wolrah

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by wolrah 2mo ago
The specific purpose of RustDesk is to have the middleman making remote access across networks easier. It's intended to replace TeamViewer, LogMeIn, etc. not VNC or RDP. You either pick a middleman you want to trust or you run one of
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by wolrah 2mo ago
To establish a connection between client and remote host, you are expected to go through a coordination server which you trust, that can be either the official one or your own self-hosted instance. Your client and the remote host will then
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by wolrah 2mo ago
> RustDesk still does not support encrypted connections when self hosting Not true at all. RustDesk connections are fully encrypted even when using a self-hosted server. What is not supported are encrypted direct endpoint-to-endpoint c
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by wolrah 2mo ago
> since verified DDR needs a TLS cert covering the resolver's IP it's effectively public-resolver-only Why would you think this? It's trivial to get certs for internal services that mainstream devices trust, they just hav
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by wolrah 2mo ago
> But just 50TB of data? Duplicating that would have been cheap and trivial. Seriously. I'm just a random nerd and I have a home server with 96TB of raw disk space divided in to two RAIDZ1 pools which cost me around $2500 to build
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by wolrah 2mo ago
We're talking about a field that is well documented to have been started by an absolute charlatan who believed in magical "subluxations" causing basically all diseases. We know by all objective measures that the entire idea i
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by wolrah 2mo ago
> They aren't better than the Republicans at all. This is exactly the kind of thing the parent poster was talking about. The Democrats certainly aren't left, and they're not great, but we live in a world where the Republic
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by wolrah 2mo ago
People who realize that if their athlete believes it'll make them better, and it doesn't actually hurt them most of the time, there's value in indulging them.
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by wolrah 2mo ago
> If I run a local script or an LLM that needs to fetch a web page from your site and you block that script or LLM as being a bot, you hurt me, the user. I wanted the information and I have no way of getting at it without investing my ow
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by wolrah 2mo ago
Article is from May, there were a few posts about this topic (though not linking this exact article) back then but none seem to have generated any discussion. We have what, gen5 in modern PCs? I haven't been paying much attention rece
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by wolrah 2mo ago
> Around that time, Starlink’s satellite internet service was becoming widely available. Many of WJBTN’s potential clients asked why they shouldn’t just purchase that instead of a fiber-optic connection that involved drilling into their
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by wolrah 2mo ago
> I think we would be better off if people worked harder to prevent vulnerabilities before releasing the software. Pawn Stars meme: "Best I can do is people using glorified chatbots to generate mediocre code an order of magnitude fa
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by wolrah 2mo ago
You are correct, most people who were trying to get from California to Maine or the reverse for the purpose of getting there would probably prefer to fly. Unless a ticket were significantly cheaper than air travel almost everyone doing the
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by wolrah 2mo ago
> The management Ethernet port of a server, on which it listens for the IPMI protocol, is supposed to be connected only to a dedicated internal management network, which must be separated from the Internet, and also from the normal inter
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by wolrah 3mo ago
> Shouldn't OSS be the first to benefit? OSS projects have in many cases been the first to be hurt by LLMs. As you note, LLMs are heavily trained on OSS code. This makes them very good at "license-washing" copyleft code i
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by wolrah 3mo ago
> and their software is horrible As a long-time GoPro owner who recently added an Insta360 X5 to his collection, I can't really see any meaningful difference in software horribleness. They are both really really bad, with ads every
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by wolrah 3mo ago
Those power supplies often shipped with both a full cord input which was grounded but also a folding two-prong component that made it in to a wall wart and of course was not grounded.
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by wolrah 3mo ago
> The issue with a generic cord is that it won't connect the earth pin on those chargers. Nor does the two-prong "wall wart mode" tip many of them shipped with. The ground was only connected on the extended cord attachmen
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by wolrah 3mo ago
Those Apple chargers in fact use the C7/C8 connector to interface the plug adapter, so you can skip their official parts and use any compatible cord. I for years used a power cable from an Xbox with my old Magsafe1-era Macbooks.
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by wolrah 3mo ago
> Hey, implementation, you're a computer! Strip them out automatically on the backend if you don't like them! This is one of my most hated categories of pet peeves, software that does something in a way that causes a human to h
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by wolrah 3mo ago
> And if you're cycling them every day like this, they're not going to last more than 15~20 years. You can't make a blanket statement like that because it depends on a lot of variables about their specific battery system a
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by wolrah 3mo ago
> If you believe that adding lanes doesn't reduce congestion, then you must also believe that adding transit doesn't reduce congestion. The problem with road congestion is the number of personal vehicles inefficiently carrying
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by wolrah 3mo ago
> We don't care to coherently reflect the light; we just want to block it. The energy has to go somewhere. If you're not reflecting it you're absorbing it and you eventually have to do something else with it.
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by wolrah 3mo ago
> Sony actually allowed "OtherOS" until Geohot screwed it up for everybody and they locked it down. I recall exploits allowing some level of access to the RSX and other components Sony had locked away from OtherOS as far back a
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by wolrah 3mo ago
> I'd almost rather have no AI whatsoever and have storage 1/10 the price of pre-AI times. Almost? ALMOST!?!?! If you handed me a button that would make it like LLMs had never existed I'd be slamming that button so hard S
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by wolrah 3mo ago
> Hyperia is a fork of Hyper Terminal. I couldn't click fast enough, then discovered that "Hyper Terminal" has nothing to do with "HyperTerminal" and couldn't click "close tab" fast enough.
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by wolrah 3mo ago
Because if I download a binary package I can then fully inspect it before installation and be sure it's actually what I intended to install. If it's actually a package for my chosen variety of package manager it's probably s
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by wolrah 3mo ago
I am currently at a customer site installing a brand new mainstream budget computer purchased off the shelf from a brick and mortar retailer (Microcenter PowerSpec B687) which has PS/2 ports and a VGA output right next to the USB/
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by wolrah 4mo ago
> But all that only makes sense if you own a domain name. I have a hard time believing the venn diagram of "has a need for an auth provider" and "has at least one domain name" isn't just a a small circle almost e
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by wolrah 4mo ago
I'd be surprised if Cloud Key gets another revision, it's a dead product line as I see it. The main purpose was to provide an appliance alternative to running the controller on your own server, which is now unnecessary for most u

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