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Re:Wikipedia Recent Changes Map on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @08:40AM (#32649616)
"When an unregistered user edits Wikipedia, he or she is identified by his or her IP address. These IP addresses are translated to users' approximate geographic location. Unregistered users only make a fraction of total edits -- only 15% of the contributions to English Wikipedia are from unregistered users. Edits by registered users do not have associated IP information, so the map actually represents only a small portion of the total edit activity on Wikipedia."
Spacedashboard have a nice summary of the streams and the position over earth. https://spacedashboard.com/
Re:Virtual Boy Architecture: A Practical Analysis on Sunday February 21, 2021 @08:31AM (#26213305)
The article on Virtual Boy was super interesting!
Re:Linux Sucks 2020 on Friday May 29, 2020 @05:37AM (#23348034)
It's more like a roast by a comedian. Bryan Lunduke have made this talk many times before at Linux conferences.
Re:Cheap renewables won’t stop global warming (2018) on Friday March 01, 2019 @04:11AM (#19278982)
I've read about this neat process for extracting CO2 from the atmosphere. You place a ultra compact box in the ground containing it's own building instructions and tooling for separating CO2 in to oxygen and building giant structures of the carbon. It's apparently called photosynthesis.
Re:10 years of gog.com on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @06:15AM (#18128930)
Noclip did an interesting documentary about GOG. "GOG: Preserving Gaming's Past & Future" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffngZOB1U2A
Re:Programming Sucks (2014) on Thursday July 19, 2018 @09:04AM (#17565821)
I like this narrated version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MticYPfFRp8
Re:SuperHouse Vlog #53: Help the Internet killed my toaster on Wednesday March 01, 2017 @09:00AM (#13763642)
"two principles in mind when building my own systems.

Rule #1: No external dependencies.

Rule #2: Mechanical overrides."

Re:Fake Door Testing on Thursday November 24, 2016 @06:26AM (#13029763)
Rick & Morty: real fake doors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxbsV8QWGic
Re:The ESP32 has been released on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @05:29AM (#12434621)
"As far as any new information regarding the ESP32 is concerned, don’t expect much. It’s released, though, and in a month or so the work of documenting this supposed wonderchip will begin."
"What they found may have implications for the origin of complex life.

The air, which has been preserved, undisturbed, in tiny pockets in the crystals for about 815 million years, appears to contain 10.9 per cent oxygen — just half the amount in the atmosphere today.

But it's about five times more than scientists expected for that time period, which is about 200 million years before the first known multicellular fossils."

Re:500 Internal error at YouTube on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @07:49AM (#11953087)
"If you see them, send them this information as text (screenshots frighten them)" Love this!
Re:How big is the Google Earth database? on Monday April 11, 2016 @09:27AM (#11471282)
"So our final estimate for the total size of the Google Earth database is 3,017 TB or approximately 3 Petabytes!"
Re:Garry Newman about Game Developers Conference 2016 on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @06:14PM (#11340353)
TL;DR: * Talks is a waste of time * Marketing VR-people sucks * Crazy people * Notch make bad drinks * Don't waste your time on GDC
Re:The Pirate Book on Monday December 28, 2015 @05:06AM (#10800559)
The ASCII art is very beautiful. So much culture! How is the printing quality from lulu.com?
Re:How Betty, who is 89, gets her news on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @10:58AM (#9027926)
An RSS-reader keeps the typography consistent and feeds often contain the whole article including pictures. The downside is that is hard to add new feeds to the RSS-reeder because the RSS-links is quite hard to find.
Re:How to create a handheld Linux terminal on Tuesday January 13, 2015 @10:11AM (#8880285)
Estimated 8.6h with idle CPU, based on my calculations. Raspberry Pi A+ 0.52W usage at 100ma 5.2V on CPU idle (http://raspi.tv/2014/raspberry-pi-a-how-much-power-does-it-n...)

Adafruit PiTFT - 2.8" Raspberry Pi Touchscreen with full-on backlight the current draw is ~100mA. (http://www.adafruit.com/product/1601) 0.15=0.5W

Powerconsumption of Rpi and TFT should be 1.02W at idle.

PowerBoost 500 Charger - Rechargeable 5V Lipo USB Boost @ 500mA+ (http://www.adafruit.com/product/1944) 2.500Ah 3.7V LiPo 3.7V2.5Ah=9.25Wh Boosted to 5V at 95% efficiency 8.79Wh

8.79Wh/1.02W = 8.6h

*Edit: I did a mistake when I calculated the Watt-hour. The Watt-hours of the battery can't increase just because the voltage increases, changed it.

Re:The Misfortune Cookie Vulnerability on Thursday December 18, 2014 @09:43AM (#8767369)
"Misfortune Cookie is a critical vulnerability that allows an intruder to remotely take over an Internet router and use it to attack home and business networks."

"The Misfortune Cookie vulnerability is due to an error within the HTTP cookie management mechanism present in the affected software, allowing an attacker to determine the ‘fortune’ of a request by manipulating cookies. Attackers can send specially crafted HTTP cookies that exploit the vulnerability to corrupt memory and alter the application and system state. This, in effect, can trick the attacked device to treat the current session with administrative privileges - to the misfortune of the device owner."

Re:W3C Working Draft: Clipboard API and events on Tuesday November 25, 2014 @12:11PM (#8658551)
This is nice, and could really be useful. But it's raising a lot of privacy concerns. A lot of sensitive information is placed in the clipboard like private URLs and even passwords sometimes.

I think a whitelisting of sites is needed in the web browser to use this API.

How about those poor Roombas out there forced to suffer a life as a Doomba? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSOkNr0X4ZU
Re:Show HN: Howm – A Vim-like tiling X11 window manager on Friday August 29, 2014 @09:59AM (#8242482)
I agree, please post some screenshots.

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