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by idatum 2y ago
One more perspective: I didn't spend the energy stressing over the initial wave of media hype surrounding the first published probability. A few days of waiting for rational thought to prevail helps.
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Ask HN: What is the ideal thermostat setting change when away from home?
2 points by idatum 2y ago|7 comments
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by idatum 2y ago
I was pleasantly surprised to see FreeBSD part of the list of available cross-platforms running .NET. I already had a FreeBSD instance for ZFS and was able to also host a website and some workloads written in C#, avoiding the need for a sep
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by idatum 2y ago
This link is awesome. Thanks for sharing!
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by idatum 2y ago
"Yangwang – BYD’s luxury division" Luxurious.
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by idatum 2y ago
I resigned myself to the fact that IoT crappy devices will always exist and I isolated these to their own VLAN with IPv4-only (maybe I'll go dual-stack at some point). Yes, VLANs add complexity -- even the obligatory IoT VLAN -- but I
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by idatum 2y ago
A Missoula floods event. From a high vantage point, of course.
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by idatum 2y ago
If you run older hardware you realize quickly how significant it is to be able to do cross builds with build.sh. I came across this post today that highlights this! https://zia.io/objects/c4b825f9-8c57-4b86-a108-af869df
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Running NetBSD 10.1 on a 1998 Toshiba laptop(idatum.net)
20 points by idatum 2y ago|1 comments
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by idatum 2y ago
Every post about IPv6 and its failure is about friction. Friction for the inevitable march towards adoption. As usual with English, the British master it, and they have a term for bureaucratic friction: "The Blob"
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by idatum 2y ago
Just want to say "Thank you!" for sharing your instinct for privacy concerns. That also made me pause to click on Try Me on the site. Hard pass.
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by idatum 2y ago
I think this trend is going to get worse and we haven't hit bottom. But the bounce from bottom may be we seek out actual journalists and a new (again) market emerges for human generated, quality content. And I hope this starts at the l
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by idatum 2y ago
Do memories and/or brain functionality rely on volatile storage? So if you die, that storage is gone. How our brain works may rely on more than the structure of the brain. When you are brought back (booted?), things may not work the sa
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by idatum 2y ago
> It’s a really great way to explore devices hardware-wise, without having to write a lot of boilerplate C or rust code on an external development environment. Yes, second this. It's why I still use Forth. A UART and picocom (for ex
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by idatum 2y ago
I recall running QNX on my iPAQ handheld, sometime in the late 2000s. It was pre-iPhone, so seeing a Unix-like O/S on a handheld device back then was quite a treat.
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by idatum 2y ago
Self hosting Ente and Minio (Debian and FreeBSD). I can now have an encrypted backup of my phone's photos without privacy issues of Google photos etc.
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by idatum 2y ago
Early voting has advantages, one being that once I drop my ballot in the local ballot collection box, I can more easily ignore political ads. It's liberating.
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by idatum 2y ago
I can't but think this is the business practice of a dying technology, yet another example. I won the fiber lottery where I live, and I will never go back to cable (I had a choice). Let's just call the rejected cable choice a &quo
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by idatum 2y ago
What's great is the rest of the BSDs will integrate improvements. Investment in the BSDs is goodness.
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by idatum 2y ago
In experiments that detect gravity waves, I recall the problem of Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle limiting our ability to see an individual graviton. I don't recall much detail and probably didn't understand fully when I read it.
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Quantum Leap Research and FreeBSD Foundation to Invest $750k(morningstar.com)
3 points by idatum 2y ago|0 comments
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by idatum 2y ago
I run .NET 8 on FreeBSD 14. Even one of the BSDs has it now. Cool.
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Why Did Earth Vibrate for Nine Days in 2023?(wsj.com)
4 points by idatum 2y ago|2 comments
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by idatum 2y ago
Buzz did have a bit of urgency in his voice regarding the 1202 alarm :)
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by idatum 2y ago
If I understand Threads adoption, it is quite large compared to Mastodon. Will Mastodon be able to handle the load if Threads -- a commercial entity -- is not blocked? I'm holding off on making the cynical conclusion about Threads&#x27
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by idatum 2y ago
I wonder too if the data collected via that subscription is useful to monetize somehow? Maybe like health data from your watch?
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by idatum 2y ago
I have an ADS-B receiver. It's a hobby. I didn't get any notification yet. Looks like I let my guard down with Flightware. Again, it's a hobby -- supposed to be a joy. I wrote some code to use TTS to play the departure, aircr
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by idatum 2y ago
And something equally chilling -- the sound of a glacier cracking (more of a deep thud sound).
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by idatum 2y ago
Quote from Harry Lime character in The Third Man: "...in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland
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by idatum 2y ago
Am I delusional that there once was a NASA that was completely transparent almost as a flex to show how they had the chops to overcome challenges? Or am I conflating in the moment transparency with the postmortem reports that followed the A

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