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miduil

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About miduil

I just can't code. absolute pseudo sysadmin. hacking in spaces since 2011 visit hæcker.net

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    Comment #49027066

    Good Idea! Something like Lotus Notes and Slides

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    Comment #49012408

    Bento is perfect reasonable name for an all in one solution - no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bento

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    Comment #48966216

    Not to confuse with the really long running IT-Security conference DeepSec :) https://deepsec.net/

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    Comment #48953633

    Not "yet" with "virtio-balloon", so basically where firecracker was for quite some time. With that you can only grow, but not shrink memory if I understand correctly. So useful for…

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    Comment #48738916

    Kinda wild that in primary/early middle school basically Knoppix and Wienux live distributions set me up for what has later become a career working with Linux/DevOps/SRE. Can't tha…

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    Comment #48562782

    same just cancelled it and left Elon Musk as a reason

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    Comment #48477228

    I was just looking into the topic recently, there is a decent graphic explaining how fiber is already used for submarine communication for quite some time. Page 13 shows the diagra…

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    Comment #48449717

    You can skip inotify tools altogether and do use systemd like this to trigger `rm -rf`: `~/.config/systemd/user/remove-thunderbird-dir.path` [Unit] Description=Watch for unwanted ~…

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    Comment #48055061

    It's poisoning the filesystem cache, if you don't have a setuid binary handy you just poison anything else that gets executed by the host.

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    Comment #48054254

    Yes, it demonstrates that it's possible to harden well - at least for some cases. It appears depending on the environment hardened kernel / runtime environments are pretty much pos…

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    Comment #48054201

    This again does not work under Android, at least in termux compiled with clang/gcc.

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    Comment #47836819

    I wonder if this is the reason for Google not majorly renewing their Pixel line since Pixel 9 till 11.

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    Comment #47729460

    New MRI only use 7 Liters (25 Cups) instead of ~1500L (~330Gallons) of liquid Helium due to better sealed magnets. https://mriquestions.com/uploads/3/4/5/7/34572113/philips_bl...

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    Comment #47633802

    But lossy-codecs job is to utilize psychovisual tricks to discard as much high-frequency information as possible, whilst remaining similar visual effects. If you increase the brigh…

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    Comment #47546175

    Good for them, I cancelled my subscription simply because Linux support is so awful. It's impossible to watch in 4k, and even with 1080p you frequently get automatically downgraded…

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    Comment #47397646

    > [...] due to some dipshit blonde not paying attention [...] Wow, instantly stopped reading after this. I can't comprehend how someone would even remotely have the courage writing…

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    Comment #47109498

    Wow, that's wonderful. There is a store that sells original Woodblock prints in Vienna, close to the Opera. Every time I'm passing by I take a few moments to look and reflect on th…

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    Comment #47022720

    > Arguments against proactive MRI scanning always seem to have a whiff of status quo bias to them More and more European countries are currently adopting Lung Cancer screening prog…

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    Comment #46849057

    Hehe, I'm eagerly waiting for this one as well as I'd be extremely happy to replace some hack to run docker images with `systemd-nspawn` served from the nix store.

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    Comment #46849040

    What a story. Be friendly to your neighbors, otherwise they might turn off your TV! When I was living in Berlin, the entire apartment complex had a WhatsApp group and people would …

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    Comment #46848182

    Platform was dying for years before it was finally financially interoperable, before that they've lost over a year worth of contents due to some corrupted hardware. I can't exactly…

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    Comment #46844927

    Yeah because soup.io (Blogspam Link today) simply lost its data because they didn't migrate and the hard drive crashed.

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    Comment #46841719

    Checkout the Settings panel, in the GitHub screencast this feature is shown in the there.

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    Comment #46841571

    Wow, Noctalia looks amazing! I'm especially excited about the automatic theme by background image, that means my live updating wallpaper also tweaks the theme :) super fun.