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Comment #48989191
It's interesting, but it sounds more like a political/societal theory rather than actual events or state of the society. It would be much more interesting and largely shareable if …
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Comment #48952590
https://archive.is/i6PKK
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Comment #48828614
> the admin password to be 'admin'. They'd often even print it on the device itself. Yes but aren't you supposed to change that one? The problem with the rzadmin is that it will co…
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Comment #48816072
Possibly the same but done by Edge?
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Comment #48801973
In some places it always was better (it's OpenStreetMap data) e.g. in the Puna de Atacama desert in Argentina/Chile, Google Maps is years behind in therms of map precision. Lots of…
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Comment #48761915
Why do you even need GA? (not sure if it's bot friendly btw) One could just run a local traffic analysis and feed that back into the bot
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Comment #48757754
It all depends on how you define malware. If malware is software doing something that is contrary to the user's interests, then for many users it is indeed malware.
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Comment #48744120
> how did you come to this conclusion I didn't see any reference to the possibility of using anything else on their website. And yes I was only speaking of authbound.
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Comment #48729516
Looks like this only works on smartphones? Well... no thanks.
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Comment #48684028
Code 128 supports some ISO-8859-1 indeed, but it requires switching between encodings (there are 3 of them), and couldn't work with 128B (I guess the one used by the font, as it su…
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Comment #48672421
I think that the start of the article is at least a bit exaggerated: SSH is yet another example of an ancient technology that is still in wide use today. Ancient technology? If it …
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Comment #48656394
On which OS? On Windows, with the Swiss German layout AltGr+m does nothing. Probably the same on US ones.
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Comment #48641532
Might be AltGr-m on Linux (didn't try).
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Comment #48641516
That's what I do, actually, although I use Alt+230 because I remember the code from CP437.
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Comment #48628889
The problem is that µ is usually hard to type (unless you have a Greek keyboard or a custom keyboard mapping). This said, although I tolerate stuff like "47 uF" in electronic schem…
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Comment #48628844
Interesting. The header size seems big for low-resources embedded systems (e.g. with only 256 bytes of EEPROM). I'd rather use a file identifier (e.g. a 8-bit number) to identify w…
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Comment #48627409
How did he get the videos out of the cameras that were seized if the recording was also not uploaded? Can Nest cameras upload/stream to private servers? (never had one so I have no…
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Comment #48598324
Someone already mentioned the mouse cursor... is it supposed to be solved? Now I see... none, which is kind of pointless on desktop.
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Comment #48597347
> Everybody I know uses IM systems like Wechat, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal. Great, instead of having a single, standard and interoperable way to communicate (albeit with its defaul…
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Comment #48597331
You will then see the new one in the same situation...
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Comment #48596985
What does this bring compared to apt-get install-ing an established mail server like procmail or exim and configuring it to work as a relay for the local LAN?
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Comment #48582689
> I've yet to read a good explanation of why the telcos permit CLID faking and reinjection of apparently local CLID by overseas inputs. Actually, there are several legitimate use c…
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Comment #48532706
Is this the same CHAOS that can be in IP packets as protocol 0x10?
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Comment #48488404
Did anyone else first read "the smartest COVID"?
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Comment #48476725
An e-mail address can have multiple @ also for... source routing. Of course it doesn't make any sense nowadays, but it's technically allowed. RFC 5321 gives an example: @hosta.int,…