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dicknuckle··on Ask HN: Are Linux HowTos dead? Why?
Do not mention he old magic to me, I was there when it was written!
dicknuckle··on A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor
Benefit of the doubt: it could be a local makerspace. Although he's working on his pilot license so yes, he's a rich kid.
dicknuckle··on FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants
There's a few ways to go about that. Someone made a post on Reddit with details for two different POE injectors that can be used.
dicknuckle··on FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants
I'm getting 10/10 at 8am on the east coast US. Highest I've seen by manually testing was 87/3.

There's a few Grafana based Starlink monitoring projects I've been looking at. Historical data would be nice to have.

dicknuckle··on How and why to host a blog at home
Have you looked on freedns.afraid.org? Lots of shared domains you can make a subdomain on for free. I even gave back by hosting DNS for two of my own domains so others can do the same.
dicknuckle··on Run your own DALL-E-like image generator
Would also like to know. I'm playing around with 32 bit x86 stuff again.
dicknuckle··on Run your own DALL-E-like image generator
That's the cool thing about publishing the Dockerfile and an image, one is an example that may or may not break, and the other is a functional snapshot of a working config at that point in time.
dicknuckle··on Let's Encrypt’s subscriber agreement changes on Sept 21
Except that it does, just not via email. You have to unsubscribe the same way you subscribed.
dicknuckle··on Outside the safe operating space of a new planetary boundary for PFAS
No, it only needs to be ~250C
dicknuckle··on Klipper – open-source 3D Printer firmware
The math used in each system to control the rate of flow is very different, I believe Klipper's approach gives a much nicer finish. On top of that, Klipper can also compensate for the resonant frequency of the physical frame+substrate of the printer to minimize artifacts and patterns in the final print. You can tune Klipper as much or as little as you want.
dicknuckle··on PiBox: a tiny personal server for self-hosting
I've got an IBM x3500 and a Dell R720 sitting here, both idle around 50-80 watts on my kill-a-watt. Not sure what you're on about.
dicknuckle··on Raw footage inside Sears with Atari 800 and 2600 (1982) [video]
Which people often do with PC builds. Not much different in terms of cost.
dicknuckle··on Creating an Intranet Like the Internet
What is Farer?
dicknuckle··on I miss the programmable web (2021)
On YouTube I've had a great experience using Sponsorblock which crowd sources categorizing different parts of the video. If a bunch of people categorized the first 10 seconds of a particular video as "Intro", that section of the video scrub/seek bar is highlighted in a color that represents that category. I have Sponsorblock set to skip Intros, so I never see them unless it's a very very fresh video that nobody has categorized yet.

It's baked into YouTube Vanced on mobile, which was sadly taken down by Google. Smart Tube Next is another Android app with this feature, but I'm not sure if it's available for anything other than TV set top boxes.

dicknuckle··on FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe deposit boxes
I actually have my own video evidence of how inept they are. At a previous job they raided our office and when they told me to turn off the building's surveillance cameras, I started recording with my phone. They didn't understand what VMware ESXi was and kept trying to take an image of the drives to no avail. They had our backup appliance with a years worth of snapshots but that wasn't enough. They actually already had snapshots from the cloud provider before the raid but INSISTED the physical server must be imaged or taken. Finally I made a deal with them to take half of our RAID10 and not take the whole server.
dicknuckle··on FBI is hiding details about a raid on Americans’ safe deposit boxes
Of course they are.
dicknuckle··on A little trick to spam the spammers (2021)
I can't help but think of Skip the Dishes and how they have zero verification of account emails. I don't use the service and never received any spam, but I did start receiving order confirmations from someone on the other side of the country. Eventually I reset the password and accessed the account to find their phone number and sorted the whole thing out over SMS.
dicknuckle··on GoodbyeDPI: Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility
You can just use Tailscale if all of this seems like a pushup. It's wireguard under the hood and everything JustWorks™
dicknuckle··on A weird epic ramble about Etsy homepages from the middle 2000’s
Girl, same.
dicknuckle··on GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome
I didn't have much issue with the process, it seemed like any other. A local business is a friend of mine, they were paying too much for too little from their previous web host/dev so I transferred the domain name to CF and ran their WordPress "business card" type site through a static site generator, placed all the files in GitHub, and pointed CF Pages at the repo. Whenever they want to make changes, they spin up the current state of WordPress in LocalWP, make the changes, I run it through the static site generator and push the files to GitHub. Takes them a few hours of messing around to get their content right and takes me 5-15 minutes to jamstack it to GitHub. Free hosting and cheap/simple DNS.
dicknuckle··on Fermented Chili “Open Sauce” – My most starred repo has no code in it
Don't forget the Brew and Bottle steps.
dicknuckle··on Running an Open Source Home Area Network
Same, but I haven't started with anything like Ansible yet, only beginning to learn it at work.

Running all my services in Docker keeps it all clean because I'm a very messy person when it comes to Linux. Change, change, change, it works, forget about it, it breaks, find something I did years ago tripping me up now, change, change, change, it works, forget about it.

With docker every service is contained and nearly separated. I can rip something out and replace it like stacking a new network switch in the rack. Delete the container, delete the image(s) and delete the volume if I want to start over with something completely fresh.

I can move everything to a new server by moving bulk hard drives over, restoring docker volumes from backup and cloning docker-compose configs from git. Haven't tried any distributed volume storage yet.

dicknuckle··on The secret stretch of coastal France that's nicer than Nice
Are there any catamaran rentals? Would love to sail a 16'-19' on the other side of the ocean.
dicknuckle··on Monitoring tiny web services
If we're going to divert into Cheap VPS providers, I just link LowEndTalk or LowEndBox for a huge list of cheap providers.
dicknuckle··on The Visual Studio Code Server
Somewhat related, I actually had a great use for Replit recently. Some technically inexperienced people (mostly running Windows) would benefit from access to a python command line tool, but the only commonality we had was a forum thread where we met. So i cloned the GitHub repo from the author of the tool and gave a very short set of instructions and a link to the Replit project. Nobody had any questions about installing because none of it ran on their computer. It was just a simple python script but worked perfectly in the online IDE. I didn't have to help anyone with anything, it just worked.
dicknuckle··on Code from the FBI’s Anom encrypted messaging app
Unencrypted obviously.
dicknuckle··on Starlink Maritime
These are common on radar systems, and nothing to sneeze at.
dicknuckle··on Selfhosting on Localhost
It also forces you to keep a clean system, app logs are easy to find and consume nearly any way you want, and if a container from one developer isn't fitting your needs, it's usually super easy to drop in someone else's different container implementation of the same app with one config change (the repo name).
dicknuckle··on Large Hadron Collider discovers three new exotic particles
Fairly sure this was scheduled to happen today, July 5th.
dicknuckle··on Ask HN: How do you ensure everyone on the team is heard on Slack?
Beautiful! I'll have to bring this up with my team. We just had a management expansion and I'm part of the process for changing the way we operate.
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