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by fmajid 8d ago
Works just fine on my 10.0.0.0/8
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by fmajid 9d ago
Jacques Attali, former adviser to French president François Mitterrand, wrote about the behind-the-scenes work the "sherpas" do for their principals in his three-volume "Verbatim", which has been translated into English.
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by fmajid 10d ago
Proving Hardy’s “A Mathematician’s Apology” wrong?
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by fmajid 10d ago
Cauchy is the one who introduced rigor to calculus with the formalization of limits, including epsilons and deltas, a full century after Leibniz and half a century after Euler.
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by fmajid 12d ago
That’s 1/3 what IBM paid for Red Hat, simply insane.
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by fmajid 12d ago
I got mine as a side-effect of ordering the Comet Q on Kickstarter... There is also the Comet 5G, which gives you cellular backup. I use it to control my OpenBSD home router when traveling if my Internet connection goes down.
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by fmajid 13d ago
The GL-iNet Commet X is a 4-port IP KVM. It does 4K, albeit at 30fps. https://nascompares.com/2026/06/26/gl-inet-comet-x-kvm-early...
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by fmajid 13d ago
The higher-end GL-iNet Comets have passthrough. I have the 5G cellular equipped one connected to my OpenBSD home router so if I lose Internet connectivity at home while I am traveling, I can still debug and do something about it.
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by fmajid 13d ago
I think that's mostly marketing waffle, but I suspect the argument is that this will allow a LLM or agent to remote control your phone, tablet or computer in a format that is a bit more directly accessible for them than the VNC-like UI
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by fmajid 13d ago
It is 4K, just not the 120Hz or higher gaming grade the parent was asking for, and better than the 1080p of the JetKVM Mini. The JetKVM Mini does offer Ethernet, however (not sure if it can be powered by PoE, however, which would be a hug
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by fmajid 13d ago
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zepan/nanokvm-go-worlds... Not high frequency though, tops out at 45Hz
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by fmajid 15d ago
Multiple connections totally help. At a previous job, we drove rsync with GNU parallel, then did a final catch-all pass with rsync, and that divided transfer time for about 600GB by a factor of 4.
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by fmajid 15d ago
Also, if you have a heat-sealer, individually bagging the cables before grouping them avoids having cables mate and turn into a Gordian knot. A heat-sealer allows you to make bags that are just the right size for your cable, vs. generic zip
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by fmajid 18d ago
It's unclear whether this legislation will require giving users the choice of the sort order. That's one of the tricks exploitative social networks use, selective prioritization of ragebait and other content that encourages "
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by fmajid 19d ago
They are not going back to physical controls out of the goodness of their hearts. Physical controls are a requirement to get a European 5-star safety rating, and possibly in China as well.
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by fmajid 19d ago
Yes, but the Honda to Chevy ratio is accelerating in just 2 years, which suggests something more than a preference for Japanese brands is at play.
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by fmajid 20d ago
Of course they are, The Economist is to the City of London (the unaccountable pseudo-local authority that is effectively a lobbying group for banks) what Pravda was to the Soviet Communist Party. How dare the little people demand the same p
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by fmajid 20d ago
Usually vendors fight over terminology because they want to "own" a portion of mindspace. Ultimately authorization is a programming problem, and people have devised very complicated declarative solutions like Google Zanzibar to av
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by fmajid 20d ago
Even that is oversimplified. To launch nuclear-armed ICBMs, it takes to subjects to turn two keys separated by sufficient distance that no one person can turn both keys at the same time. In many cases, specially involving sysadmins, you wan
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by fmajid 21d ago
Or until you don't need to buy oil at all. China has reduced its consumption by 1.5M barrels/day this year alone.
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by fmajid 21d ago
The most valuable offspring of HP is Broadcom, just as ASML is the most valuable offspring of Philips.
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by fmajid 21d ago
I upgraded Vivaldi, which is reporting 152.0.7977.112
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by fmajid 23d ago
I've heard it referred to as the Strangler Fig pattern.
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by fmajid 23d ago
My main backup server uses ZFS and I replicate (using my own https://github.com/fazalmajid/zfssnap but there are plenty of alternatives) to a 14TB USB drive using ZFS snapshot and incremental zfs send which makes it v
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by fmajid 23d ago
It's amazing that even after the Holocaust, prejudice against Roma is so prevalent in allegedly polite society.
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by fmajid 23d ago
KeePassXC or Bruce Schneier's Password Safe. The nice things about Keepass* is that the format is an open standard with multiple implementations and if any one turns out to be a problem, you can switch easily.
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by fmajid 26d ago
Vetos also allowed Russian stooges like Orbán (and now Fico) to block essential aid to Ukraine.
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by fmajid 26d ago
Realistically, how much sway would tiny Iceland really have on those regulations since most are covered by qualified majority voting? The ones they care about are precisely fishing, which is unsurprisingly a sticking point. Considering they
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by fmajid 26d ago
For instance euro membership is a requirement for new entrants, but Sweden has been fudging the admission criteria just a teeny bit to ensure they do not meet the requirements and keep the krona (as opposed to Denmark, which got an opt-out
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by fmajid 28d ago
Well, I only just purchased Children of Time and haven't even started it yet

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