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etbuschon How Google got to rolling Linux releases for Desktops

It seems like they are just using Debian testing with periodic version freezes. It's very likely not all that different from just running testing.

etbuschon The new and upgraded Framework Laptop

Better standby performance is great news, as I know it's not all Framework's fault for the inconsistent standby power drain on the current models.

etbuschon The new and upgraded Framework Laptop

Do you have any preliminary specs on how battery life differs between these and the 11th gen equivalents?

etbuschon United States IPv6 adoption over 50%

Xfinity provides /64 prefixes to their customers. There must be some missing configuration on your router.

I have a 10/10 score.

etbuschon The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've used

Two things:

They are replaceable when the external ports (USB-C or otherwise) wear out without the need for soldering or internal board replacement.

The design of the modules is open source, meaning that anyone can design a module that fits their needs.

etbuschon Report on an Unidentified Space Station (1982)

I remember reading somewhere that this short story inspired "The Parking Garage" episode of Seinfeld.

etbuschon FlashFloppy: Open-source Firmware for floppy emulators

I just recently flashed a Gotek with this firmware to resurrect an Amiga A500 with a broken floppy drive. It works great with the addition of an OLED screen and a 3D printed bracket to mount it in the Amiga's internal floppy slot.

I'm also eagerly awaiting the support for Heathkit *.H8D format images so that I can more easily use my H89 without needing unobtainable hard-sector floppy disks.

etbuschon Graalphp: An Efficient PHP Implementation Built on GraalVM

> It will need to support the C interface components like PDO database drivers and the Laravel web framework.

Laravel does not have any C PHP modules in its codebase. While it makes use of drivers provided by them, it does not have any components that are written in C.

etbuschon Data Runner Watch Prototype – Modded Casio F91W

Similar to Travis Goodspeed's goodwatch project, which is a replacement board for Casio calculator watches that contains a sub-GHz programmable radio. I've built a few of them and had fun writing software for it.

https://kk4vcz.com/goodwatch/

https://github.com/travisgoodspeed/goodwatch/

etbuschon Fast Vue SSR with Rust and QuickJS

SSR - Server Side Rendering

etbuschon Teensy 4.0 is now available

Another excellent addition to the form factor by Paul!

The first Teensy was my stepping stone off of the Arduino IDE and platform for modern embedded development. Library support and form factor make these excellent devices to integrate into one-off custom electronics projects.

With 4.0 it looks like we have an excess of IO and processing grunt, and I'm curious what the power consumption is like at the slower clock speeds.

etbuschon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2019)

Location: Detroit, MI US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages : PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript, C/C++, Java, Golang, CSS, HTML, shell

Databases : MySQL, PostgresSQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB

Tools/Frameworks : Laravel/CakePHP, VueJS/React, Android, React Native, Git, Docker

Familiar : CI/CD Tools, Linux, BSD, Ansible/Puppet, AWS/DigitalOcean/Azure

General : Software Development, Systems Admin, DevOps, Project Management

Résumé/CV: https://etbus.ch/resume.pdf

Email: me@etbus.ch

https://www.linkedin.com/in/etbusch | https://github.com/etbusch

Seeking a software engineering position with a focus on web technologies and product development where I can apply my generalist skillset.

etbuschon Alpine 3.10 Released

I use it as a container base (docker / lxc) for containers that have very few dependencies and small footprints.

etbuschon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2019)

Location: Detroit, MI US

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages : PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript, C/C++, Java, Golang, CSS, HTML, shell

Databases : MySQL, PostgresSQL, SQL Server, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB

Tools/Frameworks : Laravel/CakePHP, VueJS/React, Android, React Native, Git, Docker

Familiar : CI/CD Tools, Linux, BSD, Ansible/Puppet, AWS/DigitalOcean/Azure

General : Software Development, Systems Admin, DevOps, Project Management

Résumé/CV: https://etbus.ch/resume.pdf

Email:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/etbusch | https://github.com/etbusch

Seeking a software engineering position with a focus on web technologies and product development where I can apply my generalist skillset.

etbuschon Be Vewy Vewy Quiet, We’re Hunting Baofengs

Automatic operations and beacons are allowed as long as the control operator (the ham in charge) sets them to ID properly. Permanent beacons also have a transmission power limit (20W EIRP I believe).

etbuschon Accounting machines, the IBM 1403, and why printers standardized on 132 columns

An interesting read as always from Ken.

I've got a first-generation Apple Dot Matrix Printer that's up next for a restoration. I understand that I can still get drivers for this, but does anyone know what it might be worth? eBay comes up with nothing.

etbuschon DNS Flag Day on February 1, 2019: check your domains

Network Solutions is failing the test currently, anyone have info on when they might become compliant?

etbuschon Show HN: HomelabOS – Ansible scripts to deploy self hosted cloud services

This looks really nice, and is similar to my homelab, except that mine took many tens of hours to setup and tune.