Syonyk

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by Syonyk 4y ago
I think you're backwards. Tails is the LiveCD with a browser (that can beacon straight out). Whonix is the VM based system. I think it's capable of more than just browsing, but I use it as the "secure browser" in Qube
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by Syonyk 4y ago
And this is why Whonix is critical - because even when you pop the browser, you still have another layer of protection - the gateway VM. Tails browser on [almost anything] is one browser exploit away from beaconing out directly from your
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Hey, they recently redid the user interface for it! I mean, yeah, the new interface is unusable with anything under a Xeon workstation, and it's very mobile editing focused, for a blogging platform, and it drove me and a variety of o
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by Syonyk 4y ago
It's more the case that Star Trek's lack of budget has driven the modern world in that direction, because that was clearly "the future." Apparently they wanted the Apollo style space-age interfaces with all the knobs a
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by Syonyk 4y ago
You might like Sunbeam's offerings: https://sunbeamwireless.com/ They have some that are exactly what you want.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> There really is nobody left eh? Linux, on the most open hardware you can find? That's about all I'm willing to use anymore, and if that closes, I'll find something else to do with my life. I keep coming back to, &quo
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Link? I didn't include those instructions because I'm not aware of the issue. I'm first and foremost a Linux user when it comes to building stuff, hence my interest in having a hot little ARM VM on the M1. I tended to keep
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by Syonyk 4y ago
You can find some other posts on my blog relating to it - https://www.sevarg.net/2022/05/07/tech-philosophy-2022/ is one such. I'd been somewhat uncomfortable with some of the decisions Apple has be
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by Syonyk 4y ago
The KSP reference, probably not well expanded, was in comparison to the 2018 Intel Mac Mini I had previously, which basically could not play it - it was barely livable with graphics turned all the way down, because Intel Integrated Graphics
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by Syonyk 4y ago
(Author here) Just a reminder, this article was published in Jan 2021, I'd had the M1 Mac Mini for about a month, and virtualization was still very rough around the edges. My understanding of the state of it today is that it's f
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by Syonyk 4y ago
(Author of the article) > Jan 9, 2021 Asahi Linux literally wasn't a thing when I wrote the article. I fully expect my conclusions from over a year ago, when the M1 first was available and virtualization was rough around the edges
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> I’m genuinely unsure what purpose anti-islanding actually serves. I think it mostly prevents inverters from trying to destroy themselves feeding into a dead short, or creating weird instabilities - the grid segment is either up or do
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Indeed, came here to write basically this. Solar tripping off is solar obeying the rules set on them by the utility that is "You will trip if anything so much as looks funny." And then a few decades later, they figured out this w
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by Syonyk 4y ago
The more I learn of 1950s to 1970s NASA and related, the less over the top Cave Johnson from Portal 2 seems. And then I read books like Ignition! and realize that, at that time, parts of rocket science literally were, "What are the mos
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by Syonyk 4y ago
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-demetr...
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> where is some boring neutral news? In print form. That comes to your physical mailbox. Newspapers are OK, but magazines are better, if you want "State of the world, processed and digested, after the fact, without the outrage of
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I'd argue that it can include HN, but HN is not designed to be nearly as toxic, and actually goes out of the way to be "as not-toxic as possible without breaking the concept of what it's trying to be." I've spent a
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Ah, that looks... likely. Thanks! I know it's been a concern of various groups at a low level for some while, but it's been popping up far more than I'd expect lately, and I was curious as to what triggered it. The people
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by Syonyk 4y ago
That's slick ! And I'm glad to see the models for the internal bits available. I've got pieces for a YARH handheld... laying around, mostly, since other projects came up and I'm less motivated to figure it out when I
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> But 10 of them (RPi 1B-3B+) are no longer in use. Sell them. There's basically no supply and very strong demand right now, because in addition to hobbyist uses, there are a lot of people who have built products that are based a
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Smash down doors, get embarrassed a few times, pass legislation to ban "roleplaying as a minor in text conversations." Then there's no reason to be embarrassed again! More practically, I would assume "age of the users o
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by Syonyk 4y ago
That's one of them, yes. I've not had the time to read the whole thing today, and probably won't have time, so I'm trying to encourage people to dig through it a bit themselves and get a feel for just how "But the
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by Syonyk 4y ago
> How long until there is AI that can use your biometrics to determine if you are too impaired to drive? That's an actual requirement in US vehicles in a few years. https://nypost.com/2021/11/15/bide
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Matrix, in "few users per server, federated" sort of deployments, seems it would accomplish a lot of this.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Just the brazen "Yeah, privacy and stuff are important, But the Children! " phrasing of it. They're not even trying to pretend it's anything but an excuse anymore.
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by Syonyk 4y ago
https://ec.europa.eu/home-affairs/system/files/2022-05/Propo... This contains the text of the requirements. Search for "Grooming" and you'll find some particularly horrifying chunks regar
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by Syonyk 4y ago
Mad Max Fury Road stands out for their general lack of CG - and it shows in the movie. The thing is filled with practical effects, and it just looks right as a result. They don't have to simulate the physics of someone swinging aro
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by Syonyk 4y ago
The consolidation of movie studios (mostly into Disney lately...) hasn't been helping either. There used to be plenty of small studios that would do "weird" stuff - it wasn't going to be a huge commercial success, but i
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by Syonyk 4y ago
I have no idea. That sounds cheaper than trace radioactives to me, but the photoelectric ones are reliably more expensive than ionization, at least around here. And a lot harder to find, too. I'm pretty well annoyed that ionization t
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by Syonyk 4y ago
The "nuclear" ones are ionization type, which have the useful quality of being cheap. Otherwise, they're almost, but not entirely, worthless as far as being a smoke detector goes. The other type is the photoelectric type, wh

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