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by idatum 3y ago
I couldn't find any info on the privacy policy of this privacy tool. If I request an image of myself removed from public search, does Google use that image as reinforcement to internally help identify me in their ad algorithms? Think b
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Ask HN: Has anyone else been free of cold/flu symptoms since early 2020?
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by idatum 3y ago
Yes, dc calculator, mentioned in this article. Here's the Wikipedia link also given: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dc_%28computer_program%29 Here's the NetBSD man page: https://man.netbsd.org&#x2F
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by idatum 3y ago
I forgot about dc! A NetBSD instance I have still has it. Love going back in time to these original utilities.
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by idatum 3y ago
As long as you don't consider Play services bloatware, yes Pixel is quite clean. I'm still happy with a Pixel 5a. Camera is good enough even with that older model. I like Android though because compared to others I know with iPho
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by idatum 3y ago
jail.conf: ssh { exec.start = "/bin/sh /etc/rc"; exec.stop = "/bin/sh /etc/rc.shutdown"; exec.clean; mount.devfs; path = "/var/jail/ssh&quot
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by idatum 3y ago
I have a VNET jail for remote access to my home lab. This takes an extra NIC I wasn't using anyway. It has been solid running on FreeBSD 13.2. This jail allows me to lock things down to minimal access to other services I need remotely,
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by idatum 3y ago
Absolutely agree a VLAN is the better solution to block an entire network, and I do use one in my case (protecting my other VLANs). But I still need to explicitly block Amcrest cam because I also have an RPI on that VLAN doing image process
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by idatum 3y ago
I recommend explicitly blocking internet access for Amcrest devices. I configured my camera with a static IP and blocked it in my PF rules with logging, and my camera model was making 1000s (16k in 24 hours) of DNS requests for config.amcre
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by idatum 3y ago
I'm done with new cars. I have a 2016 VW Golf GTI, manual transmission, 3G telemetry already dead, minimal infotainment crap but good backup cam. Not for sale!
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by idatum 3y ago
Makes me wonder why South isn't intuitively "up" for folks in the Southern Hemisphere.
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by idatum 3y ago
Used distcc back in mid-2000s to crosscompile NetBSD kernel/userland for a TS-7200 SBC ARM device. Back then those devices didn't have much processing power, would have taken days otherwise.
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by idatum 3y ago
Is it realistic to expend what should be a tremendous amount of energy to put a massive cargo space vessel in (presumably) an orbit around a planet? And then expend energy again to escape and head back? Memory fades, so most likely better e
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by idatum 3y ago
OpenBSD, with PF and Unbound, has excellent NAT64/DNS64 support. Unfortunately, my ISP is still IPv4, but with HE tunnel broker I can at least experiment with an IPv6 only VLAN. Works great on all clients I tested: Windows, Debian, and
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by idatum 3y ago
The combination of termux and scrcpy is pretty cool. Scrcpy is currently being discussed as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35749366 I have one of those Bluetooth keyboards and mice that allow multiple paired dev
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by idatum 3y ago
My fiber provider inherited network equipment that is preventing them from deploying IPv6. On their subreddit they responded from multiple inquiries that they are ready to provide a /60 once they upgrade their equipment. I imagine this
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by idatum 4y ago
I use CT (current) sensors on the circuits for both washer and dryer and a small XBee ZigBee device using its ADC pins to transmit the current readings. On the server with an XBee coordinator, I use a moving average window to cover points w
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by idatum 4y ago
I have an HP-35 (previous owner bought it new) mentioned in the article as "the death knell for the slide rule". The rechargeable batteries are long since gone and one of these days I'll get motived and try to replace them. I
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by idatum 4y ago
An SSH tunnel is my strategy as well. The only internet port I have open is an OpenBSD sshd with a low privilege chroot'd user, SSH key auth only. I tunnel from my Android device using an SSH client app. The only port open to HA is loc
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by idatum 4y ago
HA provided a fix and broadcast the security issue reasonably effectively. Here we are discussing on HN. Good. The vulnerability boils down to having a port open to HA (direct or proxy) exposed to the internet, or if your LAN is already com
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by idatum 4y ago
Still no details on how far those stolen vault backups went. I'd like to know which of my vault passwords over the years was included. I've since switched to 1password and rotated every (damn) password. That was an entire weekend
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by idatum 4y ago
For anyone that had been deep in LastPass with passwords, I recently switched myself and convinced my family also. We switched to another [read recommendations] online centralized password manager. It takes a couple hours of your time-off;
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by idatum 4y ago
For those that took 'mother of mass extinctions' as click-bait, it refers to 'Permian–Triassic mass extinction'. It's amazing how resilient life is once it takes hold.
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by idatum 4y ago
Or maybe like farmers using electrified barbed-wire fences to chat? Like Claude Shannon used in his youth! Came across this in a bio on Shannon I read recently. And here we are now.
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by idatum 4y ago
Science as a belief, not a process of learning?
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by idatum 4y ago
That literary effect works these days, unreasonably well unfortunately. How about "AWK is Still Effective". I'd still click on that.
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by idatum 4y ago
Same. Windows devices and TVs on my network handle many NXDOMAIN responses to DNS requests :)
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by idatum 4y ago
I still use it when exploring a microcontroller, lately with Mecrisp-Stellaris Forth on an STM32 device. It's a joy to use.
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At least it's encouraging we're seeing more and more articles and awareness of these data collection practices. I'm hopeful we'll reach enough outrage (always seems to need to come to that). The last "smart" tv
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by idatum 4y ago
> Years ago, I started thinking of the LIKE/UPVOTE button as an "increase visibility" button. I think Mastodon tries to make that distinction with like vs boost. Boost seems to be about making a post more visible ("he

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