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by deftnerd 10y ago
Delimiter has $10/mo "bring your own drive" storage plans. Just buy this drive and ship it to them and share it with a VPS or cheap server there and you can store a lot of media for a cloud Plex server
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Some of these synthetic opiates are a bit terrifying. There are some research chemicals available that are hundreds or thousands of times more potent than fentanyl and they're still technically legal. It's so hard to work with the
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I was using AT&T gigabit in Austin, TX. Their regular price included them monitoring all my internet traffic to profile my browsing habits. I could pay another $30 or $40 a month for my privacy to stay intact (at least they promised tha
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by deftnerd 10y ago
Does anyone know what the energy usage of the Instant Pot is overall compared to other methods of cooking? I've explored various off-grid methods of living and the energy requirements involving food (both storage and preparation) can b
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Agreed. In fact, if I remember correctly, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Mountain View and Palo Alto notoriously have crummy internet speeds considering their "tech" cachet.
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S3 for static file hosting, ec2 for caddy web server front ends (2+ depending on traffic needs), ec2 for a MySQL master (replicated to the Digital Ocean and OVH MySQL master VPS's), and Elastic Load Balancer
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I run my infrastructure on three different providers and use GeoIP assigned AnyCast DNS servers from another provider. Asia/Australia is run on Digital Ocean, Europe is on OVH, and the Americas is on AWS. When someone requests the IP a
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Somewhat implausible future? I spend some effort to make my house "perfect". Clean, fully stocked with groceries and bathroom supplies and everything like that. At night, while I sleep, a robot or team of robots goes through my ho
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Thank you for rephrasing your question. I'll admit that I didn't fully understand your query the first time either. I am, by nature, a hacker. I often search for unconventional solutions to problems, even when conventional solutio
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I have thought of that, but my skills weren't good enough at the time. This is my old (now unworking) code: https://gist.github.com/DeftNerd/4abf63c7d0e680d62a2cd26d534... It was able to pull from an API of "
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by deftnerd 10y ago
Up until the LinkedIn redesign a few weeks ago, I used to run a bit of javascript every day that would pick a 100 people randomly on my LinkedIn "friends list" and endorse them for one of their listed skills that I hadn't alr
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The article mentions that one of the benefits is that they don't have to deal with building codes being different in different places. It's truly an "off the shelf" data center that doesn't have to be customized for
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by deftnerd 10y ago
You ask about science after civilization has broken down, but then also mention after democracy and peace are gone. If you're thinking of a lawless Mad Max style apocalypse, most likely sciences will be regulated to discovering things
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I disagree. I've turned down SV jobs and VC funding for my startups because I think the entire model is flawed. The VC industry invests millions into companies without clear paths to success with a 5% chance of one of them succeeding e
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Delimiter has a clever solution for $10 a month. They call it Slot Hosting. You ship them a disk and they'll host it and attach it as additional storage on a VPS. https://www.delimiter.com/slot-hosting/ I use it
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Quit trying to scam people.
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It's not that there are multiple IP's in the A record, it's that there are multiple A records, each with an IP address. For geographic routing, there is a clever trick that can be utilized using a technology called Anycast. A
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The problem isn't the risk of the service being a scam (which vetting by the BTC community takes care of) but the risk that the users are scamming the service. Without all the 'KYC BS', it would be too easy for someone to use
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OVH is one of the largest hosting companies in the world. They have an excellent network, great prices, and a fondness for privacy.
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You could set up a custom image that registers the SSH server key in DNS and then verify it on SSH connection. Basic concept is here: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/Tutorials/Unix-And-Linux/ssh-check-s...
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Re: Status Indicator I think people would like to know if the user is in DND mode or if their call will go straight to voicemail. In fact, having an option to leave a voicemail instead of calling the user in realtime might even be something
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Nice and simple service. I was a bit annoyed that you plaster free everywhere, but the only way to find out that it's a free trial that includes 10 calls is to sign up. $5 is a good price point for Stripe billing purposes, but 25c a ca
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Many states and utility companies are making it difficult for consumers to sell locally generated power to the grid. There is pain in the short term, but in the long term it'll just cause the renewable manufacturing industry to throw m
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It's an unpopular opinion because it's childishly simplistic. You could say the same thing about the internet providers, where streaming media of copyrighted content consists of the majority of their traffic. The providers do not
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I would love to see a series of pass-through "device filters" manufactured by a third party. When purchased, they can be configured to designate what is attached and then they would regularly connect to the filter service to get u
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Would it be possible to provide this data, based on the address, via a JSON API? I had goals to eventually to build a site that was similar but also shows political leanings and term length and when the next election for that position was g
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by deftnerd 10y ago
OpenStack provides an S3 compatible layer, and a few providers have turned that into a service. I personally use Delimiter's Obj.Space service. I bought a 2tb bundle, with 20tb of monthly bandwidth, for 3 years. It was a one-time fee o
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by deftnerd 10y ago
GitLab's self-hosted requirements are too high for my small needs so I use gogs.io. It's a git web interface written in Go and is much more friendly on a VPS with small amounts of memory.
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Better link: http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-the-soviets-rev... The current link at Hodinkee is just a summary of the collectorsweekly.com article.
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I just saw a Show HN post about Migadu.com and signed up. I've been very happy. Pricing is excellent. They let you add unlimited domains, mailboxes, aliases, etc. The only discerning difference between plans is the number of outgoing m

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