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ValdikSS

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    Comment #49207390

    https://github.com/armbian/configng/pull/965

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    Comment #49190702

    >Maybe it'll make the SBC market get its stuff together and start actually doing UEFI instead of every board needing a custom build. If your board needs custom build, it's probably…

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    Comment #49178237

    I sell free software of others as an appliance, as a hardware device. Nobody of original authors complained so far, quite the contrary. I don't get it when the software author chos…

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    Comment #49171154

    >Unfortunately, someone might instead take it, start making profit out of it, and never giving anything back to me or the community. >you can do whatever you want with my work exce…

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    Comment #49161195

    >How to Personalize Software I've seen https://v-it.org/ here on hackernews. Same idea, different wording.

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    Comment #49148153

    Xiaomi Mi Band 6 and 7 support NFC card emulation for payments, issued by Visa/MC.

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    Comment #49148097

    Yes, Russian MIR system works this way. https://glenbrook.com/payments_news/russias-mir-domestic-pay... Just an application which emulates the card over NFC. No need to Google Play…

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    Comment #49147680

    Right now the same situation happens with CMP 170HX. These GPUs physically have 64GB RAM but locked to 8GB RAM. You can unlock all 64GB RAM with a patched driver. They used to cost…

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    Comment #49136157

    There's a mercurial, a very similar idea built in a very similar times. It was supported by BitBucket until recently.

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    Comment #49136142

    I've recently seen https://v-it.org/ , although the naming ("social software") is strange, the idea seems to be great: automatically maintain your own feature set of the software e…

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    Comment #49136069

    In the early days of github, it offered private repositories only for paid users. Bitbucket allowed private repositories for free.

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    Comment #49135664

    It has an example on both the website and in SSH.

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    Comment #49129881

    Will shamelessly promote my thing: https://ssh-j.com No applications except regular ssh client. Needs an SSH connection on the client as well though.

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    Comment #49116471

    In the world of auto-updates of software and firmware, even the hardware which is now completely legal and crap-free, could convert itself to a proxy or ad network later any time. …

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    Comment #49088266

    >No one is writing purely for themselves Every time I see posts like this one and go into comments, everyone in the comments treat writing as a hobby which they would like to turn …

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    Comment #49087834

    If you write news, posts that needs discussion, information that relatively quickly becomes obsolete, then probably yes, you won't want a website because few people will search for…

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    Comment #49047871

    This is what several cellular ISP to (block ports You can unlock it with additional free option.

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    Comment #49047722

    Lots of dumb phones are trojaned on a firmware level. Trojans are different, but in general they allow the third-party (malware author) to accept SMS and forward them over internet…

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    Comment #49047556

    Thanks, that looks cool. This is dithering in principle, but using dynamic spot functions. To learn more about halftones, I'd recommend PDF specification, pages 303-307. https://op…

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    Comment #49047450

    >Is this even dithering? >But if you care about the method this is not dithering. > I looked it up, the translation in this case is, in fact, simply "half tones" :^)

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    Comment #49047442

    ??? This is halftoning, not dithering

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    Comment #49042047

    Free iredmail version is very basic, barely useful unfortunately. I'd recommend mailcow for regular usage, or mailinabox if you're low on RAM or configuring email for server (not f…

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    Comment #49041987

    I'm running 4 email servers, the oldest is from 2011 or so, to this day. 4 different countries, different AS. I'm always puzzled by all the issues described by others. I had about …

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    Comment #49036814

    >Registration restrictions: Second-level registrations prohibited; must have a contact in Paraguay; subdomains have various restrictions; all applications subject to approval by re…