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by bityard 1y ago
Which ESP chips run Linux?
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by bityard 1y ago
Asking from a place of sincere ignorance: TFA says the code was obfuscated from the beginning, and that they deliberately kept it obfuscated all these years, and acknowleded the huge community that built mods for Minecraft in spite of it. B
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by bityard 1y ago
Somehow most of my circle of friends are public school teachers. Sure, there are teachers who forgot their "why" and only still do it for the (not very impressive) paycheck and eventual pension. But most teachers really, REALLY ca
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by bityard 1y ago
Used panels are cheap because of where we are in the improvement curve. Let's say you're a large business with a factory rooftop full of 100W panels that was installed installed 10 years ago. Today, you can upgrade that rooftop to
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by bityard 1y ago
Pretty much my take as well. I imagine spending a few hours a month customizing your shell and text editor (hello vim/Emacs folks) to be more efficient and powerful is _great_ for developers who rarely leave their own workstation. But
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by bityard 1y ago
Not as basic as you seem to think. I was brought into a team of 70-ish engineers working across 4-5 products. Big enterprise products written by very bright programmers. But build systems and infrastructure were not their core competency. T
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by bityard 1y ago
I was under the impression that the Supreme Court had ruled that mandatory arbitration clauses were indeed mandatory. Meaning, if you are subject to a mandatory arbitration clause in some contract, it removes ALL ability for a plaintiff to
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by bityard 1y ago
The installation instructions seem to agree with you: 1. curl this shell script 2. Run it as root. Anytime you see that, you can assume the software wants to take over the whole box and isn't likely to make any attempt to play nicely w
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by bityard 1y ago
I was under the impression that most commercial/industrial cameras all required some kind of proprietary ecosystem of peripherals and controllers. Do those work with open source DVR solutions like frigate? (If so, did you know that bef
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by bityard 1y ago
He does a good job at reviewing the cameras themselves but IIRC, all of the cameras he reviewed require cloud connectivity, and many of those clouds are "overseas."
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by bityard 1y ago
If someone can roll up to your property undetected and get physical access to the network, then the security cameras aren't even doing their job.
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by bityard 1y ago
Meh, content marketing for a commercial biz. There are no interesting technical details here. I was a build engineer in a previous life. Not for Android apps, but some of the low-effort, high-value tricks I used involved: * Do your building
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by bityard 1y ago
I use SyncThing on my phone to back up photos/videos on my phone to my NAS. The UX is not great, but it does sync things correctly 100% of the time. For years on end, I never have to worry about it.
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by bityard 1y ago
I love KDE Connect, it is insanely useful and pairs nicely with KDE Plasma. But I think it has some major usability issues. The two things I struggle with the most: 1. Sometimes (not always, but often!) the phone is not connected to the com
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by bityard 1y ago
My experience is that KDE 6 has very little visual nonsense right out of the box. 4 and 5 did have a lot more, but most/all of it could be disabled. Most other Linux DEs don't really let you customize them to your own personal lev
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by bityard 1y ago
This happened to AWS too. February 28, 2017. S3 went down and took down a good portion of AWS and the Internet in general. For almost the entire time that it was down, the AWS status page showed green because the up/down metrics were h
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by bityard 1y ago
I must be missing something, this says it can be self-hosted. But the first page of the self-hosting docs say you need accounts with no less than 6 (!) other third-party hosted services. We have very different ideas about the meaning of sel
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by bityard 1y ago
Ah, that makes sense. Thank you.
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by bityard 1y ago
I mean, yes, housing and land is cheaper in the midwest US, but you mostly have to get at least an hour away from a major city before it becomes what I consider "cheap." (Otherwise you're still looking at more desirable subur
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by bityard 1y ago
Hold up, when did htop get the ability to graph things?
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by bityard 1y ago
"Light truck" is slightly more formal way of saying "pickup truck." And is meant to differentiate the class from commercial trucks like moving vans, dump trucks, and semis. Smaller pickups like the Ford Ranger and Chevy
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by bityard 1y ago
I have a Kobo... I don't remember the model name. But the thing I like best about it, is that I never had to sign into anything to use it. (There is a sign-in/create account screen, but this is easily bypassed if you know how to e
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by bityard 1y ago
This is essentially how I find myself defending a lot of my DIY stuff. "Wait, you work in tech, why would you ever work on your own car when you can clearly pay someone else to do it???" Because I like to learn things.
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by bityard 1y ago
For all of the bullshit that is Comcast and their ongoing mission to fully enshittify every single aspect of last-mile Internet delivery at the expense of consumers and taxpayers, I will say that at least they've had great IPv6 support
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by bityard 1y ago
There's also https://isitreallyfoss.com
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by bityard 1y ago
From what I recall, misuse of "open source" started becoming popular around the time that every dev and their dog was writing a GUI REST client with the following playbook: 1. Code up a halfway decent product. 2. Call yourself the
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by bityard 1y ago
Please do not call this open source. > The Inkeep Agent Framework is licensed under the Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2) subject to Inkeep's Supplemental Terms (SUPPLEMENTAL_TERMS.md). This is a fair-code, source-available license that al
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by bityard 1y ago
I loved the KDE 3.x series, it felt like the future to me. It was _way_ ahead of both Windows and Mac at the time in terms of features and power. KDE 4 was a dud. Too much of a radical make-over instead of iterating on what worked. Ugly. Ve
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by bityard 1y ago
MATE was forked around the time GNOME 3 was released and is still going. https://mate-desktop.org Some people consider Cinnamon to be a GNOME 2 spiritual successor while still using a lot of GNOME 3 stuff under the hood. https:
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by bityard 1y ago
Appreciate the clarification, I guess I didn't get far enough into `:tutor` to see that.

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