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by adiabatichottub 11d ago
We just have to make it the cool thing to run your own mail server. B-)
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by adiabatichottub 12d ago
The big changes I've seen over my lifetime have been tooling and materials. I remember when framers did everything with a hammer, a circular saw, and a speed-square. Now we have nail guns and cordless impact drivers and miter saws.
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by adiabatichottub 22d ago
CADMV claims on their web site that they cannot accept a P.O. box as a residence address. I have yet to find anything in California state law supporting this policy, though IANAL. Their enforcement seems to be quite lax.
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by adiabatichottub 1mo ago
As I remember, standard operating procedure was to retry 4 or 5 times, then turn off the computer and walk away in frustration.
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by adiabatichottub 2mo ago
I'd accept that challenge, but I can't now because it's been edited out. For what it's worth, I remember somewhat agreeing with it.
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by adiabatichottub 2mo ago
> The "hacker spirit" doesn't require being a Luddite Just to be pedantic, the Luddites weren't anti-technology, they were fighting against a means of production that they could never hope to own and which was ruinin
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by adiabatichottub 2mo ago
Or just forego the pin and put a countersunk machine screw, washer, and nylock nut in it's place.
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by adiabatichottub 2mo ago
Well... Wikipedia has content that some would consider offensive or unsuitable for children. I'm not in favor of limiting any access to Wikipedia, but I'd consider it a certainty that the day would come when Wikipedia had to deci
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by adiabatichottub 2mo ago
I consider such rights to be my natural rights, regardless of statute. This is a product of my personal ethics and philosophy. In that sense, it is a right that I have. Whether I can successfully exercise that right without proscription
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by adiabatichottub 2mo ago
A decade ago I used to joke that Google should have it's own dating app. "NOTIFICATION: See that person at the other end of the bar? They share the same interests as you and like to frequent some of the same places. They share
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by adiabatichottub 2mo ago
It's just a different game. A web site is much easier to instrument than a physical place. Say I go to a bar, I show my ID to the bouncer. My identity isn't recorded (unless they scan it with a device that records the scan data)
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by adiabatichottub 3mo ago
Ah, the plea for sanity dollar! Huge Market! Sadly, he was never able to rid the world of all these fevered egos tainting our collective unconscious and making us pay a higher psychic price than we imagine.
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by adiabatichottub 4mo ago
If somebody calls you like this, immediately ask them for their name and supervisor in the calmest, most business-like tone you can muster. A good tactic is to tell them you can't talk just this second and ask for a name and number yo
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by adiabatichottub 4mo ago
Observing and recording law enforcement is generally not illegal, however threatening it might feel to them. It's unfair to compare that to an event where protesters broke into a government building, damaged property, assaulted law enf
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by adiabatichottub 4mo ago
Or they could make a zip gun with materials purchased from any hardware store, right down to the necessary ingredients for making black powder. In fact, if you make a muzzle-loading black powder firearm you're not even required to reg
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by adiabatichottub 4mo ago
Luckily the California bill seems to only apply to additive manufacturing processes. It's both sad and amusing to think of the thousands of legacy machines that will become legally untransferrable because their controllers are incapabl
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by adiabatichottub 4mo ago
A good friend of mine is a ferrier, or as he likes to say, "equine podiatrist". There's actually quite a lot to it. They are responsible for shaping the hoof and shoe in a way that corrects problems with the horse's ga
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by adiabatichottub 4mo ago
Jones lost in a civil suit. If you lie about somebody repeatedly and cause them harm you can be held accountable. It's called defamation. That is not the same thing as government abridgement of speech.
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by adiabatichottub 4mo ago
That rot was the direct result of the ad economy that made Google all of its money. Now maybe if they hadn't done it then somebody else would have, but they did do it, and poisoned the well we all drink from.
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by adiabatichottub 5mo ago
I learned from a BSides presentation that Ukranian military are using Starlink trancievers placed in pits to beat ground-based signal detection. Do with that what you will.
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by adiabatichottub 5mo ago
I've had issues with this same chipset family for years running FreeBSD on some Hetzner hardware. Helps to turn off jumbo frames and checksum offloading. The actual OEM "open source" driver code is 44k lines of inscrutable
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by adiabatichottub 6mo ago
My impression of FreeCAD as a project is that for much if its life it has suffered from a certain amount of developer churn and lack of focus. It's like somebody builds a workbench and gets it working just good enough using a workflow
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by adiabatichottub 6mo ago
We did as well for about 20 years. It is a very solid program and does everything it promises. Unfortunately it lacks modern features, and development is sparse to say the least, so we ended up moving to Knot. I'd still recommend ti
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by adiabatichottub 6mo ago
> Electromagnets dont work for DC, so your breaker will never trip. If electromagnets don't work for DC then what am I supposed to do with this pile of DC solenoids and relays? ;) > PV Batteries in general have a very high curre
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by adiabatichottub 6mo ago
The database for configuration and zone data is strictly internal and not tied to an external relational database, like what's shown in the article.
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by adiabatichottub 6mo ago
He was gifted an arch flash suit by the guys from Lightening on Demand :D
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by adiabatichottub 6mo ago
Knot does make it quite easy. Also, their devs are very responsive to support questions on their mailing list. It is currently my favored DNS.
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by adiabatichottub 6mo ago
If you don't absolutely have to, then don't. That is to say, if you misconfigure it, or try to turn it off, you will have an invalid domain until the TTL runs out, and it's really just not worth the headache unless you have a
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by adiabatichottub 6mo ago
Certbot has earned my ire on just about every occasion I've had to interact with it. It is a terrible program and I can't wait to finish replacing it everywhere. The new setup is using uAcme and nsupdate to do DNS-01 challenges.
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by adiabatichottub 6mo ago
I'm a fan of uACME: https://github.com/ndilieto/uacme Tiny, simple, reliable. What more can you ask?

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