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At this point the primary thing that's keeping me from switching to Wayland (KDE) is lack of support for remote desktop software, especially with multiple monitors... Hopefully Any…

At this point I'm convinced that they're not a 'real person' and the 'Fabrice' is an operational code name for a very mature hacker collective. Real people have to sleep at some po…

This sounds like an interesting project. Do you have any plans to publish a tutorial/journal article + source code?

> Why would someone in their right mind ever buy a Nintendo product? Correction: Why would someone in their right mind ever buy a Nintendo product and use it accordance within the …

I'm sorry... please take this adorable tribble as a consolation!

> The thesis is that immigrants have no constitutional rights because they aren't citizens... The constitution is quite clear on this issue and it has been affirmed repeatedly over…

Note: original title was too long -- "Trump wants green card applicants already legally in the US to hand over social media profiles"

There's an issue with the flow you described; the party requesting verification shouldn't directly interact with the verifying agent (the state) as this leaks to the state the iden…

Found a weird bug... I've got a 3 monitor setup and the background animations (rain + pinwheel) only appears on 2 of the monitors... If the window straddles two of the monitors the…

I was big fan of my HTC Evo, I found the 3D images to be immensely helpful when taking documentation photographs. I could take just two images and get all of the info I needed to c…

I've been using IONOS (formerly 1und1) for the last 20 years for all of my DNS and hosting needs and couldn't be happier. Their uptime, non-obtrusive policies, and customer support…

Very interesting approach! Question: How do you deal with environmental noise and unexpected flux from nearby devices?

> Unlike marking only on the surface of a 2D piece of paper or magnetic tape, this method of encoding uses two optical dimensions and three spatial co-ordinates to write throughout…

Many many moons ago I connected a pickle to a 10kv transformer - in that case at least it was definitely the result of arcing :)

This is really quite laughable! What kind of adversary, that would elicit the deployment of these types of resources, would have their critical security infrastructure connected vi…

I absolutely adore this series of videos! Analog/mechanical computing is a fascinating field that is often ignored. Also the pedagogical style of these videos is fantastic, simple,…

This is very well polished! Obviously took a lot of hard work and it shows in the results. Well done! Question: I see the that the code for the examples can be pulled from github, …

Tangentially related is the yearly Graphème publication from Smallest Functional Unit. It's a curated collection of experimental music scores; part art magazine, part avant garde m…

It never fails to amuse me that the "exciting" things that Microsoft does to Windows always falls into one of two categories: 1. Implementing features that have been available in L…

> Did you read the cited articles or are you basing your assertions only on this Web article? I did not read any of the cited articles! > There might be a lot of detail on the evid…

Thank you for posting an article worth reading :)

> Well I'm pretty sure they have some evidence to support that claim [...] > article: To this day, it is unknown how the Incas worked with these calculators. There are several hypo…

I really enjoyed the pictures, but that's an incredible amount of baseless speculation! For all we know these 'devices' were ancient board games who's sole purpose was entertainmen…