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by abound 2y ago
But the actual article is about someone trying to live in Japan, the Digital Nomad visa was just seemingly their best option.
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by abound 2y ago
I built (but never released) a project for this: an end-to-end encrypted "slow" chat app, where you'd send long-form rich-text letters to friends and they'd take a configurable amount of time to deliver, backed either ju
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by abound 2y ago
And eating right! Gotta complete that trifecta, each one compliments the others.
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by abound 2y ago
Ah I have not. I run a Headscale instance, but my router knows nothing about my Tailnet
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by abound 2y ago
I think they meant in case of the Pi vs Dell XPS
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by abound 2y ago
One of the GL.iNet travel routers [1] would probably work for you. They run OpenWRT (or a thin veneer around it), so you can SSH in and install packages and whatnot. They explicitly advertise Wireguard-based VPN support. I don't have o
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by abound 2y ago
I run a homelab that isn't too far from this, but I wouldn't recommend it without a few caveats/warnings: - Don't host anything media-heavy (e.g. video streaming) - Make sure you have reasonable upload speeds (probably 1
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by abound 2y ago
> How do you tell Pinggy is closer to ngrok than Tailscale? Taking a quick look at the article, it seems like you route traffic through Pinggy, whereas Tailscale is mostly (minus the TURN stuff) peer to peer with some NAT-busting
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by abound 2y ago
"Nonprofit", at least in the US, is usually shorthand for having received a 501c3 (or similar) designation from the IRS. It has little bearing on your ability to make money as an organization (with caveats like the public support
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by abound 2y ago
Yeah, I have a Max Lumi and I feel broadly the same way. My hardware has been great, I use it daily and have read 100s of books and written thousands of pages of notes on it, but wouldn't necessarily recommend it to others because I th
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by abound 2y ago
News Minimalist [1] is one way, where it aggregates stories across outlets and uses LLMs to remove clickbait from titles. It also assigns loose 'scores' to each story to approximate how 'important' it is, which I've
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by abound 2y ago
This may be the culture, but one can largely choose to not participate in it. E.g. not having social media accounts and curating your news sources with a focus on unsensational, fact-based reporting.
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by abound 2y ago
My personal favorite bit: > 8) As far as I know, there is no programmatic way to `destroy` an existing pizza. `terraform destroy` is implemented on the client side, by consuming the pizza. 10/10 infrastructure-as-code-based humor.
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by abound 2y ago
Theoretically, you can't pay for placement on Google without it being labelled an ad. Practically, you can pay SEO experts to help you keep your rankings up.
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by abound 2y ago
Sure, and if you find one of those, you can trade it in for $25k or more [1] [1] https://bughunters.google.com/about/rules/chrome-friends/574...
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by abound 2y ago
The first thing that came to my mind was "cert pinning and someone lost the private keys", but that seems pretty unlikely in the grand scheme of things that can go wrong. I'd actually be willing to pick one of these up for a
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by abound 2y ago
Mentioned elsewhere in this thread, but you need not only "strong" but "highly directed" electromagnetic interference. Each of those pins is ~0.5mm, flipping a single bit "wirelessly" is probably impossible, as
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by abound 2y ago
> With AI, the emails are becoming even worse, someone mentioned the college I attended and tried to get a fun fact "I saw you attended X, did you enjoy the winter festival?". We never had that. I just got one of these for the
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by abound 2y ago
Reminds me of Ken in the Barbie movie: > Actually my job, it’s just "beach"
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by abound 2y ago
My go-to for habit formation/breaking stuff is "Atomic Habits" by James Clear, highly recommend. It's one of those books I find useful to re-read every few years.
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by abound 2y ago
If you want SQLite backed by S3, maybe something like SQLite in :memory: mode with Litestream would work? Edit: actually not sure if you can use :memory: mode since Litestream uses the WAL (IIRC), so maybe a ramfs instead
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by abound 2y ago
They definitely use their own products internally, perhaps to a fault: While chatting with OpenAI recruiters, I received calendar events with nonsensical DALLE-generated calendar images, and "interview prep" guides that were clear
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by abound 2y ago
+1 for sops, I've used it across a dozen projects for keeping encrypted secrets directly in the repo. And for configuring infra with Terraform, the sops provider [1] is extra convenient.* [1] https://github.com/carlpett
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by abound 2y ago
Super cool game! I sunk well over an hour into it, but I rage quit when the king stole my 1024 piece...I didn't realize that was an option. In retrospect, I guess that's what the shaky screen meant. This was my game just before I
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by abound 2y ago
A prominent use of Guile is as the configuration language for Guix, GNU's version of Nix
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by abound 2y ago
I'm only just digging into the site, but some ONT pages (ex [1]) have information on how to set low-level parameters (MAC, various equipment IDs, etc). Probably won't get you free HBO, more likely to get your ONT banned at your IS
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by abound 2y ago
Seems like the author might be interested in tangara: https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara Its not "thin as hell", but it's got USB-C and bluetooth.
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by abound 2y ago
> Still loads the kernel faster than a virtual ISO on a server's shitty IPMI over the internet This gave me flashbacks of trying to boot Dell M1000e blade servers from an NFS-hosted ISO running on a Raspberry Pi, which was painfully
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by abound 2y ago
You have described more or less exactly how Waymo did their rollout. A. They used to have these cute little cars (e.g. golf cart sized) that couldn't go over 30 mph, long before they rolled out the Chryslers and Jaguars B. My memory is
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by abound 2y ago
After some Herculean, world-saving feat.

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