Peter Bindels

> the same ones who block highways and set fires.
the ones who block 130km/h highways with tractors leading to a fatal crash that do not get arrested, not the ones blocking a 50km/h highway that keep getting arrested by the police.

2026-08-16 17:56:50 UTC

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if only they were cars, it has place for those

2026-04-06 06:58:52 UTC

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Statuary? Did you mean statutory or do I have a new word to learn?

2025-11-25 13:17:00 UTC

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> these devices include powerful network discovery and remote access tools like Tcpdump and Netcat.
They may also use sockets and TLS. How is this part newsworthy?

2025-11-19 19:42:11 UTC

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> former nuclear power plant disaster site,
note that it's such a tiny "disaster" that it's barely known outside of the US or nuclear-disaster-aficionados.

2025-09-30 19:25:43 UTC

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Can I ask that we replace the MFs with nice people? But yes, we need diverse backgrounds.

2025-09-25 12:25:41 UTC

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so outsource all the liability and then you can just get the government to bail you out when shit does happen, while all the shareholders and directors get paid big bucks for "saving money".
Got it.

2025-09-10 20:33:42 UTC

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No AI was used in the making of this image (because it's a Portal 2 screenshot)
https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/115/181/904/602/679/101/original/b43e524447b02169.png

2025-06-09 19:20:15 UTC

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Practical advice: USB-C charger can deliver power in a variation of voltages and currents. The charger and device communicate before the charger provides power, and the charger is limited by what it can do, what the target device wants, and what the cable supports. The most basic charger will do 5V 1A (ie, charge a phone slowly), while the fastest charger will do 48V 5A (ie, charge an E-bike in 3 hours).
You want to have a charger that supports at least the wattage your device wants. You probably have a 45W device, which will likely be 15V * 3 A. So find a 45W or 65W charger (which will be 15V * 3A, or 20V * 3.25A), and the device will instruct the charger to deliver the appropriate voltage.
This works for 95%+ of devices. You don't need to worry about toasting your computer with a too powerful charger. The biggest problem you should face is a device that doesn't want to charge from a particular charger, or that charges too slowly to be useful.
My wife has a 120W phone charger we use for laptops; we use her 100W laptop charger to charge phones, tablets and laptops, and we have a generic 65W charging station that can show exactly the voltage and current a device is taking that we use to charge whatever we need to charge.

2025-05-09 17:55:10 UTC

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We should just call this period of the planet, the 2010+ time in which everything successful is being turned to shit, the enshittocene.

2025-04-18 18:18:17 UTC

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There's this whole field of "compiled languages" that come with a compiler that does that for you.

2025-03-19 14:15:58 UTC

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> Why could images requires JS? The fuck is wrong with "modern" web "devs"?
I had a corporate website that required us to use IE6 and ActiveX support on that website. I looked up what it was actually using ActiveX for that made me unable to use a decent browser.
They used ActiveX to load DirectX, and DirectX to grayscale the login button.

2025-03-17 19:40:00 UTC

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if he made any concrete statement people would claim it's wrong

2025-03-17 08:42:11 UTC

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My daughter wanted a new phone because her current phone was too out of date for some software. It could run it easily, but the manufacturer didn't care to update Android any more, and the app makers didn't care to support older Android versions. (for the Android haters, it's a phone from 2017, but still perfectly usable otherwise)

2025-03-16 19:06:25 UTC

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If you want a computer comparable to your cell phone, it's what in the movie Hackers was described as "Supercomputers, like you use to do physics or look for oil".
(source: Hackers is from sept 1995, most recent supercomputer list then was from https://www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/1995/06/ which lists the best one as doing ~200GFlop/s - which is about half of the current top mobile phone CPU. Alternatively take an Adreno 610 mobile gpu, which runs about 300GFLOP/s - which you'd get in an Oppo A53 from 5 years ago for about $200)

2025-02-06 07:48:09 UTC

@npub1kwa…e0nj what's the status of fido2 key support on web browsers on GrapheneOS? All websites seem to say it requires some kind of Google whitelisting, which is very likely irrelevant on Graphene, but it doesn't seem to work either.

2025-02-02 21:58:46 UTC

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https://www.nu.nl/314382/video/israelisch-leger-blaast-gebouwen-op-in-westelijke-jordaanoever.html I did see it ... but in the usual "let's not comment on how this kills people's livelyhood but instead only explain that the IDF did this".

2025-01-31 14:47:26 UTC

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that wasn't a parody article?

2025-01-31 09:38:10 UTC

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That's just capturing reality with more accuracy than normal people tend to capture, because most of those cases don't often happen they are still actually relevantly different.
1. There's toilet paper
2. There's no toilet paper, the roll is empty
3. The roll is gone, but the roll holder is empty
4. There is no place to even put a roll if you had one, but there is a toilet
5. The toilet is being rebuilt and the place to mount the roll holder does not currently exist
Most people only care about 1 or not 1 when they ask "is the toilet paper out"... but we kinda need the other details, so we don't try to screw a roll holder into nothingness and crash the system.

2025-01-23 07:44:23 UTC

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Chunks of iron are not great, chunks of iron with a core of gunpowder are problematic.

2025-01-13 17:07:40 UTC

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yeah... speaking of, recently tried to find something with Links. Turns out both Google and DDG do not work with Links any more - I had to use Bing.

2025-01-07 20:57:03 UTC

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How does that drag along everybody I need to talk with?

2025-01-07 08:16:40 UTC

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Remember that losses in wires are related to the square of power used, and heating water 3x faster will heat your wires 9x more. Maybe not a great idea for saving one minute.

2025-01-07 07:39:43 UTC

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The comparison is fair, those are the common plugs found in these areas. I don't believe that most US kitchens will have a spare NEMA 14-50 outlet for a kettle - at best they'll have one for the cooktop, similar to the European 3-phase one I showed below.

2024-12-30 15:18:40 UTC

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I still remember having to write essays. They were being graded on style and how much they agreed with what the author had as conceptions. Original ideas and conjectures were not welcome, and any deviations in style were definite no-nos.
The best I could do was copy/paste from the internet. The absolute worst idea was to provide a well-reasoned essay with a grounded opinion opposite to what the teacher had.
Can you blame people in this environment from using GenAI to write those essays? There is nothing of real value expected in them.

2024-12-19 09:33:04 UTC

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*AHEM*
I do believe that most current monarchies have much less money, and more control from the public over what happens.

2024-12-17 20:47:17 UTC

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I'm not sure.
I like to make everything myself, so it's a mix of "awesome to see my friends make this" and "I wish there was a gap for a tool like this so I would be motivated to go make it".

2024-12-17 15:31:16 UTC

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you say that like appeasement ever failed before.

2024-12-17 13:18:49 UTC

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The problem of following people with similar interests is that they will nerdsnipe things away from you. If I had known the format existed but without this tool, I'd be tempted to write this.
Thanks!

2024-12-16 14:48:09 UTC

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I'd heard they were really large on Windows, but I wasn't expecting it to be >10% of code size on Linux or Mac. That really surprises me.

2024-12-16 14:46:17 UTC

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that is normal!?

2024-12-16 11:32:16 UTC

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Although the split isn't that simple. There's more raw code than the Windows exe is alone - 38MB of .text segment - but it also ships with 5.7MB of exception handling tables (!??!), and it includes a nice 147MB of debug information in there. Interesting that there's more debug data on Windows but the executable's smaller.

2024-12-16 11:28:18 UTC

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Phew, on Linux there's no debug file. However...
-rwxrwxr-x 1 pebi pebi 313364948 dec 2 11:38 factorio

2024-12-10 11:38:46 UTC

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I'm mostly surprised the more common things of "damaged equipment still used", "power extensions used beyond rating" and "outdated house wiring" are not listed.

2024-12-03 22:02:37 UTC

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What about gas boiler longevity compared to its usage over time? Does it improve with less use, but only high-powered use mid winter, does it worsen, ... ?

2024-11-10 19:02:06 UTC

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so an area of 10 x 10 km, that is 10^8 sq meter. You want 10^12 W, so you need 10^4 W or 10000 W per square meter. You get 1361 per sq meter at 1AU, so your distance should be sqrt(1361/10000) AU.

2024-10-28 09:11:41 UTC

What if Sisyphus only had to push the boulder up a hill that would take 15 minutes tops, but got to spend an eternity being interrupted by extroverts and meetings?

2024-10-17 22:53:08 UTC

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did nobody tell you about the Facebook app that hacked into one Samsung phone's loader to change their 5MB table 8MB of space so their bloat could load?

2024-10-04 08:55:11 UTC

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Right, the one where you have to fully dox yourself, or sign by logging in to your country's online registration system that fully doxes yourself.
I wonder why there's not much more support logged in the system owned by the governments, controlled by the people with enough money to get elected / support candidates, that requires people to fully identify themselves to exactly that same system.

2024-09-04 10:18:22 UTC

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It's my PDF reader test case, for a reason. But +1, no reader should fail on a file with over 10000 pages.

2024-08-28 09:26:52 UTC

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what about "gender cop"?