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  • black0ut@pawb.socialtoLinux@lemmy.ml•BSOD
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    11 days ago

    The theory is that the site just hosts a small JS snippet that locally decodes and shows you your logs.

    But yeah, now that you mention it, it would be trivial for the site to get and store the logs, and you wouldn’t even notice.


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    The QR code contains the panic stack trace text, directly encoded into a URL and a parameter. When you scan it, it goes to the website, which takes the parameter, decodes it and displays it as plain text.

    Personally, I think it’s a terrible idea compared to just showing the logs, because now you need internet and a phone with a camera to read a kernel panic log.

    Edit: yes, it was Systemd who implemented it.


  • Back at the beginning of times ethernet, you needed the crossover cables to connect routers to routers, switches to switches or end devices to end devices. They wouldn’t work with the straight cables.

    The standard still needs those cables to be crossover, but nowadays the port itself can detect what type of cable you connected, what type of cable it needs, and rewire itself to accept whatever you throw at it.

    The same thing happens when you directly connect 2 PCs together without a switch in the middle. But the ports also adapt themselves and work it out.

    You could also use a crossover cable, and your devices would figure it out too.


  • The funniest thing about this is that Apple used the same excuse to defend parts locking. And every other company that limited the user’s right to repair and upgrade their purchased products.

    It’s all BS. A company cares only about money, and they couldn’t care less about your product performing slightly less than optimally, if it ever does. Apple did it for profit, car manufacturers did it for profit, John Deere did it for profit and Raspberry Pi did it for profit.





  • Not actually, it depends on the projection.

    The most noticeable visual distortion of a map projection at street level isn’t actually size and area, but angle. While Mercator and Web Mercator distort both size and area, angle remains the same. But projections like Equal Earth distort angle to keep area and size the same.

    In practice, what this means is that with Web Mercator, you will see an intersection as 2 perpendicular lines crossing each other, leaving four 90° angles. But with Equal Earth, depending on the location, all those angles will be different, and the lines won’t be perfectly perpendicular.

    (of course, Web Mercator also has this issue, because it uses a perfect sphere instead of a spheroid for the projection, but the very slight difference isn’t really noticeable, and using a spheroid is more compute-heavy)

    Map navigation and satellite imagery are very specific cases where a Mercator or Mercator style projection are better suited, mainly because of the preservation of the angles. However, for any other case, Equal Earth is a very good projection, and I agree it should be used over Mercator. Especially in education.