ObsoleteNerd

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Comment · 5 years ago
That’s so cool. I had no idea this was a thing and it’s right up my alley.
Comment · 5 years ago
Basically there's 2 versions of the database file, the old (KDB) and the new (KDBX) which has more features/fields/etc.

For the clients, 2.x uses KDBX files, but is also compatible with the older KDB files, while 1.x can only use the older KDB files.

Comment · 5 years ago
I YouTube-dl anything/everything I think I might like to watch again. Tutorials, reference videos, music videos, you name it. Storage is cheap and YouTube has proven they’re not a place for long term storage.
Comment · 5 years ago
The fish big enough for google to care about are all protected from this stuff.

YouTube is completely and utterly broken for anyone smaller than “I make tens/hundreds of thousands for google and have a management team to handle my YouTube issues”

Comment · 5 years ago
I thought the exact same thing fwiw.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
Audacity is up there for me with those open source projects that deserve to go into some form of OSS Hall of Fame.

Audacity, VLC, Blender, KeePass, Inkscape, OBS, etc (there's many more but those are the ones I use regularly). Programs that have been around forever, are used by millions every day, and yet continue to do it (and do it damn well) just because they want to.

Comment · 5 years ago
Abandons NEW combustion engine development. They’re still developing their existing combustion engine platforms further and aren’t giving up on ICE.
Comment · 5 years ago
Absolutely. I gladly pay for YouTube Premium, Subscribe to Twitch streamers I like to remove ads there, and other services that do an ad-supported free tier than a premium ad-free tier.

Other replies to me are reading me wrong, I didn't say "I hate ads therefore I believe no one should ever use ads", I said "I hate ads and would happily pay for me to personally not see them". Telegram can fill their apps with ads if they want, for those that can't/won't pay, as long as there's an option for us to pay and not see them.

Comment · 5 years ago
I’ve used Telegram for years now, along with almost all my family and friends. I’m a huge fan of it, and it’s basically the only IM I use anymore (other than Signal with some tech friends).

If Telegram adds ads, rather than offer us a chance to just pay them, I’ll delete it instantly and push everyone I know to do the same.

I absolutely despise ads of any kind, and go to a decent amount of effort to block them from appearing on any device in my household. I’m totally happy to (and do) pay for useful services/content but if you don’t give me the choice of paying and just stick ads in it then it’ll disappear off my devices instantly.

Comment · 5 years ago
GCode Viewer is included with OctoPrint, it lets you preview the loaded GCode layer by layer before/while printing, and can sync to the print in realtime too.
Comment · 5 years ago
Ok that's fair, I hadn't seen that. They really should have more "real" photos/videos of it on their website then. A flashy website full of renders then a link to a Github that's 99% empty and full of "We're at Stage 0" etc just gave off lots of warning signs to me personally.
Comment · 5 years ago
Is this anything more than a pipedream at this point? I've seen it come up multiple times over the last year, and yet a quick skim through the Github shows that there's not really anything done other than some basic planning/brainstorming. Seems a bit early to be taking preorders.
Comment · 5 years ago
As someone who spends a fair few weeks a year in hospital, the idea of internal hospital security cameras being connected to the internet at all is absolutely fucking horrifying. It's people at their most vulnerable, and FTA it says it was even cameras aimed at the beds, not just hallways and public areas.

The fact that ANY internet-connected camera system can be considered HIPAA compliant is ridiculous. Anyone who's had any exposure to the internet in the last 20 years has seen dozens of stories of cloud-connected cameras being exposed online... baby cameras, security cameras, etc. Combine that with the number of big hacks increasing, and the idea of any internet-connected camera being "secure/private" should basically be laughed at.

What will happen? Nothing. The hackers will be blamed, not the managers/executives who thought this was a good idea in the first place, or the multiple tiers of people who are responsible for security in these companies.

Comment · 5 years ago
I had no idea they did that, and that's a really genius idea. I'd happily pay that for sites I like reading so I can pull the content in and read it how I want to rather than deal with the absolute dumpster-fire of a mess that the modern web is.

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