belthesar

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by belthesar 2y ago
I know a lot of folks are talking about what they do, or what dot file managers they use, but there's something to be said for building a workflow that works for you. Pretty clever setup!
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by belthesar 2y ago
I'll be honest, I think you've got an uphill battle to convince so many of us that are concerned about accidental pricing that this is exactly the thing we actually want, vs. what we feel we want. This position parrots what Vercel
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by belthesar 2y ago
I've been meaning to give this a shot myself. I do like netboot.xyz's maintained catalog for convenience, but when I self hosted it (to get the caching proxy benefits), I felt that cache cleanup was a little clunky (basically, go
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by belthesar 2y ago
Netboot.xyz allows you to self-host an instance of it, which can cache ISOs. I was doing it for a time, and thought it neat, but not worth the hassle to keep running.
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by belthesar 2y ago
Ironically, this is something that I think Pandora solved quite well with their recommendation engine. By virtue of creating a station around a particular vibe, even if 5 playlists all started with the same seed song, weighting other songs
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by belthesar 2y ago
Out of curiosity, for folks that use VirtualBox today, why do you choose to use it over native OS virtualization platforms? With QEMU-KVM + Virt-Manager or Boxes, Hyper-V, and UTM + Virtualization.framework, all of the major desktop OSes ha
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by belthesar 2y ago
You hit a few important notes that are worth keeping in mind, but I think you handwave some valuable impacts. By virtue of shipping around an entire system's worth of libraries as a deployment artifact, you are indeed drastically incre
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by belthesar 2y ago
I'm not gonna lie, that's some brilliant design. Y'all don't have time to check all the things when you have to get to an emergency site, but I imagine you also need your lights and pumps and such to work.
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by belthesar 2y ago
Cognitive load for installing "yet another app" is pretty real. It doesn't matter how easy or seamless the experience is, part of the value for an app is to make it easier for repeat customers to use their service, and make t
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by belthesar 2y ago
This is definitely a common fallacy. While passwords and keys function similarly via the SSH protocol, there's two key things that are different. 1, your password is likely to have much lower entropy as a cryptographic secret (ie: you&
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by belthesar 2y ago
I had my grandmother running on Linux since 2008, and she loved it. She wasn't gonna get a virus, she didn't have root/sudo capability on her user, which meant she wasn't going to break anything, and she had ad blocking
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by belthesar 2y ago
They can. You know they can, others (ie: the pirate versions you mention) do. Larger files consume more bandwidth and storage on the CDN, which makes it more expensive. And while there are indeed some issues with lower quality (especially i
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by belthesar 2y ago
I'm not a turntable owner myself, so the app doesn't offer a lot of value to me. In thinking about it though, this app reminds me of the early days of mobile apps, where folks made neat, useful little tools to make life better. It
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by belthesar 2y ago
It really depends on the kind of smoke alarm. I'm sure most home style smoke alarms aren't set off by that, since they're usually an ionization style detector. Photoelectric detectors can be far more sensitive though. Moreso,
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by belthesar 2y ago
Ironically, the SNES's SPC unit was essentially a very resource constrained ROMpler. While it was capable of synthesis like the NES (in fact, many early third party SNES titles used this, as devs migrating to the platform were more fam
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by belthesar 2y ago
Is this largely for the exercise? Totally cool if you’re using it to get a better understanding of understanding of macOS’s Virtualization framework, but if your goal is that you were looking for a way to run VMs without Parallels, VMWare o
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by belthesar 2y ago
To your thoughts: > 1. I don't know if HTTPS is the best analogy... IMO, the lynchpin to HTTPS accessibility was that we made cutting certificates easy, and most importantly, free. By eschewing the baseline requirement for cutting a
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by belthesar 2y ago
One of the key draws for many Pokémon players is right in the old slogan - "Gotta catch 'em all!" Part of the desire is the collectability. To be able to get a rare, prized Pokémon. In the original games, part of this was cen
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by belthesar 2y ago
I had much of the same issues early on in my Traefik experience. Things like using TLS-01 validation but not having DNS records set before config was applied would cause a lot of frustration. Like you, I was frustrated with the amount of lo
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by belthesar 2y ago
Quite a bit, believe it or not. It's often an economies of scale problem, as well as a subject matter expertise problem. On the front, working with a publisher can help with funding. A publisher will often times front a fair amount of
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by belthesar 2y ago
Except it's not. Today, Windows wants you to use their media creation tool, which is more than just a "download bootable image and flash it to removable media" tool, but also actively slipstreams the latest OS patches to the
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by belthesar 2y ago
Ubuntu provided a Windows installer to set it up, but it was indeed wubi under the hood.
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by belthesar 2y ago
I appreciate your statement here, but I think part of the reason the GP commented on this is that we hear this from companies all the time. We all recognize that you're speaking the truth of today, but things change. This may be import
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by belthesar 2y ago
It's definitely still in the minority, but you're seeing a _lot_ more newer projects adopting consistent, ubiquitous type hints. To your point though, the `_make_command` method here is not setting hints in its arguments. I'm
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by belthesar 2y ago
This is interestingly similar to a little tool I wrote called sops-run [0], which manages encrypted secrets for cli tools using Mozilla’s sops [1]. Biggest upshot is that you can use it more confidently for secrets with encryption at rest.
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by belthesar 2y ago
You can thank the pervasive advertising of services like NordVPN and their owned subsidiaries for that. Loads of people have been advertised to thinking that using a VPN is "more secure", but this new colloquial understanding of a
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by belthesar 3y ago
I personally loved the Freespace games, and have taken advantage of the awesome work by the FreeSpace Source Code Project to replay them over the years. That said, FreeSpace is Descent in name only, and totally understand how folks who had
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by belthesar 3y ago
Thunderbolt is capable of doing this, but USB has had support for peer to peer and alternative client support for quite a while. USB OTG (On-The-Go), which allows a USB client device to also act as a host, has been around since the 2.0 spec
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by belthesar 3y ago
Like most thing in Windows, the sauce is buried under layers of Registry tweaks and/or Group Policies, but enabling RemoteFX (released with Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1) for RDP enables both h.264/h.265 stream compression, and with
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by belthesar 3y ago
One of the things I do agree with, and personally struggle with, is that the attention economy makes it incredibly easy to fill gaps with things that spark the good brain pleasure chemicals, but do not create any positive outcomes. Removing

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