winthrowe | 1 year ago | on: Meta torrented & seeded 81.7 TB dataset containing copyrighted data
Profit at all costs is a political agenda.
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winthrowe | 1 year ago | on: San Francisco seeks ban of software critics say is used to inflate rents
It was clear and understandable to me, but follows a format I've seen many times.
Headlines in English tend to have a style that's widely used, but would not be considered good usage outside of headlines, which I could expect to be troublesome for non-native speakers.
winthrowe | 1 year ago | on: Canadian Tire Money
In 90’s New Brunswick it was practically legal tender. Accepted at basically every mom and pop store, and even many chains. Not so much since the turn of the century.
winthrowe | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: A Short IPv6 Guide for Home IPv4 Admins
Similar to v4 DHCP guard, configure RA guard on your switches.
winthrowe | 2 years ago | on: Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway (2019)
> As far as I'm aware, the wishlist has no other function.
It's also visible to accounts you've friended, for gift-giving purposes.
winthrowe | 2 years ago | on: Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
If you care about this enough to abandon old software, they built that and called it Windows S and few wanted it.
winthrowe | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: What game do you wish existed?
2. Achron from 2011 is an RTS fully and completely built around time travel as it's core mechanic, perhaps to the detriment of general playability.
Available on steam or direct.
winthrowe | 4 years ago | on: Mozilla Foundation places two-page advocacy ad in The New York Times (2004)
That's ancient and perhaps best forgotten.
More important in this day and age is since Firefox 91 there is a checkbox in privacy and security to automagically SSO using the account on the Windows 10/11 Account Settings page that Edge uses.
winthrowe | 4 years ago | on: How to find a domain's authoritative nameservers
Trace output was easier to read in the days when everybody trusted and there was no security.
Try reading this, with just the tool output, A and NS records, like the old days:
dig +trace jvns.ca | egrep ";|IN\s+A|IN\s+NS\s"
winthrowe | 4 years ago | on: The void in Calgary: How office towers emptied in a once bustling downtown
I agree with this.
Much of the square footage is devoted to entertainment pursuits that don't have a roof and close for the winter elsewhere in Canada.
winthrowe | 4 years ago | on: Amazon Is Lobbying the US Government to Make Pot Legal
Going so far as to actually smoke it is a hair too far.
Get a quality vaporizer and enjoy the full bouquet without the harmful combustion byproducts.
winthrowe | 4 years ago | on: Windows 11 is no longer compatible with Oracle VirtualBox VMs
Several reasons, but the biggest I see is Passwordless.
Windows 10 can act as a FIDO2 authenticator like a Yubikey, but needs a TPM to do so. They want this to be something that actually happens for the average user in windows 11.
winthrowe | 4 years ago | on: IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ
Not offering IPv6 is intentional misconfiguration in this day and age, and deserves shame.
winthrowe | 4 years ago | on: IPv4 vs. IPv6 FAQ
BellAliant in eastern Canada, the only provider of residential layer 1 fiber in my area, still isn't even assigning a /128 or /64, let alone proper delegation.
winthrowe | 4 years ago | on: The emergence of heat and humidity too severe for human tolerance (2020)
The traditional 5 dollar analog hygrometer uses a paper/metallic strip coil:
winthrowe | 4 years ago | on: The Framework Laptop is now shipping
What about a hex numpad? IPv6Buddy is a real shipping product, according to their longstanding website.
winthrowe | 4 years ago | on: BitTorrent Turns 20: The File-Sharing Revolution Revisited
My recollection is BitTorrent encryption has mostly nothing to do with real security, and almost everything to do with the cat-and-mouse against ISP middleboxes. Plaintext BitTorrent traffic was highly identifiable and blockable, but even simple obfuscation was enough to avoid them, so simple encryption was adopted.
winthrowe | 4 years ago | on: Starting in 2023, Windows 11 will require new laptops to have a front webcam
This looks like part of their push to passwordless. Decent camera plus TPM means that FaceID style unphishable FIDO2 credentials can become default moving forward.
winthrowe | 5 years ago | on: This is what Doom looks like on a holographic display
In my TrackIR config, I move my head left an inch, the projected head moves 6 inches. This is more useful than a even mapping in practice, but solidly breaks the 'looking through a window' illusion.
winthrowe | 5 years ago | on: This is what Doom looks like on a holographic display
As a TrackIR user, it feels to me like it should be possible to do something like this with the 6dof headtracking data from TrackIR, but basically nobody uses a 1-1 mapping that would produce a camera trick like this.
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