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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
possible to allow users of ithy the option to add their own API keys for N of your used services to offset your own $?
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
to be fair to you tho, it's a lot easier to be almost-infinite-scale-ultimate-uptime SRE when you have an almost-infinite-scale-company CC/bank draft supporting you instead of your personal dalla is staked on a really cool PoC. th
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
i started looking into using Cloudflare AI gateways for this exact [caching] reason a few months ago but got distracted with GPU Cloud Run so i never did get decent load/numbers on the AI gateway cache to see if it was worth bothering
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
i learned o7 from Elite/Elite Dangerous but the same starship skipper-to-skipper vibes apply!
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
i like this, a lot. i asked a subjective history question about England and Ithy's analysis was great, and did indeed add to other GPTs! i did find the UI a bit confusing at first, that's my only nitpick. i signed in (nice easy fl
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
s/cu /su /g
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
thankfully the negative use of bush in the context of "bush lawyer" does not extend into the use of bush in "bush pilot"
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
i share your pain. in my 20+ yrs working on enterprise infrastructure, i have never come across a more garbage product on so many levels on so many platforms at the same time as GlobalProtect.
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
not necessarily -- google.com is using anycast. authoritative servers for google.com will return an IP for your request for an A for google.com with an IP that they believe is appropriate for (read: closest to) your geolocation. ssh to a fe
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
same goes for being in SoCal and going to visit the USS Iowa in San Pedro. it also has similar mechanical computers, it's a fantastic day spent clambering around the ship. sometimes they do "stay overnight in the bunks" night
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
i like!! audio interrupt handling is quick and neat (as it should be). feels really responsive -- good! would love to see elevenlabs integration -- though i suspect that would change the flow dramatically. i'd love to self-host somethi
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
> "Tell me about how the team collaborates and coordinates work" worth it's weight in GOLD
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
feel i should push Kermit Weeks' channel[0] because he is the GOAT when it comes to documenting vintage airplane restoration on Youtube [0] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOC84qwgDHkUPwfeLKL40tQ
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
i was shown one of these Tandem always-on computer pairs in a large comms closet in the Morgan Stanley office at Canary Wharf in the mid-90s. it had something to do with the trans-atlantic comms lines muxing. no-one really knew how long it
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
FYI you can get third-level certs wildcard or not if you subscribe to their Advanced Certificate Manager product.
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
ahhh... when i try to Cast from my desktop to my Roku, i see the Roku as a destination, but only "Available for specific video sites". i think it must be that the _Roku_ is restricted as a Cast[ing] destination. my Chromecast HD i
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
was there ever any information (released by Google or other parties) as to why Google decided to remove the functionality to "Cast" *any* tab, and not a tab from a site that was whitelisted by Google? who pressured Google to do th
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
great article. a fab read especially if you like radio/RF stuff and also don't know much about American Football.
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
if your family happens to be on the Apple ecosystem, Find My quite frankly adds an incredible peace of mind when that family includes aging parents/grandparents who still live alone. i'm in the US, old mum & dad are in the UK,
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
Flowise is pretty great. very ComfyUI-like. [0] https://github.com/FlowiseAI/Flowise
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
https://archive.md/pfOXu
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
https://archive.md/XeNGe
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HamClock – a real time space weather dashboard(clearskyinstitute.com)
78 points by ricktdotorg 2y ago|9 comments
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
I was amazed to see that there is barely a mention of HamClock on HN (just a single comment). HamClock is a free C app, it runs on basically anything, that displays a map of the world along with various customizable information panels. Obvi
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
further down in the post he did mention $25k + an additional $25k per year of tenure!
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
smartctl recently helped me nail down some nasty slowdown issues with Proxmox running on an Intel NUC. the problem turned out to be that the box was running really hot! smartctl -A /dev/<device> | grep 'Temperature:
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
[assuming you're using best practices etc] having your users log into a centralized VPN means that you've got all your different on-prem/DC services and services all in well-designed tightly-controlled VLANs with pinhole acce
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
Disney is almost certainly using SSO for their Slack auth. there's a high chance the Disney staffer was signed into a browser profile with active cookies for Disney ('s auth provider). assuming the game mod gave them filesystem ac
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
related to this, in my first tech job as a UNIX guy at a Wall St. bank, my mentor was really into Hawaii, all the servers in our group were named after hawaiian volcanoes, e.g. mahukona, maunakea, kilauea, hualalai, etc. it was NOT fun, all
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by ricktdotorg 2y ago
i've never had any problems with playback using the major vid players on Linux with files i may or may not have used this trick on.

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