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fullstop··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
Is this an older model? I could see them turning off or using weak encryption on media if the hardware couldn't keep up with the amount of data they were writing.
fullstop··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
I poked around in the boot partition. The kernel is ancient!

Linux version 3.18.71-perf-gaf770dc

fullstop··on Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
And even if a plugin is disabled, the code can still be called.
fullstop··on Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
I'm in the same boat. Using Rust within Yocto is tricky since the whole point of Yocto is that you have a system which can build reproducible images. I can't have Cargo going out and fetching crates during the build process, they need to be recipes and artifacts which are accurately versioned and identified.
fullstop··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
https://www.gogdb.org/product/1446213994 It still goes on deep discount very frequently, even on GoG.
fullstop··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
I have at least 100 hours in the game, and I have to disagree with you. There's a surprising amount of variety in the creatures and the world generation.

I spend a lot of time building / designing my base. In that aspect, the enjoyment of the game is limited only by my creativity. I've definitely got $25 worth of entertainment from it. I will say, though, it is more fun if you have others to join your squad.

It's vastly better, imo, than Starfield. That was a game which really let me down -- I wanted Skyrim in Space, but I got 1,000 planets with the same cookie cutter quests on each. Or a team member saying something like "I can't believe we're the first ones to set foot on this temple" when there is a randomly generated outpost plopped down right next door.

fullstop··on No Man's Sky Cosmos
It's $23.99 on Steam right now.
fullstop··on AWS Acquires DuckLabs
Surely they are better than Google in this regard.
fullstop··on Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
My cdrom drive also had an audio jack on it, so you could plug headphones directly into that if you wanted to have just CD audio and not the sounds coming from the PC.
fullstop··on Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
Yes, the game just played it as a regular CD. In fact, if you put a different disc in the drive it would play the tracks from there instead. There were also console commands to change the track, stop the music, loop, or even reload the disc information if you needed to refresh it after swapping CDs.
fullstop··on Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
Ha, I remember buying the shareware disk and unlocking every game on there. Plus you got the soundtrack which was pretty cool.
fullstop··on Google kills Earth AI generator after one day
I got Bard to execute a fork bomb, I think, when it was first launched. I noticed that it was evaluating the flow of a shell script incorrectly and it allowed execution, then refused to respond for 20 or 30 minutes.

Now, for some users, sharing a YouTube link adds some sort of tracking which then asks people who open the link to be "friends" with the person who shared it. Who thinks that this is a good idea, and why isn't it opt-in?

It's hard to take Google seriously these days.

fullstop··on Donate to GrapheneOS
I added a ratgdo to my garage door opener and use that with Home Assistant (and wireguard to my phone) instead of MyQ, so that wouldn't be a problem.

It's probably worth doing, but I have about three and a half years of data / setup on my phone and I'd have to wipe that all out. I wouldn't permanently lose data, but I did spend a good amount of time setting up my home screen, etc. It's a big leap! :-)

Is your battery life better?

fullstop··on Donate to GrapheneOS
I have a Pixel 7 Pro and I've been considering reflashing with GrapheneOS. I bought a Garmin watch which does tap-to-pay to deal with the loss of that feature.

How is the camera on GrapheneOS compared to the stock Pixel 10? Do your banking apps work without playing cat-and-mouse games?

fullstop··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
Even if it was 595 billion, that sounds like their problem.

"If you owe your bank manager a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe him a million pounds, he is at yours."

fullstop··on OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
I had a OnePlus 3. It was fantastic for the time, but the limited radio bands really hampers it now. The screen is falling off of it and the battery is not what it was, but it's a decade old.

I used it for about 4 years, then my oldest, and then my youngest. Such a great little piece of hardware.

fullstop··on Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)
From what I have read, they only have ~30 employees. They're not exactly onboarding a lot of new people here.
fullstop··on Ask HN: How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
This makes me sad. We've lost something.
fullstop··on Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software
Expedition 33 ran well, at least on Xbox Series X. It runs like dogshit on a Steam Deck, though.
fullstop··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
There's a few traffic circles / roundabouts near me now. I love them -- they are safer and greatly reduce traffic if I'm headed out that way. The number of people who blame them for serious accidents is nuts, even if the accident is several miles away from the circle.
fullstop··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
There's kids who go around on ebikes in my neighborhood, and it's only a matter of time until one of them is hit. I don't mind kids on bikes, and encourage it. I do, however, encourage them to stop at stop signs and to actually look for traffic at intersections, and that's something that these kids are not doing.

To be fair, most cars go too fast in residential areas. I drive like a grandma in them and there's a good chance that someone is up my ass and annoyed that I'm not exceeding the speed limit.

fullstop··on Steam Machine launches today
This is 6x6x6" and can sit on my desk, quietly.
fullstop··on Becoming a dad changes men's brains
This is written like a number 3 child. ;-)
fullstop··on Becoming a dad changes men's brains
I have two, both adults now. The first one, if she woke up early and I was still asleep, would politely come over and say that she was hungry.

The second one, though, she was a scavenger. I woke up to her crunching on something. She was eating pistachios -- shell and all!

fullstop··on Becoming a dad changes men's brains
With the first kid you sterilize everything. After that I guess you learn how much dirt they put in their mouths and don't bother.
fullstop··on Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
Yeah, I felt that someone had to speak up about the health of the lawn.
fullstop··on Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics
I have a feeling that humanoid robots will have other, more intimate, tasks first. Our most primal drives seem to drive the advancement of technology.

Also, mowing the lawn on a very hot day is pretty bad for the grass.

fullstop··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
Do you feel the same way about cloning a GitHub repo and building it? It, too, achieved a result.

The track saw and router, imo, are existing libraries.

fullstop··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
Oh, sure, I can make things with it. But I have an extraordinarily hard time saying that I made something.

It feels like it cheapens the whole thing. Maybe I'm just old, because I remember people saying the same thing about code completion in Visual Studio back in the late 90s.

This is so much more than code completion, though.

fullstop··on MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second
It's making things less fun, for me at least.
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