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by somat 4d ago
If we are doing a survey of self hosted video conferencing services I would like to propose galene. Very easy to set up, I run it on obsd(an unsupported platform) and it just works. https://galene.org/
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by somat 5d ago
For what it's worth(not much) On OpenBSD swap is always encrypted, With or without full-disk encryption. I don't know why linux always has to make the easy things hard.
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by somat 5d ago
A skit Boss enters, enthusiastic hand gestures dev: Web 2.0? what the hell are you on about? Boss: evasive mumbling dev: Oh... css border-radius Sure, I will get right on it.
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by somat 6d ago
I just got nerd sniped by the room map in the movie, it is a minor 30 second scene where the clerk shows the guests a map of the hotel so they can pick their room. The hotel in question is placed so it bisects the CA/NV state line. thi
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by somat 7d ago
This is the source of my favorite border dispute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tahoe#Interstate_boundary... In summary there is a border dispute between California and Nevada, It was exacerbated by some surveying
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by somat 9d ago
Yeah, insisting on "only" shell is weird, shell is at heart a process orchestrater, and denying it it's processes is rejecting most of it's functionality. It is equivalent to saying "do this in python, but you are n
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by somat 10d ago
Very depressing, and I believe it. I am a bit of a luddite in this domain and have so far managed to resist the lure of using the generator to expand my thoughts, and I still catch myself writing "it's not just an X it's a Y&
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by somat 10d ago
My take is that the generated stuff is terrible for communications. It feels great to use, direct your machine minion to fill out your thoughts for you, but holy hell does it suck to be on the receiving end. Least of all is the disrespect,
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by somat 12d ago
Boy it would be nice however. On that note, I remember reading how some phones were able to use the headphone jack as a serial debug port, which is pretty neat. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Serial_debugging/C
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by somat 13d ago
It is sort of like english spelling, we all know spelling in english sucks(So pointlessly difficult we have contests centered around the skill), we also all know we can do nothing to fix it. Still gonna complain about it however.
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by somat 13d ago
The fundamental problem in music notation is that it was designed for an 8 note system and we use a 12 note system. It's.. fine I guess, they got those extra four notes in there and millions of people read music with no problems. But i
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by somat 13d ago
I was watching a video of a guy fixing up an old homemade guitar he found. A well built solid piece, only one that exists in the world. A thing somebody spent real time and effort to create, and nearly worthless. While some soulless factory
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by somat 14d ago
Flow batteries specifically are liquid, or more accurately fluid, there can be gas flow batteries, where the chemical sub-products are pumped in and out of the cells. They tend to be large utility scale things that look like a chemical pla
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by somat 14d ago
The public is not going to buy a flow battery anyway. Or perhaps they will, but only when public is taken in the context as in public utility or public city. But individuals are not going to buy a flow battery, it is a chemical plant.
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by somat 14d ago
Static-site generators. Nothing wrong with that, I like to think there are some apps you should probably make yourself, like the blacksmith apprentice making their own tools.
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by somat 15d ago
The tricky bit, especially for the small operater is keeping a working drive as long as you want to keep the storage.
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by somat 15d ago
As a interesting tangent consider the data structure and the data behind a thesaurus. I was using the wordnet data for a project. https://wordnet.princeton.edu My first pass was to do the modern thing and just load the entire da
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by somat 16d ago
A similar life hack is the next time you have to give a presentation, you know, what is normally a brain numbing powerpoint slide deck sort of thing, rehearse and do the slides live on a chalkboard. The novelty of the spectacle means people
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by somat 16d ago
It sounds like the only end result of this is them making the bureaucracy even more bureaucratic by employing their own agents, where the only way to get anything done is to have your agents fight their agents. Frankly, it feels like Kafka
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by somat 17d ago
Or Andrew Jackson approaching the problem from the other end. “It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.” As a rather, well... "creative" speller I blame Webster for locking thing
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by somat 17d ago
Aside from the fact that it is a stupid law, there should not be any sort of exemption. I have not read the other proposed laws in this category but after reading the California law, I found it was so vague that my interpretation is that an
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by somat 18d ago
I would argue most data is inherently(naively?) hierarchical(the document), relational structured data is a clever but unintuitive mechanism to introduce powerful analytic opportunities to a set of data. Basically a document is a report, a
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by somat 18d ago
The "document" is sort of the native data type, Put everything in a big hierarchical structure, It is very flexible but analytics across the set can suffer. "relational" is another way to store data, break your big hiera
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by somat 18d ago
I am in that club. As someone who quite enjoys writing sql but does not like the big sql strings intermingled in the rest of the code I even wrote a clever little python library that loads the queries from files as a function call, that is,
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by somat 22d ago
openbsd.amsterdam is notable because they use the openbsd native vmm as the vm host. It is obsd all the way down over there. It is a small and no frills service but the sys-admin, who runs the project, is very helpful and attentive. That is
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by somat 22d ago
My rather limited understanding is that. first there is a lot going on and due to the forces and gravitational gradients involved, matter itself probably would not survive the journey that close to the horizon. But ignoring that, When in co
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by somat 22d ago
They are, but there are some interesting theories about their internal structure. Be aware that this is probably junk science but I have currently been enjoying this effort to describe them via the em field. https://quicycle.com&
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by somat 22d ago
My rather pop-sci understanding is that when you start playing around with relativity math, trying various masses and densities you hit something rather worrisome. As you approach some great, but still possible, value the plot goes infinit
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by somat 23d ago
Hell, critical thinking in general will collapse. I mean, even more than it already has due to easy access to the internet. Thinking through a problem is hard. For the most people will take any chance they can get to not think. Myself incl
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by somat 23d ago
Probably a stupid question, but what is your mechanical process? that is, how do you make entering a em-dash natural? Personally, I am of the nature that if it does not live on my keyboard I am probably not going to use the character, And I

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