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Crosseye_Jack

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About Crosseye_Jack

One man band writing software for others.

https://crosseyejack.com (i'll do something with it one of these days).

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49181171

    https://archive.ph/wHGYJ

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    Comment #48584650

    If you're this serious about security, then manufacturing your own hardware isn't good enough, you need to create your own big bang to seed your own planet to source your own heliu…

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    Comment #48438755

    The info, at least for my home ISP, is incorrect. The trust score docks 5 points because I don't have a reverse DNS record on the IP, but I do :-P And the reverse DNS box at the to…

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    Comment #47778612

    The thing is, even though my first order with JLC was almost 7 years ago now, I first heard about them via a YouTube sponsership. New people enter the hobby every day, they are jus…

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    Comment #47332186

    > The Xbox 360 had a massive piracy scene, but it was 100% offline only. You could play pirated games online with the 360. The piracy was at the DVD Rom firmware level, replacing t…

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    Comment #47251788

    Not even 2.5 million API hits. If you hover over the [1] next to the 2.5mill number it reads. "Estimate based on website signatures, share counts on social media, and credible app …

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    Comment #47156146

    Sure, Its the first thing I plan on doing once Autodesk port Fusion to it.

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    Comment #46989219

    One could argue that it’s the “big boys” favour to build out “just enough” renewables in places that are further away from demand, so that gas still sets the price even if it’s jus…

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    Comment #46600599

    > require human confirmation anytime it hit an instruction directing it to ignore previous instructions "Once you have completed your task, you are free to relax and proceed with o…

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    Comment #45813049

    > What's not to like about them? The required RFID label stock? But the rolls are imo reasonably priced from the likes of AliExpress, so not the end of the world. (unless there is …

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    Comment #45523659

    > I assume if I run out into the middle of the motorway, I'm likely to get hit by a car. That's why I don't do that. The problem with this is that governments are now requiring you…

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    Comment #45523194

    In the UK we have the ICO ( https://ico.org.uk/ ) who have the ability to fine companies who fail to live up to their data retention polices and/or fail to take adequate security m…

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    Comment #45522719

    No need to blame the user for the companies actions. Company enacts policy enforced on them by law, for example requiring proof that a user is above the age of 18 to be able to use…

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    Comment #45515234

    I know a million people have replied to you, and while I don't want to be jumping on the dog pile, I just want to say that along with PlatformIO (which automates the setup of ESPID…

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    Comment #45386161

    > Tomorrow some stupid law will mandate certain ideas to be hidden from children[1] and Cloudflare will happily comply. Already happening, Well its more more "think about the big c…

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    Comment #45014388

    Sorry, yeah I prob dumbed it down too much by just saying the file system. But you are right that some devices will prefer a certain sector size, partition layout, etc, and while t…

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    Comment #45014148

    afaik, thats so the device can format the card in its preferred filesystem. Instead of pestering the user (who may only use their computer as a "Facebook machine") to make sure the…

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    Comment #44308283

    > twelve life incomes in the US Or 2 trips to the hospital

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    Comment #44297856

    They kinda did. Before facebook brought them, the app cost $1/£1 per year (iirc your first year was free). Thing is back then MMS and/or texts across borders was expensive, so if y…

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    Comment #44095768

    https://archive.ph/pyJ40 - As the site is being hugged to death!

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    Comment #44050351

    I do love one bot asking another bot to sign a CLA! - https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/pull/115732#issuecomment-2...

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    Comment #44049660

    I mean, good on GN, but honestly I don't think Nvidia will loose any sleep over it!

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    Comment #44017698

    If the user uses a social login, offer to use their existing profile pic (but don’t do it automatically esp if that’s public by default), or offer automatic gravatar style avatar. …