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lozf

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About lozf

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    Comment #49187560

    Don't forget to check out: "bosh", "cosh", "dosh", "gosh", "josh", "mosh", and "nosh" too! ;)

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    Comment #49130239

    Before people were getting fired in AI chats or Video calls, they were getting fired by voicemail - as featured in the track "Exciting New Direction"[0], by The New Deal. [0]: http…

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    Comment #48871711

    Better still, if Unix time tracked TAI (monotonically increasing every SI second), and Leap Seconds were handled in a distributed database much like time zones - possibly even the …

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    Comment #48764630

    That paper was published in 2014. The reference Opus encoder has certainly had a number of improvements that affect sound quality since then, whereas very few AAC implementations h…

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    Comment #48561529

    Heh, "funrollloops" reminds me of recompiling FreeBSD 4 on my thinkpad back in the early aughts. The word made me imagine some sort of processed breakfast cereal with too many addi…

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    Comment #48434826

    Indeed, but some scoundrel is probably scraping this page and having an LLM prepare their pitch as to how manufacturers could improve Ad / Data collection revenue by bypassing thes…

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    Comment #48335002

    uBlock-Origin settings | Filters | Cookie notices Works well for that subset of dickovers at least.

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    Comment #47895533

    I'm not certain about CLI, but Plasma 6.6 does allow preferences / settings to be exported & restored / shared. https://youtu.be/RuxNnfllxco?t=3894 - Neal Gompa on the Fedora 44 Re…

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    Comment #47770610

    I recently found this video about UK's track record regarding privacy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k_70iqBCDc

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    Comment #47753724

    Prefix-w works, or did you want something more?

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    Comment #47420438

    also: no "C", and no "rust", despite being a portmanteau of both these other languages names :)

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    Comment #47181407

    > The article seems to be insinuating that it would have. I disagree, the article clearly states: Montgomery and others were careful to say that Linux ID will not magically prevent…

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    Comment #47179531

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47166473 - the video is well worth a watch.

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    Comment #47165031

    > That's the literal topic of War Games (1983) Probably ran out of tokens before the end, during training. "How about a nice game of Chess?"

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    Comment #47159117

    Really nicely done. I usually settle for xclock -analog -update 1 -norender -hl grey -fg grey -bg black (You can put a `TZ="Wherever"` variable at the start for different timezones…

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    Comment #47107628

    Those are not "speed" cameras, they're to enforce daily payment (or fines) for driving in "Ultra Low Emissions Zone" areas in non-compliant vehicles. The area covers all 32 London …

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    Comment #47082741

    I like "both Shift keys" to toggle caps lock on the odd occasions it's useful.

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    Comment #47046702

    Some information about this leaked 3 years ago (February 2023), see: https://cdn.xcancel.com/pic/orig/64D3E63614C36/media%2FHBUh4... via https://xcancel.com/BasedTorba/status/20235…

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    Comment #46742281

    > unusual maps https://raildar.co.uk/map/KGX Nice one, OpenRailTimes[0] is a similar style, but split in to smaller local sections by rail company and area. I also like SignalBox[1…

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    Comment #46562074

    Good call, I've had success with: pandoc -f gfm -t typst -o file.typ file.md and as you'll know it's easy to add a Template if required.

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    Comment #46513060

    You know that "this dude" is basically the UK Governments version of the NSA, right? https://github.com/gchq https://www.gchq.gov.uk/

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    Comment #46316126

    "encrapsulated"

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    Comment #46245029

    It's just one press of the G key in Vim, or Alt > in Emacs. Even nano has Alt / to jump to the end of a file. I find those preferable to reading things in reverse order, but Vim op…