Comment opengapps.ORG (Score 1) 167
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IIRC NASA monitors the construction of launchers used on their missions. So, technically the same as SpaceX's other Falcon 9 boosters, but different (and thus vested) because NASA has spent money to audit or whatever the construction of this specific one.
I run Windows on my laptop. Shocking around here, I know.
But there are some tasks that work out better on Linux. Ubuntu is brutal in VirtualBox, or at least it was, when I first went down the Mint path. I think I was following a tutorial for Ubuntu, so I ended up trying Mint.
I still have that VM around and fire it up a few times a year for whatever. Also works pretty well on an ancient laptop I keep around.
They also allegedly dragged tricked a bank with US operations (HSBC related) into violating the Iran embargo by financing the sales into Iran. Apparently that's classed as fraud.
Everyone should try https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (no affiliation). It's scary how your old password that you used on some random website a decade ago has been leaked. Hopefully most "big" sites have moved to individually salted passwords so future password leaks will be less common or severe...
I'm not sure if it was Facebook or Google or both, you don't technically match on email address. They technically match on hashes of email addresses to protect your "privacy". Look out for that doublespeak when it comes to advertisers online...
I bought a web security cam for $15 on sale over the holidays. I can't figure out how they can retail for so cheap. It has a HiSilicon "camera" SoC. From what I saw with a quick web search, this SoC does everything in the device. Basic image capture stuff, handles whatever API the vendor app to connect to it needs, full recording to the SD card, etc. Apparently if I felt like jerry-rigging a cable, I could telnet (or SSH?) and get a (busybox?) shell. I'm sure there's enough processing in it to handle all kinds of stuff..
I was a light user of Evernote for years - IIRC, it's what I moved to after leaving my old Palm Pilot. I only used maybe a dozen plain text files. Eventually I started using Google Docs for larger documents that were shared and all that, and it just made sense to consolidate away from Evernote. Plus, I think they tried to start charging?
Not sure how foreign TD is for Americans - they have more branches in the US than Canada now! Not sure how metrics other than branch counts compare...
The electric moving platforms eliminates car exhaust, and therefore, greatly reduces the ventilation requirements of the tunnels. Which, helps allow them to be smaller in diameter. And it all feeds into a cheaper tunnel. Or so goes the theory.
My thought: Even if the ORIGINAL buyer doesn't upgrade, having the bigger battery would be useful for resale. In fact, if it was a lease from Tesla, they could unlock the full capacity for "free" and resell the car at the higher capacity.
I gave up on Dropbox after multiple times it would lock a new newly downloaded file from Chrome and I'd lose the file. Chrome (at least at the time) would download files to a temporary name, and then rename. Silly hair trigger Dropbox would lock the temp file before Chrome could rename it and then I'd end up with a zero byte file.
Additionally, Dropbox would have this incessant inability to properly detect changed files - I still have a multitude of "conflicted" files in my folders. I had ONE computer connected to this Dropbox account. There were no other updates to conflict.
Don't even get me started on the stupid plugin thing they shoved into Office and I couldn't permanently turn off.
They've been at this for 10 years? I don't get it.
Hmmm. I haven't looked at this... but it sounds like it'll break any host names I've set up locally (for development) and not published to global DNS...
Hackers of the world, unite!