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dicknuckle··on Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones
Welcome to the Police. They don't serve and protect you and I, only people and businesses with big money.
dicknuckle··on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
I've been seeing almost weekly posts recently like "I just got out of a meeting where my company plans to replace X people with an AI that does their job for $XX/mo"

The fearmongering and astroturfing is obvious.

dicknuckle··on Open source Background Remover: Remove Background from images and video using AI
Might as well open a PR to add your dockerfile.
dicknuckle··on Ask HN: If you quit your computer job, which non-computer craft would you pick
Motorcycle mechanic, or more specifically restoring and updating vintage motorcycles. Before 1980 almost all of them had points-breaker ignition. This is not difficult to replace with modern electronic ignition as long as the stator is still good. Plenty of stator rewinding services out there if not.

I've also got a side hustle 3d printing some of the discontinued small plastic parts like brake hose guides and fork guard guides for vintage motorcycles and ATCs so that would very likely expand.

dicknuckle··on So this guy is now S3. All of S3
Indeed there are. Tens of us!

Maybe you underestimate how many people want to keep up on things but not interact?

dicknuckle··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
I am absolutely LOVING Volumio. It's running in a VM in my garage computer that does various other things. At the time, Volumio didn't have a clean way to do this so I just hacked away until it booted and played music.

A little USB sound card is passed through to the VM and it's been rock solid for about 2 years now. I use it exclusively as a Spotify chromecast type thing that cost me about $3.50 in parts.

dicknuckle··on Consent-O-Matic: Automatic cookie management
Proxitok gives the same experience to that dumpster fire of a UI we call TikTok.
dicknuckle··on Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth
Shelly has a few relays with power metering and they offer lots of local-first and open ways of communicating. I use one to control power to my 3d printer.
dicknuckle··on Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth
You might be able to set up a virtual access point or "guest network" with a different name.
dicknuckle··on Displaying My Washing Machine's Remaining Time with Curl, Jq, and Pizauth
It would need to be a very specific kind of washing machine (that hopefully probably exists) to make your idea work.

A fully analog/mechanical washing machine is just a big mechanical timer controlled relay behind the knob like a toaster oven. If you set it without power, it just runs through the timer without doing anything.

The machine would need to have a timer mechanism that is turned by an electric clock motor, not a mechanical spring with gears etc.

Or you could possibly set up an electric actuator that blocks the knob from turning. Then trigger both the power-on relay and the actuator retraction to do both at the same time.

dicknuckle··on Box64 – Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator Targeted at ARM64 Linux Devices
Yep you're right, bad acronyms will forever confuse me.
dicknuckle··on Box64 – Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator Targeted at ARM64 Linux Devices
What about GL2ES and GL3ES? I use them in Retroarch on my android TV box.
dicknuckle··on Box64 – Linux Userspace x86_64 Emulator Targeted at ARM64 Linux Devices
I've used that and can confirm it works great. I just use it to run Arm64 Linux on my M1 chip at work for speed.
dicknuckle··on Self-Host All the Things?
Arguably, yes.
dicknuckle··on Self-Host All the Things?
Not sure about the email specific issues you may have had, but did you run your outbound through Mailgun or Sendgrid? I've used Mailgun personally and professionally for years, just started using Sendgrid at work and love both.
dicknuckle··on Self-Host All the Things?
Anecdote, I also had a container app fail, from a trusted provider that I assumed weighsy have plenty of testing in place, but maybe it was too synthetic.

Sonarr from LinuxServer.io briefly changed to a dev build and boned the DB before switching back to a stable build.

dicknuckle··on ARM64 Linux Workstation
Did you try Lima on Mac? I never did compare apples to apples, ran an x86 Podman VM and then switched to an arm64 Lima VM and had drastically improved performance.
dicknuckle··on My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account
Container tabs with MS and AWS has been a huge help for me at work.
dicknuckle··on Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has students correct them
It's also good to hire people who are skilled at correcting bad code in general. This is also a good litmus(?) test to see the interesting ways people come to solutions to other's faults.
dicknuckle··on Make systemd better for Podman with Quadlet
I just use docker compose at home for about 15 containers and it works great.
dicknuckle··on Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process
I've had it figure out what I was trying to do with a JMESpath query for some data from AWS. It happily filled in the blanks in my knowledge.

It also simplified a JQ thing I had built, and it also told me how to structure the data how I wanted, within that filter.

dicknuckle··on Ubuntu-minimal depends on Ubuntu-advantage-tools
I uninstalled/purged snap on a machine my coworker provisioned, we don't use anything that snap offers. After that I don't have an issue with Ubuntu at all.
dicknuckle··on An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
News to me! Apparently I haven't used it in quite some time.
dicknuckle··on An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
There's also FlatcarOS if you want something more like the original CoreOS without the Fedora influences.
dicknuckle··on An overview of single-purpose Linux distributions
RancherOS if you're looking to use something heavily tested but it's got a few weird features like most of the OS also being in containers. If you want something light to play with and get a vanilla docker experience, your best bet is likely Boot2Docker with Portainer.
dicknuckle··on Moving my PC into my rack in a 2U case
Often free if you have friends in IT who would rather give things away than get $1/lb from recycling stuff that works.
dicknuckle··on Saving Energy: Home Server That Automatically Suspends to RAM and Wakes Up Again
Of all the x86 type BIOS and EFI, I've never seen one that didn't support that. Even thinclients and things you'd expect to leave that feature out.
dicknuckle··on NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails
Cloudflare is cheaper.
dicknuckle··on Multi-Account Containers
Not even with two separate containers?
dicknuckle··on Reddit Confirms It Was Hacked–Recommends Users Set Up 2FA
Big oooof, wasn't aware of that. I believe TOTP works much differently based on my CLI interaction with it, but an expert would need to confirm.
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