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by iam-TJ 2mo ago
It's important to also know that the U.K. has recently mandated that all new build residential buildings (houses and apartment buildings) must have some form of on-site renewable electricity generation system (typically expected to be
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by iam-TJ 2mo ago
The best bit of that is: > In this role, you will own end-to-end bill run execution across all AWS partitions, drive the technical vision for autonomous billing operations, and build the team that ensures every customer receives an accur
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by iam-TJ 2mo ago
Most likely Hydrazine propellant tanks: https://www.space-propulsion.com/spacecraft-propulsion/hydra...
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by iam-TJ 3mo ago
The current recovery status: https://status.linuxfoundation.org/incidents/3y1k8b4ky71t
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Rare copy of US Declaration of Independence found by volunteer in UK archives(bbc.co.uk)
12 points by iam-TJ 3mo ago|3 comments
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by iam-TJ 3mo ago
The full comment: “Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence t
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by iam-TJ 3mo ago
Am I the only one that thought RTK was Real-Time Kinematics used for precision with satellite navigation?
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by iam-TJ 3mo ago
Need to be clear that "full http server in pure bash" is incorrect. Bash cannot listen on a TCP/UDP socket for incoming connections. bash-web-server project builds a C language socket listener [0] that is dynamically loaded a
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by iam-TJ 4mo ago
$ systemctl cat public-inbox-watch@.timer # /etc/systemd/system/public-inbox-watch@.timer [Unit] Description=Periodic fetch of public mailing list [Timer] # twice a day OnCalendar=*-*-* 5,17:35 Random
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by iam-TJ 5mo ago
This should become a new round to compliment Mornington Crescent [0] on the BBC Radio programme I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue [1] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game) [1] https:/&#x
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by iam-TJ 6mo ago
"So you can’t transparently bridge Ethernet devices’ MAC addresses through a WiFi client interface. This is why we need hostapd." I think that is incorrect. hostapd handles the authentication side of things, but 4addr tuples are c
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by iam-TJ 8mo ago
Barclays, with standard current accounts, provides several methods none of which are SMS. There's a separate pin-code device (called Pinsentry) that does TOTP and challenge-response, or passcodes for both telephone and Internet banking
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by iam-TJ 8mo ago
Firefox Nightly v149 has added experimental support via Settings > Firefox Labs: Webpage Display Media: JPEG XL With this feature enabled, Nightly supports the JPEG XL (JXL) format. This is an enhanced image file format that supp
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by iam-TJ 8mo ago
"refused to load whatever distro I tried from SSD" sounds very much like a feature in AMI InsydeH2O firmware (and possibly others) where-by one has to manually "trust" the boot-loader file the boot menu entry points to.
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by iam-TJ 10mo ago
Two devices I use - both running Debian, and both being open-source hardware to some degree or other: PC Engines APU2, AMD x86_64, 4-core, 4GiB, 3x Gigabit Ethernet, 3 x mini PCIe, SIM slot, USB 3, Serial, SATA ports. Mine has dual band WiF
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by iam-TJ 10mo ago
This reminds me of a recent discussion about using a tarpit for A.I. and other scrapers. I've kept a tab alive with a reference to a neat tool and approach called Nepenthes that VERY SLOWLY drip feeds endless generated data into the co
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by iam-TJ 11mo ago
Have you checked out the The National Museum of Computing (TNMoC) archive. Last time I was there they had a rather good magazine collection going back to the early 1980s. It may be worth a call. I see they have an (incomplete) online catal
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by iam-TJ 1y ago
When using LVM one can use the dm-integrity target to detect data corruption.
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by iam-TJ 1y ago
When using LVM there is no need to use separate mdadm (MD) based RAID - just use LVM's own RAID support. I have a workstation with four storage devices; two 512GB SSDs, one 1GB SSD, and one 3TB HDD. I use LUKS/dm_crypt for Full Di
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by iam-TJ 1y ago
To expand on this with an example. Adding a new device we'll call sdz to an existing Logical Volume Manager (LVM) Volume Group (VG) called "NAS" such that all the space on sdz is instantly available for adding to any Logical
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Debian Testing/Trixie removes systemd-resolved
36 points by iam-TJ 1y ago|3 comments
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by iam-TJ 1y ago
I have a wake-alarm[0] that triggers 30 minutes before civil twilight, that is roughly 60 minutes before local sunrise. In the northern hemisphere at 52 degrees it gets earlier by about 2 minutes each day (additional 4 minutes of daytime).
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by iam-TJ 2y ago
For Starlink the User Terminal (antenna a.k.a. "Dishy") is a phased array. It tracks the satellite as it passes from west to east. Each satellite is in view for around 15 seconds - the phased array instantly flips from east to wes
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by iam-TJ 2y ago
Yes, I use direct IPv6 peer-to-peer connections both outbound and inbound using the delegated prefix. Even for a changing prefix, if operating a DNS authoritative server for a domain, any changes to the prefix can be quickly and automatical
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by iam-TJ 2y ago
I've been using Starlink since early 2021 with IPv6 only internally. Starlink User Terminal hands out a /56 prefix (via DHCPv6) and mine has not changed in all that time so I wouldn't call it dynamic. The User Terminal issues
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by iam-TJ 2y ago
In my long experience of debugging and fixing ACPI errors exposed by Linux the reason MS Windows avoids (exposing to the operator) these firmware bugs is due to the fixes being incorporated into the Windows platform/chipset device driv
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by iam-TJ 2y ago
I do something similar except that I do not allow wildcard reception - I create unique service-identifying user@ for each service I give an address to, and have a simple script that immediately adds that to the Postfix virtual table. That w
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by iam-TJ 2y ago
This is often due to the total costs being externalised (pushed off to others) and therefore not reflecting the true cost of the replacement nor the costs of (safe) disposal of the old unit. Externalised costs such as emissions from manufac
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by iam-TJ 2y ago
I wrote a Linux/BASH tester [0] for this recently that includes instructions on how to create simulated fake devices: To create simulated (2GiB) fake devices fallocate -l 1G fff_test.flash DEV=$(losetup --show --find fff_test
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by iam-TJ 2y ago
I've still got the Notion Ink Adam with Pixel Qi transflective display and it beats everything modern in bright sunlight.

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