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nemo8551 commented on What Microchip doesn't (officially) tell you about the VSC8512   serd.es/2025/07/04/Switch... · Posted by u/ahlCVA
nemo8551 · 2 months ago
I adore this series and other deep dives like it.

If anyone can suggest others I would be grateful.

nemo8551 commented on GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet   cybercultural.com/p/geoci... · Posted by u/cheeaun
andvaribekho · 6 months ago
I loved Sailor moon in the 90s and made My first website in notepad in 1997 about my fav Sailor scout

https://web.archive.org/web/19991001193925/http://www.geocit...

It was so exciting to find a new comment in your guestbook

nemo8551 · 6 months ago
My first website was effectively a wiki on different races from Star Trek.

It was plain text.

With a few pages eventually having an image and it was just stiff said about them in the original series, next generation and eventually ds9.

It was terrible but I miss the excitement of people getting in touch with the other details and episode references I had missed out or didn’t know about.

nemo8551 commented on Apple Passwords’ generated strong password format   rmondello.com/2024/10/07/... · Posted by u/tambourine_man
mr_mitm · 10 months ago
> "Summer2024!" is perfectly fine, if you use it for exactly one service. Frankly, "1235" is probably fine. No one is out there brute-forcing passwords.

Respectfully, I disagree. "Summer2024!" is probably the second password I'd try after the username itself if I have to guess a password. Use it in a password spraying attack on a company with 500 users and you will get a few hits, I promise.

nemo8551 · 10 months ago
My old work used to give a default month-year-org name and an exclamation mark. The majority of people who still used it was insane. LinkedIn was a treasure trove for logging into accounts.
nemo8551 commented on A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair   tegowerk.eu/posts/bicycle... · Posted by u/victorstanciu
matsemann · a year ago
Yup. I have coworkers driving to work complain to me about some cyclist they met on the way to work. Like, why..? I'm not responsible for that just because I also bike. It's not like I harass every driver I meet at work just because some driver killed a child again in the city.

And all their interactions with stupid drivers? Quickly forgotten a moment later.

nemo8551 · a year ago
I’m a mountain biker, I even internally complain about some road cyclists.

The ones who take up far more of the road than necessary, granted because they can, and slow you down prior to traffic lights meaning you hit a red.

But when you hit a red, they swerve onto the pavement, across the junction with the pedestrians and then onwards beyond the red light while I’m still sat at the red. All while not dismounting from their bike.

In the UK, where I live they should stop at the light and not pretend to be a pedestrian. But they’re also entitled to the road, but when they ride in a manner that means I would have to veer well into the oncoming lane to get around them it’s just not worth it. A wee bit if there’s no traffic is fine, but not too much.

nemo8551 commented on Apple reverses course on death of Progressive Web Apps in EU   appleinsider.com/articles... · Posted by u/astlouis44
refulgentis · a year ago
The histrionical descriptions of other people's takes are like nails on chalkboard and kinda gross. (bloody murder?)

No one thought removing them in the EU was the first step to removing them everywhere.

Jen Simmons isn't a "rock star."

Hiring someone with a lot of Twitter followers to do something doesn't preclude the company from stopping doing something.

I think everyone over 30 in tech has seen that first hand. Couple right off the top of my head for Apple: Graeme Devine, Max Howell...

In general, it is important for discussions to have nuance. I'm sure you've seen some un-nuanced discussions that I haven't. However, escalating rhetoric to condemn lack of nuance in others rhetoric should be reconsidered.

nemo8551 · a year ago
Gene Simmons however is a rock star.
nemo8551 commented on Botanical gardens can cool city air by an average of 5°C   newatlas.com/environment/... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
jimkleiber · 2 years ago
From minimum parking requirements to minimum park requirements :-)

Ok maybe minimum forest requirements is more accurate but had to do it

nemo8551 · 2 years ago
I like the first one, down with minimum parking requirements we want more requirements for minimum parks!

RaRa.

nemo8551 commented on TOTP Codes in the Terminal   jpmens.net/2024/02/23/tot... · Posted by u/sea-gold
roydivision · 2 years ago
TOTP will forever mean Top Of The Pops[0] for me first. I'm reassured that I'm not the only one. Thursday nights have never been the same.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_of_the_Pops

nemo8551 · 2 years ago
I scrolled down hoping to see this mentioned.

If it wasn’t I was going to bring it up, faith in lip synced music telly reconfirmed.

nemo8551 commented on Amazon blocks long-running FireTV capability, Breaking apps with no warning   aftvnews.com/amazon-block... · Posted by u/thunderbong
mh- · 2 years ago
Wow, thanks for pointing that out - didn't realize I'd had these ATV 4Ks since 2017. They feel a bit sluggish.. probably just that everything else got faster.

Time to upgrade.

nemo8551 · 2 years ago
On this I will say they are far more snappy than they used to be, battery life is great if you ask me.

But in real terms I moved my home streaming app of choice to infuse. Between that app and the Apple TV 4K I’ve had since just before they moved the remote to usb c it’s been great.

I will say that it is tucked inside a cupboard and hooked up to Ethernet but aside from that it’s leaps and bounds ahead of the other solutions I looked at /tried over the last few years.

nemo8551 commented on Developers revolt over Apple's new app store rules   wired.com/story/developer... · Posted by u/thesuperbigfrog
arthie · 2 years ago
Apple does not allow different pricing
nemo8551 · 2 years ago
I think they do, my kids play Roblox and Minecraft and buying in app is more expensive (probably to the tune of the Apple fees) than buying it outwith the App Store.

I don’t think app developers were allowed to show that it was x price in the app via Apple and x-fees via the developers own site.

nemo8551 commented on How French was medieval England?   historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/drdee
lynguist · 2 years ago
English beefsteak -> French bifte(c)k -> Turkish biftek -> Greek bifteki
nemo8551 · 2 years ago
Thanks, that makes a good deal of sense.

I guess there’s probably been a few places called bifteki around the uk and other countries then.

u/nemo8551

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