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nullify88··on F1 in Hungary: Strategy and fast tire changes make all the difference
Less fires too!
nullify88··on My phone is an ereader now
Jeez that phone was available new for £10. Do such phones exist these days?
nullify88··on From M1 MacBook to Arch Linux: A month-long experiment that became permanenent
I have an 2015 X1 3rd Generation Broadwell ticking along running Fedora KDE too. My Enter key is cracked and some of the speakers are failing, battery health at 70% was my daily driver for its initial 5 years now it primarily runs a browser and vscode. Still very capable No problems with sleep or wake, even Intel Rapid Start hibernation works although is a huge security hole.
nullify88··on Show HN: unsafehttp – tiny web server from scratch in C, running on an orange pi
Good to see more tiny / small http servers. I'm not a fan of sticking Nginx in a container which maybe bigger than the assets its serving. A statically compiled httpd from busybox has been great for this reason but its good to see more options.
nullify88··on StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
I usually suggest not to create or login with a Samsung Account on Samsung devices. It's just another opportunity for a company to get at your data.
nullify88··on Who has the fastest F1 website (2021)
Or it maybe due to the cars and their designs being throughly tuned for the tracks they are racing on. More so when compared to previous generations of F1 cars.
nullify88··on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
Not just that. ISPs are often subject to certain data retention laws. For Denmark (And other EU countries) that maybe 6 months to 2 years. And considering close ties with "9 eyes" means America potentially has access to my information anyway.

Judging by Cloudflare's privacy policy, they hold less personally identifiable information than my ISP while offering EDNS and low latencies? Win, win, win.

nullify88··on Monitoring My Homelab, Simply
AFAIK, you can now send OpenTelemetry directly to Prometheus. So effectively it supports both push and pull models.
nullify88··on Monitoring My Homelab, Simply
Grafana Cloud have quite a nice free tier. If you use Alloy, you don't need any persistence locally. Everything just gets shipped off.

Similar to the author, I want to run a minimalist monitoring setup and currently just use Glances. But Grafana Cloud might be my first choice if I need to expand the setup.

nullify88··on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks
I commonly Signal call my partner when we are at opposite ends of the house. I can see something like this being useful to prevent using some remote Internet server to facilitate a very local call.

I wonder if there's a home lab / self hosted solution for this.

nullify88··on Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?
I'm only now just starting out my on prem photo library and have a couple of thousand which sqlite with WAL seems to have no problems with.

Also considering the type of workload, I imagine photo albums to be write heavy upon photo imports but read heavy afterwards which sqlite should excel at. I'll mostly be syncing pictures from our phones, and it'll be me and the wife using it. Postgres is overkill for my needs.

What about having to do db migrations across major updates?

nullify88··on OpenFLOW – Quickly make beautiful infrastructure diagrams local to your machine
Whoa as an infrastructure guy I had always dreamed of diagrams like this. And while I've used Miro and some OSS homebrew stuff, nothing was as polished as this. Well done.
nullify88··on Ask HN: What's the 2025 stack for a self-hosted photo library with local AI?
I wanted to like Photoprism because unlike Ente and Immich, it supports SQLite databases and doesn't require postgres (I want to keep home lab maintenance to a minimum) but the UI was difficult to like and I couldn't get hardware encoding working on my Intel N100 GPU.
nullify88··on More on Apple's Trust-Eroding 'F1 the Movie' Wallet Ad
> The Apple of old had a deep respect for their users

The same Apple that tried to convince everyone they were holding their phones incorrectly resulting in Antennagate?

nullify88··on bootc-image-builder: Build your entire OS from a Containerfile
I've been very excited on progress on bootc. I've tried to make my own coreos distro and its quite complicated in comparison.

I've used this to start from a minimal base and added what I've needed on top. Best of all, updates are delivered via a container registry.

nullify88··on Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
According to some benchmarking removing the storage filters offers a mild boost when compared to adding an exclusion and you don't have the benefit of some AV protection when other processes are accessing the volume like steam etc.

https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2023/11/22/test-driving...

nullify88··on Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
You can also achieve nearly the same level of performance by adding exclusions to Windows defender. I typically exclude the game process as I still would want folders scanned when updates / downloads are running. There's a noticable improvement to load times, streaming texture latency, and CPU utilisation.

I don't believe ReFS is contributing so much to the performance improvements seen when using Dev Drives. Removing storage filters from volumes can go a long way.

nullify88··on Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds
I'm on Windows 10 LTSC which will receive updates until 2032. You'll likely have to add stuff to the OS to install the Windows Store and UWP apps but otherwise regular apps just work.
nullify88··on Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway
Worth knowing that Uber bought Dantaxi, Denmark's largest Taxi company a couple of weeks ago. The Uber app will tap in to Dantaxi driver pool. https://www.uber.com/en-DK/newsroom/dantaxi/

I wonder if strong worker unions and regulations forced Uber to buy an existing company rather than starting their own presence.

nullify88··on Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure
Ohh. I guess that's what Windows does when a user wants to change their own password in the domain.
nullify88··on OpenSearch 3.0 Released
It's possible but you need to buy in to the Elastic ecosystem. Stuff like *beats, logstash, etc, they can configure all sorts of index templates, and ingest pipelines depending on what you've configured it to receive.

These days, getting data in and out of Elasticsearch is quite easy with dynamic field mapping. Its keeping it performant which is tricky.

nullify88··on Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
It's a beautiful scene, and I had to buy Hong Kong Massacre after I read it was an inspiration for that scene. Its got some good beats to shoot to.
nullify88··on Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
A great example of this is Hard Boiled 1992, the Hospital Shootout.

I think audiences are beginning to appreciate continuous scenes and are becoming more frequent in western films. The most recent one I can think of is John Wick 4, when it goes top down.

Some of the recent Michael Bay movies are so aggressive when it comes to cuts, the average shot length must be 2 or 3 seconds.

nullify88··on Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
Heavily referenced in Uplink, the hacker video game by Introversion Software.
nullify88··on Sneakers (1992) – 4K Restoration
I mostly see a lot of stuttering. Either during high action scenes or when there's little happening at all. It's especially noticable on HBO / MAX at 4k DV. I assumed it was due to aggressive encoding.
nullify88··on Sneakers (1992) – 4K makeover sourced from the original camera negative
There are some great stills from that movie. In particular the close up of a person's face with reflections of computer text in glasses often sticks with me. I know Timecop also has a similar scene just after the time jump. I think it looks really cool.

My brain is weird.

nullify88··on Show HN: Undercutf1 – F1 Live Timing TUI with Driver Tracker, Variable Delay
I can also suggest https://livetim.in/. I believe this one is one of the nicer web interfaces.
nullify88··on Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative
It is in Europe. I am a fan of Mazzy Star and play their music in Denmark or the UK.
nullify88··on Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account
As far as I know you need to sail across the high seas.
nullify88··on Upcoming Windows 11 builds cannot install without internet and Microsoft Account
Well, those that are on the Windows 10 IoT LTSC builds will enjoy updates until 2032.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows...

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