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From the article it's 'just' a 1x PCI-E 2.0 lane (theoretical 5Gbps throughput). This is all the VL805 expects so all that's broken out to it's pads and 'easily' accessible.

I've enjoyed Xubuntu 18.04 for the light-ness. I pull the taskbar down to the bottom of the screen, swap out the "Whisker menu" for the more classical "Applications Menu" and I'm happy.

It has been pointed out to me that this produces effectively a reskinned Windows98 experience, I'm not unhappy about that.

NB: Have not tried any 20.04 versions yet.

Towing a magnetic field generator behind a boat or aircraft is a common minesweeping technique. The generator is usually mounted on a floating 'sled' to maximise depth capability, but aircraft-mounted degaussing coils were used in minesweeping by the British in WWII.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeping

I think, I haven't looked at their implementation; they'll be an artifact of piping the encrypted/mis-decrypted stream into a video decoder. A lot of video coding techniques use variable-size blocks to describe changes to areas of the image, so it's reasonable that piping pseudo-random data into the decoder would produce some noticeable block shapes.

I'm happy to see this, however I'd be far more excited if I thought there was a chance of it landing in the upcoming Ubuntu 20.04 release - else I'll likely be waiting impatiently until 22.04 for server-side support.

My understanding has always been that e-recycling centers have to pay to responsibly dispose of the junk they collect / are given, and they fund this by sorting through it for any equipment that can be refurbished or cannibalised and sold for re-use. There's nothing nefarious about this.

The "DSLRKIT" splitters that are around on Amazon are reasonable in my experience, although the nominal output voltage varies by upto 10% between units.

The 802.3at-specced ones are a little more efficient than the af for the same power draw, I'm using them at home in a couple of applications where I'm feeding 802.3af but the power budget is cut a little close.

My understanding is that the 'gzip' directive applies to HTTP compression, which is only performed on the body of the response (both in HTTP & HTTPS), and not SSL/TLS compression which compresses the headers and so is vulnerable to the CRIME attack.

SSL/TLS compression has been disabled in nginx since 1.3.2[1]

[1] http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2012/00008...

Note that this is often done based on your IP address if you've not opted-in.

It's often a quirk when using CCC (Chaos Computer Club) IP addresses at events in other countries; you'll be looking at google.de for the first couple of days until google correlates enough location data from people that have opted-in to correct the IP location.

On the plus side it means that a personal VPN with no opted-in devices will give you your home-region services (ymmv).

They had very frequent issues with their payment processors.

The current account (now the only account as the prepaid beta programme has ended) runs on their internally developed payment processor, and has so far had minimal issues.

More information here: https://monzo.com/blog/2018/04/04/ending-prepaid/

It's often referred to as "two space stations flying in close proximity". One Russian, one American. 28VDC on the Russian side, 124VDC on the American.

Rumour has it that there's bolts with imperial thread on one end and metric on the other holding them together in the middle..

"On most networks, it wouldn't hurt if logging into the network for the first time took five more seconds ..."

This doesn't give the impression that this is well thought out. That would unacceptable to most modern consumers.

I help run one for the VHF/UHF Radio Bands, located in Surrey, UK.

http://websdr.suws.org.uk/

From the subtley linked 'Husbandry Manual': http://www.aszk.org.au/docs/lhisi.pdf

Section 3.2 (p8)

The population at Melbourne Zoo, being descended from a single pair, appeared to experience increasing symptoms of inbreeding over two generations until four adult males were introduced, descended from a second pair held at Insektus in Sydney, and their genes began to have an influence.

After new males were introduced, no further abnormalities were observed...