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tapper··on Ask HN: Where to buy second hand server/computer parts?
In the UK: https://tier1online.com/
tapper··on More Kids = More Gratitude
This is very true. I have 5 kids and foster 2 more. I love to see them learn from each other, I think they learn more from each other than they do from me!
tapper··on Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
We are on firefox 115 now mate.
tapper··on How blind photographers visualize the world
O yeah just to add. When people talk about cullers I will think about things that are linked to the culler. Like a banana for yello. this because this is all the word yellow means to me. So when some one says the word yellow I will think about what a banana feels like and the same with orange.
tapper··on How blind photographers visualize the world
OK here goes. Pleas don't mind the spelling.

I was born with glaucoma and had both my eyes removed when I was 2.5 years old.

I cant remember being able to see, but I can remember wearing verry thick glasses. They made my nose ake.

I cant remember what things look like or cullers.

If someone asked me to think about something like a beach I would think about how it would feel under my hands - feet to be on the sand, the sound of the see and the smell of the see. I would all so think about the feel of wind and sun on my skin. Because you have to be in motion to feel things with your hands I would think about all this as if I was walking a cross it. If I am asked to picture somthing simple like a cup or a plate I will remember what one feels like in my hands. When I have dreams I have ones that have all the other censes in them but no site. I have verry strong emotions in them and some dreams can stick with me for a long time. It's strange as I am not like that in my waking life. I don't think that has anything to do with me being blind though.

tapper··on How blind photographers visualize the world
As a blind man this sounds like a load of BS to me! I have bin blind from berth and would have know want or need to invest all this time on something I can not see to enjoy the end product. How would you know which pics arr the rite ones? How can you show them to people when you cant even know what is on the piece of paper you are holding in your hand. If you put a pile of 10 pieces of paper in my hand and marked a line on one piece then I could not pick it out. Blind people can not be photographers. Now if you are telling me that they are low vision then that changes things but fully blind just know! I bet most of the pics are shit any, but know one wants to say. As a blind person you get this all the time. They lie to you and say well dun in a baby voice.

I go to the gym and lift Weights: and people think it is so cool that a blind person can stand in one spot and lift Weights. It pisses me off no end! "O you are so good for what you do!" No mate I am just a blind dude that wants to stay healthy and not get fat. well fatter any way lol.

I mien how hard is it to just lift a Weight bar some of the dumbest people I know are gym rats.

Sorry about my spelling.

tapper··on Xbox360 –> Windows Executable Converter (2017)
hahahahahahahaha
tapper··on Ask HN: IP cameras that don't require an app or internet?
Well that was a dumb thing to do! You could of flashed it with OpenWrt and had a dam good router.
tapper··on Reddit bans subreddit detailing how to move to competitor Kbin
Tankie is a pejorative label for communists, particularly Stalinists, who support the authoritarian tendencies of Marxism–Leninism or, more generally, authoritarian states associated with Marxism–Leninism in history. The term was originally used by dissident Marxist–Leninists to describe members of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) who followed the party line of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). WTF?
tapper··on OpenWrt 23.05.0-rc1 – First Release Candidate
OpenWrt and OpenWisp are different. I run OpenWrt at home so I can install packages to block adds and ban IPs I don't want my smart TV to talk to. OpenWisp is for when you want to set up a bunch of WIFI APs like in a smal village or Holladay park. As far as I know.
tapper··on Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps
This will fuck over a bunch of blind people. Using the site is just not doable with a screen reader. There has bin aps made for blind people to use and these will all stop working.
tapper··on Classic components could be replaced by rubber in next-gen loudspeakers
My screen readers reads that site in a verry strange way. It says that there is soft hyfens in a lot of the words so it reads the words like repro­duce as"repro duce"
tapper··on Ask HN: What other news feeds do you read besides Hacker News?
I love Ars Technica!
tapper··on Zotac PI430AJ Pico mini PC features Airjet solid-state active cooling chips
I would love one of these with 1 extra lan port to use as a router. Would make a grate x86 OpenWrt box.
tapper··on Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
They are working on a big UI over hall so this mite get fixt. you can test it out in the beta
tapper··on Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
I didn't know about Mozilla Connect's. If this is so then let it be.
tapper··on Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
Yes mate I do donate to TB, NVDA and OpenWrt. NVDA is different though as I cant use my computer with out it. It's a screen reader for blind people.
tapper··on Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
May be it's just me, but I don't use email the same on my phone as I do desktop. I have 5 accounts on my desktop but just the one witch is my mane on my phone. Aps these days cant just stay good at one thing like ff being good on windows. They want to be good on Windows, Linux, BSD, Android so on and so on.
tapper··on Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report
Why does there have to be a Android and IOS ports of Thunderbird? Just stick to desktop. This happens all the time now.
tapper··on Chatcraft.org: Developer-Focused Open Source ChatGPT
Here's the post from David Humphrey | who all so worked on the website. https://blog.humphd.org/chatcraft-org/
tapper··on Religious Faith Is Surging Among Young People
Thanks mate. I fucking hate paywalls!
tapper··on The Reddit Mods/Moderation Is Out of Control
I just tryed to post this to 4 subs and all were removed. You cant talk about this on there.
tapper··on Ask HN: What are your most frequently visited websites
I use Firefox sorry. All though Firefox is mutch better IMO. My home page is Startpage. https://www.startpage.com/
tapper··on Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS
Not going to run that locked down crap on my network.
tapper··on Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight Demystifying and Jailbreaking RouterS
I never run anything that can't be flashed with OpenWrt!
tapper··on Emergency declared and curfew imposed following North Carolina power grid attack
They don't like to use the words "domestic terrorism" when the people who did it are white.
tapper··on Tell HN: Karma Farming Using ChatGPT
But this is the kind of data GTP3 was trained on. What did you expect?
tapper··on Tell HN: Yes, ChatGPT does not know what it is talking about
Dude WTF is this? I am Human and the AI did better than me! I don't know what the hell any of that miens. What did you want from GTP3? Like what was the point?
tapper··on Using a ChatGPT as a compiler/transpiler for an inexistent programming language
I love what it can do and at the same time it's scary. I asked it to write me a script to turn the wifi on my openwrt router at 9.30 pm and back on again at 6 am. It even commented the code.

Hi I want you to write me a script to ron on my OpenWrt router. I want to shut down my wifi at 9.30 PM and then turn it back on at 6 AM

Sure, here is a script that you can use to shut down your WiFi at 9:30 PM and turn it back on at 6 AM: Copy code #!/bin/sh

# This script will shut down the WiFi at 9:30 PM and turn it back on at 6 AM

# Check the current time CURRENT_TIME=$(date +%H:%M)

# Shut down the WiFi at 9:30 PM if [ "$CURRENT_TIME" = "21:30" ]; then wifi down fi

# Turn the WiFi back on at 6 AM if [ "$CURRENT_TIME" = "06:00" ]; then wifi up fi To use this script, you will need to save it to your OpenWrt router and make it executable. Here's how you can do that: 1. SSH into your OpenWrt router using a command like `ssh root@192.168.1.1` (replace `192.168.1.1` with the IP address of your router) 2. Create a new file called `wifi-scheduler.sh` using the `nano` text editor: `nano wifi-scheduler.sh` 3. Paste the script into the file and save it: • Press `CTRL+X` to exit the text editor • Press `Y` to save the file • Press `Enter` to confirm the file name 4. Make the script executable: `chmod +x wifi-scheduler.sh` To run the script automatically at the specified times, you can add it to your router's `crontab` (short for "cron table"). Here's how you can do that: 1. Edit the `crontab` using the `crontab -e` command 2. Add the following lines to the `crontab` to run the script at 9:30 PM and 6 AM: Copy code 30 21 * * * /root/wifi-scheduler.sh 00 06 * * * /root/wifi-scheduler.sh 3. Save the `crontab` and exit the text editor That's it! Your WiFi should now automatically shut down at 9:30 PM and turn back on at 6 AM.

tapper··on Ask HN: What would you work on if you had 100 devs
If they had the skills to work with the packages and knowledge I would have them work on OpenWrt. My fave SW at the moment. I would have them fix any outstanding bugs. All so have them get it to run on as mutch HW as they could get it to run on to stop old routers and APs from going to land fill.
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