styanax

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by styanax 9mo ago
(random anecdote) My first and last experience with FreeBSD laptop was trying to use 3.x (!) on a Dell Inspiron 3500 (PII-350 maybe?), no sound modules were precompiled or included or whatever. Took about 3 days for `make world` to finally
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by styanax 9mo ago
We had 2U VA Linux servers at a company (circa 2000), they were rock solid beasts which continued to run for years. I vaguely remember cannibalizing one chassis to beef up another / replace parts, but as you mentioned by then it was ci
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by styanax 9mo ago
I'm mildly surprised GKH doesn't deploy SSL. In this day and age I just close the browser window when the http-only browser warning comes up and move on to something else.
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by styanax 9mo ago
IMHO based on my use of the fediverse, fundamentally it's about porn and curtailing unwanted porn in your domain. I'm a user of mastodon.social in the "wee US hours" (before US mods are awake) and run across a lot of hit
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by styanax 9mo ago
nod We have different use cases, for my browser use I'm using it as described mainly for one-off playing of content (think like watching a single video from a hotlink, checking out a single track or two from a new band, etc.). For st
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by styanax 9mo ago
I seem to have no problems streaming from either Bandcamp or Qobuz, the latter which I'd never heard of before. (or as far as I'm aware any other site) I intentionally want to click-to-play on every site out there, so perhaps you
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by styanax 9mo ago
Here's the discussion forum post going over it: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/27068-grapheneos-security-p...
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by styanax 10mo ago
The about:config settings which you can look up: media.autoplay.blocking_policy media.autoplay.default I have mine set to 2 and 5 respectively.
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by styanax 10mo ago
This was the first one I looked for as well, NFCU is (per Wikipedia) the largest CU in terms of size and membership in the US - but wasn't included. I think you should add a "how I chose these Credit Unions" on your overview,
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by styanax 10mo ago
> I completely agree with this. I performed really poorly on this axis. I’m sorry to the Zig community for that. I’ll take my L and get back to working on std.Io and the rest of the roadmap. [1] [1] https://ziggit.dev/t&#
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by styanax 10mo ago
Codeberg has been under DDOS attacks for most of 2025, someone out there has it in for them and has been attacking relentlessly. The volunteer team has been very transparent posting about in social media and their blogs.
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by styanax 10mo ago
On the previous HN article, I recall many a comment talking about how they should change this, leave the politics/negative juju out because it was a bad look for the Zig community. It would appear they listened to that feedback, swallo
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by styanax 10mo ago
Hi Arathorn, I recognize your name as the core developer lead. :) Alas, when I was trying to cull my old messages I tried that (and a lot of other API type hacks I found floating around) and none of them, at that time, worked. In short: the
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by styanax 10mo ago
Good to know, thank you - those of us currently using it are on Androids so we've not had a friend on iOS join yet. We're using a chatmail relay.
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by styanax 10mo ago
As a former user I felt these pain points trying to do nothing more than have a very active one-on-one chat with a good friend. Tens of messages an hour, maybe 2 years running. Using matrix.org and the pre-X clients. It's fine for grou
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by styanax 10mo ago
My memory is really fuzzy, but I recall back when the new IM apps were all coming out and competing for the small share of people wanting to test them, either the Wire app or using the Wire service had a hard cost ($5 USD?) (no free-to-test
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by styanax 10mo ago
How do they compare in actual use? I have a Pixel 6a connected to $40USD bone conducting headphones and the range and punch-through are incredible; the phone is sitting in the living room playing music and I can almost make it to my mailb
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by styanax 10mo ago
I'm not horribly worried near term (not saying it won't ever happen), as there are very vocal, proud and energetic proponents on Mastodon like Elena Rossini[1] driving community engagement. Such a move by the software devs would j
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by styanax 10mo ago
Of all the articles this morning about the changes, this one has the most information about the reasons and lists the people taking on various roles as part of the non-profit's structure.
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by styanax 10mo ago
> The war isn’t won by telling people to use GPG Tangent, a friend and I started using Delta Chat with a chatmail relay and it's incredibly friendly to get started, and hides the fact GPG tech is being used from the user; one can ex
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by styanax 10mo ago
Thanks to multiple mentions of Mullvad in this overall post comments, I decided to replace dnsmasq with unbound and convert the laptop to DoT. Here's the specific Mullvad snippet if anyone needs: # Mullvad Unfiltered forwar
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by styanax 10mo ago
Interestingly, I get 3 different source IPs, BUT! The one from Quad9 is IPv6 and the ones from 8.8/1.1 are IPv4. Google returns an extra TXT record as well with "edns0-client-subnet 172.56.95.0/24". I'm not a DNS pr
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by styanax 10mo ago
I actually do (did, I demoted it for now) use the unfiltered service (9.9.9.10) but find the same result on both, so I used .9 here to keep the chat more streamlined. But, could still be relevant somehow?
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by styanax 10mo ago
I'm sure geo has something to do with it - my connections generally terminate in Austin, TX but it varies around Central US. I have T-Mobile Home Internet and our IPs show up to remotes under the same general ASNs as the traditional mo
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by styanax 10mo ago
Hoping the HN DNS savvy reading this can help me understand a Quad9 thing I ran into. I was debugging (as in scratching my head) a bank website login problem and ended up doing some DNS checks against their domain, usual stuff, while using
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by styanax 10mo ago
Something new I found - go to any link (news article) on commondreams.org in Firefox. Now use the Reader View button in your address bar - they've figured out how to hack Reader View to not show the content and only a beg screen for mo
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by styanax 10mo ago
Thank you, this is the one I recall from my youth (having them around the house). I did not realize there was another one with an almost identical name (this post).
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by styanax 10mo ago
Reading other comments, US folks seem divided; I am with you and the others on this side of the fence, I've seen this exact situation play out in corporate life many times. They are attempting to quiet a public discussion of dissent an
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by styanax 11mo ago
> What's the legitimate use case for a package install being allowed to run arbitrary commands on your computer? The paradigm itself has been in package managers since DEB and RPM were invented (maybe even Solaris packages before th
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by styanax 11mo ago
Aside, this bit that Neil and the team are working on is something I think is the 'next big thing': https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-jmap-emailpush-01... The next, next big thing would be the C

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