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majormjr··on OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an "AI-first" experience
Why not fork it like Microsoft did with Edge?
majormjr··on Sniffnet – monitor your Internet traffic
If you have a switch with port mirroring you can send the traffic to another device and monitor using something like Suricata.
majormjr··on Ollama are 'try[ing to] achieve vendor lock-in'
The first 2 points do point to Ollama neglecting the community and not contributing to upstream. For the lack of Jinja templates I would have thought that's just from it being written in Go and using the Go templating engine instead.
majormjr··on The First Precision Lathe – Constructing the Antikythera Mechanism
Great video! Every one in the series building the mechanism has been very interesting. It's fascinating how such simple tools produce the complexity in the mechanism. With modern lathes and metal working tools it's very easy to forget how accessible working with metal in high precision can be. Once you see the tooling being created in front of you it makes it clear how ancient civilizations could have had access to this precision.
majormjr··on Mild respiratory SARS-CoV-2 infection can cause myelin loss in the brain
It's mentioned in the abstract that similar findings were noted in humans as well.

"Humans experiencing long-COVID with cognitive symptoms (48 subjects) similarly demonstrate elevated CCL11 levels compared to those with long-COVID who lack cognitive symptoms (15 subjects)."

majormjr··on Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools
It's also marked as not self hostable despite the comment above mentioning it running on Raspberry Pis.
majormjr··on Tips for Interviewing over Zoom
Good lighting makes a big difference as well, even low quality webcams on laptops look much better if your face is well lit.
majormjr··on STM32/ESP32/ESP8285-Based High-Performance Radio Link for RC Applications
ExpressLRS is looking very promising. Hopefully it will do the same thing with radio protocols as OpenTX has done with the radio transmitter market; lowering costs for software development and allowing cheaper hardware with more feature.
majormjr··on CRTC allows small wireless carriers to use big networks
They only allowed regional carriers with existing spectrum to use others networks. It doesn't allow any other company to use the large carriers networks which limits the ability to start a MVNO carrier as you need existing spectrum licenses in order to piggyback on others networks.
majormjr··on Backblaze is now a Terraform provider
I was just looking at this new Terraform provider yesterday how timely. Nice to see the quickstart guide this will be helpful for managing the buckets and application keys.
majormjr··on Creating Serendipity with Python
I generally find the Cloudflare blog posts interesting and entertaining but this one seems more suitable for a personal blog.
majormjr··on Changes to LastPass Free
It works well for me on iOS, not sure how it compares with LastPass's app but BitWarden does everything I need on the phone.
majormjr··on Google hasn’t updated their iOS apps for 2 months to avoid new privacy labels
This is also how I transitioned to Fastmail. Forward all mail from gmail to your own domain and then slowly unsubscribe or update the email on any that you receive. Eventually you will have most of your accounts and subscriptions moved over to your own domain. I still keep the email forwarding enabled just in case any old accounts send me something.
majormjr··on FOSDEM 2021
I'm looking forward to the open source CAD talks. There is one about the Linkstage3 branch of FreeCAD that will go over some of the new features added there and those improvements will eventually end up in the mainline branch.
majormjr··on Python’s tug of war between beginner-friendly and advanced features
This is one of the key parts when starting to learn programming. Just typing out everything manually really helps you see the small details that are important when writing code that can get lost when copying from elsewhere. Courses like Learn Python the Hard Way focus on this method and I think it's the best way to go for absolute beginners.
majormjr··on Garuda Linux
Many AUR packages have a binary package available for install.
majormjr··on Secure your MQTT server with authentication and encryption
This is a good tutorial to get the server side of things secured. I didn't know you could use Traefik to proxy the MQTT connections as well which looks quite useful.

The biggest issue I have is with the client side and its various support of TLS and getting a trusted CA certificate distributed. This is the harder part of the equation in my opinion, support is getting better with firmwares like Tasmota but getting some third party IoT device to work over TLS is still a challenge.

majormjr··on Touchable Bokeh – 3D Printed Wet Plates [video]
I use FreeCAD and the lithophane addon.
majormjr··on A bit on scaling chess.com's database
They have a premium membership that gives a few extra features like game analysis.
majormjr··on Next Gen Static Blogging
Especially with HTML as it's going to get minimized and hacked up to reduce the filesize. Including the closing tags makes the transpilers job easier and less error prone.
majormjr··on Creating Linux Backups with Restic and B2 Cloud
That backup software also looks useful. The key feature for me with restic is the ability to upload the encrypted backup directly to cloud storage with all the nice de-duplication features.
majormjr··on Show HN: Recurring reviews to track the whole lifecycle of a product
The option for a monthly/yearly email with a summary of your reviews might work well to avoid too much spam.
majormjr··on More challenging projects every programmer should try
Check the link from GP. You're correct a "spike" of knowledge is some topic that you specialize in.
majormjr··on Toxic fumes seep into the air you breathe on planes
Worked fine for me with that combo.
majormjr··on DIY Dynamic DNS with Netlify API and Bash
I do the same with route53, a small Python script runs on a Raspberry Pi to get the IP address and then updates the domain record through the API.
majormjr··on Study suggests that fresh asphalt is a significant source of air pollution
Generally it's crushed and a percentage of the final mix uses the recycled crushed asphalt. The quality of the asphalt is lower with higher amounts of recycled materials so high traffic roadways like highways may use 30% recycled asphalt. While lower traffic roadways or things like bicycle paths can use a higher percentage with new binder in the mix.
majormjr··on A random sampling of internet service prices around the world
If ransomware starts encrypting your files then the sync will just upload that encrypted data.
majormjr··on Bell, Telus to use Nokia and Ericsson, not Huawei, in building their 5G networks
Oh we realize they are extremely expensive, unfortunately there isn't much we can do to increase telco competition with the current regulatory boards such as CRTC.
majormjr··on Vitamin D looks powerful, underutilized for Covid-19
People don't spend enough time outdoors to generate a sufficient amount of vitamin D.
majormjr··on Show HN: Automated code security assistant for developers
The screenshot of the Github message on the homepage has lower case 'i' as well.
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