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awrukoon EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

I am under impression that some other nation was involved in cleaning up. If you can even call it cleaning up.

awrukoon Transfer files over an Ethernet patch cable

I literally had to cross over the cable once. It was some sort of demo and the cross over cable was missing. The local computer stores didn’t have one and under the time pressure … I have used the pocket knife and convert the cable. It was before 2000 so the speed was limited to 10/100 Mbit - ifconfig did’t report errors and demo went smooth.

awrukoon Suica, Japan's First IC Transit Card

from personal experience in swiss system, I always forget to swipe left. Less personal experience: there is also a bit of a stress with swiping right and hopping on the train. If for whatever reason there is a delay (location, network), and you get checked on the train you will pay a fine.

awrukoon Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

some of the banking apps, UBS banking require reactivation. So most of the apps yes with exceptions.

awrukoon ZX Spectrum graphics magic

ZX Spectrum didn't have joystick interface. So Poland had a cottage industry to build one as cheap as possible. The best hack was to construct logic gate using germanium transistors to avoid expensive gates with 3 state output. Connecting a printer required building yourself a Centronics interface and writing a driver for it. I recall some people managed to build floppy disk controller and connect 5 1/4 drive.

awrukoon Ask HN: Do your eyes bug you even though your prescription is "correct"?

here is what works for me - dedicated non progressive glasses, antiglare coating - no high contrast colors, solarized light, wheat background - avoid dark background - redshift for the late work - constant monitor light, no pwm - flicker free environment (some leds are horrible)

awrukoon Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges

I have color laser mfc-9340cdw. It has outdated firmware version za1.10. There is newer firmware version zb1.10q dated 9.7.23. It looks like there is no automatic update. Just to be sure, I have created a static dhcp entry for it on a router with misconfigured default gateway.

awrukoon RealFill: Image completion using diffusion models

this is crashing (black screen) my firefox on iphone

awrukoon Systemd 252

> indexed for quicker searching and filtering

I think I am not the only one who is missing negative filters - check the log excluding audit messages.

awrukoon Windows urges users to use Bing same way as urgent security warnings

If I type "download firefox" in edge/bing, the first thing at the top is foxload.com with a low contrast Ad marker. When I ask edge/bing "is foxload.com safe", the very fist thing says: "Safe Browsing status for Foxload.com is Unsafe."

awrukoon IPv4 pricing

what do you mean by natively? I am using iway and can clearly use ipv6. Most of the whatismyip sites give me my ipv6.

awrukoon Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete” (2019)

It is internal joke, you 'forgot' your password, so you get something like 'Spring2021' from IT as password reset. Now you pick a target account, trigger account lockout. Most of the time, the target is confused and gets a combo, account unlock and password reset. Now the IT guy who does password reset ... uses seasonal passwords which of course can't be changed for 24 hours.

awrukoon Programmer Competency Matrix (2016)

I just wonder how someone like Jamie Zawinski would score.

awrukoon Ask HN: How Is Developing on a Linux VM in Windows?

same here. When I was looking for a new laptop support for 32GB RAM was a key (no mac for me). I have 4 vms, windows with dev rig, linux with django/postgres, linux with oracle and osx. For vitalization I run VMWare Workstation patched with unlocker. The only pain comes from osx, no 3d acceleration and since upgrade to ElCaptain, there is no way to disable vsync, so it is ugly. The missing 3d support can be very annoying - you can not use "debug view hierarchy" in xcode. Saving VMs to external disk for backup. Snapshoting before any risky update/patch/whatever.