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Re:GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion on Monday October 17, 2022 @07:20PM (#33240834)
Please look up the license in the source code that Tim Davis points too, it just mentions it's LGPL, but doesn't include the full license text. And none of the C code mentions a license or Tim Davis.

And if you dig further, the whole repo is mixed with BSD and LGPL "licensed" packages together. It's probably best that CoPilot does not suggest from code that does not have an explicit license stated.

I think originally Tim Davis was complaining about the non public sources for suggestions which Github CoPilot ignored.

Re:Tracking the WhatsApp habits of random smartphones on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @01:05PM (#26892350)
Not sure why you are webscraping, there is a Whatsapp business API you can use to gather a lot more information.

Here is a github repo that implements it, including generating text QR code.

https://github.com/Rhymen/go-whatsapp

Suggest you research cloud backup solutions.

Myself I pay for Backblaze's Personal backup solution.

There also is Backblaze's B2 Cloud Storage (free 10GB tier) if you want something similar to S3.

The board has 16GB DDR4 memory on board, that's probably one of the most costly components.
Re:Vagaband: Safety Wristband for Travellers on Saturday April 21, 2018 @11:21PM (#16894556)
More information post by inventor here: https://imgur.com/gallery/Y8mvCfr
Re:1.1.1.1 Cloudflare DNS Resolver Soon to Be Announced? on Friday March 30, 2018 @02:39PM (#16718701)
The certificate "Common Name" is: dns.cloudflare.com.

There is a certificate extension - Certificate Subject Alternative Name that lists the following:

  DNS Name: *.dns.cloudflare.com
  DNS Name: dns.cloudflare.com
  IP Address: 1.1.1.1
  IP Address: 1.0.0.1
Most likely the extension was included as part of the certificate signing request.
I didn't see LinkedIn in this list?

A while ago I deleted my account, then recreated my account after a year, and requested a full backup history, this backup had my old contacts from the original Linkedin android app gathered from my old phone without my permission.

Article shows Children under 12 are free (even for non-residents of NY state).
Re:Hey Microsoft, Stop Installing Apps on My PC Without Asking on Thursday February 15, 2018 @03:46PM (#16387469)
I have done that before, but on the first anniversary update, they all come back. I will try it again, and wait for the next anniversary update to see if they come back again.
Re:Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown on Friday January 05, 2018 @01:55PM (#16080664)
ARM Ltd has a list of vulnerable cores [1], the above are not listed.

[1] https://developer.arm.com/support/security-update

Re:The Soviet Union’s Flawed Rival to Concorde on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @01:36PM (#15501138)
Not sure if you know about Boom ?

https://boomsupersonic.com/

Re:Quitting Caffeine on Monday August 14, 2017 @05:43PM (#15013261)
I have been doing that since last November, saved a lot of money from buying coffee without all the side affects of having coffee. My focus is the same or more than having coffee daily.

Lookup nootropics, there's a reddit forum for it. I take a combination of caffeine, l-theanine, bacopa, and magnesium in the morning, and one caffeine pill in the afternoon.

I'm in Canada, you can get caffeine pills cheap: 100x 200mg pills for <$10.

Visit your local fitness health store, and asked them for stuff for focus. I am sure they can help you.

Re:Windows Subsystem for Linux is out of beta on Friday July 28, 2017 @10:50PM (#14879232)
The WSL converts the Linux system calls to Windows calls with additional wrappers to implement the system calls correctly.
Re:Azure Stack Running in an Azure VM on Friday July 21, 2017 @12:48PM (#14821932)
I am currently working for a product to work with Azure Stack, but can't purchase and receive the hardware to run the devkit requirements in time for release.

Currently I am RDP'ing into an ASDK instance setup by a 3rd party, and this might be setup as a nested VM, but it does not matter as it is not noticeable.

Most likely this type of installation I will use more frequenting instead of keep dedicated hardware around just to run the Azure Stack Development Kit when it will not be used 24/7.

I can't remember where source, but the model 3 will have sensors, unfortunately you need to pay extra for autopilot software to be enabled. Not sure if the pricing will be higher that the other models.
The two private citizens will need a support team in capsule unless they are experienced astronauts and have the technical skills to learn all the systems on the dragon crew capsule.
Re:Zerocoin implementation bug on Friday February 17, 2017 @07:44PM (#13672970)
I rather actually see a real comment if there is no time to create a unit test.

Why does changing ZQ_PEDERSEN to ZQ_WILLIAMSON fix the bug?

Having meaningful named constants would make much more sense.

Edit: On full view of the code, the bug could be avoid if they broke out the if <demoninationX> blocks into their own function, and to prevent "typo" errors, it would be good to have a local variable named current_demoniation = demoniationX, and then reference that local variable instead of referencing the constant everytime.

Re:Awless: A Mighty CLI for AWS on Thursday February 16, 2017 @12:58PM (#13662038)
Also upload the a hash of the userid and accountid. Hashed with non-random salt so it's not really anonymous as the function says.

userid and accountid stored in database here: https://github.com/wallix/awless/blob/e2bf4f2cad37b011c5b3b6...

retrieved by stats here: https://github.com/wallix/awless/blob/e2bf4f2cad37b011c5b3b6...

Added to stats payload here: https://github.com/wallix/awless/blob/e2bf4f2cad37b011c5b3b6...

Re:MongoDB 3.4.0-rc3 on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @12:50PM (#13591102)
SmartOS can run under Xen.

The version I am running doesn't work with more than one CPU (SmartOS Live Image v0.147+ build: 20160622T220759Z), and I think the network interface defaults to using the realtek 8139 driver.

This was enough for my situation, but not optimal for heavy use.

Re:Spirograph Simulator (2014) on Sunday December 25, 2016 @11:19PM (#13256902)
My daughter (7 years old) still plays with one, but not that often. She still enjoys it.

We have the "Spiral Draw" by Klutz.

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