jcynix

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by jcynix 1y ago
> Curious what you've been using it to search for? For starters I've done some trivial things, like "emacs elisp" on HackerNews and now "git tutorial" on AcademicSearch. The later is still running and organi
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Nice and interesting. I'm still investigating so might refine that later ;-) Can the search result be saved somehow for later use? BTW:, the circular graphics of the result are really cool! How did you do this?
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by jcynix 1y ago
Take a look at the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Europe_Synchronous... power grid. You have three lines of 230V between each pair, and you can connect appliances with either two or three of the lines, depen
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No, they simply get connected with all three phases, which are available in-house anyway, with a standard 16A circuit breaker on each. That's what installed in our house and that's what I've seen in various holiday homes.
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by jcynix 1y ago
In most of Europe (which runs a shared grid), not just Germany, it's 230V between any two of the three wires and 400V on each line: > For example, in countries with nominal 230 V power, the line voltage is 400 V and the phase voltag
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by jcynix 1y ago
If you are so inclined, you can build your own random number generator in hardware, which uses a Geiger counter: https://www.instructables.com/Arduino-True-Random-Number-Gen...
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The topic was to prevent overlapping runs. In case of power failures etc all your server processes have this problem. That's why, for example, /var/run exists and files/directories are deleted from /var/run on
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by jcynix 1y ago
> better open source job scheduler [...] one that will ensure no overlapping runs Or learn to use lock files, which would make sure that your jobs don't run when another one is already running? Unix shells offer the trap command,
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It's not "much work" it's a script. That was a tiny bit of work but that's a long, long time ago :-) As for "catch all" that makes addresses available which are otherwise not available and get rejected.
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by jcynix 1y ago
You can easily generate a number of random images with ImageMagick and serve these as part of the babbled text. And you could even add text onto these images so image analyzers with OCR will have "fun" too. Example code: for
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by jcynix 1y ago
The 0px rule would be in a separate .CSS file. I doubt that bots load .CSS files for .html files, at least I don't remember seeing this in my server logs. And another "classic" solution is to use white link text on white back
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What hassle? With a bit of organization there's no real hassle. My addresses are all in /etc/aliases on the mail server and have a time stamped comment in front of them naming the company / website. I can easily take thi
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Takes less than a day, because most of the stuff is scriptable. And for a simple compute node setup at Hetzner (I.e. no bare metal, but just a VM) it takes me less than half an hour.
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To "hinder" means to make it more difficult to use something, or "to restrict" or "to prevent" someone from using it. https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hinder
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by jcynix 1y ago
So you think that if normal people aren't allowed to use encryption that would hinder organized crime to use encryption? :-0
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by jcynix 1y ago
Besides the diagram you'll find tutorials on https://www.frozentux.net/category/linux/iptables/ too. And at http://www.easyfwgen.morizot.net/ there's an old, but still useful genera
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Let's call it "early bird" shit …
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Easy, just remove the vowels from the local part of the address: rndbrgr@example.com Even easier: I have a list of pre-generated fantasy addresses on my smartphone and can pass one to randoburgerspot on the fly.
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by jcynix 1y ago
Maybe you can find the paper you ate looking for starting here? https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2025/07/08/how-plants-manage-ligh... Tip: this page links to further reading of older stuff.
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> My biggest hesitance to self hosting email specifically is dealing with spam. What does that look like these days and do you have any pointers to share? Postfix can easily be configured to reject incoming emails from senders without a
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by jcynix 1y ago
These forum discussions seem unconnected to reality IMO. Sometimes funny, more often strange, like audiophile discussions about oxygen free copper cables. Why? The Fuji X-T4 and X-S20 here produce images of 6240x4160 pixels, but I almost ne
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by jcynix 1y ago
Lightroom struggles with Fuji's unconventional sensor pattern. Other programs like Darktable, GraphicConverter, Luminar Neo or FastRawViewer don't make fans of my M1 audible.
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by jcynix 1y ago
>The problem is camera marketing [...] IMHO marketing is almost always (part of) the problem. They shouldn't drink or smoke that stuff … Equating "lossless" with "visually lossless" or some other phrase is newspe
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I'm multi-lingual but try to separate business stuff for example (multi-lingual) from private stuff (mostly one language), so clashes between languages rarely happen. But if it gets complicated I'll usually resort to Perl scripts
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Why? For example to not have diacritics in month names? Take them as examples as you can easily add them to a shell script to make in work the way you want.
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That's why we have all this LC_* stuff in Linux, which you can configure to your needs: export LC_MEASUREMENT="de_DE" export LC_MONETARY="de_DE" export LC_PAPER="de_DE"
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Natural sort is an Option in sort(1): for i in $(seq 2 10) ; do touch img_$i-hn.txt done ls img_* | sort -V img_2-hn.txt img_3-hn.txt img_4-hn.txt img_5-hn.txt img_6-hn.txt img_7-hn.txt img_8-hn.txt img_9-hn.txt
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by jcynix 1y ago
The nice thing about LLMs is that they can explain stuff so you can learn to understand. And they are very patient. For example I'm currently relearning various ImageMagick details and thanks to their explanations now understand things
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And Mark V. Shaney was designed by Rob Pike and posted on Usenet, but that happened a long time ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney
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Ah, yes, Markov chains. A long time agoMark V. Shaney https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V._Shaney was designed by Rob Pike and posted on Usenet. And Veritasium's video "The Strange Math That Predicts (Almost

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