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jackweirdy
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About jackweirdy
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Comment #48054821
The membership has another impact on the balance sheet. It not only adds revenue, it also cuts loss from shoplifting
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Comment #47920657
Same. I have found it impossible to explain to the uninitiated so I delight in finding others who’ve found it!
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Comment #47335376
It’s a nice property of elections that you can measure votes needing more intervention against the margin of victory before you decide your next step
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Comment #44708789
Does it have to be one photo? If you reproduced a spinning drive but with the camera positioned to see half of the spinning disc, I wonder if it could capture the "stream" of pixel…
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Comment #44479874
He didn’t work there. He was a Neo-Nazi and member of Neo-Nazi organisations, divulging secrets. By keeping him out of jail, Mi5 stood to gain more intelligence
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Comment #44013037
Canadian citizens are exempt but this is the program that allows non-visa travel to nationals of certain countries https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/
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Comment #43596273
What a delightful little question!
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Comment #42125436
In a previous job I worked for a site doing natural language parsing on recipes. We noticed one of our partner websites had an unusual number of unique ingredients. It turned out e…
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Comment #41756581
This couldn’t have been better timed for me. I sit with a pile of raspberry Pis I throw into different rooms about the house and want to stick assorted tasks on them. My open quest…
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Comment #40889612
I think it’s not a nation state actor thing. In 2018 British airways checkout got popped by a JavaScript being library being changed to eavesdrop credit cards. The same thing could…
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Comment #40889592
> - Eavesdropping on you, doesn't happen because you use the password manager's autofill. I rate this more likely and it’s one reason I still use TOTP stored in the same place as t…
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Comment #40266400
If I am not misunderstanding (sorry if I am) it sounds like you use the http challenge where your cert provider tries to GET your challenge file — if so, could the DNS challenge be…
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Comment #39382039
Not clear if it was message interception or (maybe more likely) Snapchat have their own moderation that can refer outward. The text is not e2e encrypted
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Comment #38791834
The telegram group has a bunch of people (including myself) willing to mail pre-made ones, or the unsoldered PCBs for self solder. It has become quite a community around the softwa…
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Comment #38392554
I had a problem with Zen recently-ish too. Ultimately was an Openreach thing at the local exchange apparently. The good Zen support was still ultimately there, but it took a little…
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Comment #38257683
Fertilizer itself isn’t carbon. Are you referring to the fertilizer production line or fertilizer itself
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Comment #38257677
What % of the carbon of the plant is fertilizer production?
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Comment #38242989
The CO2 in plants is 100% from the air, and then goes back into the air when burned
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Comment #37723887
The recipe for government PR - we don’t comment on individuals - we don’t comment on hypotheticals - we don’t comment on anonymous sources - we don’t comment on politics. TL;DR we …
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Comment #37280600
Definitely should be checking certs, though I always worry about the flip side of these device security decisions. if there is no way to update the trusted root certs, your TV beco…
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Comment #37107790
In the meantime I maintain an unofficial apt source that autogenerates packages via GitHub actions - https://github.com/notbobthebuilder/podman