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m_eiman

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About m_eiman

https://eiman.tv/blog

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    Comment #41487109

    There’s Multipath TCP.

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    Comment #41486087

    > You'll find a lot more in the ActivityPub specs, plus a lot of open implementations and helpful guides. I've read that there's a problem with interacting with Mastodon if you onl…

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    Comment #41349948

    I ported his code to a macOS screen saver back in the day, but I see I haven't updated it since macOS 10.6… I guess the chance of it working on a Apple Silicon Mac isn't anywhere n…

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    Comment #41126788

    > 'Disconnect from the internet' is a kind of 'Security through obscurity'; which isn't very good security. Just think of it as a very efficient firewall.

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    Comment #40864503

    > as an aside, you knew what you signed up for when you made Firefox your main browser I did - a better browser than Internet Explorer. Granted, that was 20 years ago.

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    Comment #40856810

    TLAB WEST AB | Gothenburg, Sweden | Full time | Hybrid We're looking for an embedded developer to work with us on our small- to medium sized embedded products. Our main area of wor…

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    Comment #40626379

    > I encounter colleagues conversing in Hindi, Russian, Hungarian, Polish, Greek etc. Any of those conversations is one I'm locked out of, and unable to contribute to. This is reall…

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    Comment #40561367

    The only downside is that you'll never get any new customers, and your product will wither and die.

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    Comment #40469784

    I remember coding im_kit on BeOS and chatting along over ICQ, AIM and others. Happy days!

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    Comment #40273722

    I cannot read this without laughing out loud, thinking about the crap Apple has been getting for having exactly such policies in their app store.

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    Comment #40247068

    My standard reply is "one to two weeks".

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    Comment #40245867

    > software engineers can't estimate how long something will take with any kind of accuracy. Sure we can, it's always one of: - A couple of minutes - Today - A week or two - Probabl…

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    Comment #40233581

    Seeing several comments about Avalonia made go have a look at their website. Then I found the price page, and wow - that's a price! €19,500 For the 1st app. Second app only €4,500

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    Comment #39510694

    > It’s only Windows and macOS that don’t You can run macOS from a USB disk, although it won't be a readonly live disc like the Linux ones.

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    Comment #39491812

    Can we stop call AIs giving incorrect information ”hallucinations”, please? It’s just a clever PR stunt to sweep the glaring issues under a carpet.

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    Comment #39451440

    Another way IPv6 could make things better: no need to point multiple domains at the same IP address, so you could have a one-to-one relationship between domain and address and prev…

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    Comment #39415016

    Sweden. Switzerland? There was a civilization in South America whose city/cities didn’t have defensive structures, don’t remember the name though. Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

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    Comment #38841002

    Here's a first-hand account from one of the passengers on the Airbus, somewhat decently translated from Swedish: https://www-svt-se.translate.goog/nyheter/utrikes/svensk-fam...

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    Comment #38718657

    Here in Sweden we have a law that forces shops to provide a "comparison price" on the price tag. Depending on the type of product, it's the price per volume, weight or unit. This m…

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    Comment #38554899

    "careful analysis of DNA" No need for careful analysis, just force the company to give you a list of registered users matching some criteria. Your kill list is just a SQL query awa…