" :)
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by poronski 17y ago
I wish I could downvote you for a sheer ignorance. > who needs a service ? Foundries do. You know, the people who actually make your "local fonts". Also those who recognize what a complex task the type design is and want to compensate
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by poronski 17y ago
Technical side - neat, very neat. I like it a lot. Business side - the recurrent pricing model does not make any sense whatsoever. Unless someone is actively developing the site or manually changes the content on a daily basis, per-use ch
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by poronski 17y ago
The idea is OK, but one needs to have connections in typographic community to execute it. Going foundry by foundry and convincing them to take their heads out of DRM hole and consider simpler, unsexy options such as this one. This can trans
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by poronski 17y ago
Anyone has any experience using professional screencast production services ? More specifically, with professional narrators or voice artists.
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by poronski 18y ago
It might be a valid business idea, but essentially that's how you milk the fad.
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by poronski 18y ago
There's a lot of things that are interesting. All needs to be taken in moderation or this place will end up chokeful of Digg-style news. TOP 10 BESTEST HISTORICAL MATIREAL OMG .. THE MOST AMAZING URBAN LEGEND YOU READ TODAY !! etc etc There
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by poronski 18y ago
Yes, but not on this site.
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by poronski 19y ago
psst .. you can edit the post after it's first submitted :)
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by poronski 19y ago
In 60s there was a campaign in Soviet Union with a slongan "If it's being done, let's do it big". It sounded really odd even untranslated.