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My setup was a Compaq Armada M300 laptop with a keyboard that was missing a few key caps, a battery that was shot to all hell and held only 5 minutes of charge, and a HDD that was …

> doctors/hospital strongly prefer it. Seems to depend a lot on the hospital. We (partner is pregnant with a high risk pregnancy) were at a level 1 prenatal care center in Germany …

If you're looking for a similar event, you might want to check out GPN - Gulaschprogrammiernacht ( https://gulas.ch ). It skews a bit more German, but it's essentially a smaller "s…

> Congress has become a radical leftist politics playground. I don't know which past Chaos Communication Congresses you have attended, but it always was. If that's not for you, the…

OpenBSD is a lot faster in some specialized areas though. Random number generation from `/dev/urandom`, for example. When I was at university (in 2010 or so), it was faster to read…

> Two cells was probably selected for one of: Voltage to avoid boost converters, capacity to avoid having to do extensive power optimization to make it run the whole event, balance…

Well they can still be a conductor, even if they're not a resistor. Actually they'd be a pretty good conductor. A super-conductor, if you will.

Others have already told you that talking to a lawyer is still a good idea. If I may offer a personal story that illustrates that that is _really_ a good idea: While I did my Bache…

"Alright ma'am, you claim this here device contains encrypted data? If you don't mind, we'll keep you here until you provide us with the password." and meanwhile in an alternate un…

This is very cool! Can you share the technical background you've used for creating the 3D reconstruction? Like software packages, or algorithms used. Are we looking at the result o…

I have a CF-33 that I got used for about 600€ (plus something like 120€ for a replacement battery). I use it as my "outdoor/garden/workshop" laptop that I can display CAD drawings …

So Microsoft gave the Wine project the software equivalent of a stained mattress?

The British are doing good stuff as well with EMF.

I mean, I'm pretty sure rats also have a theory of mind. My data point is exactly one of the little buggers who used to be my pet. Whenever he was running around my room, he'd peek…

Alternatively, open a brokerage account and go through their process to enable options trading (essentially mostly a short quiz on how options work to make sure you're not an obvio…

And apparently, sometimes, when you want to return to that walled garden, your keys to the front gate just don't work anymore.

In this case, that won't help, because `.box` is already a TLD and `fritz.box` has been registered by someone. Compare these two, the first is from my laptop connected to a Fritz!B…

> Does configuring a custom DNS server (like Cloudflare one) on your local computers solve it? No. If anything, that'd make it worse. The issue reported in TFA is that Fritz!Boxes …

> On an account I pay for? On an account that you pay _Drew_ for. Do you also complain because someone renting you a garage doesn't want you running a strip club out of there?

This rings true. I remember the wooden toy biplane my dad made in his wood shop when I was a kid a lot more fondly than all the other bought plastic toys that came after it.

I use `aqbanking-cli` for grabbing transactions from my banks' FinTS/HBCI API and generate a CSV out of that. That CSV then goes through a bit of Python that splits up the entries …

OCaml can definitely do it (for example, you get a compiler error if you pass the wrong arguments to a `printf` where the format string specifies, say a number, but you pass in a s…

If you use Acme from plan9port, you can use Ctrl/Alt (on PCs) resp. Command/Option (on Macs) to simulate chording. That's what I use when I'm on a laptop without my external mouse …

Heh, I built something similar for my partner and myself: https://wine.unobtanium.de/ It's not very sophisticated (as we're not sophisticated wine people), but we've sometimes foun…

That reminds me of one of my childhood PCs. It was a hand-me-down K6-II with (I think) 233 MHz clock rate. The thing had a tiny fan on top of the cooler that was roughly 4x4cm (if …