r00ty

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 39 points 1 day ago

Are you sure it was dot pitch and not dot clock?

Dot pitch on a crt might make the image look bad (trying to draw onto the shadow mask) but I doubt it would damage it.

Setting an invalid dot clock could damage some crts. But most of the modern (read from mid 90s on) would just go to the power save mode when they got a clock they couldn't use. The warning did still remain on the xfree86 configuration guides though.

Showing my age perhaps.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I upgrade every 4 years or so, and that's really only because it's also when battery life usually declines.

These days the only improvement seems to be memory, storage and camera. Somehow I feel some of those will stagnate.

But the new Samsung s28, it's totally a bigger number than what you have now.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was typing on a phone. So might well have been that. But thanks, I might well have actually typed the wrong one anyway.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I've read about people getting black market powders for certain GLP-1 agonists for some years now. They problems with the unregulated versions begin with unreliable concentrations causing serious complications, to outright being the wrong drugs. They were generally delivered as concentrated powders you needed to prepare yourself.

So I'd be pretty weary about trying any non licensed versions of any drugs let alone those you need to self inject.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 1 week ago

That's a tough one. But if they're going to operate in a way where they don't want Venezuelan authorities to know they're there (I got the impression they were making a show of force so...) they do need to inform the atc of friendly countries operating nearby so they can ensure flight plans keep them apart.

But, I don't know what (if any) procedures they have for this kind of thing. But to me it makes sense, you either close the nearby airspace (kinda makes it obvious something is going on), inform friendly atc so they can keep squawking and non squawking traffic apart. Neither just makes aviation extremely dangerous.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

To the best of my knowledge the ads-b transponders operate with the same interface as previous transponders. That is they can be active, stand by or off. Commercial airliners should never turn them off in the air, but they do have the ability to.

For military aircraft this requirement is almost certainly only going to apply when in "friendly airspace" and at altitudes with commercial traffic. Especially when not on an operational mission.

For truly secretive missions they will likely get blanket clearances in friendly airspace to travel at specific altitudes so they can travel transponder off while avoiding the commercial traffic.

But I'm not an expert by any means.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

More than 51 years if there's one of those updates that will randomly decide to overwrite the UEFI removing your bootloader entirely :P

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 25 points 2 weeks ago

I'm going to give the fifa peace prize the same amount of respect I'd give a Nobel football world cup. Less even.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well I mean it's true if you also belive trigger's broom in only fools and horses is still the same broom.

Probably only older people from the UK will get the reference. Sorry.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 6 points 3 weeks ago

Ahh, that's the modern terror.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 10 points 1 month ago

I would say, now it's learning that actually sticking your head in the sand is only ever a delaying tactic. But, if it DID learn that, it'd mean it has surpassed us already.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 1 month ago (10 children)

We do run .deb/.rpm files from random websites though.

In general with Linux sites with deb/rpm/etc files would usually include hashes for the genuine versions etc. Not to say the actual author of these could be malicious.

And you mentioned flatpak too. Appimage is quite popular too, and afaik that doesn't have any built-in sandboxing at all.

Even with sandboxing, they generally need access to save files/load files etc from the host environment. Where are these connections defined? Could a malicious actor for example grant their malicious appimage/flatpak more access? Genuine questions, I've never looked into how these work.

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