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na85··on Guest WiFi using a QR code
I would never write something so ambiguous.
na85··on Guest WiFi using a QR code
The optimal solution is thus:

"What's your wifi password?"

"It's written right there on the fridge"

na85··on The Uber leak exposes the global war on workers
>courageous

Yes I'm certain the folks at Uber were feeling the pressure every day at their Bay Area office with its foosball tables.

Good grief.

na85··on Ask HN: Good private email host with IMAP?
I too run my own, but for ingoing and outgoing. I did my due diligence and selected a host with good IP reputation, warmed up the domain and IP manually, and have good deliverability to Gmail and outlook and other big players as far as I can tell.

Happy to test with anyone from hn. Email address is in my HN profile.

na85··on Plano man keeping Blockbuster alive
It's easier to suspend your disbelief when you can't see the little squares around the TIE Fighter as it attacks the Millennium Falcon.
na85··on Plano man keeping Blockbuster alive
Even modern CG is garbage and suffers from the uncanny valley effect.

I don't enjoy Marvel films but even if I did they're unwatchable because of the awful CG.

na85··on Running an Open Source Home Area Network
>Even though the Linksys WRT3200ACM was released back in 2016, it’s still a solid and well-supported option for OpenWrt – unless WiFi is your primary requirement.

>Since the Panda PAU09 N600 works out of the box, the only thing needed to enable the WiFi access point is a working hostapd configuration: [75+ lines of config for something that "works out of the box"]

>One pitfall here is that Docker likes to mess around with iptables, leading to WiFi clients being unable to communicate with the internal network. In order to fix this, another drop-in configuration is needed:

>Update: Because I simply couldn’t get it working with this rule, that was suggested in the Docker docs in first place, I eventually gave up and used a jackhammer to fix it: [...]

I see wifi is still a shitshow in the libre world. Running entirely free software is a laudable goal but the above sums up why it's never going to be mainstream. All that fuckery for previous generation .11ac?

No thanks, I have a zillion other more important things to do with my time.

na85··on Running an Open Source Home Area Network
NixOS seems to make needless complexity a point of pride.
na85··on My return to desktop applications
>And arguably my use of wxWidgets made it not even "real real"

Doesn't wxWidgets wrap and abstract over the native APIs for each respective platform?

Seems real enough to me.

I once decided I'd write a GUI in pure win32 (when Windows 7 was new) and the experience really, really sucked. In my book there's no shame in using a GUI library any more than a socket library.

na85··on Meshtastic is an encrypted communications platform for the Lora RF protocol
I'd love to see a protocol designed for that sort of thing that hops from phone to phone without explicit intervention from the user.

No setting up a wifi hotspot and having people connect to you. No need to be connected to wifi at all. No fucking with Bluetooth.

I'm not even sure if there's a way to do it but that's what I really want. Carrying a separate LoRa device is just one more thing I'll forget to pack or charge.

na85··on Tesla is no longer the largest EV producer
Tesla is the blackberry of EVs.

They're eventually going to have their lunch eaten by the Apple of EVs.

Apple will never become the Apple of EVs.

na85··on It’s 1997 and you want to build a website
>Read the source.

An artifact of its time. If the Web was designed today it would certainly not have viewable source.

na85··on I don't care how you web dev; I just need more better web apps
Frameworks have a direct impact on UX though. How many React monstrosities are snappy and responsive? Certainly none that I've used.
na85··on PulseAudio and Systemd Creator, Lennart Poettering, Reportedly Leaves Red Hat
>He can easily hop ship wherever he wants given the major impact he's landed

I don't know about that. Talent alone doesn't make someone a good fit for a team. Would you want to work alongside Poettering? Or de Raadt?

I wouldn't, and that means I wouldn't hire them either.

na85··on Raspberry Pico-based 100-Msps logic analyzer
There's a possibly-DOA project called BeagleV to produce a modern 1 GHz-class board running a RISC V system.

I'm sad that the beaglebone didn't "win" versus the raspberry pi. I have several Beaglebone Blacks and they're great little devices, even if the PRU is a little hard to use.

na85··on Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of books (that are not in Libgen)
Malicious sites can still use letsencrypt
na85··on Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stopping you?
I was a camp counselor for many years in my teens and into my twenties.

We could always--always--tell which kids were the homeschooled kids.

na85··on Pronunciation Guide for Unix
The hard G is heavenly, sublime, and the patrician's manner of pronouncing it.
na85··on Pronunciation Guide for Unix
I think they mean "see aitch root"
na85··on Pronunciation Guide for Unix
Only godless savages and the sort of people who talk at the theatre pronounce it with a soft G.
na85··on Pronunciation Guide for Unix
I've always been partial to "khroot"
na85··on Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left a double crater
>The entire point of imperial units is that you can always easily just take half of size

Is that why there are 3 feet in a yard, 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon, and 231 cubic inches in a gallon?

na85··on Show HN: I ranked news websites by speed
I'd be interested in seeing CBC.ca/news on the rankings, as I imagine they'd be near the bottom and they need a kick in the pants.
na85··on Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left a double crater
I think we can all agree that imperial units are stupid.
na85··on Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights
Yes because it directly affects both my wife and my daughter. If either one chose to get an abortion I'd be very sad, but that's not a good reason to make something illegal.
na85··on Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights
>Do you care if a random woman kill her newborn?

I honestly don't care. 20 murders happened on the other side of the planet while I typed this comment. I think it's sad, but it doesn't affect my life in any material way.

na85··on Google says US employees can relocate to states with abortion rights
Why do you care what some random women you've never met and will never meet do?

Why is it important to you?

na85··on How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson
Want to know which operating system runs on military classified networks?

I'll give you a hint. It's not BSD.

na85··on Random Ultima Online anecdote #2 – Horses inside players (2014)
I played an awful lot of Ultima Online in my youth, primarily on emulator servers, with which I later got pretty heavily involved on the development side.

It was a truly special game in its heyday; there have been many attempts but no successes at recreating what made UO so special. The adrenaline of PvP in that game is something I've only seen matched in a small handful of titles since.

From everything I've read and watched, Eve Online comes (came?) pretty close to the same general feeling/atmosphere of UO but to be honest I've avoided Eve because I don't want to get hooked. I don't have time for an MMO addiction these days.

na85··on How I would sell OpenBSD as a salesperson
Laptops haven't had CD drives in years.
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