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mark254

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    Comment #42387467

    The next move would be to run a complaint at the local Data Protection Authority - eg. for Austrians https://www.data-protection-authority.gv.at/ .

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    Comment #41828369

    Sounds like Token Ring...

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    Comment #41529256

    Well, with the remaining trust available at this point you might just as well use something cryptographically secure, like encrypted ones, twos, or simple HMACs of the block number…

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    Comment #40386810

    HackFu 2021 was held there: https://hackfu.at/

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    Comment #39893228

    This is already possible in Austria. The "eAusweise" app allows people to "prove" others their age without giving away any more data: https://www.digitalaustria.gv.at/eng/services/…

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    Comment #36889503

    I often use RHEL7-compatible binaries on RHEL8 and Debian (testing) machines, with no problems.

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    Comment #34365387

    Wouldn't a (3-D) cube have eight corners? And 3 length dimensions plus time gives a hypercube, with 16 corners. For 11 dimensions, 2048 corners... for 26, 2^26 ;)

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    Comment #32896038

    > By the way, does anyone know of a VNC-like solution that can use MPEG compression? You want xpra.

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    Comment #30696720

    Try http://xpra.org/ - that's a "gnu screen" for X11, but bandwidth-optimized, can also relay USB, audio, ... Just to give you an idea: I used it for forwarding a Firefox window ac…

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    Comment #30071163

    Even some on the Danube - in the middle of Europe...

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    Comment #29577097

    Well, a simple solution is to only have one middleware that uses database connections, and have all other things around it be purely functional. (Though that may mean using their o…

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    Comment #27115467

    That's "Odysseus of Ithaca" in "A Perfect Vacuum"[1], by Stanislav Lem. Ad 1: https://stanislaw-lem.fandom.com/wiki/A_Perfect_Vacuum

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    Comment #26065829

    Even just a random process might give better results - sometimes. From THHGTTG: > To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso fac…

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    Comment #26062320

    That's even _necessary_, as there are a few flag bits in the MAC address - broadcast, user-administrated-address, etc. Just using a random value might give you "interesting" effect…

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    Comment #25569843

    Well, using "himem.sys" you could make use of RAM above 1MB... I used it to write a sort utility that only uses temp files when RAM was exhausted. On my 386 with 4MB total RAM I co…

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    Comment #24888147

    Yes. See "libaa" and the "bb" demo. http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/aalib/

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    Comment #24773816

    It might not be on purpose... You may want to read some Stanislav Lem, about Trurl and Klapauzius. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad

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    Comment #24650014

    That's not so tiny... 256 Bytes RAM, 4K Flash, that's quite a bit bigger than the smaller ATtiny25 (128B RAM, 2K Flash, 6 I/O, much less hardware on board)

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    Comment #24397186

    I guess what was meant is "reduce cognitive overhead for editing, so that the brain can keep the actual programming task in short-term memory".

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    Comment #24341084

    There's an bug - the base64 value is being hex-encoded, not the binary SHA1 result. So the hex values are wrong, and the rest as well.

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    Comment #23996251

    Another interesting article here is "MCS locks and qspinlocks": https://lwn.net/Articles/590243/

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    Comment #23965805

    Would you mind talking a bit via email?