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BHSPitMonkey
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Comment #49179087
But Matter _is_ locally-controlled. Matter-over-Thread is better as there's no side channels to abuse; Matter-over-Wifi also guarantees local control though the presence of Wifi me…
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Comment #49175234
There's always sunrise
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Comment #49174632
Under-represent relative to what, exactly?
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Comment #49174611
I just think it's highly amusing (in the absurd sense) that you consider a visual artist to be a political ideologue simply for applying color theory to render realistic characters…
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Comment #49103614
Why? A dual-hose portable is more efficient than a single-hose, but a PTAC should (in theory) be more efficient (and possibly quieter) on account of having the heat-emitting side o…
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Comment #48910055
I was going to say, neither of those forms of exercise are expressions of a natural talent... they're things you simply do (at whatever levels you can currently manage) to stay hea…
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Comment #48767971
On the contrary, I worry about the ability of these grassroots user-generated content distribution systems to withstand the barrage of generated slop uploaded by armies of autonomo…
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Comment #48725449
That satellite's orbit very clearly did decay, though. The problem in that instance is the descent wasn't controlled, but that's a different kind of failure than the one this threa…
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Comment #48664952
I think there's a big difference between jazz and corporate landing pages. Should we be surprised or shocked when different brands of microwave ovens have very similar controls?
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Comment #48664924
Do you not believe that the design of the "stolen" landing page was not itself 97% stolen from marketing landing pages that came before it? It's unusual seeing the process stated s…
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Comment #48602481
Same goes for the ICCU, I guess! (Mine hasn't blown yet, knock on wood...)
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Comment #48492749
It's being worked on! https://github.com/orgs/streetcomplete/projects/1
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Comment #48157514
On any device you can install KOReader, PG is one of the default options in the builtin OPDS browser. https://koreader.rocks/
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Comment #48157361
I'm planning to attempt this soon!
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Comment #48141733
Not a new project, but one that's relevant to a lot of recent discussions of privacy-invasive connected systems built into modern cars
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Comment #48115724
ChatGPT and similar are, in some sense, a semantic web search engine combined with an operator that's able to jot down its findings, pivot to different lookups, and filter/combine …
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Comment #47634751
It's highly reasonable for them to limit image size/quality to whatever looks fine to 98% of their readers. They store and serve an absolute ton of ever-changing content to browser…
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Comment #47460523
Now imagine that adversaries maintain and monitor profiles on known military personnel with leaky online accounts such as these, supplemented with intelligence about their rank, un…
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Comment #47289999
All the more reason to draw lots of attention to this issue now.
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Comment #47186742
An earlier post to a news article rather than to a tweet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186662
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Comment #47148625
I can't recall if the PS2 was cheaper than available DVD players when it launched, but I do distinctly remember it being true of the PS3 and Blu-ray for some time given how new it …
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Comment #47148513
Could be a sort of canary, with the timing being a spotlight on the highly-visible pressure coming from the U.S. government.
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Comment #47095370
You can add a dependabot.yml config to regulate when Dependabot runs and how many PRs it will open at a time: https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/reference/supply-ch...
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Comment #47042219
I'm always left in awe by not only the Dolphin team's work, but the quality of their articles and release notes. This was no exception!