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justsomehnguy

2,743 karma · joined December 16, 2021

Sysadmin in the former life. Adopted PowerShell since Monad.
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justsomehnguy··on Locating the source of a mysterious beep
Yes, if you still didn't unpacked it when you don't need it.
justsomehnguy··on What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab
Some shit like CRS317-1G-16S+RM is $499 MSRP for a new one. Tons of a decade old 16+ port 10Gbit switches for dirt cheap on the second hand market. You would actually pay way more for a decent x64 box nowadays, even refurb/2nd hand... or a box of a decent SFP plugable computers.
justsomehnguy··on What I run on my $10 USD OpenStick homelab
It would be too hot and too expensive. You can skip the copper media and go for an SFP/SFP+ pluggable directly - a full blown computer in the SFP module is yesteryear news. But at this point if you are assembling a cluster of sticks in SFP switch... you can just take some 5 y.o. USDT/Tiny and have a full blown x64 computer with all the power and virtualization you need.
justsomehnguy··on Port 0: The Port That Does Not Exist
Agree.

    "Give me a 4 apples."
    "Give me a 999 apples."
    "Give me a 0 apples."
The last one doesn't say "do not give me apples" and it surely doesn't say "do not give me a zero apples".
justsomehnguy··on Ozempic-style drugs now in trials for heart failure, addiction and even aging
> I was sure thin as a rail for the first three decades of my life. Is it just a male, aging thing?

Yes?

When you hit the puberty your requirements go up for an additional 1000-1500 calories.

Women calorie demand returns back after puberty, men stays the same and the calorie burn rate (if you don't sit 24/7 at the screen ofc) are higher than a women' one in the first place. So you on all levels - including your own habits - are conditioned to eat a whole lot.

And then your forties come your body suddenly decides what you don't need that much energy and your metabolism slows down, winding down the calorie intake demands. But if all your life you needed a whole chicken with a plate to 'feel full' then you won't suddenly eat a couple of chicken wings and have a 'feel full' feeling.

And I would agree with a sibling comment: the food caloric density did increased a lot though 'saltier, sweeter, and generally more addictive' is not a rule but a more of a diet choices.

justsomehnguy··on Hacking the T-Mobile Sidekick, 20 Years Too Late
Thanks for a suggestion but you are incredibly generous on your assumption what it had a decent camera at all.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Motorola-Moto-E4-Smartphone-Re...

justsomehnguy··on Port 0: The Port That Does Not Exist
I have a feeling what sometimes :0 is interpreted as a 'first listening'. But Occam says what most of the time it's just 'DNAT dst port ANY to :80' or whatever, no magik.
justsomehnguy··on Hacking the T-Mobile Sidekick, 20 Years Too Late
I found my old Moto E4 (5th gen as some site says) not long ago.

Decided to wipe it so I can give it out and... things went south really hard because built-in wipe in LineageOS borks the OS loader and no amount of flashing works. In the end I even borked the boot loader and things started to look really awry. I found a way to flash it, thanks to the guys[0] who found a sploit for MTK loader - and confirming what E4 was one of the most 'unkillable' phones of it's time.

But the hardest part wasn't that but:

actually finding a working copy of the official firmware

Google Apps really-really-really wants to update it all to the most current versions... and then it's just starts to fail every 5 seconds with an annoying modal notification.

Thankfully, F-Droid was already installed so I just disabled everything Google and made a... not-so-dumb phone. But, despite it working good enough - it's totally useless for anything other than calling and e-mailing with a 3rd party client (would K9 even install on it? I don't know).

[0] https://github.com/MTK-bypass/bypass_utility

justsomehnguy··on AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
> thunderbolt (an Intel standard) is a brutal feature to drop

There are models on AMD CPU with Thunderbolt[0]. Now a true 2-in-1 with a touch screen, AMD and Thunderbolt AND with 14"... unicorn I've never met.

[0] https://psref.lenovo.com/search/# select 'Platform Specifications' and add Thunderbolt and AMD separately.

justsomehnguy··on AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
Yes. On a second hand market. Anything before LGA4189 is dirt cheap and there is no EPYC machines here at all.
justsomehnguy··on AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
Jobs failed hard and was outed in the first place. And he didn't 'come back' he was quite literally bought in with NeXTSTEP. Don't forget $150M from Microsoft and the Office for Mac deal.
justsomehnguy··on North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
Thanks for the laughs.

No, 'people who work in software development' != 'highly educated people' and those both != 'understand how computers work'.

justsomehnguy··on Microsoft fixes a Windows 11 annoyance as PC revenue declines
NB:

I'm still waiting for Mozilla to give back the option to delete MRUs from the Firefox navbar.

Oh, it's absolutely has nothing with how they push sponsored links there. Absolutely.

justsomehnguy··on Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
A powered rear axle tries to overcome the front. This why you can do 'drifting' on a RWD. And when you are in the curve there are different forces and road resistance on your front and rear axles (your outer side is loaded and inner is not) so if you do accelerate on a 4WD/AWD you are asking your car to spin out.
justsomehnguy··on Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time
You are already on the road. How knowing the current time would help getting anywhere faster?
justsomehnguy··on If you love a website, back it up
I've used OneNote back in the day for that.

Nowadays it's Obsidian and Obsidian Web Clipper browser extension. The only caveat is what doesn't save the images locally by default and needs some manual action: https://obsidian.md/help/web-clipper/capture

justsomehnguy··on Notice How Old websites look better than new websites
> My monitor is 24 inches wide

43" here.

Amusingly, Firefox' Split View helps here.

justsomehnguy··on Sneaking into the auditorium for the Windows 2000 launch rehearsal
> but the iPhone runs its LIDAR on IR for autofocus and just taking a photo of this process kills the transfer

I think you could just use the front facing camera.

justsomehnguy··on TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
Attorneys can operate as a firewall too: if they sit in a building with a firewall.
justsomehnguy··on TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8
Bwahahah!
justsomehnguy··on Lenovo's 'encrypted' fingerprint USB is just an unencrypted SD card in a case
If you don't believe your hardware than a FR wouldn't help you.
justsomehnguy··on Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
> Voting is a luxury some of the poorest can't afford

They always can take the matter in their hands. Worked wonders in Europe the last fifteen years.

justsomehnguy··on Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)
> but the largest consensus seems to be that Quake popularized it, plain and simple

Yes, by being the great equalizer. But the question is why WASD and not something else eg WSDX[0] or some shit like ASDF. And the ghosting explains it well enough.

[0] https://shodan.fandom.com/wiki/Controls_(System_Shock)

justsomehnguy··on Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)
> WASD has the advantage of allowing your mouse to be controlled by your right hand and you can keep your left hand in the normal position

And this is exactly the same with ESDF.

justsomehnguy··on Show HN: NES Contra (1987) port (ASM –> C and then C –> WebAssembly)
NB: WASD won because most (like 99%) of the keyboards did had (and I can bet cheap shit still have) some dead keys aka 'key ghosting' on ESDF.
justsomehnguy··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
> What you are actually saying

You would be quite astonished by the fact what I do not actually saying that. More so, I don't even imply it. But thanks for thinking and speaking instead of me.

justsomehnguy··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
> Meet the world's brainiest people - The Independent

> The Brainiest Club in the World - Yale University Press

No.

justsomehnguy··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
"Students" played a big role in what happened in 2013-2014 in the Ukraine.
justsomehnguy··on France is getting download tax for content providers (€0.055/GB)
> Population (2025)

> • Total

> 6,973,333[3]

Works for Indiana, good. But I doubt it scales.

justsomehnguy··on A Pig, the State, and War: Porco Rosso (Kurenai No Buta) (2014)
https://archive.org/details/the-art-of-porco-rosso/page/n1/m...
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