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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