johnklos

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by johnklos 2y ago
While the title might make one think, "They've caught up to 1999!", the real point of the article and video seems to be "Raspberry Pi Connect", which is neat, but somewhat orthogonal to ssh and to choosing ssh over
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by johnklos 2y ago
Whenever I hear about ransomware attacks, I wonder how anyone could pay for IT services to set up a system where: 1) there are no meaningful, clean backups and 2) regular users can overwrite many / most files 3) and/or administrat
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by johnklos 2y ago
> My Mac is constantly bugging me to install OS updates. Same with my iPad and my iPhone. Apple gives you no option to skip the updates. The only way to avoid the constant carping is to allow Apple to do the update automatically, which i
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by johnklos 2y ago
"Tie die" Ha ha ha ha... Love it! Always informative and interesting :)
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by johnklos 2y ago
This is just simply untrue. Go to System Settings, General, Software Update, then click on the "i" next to Automatic. Turn off "Check for updates".
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by johnklos 2y ago
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the G
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by johnklos 2y ago
It makes for an excellent litmus test to ask, sometimes literally out loud, whether someone who advocates for the legislation of a specific religion's rules would be OK with being forced to comply with a different religion's rules
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No.
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I've always had an appreciation for odd hardware, and I've just tried to keep what I like of what I have. Big fan of the Sinclairs - small, simple, yet filled with all sorts of neat tricks that made them inexpensive and simple. Th
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by johnklos 2y ago
I did something in between - I kept the physically small systems (Landisk, VAXstation VLC, Mac LC III+, Mac Quadra 610, Cobalt Raq, EdgeRouter, various Pis, et cetera) and some of the more useful larger ones (Amiga 4000, VAXstation 4000&#x2
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by johnklos 2y ago
> Good luck trying to get your email deliverd to t-online or something. People who say it cannot (or should not) be done should not interrupt those who are doing it. The dismissiveness is likely why you are downvoted, I'm guessing.
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by johnklos 2y ago
It is, if for no other reason than you never know when some other user has a guessable password. You should switch everyone to ssh keys. It's a good excuse to learn :)
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by johnklos 2y ago
If my comment is insulting, I apologize. That was not my intention. My intention was to say that writing sales speak in a technical discussion is insulting to those of us who know better. However, you've now gone out of your way to try
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by johnklos 2y ago
The very first definition from the link you provide is: > Self-hosting is the practice of running and maintaining a website or service using a private web server, instead of using a service outside of someone's own control. Hosting
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by johnklos 2y ago
> How long did this server take to build? How much time does it take to maintain and make sure all the security patches are applied each month? How often does it crash and how much time will be needed to recover it? Do you keep spare par
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by johnklos 2y ago
Self hosting means hosting it yourself, not running it on Amazon. I think the distinction the author intends to make is between running something that can't be hosted elsewhere, like ChatGPT, versus running Llama-3 yourself. Overlookin
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by johnklos 2y ago
This is a wonderful way to keep older devices working indefinitely. The idea that a printer could in any way be obsolete is ridiculous on its face: can it print something that humans can read and otherwise use? Of course it can. The same is
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by johnklos 2y ago
The Pinebooks are pretty neat and affordable bits of kit. I got the original Pinebook, and it came with a free upgrade from whichever display they originally said to a full 1080 resolution display. The limiting factor for the original is li
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That doesn't seem too surprising. While my account just gets three or so "digital marketing" or "mobile app" spam a day from Outlook, Mom was getting dozens of Apple / Home Depot / Harbor Freight / Lo
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by johnklos 2y ago
DNSBL are good to have in addition to checking SPF+DKIM+DMARC. This is because spammers now mass produce domains with valid SPF+DKIM+DMARC using Cloudflare and GoDaddy for domain registration, WHOIS and DNS because neither company gives t
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by johnklos 2y ago
That's a good idea in theory, but considering IPv4 addresses cost money and Gmail addresses are infinite for practical purposes, that wouldn't work. I don't know that I've ever seen the same Gmail address used more than
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by johnklos 2y ago
"Toy"? Is a computer that can run a full fledged web browser these days really a "toy" computer? I'd guess the author hasn't been around long enough to remember real toy computers, like the V-Techs and other BA
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by johnklos 2y ago
> The internal hard drive uses SCSI with an unusual connector. Adapting it didn't seem straightforward[...] I suppose the author hasn't heard of eBay. The adapter is $15. > The laptop has an AppleTalk port and a phone jack..
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I can't imagine anyone who goes through this, and the other rather outrageous things Windows forces upon people, not wanting to find alternatives, whether they're running a different OS and running Windows-only software in VMs, or
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by johnklos 2y ago
This explains what the 80386 lacked that was a large part of what made it simpler to stop supporting 80386 entirely and make 80486 the minimum for gcc: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20190404-00/?p=10..
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by johnklos 2y ago
So your network interface is enp34s0? And the results you get are... "PING ff02::1%enp34s0(ff02::1%enp34s0) 56 data bytes" ...and nothing else at all? > What year is it? "ping6" hasn't been a thing for well over
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by johnklos 2y ago
You're throwing unrelated facts at the statement. Recentralization has absolutely nothing to do with being protected from DDoS or from other threats. Now, DDoS (and other kinds of) protection can be done by recentralization, but that&#
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by johnklos 2y ago
Is your result "nothing" because you 1) have IPv6 turned off, 2) are running a restrictive reverse firewall, 3) didn't pay attention to the fact that you likely have to specify your ethernet interface explicitly, 4) didn&#x27
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by johnklos 2y ago
There is actually a modern OS (NetBSD) that can run on m68010 systems: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/sun2/ However, it'd be difficult to argue that it's actually all that useful ;) On the other hand, an
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by johnklos 2y ago
Some forget that the Motorola 68000 was the first truly modern processor. It was cheap enough that regular people could actually be exposed to, use, and later on own, machines with them. It facilitated the first commonplace GUI-based comput

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