Piraty

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by Piraty 1y ago
One china company actually named its surveillance software "Skynet" [1] [1]: https://youtu.be/CLo3e1Pak-Y?t=380
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by Piraty 1y ago
I do use a Pinephone (not pro) for 5y now. I switched to the "stable" branch of pmos 2y ago which made my life siginicantly more hassle free. Note that pmos support for pinephone (not pro) degraded in recent stable release, so i r
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by Piraty 1y ago
what i did is buy a 19" shelf and put a mini itx board and a few 5.25 cages next to it.
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by Piraty 1y ago
this in a credentials file to source before doing some operation? sure. I usually do: ` ( . ./credentials && ./the_thing ) ` so the secrets are only in the subshell and don't linger in my shell session forever. but do
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by Piraty 2y ago
also look at https://github.com/visit1985/mdp
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by Piraty 2y ago
I agree but unfortunately very few see this as an issue. For browsers, they kind of soft-lock-out established niche browsers due to heavy use of JS. But this is deepter: more and more banks and public institutions' services imply every
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by Piraty 2y ago
> 1 small node -> 100 drives
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by Piraty 2y ago
https://forum.openwrt.org/t/better-and-faster-table-of-hardw...
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by Piraty 2y ago
I use ancient+cheap netgear SOHO routers (WNDR3700 v1 and v2 from ~2012) which can route 940Mbps on ethernet (with software flow offloading enabled). For wireless AP i have an Mediatek MT7621 device, they are very well supported and provide
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by Piraty 2y ago
this non-official version (uses upstream TOH data though) is much more responsive and has better filters: https://soif.github.io/OpenWrtTOH/ Wiki has you covered for beginners guide
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by Piraty 2y ago
kinda. https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/
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by Piraty 2y ago
https://corecursive.com/hedy-with-felienne-hermans/
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by Piraty 2y ago
https://keyboard-design.com/internet-letter-layout-db.html site is a bit awkward to browse though.
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by Piraty 2y ago
i can confirm. I have bought and used both Nokia 2660 Flip and Nokia 8210 4G , both are HMD rebrands. Firmware is very buggy and battery failed after less than 2y .
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by Piraty 2y ago
i am annoyed whenever i learn that a popular open source project's (only) real time communication/support channel is on one of the closed platforms; i then chose to not use it. i've not encountered projects (relevant to me at
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by Piraty 2y ago
it supports core<--ssl-->client setup it works well indeed, i run an instance of quassel-core on a VPS for many years and connect to it through wireguard tunnel exclusively (fits nicer in my overall scheme of accessing my services)
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by Piraty 2y ago
this is a good read https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/property-based-testi...
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by Piraty 2y ago
I agree and add Void Linux to the list in the same vein. Generalley, ports-like package repos (all package build recipes in one repo) are really beneficial for large-scale operations or simply rollbacks. Being able to bootstrap the distro f
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by Piraty 2y ago
Debian doesn't do a good job in making life easier for its maintainers. https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2019-03-10-debian-windin...
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by Piraty 2y ago
tracking issues in the repo would work well. for example, have a dir like ./issues/fix-this-weird-bug.md , and once fixed rename it to ./changelog/fix-this-weird-bug.md . if you adhere to some rules for the metadata, you
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by Piraty 2y ago
yes. git-worktrees are great: https://piraty.dev/txt/git-worktrees-multitasking.html
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by Piraty 2y ago
using github's UI as preferred way to interact with code in review is a bad idea, as it encourages lazy from-the-couch-just-yolo-approve-it-looks-alright style of review. this is where gerrit+mail based workflows shine as reviewer is m
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by Piraty 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37086022
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by Piraty 2y ago
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/why-your-wi-fi-router-do...
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by Piraty 2y ago
Since 2024-03, at least Apple allows AP owners to opt out. (search for "_nomap") https://web.archive.org/web/20240328071851/https://support.a...
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by Piraty 2y ago
If 1% of regular Firefox users just donated the equivalent of 10USD per year to mozilla, they would not have the need to find ...eyebrow-raising... ways to earn money.
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by Piraty 2y ago
workflows can be as slim and efficient as this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37086022
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by Piraty 2y ago
https://corecursive.com/032-bob-nystrom-on-building-an-inter...
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by Piraty 2y ago
> What can you do but laugh and embrace the horror? laugh. embrace and share the fun with others: submit to https://thedailywtf.com
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by Piraty 2y ago
(The page displays fine with ublock-origin + blocked 3rd-party {scripts,frames} + "cookie notices" filter lists)

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