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schwarze_peston Training my sense of CO2 ppm

I don't know much about LoRa yet, but i would be interested to tinker with it. Can the LoRa radio of the Aranet4 PRO be used by alternative base stations or is it somehow locked down to their own Aranet PRO base station?

schwarze_peston 7-zip 22.00 – APFS, Posix TAR, high precision timestamps

https://www.7-zip.org

schwarze_peston Does the EU's ban on RT also ban Tor?

Yes, exactly. If we are talking about media in general I can think of only very few examples that should be banned (like CP). I don't need anyone to decide what I'm allowed or not allowed to consume. If I want to study russian propaganda or american propaganda or "Mein Kampf" than that's what I should be able to do--without any censor.

schwarze_peston Firefox lost 50M users since 2019

2650 tabs open right now. I'm sure I had more open in the past. No major performance impact. If I click on the "List all tabs" button it takes a second to render the list. The PC is 5 years old, not even close being state of the art.

schwarze_peston Why can’t you buy a good webcam?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5MfenW7EqA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-a04A4Kf1M

schwarze_peston Humanities aren't a science and shouldn't be treated like one (2012)

At least my wikipedia tells me that.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studia_humanitatis#Humanities

schwarze_peston Goircd: Minimalistic simple IRC server written on Go

After IRC we switched to SILC for many years. It was quite nice and very IRCish (+ crypto), but after a long time without new development and maintenance, we went with matrix. Two years ago it was still a bit bumpy. A lot of work went into it and now it's mostly smooth sailing -- can recommend.

schwarze_peston Nvidia calling gaming PC owners to put their systems to work fighting Covid-19

No, you are misinformed. For rosetta there is neither a version 7.14.2 (that would be BOINC) nor are there any GPU projects.

schwarze_peston JSON as configuration files: please don’t (2016)

What about UCL? https://github.com/vstakhov/libucl

schwarze_peston Why is nuclear fusion so hard?

Wrong title. Fusion is easy, plasma physics isn't.

schwarze_peston Ask HN: How to self-learn electronics?

Because there are none. Please show me a name brand direct heating element soldering station for $100. I would like to buy one.

schwarze_peston Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum

> But I cant get my nightly to remember my logins.

Do you mean 'restore previous session'? It was moved from the start page to library and now to the hamburger menu. :/

schwarze_peston Firefox 56: Last Stop Before Quantum

Of course it's in nightly.

schwarze_peston Doomsday planning for less crazy folk

Sure...

High quality pocket knives: Just 2 examples out of many. Spyderco Para Military 2, Benchmade 940 Osborne.

Full-size multitool: Victorinox SwissTool Spirit

Small multitool: Get a few Victorinox Swiss Army Knives. One for every pocket ;)

Camping, backpacking, hunting, light-duty survival knife: Get a Mora knife. If you are a real "operator" get yourself a Bark River Bravo.

schwarze_peston Inside NASA’s Space Farming Labs

There is an aerospace engineer (ex NASA or Air Force IIRC) who youtubes the science he does in his backyard: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd8t8Dq8oZeAjGDx_87azBw

schwarze_peston St – A simple terminal implementation for X

> rxvt is super buggy

Which one are you using? AFAIK urxvt is the only maintained fork. I could be wrong.

> I would report this to the author but I don't see any way to do so.

http://suckless.org/community

schwarze_peston God's Number is 20 (2010)

> Why?

Probably: https://s23.org/wiki/23

schwarze_peston It's Python, Not Python 2, Not Python 3

> If you’re on the older version (“Python 2” as you say), you’re a decade behind, you should have upgraded at 2008.

Ok, I've stopped reading there.

schwarze_peston Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it

Apparently, NERD aka Nintendo European Research and Development developed a new emulator.

http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2016/08/nes_classic_edition...

schwarze_peston Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it

> Super Street Fighter II Turbo

That's not a SNES game. There is Street Fighter II, Street Fighter II Turbo, Super Street Fighter II and Street Fighter Alpha 2.

schwarze_peston Ask HN: Good sci-fi movies?

Forgot about that one... Not a movie, but besides the very well known TV shows (ST:TNG, BSG, Firefly, etc.) I can really recommend The Expanse.

schwarze_peston Ask HN: Good sci-fi movies?

Planet of the Apes (1968), Forbidden Planet (1956), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Brazil (1985), Contact (1997)

schwarze_peston The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus Review: Iterating on a Flagship

Apple has complete control over their OS. They can keep their kernel interfaces stable if they want.

Google can't do this with their current development model. They are not in charge of the Linux kernel interfaces. Let's say it's 2019, Android Quaker Oats is here and Google would like to bring it to the Pixel. Quaker Oats is based on Linux 5.0. Qualcomm develops their drivers out of tree and the latest kernel that gets support for the Snapdragon 821 is Linux 4.69. Well, tough luck, Google and Pixel owners, Peanut Butter Jelly Sandwich is all you get.

schwarze_peston The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus Review: Iterating on a Flagship

> I think Google is finally recognizing this, and attempting to replicate it with the Pixel.

They are still not there with Pixel. As long as they don't have their own SoC, there won't be proper long time support for their phones.

schwarze_peston OpenSSL Security Advisory - 26 Sep 2016

Do you know if there will be a video about this talk at OCaml 2016?

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Ejdy22/papers/ocaml-inside-a-drop...

I guess it would pop up there: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwRL68qZFfub1Ep1EScfmBw/vid...

schwarze_peston OpenSSL Security Advisory - 26 Sep 2016

There is https://github.com/mirleft/ocaml-tls which is used in MirageOS:

https://mirage.io/blog/introducing-ocaml-tls https://mirage.io/blog/ocaml-tls-api-internals-attacks-mitig... https://mirage.io/blog/why-ocaml-tls

schwarze_peston FreeBSD 11.0 amd64 binaries

People are doing this wrong for ages. It is brought up with every release. That will not change.

The only way to change it, is to adapt and change the release rollout process. If it would be really a big problem for the project, they would probably have done that a long time ago. Just my guess.

schwarze_peston How Doom 2016 Renders a Frame

You can refund it.

http://store.steampowered.com/steam_refunds/

schwarze_peston GNU Screen v.4.4.0

Of course it was true.

screen-4.0.3 2008-08-07

screen-4.2.0 2014-04-27

schwarze_peston FreeBSD 10.3 officially supported on Microsoft Azure

Hubbard wants FreeBSD to use launchd. Hubbard is in no position to enforce this if the project doesn't like it.