Moldova votes yes to joining EU by tiny margin
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 18m ago 80%

    Arguments against... Wheelbarrows of troubles from Putin...

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  • Repairable Bike Tips
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 29m ago 100%

    All bikes are repairable, some are more repairable than others. It all depends on how scared you are of getting your hands dirty and how confident you are that you can think your way out of problems.

    My point is that a bike can be really simple and, as such, anything should be possible.

    Modern innovations usually mean a set of tools beyond the basic bike set but the specials are available (bottom brackets are a particular case in point - you use to be able to get away with ponty things and gentle hammering - despite there being tools designed for the job now it's use our tool or forget it)

    So I would avoid anything too new - get a rat bike from a scrappy and learn how it works whilst rebuilding it.

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  • Which is your favorite app icon for Voyager?
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 4w ago 100%

    Planetary for me.

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  • when someone is considered trespassing, are they 'legally trespassing ' or 'illegally trespassing'
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 1mo ago 100%

    In the UK there is a split between England and Wales and Scotland. "southern" UK trespass is a civil offence. Scotland it is criminal.

    So in southern UK trespassers will most definitely not be prosecuted (the railway and power plant property are, iirc, the two exceptions because they have by-laws) but may be sued for damages, in Scotland they can be prosecuted.

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearBU
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    Tupperware, company known for its plastic containers, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 1mo ago 100%

    The products also have/had a lifetime guarantee - providing you could find a rep and they still made the product... Got a jug replaced after 40 years of hard service.

    It's also why the party model failed them - MLM for a product that never broke or wore out.

    Newer tupperware was microwave safe.

    Reps got a cut of party sales and if they made enough each month the could get other benefits as well (a company car, for example).

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  • Keyboard apps stop working correctly in Voyager comment section.
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 1mo ago 100%

    Sorry to spoil the party but this comment was typed on Microsoft swift key 9.10.44.22, Huawei p20 pro, Voyager 2.17.1, emui 12.0.0

    No bother with swipes (don't usually use them), backspace, predictive text - though word suggestions only appear when I stop the swipe.

    Eta: Voyager is from Play Store.

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  • Coffee alternatives: Start-ups claim beanless coffee more ethical
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 1mo ago 100%

    But, importantly, also without chicory....

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  • Montana man records shocking up-close footage of UFO
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 1mo ago 100%

    The "daily fail" is hardly a valid source for anything....

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  • The UK section of my local supermarket is taking the piss
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 2mo ago 100%

    Apart from having the flags the wrong way around, what's wrong?

    /s

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  • linux
    Linux 2mo ago
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    Where should I go to get help from experienced people on very specific issues that I can't find a solution for?
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 2mo ago 50%

    You are right, it doesn't happen with any other O/S except iOS where you have to pay people/Apple to fix it (or reset the OS) or Windows where the stock response is "reinstall the O/S"

    How valuable is the data on your laptop? Did you have it backed up? If so, stop worrying and just take the Windows approach. If not... Find someone local to you who is able to fix it (good luck with that...)

    As for the rest - you come over as someone who expects someone else to fix your shit for free with no information other than "waaaa it's stopped working"

    This may help How to as Smart Questions

    Fwiw, based on your brief description of symptoms, I would say your boot device file system is broken somehow. To fix you need to mount it on another booted OS and fsck it (however if it mounts, copy valuable data off onto other media, then fsck it) . How to do that is left to your powers of Google. Not warranting my response in any way.

    Best of luck.

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    Linux 2mo ago
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    Where should I go to get help from experienced people on very specific issues that I can't find a solution for?
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 2mo ago 100%

    First up - I know nothing about your specific problem. Let me add some pointers as to why you may be having difficulty...

    You need to provide way more detail than a screenshot (which shows nothing really) and "why is it broken?"

    What is the hardware, what is the boot device, what is the boot loader (and version), what does the boot loader config look like... There could be any number of things that stop the boot, including a corrupt boot file.

    No one is able to diagnose your problem from the information you have provided.

    If you are unwilling to grab a USB stick from a retailer, boot a different OS image and try some diags on your original file system you may well find people reluctant to help (for free...)

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  • BenM2023 BenM2023 2mo ago 100%

    After it is dumped and converted into a binary file, binwalk should (hopefully) recognize it as a filesystem such as squashfs/ubifs/jffs2

    That there, from your link, tells you what you need to know... Or at least points you in the right direction.

    Your dump will not have stuff like variable names in it - compilers don't tend to keep those unless it's a debug image; variable names are for meatsacks.

    Once you have converted the dump to a binary file (dunno how you would do that these days; there ought to be a tool but you could always write one... If that thought fills you with dread then you are probably in the wrong game) binwalk might tell you what file system the data is and you could mount that and have a peer at what's there.

    Sadly there is no recipe book on how to go about it - you just have to make educated guesses (make use of Google/other research tools/usenet/hardware hacker fora) and keep trying stuff and making notes till it works...

    Good luck!

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    ELI5: How Mr. Orange Skin can get ten contempt citations and still be out of jail. But if I get one let alone two I would pretty much be screwed?
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 2mo ago 66%

    Or at least the promise of money which may, or more likely may not, materialise.

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  • xkcd
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    xkcd #2963: House Inputs and Outputs
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 3mo ago 100%

    I use it on every phone handset at work... I guess it's the switch PoE not the pc mobo but the effect is the same. If you are talking pc mobo PoE I guess it could be handy if you had a PoE camera...

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  • Glory Road, from a period when SF covers were just magnificent...
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 4mo ago 100%

    Why doesn't my copy have that cover? Sigh. Those were the days.

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  • Starship survives reentry during fourth test flight
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 5mo ago 100%

    How did the flap and, indeed, starship have enough control authority after the burn up during re-entry, to complete the soft landing?

    The booster done good as well of course...

    Flipping awesome outcome... Beers all around.

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  • How does SecureErase work?
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 5mo ago 100%

    One thing other answers have missed is that some ssds encrypt data before writing and obviously after reading (this prevents a swap the storage controller type attack) A secure erase on such a device consists of changing the read/write key. Takes milliseconds. Irrevocable (unless you find a way to read previous contents of the key storage)

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  • OpenAI Is ‘Exploring’ How to Responsibly Generate AI Porn
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 6mo ago 96%

    drawings do not exploit anyone.

    Hmmm. I think you will find in many jurisdictions that they are treated as if they do.

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  • UK Government support for greening Port Talbot steelworks significantly lower than other European states
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 6mo ago 50%

    Is this Westminster just being Tory or is it Wales bashing?

    I suspect that if you look at all (! There aren't many, if any, left) UK steel works they all have less spent on them by the Govt. than similar plant in other countries...

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  • ‘Simply mind-boggling’: world record temperature jump in Antarctic raises fears of catastrophe
  • BenM2023 BenM2023 7mo ago 95%

    Temperature is not scalar

    Messers Rankine, Kelvin and even Fahrenheit would beg to differ... Temperature is scalar, however it's effects on living things is generally not mostly owing to chemistry.

    The claim that a 40° C jump in Sub-Zero temperatures is tolerable, but wouldn't be in the UK or whatever they're saying in this article... That's nonsense

    Au contraire my dear fellow. For a human, the article is entirely correct. A rise of 40° C in a particularly cold place is indeed tolerable for a human. A similar rise in, say, the UK today would put the temperature at 52° C - hotter than Death Valley on a well above average day and considerably less tolerable.

    Of course a single recorded rise in temperature isn't a good indication of climate...

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  • voyagerapp
    Voyager BenM2023 8mo ago 100%
    Scrolling bug

    Guys Voyager native app on Android. Anyone else got an issue when scrolling through a thread the rendering flicks all over the place? It's random and I can't think of a way to screenshot it. It's like the replies get drawn in one position then jump to where they should be. Sometimes, if I catch it right, sliding up and down with my finger flashes the post/comment on and off... Like I say, hard to describe properly.

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    voyagerapp
    Voyager BenM2023 11mo ago 97%
    Feature request?

    Guys Dunno if I am missing something, but I notice that many times a post is cross posted to many communities, resulting in the All feed being full (well not really full but you know what I mean) of what are, effectively, reposts... Does voyager have a "hide posts with the same title in different communities" setting somewhere or is that a feature request?

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    Guys We have an XYZ DaVinci 1.0 Pro, connected by USB to a Windows 10 PC (latest updates etc.) The drivers are all correctly installed (both cameras show up in device manager, the printer shows up in device manager as both a printer and a USB-COM3 device). The printer has Firmware 1.2.3 installed (as recommended by XYZ.... not sure if that's a good thing) - XYZ Printing does not detect the printer as online; - Cura does not detect the printer as online; - Pronterface does not detect the printer as online; - In a massive turn-up for the books.... Microsoft 3d Builder *does* see the printer on line and will start a print. In device manager the com port seems to be set at 9600,8,n,1. Changing this to (say) 115200 breaks printing in 3d Builder. Changing Pronterface to use 9600 baud makes no difference to connecting to the printer. I have changed the USB lead, tried different ports on the PC yadda yadda yadda but no change at all - only Microsoft 3d Builder will see the printer online and print. Anyone got any idea at all why everything except Microsoft 3d Builder can't see the printer?

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