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The sad part is that this problem was solved decades ago with grid locators like Maidenhead[1]. It's a purely mathematical conversions with no lookup tables, cover the entire world…

> do you have any thoughts on what causes these systems to stick to trains? Trains are excellent for dense urban environments and better yet when integrated with another modes. I t…

This is also standard practice here in Brazil.

Why the hell aren't we migrating to the Fediverse (aka Mastodon) en masse ?

> So encryption isn't allowed, but is there any way to authenticate information sent over packet radio? Open communication has plenty of uses, but some of those can be spoiled by b…

This is an example of title that could benefit from a simple, non-editorialized, and purely factual change: "Programming the Z3 SMT solver". I am sure I was not the first to think …

So, did they just reinvent the Maidenhead locator ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maidenhead_Locator_System ) or any of the previous systems?

Question: is Wired actively blocking archive.is? I tried to archive this article just to get a repeated "Network error" [1] which may be a sign of a Layer 3 block. A trivial search…

People are too quick to understand these new terms as solely necessary to provide service. The entire paragraph is: > "By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through th…

Wait no more, just install F-Droid and NewPipe ( https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/ ). Bonus feature: it does not use the API so Youtube can not track what do you wat…

This site is absolutely unusable (breaks when I block some scripts, trackers, etc. and even fails to load in archive.is). For anybody who wants to read the article, I just put a te…

Gun control is not a magic solution for firearm killings (after all it only affects law-abiding citizens who, by definition, are not murderers). E.g.: here in Brazil it is almost i…

Their strategy is particularly awesome: a hundred of small short-lived satellites (really small, they're 3-unit cubesats, 30x10x10 cm) operating in a swarm. No big deal if a single…

I have the impression Tox withered and died, which is really sad considering how usable (when compared to alternatives) it is.

Same problem here. Despite this being the best MITM-prevention strategy, it will be hard to assemble a group of people. Maybe allow copying/pasting keys but with a Signal-style pos…

Iep. Running the tests over the new commits before pushing is still required. Usually not a big problem.

> I don't understand. What do you mean by this? Ads embedded in the video stream (i.e. "burnt" as one with subtitles) can't be blocked but also can't deliver any active content (JS…

> they could make the ads indistinguishable from the actual video (in the html), or even splice the videos into one stream. And make ads unsuitable for the most egregious attacks o…

That's the actual problem with these ads: bloat, bandwidth usage, javascript, profiling, de-anonymization, tracking, attacks on privacy, sound, unskippable videos, etc. I will feel…

> Ads shorter than 30-seconds, including the 20-second spots, can be made unskippable. uBlock Origin will continue to serve me well.

>No multi-stage commit pipeline is much easier conceptually -- mostly I just want to commit the changes I made to my repository and automatically sync upstream. But forcing this ap…

>Genuinely curious: Why do you need rebasing? Mostly to sort the code out before publication. People usually assume rebase as a tool for integration but forget how useful it is in …

Very informative. I just took the liberty of converting your post to units I can read (sorry for the pathological imperialphobia :) ) > Yes: because Samoa Air's fleet aircraft are …