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I have this handle in most places.

voltagex at voltagex dot org.

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voltagex_··on Captive Portals
What repeater worked for you?
voltagex_··on Oxide builds servers as they should be [audio]
Why do we still use "CD" or "ISO" images in virtual environments?
voltagex_··on Oxide builds servers as they should be [audio]
The audio quality seemed a bit rough on the few I checked out, but I'll try again.
voltagex_··on The world needs a non-profit search engine
There are so so many anti-scraping sites around - it's very difficult to do without pretending to be Googlebot or whatever.
voltagex_··on Why your next home computer should be an old Xeon workstation (2019)
I pay 34c/kWh and likely more in the future. No thanks.
voltagex_··on 7-zip 22.00 – APFS, Posix TAR, high precision timestamps
Where are the cheap certificates?

It still won't guarantee you get to skip the bad smartscreen prompt, though.

voltagex_··on Ask HN: Burnt-out, directionless but want to turn it around
Please, seek opinions outside of this orange site too. Best of luck for your recovery.
voltagex_··on Japanese audio brand Onkyo files for bankruptcy
Unless you then try to hook that Denon up via HDMI to an LG TV - eARC won't work.
voltagex_··on My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
I've done 600 megabit down from an iPhone here in Australia on 5G, and the latency to Sydney was about 20ms.

I'd still rather have gigabit fibre.

The fastest I ever saw on 4G was 300 megabit down but the latency could be 40-80ms.

voltagex_··on Dino 0.3: Video calls and conferences – encrypted and peer-to-peer
Come on now, it hasn't been there since the OpenMoko, even the N900 wasn't great compared to say the N95.

I have pretty much given up on the idea of running an "open source phone", unfortunately.

voltagex_··on Asus and DD-WRT – don't even think about it
You don't mention the ASUS model. I haven't tried OpenWRT on any Asus device but Merlin has worked on the 56U, 68U and 88 for me.

I wouldn't run OpenWRT on any device not explicitly designed for it, these days. It's just too much trouble. I agree with you that the wiki needs some serious clean up.

voltagex_··on Tell HN: Udacity dark pattern to cancel a subscription
I'm pretty sure most of these patterns were thought up by the brain geniuses on this very site.
voltagex_··on Mister FPGA: The Future of Game and Computer Emulation
What happens when the DE10 Nanos run out?
voltagex_··on DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future
Understood - thanks!
voltagex_··on DESQview/X: Forgotten mid-1990s OS from the future
Hey, instead of Dropbox - would you consider putting this on archive.org?
voltagex_··on Hubris – A small operating system for deeply-embedded computer systems
Do you know how much money $175kUSD is to a lot of people?
voltagex_··on What is AT&T doing at 1111340002?
Can a hobbyist mess around with this at all?

Edit: yes, but I wonder how much trouble you'd get in putting this into a real phone?

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32900944064.html?spm=a2g0o.d...

voltagex_··on Using RSS to replace social media
It's not a typo, the author also uses this on their YouTube channel.
voltagex_··on Linux-Router
It sucks, and it shouldn't suck.

Does https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/configur... work for you?

You can email me at voltagex (at) voltagex dot org if you like.

voltagex_··on Linux-Router
Depends on

a) what your WAN connection is and b) how open you need it to be (i.e. there are no open hardware wifi cards)

My WAN port is Ethernet (the GPON conversion is done in a box I don't control). This has the advantage that pretty much any OpenWRT router will work.

I currently use a Traverse Ten64 (disclosure: received the unit for free as part of a beta test) which works reasonably well.

You could also look at gl-inet as someone else has mentioned, or the Turris range of routers. I would not be bothering with flashing a commercial router with OpenWRT anymore.

voltagex_··on RIP Jekyll (The Genesis of the Jamstack)
The messages being inaccessible due to Slack archiving should be a much bigger deal IMO.
voltagex_··on My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day
Sorry - also known as polling rate: https://blog.codinghorror.com/mouse-dpi-and-usb-polling-rate...
voltagex_··on My £4 a month server can handle 4.2M requests a day
Your report rate may be too high.
voltagex_··on I interviewed Brian J. Fox, the creator of Bash
What is the carbon impact of Orchid?
voltagex_··on TekSavvy takes pirate site blocking battle to Canada’s Supreme Court
Yes, that's about right with overheads.
voltagex_··on Git password authentication is shutting down
I don't think I can recommend anyone use PuTTY on Windows anymore, partly because of issues like this. It might be that TortoiseGit is old, but ssh.exe should be available on Windows 10 now.
voltagex_··on Git password authentication is shutting down
That seems more like a problem with StackOverflow than anything else.
voltagex_··on Git password authentication is shutting down
Wait til you work in a corporate environment where core doesn't work but the original GCM does. They bungled that transition.
voltagex_··on Git password authentication is shutting down
I'd be really interested in hearing about your struggles - this tells me there's something really wrong with the tutorials you were reading (through no fault of your own).
voltagex_··on Data exfiltration in Keepa Price Tracker
How do you get contracts to allow scraping? What kind of cost are we talking about?
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