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Ironically, the guy who soldered a Wi-Fi module to a calculator did so to gain access to AI slop with it https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/secre...

As I said, if you're a military tasked with ensuring that your country continues to exist. I concede nothing. I doubt you'll find a single loyal military in the world that would be…

So rather than wanting to kill the USA, they merely want to bring it down? That sounds like a distinction without a difference if you're a military tasked with ensuring that your c…

3 minutes on each side at 600 watts on cast iron, throw it in a foil packet, and ignore it until the rest of the meal is done and plated. I'll leave it to you to figure out how to …

usbhidproxy would seem to fit the bill, then https://github.com/moonsightz/usbhidproxy

Android doesn't have it per se, but Seedvault runs on various Android-derived systems (notably but not only GrapheneOS) and does a bang-up job of backing up both applications and d…

Sent to my rich friend. He wants 3 in white!

Perhaps in the United States, but in a number of European countries, weight is a primary factor in determining annual road tax costs, which can reach into the thousands of Euros. I…

Just remap it! If you're on Windows, SharpKeys will do that for you. https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys

I would imagine that something like LPCAMM2 for GDDR is entirely possible and will never, ever be seen because people already accept replacing an entire $10000 GPU to get another 3…

Great, I'm never getting into YC now...

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It's mining Bitcoin!

Ah yes, my big netbook (sold as the "2006 Apple Mac Pro") was so afflicted

Our culture is to replace working things purely because they're old. Solved problem? Never heard of her.

If you do that, you're losing grounding, which will result in the machine having that AC leakage buzz when you touch it. The chrome lug that the plug nub slides onto is a ground co…

I am lying on a bed in a house paid for in full by the obsession with Unix and SGI that this movie instilled in me as a child

Many of us find it difficult to be relentlessly positive as we watch organizations that constantly paint themselves as the epitome of democracy act in a way counter to the repeated…

Equinix AM3 provides heat to the Amsterdam Science Park. Undisclosed large Swiss private corporate datacenter provides heat to residential complexes in the surrounding area, as wel…

"Online people" who care about this sort of thing are a microscopic subset of the voting base and do not represent what most people are aware of, understand, or care about. I live …

They hold all the cards, and have means - above-board or questionable, but effective nonetheless - to enact their will. Do you remember the Treaty of Lisbon referendumS, plural? Ju…

How do you suggest people be intolerant? Essentially all the parties work toward these goals, so voting is ineffective. Speech is (more-or-less) allowed until it turns into striden…

The government will investigate the government and find that the government did nothing wrong. A subsequent government review of the government's investigation of the government wi…

I had a collection of DEC LSI-11 technical/troubleshooting links captured in 2021 when I last was working on a young PDP. When I checked them again in 2024, more than HALF were gon…