winstonschmidt

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by winstonschmidt 4y ago
You can use cloudinit with lxd to do something quite similar to a Dockerfile. I don't know anything like compose besides just bash scripts.
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by winstonschmidt 5y ago
Great tool! Does going through ytcast have any impact on whether the played video influences youtube's recommendation algorithm (which annoys me a lot)?
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by winstonschmidt 5y ago
I've been quite happy with tutanota since a couple of years.
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by winstonschmidt 5y ago
I really don't get the hate that Linux Desktop gets. When comparing Mac OS to Gnome the difference feels marginal (at least for normal users) these days - everything feels snappy, consistent and looks nice. What exactly are the pain po
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by winstonschmidt 5y ago
I can't seem to think of any instances where that is the case. So my conclusion would be that it can not really be done. Or can you give some pointers? (not saying there is no room for improvement)
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by winstonschmidt 5y ago
Check whether you can control your model using lirc, using an audio cable and a soundcard's line-out. Had it running with an Onkyo receiver.
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by winstonschmidt 5y ago
What's going on in this comment section? It seems more like of a reddit thread than the usual thoughtful HN comments. Propaganda? Ghostbusters? Whitehouse? "They"? Are troll farms targeting HN now?
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by winstonschmidt 6y ago
"higher level X would be rife with inner circle politics" - sadly seems to be in line with human nature. FWIW, anecdotally, in my interactions with academia involved parties have mostly been surprisingly respectable - which is mor
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by winstonschmidt 7y ago
Sadly, no. I had to remap I manually to cmd+^ on my German keyboard.
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by winstonschmidt 7y ago
Have you seen the machinery needed to cool down IBM's tiny qubit chip at the bottom? [1] It would be nice if you could just stick these things into your PC over PCIe some day. [1] https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4403
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by winstonschmidt 9y ago
Quite happy with Hews [1]. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to have a widget and hasn't been updated in a year (but it is open source). [1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leavjenn.h...
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by winstonschmidt 11y ago
They commented on this on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/fulldisclosure/comments/3anfjk/tuta... "This is not a vulnerability in Tutanota. We have built Tutanota with multiple layers of protection
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by winstonschmidt 11y ago
That's very unfortunate, they were the only ones letting you download your private key. Tutanota still have to make the keys manageable, but it is a good alternative, IMO: https://tutanota.com
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by winstonschmidt 11y ago
They commented on this on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/fulldisclosure/comments/3anfjk/tutan... "This is not a vulnerability in Tutanota. We have built Tutanota with multiple layers of protection
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Open-sourcing Tutanota: Why it was important to us(tutanota.de)
87 points by winstonschmidt 11y ago|63 comments
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A new, transactionally updated Ubuntu for clouds and devices(developer.ubuntu.com)
4 points by winstonschmidt 12y ago|0 comments
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by winstonschmidt 12y ago
That fair enough - and tbh. it makes me feel somewhat better if the code is maintained and checked by another company from Germany. BTW: Am I missing something, or is the upload of files over the web interface not supported?
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by winstonschmidt 12y ago
Look great! Could you explain the differences to SeaFile whose code you built upon?