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visualphoenix··on Sign arbitrary data with your SSH keys
How about gpg-agent? Is that forbidden?
visualphoenix··on Useful sed scripts and patterns
This is awkward… I know it’s hip and cool to ask for donations, but for a tiny collection of sed scripts which aren’t including detailed explanations?

I feel like sed is what deserves the donation…

http://sed.sourceforge.net/sed1line.txt ?

https://www.fsf.org/about/ways-to-donate/

visualphoenix··on MangoDB: An open-source MongoDB alternative
Agreed. My set intersection joke was unacknowledged. It failed Jepsen.
visualphoenix··on MangoDB: An open-source MongoDB alternative
Reminds me of other abandon things I’ve seen in this space before over the years like torodb[0] and pgmongo[1].

Peeking at this implementation, it seems very immature. There is a long road ahead. Good luck!

I always suspected this space never matured because the effort to rewrite a mongo app to use postgres was less than providing a drop in mongo translation layer.

Though I’ve never used mongo, I’ve always presupposed the set of people who pick mongo is a mutually exclusive from the set of people that pick Postgres. Perhaps this is proof of set intersection?

[0] https://github.com/torodb/server

[1] https://github.com/thomas4019/pgmongo

visualphoenix··on An Overview of Docker Desktop Alternatives
Fwiw, I switched to a docker-machine based deployment with vmware.

https://gist.github.com/visualphoenix/1bfa6f05289902bf2858bc...

visualphoenix··on Podswap: Keep airpods alive and out of the landfill
Are they actually replacing the battery at all? Or are they simply sending you “AirReps”? The clones these days cost $30. Most folks wouldn’t recognize the difference, except for the poor microphone recording quality.
visualphoenix··on pfSense CE 2.5.2
I’ve been exploring this as well with the same hardware stack. Any interest in collaborating? If so, hit me up with the info in my profile.
visualphoenix··on FOVO: A new 3D rendering technique based on human vision
I tried looking up a technical publication on this technique but the journal article is straight trash [0]. That said, I found a useful post where folks were trying to explore this style of rendering [1]. It’s interesting to see that in the demo videos the cameras move in a straight path. Apparently there is some wonkiness that comes from changing the view orientation.

From [1], I’ll leave by cross posting some useful links: experimental rendering techniques with Quake [2], Minecraft [3], and a cool article about visualizing projections [4].

[0] https://www.scienceopen.com/document_file/4e8c9d47-51f4-4145...

[1] https://forums.chaosgroup.com/forum/chaos-common/chaos-commo...

[2] https://github.com/shaunlebron/blinky

[3] https://github.com/shaunlebron/flex-fov

[4] http://shaunlebron.github.io/visualizing-projections/

visualphoenix··on Groove Pizza
Pretty cool. Groove Pizza is definitely approachable and easy to use. I wish the samples sounded better.

It reminds me of the Funklet web sequencer, which has some powerful features but is very unapproachable. I like that Funklet has an extensive catalogue of recreations of famous beats.

https://funklet.com/ (examples)

https://machine.funklet.com/funklet.html (blank)

visualphoenix··on CentOS Linux is ending because Red Hat refused to invest in it
Interesting... I didn’t know about Rocky McGaugh, but I’ve definitely benefited from CentOS.

In attempting to research who Rocky was, I stumbled onto this post with a dead link[0]. Anyone know the story behind Rocky and TeamHPC?

[0] https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/general-10/news-155...

visualphoenix··on Build a tiny certificate authority for your homelab
Vault as a CA is also ridiculously painful. This comes from the battlefield.
visualphoenix··on Amazon’s cloud Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage would buy you your own
Thank goodness for this offering. Do you know of any other cloud provider offering Mac instances that is HIPAA compliant and will sign a BAA?
visualphoenix··on Kirc – A tiny IRC client written in POSIX C99
FWIW I’ve had great success using ghostunnel[0] instead of stunnel in prod. Big fan.

[0] https://github.com/ghostunnel/ghostunnel

visualphoenix··on Show HN: Tiny password manager with all data stored encrypted on your machine
Don’t go doing this and expecting it’s the default behavior. It’s not. Your bash session must have set, at minimum:

   HISTCONTROL=“ignorespace”
visualphoenix··on With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now run GNOME
Thanks! This looks like exactly what I was looking for!
visualphoenix··on With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now run GNOME
:D

yes. a beowulf cluster. these day's it'd be a kubernetes/nomad cluster. doesnt roll off the tongue like it used to.

visualphoenix··on With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now run GNOME
Is there a mailing list or wiki tracking the status of these components and patches for the kernel for HK? Like the one for Sunxi?
visualphoenix··on With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now run GNOME
Oof. That’s exactly what I worry about... who is compiling this “Ubuntu”... is it official upstream? What Kernel patches are they carrying?
visualphoenix··on With only free software, a Mali G31 chip can now run GNOME
Looks like the new odroid c4 (raspberry pi competitor) has this g31 chip. [0,1]

Might be interesting to try building a cluster with these. [2]

I wonder how much remaining work there is for full upstream support on these AmLogic chips? The problem with arm chips has always been limited upstream distro support.

The Linux-Sunxi folks have been working for years to get the Allwinner stack up to snuff... it’s taken a long time.[3]

Is there any community around the AmLogic and Rockchip stuff as solid and coordinated as the Allwinner folks?

[0] https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-c4/

[1] https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/04/23/50-odroid-c4-raspber...

[2] https://blog.tjll.net/distributed-homelab-cluster/#network-c...

[3] https://linux-sunxi.org/Linux_mainlining_effort

visualphoenix··on Rare Second World War Footage of Bletchley Park Emerges
Isn’t it linked in the article on the word “footage”? That’s what I see at least...
visualphoenix··on Ask HN: How remote is your job? What is missing for 100%?
:D
visualphoenix··on Ask HN: How remote is your job? What is missing for 100%?
Doesn’t need to be large or a dedicated room.

Over the years I’ve done it a variety of ways. Currently using a small 3 foot by 2 foot wall mounted ikea whiteboard. In college I bought whiteboard tiles and double sided taped them to the wall to make a whole wall a whiteboard... I’ve had tiny 2x1s... never had a room, apartment or house since high school without a whiteboard...

We’re engineers and designers... we can do hard things.

visualphoenix··on Ask HN: How remote is your job? What is missing for 100%?
Recently had the pleasure of using Amazon Chime and collaborated in meetings of size 2-20 with it. It beat the pants off Google Meet, which we use internally.
visualphoenix··on Ask HN: How remote is your job? What is missing for 100%?
Easily solved by having every team member mount a whiteboard behind their work area. I do that and often whiteboard solutions on video chat.
visualphoenix··on Mutable Instruments' Eurorack Modules
Aah Eurorack... I first found out about this scene when a friend started making modules in his spare time and then eventually left the game development industry to found Noise Engineering[0]

It’s definitely cool the MI stuff is open source!

[0] https://www.noiseengineering.us/

visualphoenix··on Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?
Nicholas Frechette[0] has a deeply technical blog about building his MIT licensed animation compression library for game development...

[0] https://nfrechette.github.io/

visualphoenix··on Critical Bluetooth vulnerability in Android
Did this iOS Bluetooth LE exploit ever get patched? https://github.com/hexway/apple_bleee/blob/master/README.md

Less dangerous, for sure...

visualphoenix··on SoftICE
Yup! Discovering SoftICE was a game changer. Various advanced SoftICE diablo 1 and diablo 2 multiplayer “enhancements” circulated back in the day... ones like bypassing the maximum level cap, making your user not render in multiplayer so you couldn’t be clicked on during pvp, among others.

+orc and fravia +hcu stuff ate up loads of my free time in the late 90s and definitely helped later on once I got a formal computer science and engineering degree.

Thanks for the memories SoftICE!

visualphoenix··on You Suck at Excel (2015) [video]
This one? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3nfcCQ0Vyl8
visualphoenix··on Stupid Unix Tricks
author should probably be using: command -v

instead of: which

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