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by robolange 5mo ago
I zoomed in as far as I could go and saw some occasional flecks of red. Is that just lint, or remnants of when it was defaced in the 70s?
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by robolange 6mo ago
How do they even think they can enforce the firmware provision? Erect a great firewall? Fine me, the American user, for downloading a firmware update?
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by robolange 6mo ago
> engineers may have to log into a jump box via a VDI to then use Jenkins to run a Groovy script to use Terraform to deploy containers to a highly customized version of AWS. This hits too close to home. I'm sending you my therapist&
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by robolange 2y ago
My main desire in trying NextCloud was syncing files with a handful of people, as a free software replacement for Dropbox. All of the other features were nice to haves. I've tried several of the "budget" NextCloud hosts. I&#x
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by robolange 2y ago
I wonder which came first? This site or https://www.b5tech.org/ ? Both sites clearly use the same templates.
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by robolange 2y ago
I feel this. I recently ran into a problem with a kernel update breaking Bluetooth on resume from suspend. My Logitech keyboard and mouse that I use at my desk stopped working after each resume, and I had to go to the laptop keyboard and ma
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by robolange 3y ago
Naturally on the Internet there is an infinite variety. But using that Whole Foods site to filter the list to what's physically available at stores in my area, it reduces down to a list that's more or less Heinz and Heinz-like.
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by robolange 3y ago
Yes, and the alternatives are more or less identical to Heinz. The diversity of flavors and textures that this article talks about no longer exists.
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by robolange 3y ago
Great list. A few more: - Your ISP is [ISPs are, to your 2nd point] actively hostile to running "servers" from your connection, so you must either pay a ridiculous premium for that privilege, or jump through hoops to evade their i
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by robolange 3y ago
I can't count how many hacker conventions over the past 15-20 years I've been to where someone was evangelizing a product that claims to do what you're talking about. So many of these "dead simple" "plug and pl
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by robolange 4y ago
Makes me wonder how many weapons the other nuclear-armed nations have lost and not recovered. Like the US, Russia has thousands of them, and had tens of thousands more during the cold war. How many of them went missing?
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by robolange 4y ago
> Now you swoop in and say "Facebook is evil, and if you don't get off of it, I'll cut you out of my life!" I said no such thing, and I'd thank you not to put words in my mouth. As I explained in a different subt
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by robolange 4y ago
I feel like various people are misunderstanding what I've written, so I'll try to clarify here. > before you declare war on the ones that don't wanna change I never "declared war" on anyone. I guess it's a l
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by robolange 4y ago
Exactly. At some point I've had a conversation with most of the people who have filtered out of my life over this. I explained the reasons why I feel that Mark Zuckerberg is a sociopathic scumbag and his company is a cancer upon humani
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by robolange 4y ago
I continued communicating with those I cared about via standardized technologies. Those who communicated back in kind I still keep up with. Those for whom this was a bridge too far, are no longer in my life. Maybe they weren't ever rea
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by robolange 5y ago
I've never worked at a FAANG, but still this resonated with me. I'm 20 years into my software engineering career, and if I'm being honest, I've accomplished nothing. Literally, not one project I've ever worked on ha
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by robolange 5y ago
If we're going for anecdata, I called Comcast Business a couple of months ago and asked about IPv6 support. The sales rep asked, "What is IPv6?"
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by robolange 5y ago
Whoops, good call, that should have been 5kBps. GPRS had something like 85kbps theoretical maximum transfer speed, but the fastest I ever got anything to transfer over cellular was about 5kBps. Still, even in that era, that was absurdly slo
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by robolange 5y ago
After getting rid of my Freerunner, I had one of the the first Android phones (HTC?) briefly, then got a Nokia N900. I liked the OS, although it's my memory that it wasn't as fully open sourced as the OpenMoko. I did enjoy it, eve
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by robolange 5y ago
Most of the hardware I've ever owned I still have, either in working order or as component boards decorating my walls. I recall my emotion when disposing of the Freerunner was that it didn't deserve an epic funeral (the laser) or
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by robolange 5y ago
Openmoko failed for so much more than financial reasons. It's been a while since I've thought of that fiasco, but my memories: * The leadership was terrible. They had no clue what it took to make a mass market product. They just a
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by robolange 6y ago
Interesting, but shouldn't this be labeled 2007?
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by robolange 7y ago
What about fonts which are not licensed under an open source compatible license. What about fonts that are not "common" but are used by some popular Web site? Your request is doomed to failure. Like it or not, Web authors have bee
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by robolange 7y ago
Agreed. I used panopticlick and it showed me that web fonts were one of the biggest discriminators. I disabled them and tested on a sample of normal end user type Web sites. The web got real ugly looking real fast. If Mozilla disabled web f
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by robolange 7y ago
Did you leave that unbalanced paren in the [Hacker News] title just to drive Lisp users mad? Edit: Thanks for the fix!
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by robolange 7y ago
My father nearly died of [what we believe to be] Lyme disease. A few years ago he started getting awful bouts of pain all over his body. He couldn't eat, was losing weight, was losing muscle mass fast. It got the the point where he was
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by robolange 7y ago
An update on last night's experiment, if anyone cares. The next largest identifier was system fonts (approx 1/1300 browsers). I set `browser.display.use_document_fonts=0` which hid the system fonts (now the same as approx 1/1
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by robolange 7y ago
Panopticlick's numbers are extremely confusing and borderline useless. On my initial run, I got an overall entropy of 17.63. My two biggest identifiers were screen resolution (1000x595x24 which was approx 1/22000 browsers) and web
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by robolange 7y ago
Posting an update for posterity. It appears that even with app.normandy.enabled=default [true], as long as app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled=false, Normandy is disabled. app.shield.optoutstudies is the key controlled by the UI element "
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by robolange 7y ago
I rely on the Debian system to assist with that. Normandy bypasses that system, if it's enabled. (The jury is out whether it's actually enabled in Debian Firefox ESR.)

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