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moontear··on I have never read a business plan or balance sheet
Good distinction, thanks!
moontear··on I have never read a business plan or balance sheet
That one was more puzzling to me. Every one liner people would use to pitch their idea, every elevator talk essentially is a „pitch deck“.
moontear··on Exposing a web service with Cloudflare Tunnel
Help me understand what you mean: my service ok particular wouldn’t be ddosed because nobody cares.

I guess bots are hitting CF IPs at large and therefore services might be disrupted?

moontear··on My self-hosting infrastructure, fully automated
I also run everything with docker stack(s) currently. Not using salt and haven’t heard of it. Why would I want salt and not ansible or something similar?
moontear··on Average color of each country (using satellite imagery)
Very nice and beautiful! Would print and put on my wall

Is the „A“ from Average in the poster set apart a bit more (letter-spacing) or am I seeing things?

moontear··on Apache Guacamole
That’s why I said via VPN, but yes of course it’s more secure if you add another layer - I wouldn’t say more secure than SSH or VPN.
moontear··on Bosch gives go-ahead for volume production of silicon carbide chips
The longform articles on hackaday are always very informative
moontear··on Apache Guacamole
Setting it up via Docker container is a lot easier than a custom setup.

I really am not a fan of Guacamole. I love the idea and convenience of having everything running in the browser from the client side, but I much prefer a real RDP session (via VPN) than having it in the browser. Why? Keyboard shortcuts! I am soooo much slower because browsers (not guacs fault - but at the same time it is its fault since I would love a native client) can’t catch all keys (e.g. Windows key). ALT-TAB? Yeah you just tabbed away from Guac. Or the new fancy WIN-TAB, no way that gets passed on to Guac. Also the file sharing experience is worse. RDP? Just drag an drop or Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V. That doesn’t always work in Guac…

moontear··on Google 20% time volunteers have been rewriting the ITA Matrix flight search app
Take that to the Feedback form, I'm sure the product team would appreciate such detailed feedback.
moontear··on I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
You mean like the Environment.SpecialFolders enum?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.environme...

There are several other classes that take care of getting folders, least of which checking system variables.

moontear··on How Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%
* by deleting the Xbox game bar

Just kidding - impressive how much you can safe in terms of size.

moontear··on Zero-Trust RDP and SSH Access to VMs on Google Cloud
To me it looks very much like mRemoteNG (https://mremoteng.org/). Is this just because the same WinForms libraries were used or is there some meat to this?
moontear··on Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options
I get the intention of the website. I also do like your design. I just don't think the information is helpful as it is represented right now as others has also commented already.

You are supposed to start by selecting a country. Let's say "Australia". Your website tells me: Tourist Visa: Tourist Visa. With a general link to https://nomadvisa.io/australia Working Holiday Visa: Working Holiday Visa. Besides these two visas the whole Australia is filled with information that doesn't concern Visas at all, but the country itself.

Either I have not understood what information the website shows or the information isn't there. You state I "can compare all types of visas" - what comparison can I do by knowing "Tourist Visa" and "Working Holiday Visa". Can I compare these somehow to different countries?

moontear··on New mystery AWS product ‘Infinidash’ goes viral despite being entirely fictional
This would be the right thing to do from AWS. Would be the perfect April fools day joke.
moontear··on Compare AWS and Azure Services to Google Cloud
To be fair this is not a comparison, but rather showing equivalent products with no qualitative rating of the other companies’ product. Therefore I think this is a good Ressource albeit not a comparison.
moontear··on Spaceprob.es catalogues all the probes that still communicate with Earth
This is really nice, but I want more data.

Everything of course only if publically available:

- Where are the probes located right now (map)?

- what is their trajectory/target location?

- what does the data look like being transmitted (I.e. Voyager isn’t more than a blip, or is it)?

- what Kind of data could be still gathered, e.g. could we ask the Probe to „take a picture“ or would the bandwidth simply not be enough?

moontear··on A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker
How is it that pretty much all stock trackers / APIs only support US symbols? There are so many stocks out there that don't have a symbol and have an ISIN. Is everybody only trading symbol-based stocks? That seems very limited to me.
moontear··on Get notified when a file on GitHub has changed
How is this related to getting notified on GitHub file changes? Wouldn't you agree that any Microsoft-dominance discussion would be rather off-topic here?
moontear··on Ask HN: Anyone know any funny programming jokes?
If the plane were my machine there would be no danger.
moontear··on Dark’s new backend will be in F#
Why is it bad that it is embedded in the .NET ecosystem?
moontear··on Nuclear power: Are we too anxious about the risks of radiation?
Maybe the fear of actual death by radiation is over-proportionate, but what about nuclear waste? It is only mentioned in the very end of the article, but many countries are having problems finding a suitable site for long-term storage of nuclear waste.
moontear··on I was excited for Neuralink, then I watched the demo
I am not an expert, but what I thought was remarkable is the 12000 channels Musk talked about. New cochlear implants have 120 channels - one channel is one neuron (AFAIK) - more neurons is better results.

I would love some expert take on this, but my first reaction was „12000 sounds like a lot - they all work? That’s cool“.

Also check out this wait but why article which I think explains the resolution pretty well: https://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html

moontear··on GitHub Codespaces
Thanks for this! I was just gonna say "wait, this looks exactly like Visual Studio Online".
moontear··on Workstream: A fast virtual computer you can use for anything
Not OP but https://shadow.tech/
moontear··on The 'Great Wave' has mystified art lovers for generations (2019)
What a horrible headline. Clickbait.

While I love Hokusai's art, this article does not explain why the Great Wave mystifies art lovers nor how it does so for generations.

moontear··on Codem Ipsum: Lorem Ipsum but for Code
Same thought here. I thought something along the lines of hackertyper. Something that looks like real code, but isn't.
moontear··on Igloo: A simple Windows automation tool
No, it doesn't. PowerShell has aliases like `cls` for `Clear-Host`, but no "short variants". Maybe this is a bit nitpicky, but wording is important since aliases should for example not be used in scripts as they may be changed, hence you should always use the terse or complete commands.
moontear··on Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
Giving it a shot, I just remembered Launchy from the good old days. I‘m happy with the start menu search as my launcher when it works.
moontear··on Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
So far, no. I have reset search index, reindexed and tried the PowerShell commands from the KB article. Search in Windows Explorer works just fine - only Start menu doesn’t. Troubleshooter says incorrect permissions for search directories but I haven’t fiddled with those. Tried repairing permissions and giving everyone permission but doesn’t help :-(
moontear··on Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
Thanks for that search problem link I am exactly one of those users and start menu search just isn’t working. I have switched to Launchy as an alternative after years of being happy with the start menu search. I can finally look for a solution now, nice.
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