techwolf

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by techwolf 6mo ago
Looks like a hot-air rework setup. I've swapped chips by hand that way, once the solder is molten they'll fall right off the board. The hard part is lifting them away without accidentally dislodging anything else.
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by techwolf 5y ago
I use a "gaming" mouse (Logitech G502) for day-to-day work. In additional to the usual left/right/middle click and up/down/left/right scroll, I have forward/back, copy/paste, next/previous t
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by techwolf 6y ago
I've been using a "Hacker News Dark" userstyle [1] with Stylus for years, it's only ~30 lines of CSS with a permissive license (CC0). I'd love to see something like it integrated into HN itself. It'd also be ni
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by techwolf 7y ago
My places.sqlite is 400MB, and just opening the history viewer is enough to cause Firefox to hang for several seconds. It's really not designed to store history forever; I even had to change places.history.expiration.max_pages and plac
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by techwolf 7y ago
"Furries make the internets go", as the saying goes. I've met more furries accidentally through software and infosec projects than through anything else, to the point that I don't really bother separating it from my prof
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by techwolf 7y ago
I picked up a few ESP01 boards from Aliexpress recently, they're less than $1.50 each. They only have two GPIO pins accessible (and one needs a pull-up resistor to make the ESP8266 boot properly) but for toggling a relay or reading a s
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by techwolf 7y ago
Most webcomic artists have been using this model for a while now; no one likes ads and they don't pay much, but $1 a month on Patreon to see pages a week early isn't too much to ask. There are often higher tiers for bonus content
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by techwolf 7y ago
Much better, thanks! It's scripts like this that make me miss the old XUL addon interface; sure it was difficult to maintain, but it granted a level of control over the browser that wasn't (and now, sadly, isn't) possible any
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by techwolf 8y ago
I've been reading HN semi-regularly for over half a decade, but only created an account ~1.5 years ago and my first comment was last month. This is my second comment as well, and probably my 10th across all social media in the last yea
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by techwolf 8y ago
I run my personal mailserver on a DigitalOcean VPS, but I wouldn't recommend it. I've never had blacklisting issues and email works fine over IPv4, but outbound connections on all mail ports (25, 109, 110, 143, 465, 587, 995; not