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by rixrax 5y ago
I recently tried to write an Ubuntu .iso to the USB flash drive on OSX using dd. And for some reason that I couldn't easily figure out, write speed was so slow as to be almost unusable. Enter Etcher, and that image got written in a fla
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by rixrax 5y ago
I've been thinking of building AMD based gaming Linux workstation as well. What has been a bit daunting is to understand which combination of drivers should I use? And what they do / how they perform? E.g. should I use AMD proprie
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by rixrax 5y ago
It would be really nice if articles about protocols, even if talking about implementation details, would include or link to a representative traffic sample / .pcap of said protocol.
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True. But I do like the fact that this way I have [almost] stock Raspbian OS and all the crud that gets installed by pihole, minidlnad, cloudflared, shinobi (especially by this!!) and so on are one 'docker image rm' away from remo
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by rixrax 5y ago
I used this board from Uputronics[0] with optionally included active GPS antenna. Mostly because they were readily available, and there were few guides online for setting ntpd up on Pi using Uputronics board. As a word of caution - it looks
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by rixrax 5y ago
I never thought I would use Docker for 'production' in home network, but I recently completed a transition from three separate x64 servers to a single Raspberry Pi 4 [mostly] provisioned using Docker. Energy use-wise I went from m
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US Intel agencies scour reams of genetic data from Wuhan lab(edition.cnn.com)
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by rixrax 5y ago
At least some are people who want to make quick $$$ and have missed out getting in to the cryptos early on. My sample size is exactly three, but one friend and two co-workers have been putting their savings to NFTs and been rather vocal at
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by rixrax 5y ago
Similar story here! Got a used 1987MB R107 560 SL. Paid slightly under $20k with less than 80k miles on it with only one previous owner. It’s mechanically in excellent condition with not so great interior. But hey, it’s totally fun to cruis
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by rixrax 5y ago
Pandemic opened up a world of retro gaming to me too. I’ve discovered so many great games that I never had a chance to play when I was a kid / teenager. And my current skillz in Atari 2600 SeaQuest really make my childhood scores look
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by rixrax 6y ago
My only question is: can I choose my carrier? I’ll be damned if I’m forced to Sprint network!!! Oh, and another, what kind of plan I am getting, can I upgrade it and most importantly, is it paid for by taxes or will I receive the bills? Eit
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by rixrax 6y ago
In my mind SBOM is similar to food ingredients being listed on the packaging. FDA or someone requires them, very few read them or cares what is in there. BUT now that they are listed on every food product, those who care can read them and m
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by rixrax 6y ago
I’ve had this ’theory’ for a while that first jobs and first bosses and co-workers matter a lot because this is where you develop your sense of what is ‘normal’. E.g. over the years I’ve worked with all kinds of people, and I’ve taken a hab
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by rixrax 6y ago
There was no shock when iPhone was launched. Nokia had tried touch display phones already by that time and they had gone the way of N900 and deemed unviable. Disarray yes, but not because of iPhone. Of course there were people that apprecia
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by rixrax 6y ago
How are the Channel islands, southern CA coastline in general and e.g. Guadalupe island south of the border doing? Is situation any better down there?
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by rixrax 6y ago
Sounds exactly like the medical industrial complex in the US. Opioid crisis and general over medication and over treatment just magically happened / keeps happening. Surely no doctor ever thought let’s give the customer what they are a
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by rixrax 6y ago
My SE on the other hand did not survive ~ 5 minute dip into the shallow end of the YMCA pool. But Xs has been great in this regard. And with this pandemic, I regularly wash it with soap and water.
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Some people are working on remake it looks like: https://wcrespace.com .
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Moments that could have accidentally ended humanity(bbc.com)
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by rixrax 6y ago
Should propably be required reading for every programmer and especially for those that work with memory unsafe languages. With a side of modern mitigation techniques.[0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer_overfl
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by rixrax 6y ago
I also casually deploy diatomaceous earth and other methods to exterminate ants when I come across them in or around the house. I’m glad the wandering aliens have not yet decided to use this strategy. Especially if they would find earth a d
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by rixrax 6y ago
In some ways it brought back old memories of storming of Stasi HQ in Eastern Berlin[0]. I couldn't find references to that effect, but I recall there was talk back then that among the first ones to breach the Stasi were people from the
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by rixrax 6y ago
Glide / 3dfx game list: http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1758
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by rixrax 6y ago
I have found that being at the receiving end of cursing in your non-native language appears to greatly reduce the effectiveness of the cussing as finer points and nuances get lost in the translation compared to being reprimanded in my nativ
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by rixrax 6y ago
I assume that this study (based on researchers affiliations) was done in US. I’ll hazard that results are heavily skewed by culture. At least for adult results. For example I would wager that dogs life in Asia or Eastern Europe is much che
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by rixrax 6y ago
Since OSX was forcing it down my throat, I switched to zsh. I suffered for a couple of months and am now happily back to bash. I’m sure all these behaviors could have been changed in zsh but I’m believer in defaults, so the different tab co
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by rixrax 6y ago
I think recent firmwares would allow Sd-card-less pxe boot. I was wondering the other day if you could then run the whole system from RAM disk only and/or maybe mount volumes via iSCSI from SAN (keeping in mind limitations of RPi 1Gb n
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by rixrax 6y ago
Monoculture? I don’t think teaching is binary. There are of course universally really awesome teachers, as well as terrible ones. But between them, there are all kinds of teachers with all kinds of teaching styles and crazy experiments. It
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Financial Stability Oversight Council: 2020 Annual Report [pdf](home.treasury.gov)
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by rixrax 6y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you handle situation where outbound tcp/udp port 53 is blocked? Do you fall back to dhcp supplied dns server?

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