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Comment · 5 years ago
Is this similar to Enigma decoding - whereby the 'encoding' key was reasonably predictable and not random due to new keys being required to be generated regularly?
Comment · 5 years ago
Have a look into Ruckus with their local zone director offering.
Comment · 6 years ago
Is it not both?
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Comment · 6 years ago
I tried to use imgur on mobile to upload a random image today but couldn't[FireFox]

Using FF on my desktop worked fine.

Comment · 7 years ago
Fond memories of wondering why WiFi occassionally stopped working - eventually correlated it with the use of the microwave.
Comment · 7 years ago
So a fake deepfake - not sure where this is going to end.
Comment · 7 years ago
There was a time when you had to know how to write HTML - also FTP - oh and Fax letterheaded paper to register a domain

Looking back now - MS Frontpage was way ahead of its time dealing with this abstraction of generating html - you saw the source change which the browser (unfortunatley just ie - but that's what we had) would render when you made an edit

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Comment · 7 years ago
Ah getting my first modem under linux working - the autovtest was dialling 999999 - I got a call back as soon as I managed to hangup. Explained to the 999 operator I was just testing Linux....

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