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by thom_nic 9y ago
MQTT and CoAP both support TLS. With TLS 1.2 you've got elliptic ciphers which puts it in reach of small embedded devices. So TLS with server certificates are enough to ensure confidentiality and server authenticity. Client certifica
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by thom_nic 9y ago
> trying to vendor-lock you Isn't that the point of this? We've got AWS IoT, Artik, Xively, Google Cloud IoT.. I've looked at a few and they basically all do the same thing in a slightly different, incompatible way. If w
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by thom_nic 9y ago
I noticed on [1] that you list 8.8.9.9 as Google's DNS server. Did you mean 8.8.4.4? If I `dig @8.8.9.9 ..` I get no response. [1] https://startyourownisp.com/posts/build-your-infrastructure/
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by thom_nic 9y ago
How would you remove Android from an Android phone?
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Ask HN: My state reps already support Net Neutrality. What else can I do?
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by thom_nic 9y ago
> Most of the world struggles with screens with aspect ratios optimized for watching TV ... You are right about that. I use two external monitors, one of which is rotated 90°. Guess which one I keep my browser window on? :)
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by thom_nic 9y ago
Doesn't Jekyll already handle minification and CSS preprocessing?
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by thom_nic 9y ago
Those benefits are mostly a feature of the Octavo SIP (I think!) Unfortunately in my case, I want to use it in a product with wired ethernet, so a PocketBeagle limited to a USB or SPI ethernet device because the it doesn't expose the p
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by thom_nic 9y ago
I followed Olimex's instructions [1] for their AM352-SOM, which is very similar to the BBB. From those instructions it's not difficult to build a working kernel, u-boot and debian-based rootfs. In fact, I highly recommend this ro
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by thom_nic 9y ago
related: I wrote a plugin to do the same for Jekyll, although it does not (yet) do cloudfront invalidation: https://github.com/thom-nic/jekyll-s3_deploy
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by thom_nic 9y ago
People keep mentioning tree-style tab but I don't see how that's an alternative to TMP's multiple tab rows. Personally I don't find tree-style tabs appealing at all because (1) I usually have few pages open on the same
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by thom_nic 9y ago
Same here. Tab mix plus (for multiple tab rows) is the reason I kept using FF all these years. WebExtensions does not provide the capability to manipulate tabs the way TMP did.
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by thom_nic 9y ago
> Express uses callbacks extensively This is true, Express goes way back to Node's pre-1.0 days before promises were a thing. For a more modern NodeJS experience, I'd recommend Koa http://koajs.com/ . Rule num
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by thom_nic 9y ago
> sharing code between client and server Never happens as much as you would think it might, except maybe for some very simple common utility functions. There is some benefit to consistent tooling (e.g. all you need is node+npm, then `np
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by thom_nic 9y ago
Can you provide a link to that Firefox theme? I searched "FDE Compact" in mozilla themes and couldn't find what you appear to be using.
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by thom_nic 9y ago
Looks like the magic is done by https://github.com/theZiz/aha (by looking at the process tree under `htopgen.sh`)
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by thom_nic 9y ago
Actually I thought it's more like Usenet as soon as I started scrolling through https://joinmastodon.org/#getting-started
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by thom_nic 9y ago
Any informed commentary on the pros/ cons of this vs cluster? As far as I can see, cluster workers are all uniform (no task-specific pools) and cluster has no broadcast (just `worker.send(message)`.)
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by thom_nic 9y ago
Hi Erik - why are the SIPs ~ $30-40 in quantity on DigiKey while the PocketBeagle is only $25? We're currently using Olimex's Am3352-SOM module in a product, and the Octavo SIP makes it simple enough to do a board down instead of
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by thom_nic 9y ago
As Larry Wall said, "Easy things should be easy." When working on a project and you need to copy something for the first time, you shouldn't have to do: * Ok I need to copy... What npm package does that again? * search
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by thom_nic 9y ago
> won't confuse screen readers I don't disagree SVG isn't difficult and a lot more flexible, but I think in this case, the font has the advantage that it is accessible to screen readers. 345, A screen reader is going t
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by thom_nic 9y ago
In the case of teensy you've pretty much got just a chip with breakout (and maybe an FTDI chip) - it's pretty much a reference design. At that point you'd just board-down that entire layout, there's little benefit to bu
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by thom_nic 9y ago
I would have said form factor. Commercial has all signals routed to high pitch headers, with few or no on-board jacks, also many times surface mount. Also there are places where Linux is appropriate and affordable at volume, depending on t
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by thom_nic 9y ago
It never made sense for Intel to enter this market to begin with. Opportunities that move the needle for a company like Intel come in sizes of 100s of millions $ or more. The maker market is just not that big. "IoT" however is
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by thom_nic 9y ago
If we're honest we have to admit that any difference between dev/test (where you're running tests) and prod (what you're deploying) can introduce subtle bugs either due to configuration errors or something like a missing
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by thom_nic 9y ago
You might be surprised to learn that all power plants have some sort of primitive "networking" capability, albeit something that looks more like a direct point-to-point phone line between plants and the grid operator (see DNP3.)
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by thom_nic 9y ago
I deployed a couple AWS lambda endpoints for very low-volume tasks using claudia.js - Claudia greatly reduces the setup overhead for sane REST endpoints. It creates the correct IAM permissions, gateway API and mappings. Claudia.js also
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by thom_nic 9y ago
According to [1] Chrome 59 still is not supported. [1] https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.29/notes.txt
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by thom_nic 9y ago
Seems what you describe could be done through a BLE accessory that straps to the handlebar or at most an aftermarket handlebar with LEDs/sensors integrated, which talks to a phone app. I'm part of the "athlete" market se
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by thom_nic 9y ago
A similar process is building a custom kernel and rootfs for an ARM device such as the beaglebone. Olimex actually has a good tutorial for their device: https://www.olimex.com/wiki/AM335x This is only slightly more co

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