I've been a big fan of https://alternativeto.net/ and using their "open source" and "self-hosted" filters. Even looking through the non-FOSS alternatives for a particularl application/site can be helpful; sometimes a…
About a year ago, I found a YouTube channel[0] which consists mostly of a really smart guy (with a proper background in electrical engineering) buying cheap electronics from eBay/Temu/AliExpress/etc, taking them apart…
I'd like to try passkeys out. I actually tried again on Amazon in response to reading the comments here. But it just.... doesn't work? I'm on a laptop running Ubuntu, I use Firefox as my browser, and I use 1Password as…
Microsoft also didn't do themselves any favor with that naming scheme. In the current generation (I think?), you have: - Xbox X - Xbox S - Xbox Series X - Xbox Series S Compared to: - PlayStation 5 - PlayStation 5 Pro…
The extension IDs are UUIDs/GUIDs, so 128 bits of entropy. No site is going to be able to successfully scan that full range.
Okay, though, for very small hobbyist payloads, though, wouldn't hydrogen balloons be feasible? Some quick math tells me that you can lift approximately a kilogram of mass per cubic meter (at sea level, anyway). If your…
To anyone going down this route, there's a surprisingly deep rabbit hole when you look into "how copy the bits off the drive and into a .wav file". There are a lot of places where errors can be introduced: the quality…
Do you have any tips and tricks to share? I'm running a self-hosted instance on an old desktop PC in my basement for me and a couple family members. Performance is kinda meh, and I don't think it's due to resource…
In my case, I want file/photo syncing, calendar syncing, and contact syncing. Nextcloud provides all 3 in a package that pretty much just works, in my experience (despite being kinda slow). The Notes app is a pretty…
If they make their own distro, though, they're not really gaining more control. They're just enabling even more choice for someone who's looking for alternatives. Let's say, hypothetically, that Valve releases SteamOS…
I was about to comment that SteamOS is based on Arch, but after looking at the actual graphs, they've got SteamOS as its own separate category. I wonder how much of that is "hackers and experimentalists", versus random…
and for me, the one (rather niche, I might add) game that didn't "just work" was working just fine after trying a different Proton version - which is literally as simple as opening the "Properties" page and using a…
You wouldn't be the first to suggest pneumatic delivery of burritos https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...
Is there any reason to believe that deleting a ChatGPT conversation is anything more than "UPDATE conversations SET status='user_deleted WHERE conversation_id=..."?
Apparently they have a "unexplained crashes must have an explanation determined" policy ever since there was a trend of uninvestigated unexplained crashes that were canaries in the mine for a security issue.…
Some alternators ironically require electricity to make electricity. They don't have permanent magnets inside, but instead use electromagnets. So from a stone cold battery, if there's not enough power to get those…
As of 2013, manual cars (at least Mazdas) can still be roll-started, as long as the engine computer has enough power to function. My CX-5 even has a wireless-pushbutton start, not a physical-key-in-the-ignition start,…
Can confirm. Daily drive Linux for software development, and have a Linux on a laptop for gaming (Silksong anyone? :D). I keep a Windows 10 partition around on the laptop for Fortnite with friends, but that's about it.…
I recently bought a Samsung television, which came with a bunch of the smart nonsense. During the whole setup process I was thinking "I have made a mistake, I need to return this ASAP" but forced myself to continue…
Can you share what the experience is like debugging with gdb directly? I'm new enough that my first debugger experience was Visual Studio, and I currently use IntelliJ IDEs which provide a similar experience. That…
Do you know how the GoG version handles achievements? I'm very used to the Steam achievement system, but obviously that's not an option when you're not using Steam.
> This is similar to 'ssh -L' functionality, but does not use SSH and requires a pre-shared symmetric key. I already have SSH set up and functional, what advantage does spiped offer?
GrapheneOS not only provides a sandbox for Google Play (meaning it's just another app with no special privileges, and you can grant/revoke permissions (including network!) as you desire), it also heavily promotes user…
Apparently the GrapheneOS folks are talking with an OEM[0], which would allow you to buy a phone with a secure, private, non-spyware operating system straight from the factory. I already own a Pixel running GrapheneOS,…
I've been a big fan of https://alternativeto.net/ and using their "open source" and "self-hosted" filters. Even looking through the non-FOSS alternatives for a particularl application/site can be helpful; sometimes a…
About a year ago, I found a YouTube channel[0] which consists mostly of a really smart guy (with a proper background in electrical engineering) buying cheap electronics from eBay/Temu/AliExpress/etc, taking them apart…
I'd like to try passkeys out. I actually tried again on Amazon in response to reading the comments here. But it just.... doesn't work? I'm on a laptop running Ubuntu, I use Firefox as my browser, and I use 1Password as…
Microsoft also didn't do themselves any favor with that naming scheme. In the current generation (I think?), you have: - Xbox X - Xbox S - Xbox Series X - Xbox Series S Compared to: - PlayStation 5 - PlayStation 5 Pro…
The extension IDs are UUIDs/GUIDs, so 128 bits of entropy. No site is going to be able to successfully scan that full range.
Okay, though, for very small hobbyist payloads, though, wouldn't hydrogen balloons be feasible? Some quick math tells me that you can lift approximately a kilogram of mass per cubic meter (at sea level, anyway). If your…
To anyone going down this route, there's a surprisingly deep rabbit hole when you look into "how copy the bits off the drive and into a .wav file". There are a lot of places where errors can be introduced: the quality…
Do you have any tips and tricks to share? I'm running a self-hosted instance on an old desktop PC in my basement for me and a couple family members. Performance is kinda meh, and I don't think it's due to resource…
In my case, I want file/photo syncing, calendar syncing, and contact syncing. Nextcloud provides all 3 in a package that pretty much just works, in my experience (despite being kinda slow). The Notes app is a pretty…
If they make their own distro, though, they're not really gaining more control. They're just enabling even more choice for someone who's looking for alternatives. Let's say, hypothetically, that Valve releases SteamOS…
I was about to comment that SteamOS is based on Arch, but after looking at the actual graphs, they've got SteamOS as its own separate category. I wonder how much of that is "hackers and experimentalists", versus random…
and for me, the one (rather niche, I might add) game that didn't "just work" was working just fine after trying a different Proton version - which is literally as simple as opening the "Properties" page and using a…
You wouldn't be the first to suggest pneumatic delivery of burritos https://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_...
Is there any reason to believe that deleting a ChatGPT conversation is anything more than "UPDATE conversations SET status='user_deleted WHERE conversation_id=..."?
Apparently they have a "unexplained crashes must have an explanation determined" policy ever since there was a trend of uninvestigated unexplained crashes that were canaries in the mine for a security issue.…
Some alternators ironically require electricity to make electricity. They don't have permanent magnets inside, but instead use electromagnets. So from a stone cold battery, if there's not enough power to get those…
As of 2013, manual cars (at least Mazdas) can still be roll-started, as long as the engine computer has enough power to function. My CX-5 even has a wireless-pushbutton start, not a physical-key-in-the-ignition start,…
Can confirm. Daily drive Linux for software development, and have a Linux on a laptop for gaming (Silksong anyone? :D). I keep a Windows 10 partition around on the laptop for Fortnite with friends, but that's about it.…
I recently bought a Samsung television, which came with a bunch of the smart nonsense. During the whole setup process I was thinking "I have made a mistake, I need to return this ASAP" but forced myself to continue…
Can you share what the experience is like debugging with gdb directly? I'm new enough that my first debugger experience was Visual Studio, and I currently use IntelliJ IDEs which provide a similar experience. That…
Can you share what the experience is like debugging with gdb directly? I'm new enough that my first debugger experience was Visual Studio, and I currently use IntelliJ IDEs which provide a similar experience. That…
Do you know how the GoG version handles achievements? I'm very used to the Steam achievement system, but obviously that's not an option when you're not using Steam.
> This is similar to 'ssh -L' functionality, but does not use SSH and requires a pre-shared symmetric key. I already have SSH set up and functional, what advantage does spiped offer?
GrapheneOS not only provides a sandbox for Google Play (meaning it's just another app with no special privileges, and you can grant/revoke permissions (including network!) as you desire), it also heavily promotes user…
Apparently the GrapheneOS folks are talking with an OEM[0], which would allow you to buy a phone with a secure, private, non-spyware operating system straight from the factory. I already own a Pixel running GrapheneOS,…