specktr

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Researchers Say They Found IP Addresses for ‘Anonymous’ Econ Forum Posts(insidehighered.com)
46 points by specktr 3y ago|76 comments
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Ask HN: Do you use ECC RAM in your home/personal workstations?
24 points by specktr 4y ago|25 comments
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by specktr 5y ago
Likely true (I don’t know the source you’re referencing) given cancer risk associated with coal etc. But single nuclear events and fears associated with them stand out to voters, long term health implications of coal or other adverse effect
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by specktr 5y ago
They’re likely referring to a remote access trojan (malware) which likely shares many features of whatever administrative tool the IT team uses at that company.
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by specktr 5y ago
They’re also in my neighborhood - I generally see one every time I do an errand. They tend to drive 5-10 mph under the rest of traffic which can be frustrating. They also tend to be slow when making lane changes and turns to the point where
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by specktr 5y ago
On a similar note, I setup my utility account this week. It was suggested by the representative that I use the last 4 digits of my SSN as a pin for my account. Pretty disappointing how short sighted many companies are when it comes to secur
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by specktr 5y ago
Have you considered a ms surface for accessing your main machine? I’ve been tempted to use one running a linux disto for pretty much your use case, but haven’t pulled the trigger quite yet
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by specktr 5y ago
Why not? Does that act invalidate any points in this blog post?
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Australian police arrest over 200 after cracking underworld messaging app(reuters.com)
3 points by specktr 5y ago|0 comments
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by specktr 5y ago
That’s a pretty big ask on a technical level, i’d be very surprised to see that happen anytime soon. If you’re looking to get out of the adobe ecosystem i’ve had a pretty positive experience using Affinity Designer on my ipad (no affiliatio
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by specktr 5y ago
Ill be buying a new car this summer and seriously considering doing this or other hardware mods to disable any modems/telemetry. Does anyone know of any forums or something similar dedicated to these types of car hardware mods?
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by specktr 5y ago
I’ve purchased a book from Kobo before. It used the epub DRM compatible with adobe digital editions. At the time (afaik) they didn’t have a way to load it on a kindle without breaking the drm, converting it to mobi and doing a manual transf
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by specktr 5y ago
It’s always nice starting from a fresh install. But if you’re worried about things breaking during a 30-34 upgrade, i’d suggest doing a backup of your system and trying it out. I’ve been extremely impressed with how flawlessly fedora pulls
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by specktr 5y ago
It seems to me like it’s in the best interest of the community to have an understanding of what steps were asked to be taken in the event contributions are made by those parties in the future. I feel it is important for regaining trust, ove
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by specktr 5y ago
I’ve done qualification on hpe and various competing vendors and honestly haven’t seen dramatic differences in terms of performance and failure rates. From my experience the biggest difference was with vendor support services rather than th
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by specktr 6y ago
I’ve worked on infrastructure (design) engineering teams at a very large company that still does their own datacenters. I can confirm that spinners are still very much in use and are not used for archival purposes - that’s what tapes are de
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by specktr 6y ago
What’s your alternative method to reach a mass audience?
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by specktr 6y ago
I’d also be interested in recommendations that meet the above requirements. My current work around for my main linux laptop is setting rclone to run with crontab at a time that I know i’ll be online for an extended period (evenings during l
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by specktr 6y ago
Would love a link!
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by specktr 6y ago
What’s your usecase for it? My work laptop has one and I use it to change the brightness of my screen and to lock it. That’s it. I really miss the physical escape key, especially when using vim...
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Reuters appears to be Pastejacking on iOS 14(old.reddit.com)
2 points by specktr 6y ago|0 comments
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by specktr 6y ago
On modern hardware running fedora 30/31/32 i’ve yet to have any serious tearing issues like you describe. Either way if you’re not willing to tweak a few settings then mac would be your best bet.
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by specktr 6y ago
I’ve been using Fedora for over a year with KDE. Before that it was Kubuntu for a year. The difference is night and day in my opinion. I believe this is due to the constant updates on fedora that fixed many annoying bugs I had with the ubun
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by specktr 7y ago
Originally I had terrible battery performance like what you are describing. I have a dell xps 15 9560 with a 97Wh battery. With bumblebee installed with proprietary nvidia gpu drivers I can get all day battery life no problem (easily 10+ ho
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by specktr 7y ago
In the start menu. It could be that there are different definitions of ads. But on my windows system I get ads for games and other applications that they want me to install. I think they even install some of them like candy crush without as
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by specktr 7y ago
I meant no disrespect, I'm/was curious to know about your experience with windows. Personally I use linux distros 95% of the time and notice a significant increase in battery life and decrease in ram/cpu utilization compared
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by specktr 7y ago
Have you used windows 10 recently? I didn't realize how bad it was until I installed a fresh copy of windows 10. My backup windows machine has so many registry patches to disable the crapware that I didn't recall how bad it truly