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by finaard 6mo ago
> Or, maybe, don’t: when people do, they take much more than they eat. Compared with ordering from the menu, all-you-can-eat breakfasts waste more food—up to twice as much, according to one study. Is that a cultural thing? We have pretty
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by finaard 6mo ago
Yubikey (and nitrokey and other HSMs) are technically smart cards, which perform crypto operations on the card. This can be an issue when doing lots of operations, as the interface is quite slow.
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by finaard 6mo ago
Anything pkcs#11 you can proxy. I'm using that on some systems - I have an old notebook with a nitrokey hsm at home. It binds pkcs11-proxy to a local wireguard interface, so I'm registering systems I want to be able to use those k
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by finaard 6mo ago
As a German, after encountering Russian bureaucracy once, I commented to my wife that the main difference between Russian and German bureaucracy is that in Russia at least you can pay your way out.
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by finaard 6mo ago
Unless I care about the meeting it gives me an easy way out. More than 5 minutes late in that case is "let's try it again another time"
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by finaard 6mo ago
I have fond memories of lending a Voodoo 2 from a friend when I was moving from a 486 to a K6 based system component by component. At that time I was still using my old ISA VGA card, which meant 2D performance was horrible, and I couldn&#x2
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by finaard 6mo ago
It's quite entertaining to read - most of the article is pretty much elaborating a chain of bad decisions by the author which all lead to this now being a big problem. If he'd have written a similar dependency tree earlier and jus
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by finaard 6mo ago
The archived copy of his old website has a picture from the beach: https://web.archive.org/web/20000511210957/http://ghg.ecn.pu... That's the page mostly dedicated to BBQ lighting: https:/&#x2
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George Goble has died(legacy.com)
175 points by finaard 6mo ago|40 comments
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by finaard 6mo ago
His obituary or wikipedia page are well worth a read for what he was involved in - though he probably is best known for lighting a BBQ in under 5 seconds by use of liquid oxygen, and getting into trouble with the local firedepartment for th
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by finaard 7mo ago
> The fact that home is shared between all the distro- and toolboxes is a bit annoying, because I would like to have stronger isolation from the host in some projects. You can limit the access of distrobox, but it's a bit annoying,
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by finaard 7mo ago
No, updates are done by creating a snapshot of the read only mounted root, and applying the packages via the usual package manager in there. The snapshot only becomes active at reboot, and if starting fails it'll revert automatically b
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by finaard 7mo ago
Yeah, I've noticed at several customers that they're just trying to cram LLMs into everything, instead of maybe first thinking if it's sensible for that specific usecase. I'm also doing some things where I don't thi
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by finaard 7mo ago
> This has been 100% my experience. I enjoy the puzzle solving and the general joy of organizing and pulling things together. I could really care less about the end result to meet some business need. The fun part is in the building, it&#
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by finaard 7mo ago
The slowness on startup in my emacs mainly comes from my customizations - over the last almost 3 decades I've accumulated roughly 30k loc of custom lisp, plus a lot of 3rd party stuff. But I typically start emacs at boot, and then it r
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by finaard 8mo ago
I've wrote this a few times, but LLM interactions often remind me of my days at Nokia - a lot of the interactions are exactly like what I remember with some of their cheap subcons there. I even have exactly the same discussion after it
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by finaard 9mo ago
That's not really a new thing now, it just shows differently. 15 years ago I was working in an environment where they had lots of Indians as cheap labour - and the same thing will show up in any environment where you go for hiring a ma
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by finaard 9mo ago
LLMs can be quite useful in reverse engineering - there's typically a lot of steps which are not really difficult, but are hard to script, and still require a bit of an idea what's going on. Quite a bit of that can be automated wi
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by finaard 9mo ago
The last time I (EU) touched a check was in 2006 - my elderly landlord used that to refund overpaid utilities. I had to google what to do with that thing - the bank I was with wasn't handling checks at all, so I had to go to a branch o
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by finaard 9mo ago
I'm in Europe, and some of my banks still operate with a token just showing numbers, while others use devices with QR code readers and a colour display which then can show transaction details. They don't really like you using that
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by finaard 9mo ago
I guess you can still do banking on your PC? I stopped using banking apps on my phones a few years ago - they got more and more annoying, and I don't buy into the "the device is secure and should be used as a trust token". So
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by finaard 10mo ago
> People also do not like the arduino ide because the days of easy setup and run are gone and a real way of debug is needed in most projects. A surprising amount of embedded SoCs target the Arduino IDE either as the main IDE, or one of t
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by finaard 10mo ago
I think it's good practise to build something CMS like for fun - as long as you don't expect it to be useful or used, outside of maybe your personal page. It's useful to experiment and learn stuff that might be useful at scal
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by finaard 10mo ago
Almost none of the FPS shooters try to to something creative, though. Duke Nukem 3D is still unbeaten for fun in multiplayer (and we still get it out now and then for that) with simple gimmicks like the holo duke, pipe bombs and laser mines
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by finaard 10mo ago
gnus had some massive IMAP performance improvements a few years (probably close to a decade now) ago. Before that it was quite painful to use it on large mailboxes without a local imap - I used to sync that with offlineimap. When they had a
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Show HN: Peaktech PSU Control from Emacs(github.com)
1 points by finaard 10mo ago|0 comments
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by finaard 10mo ago
Also check out the pull requests on that repo if there's something useful - in my case I've been using eat as single terminal instance for a while now - but for replacing stand alone terminals just opening multiple instances via m
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by finaard 10mo ago
> But, I thought Arduino had become officially evil once it joined Qualcomm. They have - but for less technical users their IDE is not too bad, and there are way too many bits out there relying on it, including lots of stuff not arduino,
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by finaard 10mo ago
Nowadays there's eat as excellent terminal emulator for emacs, which should replace the need to run external terminals. I've been using it for a w while, and recently finally got fed up about terminals on my macbook not behaving a
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by finaard 10mo ago
As a EU citizen: My only complaint is that the fines are not large enough, and enforcement often takes too long.

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