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Jiocus

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    Comment #43963289

    Ah, yes that's true. I had actually forgot about this type of thing (did study infosec at uni)

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    Comment #43963256

    Helpful article, thank you!

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    Comment #43955872

    The author mentions "military grade firewall", as a must have in a vehicle. Genuine question; What's a military grade firewall?

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    Comment #41616159

    In the Swedish game magazine Super Play (now defunct) they covered Fable development and the release, but IIRC they advised the reader to take Molyneux's claims with a grain of sal…

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    Comment #41542887

    I've been giving far too little though about AI and the hype around it (might call me a sceptic), but I feel compelled to defend the article as it gave me some new perspectives, an…

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    Comment #41204580

    That's why it's possible to have a default deny rule in robots.txt User-agent: * Disallow: / And possibly allow-list the ones you accept. This probably won't change the fact that y…

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    Comment #41198832

    The prediction does not hinge on inheritance (most folks manage to start their own lives, careers and families well before their parents pass), but on the upbringing, milieu and ec…

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    Comment #39377385

    "Your girlfriend is just someone else's computer"

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    Comment #38480966

    And the American modern Santa Claus has been greatly influenced by the jovian illustrations by Haddon Sundblom for Coca-Cola advertising (1930s). Haddon himself was a descendant of…

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    Comment #38368652

    I'm a paying user so I can't speak about the free Spotify experience, but.. Spotify will only repeat a song during shuffle if you also activate repeat . It will also repeat a song …

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    Comment #38332595

    Have you tried -movflags and use_metadata_tags ? ffmpeg -i $input_file -movflags use_metadata_tags -crf 22 $output_file Source: https://video.stackexchange.com/a/26076

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    Comment #38244434

    While I agree that the article overlooks the security aspects of inline scripting[1], we do have content security policy[2] at our disposal using CSP nonce [3] and hash [4] keyword…

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    Comment #38105247

    Started seeing consumer 10Gbps back in 2018 (in Sweden). The problem was there wasn't many consumer router devices around back then to support that kind of link. It might have even…

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    Comment #38064296

    To iterate on mikl's question: also nice, but I wonder why IBM did this.

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    Comment #38060117

    You might not see it right now, but seemingly random bits of knowledge can come up useful later. I once wrote a IoT monitoring software to watch closed-source locked down devices. …

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    Comment #37992500

    I also worked in digital signage a few years back. We had a similar kind of refrigerator in our office, likely with an LG screen. The door/screen was transparent glass like the old…

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    Comment #37806571

    The hard part is knowing what parts -and why- you need to load into your head, so work can even begin.

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    Comment #37722104

    I've tried journaling my dreams but I found it to be tedious due to the amount of dreams and their various contents. Some dreams consist of strong emotions and what I sense as I wa…

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    Comment #37719916

    If I remember correctly, aphantasia is inability to visualise images, objects or memories in the mind, and this seems to be what the author actually refers to. The alternative, to …

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    Comment #37604665

    Like others noted in the thread about grandparents, in Scandinavia we'd say morbror (mother-brother) and farbror (father-brother). What's fun though is that 'farbror' can also be u…

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    Comment #37261038

    To be fair, I just discovered that many(all?) of the commands listed in ^G (help) are actually in the footer menu, but the menu is truncated to what available space is available on…

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    Comment #37248270

    Let's see what nano says in ^G (help): ^S Save file without prompting

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    Comment #37236352

    What do you base this information on really? Neither Denmark or Sweden are part of the eurozone. Their currencies are Danish krone (DKK) and Swedish krona (SEK). My Sweden experien…

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    Comment #37205442

    The article brings this up towards the end, "These [eddy current heaters/induction heaters] are comprised of a magnet mounted on a rotating shaft, and can reach temperatures of up …

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    Comment #37181217

    Are you sure about those nano commands? Since a few years I've always found nano system defaults to be: ^s: Save ^o: Save as (type out filename, save and return to editing) In othe…