MrFoof

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by MrFoof 4y ago
The stewards of the OPNSense project, Deciso B.V. in The Netherlands, currently sells some of their own designed hardware to help support the OPNSense project on the OPNSense Shop: https://shop.opnsense.com/product-categorie
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by MrFoof 4y ago
I managed to get some GPUs at MSRP over that period and as I got something a bit faster over that period, I would sell to defray my upgrade cost. I tried to restrict to US buyers to try to get it in the hands of someone who just wanted to p
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by MrFoof 4y ago
> Affirm wasn’t originally built for pants loans, or at least that’s not the founding folklore: Peter Thiel was tired of driving a carless Max Levchin around after they’d sold PayPal, the story goes, but Levchin couldn’t qualify for fin
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Moreover, if you think the current 7.12% yield is great, if you look at the recently released CPI numbers it may be adjusted to 9.62% in May.
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by MrFoof 4y ago
HP ProDesk 405 G8 Mini, or HP EliteDesk 805 G8 Mini. The ProDesk 405 G8 can take a 35W RYZEN 7 PRO 5750GE. This includes AMD DASH (IPMI), and the Ryzen Pro has a few extra security features from EPYC/Threadripper. I got mine shipped
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Pretty much spot on, though the ceiling is a lot lower, at least in the US. -- ----- A 12-core Ryzen 9 5900X is now $395 everywhere in the US, though a patient soul can get one on new eBay for $370-375 before sales tax (but including shippi
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by MrFoof 4y ago
Honestly, depending on what you're doing? Not even that. * Don't underestimate the number of services you can having running in containers on a Raspberry Pi 4B with 8GB of RAM, sipping just 2.1W (yes, that little!) at idle over
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by MrFoof 5y ago
A book I read well over 30 years ago, and is still apparently updated today, is "The Kids' Money Book" by Neale S. Godfrey, which you can certainly find secondhand for cheap. There are updated versions authored by Jamie Ky
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by MrFoof 5y ago
The biggest takeaway people should have from this video is that a modern nuclear strike is effectively an overwhelming Denial of Service attack against emergency services, infrastructure, and supply chain... all at once, on an immense scale
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Add in ATX 3.0, ATX12VO 2.0, the new ATX12VHPWR connector, the I_PSU% feature, the beginning of PCIe 5.0, and the beginning and relative immaturity of DDR5… … right now I say to wait until the end of 2022 for a build. Let Zen 4 and Raptor
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by MrFoof 5y ago
You can buy some self-adhesive light attenuating film. They sell it in pre-cut shapes, in black (several strengths), white and silver. The name brand that started it all was, "LightDims". I put them on... most things. Network g
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by MrFoof 5y ago
>An NVMe device can have multiple queues and each queue can contain many requests at a time. To put this into perspective, whereas AHCI/SATA (NCQ and TCQ) has one command queue with a depth of 32 commands (SAS has a queue depth of
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by MrFoof 5y ago
Neither. It came out in 2014, with some revisions since. 8 years later, there's just not much else out there in 5K-land. The products basically don't exist. I can get some rather fantastic 1440p displays -- HDR, 165Hz, DCI-P3 co
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by MrFoof 5y ago
This. I've been using multiple 1440p displays since 2010, and actually had a 2560x1600 LED back in 2004. I'd do anything for 5K, 120Hz, Mini-LED or Micro-LED displays with 10-bit color and HDR. I don't want 4K: 5K has over
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by MrFoof 5y ago
>The scary part is potentially getting caught out somewhere entirely alone and without an emergency snack. First thing I do every morning is A) put on pants B) put my keys and a tube of glucose tablets in my front pants pocket. You ca
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by MrFoof 5y ago
I'm currently on an engagement at a retail bank for a project that went entirely off the rails (they brought me in to right it). All of the following are currently running simultaneously: * McAfee * Tanium, which is constantly
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by MrFoof 5y ago
>Servicing of engine internals. A car would be down on power significantly after 10 years of wear and can be restored by adjust valve clearances, replacing seals and piston rings, cleaning parts, etc. This has been functionally debunked
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by MrFoof 5y ago
I've been waiting for a solid 5K display that meets my requirements since 2011. In 2011 I said, "when I replace my iMac, I can't wait to have a few 5K 120Hz displays!" In May 2021 I did my workstation build. I just bou
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by MrFoof 5y ago
> Seinfeld even has a whole schtick about this - why is it called a "reservation" if it's not actually....a reservation? The kicker is that episode actually aired just over 30 years ago (December 4th, 1991).
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by MrFoof 5y ago
> I assume the goal here is to eliminate the expensive and leaky natural gas delivery network entirely: nobody is going to build something that complicated just so a few foodies can make stir fry (and people who really care can purchase
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by MrFoof 5y ago
Those machines exist here in the US as well. Every grocer or store around me with bottle and can recycling machines operate identically, and are redeemed identically.
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by MrFoof 5y ago
Way back in the day I was a lone IT guy in a distributor/wholesaler, and part of that was creating line of business apps to do some real heavy lifting, extending existing ones, and creating utilities to tie other apps together. In a t
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by MrFoof 5y ago
>Is this the new normal now? In my last four engagements, every single laptop provided by the employer had something. Usually Tanium or Carbon Black. Network interfaces being disabled entirely if you're not connected to their VPN.
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Kronos hit with ransomware, warns of data breach and 'several week' outage(zdnet.com)
4 points by MrFoof 5y ago|0 comments
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by MrFoof 5y ago
Amazon warehouses are Tilt-Up Construction. Basically 4-to-6-inch thick cast concrete panels on a grid on metal tubes as joists. Support pillars with basic trusses, and a roof tying it together. You lose a ton of stability once that roof
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by MrFoof 5y ago
Boston-area is loaded with them. Within 10 miles of Boston’s Downtown Crossing (which includes many, very dense adjacent cities) it’s unquestionably the most dominant type of building for residences. Duplexes, triplexes and tenements domin
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by MrFoof 5y ago
At least with CR, their subscriptions are pretty trivial to cancel, and I think they even pro-rate the refunds. I don't subscribe to them on a regular basis (I don't buy things often), but I have subscribed to them a few times to
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by MrFoof 5y ago
>Dollar stores very often aren’t cheaper than other sources for similar products especially for grocery items (which they tend to have very limited selections of.) Yep. They're usually not competitive on unit price. In areas tha
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Staples Center to be renamed Crypto.com Arena as part of 20yr naming rights deal(theathletic.com)
40 points by MrFoof 5y ago|48 comments
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by MrFoof 5y ago
Hey now, let's not give anyone any ideas. Lest we all now have to do that in ninety seconds, with our non-dominant hand.

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