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by octorian 6y ago
Yet nearly every serial terminal from that era tends to struggle to handle text at >9600bps without some form of flow control at some point.
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by octorian 6y ago
That's gotta be a European thing. In the US, cassette drives were pretty much non-existent (in favor of 5.25" floppy drives) from at least the mid-80's onward, at least. I personally have absolutely no memory whatsoever of ev
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by octorian 6y ago
> if you start secret chat only you and your peer knows encryption keys The moment a product is "secure by exception" rather than "secure by default," a huge benefit of E2E encryption is immediately thrown out the win
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by octorian 6y ago
> Share live location This can be an extremely useful feature at times, and is also E2E encrypted with a similar model to group chats (but modified to allow for lossy delivery). > Broadcast messages This is one of those interesting fe
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by octorian 6y ago
I've wasted enough time getting a Bus Pirate to try and behave when I wanted to test something that I pretty much gave up. Now I just keep a random Arduino board around and push snippets of scratch code to it for the same purpose. (An
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by octorian 6y ago
> if my compuer and IoT hub is on my main network, and the lightbulb is on the guest one, how do they talk? If your IoT devices aren't on the same subnet as your smartphone or computer, the vast majority of their "frontend apps
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by octorian 6y ago
Getting your private CA trusted on a smartphone seems to keep getting more and more difficult and/or annoying with every iteration of the various mobile OSes. If it was possible to make a private CA cert that was only valid for hosts u
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by octorian 6y ago
> One of the challenges in this space is similar to captive portal detection I really wish someone had thought of that problem when defining the 802.11 specs. Though I suspect the idea hadn't even occurred to them at the time. This
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by octorian 6y ago
I really wish Let's Encrypt had a solution for those of us with lots of "internal" devices that neither need public access nor are capable of running an automated renewal job (routers, switches, IoT gizmos, etc). All of these
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by octorian 6y ago
> Software should be safe to explore. Trying things out is how you learn. When I was a kid, I was surrounded by computer-illiterate adults. The biggest fundamental difference between their approach and mine, was that they were "afra
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by octorian 6y ago
Yes, in the early days it ran on 6-7 different platforms. Back then it was about 1-3 developers per platform, however. Small focused teams like that can have significantly higher per-developer productivity, but are far more limited in the b
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by octorian 6y ago
Even when the game is boring, its still addictive. Kinda weird that way. Of course its mostly only boring when you haven't yet figured out the "design patterns" of an efficient base, and/or are too lazy to tear down what
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by octorian 6y ago
And starts reasonably quickly. And runs really well on Linux, with no quirks or hicups. (As someone who uses a Linux machine as the "primary" desktop, only switching to a Windows machine for games and other things that need it, I
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by octorian 6y ago
I've spent some time playing Satisfactory, but the first-person view often makes it too cumbersome to actually organize/align everything properly.
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by octorian 6y ago
I hate to say it, but almost all of these sites/systems end up being far more annoying than useful. Why? Almost all the time, their alerts simply are not actionable. At best, they'll tell you that your username/email was incl
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by octorian 6y ago
I'm the same way. The most important parts of the KeePass ecosystem to me are: 1. It runs on every platform I currently use, as well as any platform I might care to use, whether or not that platform is sufficiently "popular"
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by octorian 6y ago
I still find it hilarious how we were going all in on "Ban All The Single Use Plastics!" over the past year, then the pandemic hit, and everyone pretty much threw the whole idea out the window. Now reusable anything is seen as a d
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by octorian 6y ago
I hate to say it, but that's even more useless than a vanilla IRIX installation. By far. One big problem with running a 3rd party OS on these old machines (specifically SGI, Sun doesn't have this issue) is that they tend to not re
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by octorian 6y ago
I actually have two SGI machines kicking around (an Indigo2 and an Octane2), and I really wish I had a better idea of what to do with them beyond poking around at the desktop for 10 minutes. One big problem with all these old "workstat
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by octorian 6y ago
> vim vs vi: most obvious difference (IMHO) feature wise is that vim adds vimscript IMHO, the most obvious difference is that in vim you can kinda just press "i" and pretend its a normal text editor. You know, the kind anyone c
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by octorian 6y ago
Every time Microsoft or Apple majorly screws something up, people say this. It still hasn't happened yet. However, I think Apple has been a far greater threat to Linux adoption than Microsoft. Why? Because it gives techies the *nix env
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by octorian 6y ago
> The state of charging infrastructure is just as important as the range of the car itself. And this is why I facepalm every single time I see a car manufacturer trying to make a "Tesla competitor" by focusing on getting most o
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by octorian 6y ago
What's weird is that I had a laptop that Vista actually ran well on, and I didn't have any real problems. Of course it was a higher-end laptop (similar specs and price to what Apple sold at the time). It often feels like the bigge
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by octorian 6y ago
> the EPA numbers are ridiculous If you think that, you should look at the NEDC numbers they post in Europe :-) Okay, tried to dig those up and they've apparently switched to the WLTP standard there. That's good, because the NE
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by octorian 6y ago
"Nobody is going to buy this thing. I commute 250 miles each way to my job, in my pickup truck, hauling a load of lumber to a cabin 100 miles from civilization. There's no electricity out there. Call me back when Tesla makes a rea
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by octorian 6y ago
> I'm still rather baffled about how people look back fondly on XP, it looked like a toy for toddlers I think a big part of this is a combination of two factors: First, most non-tech people never ran Win2k. They went straight from 9
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by octorian 6y ago
Okay, as someone who has used the ESP32 before (but not the STM32), I'm genuinely curious as to why you're stating this as an assertion. What exactly is it about the ESP32 that makes it unfriendly or difficult? (FWIW, all my ESP32
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by octorian 6y ago
I know its not a popular choice, but there's a real benefit as a tech person to actually being "socially compatible" with people you meet in everyday life.
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by octorian 6y ago
I got cut from an Amazon phone screen by not being able to cough up various Minesweeper algorithms off the top of my head. (Also something I've never used before or since.) Thankfully, at the same time (this was in 2011), I was also in
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by octorian 6y ago
And the majority of these have so little presence in places like this, that its easy to forget that they exist at all. Heck, when I joined my first large-team software development project at work, I was flabbergasted at how many "numb-

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