johnklos

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by johnklos 3y ago
About a decade or so ago I did IT for a company that had a large copier that could also scan to email. The email delivery stopped working even though this was Gmail and nothing SHOULD'VE changed (Google has never cared much about stand
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by johnklos 3y ago
As someone who has hosted personal content and files for a quarter of a century, continuously, I'd trust individuals or a not-necessarily-for-profit group over something like this. While domains have come and gone, sometimes multiple t
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by johnklos 3y ago
Sure, I get that. How is Windows support for Mac filesystem? ;)
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by johnklos 3y ago
Do you expect repair of a Windows filesystem (ExFAT) to work better on a Mac than on a Windows system?
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by johnklos 3y ago
Internet, even with modern TLS, is surprisingly usable on m68k machines. I recently played around with a contemporary web browser on my 25 MHz m68030 Amiga 3000 with AmigaDOS 3.2.1, and it was almost usable. I bet it'd fly on an '
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by johnklos 3y ago
I was supposed to climb a mountain with her. There really aren't that many people in this world to whom you can say, "let's do a (slightly out there) thing", to which they say "yes" without hesitation and with
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by johnklos 3y ago
It's unfortunately common that people just throw more resources at a problem instead of looking at the most egregious bottlenecks. Putting everything in the cloud has made the idea of scaling (without much regard for cost) the answer f
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by johnklos 3y ago
Amazon is very, very spammy. If you want your email to be delivered and you don't want to end up sharing Amazon's reputation, you'll need to use another company for email delivery.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Yes, or I get my packages through a trusted package system, such as pkgsrc.
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by johnklos 3y ago
Hear, hear! It is completely irresponsible to encourage piping random Internet sources to sudo or to (ba)sh, and I'm quite tired of hearing the ridiculous justification that "everyone does it".
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by johnklos 3y ago
micro wants to be a small, lightweight, modern alternative to other things, but it's written in Go, which means it isn't going to be available for older systems and/or for classic architectures. A good alternative should be u
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by johnklos 3y ago
This is in no way specific to T-Mobile but can be used for any ISP / with any device that doesn't allow port forwarding. It's just a simple port forward over ssh, which means no software installation is necessary (except perh
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by johnklos 3y ago
In my opinion, Microsoft is big and dumb, and they're evil in overt and obvious ways. Google, though, has lots of smart people, so they're cunning and evil in calculated and somewhat hidden ways. I mentally make these distinctions
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by johnklos 3y ago
This is hilarious. We didn't learn from Superman III, where Superman tricks the evil supercomputer by bringing in supposedly inert chemicals that the supercomputer doesn't realize could become damaging. Instead of saying the tool
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by johnklos 3y ago
Retro Recipes did a whole video about this very thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhdc-jgwqVQ Studying how the old chips work and recreating them is an excellent way to document and preserve. I'm always happy for
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by johnklos 3y ago
I have to disagree with the word "accidentally" in the title. No single person involved in this with half a wit didn't, or wouldn't, picture a spray of material resulting from the impact. Any suggestion otherwise is just
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by johnklos 3y ago
You're basically saying this behavior is acceptable and should be considered normal and should be expected to become the norm. If you think IPv6 is mostly pointless, I think you're unaware of the fact that a significant majority o
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by johnklos 3y ago
How does that explain blocks that happen to less common browsers and/or less common platforms?
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by johnklos 3y ago
I love the detail in these writeups! I've been curious about the long term changes in performance, both positive (from toolchain and optimizer improvements) and negative (from Spectre / Meltdown and friends). Chips and Cheese did
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by johnklos 3y ago
It is so wonderful that we have repositories / archives like FUNET. So much history can be found in one place, along with everything we need to (re)experience what things were like back in the day. As someone who runs an Aminet mirror
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by johnklos 3y ago
Wait - seriously? So they're a domain registrar that FORCES you to use their DNS?
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by johnklos 3y ago
I'm happy for an article like this that I can invite people to read. I often tell people that the "cloud" is a lock-in for subscription based everything, where you have literally no control of your data nor the slightest insi
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by johnklos 3y ago
Classic MacOS is really the best example of where most of our best GUI ideas originated. It's great that this is not only preserved, but is usable and accessible to so many. Good stuff!
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by johnklos 3y ago
EDNS is in part how using one IP address across the world can work without tons of latency for everyone who isn't geographically local. In other words, 1.1.1.1 would be a lot shittier, and the DNS answers they provide would be much les
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by johnklos 3y ago
Cloudflare is in the wrong here. They want to "protect" people from their own ISPs, from nefarious web and DNS servers that'll "sacrifice the privacy of users" by - you guessed it - doing exactly the same thing them
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by johnklos 3y ago
One can learn all sorts of interesting skills when one starts to imagine all the possible ways simple tools can be used. I'd like to see something like this, but with hardware included - something like Junkyard Wars, but with random co
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by johnklos 3y ago
Alpine, not to be confused with the Linux distro [1], is wonderful. I had used Pine since the '90s because nothing comes close to the speed of checking email directly on the email server itself via a TUI. Alpine, I learned, is a suitab
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by johnklos 3y ago
Archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20230731231546/https://softpanor...
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by johnklos 3y ago
...and they haven't gone down in price, even though they're years old... I'd be more inclined to try an Orange Pi 5. For $50 more than the Pi 4, you get twice the memory, eight cores that're also faster, PCIe m.2, full s
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by johnklos 3y ago
The x86 world certainly had a lot of interesting outliers that other architectures, like m68k, never did. Sometimes I wonder how a 100 MHz m68030 with tons of cache would compare with an '040 or '060... The Blue Lightning supports

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