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by beala 15d ago
That's a great find, but afaict that model doesn't have VNA capabilities, does it? However, if you also stumble on a spectrum analyzer at that second hand store, you could combine them into a scalar network analyzer.
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by beala 2mo ago
This is great news if you're a mouse with diabetes.
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by beala 8mo ago
No, numbers stations are not permitted on amateur frequencies in the US. There are some notable cases of foreign governments setting these up and interfering with amateur allocations [1], but there's not much the FCC can do about that.
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by beala 8mo ago
> Voice encryption/scramble on Amateur-Band's is not allowed, everything else is ok. It seems like you're saying voice encryption is not permitted, but data encryption is? This is not true in the US. Any encoding used for
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Txtempus: Radio time station transmitter using the Raspberry Pi(github.com)
1 points by beala 9mo ago|0 comments
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by beala 9mo ago
It sounds like GPS, and thus a GPS-based stratum 1 server, uses these time servers, but they were successfully failed over: > Jeff finished off the email mentioning the US GPS system failed over successfully to the WWV-Ft. Collins campus
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by beala 9mo ago
On my iPhone, I can see the size of my iCloud photo backups. Settings -> Apple Account -> iCloud -> Storage. Weirdly, that number is different than Immich’s estimate of my photo library (95 GB vs 150 GB), but perhaps good enough to
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by beala 9mo ago
I self host an Immich [1] instance to backup photos on my iPhone. It’s OSS and has a level of polish I’ve rarely seen in free software. Really, it’s shockingly good. The iOS app whisks my photo off to my home server several times per day. W
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by beala 10mo ago
There’s an infamous case of xerox photocopiers substituting in incorrect characters due to a poorly tuned compression algorithm. No AI necessary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBIG2#:~:text=Character%20subs...
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by beala 10mo ago
I don't understand why people downvote questions like this rather than just answer the question. It's a perfectly reasonable question imo given that it's not clear how this feature is being disabled. It appears that most of t
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by beala 10mo ago
From the article: > This allows for some interesting new deployment models for DuckDB, for example, we could now put an encrypted DuckDB database file on a Content Delivery Network (CDN). A fleet of DuckDB instances could attach to this
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by beala 10mo ago
Seagate has a proprietary version of SMART called FARM. It’s supposed to be more tamper resistant than SMART, but it appears the fraudsters have figured out how to manipulate it too [1]. The best you can do is check FARM if available and pe
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by beala 11mo ago
I guess my head is still spinning. I took a second look at ad blockers on the app store, and many report that they collect various bits of data. Are you saying that there's a special content blocker component to all of these that can&#
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by beala 11mo ago
Scrolling through the comments reading about all the adblockers that folks recommend makes my head spin. Why exactly should I trust any of these to have full access to my browser? Looking through the app store I see so many that are clearly
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by beala 11mo ago
Terminal.shop lets you order coffee over ssh, which is kind of novel and fun. I did it, and the coffee was good! This post reminded me that they've gotten enough questions about security that they've added this to their FAQ: >
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by beala 11mo ago
I posted this in a sibling comment, but I can confirm Beelink's EQ14 [1] works well with OPNsense (FreeBSD based instead of OpenBSD). The dual NIC model uses the Intel KTI226-V chipset which has rock solid FreeBSD drivers. [1] https:&
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by beala 11mo ago
I use them interchangeably. Webster appears to back me up here. However, I only say ear bud when referring to the type that's inserted into the ear.
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by beala 11mo ago
I don't think I've run into any bugs, but there are also entire sections of the controller I haven't explored yet. I have a pretty typical homelab style setup with multiple wifi SSIDs for trusted devices and untrusted devices
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by beala 11mo ago
I've only been using it for a couple months, but OPNsense (FreeBSD based) is such a solid piece of software. I installed it on a cheap Beelink mini PC with dual 2.5 gb NICs and an N150 processor (model EQ14), and it's been reliabl
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by beala 11mo ago
All the complaints about Ubiquiti in this thread from a few months ago dissuaded me from investing in their gear: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44746603 I ended up going with TP-Link Omada and have been happy so far
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by beala 11mo ago
You can also block any arbitrary page element and that block will persist between page loads. I think it’s in right click menu. I used this to permanently block the YouTube chat feature.
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by beala 11mo ago
It doesn’t seem like email scanning is necessary to explain this. It appears that simply having a “bad” subdomain can trigger this. Obviously this heuristic isn’t working well, but you can see the naive logic of it: anything with the subdom
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by beala 11mo ago
This is a pretty significant lift for most home networks, both in terms of cost and complexity, but I agree it’s the right way to go. If you’re upgrading to a PoE switch, you might as well go all the way and make it a managed switch.
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by beala 11mo ago
I remember when USB first came out and there was a ton of novelty in powering all sorts of random stuff out of your computer’s USB port like fans and mug warmers. This has me wondering what sort of whacky stuff I could do with a PoE extract
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by beala 11mo ago
I don’t follow. What part of this would a USB-C wall outlet solve? This would just be swapping a 120/240v cable for a USB cable, right? PoE reduces the number of cables, among other advantages.
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Remote command injection in TP-Link Omada Gateway devices(ccb.belgium.be)
4 points by beala 11mo ago|0 comments
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by beala 11mo ago
Well this is disturbing. I guess my weekend project is running ethernet to my front door. My problem is that the area around my front door where the doorbell is installed is solid timber, so it's not just a simple ethernet drop. I&#x2
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by beala 11mo ago
Oops I initially posted this comment at the top level before I saw this thread: I assume some of the concern around this is that folks don't want to live in a panopticon. If that's your objection, I can't really help with tha
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by beala 11mo ago
I've apparently flagged 6 articles and 1 post by accident. That said, it's possible this is all accounted for in the system. Maybe the mods only get notified above some threshold and that threshold has been tuned to ignore the bac
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by beala 11mo ago
My current house is a new build. It’s a spec home, so customization was limited but I really regret not going overboard with the wiring. Next time I’m getting low voltage power to every window (electric blinds), coax and conduit to the atti

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