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GlumWoodpecker

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About GlumWoodpecker

IT professional from Norway. My tech blog: https://datalars.com/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49166744

    I've been waiting for this feature! Whenever I've encountered an animated WebP, I've had to drop it into ezgif.com to convert it to mp4, now I can just write a quick Bash function …

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    Comment #49104915

    KOReader is fantastic! I use it on my pocket-sized Xiaomi InkPalm 5 to read anywhere (I carry it at all times along with my phone). The combination of KOReader and the ease of use …

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    Comment #48768564

    I own a Ben NanoNote, at this point an ancient (2010) open-source, niche micro-laptop that ran a modification of OpenWrt. With a tiny keyboard and screen and all. It had no built-i…

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    Comment #48139512

    Disagree. The word "native" in a software execution context has a very specific meaning—it means that the software is running on the target hardware with no emulation, translation …

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    Comment #47824020

    You can use the `hdajackretask` program in the `alsa-tools` package to retask your jacks. https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-tools/tree/master/hdaja...

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    Comment #47040186

    The author of this has an excellent tech YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@lauriewired

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    Comment #46740219

    HN (and Reddit) are not social media, they are forums. Social media are platforms where the main purpose is to socialise. Forums are platforms where the main purpose is to discuss …

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    Comment #46704538

    Doesn't work in Firefox, just loads a blank page. https://i.imgur.com/ApRjzuK.png

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    Comment #46704456

    Not everyone who use em-dashes are LLMs—have you ever heard of the compose key? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compose_key (Besides, an LLM would capitalise "vfx")

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    Comment #46581299

    If I ran it with just $ chmod +x snake.com $ ./snake.com ... then it would try to use Mono to launch it: Cannot open assembly './snake.com': File does not contain a valid CIL image…

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    Comment #46578636

    >- Linux comes in finite but vastly more combinations than OSX and Windows which means you are probably going to need to pick something like Ubuntu or struggle with the above This …

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    Comment #46340763

    Way to miss the point entirely.

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    Comment #46254369

    Depends on your point of view, whether you are the one watching, or the one being watched, I guess :)

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    Comment #46173168

    Thanks for the clarification!

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    Comment #46172294

    Surprised to find this on the front page today, I posted this four days ago (hovering over the post timestamp confirms this), yet the timestamp says "11 hours ago". Weird.

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    Comment #45937024

    It is though, because no one is a victim in that transaction. Nobody lost anything and nobody suffered any loss of potential profit because they actively refused said profit.

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    Comment #45936734

    Just being pedantic and off-topic here, but macOS hasn't been called OS X for nearly ten years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS#macOS

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    Comment #45120890

    This might be of interest: https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music Custom YT Music desktop client with loads of plugins to customize the experience (including ad-blocking). I'm not …

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    Comment #43699522

    The `Memory Pit` exploit for the Nintendo DSi works in a similar way - it exploits a buffer overflow in the reading of image meta data by the Nintendo DSi Camera application in ord…

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    Comment #43561800

    I played through MP3C with PrimeHack on PC - great experience. https://github.com/Kekun/primehack

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    Comment #43561767

    >Windows-only game Huh? Palworld is available on Windows, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and macOS.

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