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NickBuseyon No amount of alcohol is good for the heart, says World Heart Federation

This sounded wrong to me, so I did a simple search. This study from the NIAA of the NIH seems to suggest what you said is incorrect. https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh...

Most Americans do drink.

NickBuseyon How did LastPass master passwords get compromised?

Just one of the many reasons I self host my password manager. Bitwarden hosted via HomelabOS.

NickBuseyon Show HN: Factorio Blueprint Visualizer

Sounds fun! Here's someone else's attempt: https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/64g4ss/smallest_r... You might also like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dzQge6pe2o

NickBuseyon Show HN: KmCaster – display keyboard and mouse events on-screen

Looks good! Keycastr is a similar project for macOS, I use it while streaming coding work. https://github.com/keycastr/keycastr

NickBuseyon Ketchum, Idaho, Has Plenty of Available Jobs, but Workers Can’t Afford Housing

Do you have any idea what it can cost to move in the US? Saving up first and last months rent, plus a security deposit, then finding a new rental who's start lines up somewhat closely with the end of your current lease, then renting a moving van and spending money on a move that will take multiple days of travel/hotels etc. Not to mention things like paying for a new driver's license, new registration on your car, having to move all your insurance over to places with potentially higher rates. It's not as easy as just 'hop in the car and find a new place'.

NickBuseyon Abolish High School (2015)

I was walking down a hallway once in middle school and a kid I had never even talked to just walked up and punched me in the ear. Just an idea of the random violence that happens, as well as the psychological warfare campaigns these kids are capable of launching. It is definitely not just a movie trope.

NickBuseyon Ultima VIII – How to destroy a gaming franchise in one easy step

There are plenty of great, free Ultima Online servers to play on. No need to stop playing!

NickBuseyon Functorio

I see this kind of comment often and it confuses me. If you didn't enjoy the process, why did you even bother finishing it?

Further, how was launching your first rocket anything other than rewarding?

NickBuseyon Functorio

You absolutely can check factories into version control. They are exported as 'blueprints' and many blueprint management sites exist. One such example: https://factorioprints.com/

NickBuseyon 'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens

http://dev.null.org/psychoceramics/collection/bronner.html

It is definitely not just "all love".

NickBuseyon 'New car smell' is the scent of carcinogens

You mean the same Dr. Bronner's who's label is completely covered with religious insanity? Thanks, but I think I'll pass on supporting such a company.

Edit: Link to the full text for those who feel the need to down vote my shopping preferences. http://dev.null.org/psychoceramics/collection/bronner.html

NickBuseyon SARS-CoV-2 concentrations and virus-laden aerosol distributions in outdoor air

One day after LA county shuts down all outdoor restaurant dining, with no relief/bailout for service industry businesses or workers in sight.

https://la.eater.com/platform/amp/2020/11/22/21590433/corona...

NickBuseyon Arecibo telescope, on the brink of collapse, will be dismantled

I'm so bummed. I was there, almost, once. Went to Puerto Rico, drove all the way there, tiny winding road, took half the day just getting there. Turns out they were closed. Despite calling ahead and their phone message just listing the hours (which we were within).

So, after all that I got to see a fence with a closed sign.

NickBuseyon Factorio 1.1 is getting close

No. But it sure is satisfying watching a new belt line get loaded for the first time.

NickBuseyon Ask HN: Microsoft blocked my outlook.com account for using a VPN. Any ideas?

Wireguard

NickBuseyon Ask HN: Microsoft blocked my outlook.com account for using a VPN. Any ideas?

I have been hosting my own email for a while now. It has it's quirks, and outbound can be hard, but for just getting password reset emails and the like, it does everything I need it to. I use my own domain, with a catch-all for everything on the domain, that way I can just make up emails on the fly. 'nick.apps.hackernews@mydomain.com' is a pretty common set up for me.

I deploy the mailu service to a small home server using HomelabOS, configured to use a $5 Digital Ocean droplet as a bastion server to prevent needing to mess with dynamic DNS, port forwards, and firewall circumvention.

NickBuseyon Optical tracking and laser-induced mortality of insects during flight

I work near a restaurant kitchen, and they spend much of the day with a flyswatter in hand getting rid of these pests. I have actually verbalized this idea to the chefs in the past, I'm glad to see it actually being done. If made cheap enough this could be a real solution to keeping bugs away without resorting to nasty chemicals or netting everywhere.

This has the potential to be a big win for not only comfort, but health and safety as well. Less bugs in kitchens = less chance for food getting infected or worse yet, having eggs laid in it.

NickBuseyon Ansible-Defined Homelab

"Ansible-Defined Homelab" describes exactly what HomelabOS does. https://homelabos.com/

NickBuseyon I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

Thanks! Years now, though the project that has gained traction lately is HomelabOS. https://homelabos.com/

Not really serving industry, self-hosters and home-labbers.

NickBuseyon I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

I don't have the feeling that I have to give something in return. It's a voluntary donation, people can donate, or not. They can cancel at any time. I don't feel any pressure to 'deliver' anything. They're paying because they want to reward the value I have provided, and likely will continue to provide. If I stop providing it, I assume people will slowly cancel their donations, which is how things should work.

If anything the fun-level has gone way up because a community has formed around one of my projects, which has been great.

NickBuseyon I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

I hit $500/yr on Patreon this week for my open source work! :)

Nice work, I should think about having paid only videos as well, I believe I can do that pretty easily on Patreon. Good tips in here.

NickBuseyon BountySource have turned evil – alternatives?

Many of us prefer using open source software to develop our open source software. GitHub is not open source.

NickBuseyon AWS’s Share of Amazon’s Profit

What makes this even more bonkers to me is this is from something most non-tech people haven’t even heard of.

NickBuseyon Show HN: Correct Horse Battery Staple password generator

Shout out to the open source Bitwarden project which includes this out of the box. Check out bitwarden_rs for a good sefhosted option.

NickBuseyon Show HN: RoughNotation – create and animate hand-drawn annotations on a web page

This may be one of the best 'product' landing pages I've ever seen. Kudos.

NickBuseyon Subspace – A simple WireGuard VPN server GUI

HomelabOS also has this functionality.

NickBuseyon Spotify signs ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ to an exclusive multi-year deal

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NickBuseyon Signal PINs

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NickBuseyon Show HN: Docup – single-page documentation for your open source projects

Yea this is my thought. Any sizable project will have enough documentation to make this one page approach unwieldy IMO. MkDocs Material is all I'll ever need for documentation. https://squidfunk.github.io/mkdocs-material/getting-started/