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by stonesweep 6y ago
Story time: It depends on the hardware at your disposal. I'm now on the new T-Mobile Home Internet service, the router+wifi device supplied (a Nokia 5G LTE based unit with a SIM on one side) firmware has basically no configuration - yo
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by stonesweep 6y ago
"It depends" as not all the names you listed as examples use the same technology, but in general "UPNP is more useful for thins which need an incoming connection" (kinda sorta). This might be, say, a bittorrent client ne
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by stonesweep 6y ago
The submission is not an article discussing it, nor a Changelog with a new feature, a commentary about the app or other HN worthy discussion launching content - it's simply a link to a random app website. HN has guidelines saying don&#
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by stonesweep 6y ago
This looks like an advertising post to HN, here's a FOSS app instead which has been around for a long time: https://vanilla-music.github.io/
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by stonesweep 6y ago
Previous thread about GRC from ~37 days ago, same conversations starting here already tackled there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26236325
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by stonesweep 6y ago
Most vendors (Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL/clones, etc.) add a hook into rsyslog to be a partner with the systemd logger and write out text files next to the journal - they realize that a lot of people dislike dealing with journalctl (I&#x
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by stonesweep 6y ago
Fun trivia: you can actually set per-device settings in /etc/mke2fs.conf with all sorts of alternate defaults. https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man5/mke2fs.conf.5.html
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by stonesweep 6y ago
I suspect the blog author did not understand this (based on the content) - as a Linode user myself, I just had a look at one of my VMs and they install with the regular 5% reserved space (ext4/Debian).
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by stonesweep 6y ago
Same thing happens when someone rants about the New reddit (redesign) or some other "I don't like this at all" post/comment about reddit itself - people start giving it awards if they agree. shakes head like Foghorn Leg
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by stonesweep 6y ago
My take is it applies to a certain personality type (not sure what kind, not my specialty - just see the patterns) - on last year's profile I got some sort of award for just joining a sub or making a comment or some other no-value low-
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by stonesweep 6y ago
> But note that many of the posters edited their posts saying "don't give me awards". This shows a contradiction between trying to do the right thing while in public. This is a phenomenon all over reddit and not unique to
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by stonesweep 6y ago
The USA mints alone use roughly 4,400 tonnes of nickel to produce coins every year (one specific industry with one type of output in one country). Around 133 tonnes of platinum and 1,800 tonnes of gold are mined per year in total for all us
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by stonesweep 6y ago
Platinum is extracted as a by-product of nickel and copper mining (as are other elements) as it's primary source, unlike gold and copper which are mined for their element directly. Not arguing your point (45% of platinum is used in aut
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by stonesweep 6y ago
It requires tonnes of ore processed to produce ounces of gold (I read roughly 13 tonnes on average, but it's highly dependent on the quality of the deposit and refinement difficulty), there are metrics and studies: https://w
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by stonesweep 6y ago
> You know what requires a lot more metals? I believe the argument is about the refining process and the chemical waste it creates, which is substantially higher when trying to extract 99.99% pure copper, zinc, gold, silver and other i
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by stonesweep 6y ago
I just learned of this thanks to the other HN post yesterday(?) and turned it on, with it enabled and visiting the site in this post (multiple times just to be sure) I get no cookies at all saved from them, as well as no "accept our co
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by stonesweep 6y ago
We're both talking about the open source community, right? This was the Parent comment I replied to and directly quoted, and I'm not seeing why you're intent on focusing on something I'm not talking about. You seem to ha
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by stonesweep 6y ago
I really don't think my comment said anything about people getting rich; I myself was involved in one report of GPL abuse to the EFF on behalf of Busybox, yet another early 2000s device created by 2 people in their bedroom who simply d
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by stonesweep 6y ago
> Do you include piracy in this? No I do not (I don't deny it was/is a thing), as I feel that was a different community (and it still exists today) - yes, the same technology was used but no, they were not/are not the same
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by stonesweep 6y ago
>> the spirit of open source > This is not a thing that exists. What we have are licenses, not ghosts. Before we had open source, we released software as public domain. The spirit existed before the trademark phrase was even inve
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by stonesweep 6y ago
This aptly describes why I do not want a smart home even as a tech professional and why I drive a generic Toyota with easily replaceable parts.
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by stonesweep 6y ago
It was defined by POSIX [1] - of course anyone can extend POSIX functionality (and does), however I'm personally unaware of a locale which would break this specific convention / definition as it would almost assuredly break a lot
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by stonesweep 6y ago
Subtle greybeard update: ` :>/some/file ` still evaluates in shell, it will zero out a file (truncate) quick and dirty - the emphasis in enriquto's comment is still very important, do not include redirection chars.
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by stonesweep 6y ago
Fun trivia: this is the default character in the SUSE /etc/bash.bashrc prompt for the non-root user. There's a lot of code doing things, but it boils down to this one example of their prompt defaults: if test "$UID
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by stonesweep 6y ago
Google Takeout is a good way to find out all the things you thought you deleted, but are still hanging around on their servers. Even stupid banner photos from PicasaWeb and G+ 8 years ago were buried in my Takeout that I had zero access to
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by stonesweep 6y ago
Interestingly, at my company it's based on skill level - everyone works the ~40hr work week, however skill tiers 1-2 are hourly employees and skill tiers 3+ are salaried. On average, the company encourages a healthy work/life bala
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by stonesweep 6y ago
It's based on number of hours worked, rather than hourly vs. salary. The Affordable Healthcare Act defines the number at 30 hours a week for more than 120 days a year where an employer must offer insurance.
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by stonesweep 6y ago
Much like Ethereum, gold has an actual use post discovery/creation but your origami crane does not (outside of artistic value and testing for replicants) - GP did not go into the details, but they chose an appropriate analogy - origami
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by stonesweep 6y ago
Go to the link in the title, scroll down the bottom of the page and the Privacy link is right there, like it is on most website footers. The client is Go open source on github, the security is discussed on the Smart Contracts/Ethereum
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by stonesweep 6y ago
Respectfully, in 5 minutes of just being a human using a website your questions are generally answered. Being skeptical is fine, but at least be honest about giving something the time to read it's resources - they have even have a page

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