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Intel 7260 comes in mini PCI form and is readily available if you feel like replacing the card. Works fine with iwm(4).

znedwon Rufus: Reliable USB Formatting Utility

DriveDroid (https://www.drivedroid.io) is pretty good for this sorta thing

I tried manually building grub with the patch but gave up and just created an ext2 /boot partition, but this is good news! Thank-you for fixing it.

znedwon Zstandard v1.4.0

I've been using zstd compression on btrfs for a while now and it's excellent, most of my stuff is already compressed (movies, music) but my home directory (which is mostly comprised of text files) has shrunk greatly.

znedwon Show HN: Easy-to-use curl command to send email notifications

Should setup DKIM for better deliverability

znedwon Introduction to HAProxy ACLs

I switched from nginx to HAProxy for my internal reverse-proxying needs and it is excellent, the configuration is a bit more verbose but it handles every app (including WebSockets, weird RPC, cookies etc) with ease.

znedwon The setup of OpenBSD Amsterdam

If you need more convincing to try OpenBSD, these interviews are nice https://www.bsdjobs.com/people and similar to usesthis.com.

znedwon TinyWM – A tiny window manager in around 50 lines of C

I use a mix of wmutils[0] and windowchef[1] and they're great, lots of little programs (some < 10 LoC) but also some cool stuff like mouse support and borders etc. I've only ever had trouble with JAVA apps which is a simple fix (_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1)

This is a screenshot of my Linux desktop [2], I use these on OpenBSD as well without too much issue.

[0] https://github.com/wmutils [1] https://github.com/tudurom/windowchef [2] https://i.redd.it/ql1id3rocnq01.png

znedwon 14-year-old boy uses legal quirk to run for Vermont governor

It's Ice Town all over again!

znedwon Exapunks

>The year is 1997. You used to be a hacker, but now you have the phage. You made a deal: one hack, one dose. There’s nothing left to lose… except your life.

Is this not the plot of Neuromancer?

znedwon Playing battleships over BGP

A nice introduction to BGP is Peter Hessler's BGP-spamd (https://bgp-spamd.net), which is a creative use of BGP for sync'ing lists of blacklisted mail servers.

znedwon A standards-based PDF viewer created using Electron and Pdf.js

zathura is nice on *nix, has support for multiple pdf rendering engines (muPDF and poppler).

znedwon OpenBSD 6.3 released

I've got an OpenBSD router setup on an APU2 (https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2c4.htm). It's running dhcpd, unbound, dnscrypt-proxy, openvpn server and an openvpn client and the load averages are pretty low. Haven't bench-marked throughput properly yet as I'm still configuring PF properly.

I used these [0][1] repos as a starting point, I wrote a few helpers to update dynamic dns and a DNS ad blocklist for unbound. This replaced a pfSense install and I'm happy with it so far.

[0] https://github.com/elad/openbsd-apu2 [1] https://github.com/northox/openbsd-apu2

znedwon Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

I'm using spotify through mopidy & mopidy-spotify, i can use ncmpcpp to play playlists and search spotify just like a local MPD server with a lot of music, it's excellent.

znedwon How Australia Bungled Its $36B High-Speed Internet Rollout

Currently I pay AUD$79 per month for the privilege of 1.4mbp/s down and 100kp/s up. My area is slated for the NBN, albiet HFC (using old coaxial) to commence building in 2019. Bloody bonza, mate.

znedwon What type of software will you refuse to develop for ethical reasons?

Web-scraping if a reasonably priced and accessible API is available

znedwon Microsoft now lets iOS developers deploy, run and test their apps on Windows

Deploys to a physical iOS device via QR code

znedwon New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

Fingers crossed for FUSE support soon, sorely needed IMO.