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TIL about his extra's channel, thanks!

I have set up let's encrypt with DNS challenge running a wildcard in on a subdomain. Its not a recursive wildcard, but for me, it works good enough. Some of the software I host in my home network expects to run as the root on a web server.

The DNS wildcard points to a 192.168.xxx.xxx address. I don't really care that the IP adres of my home server is public :)

Paywall: https://archive.is/9lqtL

Sounds interesting. Unfortunately not available in my country in the Android app store. I live in The Netherlands. If you're looking for feedback, you might want to double check this :)

But in that case, it won't be subsidized by the manufacturer!

I'm sure people would get a cheaper toaster in exchange of an ad being burned in your bread.

Same here, surprised that only you mentioned it here.

Elections are happening soon (April). It's not clear at all Orban will win this round of elections, see e.g. https://apnews.com/article/hungary-orban-magyar-rival-rallie...

Curious to how well LLM's work in this context! (mentioned as one of the reasons to embed CAD in Rust)

I only know of another text -> STL AI model, I'm quite a bit more excited about this idea.

Does someone have experience with this?

Nice! You might want to fix your GitHub link in the footer though, it 404's for me right now :)

How much VRAM would this require, if I would want to run this locally?

I bought a 12GB Nvidia card a year ago. In general I'm having a hard time to find the actual required hardware specs for any self hosted AI model. Any tips/suggestions/recommended resources for that?

Ah, 5x? At $WORK, the low code tool vendor that is used to build the monolith (and that of our sister company) is bought by a private equity firm. Our sister company will face a 7x increase. Another fun thing is that the license is based on a percentage of licensing cost to their customers.

Their game is clearly to squeeze very hard for a few years, and then deprecate the product. I can't imagine that there are companies that are fine with such price hikes.

Yep. I do create fresh db's from a fixture db using postgres's ability to create a database from a template. Very quick, always correct.

Wow. In the EU, canceling subscriptions must be as easy as signing up for them by law.

My personal longest issue with ISP's was when the software config once went wrong in their side, took me a month and allmost daily phone calls until I got to 4th line support that was an actual techie who fixed it in 10 minutes.

Which tool did you use to create that busy_spec.html file? They remind me of Engelbart's blue numbering system for documents, if I remember the name correctly.

Very nice! I talked (~10y ago) at a Nix meetup to a company that did over the air updates of bicycle shed usage signs in NL that ran on embedded linux systems. One of their bigger challenges was that their downlink quota was very limited. I suggested them to peek at bsdiff, not sure if they ever got to it (or maybe would have gotten a better downlink ;))

I might give this idea another go myself with this nice rust library. With some heuristics one could partition the recursive closure of dependencies in a way optimizes for reuse (e.g. try to compute shared subtrees). Probably more efficient than a random tar of e.g. the entire root file system of a buildroot android system.

IMHO the constraints of these systems make them still quite fun to code for, just like solving sudoku puzzles can be fun.

I found about this [1] amazing live coding session by lftkyro on YouTube showing how to build a live music pattern editor on the C64.

[1] https://youtu.be/ly5BhGOt2vE?si=1EzOnELSb5fd-dqA

TIL that self-updating mobile apps are a thing. It is quite surprising to me that the app store gatekeepers don't force all app changes through their vetting process! Has this always been the case, or is this a new development?

Seems interesting. I can't decipher from the docs nor demo if this is about debugging _live_ behavior of the systems under observation, (e.g. it only captures stuff for which there are queries), or if it actually stores all your requests and responses in a psql db.

Wow, that's quite different from the Netherlands. Here, we have the BAG, Basis Administratie Gebouwen (Base Administration Buildings).

Muniplicities are the data owners, but data is also collated nationally.

See [0] for a viewer of this public data.

Also, all our surveying/road data is managed in a similar fashion, and this is regularly imported in e.g. openstreetmap.

[0] https://bagviewer.kadaster.nl/lvbag/bag-viewer/?zoomlevel=1

Have you considered a water based heating/cooling system that uses the earth itself as its storage buffer?

Next to getting an (electronic) sit/standing desk, consider getting a treadmill that you can shove under your desk, if you have the space. I don't use it every day, not even every week, but some weeks I'm walking all day. I got mine from a 2nd hand market place and it was quite affordable.

For me, deadlines work best if more people than me have a stake in the thing I'm working on.

As a motorcycle drivers myself, I think that the obsession of my fellow drivers with producing loud noises is childish.

I really enjoy the acceleration though (when it's safe to e.g. accelerate away from a traffic light or when getting on the freeway).

The feeling of way faster responding control, and being exposed to wind, smells, sounds makes it a very relaxing immersive experience for me.

Same in Dutch: "nar". Hofnar means court jester, which is a more well known word.

Well, Tanenbaum retired in 2014 [1], so the book probably won't get updated anymore.

[1] http://www.few.vu.nl/~ast/afscheid/

The original author is Dutch.

In Dutch, "niks" (same pronunciation as Nix), actually means "nothing".

His nickname is niksnut, which means "good-for-nothing".

If you ever visit Amsterdam for some time, and like to visit musea, check out Micropia [0]. It is a museam where they exhibit microbes, that you can explore using microscopes.

[0] https://www.micropia.nl/en/

It's what you're used to. Cups and gallons are confusing to me!

In some of my Dutch cook book, there are mentions of cups. But mostly as a relative unit; add one cup of X, two cups of Y.

For absolute amounts, the metrics system just makes more sense, as it nearly combines the different quantities without weird conversion constants.

Note that in medical or scientific environments, centiliters are actually used.

But then again, we still use milimiter-mercury as a unit in medicine too ;) [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millimetre_of_mercury

The author has a whole video series on restoring this particular mini-computer.

I really enjoyed watching them all, as he clearly explains all the obstackles that he encounters, and how he navigated them.

The contagious bursts of laughter are a great bonus too.

Ugh. Doesn't raise the trust in their competence of protecting admin access credentials to GitHub. The same mindset leads to "We use just one shared ssh cert, because it is easier. And our VPN solution is a 2nd factor in any case".