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As the author of wayvnc, I would say that I'm pretty well aware of what VNC can and cannot do. The RFB protocol (VNC) has improved over time like other protocols. 1. Wrong. There a…

> This is obviously not a great solution, and VNC in general feels like ancient technology It's not obvious to me. This looks like software ageism. :) There are at least 2 things t…

I did a course on antennae and wave propagation as part of my university studies. The professor told us that with just a bit of extra studying we'd be able to qualify for the licen…

That reminds me. I worked for a company where we punched in using an iButton (it's a pretty neat 1-wire thing that fits on a key chain). The punch clock system was logged and then …

I worked for a company that went through 2 cycles like this and I can report that it had zero effect on us engineers. My impression was that people were constantly being promoted i…

I was very disappointed when I learned that this wasn't about designing books that think.

> Fundamentally, I do not debug off git history. Are you saying that you've never used git bisect? If that's the case, I think you're missing out.

Yes, in fact, the protocol states that the client can queue up multiple requests. The purpose of this is to fill up the gap created by the RTT. It is actually quite elegant in its …

I have some experience with pushing video frames over TCP. It appears that the writer has jumped to conclusions at every turn and it's usually the wrong one. The reason that the si…

> It's the intended way to read/write declarations/expressions. As a consequence, asterisks ends up placed near the identifiers. You know you don't always have to use things as the…

The blog post that I linked to answers your question. I was able to get at the diagnostics menu (also explained in the blog), but I had to interrogate a service tech in order to le…

This reminds me of my own troubles with my AEG washing machine. Probably, the most important lesson (for someone who wants to fix their washing machine ASAP) that I learned from th…

I've used valgrind proactively as long as I've been programming in C and C++. The errors that are caught by valgrind (and asan) will very often not cause immediate crashes or any k…

Drawing into the spectrogram is a fun trick. I would really like to know how much data you can store in that bird using some digital modulation method such as FSK (frequency shift …

I used to work for a company that makes equipment for the food processing industry. Sometimes conveyor belts would be left running for days or even weeks in the test area. After a …

This is exactly what I've done with my blog. See e.g. https://andri.yngvason.is/repairing-the-washing-machine.html

Haha, yeah, you have to hound them on the phone to get them to show up and even then they're not going to show up on time or even at all.

For the curious, this is the saga of when I had to fix my washing machine because a repair man used the wrong type of terminals when fixing it previously: https://andri.yngvason.is…

> Personally I would have bought the good drill BTW, it is expensive, but it is one of the most used tool Yes, a good drill is a must-have for any home-owner. Anecdotally, I've own…

> I'd happily pay for this work if I had any trust in the results. This is exactly how I feel. What's even worse is that when I hire contractors, I invariably have to clean up thei…

The initial handshake goes like this: First TCP handshake: - Client SYN - Server SYN ACK - Client ACK Then VNC handshake: - Server sends highest version that it supports - Client s…

Zealotry/enthusiasm tends to float to the top and is, perhaps, what you see on the surface when you look at any community. However, I think that most users of open source software …

It would need to be tested and properly integrated with x11vnc. As the goal is to move away from X11, it doesn't seem likely that they would invest time into that. Besides, if you …