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by fmajid 3d ago
The GL-iNet Commet X is a 4-port IP KVM. It does 4K, albeit at 30fps. https://nascompares.com/2026/06/26/gl-inet-comet-x-kvm-early...
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by fmajid 3d ago
The higher-end GL-iNet Comets have passthrough. I have the 5G cellular equipped one connected to my OpenBSD home router so if I lose Internet connectivity at home while I am traveling, I can still debug and do something about it.
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by fmajid 3d ago
I think that's mostly marketing waffle, but I suspect the argument is that this will allow a LLM or agent to remote control your phone, tablet or computer in a format that is a bit more directly accessible for them than the VNC-like UI
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by fmajid 3d ago
It is 4K, just not the 120Hz or higher gaming grade the parent was asking for, and better than the 1080p of the JetKVM Mini. The JetKVM Mini does offer Ethernet, however (not sure if it can be powered by PoE, however, which would be a hug
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by fmajid 3d ago
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zepan/nanokvm-go-worlds... Not high frequency though, tops out at 45Hz
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by fmajid 5d ago
Multiple connections totally help. At a previous job, we drove rsync with GNU parallel, then did a final catch-all pass with rsync, and that divided transfer time for about 600GB by a factor of 4.
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by fmajid 6d ago
Also, if you have a heat-sealer, individually bagging the cables before grouping them avoids having cables mate and turn into a Gordian knot. A heat-sealer allows you to make bags that are just the right size for your cable, vs. generic zip
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by fmajid 9d ago
It's unclear whether this legislation will require giving users the choice of the sort order. That's one of the tricks exploitative social networks use, selective prioritization of ragebait and other content that encourages "
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by fmajid 10d ago
They are not going back to physical controls out of the goodness of their hearts. Physical controls are a requirement to get a European 5-star safety rating, and possibly in China as well.
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by fmajid 10d ago
Yes, but the Honda to Chevy ratio is accelerating in just 2 years, which suggests something more than a preference for Japanese brands is at play.
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by fmajid 11d ago
Of course they are, The Economist is to the City of London (the unaccountable pseudo-local authority that is effectively a lobbying group for banks) what Pravda was to the Soviet Communist Party. How dare the little people demand the same p
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by fmajid 11d ago
Usually vendors fight over terminology because they want to "own" a portion of mindspace. Ultimately authorization is a programming problem, and people have devised very complicated declarative solutions like Google Zanzibar to av
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by fmajid 11d ago
Even that is oversimplified. To launch nuclear-armed ICBMs, it takes to subjects to turn two keys separated by sufficient distance that no one person can turn both keys at the same time. In many cases, specially involving sysadmins, you wan
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by fmajid 11d ago
Or until you don't need to buy oil at all. China has reduced its consumption by 1.5M barrels/day this year alone.
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by fmajid 12d ago
The most valuable offspring of HP is Broadcom, just as ASML is the most valuable offspring of Philips.
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by fmajid 12d ago
I upgraded Vivaldi, which is reporting 152.0.7977.112
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by fmajid 13d ago
I've heard it referred to as the Strangler Fig pattern.
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by fmajid 13d ago
My main backup server uses ZFS and I replicate (using my own https://github.com/fazalmajid/zfssnap but there are plenty of alternatives) to a 14TB USB drive using ZFS snapshot and incremental zfs send which makes it v
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by fmajid 13d ago
It's amazing that even after the Holocaust, prejudice against Roma is so prevalent in allegedly polite society.
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by fmajid 13d ago
KeePassXC or Bruce Schneier's Password Safe. The nice things about Keepass* is that the format is an open standard with multiple implementations and if any one turns out to be a problem, you can switch easily.
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by fmajid 17d ago
Vetos also allowed Russian stooges like Orbán (and now Fico) to block essential aid to Ukraine.
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by fmajid 17d ago
Realistically, how much sway would tiny Iceland really have on those regulations since most are covered by qualified majority voting? The ones they care about are precisely fishing, which is unsurprisingly a sticking point. Considering they
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by fmajid 17d ago
For instance euro membership is a requirement for new entrants, but Sweden has been fudging the admission criteria just a teeny bit to ensure they do not meet the requirements and keep the krona (as opposed to Denmark, which got an opt-out
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by fmajid 18d ago
Well, I only just purchased Children of Time and haven't even started it yet
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by fmajid 19d ago
“Niquer” means “to f*ck” in French slang
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by fmajid 19d ago
They forgot to mention the most famous corvids in mythology, Odin’s familiars Huginn and Muninn
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by fmajid 20d ago
and has a touchscreen
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by fmajid 20d ago
I have the older Paper-S3, which has better specs (larger screen and battery, 16-level grayscale) and also has a Crosspoint Reader port. Nice device, clearer screen than my Pocketbook Verse.
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by fmajid 20d ago
Revolut pulled that stunt, I cancelled my account with them.
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by fmajid 20d ago
No, UEFA is performing discovery in Florida on FIFA's US affiliates to gather evidence of Infantino's corruption. The suit against Infantino will still be filed in Switzerland since that's where FIFA is headquartered (in Züri

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