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by josh3736 9d ago
This is alarmingly realistic to me. The part about ISP routers broadcasting an alternate "hotspot" SSID is documented [1] and can be easily observed. Walk around any city, open your phone's wifi settings and see networks lik
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by josh3736 3mo ago
It's the filesystem filter drivers that slow things down, not the filesystem drivers (ie NTFS) themselves. Filter drivers sit a layer above the filesystem driver and allow you to hook file operations to do things like antivirus scann
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by josh3736 3mo ago
My (possibly uninformed) understanding at the time was that it was Docker, not solely filesystem performance. WSL1's file performance is pretty much as good as it gets on Windows, since open(2), read(2), etc are all translated directly
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by josh3736 4mo ago
What wasn't immediately clear to me is that you're meant to set up Raspberry Pis with a Pi camera attached, and that serves as the camera device. This then provides E2E encryption directly between the Pi and the Secluso mobile ap
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by josh3736 4mo ago
> the company prevent you from working in any open source work, including personal ones without a written permission, and everything you do will be the company property on or off duty PSA: If you're in California, these kinds of emp
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by josh3736 4mo ago
It has been a long time since I've done this, but: If your Android is rooted, it's pretty easy to get tethering working. There's magisk modules that can fix the TTL problem and/or disable the hidden carrier-installed so
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by josh3736 5mo ago
Agreed the website is poorly organized, but if you click About, you get that paragraph: https://tvheadend.org/p/about > Tvheadend is the leading TV streaming server and recorder for Linux supporting ATSC, DVB-C&#x2F
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by josh3736 5mo ago
For observers, this draft was posted to HN earlier but quickly flagged and removed because the linked "IPv8" draft is absolute bunk. See the removed thread for details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47788857
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by josh3736 6mo ago
There's no reason you have to run ESPHome on your Home Assistant server. It's offered as a HA a̵d̵d̵o̵n̵ app for ease of use (makes it a one-click install), but you can also just `pip install esphome` or use the provided Docker
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by josh3736 6mo ago
> You can still install the whole kit and caboodle using pip in a Python virtual environment, but why would you? This is how I did it, instead of the container or HA OS in a VM. If you want the simplicity of everything preconfigured, man
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by josh3736 6mo ago
Sure, but this article spends paragraphs talking about the (real) problems with TCP, then suggests that the solution is a UDP-based transport with WireGuard-ish crypto. …but there's a giant guaranteed-and-ordered-delivery-sized hole in
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by josh3736 6mo ago
The much more likely culprit is your VPN server's port. If it's running on some no-name port (such as the default 51820), that's likely to get throttled. I'd bet that switching your VPN server port to 443 would solve th
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by josh3736 6mo ago
This is a clever reuse of WireGuard's cryptographic design, and may indeed make sense as a way to slap some low-overhead encryption on top of your app's existing UDP packets. However, it's definitely not a replacement for TCP
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by josh3736 6mo ago
This is an… interesting choice for archival purposes. What exactly do you think makes HFS+'s reliability better? The only thing I can think of is that HFS+ has journaling while FAT and derivatives do not, but that doesn't partic
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by josh3736 6mo ago
It does really depend on how much data you want to store, but if you've got a lot of it… Tape. Obviously extreme prosumer, but for long-term archival of lots of data, LTO tape wins in several ways: - Discs just aren't actually tha
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by josh3736 7mo ago
> Maybe the motherboard? Could that have a speaker built into it? That must be terrible for acoustics, but maybe useful for a little beep when something is wrong? Yes, it was called the PC Speaker, and that's pretty much exactly wha
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by josh3736 7mo ago
Specifically, ShellAbout: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shellapi...
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by josh3736 7mo ago
Let's Encrypt has nothing to do with this problem (of Certificate Transparency logs leaking domain names). CA/B Forum policy requires every CA to publish every issued certificate in the CT logs. So if you want a TLS certificate
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by josh3736 2y ago
You already can stream bodies as they're generated with chunked encoding; trailers aren't really needed for that. Cookies might be useful, but I guess you could do <script>document.cookie = '…'</scrip
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by josh3736 2y ago
In addition to needing to be able to change your mind about the status code (which is really important), the latter simply won't work. Pretty much every HTTP middlebox (proxies, CDNs, etc) treats HTTP headers as a unit, buffering them
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by josh3736 2y ago
I think it's just you. The first paragraph is clear to me. There is a law that allows workers to sue employers. There's a group trying to repeal it. Presumably repeal benefits businesses at the expense of workers. A political
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by josh3736 2y ago
It's almost certainly the real estate taxes. In California, Prop 13 makes real estate tax effectively de minimis (especially if you bought a long time ago), and the higher income tax rates make up for that. Texas rates are higher and t
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by josh3736 2y ago
Opened my editor this morning to be greeted by a notification being abused to show an advertisement for Prisma's paid services. I get it, money is no longer free and VCs want returns, so we've all gotta make a buck, but this is a
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Prisma language server update adds in-editor advertisements(github.com)
7 points by josh3736 2y ago|3 comments
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by josh3736 3y ago
SF for 10 years In this reporter's humble opinion, it's wild how dissonant the narrative about this city is with the reality on the ground. If you ask our relatives who watch too much cable news, they think we live in doom loop h
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by josh3736 3y ago
https://www.bing.com/images/create/man-coming-out-of-a-metal...
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by josh3736 3y ago
> I’d like to find a model to apply in my HOA to slow or reverse the corporate takeover of my community… I'm on the board of my condo building's HOA. 5 or 6 years ago, we passed a rule that requires 50% of units building-wide
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by josh3736 3y ago
Take a look at https://github.com/aeolwyr/tergent tergent is a ssh agent for termux that uses the Android keystore, meaning your private keys are kept in your phone's secure enclave for a bit of nice extra securit
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by josh3736 4y ago
Of course one needs to assess the relative risks of your different options, and no one said that investing is risk-free. However, I must disagree with this premise. What exactly is the "much higher" risk of having vs not havin
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by josh3736 4y ago
This very much depends, and probably isn't a good idea. Mortgages are some of the cheapest loans you can get. You'll almost always be better off putting your extra cash into index funds instead of overpaying a mortgage. Index fun

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