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Well god damn there it is! Three days fresh, even! Thanks!

Looks like a fair lot of work to get it configured, but few good things come entirely free. Wonder if there's enough people that could get together for a communal one...?

Every time I see tailscale do something really neat I'm always a little disappointed to find out they still offer only the three auth schemes- and I really don't want to tie my networking to google/github/ms. On top of the various tinfoil hat reasons, I know a variety of people who have had these accounts terminated out of the blue, and it throwing out my networking stack would be insanely aggravating.

If you're reading tailscale, I will pay you actual real dollars per month to offer a different not-tied-to-a-megacorp authentication scheme. Till then, guess I've got headscale.

The hackaday community's mooltipass kind of solves this- puts passwords on an external device with a smartcard. The OS never accesses the whole breadth of it, just what's exposed by the hardware.

I think that's the right approach, but I'm not sure I like the hardware. Something I was thinking about was using a pi zero in a small box, that just does something like emulate a keyboard for password-pushing. Give it a small screen and small keyboard for UI.

Unsure if I'm getting wooshed here, but aren't you describing a flash drive?

Something that's been on my mind for some time is the seeming inevitability of getting RCE'd by some innocuous application- web browser, chat app, videogame, whatever. These vluns keep popping up and eventually one might hit me. And if it does, it might come with something targeting keepass and _if_ it does I'm Fucked with an upper case F.

Building a portable terminal that can emulate a keyboard with a reasonable screen for ease of use seems like a fairly reasonable solution.

The bullets in this case were .416 422gn cutting edge mtac bullets- this one, specifically. https://cuttingedgebullets.com/416-422gr-mtac-match-tactical

Taken from their press release here: https://nomadrifleman.com/world-record-shot/

For those curious, the specific scope is this one: https://vortexoptics.com/razor-hd-gen-iii-6-36x56.html

Working with google's APIs tends to be a nightmare too- varying authentication methods, documentation of various ages, etc. If you're not using their libraries it's a huge pain to my experience. (And their libraries aren't the easy sort of wrappers where you can just pluck logic out easily either a lot of the time)

You could pretty reasonably hook up a string of ws2812s to be a server load monitor or similar... might be a fun project.

I recently made a little IoT thingy off a rasppi- just a weeny air quality sensor stack, but the ease of prototyping compared to more traditional hardware that I'm used to was incredible.

Recently I was trying to look for some documentation on TK. I had remembered an older site, the book on TK, all very good information if slightly dated. Took me a decent amount of searching to remember- effbot.org, which also somewhat micro-famously went down recently due to the author's death. Makes me wonder what other very high quality resources will be lost in the next two, three decades as developers age...

RIP shirky.org, your insights then are just as good today

As a new programmer with an interest in hardware, this is something I've noticed quite a lot- I was able to learn everything about C/asm as in what functions are available to me to use in a rather short amount of time, but the actual usage of it is quite a lot harder, whereas with a language like python I spend way more time learning how to do something than actually doing it, or if I want to use a database, it took me almost as long to decide which database to use as it did to implement it.

Wouldn't that make the number higher then, if you're counting people that have been through the system? Some rough numbers from the US justice website say more than 650000 people are released from prison each year, and two thirds are back within another three years, which seems to me that a lot more than 1% touch the system.

Unfortunately, it's 4 in the morning, and I'd spend a good hour or so looking up better stats and figuring out the math, but I think my point stands.

The mac drivers give some hope, but I doubt it will be any better than what we have already.

Mind you, nvidia also has the 1060 which preforms either better or worse than a 480 depending on what benchmark you use, it's basically identical in performance in practice, for the same price point.

Not true. Lowest price for 1060, 180$, lowest for 480, 185$. Granted, that's a 3gb model vs 4gb, but the prices are basically identical.

That's a bit much. People who go and yell shit in front of a camera, yeah, that's nothing to celebrate. However, random individuals coming together, learning new things, and working towards a common goal that harms pretty much nobody at all except the ego of an actor is something that should be celebrated. Plus, the techniques used are kind of neat. Think to yourself, if this was a nazi flag, would you feel the same way?

Furthermore, it's a bit ironic that you bring up an attempt to shut down free speech, when that's exactly what shia did when people started supporting trump on his opposition feed. Freedom of speech is freedom of speech from the government, not individuals, so he's perfectly in his right to do that, but still. And yes, stealing the flag is theft. I can't support or argue for that, but again, would you feel the same if it was a nazi flag?

I don't support trump, but calling this endeavor disgusting is disheartening.

Agreed, VR is the only thing that maxes out my 1080, aside from ultra-eyecandy shaders.

Hell, I never even considered multiple quads. Look at how "prey" birds avoid falcons and eagles right now, flocks, or in a more cool fashion, murmurations, which in addition to being super cool, are also an effective defense against them- and intel's swarming technology could be a downright prefect representation of the same idea.

I've seen this or other similar ideas a number of times, and I have no faith that they would work outside commercial copters- I mean, right off the bat, the jamming is more likely to explode any bombs than anything else- and the military already has anti-jamming technology, or you could just use a nonstandard frequency, which from what I understand would also circumvent any jamming.

As far as I'm concerned, almost all anti-drone devices are complete shams.

This is a copy-paste from what I posted on reddit in regards to the same kind of thing.

Really this entire concept is stupid. Not only are higher-end quadcopters unimaginably acrobatic, to the point where a skilled pilot could easily outfly a bird, but these things are literally flying lawnmowers. Go on /r/Multicopter or any other multirotor forum, there are loads of people that have been sliced all over their arms, and if you dig further, cuts down to the bone in some cases. Given the brittle, hollow nature of bird bones, well. (maybe eagle/falcon legs are different tho?) Seriously, if I was a falconer I would never consent to this. As for people suggesting they use cords or something to tangle the props up, that's really not an impossible problem either, people have been putting mesh cages over their props to fly them safely indoors for some time now, plus if you only stop one prop the quad becomes extremely violent in it's movements, pitching and rolling all over the damn place, which again, will probably at the very least hurt the bird quite a lot. Plus, if you were using quads for nefarious purposes, if that bird catches your quad you're not gonna give up and call it a day, more likely you'll push the throttle to max, which again, will cause that bird quite a lot of harm. If I were the aforementioned falconer, I would make sure the pilot cut the motors immediately before the eagle caught it, as that's the only way this would ever be safe for anyone involved.

I think it's kinda interesting what tiny little tweaks will affect code speed- I recently discovered that in python, if you're only going to use an import for one or two functions, importing it locally shaves off a good bit of time depending on the function, in my case, .2 seconds!

Even something like a VPN isn't really perfect, because a smart enough monitoring system could track a vpn connection coming from your system, and then compare that to traffic coming from the vpn. Tricky, but possible.

I've seen many articles like this, and they're always wonderful to read, as they bring up so many interesting interactions between the world and mathematics- however, I remember back to struggling through calculus as kind of an antithesis of sorts- I understood how calculus worked at a more "artistic" level, the interaction of graphs, shapes, and how they all collected together, however, to be able to actually do the operations required of me involved a long series of rather troublesome bits of mat that still bother me to this day!

It's very similar to how most anyone can catch a ball, but it takes way more to catch the ball on paper.

Huh, neat project, but it points me towards asciicinema, which is a really neat service/idea I've never heard of before. What a good lil niche service.

Schools blocking stuff is very active still- it's extremely prevalent up to and including high school, and only a handful of colleges do any sort of filtering.

Furthermore, kids find increasingly shady free vpns as IT blocks more and more free vpns.

Lots of kids will use free vpns to get their SAT/ACT/AP scores a day or so early.

And it's probably something like 20% of them.

You could strap a ESP236 to a bluetooth or NRF module- those things have a lot of processing power, wifi, etc, and add a little battery. They've got good power consumption, are cheap as hell, and should work.

I think potatoes are just a joke in general. They're just... there.

A rope would do just as well too.