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23 days ago
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on: System76 on Age Verification Laws
I think this is the way that Linux desktop distributions are endangered, quoting from the article: "... apps and websites will not assume liability when a signal is not provided and assume the lowest age bracket. Any Linux distribution that does not provide an age bracket signal will result in a nerfed internet for their users."
pgn674
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9 months ago
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on: Merlin Bird ID
On the Android app, tap the share button at the top of the recording play screen. This lets you export the audio WAV file. Select some other audio player app to share to, such as Podcast Addict, and use that app's Cast feature once it opens.
pgn674
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9 months ago
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on: Merlin Bird ID
I'm definitely impressed with the sound ID. One time there was a cacophony of birds singing outside my house at varying distances, and the app was able to identify 6 different bird species within 30 seconds. All 6 suggestions seemed reasonable to me.
pgn674
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1 year ago
https://news.google.com/ is having trouble for me. Sections aren't loading, with the error "Uh-oh, something went wrong. Please try again." On Android, the Google News app says "No recent articles".
pgn674
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2 years ago
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on: Tell HN: CloudFront Is Having an Outage
Got posted a minute ago.
Operational issue - Amazon CloudFront (Global)
Service
Amazon CloudFront
Severity
Informational
RSS
Elevated Error Rates
Jul 18 10:26 AM PDT Between 9:37 AM and 10:13 AM PDT, we experienced elevated error rates for request serviced by the CloudFront Origin Shield and Regional Edge Cache in the US-EAST-1 region. The issue has been resolved and service is operating normally.
pgn674
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3 years ago
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on: Making unphishable 2FA phishable
> "This can be avoided by having the process listen on localhost, and then have the login flow redirect to localhost (including the token) on successful completion."
I think this is what the AWS Client VPN client for Ubuntu does. So AWS does have the method in their tool set somewhere, though I imagine it's owned by an entirely different team than their CLI.
pgn674
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3 years ago
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on: Every ISP in the US has been ordered to block three pirate streaming services
If this stands and is enforced, will this be the first time ever in the US that an ISP providing internet access to home subscribers is forced by the government to block something?
pgn674
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3 years ago
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on: Every ISP in the US has been ordered to block three pirate streaming services
If this stands and is enforced, will this be the first time ever in the US that an ISP providing internet access to home subscribers is forced by the government to block something?
pgn674
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3 years ago
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on: US Court Orders Every ISP in the United States to Block Illegal Streaming Sites
If this stands and is enforced, will this be the first time ever in the US that an ISP providing internet access to home subscribers is forced by the government to block something?
pgn674
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3 years ago
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on: US Court Orders Every ISP in the US to Block Illegal Streaming Sites
If this stands and is enforced, will this be the first time ever in the US that an ISP providing internet access to home subscribers is forced by the government to block something?
pgn674
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4 years ago
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on: Zendesk pretends to be open source?
Take a look at xerxes901's comment in this post. Looks like they got through to someone internally. And their comment history checks out; it appears they do with for or with Zendesk.
pgn674
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4 years ago
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on: JWST User Documentation
pgn674
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4 years ago
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on: Signed integers are asymmetrical
Two things I hate but can't fight:
Tetrahedra almost tessellate but don't quite do it: https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/103/28/10612/F1.large.jpg
In music, the frequency ratio of a semitone is ideally 2^(1/12), but without some tiny fudging (called tuning), you can't make harmonies as the frequencies almost but don't quite line up right. I forget exactly how this one works so I may have something off.
pgn674
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4 years ago
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on: Signal is experiencing technical difficulties
pgn674
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4 years ago
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on: Heroku's Managed DB's have been down for 2+ hours
It mentions an issue at an upstream service provider. Is it AWS and their Degraded EBS Volume Performance in Northern Virginia?
https://status.aws.amazon.com/
pgn674
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4 years ago
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on: All 16,777,216 RGB colours (2005)
pgn674
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4 years ago
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on: Deleting no longer prompts on Android
At least in both situations there Sheets allows you to undo the delete, so the closeness to other commands isn't so lethal. I've got no UX or UI training, but I gotta imagine that it'd be a basic rule that delete actions must always include a confirmation request or an undo option. In Voice, the lack of both confirmation and undo is just ludicrous.
pgn674
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4 years ago
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on: Todo apps are meant for robots
What do you use as a daily task list app? I'm using TickTick on Android, but daily tasks is not its strong point.
pgn674
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4 years ago
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on: Show HN: I built an app to create repeatable checklists to help with ADHD
Aww man, I've got an Android phone. Anyone know of any alternatives for Android? I'm currently using TickTick, but daily or activity based repeatable tasks isn't its focus. I was only able to get what I need because of its decently powerful filter.
pgn674
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4 years ago
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on: The Power and Poetry of Random Digits
I thought that pseudo random referred to the way that the seed number was generated. Like, by sampling disk I/O metrics, thermometer readings, and mouse movements and combining them together. Pretty random, but still predictable in certain ways. If you wanted a truly random seed, you'd need to sample something the physicists say is actually random, such as cosmic microwave background radiation or certain subatomic processes following the uncertainty principle.
Did I learn wrong? Are all random numbers derived from an appropriate recursive function considered pseudo random, no matter how the seed was derived?
