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Adam Sjøgren - https://koldfront.dk/
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asjo··on Apache Pegasus - A horizontally scalable, high-performance key-value store
And arguably the venerable Apache HTTP Server · https://httpd.apache.org/ :-)
asjo··on Ask HN: How much electricity does a WiFi router consume?
My Netgear R6350 wifi access point running OpenWrt 21.02.03 and 5 GHz only uses ~4.5 W in casual use, and goes up to ~6.8 W when I run iperf3 full tilt through it.

Measured using a watt-o-meter like this: http://seacourse.dk/wiki/tiki-index.php?page=Home+Electricit...

They can be borrowed in libraries in Denmark, same as books.

asjo··on Controlling Marantz amplifier using Arduino via “Remote” socket
> I have a raspberry pi set up with an infrared LED to control my old NAD amplifier.

Interesting - could you share a little about how you have done this?

I have a Raspberry Pi that I use as a jukebox, connected to a NAD C320BEE amplifier, and I would like the jukebox to turn the amplifier and (active) loudspeakers on, using a usb-controlled relay, when I unpause mpd and off when I pause it, but unfortunately when the amplifier is powered on, it is humming until a source is physically selected!

asjo··on Building Replica Amigas to Preserve Digital Artwork
I did, and tried to comment there, but failed.

I think replicating Warhol's Amiga should include a correct size keyboard. Going through all that trouble to imitate a CRT, and then skipping out on the keyboard makes little sense.

asjo··on Building Replica Amigas to Preserve Digital Artwork
But, but, but... that keyboard doesn't fit in the garage!!
asjo··on OO in Python is mostly pointless
It is really hard - DBIx::Class (Perl) is an example of one of the better ones, in my opinion.
asjo··on Show HN: Git News – Social News website for developers and GitHub fans
Is it for git fans or Microsoft GitHub fans?

I know there might not be a distinction for a lot of people, but the name and the headline makes it ambiguous, at least to me.

Maybe add an "About" page outlining what it's meant for?

Most of the headlines I see right now aren't about git, which is what I would guess something called "Git News" was :-)

Good luck!

asjo··on The Kate text editor is 20 years old
Emacs has a Qt version? Are you thinking of gtk, lucid/athena, or motif?
asjo··on The man who invented the Zamboni
"Zamboni drivers, like athletes, see the Olympics as the pinnacle of their profession." - from a cool 2018 article: "The 22nd-Largest Team at the Olympics: Zamboni Drivers" · https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/19/sports/olympics/zamboni-d...
asjo··on Git scraping: track changes over time by scraping to a Git repository
I've been recording changes to the three lists of approved first names in Denmark in git for the past 8 years: https://koldfront.dk/git/godkendtefornavne/about/

I'm using cron on my cupboard server to update regularly rather than relying on Microsoft GitHub, and a standard post-update hook that emails me the diff when there are changes, so I can check out what new, funny, misspelled firstnames have been approved.

Git works really nice for this kind of use, as long as you make sure you store the data in a "stable" and "diffable" format.

asjo··on Vitamin D, part 2: Shannon's story
Raise your hand if you thought this was another one of Claude Shannon's many tangents.
asjo··on Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday?
On every workday: Microsoft Teams. When trying to make a link, it overwrites the clipboard. When formatting text in the text box, it sometimes randomly moves the cursor into the previous block.

Unfortunately the company has decided to use it and my colleages have as well.

asjo··on The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design
> Amiga's 1024x768 screen

What Amiga did you have?

asjo··on RSS feeds for your Github releases, tags and activity
The URL listed for "Repo activities" is identical to the one for "User activity", and seems to actually be for the latter: https://github.com/:user.atom
asjo··on Rosalind: Learn bioinformatics by programming it
> I think it means that I don't want to work in bioinformatics, if there's such ambiguity over what seems to be a basic term.

Yes, biology is a mess of exceptions, "good enough" and "hey, it works". It does have its charm as well, though.

One of the first things I learned from that world is that if you ask a microbiologist if something is always the case, the answer will be "Yes" if it is true more than ~80% of the time.

asjo··on A Dead-Simple Web Stack in Haskell
Really happy to read this - I'm using Spock and postgresql-simple, but found Lucid for generating HTML instead of blaze.

I never got around to wrapping my head around handling configuration, so I will definitely take a look at configurator.

I also like the suggestions for what libraries to look at next, sometimes choosing what libraries to go for feels like a jungle for a newcomer.

asjo··on Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder
And in Danish we had "datamat", which has a nice ring to it. But everybody says "computer" instead.
asjo··on Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder
Interestingly, Computer Science is called "Datalogi" in Danish. I always liked that term better.

Coined by Peter Naur (of BNF-"fame"), by the way.

asjo··on Kiss – A Linux distribution with a focus on “less is more”
It was easier for me to make heads and tails of it after inverting the colors.

Saving you some time in The Gimp, you can look at the logo on the Microsoft Github page, where the colors are inverted compared to the website: https://github.com/kisslinux/

asjo··on Making email more modern with JMAP
> HTTP and JSON are such an insignificant price to pay for the sliver of hope that email can be saved and not being in complete control of google et al.

How would JMAP accomplish that, in a way that other protocols don't?

asjo··on EmacsConf 2019 Call for Proposals
Note that this conference is "virtual", so no travelling necessary!
asjo··on Show HN: Hydra – Open-Source OAuth2 Server
Thanks, the TL;DR is "Yes" then. Too bad.
asjo··on Show HN: Hydra – Open-Source OAuth2 Server
Ok, so there really isn't anything like OpenID any more?
asjo··on Show HN: Hydra – Open-Source OAuth2 Server
A looong time ago, when OpenID was sort-of new, I implemented my own OpenID provider, because I wanted to log into StackOverflow and other places, but I didn't want to use a third party service.

That worked swimmingly in the few places that supported OpenID, but eventually even StackOverflow dropped support.

I must admit I haven't kept up with what has happened since in this area, so stupid question:

Could I install this server and have my own OAuth2/OIDC provider that would allow me to login to websites using my own provider (instead of "Login with Microsoft Github", "Login with Facebook", "Login with Google", "Login with Twitter"), or is this something else/the reverse?

asjo··on Tesla will soon downgrade software on the entry-level Model 3
Well, you bought a new license and they the RAM was used. No installation of anything but the license. At least that's how I remember the podcast explaining it.
asjo··on Tesla will soon downgrade software on the entry-level Model 3
This is similar to Windows licensing (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10_editions#Comparison...), where "Windows 10 Home" allows you to use 128 GB of RAM, while the various "Pro" versions allows up to 2 TB, and "Enterprise" up to 6 TB.

The limits used to be lower - I seem to remember laughing out loud at a Stack Overflow podcast, where they talked about having to purchase a new Windows license to be able to expand the RAM of a server.

asjo··on Why the U.S. Chills Its Eggs and Most of the World Doesn't (2014)
In Denmark eggs in supermarkets are in fridges with the milk etc., and people usually keep eggs in their fridges at home as well.
asjo··on The Cold War bunkers that cover a country
Didn't they drop the idea again, because it didn't really work that well?
asjo··on VSCodium – An Open Source Visual Studio Code Without Trackers
Who has the better track record?
asjo··on Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides
> I think most newer cars with digital dashboards would just switch over.

I used to drive a 1986 Cadillac Eldorado which simply had a sliding switch to go from imperial to metric.

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