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by riobard 3y ago
Mostly because geofencing is getting much more widespread for various legit reasons (security, anti spam, licensing restrictions, etc) and very annoying for end users.
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by riobard 3y ago
A few days ago I accidentally put wife's beloved Bialetti Brikka pot in the dishwasher. The aluminium lost its anodized coating due to chemical reaction with the detergent (alkaline I think), and the pot turned dull/dark gray. Scr
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by riobard 3y ago
For audio there're also `afinfo` to probe metadata and `afconvert` to convert between different codec/container formats. I use them for podcast post-processing and archiving workflow. macOS 13 Ventura ships with a customized `iper
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by riobard 3y ago
Where do you buy $5/TB tape at retail?
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by riobard 3y ago
My ISP did exactly that. I bugged their customer support several times over a month and they finally caved and gave me /60 now.
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by riobard 4y ago
Probably off topic, but is it worth the trouble to (re)write critical infra software like SSH in memory-safe languages? From the release note this seems a minor issue, but given the importance of SSH in auth, maybe it isn't too crazy t
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by riobard 4y ago
Correct me if wrong, but I thought that you cannot extract the private key from the Secure Enclave at all?
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by riobard 4y ago
Don't worry coz DAD (Duplicate Address Detection) will come to your rescue :p
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by riobard 4y ago
You need to factor in the compression ratio to see the benefits of swapping from RAM to RAM :P
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by riobard 4y ago
would be interesting to combine this with `zram` to move compressed swap to vram instead
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by riobard 4y ago
Not just Google. Recently I tried to web login to my PayPal account. PayPal decided it was a risky attempt for some reason and asked me to provide a phone number for verification. So I gave it the one associated with my PayPal account for y
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by riobard 4y ago
> hard to come up with a legit explanation for why they rushed that change to China first. Not hard at all. On Oct 13, 2022 this protest happened ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing_Sitong_Bridge_protest ), which
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by riobard 4y ago
I'm wondering… have you ever tried to restore from that TM backup?
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by riobard 4y ago
Interesting. Could you please share the Samba config for the Time Machine shares? And over what medium do your Mac machines connect to the NAS? Wired or wireless?
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by riobard 4y ago
Have recent versions of macOS fixed the reliability of Time Machine over network (especially over Wi-Fi)? It used to be that after a while (varies from a couple of weeks to months) Time Machine would complain that the spare disk image on th
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by riobard 4y ago
If resentment from rendering existing accessories obsolete due to changing connectors is the root cause of the delay, maybe Apple has been secretly waiting for the EU legislation so it can deflect the blame? e.g. "it's EU forcing
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by riobard 4y ago
> To treat the cells well requires sacrificing some capacity to reduce the voltage stress on the cells. Battery-power devices like smartphones should have a mandatory control of what percentage of battery it should be charged up to. For
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by riobard 4y ago
Right now the idiomatic Go approach to handle networking is 2-goroutine per socket (one for reading and the other for writing). Goroutines are very lightweight userspace threads, but they're not free: each costs you a small amount of m
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by riobard 4y ago
I'll have to ask this since it's bothering me for quite a while… If I connect to a server via WireGuard, would it make more sense to run simpler & unencrypted `rsh` instead of `ssh`? It's kinda pointless to double encrypt
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by riobard 5y ago
I'm not sure how you conclude that AllowedIPs does no routing. > On a lower level, AllowedIPs is really just "allowed IPs", and does no routing. This is contrary to what the official documentation says https://w
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by riobard 5y ago
Is this turbocharged TPROXY?
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by riobard 5y ago
Any plans for sending emails?
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by riobard 5y ago
Mail storage cost is negligible.
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by riobard 5y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this problem the ideal use case for projects like IPFS? Anyone interested to preserve the content can join as a node to balance the load, right? And if so, why don't we see widespread adopti
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The Quite OK Image Format for Fast, Lossless Compression(qoiformat.org)
17 points by riobard 5y ago|1 comments
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by riobard 5y ago
Optic disks work that way, but highly unlikely for hard drives as the internal chamber requires super clean air without any dust. Latest hard drives over 8TB mostly have adopted helium-sealed chamber, making removable platters even less fea
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by riobard 5y ago
> assuming compression of course I don't know why this seems the standard practice in the industry, but it really annoyed me when I realized a “15TB” LTO-7 tape has actually only 6TB real, “native” storage coz it assumes some averag
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by riobard 5y ago
Not sure about ARM-based NAS, but most x86-based QNAP NAS devices are basically a PC in hardware configuration with mature Linux support, so there's not really any support issue. The PiBox case apparently can only house two 2.5" S
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by riobard 5y ago
> a simple NAS device that is not much larger then drives it uses, but doesn't have Qnap OS installed on it. Well, you could just install your favorite Linux distro on a QNAP NAS device. Cost-wise the Pi-NAS option isn't even
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by riobard 5y ago
What does the VPU do after boot if the unit is headless?

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