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dfc··on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
> It must have a tamper-resistant identifier (IMEI number ... kind of).

What is the tamper resistant number that is kind of the IMEI?

dfc··on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location
Did you read the article or are you merely responding to the title? The article begins by acknowledging triangulation and then moving on to the point of the article. The article is about commands built into the UMTS and LTE specs for requesting GPS from the device. Your comment seems to be about everything but the main point of the article.
dfc··on Flameshot
Thank you so much. This has been such a pain for me when I write documentation.
dfc··on Flameshot
Flameshot with sway has been a nightmare for me. I have tried a couple of times but i have never gotten it to work. I have settled with grimshot. The biggest missed feature is the number annotator. It was so easy with flameshot to annotate a screenshot with 1-9 and then refer to each number in a document. I really miss flameshot:(
dfc··on Show HN: StormWatch – Weather emergency dashboard with prep checklists
The weather news tab was not very useful for the East Coast. More than half the results were not in English or ASCII. The results were just spam links in Chinese, Telugu and Russian. The biggest two spam sites seemed to be stcn and ifeng.
dfc··on TerabyteDeals – Compare storage prices by $/TB
Ways to differentiate: On your site I can click the column heading to change the sorting.

I'm a little surprised someone said disk prices was the best option. Changing the sort by column seems like bare minimum UI feature in 202X.

dfc··on MongoBleed Explained Simply
Is this the same as enabling `init_on_free=1` in the kernel?
dfc··on Splice a Fibre
Netbox project used to go on and on about the philosophical justifications for not including n-type connections or different types of LMR. But the most recent release notes that I read had a blurb about all the new coax cable types they are supporting. I understand having limited time but instead of saying "no" they always had to make lofty philosophical arguments. It's weird.
dfc··on Unifi Travel Router
This is a travel router without a modem. It would be super inconvenient if you bought an eSIM for a device that does not have a modem. You might as well by an eSIM for your toothbrush when you are traveling abroad, it would equally "convenient."
dfc··on Unifi Travel Router
It doesn't have a modem. Why would it support eSIM?
dfc··on How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick
THW?
dfc··on Most Stable Raspberry Pi? Better NTP with Thermal Management
The transmission site for WWVB has hundreds of water bottles to insulate the equipment from temperature swings.

https://jila.colorado.edu/news-events/articles/spare-time

dfc··on Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux
You need xdg-desktop-portal . Its probably automatic in some environments but with sway I have to set it up manually. Its one of those annoying things I forget about whenever I set up a new machine.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Desktop_Portal

dfc··on GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients
I was not trying to tear your argument down. The comment you replied to was about carbs being specifically disgusting and in my head potatoes are the runner up to bread for classic examples of carbs. I was simply asking about what seemed like a contradiction. I have been looking into GLP1s and have not seen/heard people mention that GLP1 make carbs gross.
dfc··on GLP-1 drugs linked to lower death rates in colon cancer patients
You can confirm that GLP1s make "carbs specifically disgusting" and an example of this reaction is that you would have a desire to eat potatoes?
dfc··on Beets: The music geek’s media organizer
> Beets can do this too!

This is the best summary of beets. It's wildly flexible and configurable.

dfc··on Shell Grotto: England's mysterious underground seashell chamber
I havent been to boingboing in probably 15 years. Its weird to have nostalgia triggered by something so different from what it used to be.
dfc··on A classic graphic reveals nature's most efficient traveler
The chart shows the opposite weight relationship.
dfc··on A classic graphic reveals nature's most efficient traveler
I do not live somewhere that game fish are particularly small. That is why the chart showing salmon weighing less than rats is strange. Did you see the chart?
dfc··on Introducing architecture variants
> you will not be able to transfer your hard-drive/SSD to an older machine that does not support x86-64-v3. Usually, we try to ensure that moving drives between systems like this would work. For 26.04 LTS, we’ll be working on making this experience cleaner, and hopefully provide a method of recovering a system that is in this state.

Does anyone know what the plans are to accomplish this?

dfc··on A classic graphic reveals nature's most efficient traveler
The average salmon weighs more than the average rat. Am I missing something?
dfc··on Pyrex catalog from from 1938 with hand-drawn lab glassware [pdf]
It's a great font but I do not see anything that looks similar in the PDF. This comment is more like "Speaking of fonts, I like this unrelated san serif mono spaced font."
dfc··on Euro cops take down cybercrime network with 49M fake accounts
I tried this route at first. There are enough stupid forms that reject VERP addresses that it's easier to just use different recipients.
dfc··on Zram Performance Analysis
You saw a comment a day or two ago about zram, but never got around to looking into it more even though you are obsessed by it?
dfc··on Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond
In my head, one of the things that makes up an "enterprise grade" switch is 48 ports. Because "for the enterprise", in my opinion, evokes some idea of large scale deployment, not a mom and pop trinket store with one PoS cash register device and three company computers.

What does enterprise grade mean to you?

dfc··on Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond
In my head enterprise grade switch has 48 ports with some >10g SFPs for uplink. What does enterprise grade mean to you? And what enterprise grade switches are poe powered?
dfc··on Show HN: Semantic search over the National Gallery of Art
The results for "Mark Rothko", "Paintings by Mark Rothko", "Paintings similar to mark rothko" etc does not bring up anything that I was expecting. NGA has a large collection of Rothko paintings but none of them come up.

This NGA link returns over a thousand pieces by Rothko: https://www.nga.gov/artists/1839-mark-rothko/artworks

dfc··on Show HN: Semantic search over the National Gallery of Art
It would be nice if took you to the NGA page about the item. I cant even copy the text easily for easy search.

"Images of german shepherds" never fails to provide some humor.

dfc··on Show HN: I've built a tiny hand-held keyboard
I imagine that OP is referring to batteries with no protection circuit and the positive and negative terminals of the batteries being exposed[1]. The Samsungs in the keyboard do in fact lack a protection circuit. I don't know if banning the sale of battery holders is going to be a great fix.

[1]: Something like this: https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2021/CPSC-Issues...

dfc··on Sharpie found a way to make pens more cheaply by manufacturing them in the U.S.
It has to be a super strange autocorrect for "expense", but I don't know why anyone is typing wxpwnxw a lot ...
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