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by wolrah 1y ago
Something I'd be very interested in seeing summarized is the current state of fully open source software on SoCs and SBCs. I hate how common the situation described in the nVidia section where SoCs that require vendor kernels get aban
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by wolrah 1y ago
Pis use Broadcom SoCs, not Qualcomm.
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by wolrah 1y ago
That is one of those wonderful facts that's both interesting and in hindsight completely obvious.
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by wolrah 1y ago
Or without an OS installed at all, or with a broken OS. I do VoIP phone systems for a living and this is why I deploy Supermicro mini-ITX servers, so even if something goes totally sideways as long as the client's IT is competent enoug
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by wolrah 1y ago
/dev/null is globally redundant across almost every *nix-ish system in operation. Just reinstall your software on whatever is convenient and all the same data will be there.
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by wolrah 1y ago
> Why bother logging them at all? What is this doing for you? Logging both successful and failed requests is important for troubleshooting my systems, especially the client-facing ones (a subset of which are the only ones that are access
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by wolrah 1y ago
I'm with you on the automatic lock/unlock and full-touch controls, I don't like either of those design choices in cars and I don't want them in a bike either. That said a GPS locator is great on an e-bike. They're
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by wolrah 1y ago
They can't get in but they can still fill my logs up, so fail2ban cuts them off after a few failures. Also by collecting data on the IP addresses that are triggering fail2ban I can identify networks and/or ASes that disproportiona
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by wolrah 1y ago
> I have a mild obsession with the idea that there should be a PoE lighting standard. Ubiquiti did this for a while, the product line was called UniFi LED and IIRC it didn't get much further than a few panel lights intended for drop
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by wolrah 1y ago
If you're plugging in anyways why not make it ethernet though? Then you actually get multiple benefits (faster more reliable networking, freeing up wifi capacity for devices that actually need it) rather than just changing one cable f
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by wolrah 1y ago
> Without researching, idk when that got fixed because nothing on the boxes tells you. In fact it did, in the transitional models that were sold both with and without 802.3af support there was a sticker added to the box on the ones that
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by wolrah 1y ago
The UniFi line has moved away from passive PoE. The "UISP" line is almost exclusively passive PoE, even for brand new products. Ubiquiti has proven they know how to make devices that support both when they transitioned the UniFi
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by wolrah 1y ago
> Ubiquiti has stopped selling anything with passive 24V PoE In their consumer "UniFi" product line. Pull up their store and switch over to the "UISP" product line. Most of the smaller wireless devices and consumer-
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by wolrah 1y ago
> Human cognition was basically bruteforced by evolution-- "Brute forced" implies having a goal of achieving that and throwing everything you have at it until it sticks. That's not how evolution by natural selection works
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by wolrah 1y ago
SLIP is old and mostly forgotten for sure, but PPP was almost universal in dialup and unfortunately common in DSL. PPPoE was the bane of my existence as someone who had to support third-party routers on DSL. PPTP was also very common for
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by wolrah 1y ago
IMO a LLV or NGDV is a custom-designed vehicle for USPS, the EDV is a delivery-optimized electric step van that happens to have been designed with the input of one specific delivery vendor.
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by wolrah 1y ago
I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Your random self-signed cert never worked with HTTPS v1.x-2.x either, and never served a real purpose unless the client had explicitly trusted your cert. HTTP/3 just removes the s
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by wolrah 1y ago
It's not just "kids these days", look at the popularity of sound bars as well. Sure, they're better than what comes built in to a modern TV but as you note physics is still physics and small speakers will never sound as
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by wolrah 1y ago
It also tracks with HTTP/3 and QUIC as a whole, as one of the main "selling points" has always been reduced round trips leading to faster connection setup.
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by wolrah 1y ago
You can still have self-signed certs, you just have to actually set up your own CA and import it as trusted in the relevant trust store so it can be verified. You can't just have some random router, printer, NAS, etc. generate its own
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by wolrah 1y ago
> Even Amazon has custom EVs built for them. Eh, sort of. Amazon partnered with Rivian to help design the EDV and had an initial exclusivity agreement as long as they ordered a certain number of them, but this agreement has since been t
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by wolrah 1y ago
How common are individual streetside mailboxes elsewhere in the world. That's really the only thing where I could see a real need for specialized vehicles for, otherwise for neighborhoods that have on-foot delivery or centralized boxe
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by wolrah 1y ago
The example given is a distro changing their bundled systemd unit files to use new features, yet you choose to blame systemd? You do realize distros can also change SysV shell scripts in ways that break your use case as well, right?
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by wolrah 1y ago
Photoshop after somewhere between maybe 5 and CS2? Office after maybe 2000? CentOS after 8
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by wolrah 1y ago
I think part of it is that for ports up to 10gbit/sec there aren't really as many advantages to using type C on a desktop as on a laptop. Most desktop computers have dedicated graphics or at least the ability to have dedicated gra
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by wolrah 1y ago
A is only the host side on devices not made by total idiots. While there are a surprising number of devices that get this wrong, and I have never understood why, they are always wrong. It seems to be mostly cheap external hard drive encl
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by wolrah 1y ago
Is there any actual scientific study saying anything either way? I'm aware of a lot of anecdotal evidence in favor of e-ink displays being easier on the eyes than normal LCDs in some way, my own personal experience included, but I will
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by wolrah 1y ago
> EInks advantage is that if you turn off power, the ink stays put. E-ink's other advantage is that it reads like paper. In a desktop context I could not possibly care less about the power consumption, but being able to read a foru
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by wolrah 1y ago
XMPP, SIP, Minecraft, and Outlook are the four places I've seen SRV records supported, and obviously only two of those four are widely used with a variety of clients instead of just one specific client.
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by wolrah 1y ago
> security isn't a compelling reason? For legacy hardware like this it's usually not anywhere close to as important as it is for modern systems. These systems are not being used to browse the modern web, they're too slow.

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