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by sherr 7mo ago
According to the Economist recently [1], Israel recently caught a couple of men who bet on the timing of the Iran attacks last year : "Last summer one “ricosuave666” won more than $150,000 on Polymarket, a betting platform. Their true
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by sherr 7mo ago
There are alternatives to sudo other than the new Rust version here. "doas" [1] comes from OpenBSD and is a smaller (LOC) tool, easier to audit and keep secure (supposedly). Also available for Linux. Also "run0" [2], ano
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by sherr 7mo ago
Latham worked at the IBM UK Scientific Centre in Winchester, the computer artist working with the software engineers to create an "organic" type of art. This was not realtime or interactive, at least not at the start and for a few
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by sherr 7mo ago
I think the possible age restriction on VPN use will be problematic in many ways. The direction of travel here is a worry even though I agree that children need some protections from social media use. The site ISP Preview [0] has an article
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by sherr 7mo ago
On my Pixel 8a, a swipe right on the home screen shows the "google app", I don't like that so I disabled it (home settings).
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by sherr 8mo ago
I have visions of the book scanner in Vernor Vinge's SF novel "Rainbows End" (a book I love). A machine rips the books up into small pieces, photographs are taken and "AI" software then reads and assembles the pictu
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by sherr 8mo ago
The History Blog has more : https://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/75071 I look forward to the "musicologists" getting to grips with this carnyx and figuring out improvements to the reproductions they make.
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by sherr 8mo ago
Sounds like rubbish to me. What "political reasons" do you mean? Don't be shy.
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by sherr 9mo ago
Get what? The page says this thing will be opt-in. As it also says, they can't ignore the effect AI is having in the world. I'm not much of a fan of a lot of this effect, but see some benefits in places.
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by sherr 9mo ago
Ha ha, yes. You should write that up as a pamplet somewhere.
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by sherr 9mo ago
Well, they won't say what they see yet and they won't know what it is until they actually excavate. So, let's hope it's worth the expectation they've built up. At least it also appears that "Time Team" are
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by sherr 10mo ago
Looks great. I like simple, useful tools. Is it worth a) adding a link to your source repo (if it exists) b) add a license somewhere? c) add a README on how to self-host (even if simple).
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by sherr 10mo ago
I've been using apt regularly on Debian for a long time and never seen it crash or segfault. Very strange that you do. All software has bugs of course, but apt is so heavily used that I expect it gets attention. It just works for me.
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by sherr 11mo ago
I agree to an extent but they are usefully kept somewhat separate. The introduction to the great "Encyclopedia of Fantasy" put this well. Re: Fantasy : "Its roots go much deeper into history, and its concerns are more archety
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by sherr 11mo ago
Iain M Banks is science-fiction rather than fantasy, so I would not expect him in a "Fantasy Masterworks" series. The two genres have some over-lap but are distinct.
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by sherr 1y ago
> "Security services" isn't a power center, they are a tool used by power centers. No, they /are/ a power center. They have a lot of power: they advise governments, police and business, who listen to their advice
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by sherr 1y ago
I don't use "pi-hole", just an in-browser blocker (ublock origin) and am happy. But I would assume a "pi-hole" would be a useful addition to a household using a variety of potentially ad-infested devices e.g. a smar
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by sherr 1y ago
Given that Police Scotland recently found that MS cannot give any guarantees about where sensitive information ends up if it is ever uploaded to their cloud, I would expect any government or military to be evaluating their use of their soft
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by sherr 1y ago
Taking a less cynical view, it's just successful Austrian PR.
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by sherr 1y ago
The Rhodes book is great on this. Fermi was such a good physicist and a great hands-on engineer. Before electronic calculators or computers: a slide-rule, graphing paper and a notebook. A lot of danger getting the maths wrong! Luckily, Ferm
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by sherr 1y ago
Xen is still around, including an open-source version. It's not as visible as it used to be but works e.g. XenServer ( https://www.xenserver.com/editions ). I'd look at this over VMWare anyday.
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by sherr 1y ago
The Today program is a shadow of its former self I think, as is a lot of BBC News today.
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by sherr 1y ago
I can imagine the smell that greets you walking round this amazing collection of books. I'd love to browse. I have a Kindle but it has had a flat battery for years now because I just love paper books too much.
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by sherr 1y ago
That guest is Dominic Sandbrook, one half of the excellent "Rest is History" podcast. You can't make an omellete without breaking a few eggs, after all. That was Lenin, supposedly. edit: spelling of "one"
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by sherr 1y ago
I had to think to recall the reason. I had a support ticket at Fastmail about this in 2024 - I wanted to host my own CardDAV server and have Fastmail use and sync to this. This was not possible - I was told that two-way sync with other serv
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by sherr 1y ago
I've used Thunderbird ever since it was released as a standalone mail client and like it - although it has sometimes been a rocky experience in the past. I use it now with Fastmail as my mail provider. One thing I might be interested
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by sherr 1y ago
I sympathise with a bit of paranoia about this. Personally, I'd use a platform like "Tails" (do your own research) which wraps Tor up in a USB bootable Linux OS. https://tails.net/
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by sherr 1y ago
Funnily enough, they've just released an update! Yes, I was taken by surprise a bit. EdgeRouter 3.0.0 [1] adds official wireguard support (I've been using the "wireguard-vyatta-ubnt" package from Github [2]), UI changes
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by sherr 1y ago
This is the point that The Economist made this week about Xiaomi. It looks like Lei Jun, the CEO, has a bit of a cult following in China. "With the successful release of the YU7—its second electric vehicle (EV) after the SU7, a sporty
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by sherr 1y ago
Looking forward to the release. I use Debian Stable on almost all the systems I use (one is stuck on 10/Buster due to MoinMoin). I installed Trixie in a container last week, using an LXC container downloaded from linuxcontainers.org [1

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