markstos

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

They paid hundreds of dollars to make the bike slightly lighter then added unnecessary weight to it.

Still, to each their own.

Sometimes you might see a combo like this on a touring build, where you choose the Ti frame because it’s light and sturdy and then add a kickstand because it’s useful for stabilizing a fully loaded bike when parking.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

Welp, vegan it is then. L

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Looks like a more cramped version of the RadRunner.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes. DMZ on router 1 exposes router 2 IP to internet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

By the life of the party by bringing crossover cable, allowing you run ethernet directly from one laptop to the other for some intimate social networking. Keeps the LAN uncongested for everyone else.

Nice ethernet hardware will detect if you cable is not a crossover cable in this situation and reverse the pin mappings for you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's all fun and games until someone brings a USB 2.0 thumb drive.

The file could transferred over the LAN and the network de-saturated faster the file could be copied off a USB 2 drive.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

This site seems to a content farm, recycling other sources for this.

It makes several references to WXYZ, which did original reporting on it. Their story is here:

https://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/controversial-melvindale-lt-fends-off-claim-of-excessive-force-involving-taser

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was reading about trail etiquette and saw the recommendation that if you must walk on muddy trails, walk straight through the mud, not around it. Otherwise, some trail sections will get wider and wider, disturbing more of forest.

People are not always prepared to walk through mud, though. And sometimes a small re-route around a low spot is a stable change and not ever-widening.

Still, the idea got me thinking. Now on trail runs I’m more inclined to plow straight through.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Reminds me of the headphone company that got caught stuffing foam into one of their headphones and selling them for less.

It was cheaper that actually making two different models…

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

No, this is all happening in the browser, there are no other image manipulation tools being called.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just tested the new release. Consider defaulting PNGs to convert to JPEGs unless they have a PNG-specific feature like transparency. Lots of screenshots are initially PNGs, but not because they need any PNG-specific features. Consider: In a test screenshot, it compressed 3.4% with the default 80% setting and PNG->PNG, but for PNG->JPG, it compressed 84.6%.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

MCP sounds like a standardized way for AI clients to connect to data sources, the Model Context Protocol.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/model-context-protocol

It sounds like it may compete some with Google’s A2A protocol, which is for AI agent to agent communication.

Both share the same goal of making services easier for AI to consume.

 

Keyboards with custom firmware supports keycodes like XF86Copy and XF86Paste. These are great for having truly global copy/paste shortcuts that also work in apps like terminals where "Control-V" and "Control-C" aren't supported by default.

I advocated that these keycodes be supported in a web browser, Qutebrowser. The author of that project, Florian Bruhin liked the idea and submitted a patch upstream to the QT framework, which is used by many apps associated with the KDE Linux desktop. And about 5 years later, apps will be packaged with QT 6.10 that include the fix.

Here’s the change description.

This adds support for the Help, Open, Close, Save, New, Cut, Copy, Paste, Undo, Redo, Back, Forward, Refresh, ZoomIn, ZoomOut, Find, Settings, Exit, and Cancel keys to the default keyboard shortcuts.

The bug report:

https://bugreports.qt.io/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/QTBUG-93269

 

It is reportedly plug-n-play for basic features, but for more advanced features, something like this project would need to be patched to add support for the camera.

https://github.com/samliddicott/guvciew-meet4k

 
 

If you have been using an ergonomic mechanical keyboard for more than year, let us know which keyboard it is, and whether you plan to keep to keep using it for at least another year or if there's another keyboard you are considering trying instead.

 

I have a Logitech C920 and am looking to upgrade. Something suitable for streaming.

Some annoyances with the Logitech: sometimes autofocus fails and poor reproduction of blacks. Ex: Lack of detail when a black cat is on screen.

I already have a nice mic-- the webcam doesn't need one.

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