martinmunk

Practically no-one is conscripted any more. There is usually 1-2 year wait list to go in and spend 9 months before Uni and the like.

I'm one of those volunteers in "DEMA". It varies by region how and how much the volunteers are used. I usually respond to the oddball police ect. support if my SWE job allows, but try to focus on our international capacities. USAR, ICT/camp/water-purification support for EU/UN management teams, satellite internet ect. My colleges ran a camp in Sierra Leone wrt. ebola, went to US Virgin Islands after the storm, I went to Sweden to fight forest fires and stuff like that.

I have friends and family ask why I spend the time, not just on calls, but education, gear maintenance and the like instead of focusing even more on my career and day job. The answer isn't rational, but it just gives me experiences I wouldn't get any other way. I grew up learning to inherently help people if asked to without question and probably wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't helping others. But at least when I need to justify it to my conscious self, I circle back to the egoistic view of how it benefits me as well.

Fun fact, the closer you get to Germany in the southern part of mainland Denmark, the closer the local fire departments start to look like the German "Freiwillige Feuerwehr". The culture there is just much more "everybody in the area that can, responds to the alarm".

I guess what really baffles me here is that a CC issuer is allowed to sell that data at all. Just. Wow.

I’m not trying to show off my European high horse, it’s not like we don’t have our own problems.

When I was ~14 I used to take out the caps of disposable cameras, bend the legs down its sides, and convert the rest to be just a charger. It was a big hit in school! You could leave the caps at friends desks and they would curiously pick it up. Toss them at somebody at yell “catch” ect.

IIRC they were rated at 600v, and would leave black indents in the skin.

Kids are effing stupid…

I hate Sony for that page. I’ve helped multiple people with router issues who turned out to have forwarded all those ports from wan to their PlayStation (or it’s previous IP). Ofc it wasn’t the issue at hand, but horrible none the less.

My dad collects old kerosene engines, and used to have a simplified version of this. A 2 cylinder, 2 crankshaft, 4 piston, 2 stroke Diesel engine.

Used by German forces to power plane-spotting projectors, so presumably manufactured in the late 30s or 40s.

I’m not sure, but this might be related to my issues whenever I used chrome, and it would auto fill hidden elements of settings forms in pfSense. All of a sudden you had changed stuff you didn’t mean to, or get seemingly weird errors about invalid input.

At least I could imagine this prop being applied to hidden elements, either in pfSense or internally in chrome.

Great work! I have two Sculpt's that I use daily, and have also wanted to do something like this for a while. I've never had issues with the wireless signals, but would like QMK firmware so I could remap buttons. I haven't really found a way to do this in Linux, with keyboard layers and whatnot.

For now, I’ve resorted to extracting the rootfs of the cloud key plus firmware images, and running UniFi protect in a LXD container on a raspberry pi. I’ve not tried this with their cloud access, and could not get the app to work with it yet. I’d like to do a writeup at some point, but not sure if I could get in legal trouble...

Yes. At least it can use service workers. Meteor uses MongoDB on the backend, and minimongo client side. Those two are synced over their DDP protocol IIRC.

I miss meteor. It was such a great framework and promise. Not for big sites really, but for mock-ups, internal sites ect. A while ago I started to look at it again. The drivers behind the project was essentially asking for input on what was preventing people from using the framework. The current state of the project is/was OK, except for the fact that it was hold down by all the guides and howtos referring to previous versions. It was not well documented what current best practices to follow, what to use as replacements for deprecated dependencies ect.

100x more potent just means you will give 1/100 the dose for the same effect. Around here, fentanyl is used in ambulances. Biggest side effect is it can stop your breath if it’s more than the dose given in lollipops (field-style first aid thing), so you have to keep an eye on the patient.

> Does this facilitate users installing packages system-wide in their sandbox?

This. They can use it as they please, like a second desktop. I can limit their resources, migrate or archive the containers as needed.

One guy was training some ML, one was messing with compiler versions, one with Debian packaging tools ect.

I've seen this mentioned in a few threads on HN and I'm curious.

Which TVs do this?

I run LXD on some machines at work and overall I love it. Think of it as VM hosting, but very little overhead thanks to the shared kernel. (But can for some reason now also be used to manage KVM VM's) Generally I use it for two use-cases, where I need to do minimal work:

* Giving co-workers a container they can use to host small utilities on a static IP to share, instead of them hosting it on their own desktop. Think compiler-explorer ect.

* Giving co-workers access to our 64 core ThreadRipper for heavy workloads, sandboxed from one another.

But a mandatory "F* Snap" needs to be said.

Both the 4G infrastructure, and internet lines dug in the ground has beenopened up by law, so new providers can rent their way into existence for a reasonable price. Before then, the national monopoly that was TDC was horrible to deal with, and still is. I signed up for a fiber line for our office with them, and they’ve so far provided as bad a service as possible without breach of contract. Competition is good, sometimes lawmakers are needed to make that happen.

Not sure. Some limitations were removed when EU rules for roaming charges were put in place. To be fair, my “IOT” plan is Denmark-only.

I’m in Denmark. I have “3” as a phone provider and have essentially an unlimited plan for 30usd, with free roaming in most of the world. My home internet is served as an IOT plan with a “300MB” plan that in practice the network owned by the old national provider don’t cap, so I hit 1TB on 4G with a monthly fee of ~4.7USD. I know many people who does the same. The US really seem like in need of some good old competition.

In search of self hosting email I tried out both MailInABox and Mailcow. MailInABox wanted to control DNS records which was a no-go. The primary driver behind the project seems to have arrogant attitude towards having users do DNS records themselves. Mailcow seemed nice but was guzzling up ram for seemingly no good reason. Finally tried out Mailu a few days ago which seems to work nice, albeit with limited testing.

I've long considered creating a KVM IP thingie for VGA video with a BeagleBone Black. IIRC the PRUs (200mhz coprocessors) and the on-chip ADC should be fast enough to sample the video as-is, and have DMA access into main-cpu ram.

My personal theory by now is that that person/team is sick of being forced to work on a stillborn project, and is trying to create as many pain points as possible to get the project killed already. I see no other reason by now. In that case, hats off to him.

In Denmark and Germany at least general trailer combos limit you to 80km/h, but newer combos can be approved for 100.

I’ve been overtaken by a horsetailer doing a bit over 100mph. I do believe it was a Porsche suv doing the pulling tho. This was in Denmark. Back when I was young and reckless my old Peugeot sedan was pretty stable doing around that speed with a flatbed dual axle trailer.

I'd argue you can't just "apt-get remove snapd", when you push transitional apt packages that depends on snapd.

I understand the argument with browsers, but that does not justify the default on ubuntu-server. LXD being Snap-only really feels like force-feeding Snap.

This reminds me of the gameboy copy protection. The device looked for the Nintendo bitmap in the cartridge boot screen before it continued execution. That way you couldn't make third party cartridges without stepping on their trademark. (On mobile so can't find video source)

This is really neat! About 13 years ago (when I was a late teen) I was really keen on the whole engine management idea, and tried to wrap my head around megasquirt. Today I'm running diesel lumps from the late 70's (Land Rovers) so can't really use this even tho it would be really cool. Makes me want to get a small petrol engine from a scrapyard to play around with this.

A note: took me a little too figure out which MCU this is build around. Surely it couldn't be the classical AVR arduino, but yes, it's a ATMega 2560.

Nice project! Initial thought: apart from ease of development, is there any reason to do it in user space? I looked into uinput before to get a Bluetooth mfi controller working, but couldn't figure out which modules of the kernel did what.

Same with a Roku, if you press the asterisk before playing content

Doesn't have to be. If I TX with 5W near my new Lattitude laptop, the cursor goes all over the place. I've heard of electricians using uhf radios tripping GFI breakers. I guess what is normal power levels in ham / professional radios are much more than most other stuff is designed to withstand.

I tried running pi-hole for a few days, but went back to pfBlockerNG. The ui is nice, but not really anything i care to look at as long as it works. AFAIK pfBlockerNG not only blocks the domains, but the IPs they resolve to as well, meaning no funny business will get around it. I realize it requires a pfsense router out similar, but don't understand why it's not brought up more alongside pi-hole.

I volunteer in the Danish national emergency service. A year ago we and Multiple other countries went to Sweden to help out with massive forest fires. I'm talking speeding for an hour in varying levels of smoke and not be half way through our area. I've never experienced fires like that, mainly since we dont have forests like that, but it became pretty clear to me how much the low vegetation meant for the life of the fire. The fire could be burning slowly through the ground vegetation and everybody would pretty much ignore it. But if it hit bigger bushes and spread to the treetops all hell broke loose. Others trucks were written off as a loss and personnel airlifted away on that account. As for a newer approach they stragedly cut down parts of the forest, both for wood production and to vary the age of the forest. This seemed to have great effect when trying to contain the fire.

Some additional information: The yearly tax on cars are heavily affected by the milage of the car and ranges from $40/y for cars above 75mpg to $5260/y for cars below 12mpg (diesel figures)