vladak

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by vladak 15d ago
also 1-Wire
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by vladak 15d ago
or in the corporate office
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by vladak 21d ago
I have couple of true (and therefore more expensive) CO2 sensors around the apartment, all of them Adafruit SCD-40, each connected to its own ESP32 which broadcasts the metrics (including temperature and humidity) to MQTT broker which feeds
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by vladak 1mo ago
I knew that when the build actions started failing en masse and my newly submitted PRs did not trigger the build actions at all (besides the mandatory one in my organization), it seemed logical to me to look at HN first.. Especially trouble
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by vladak 2mo ago
I've been using OpenBSD on my router/firewall boxes (in various forms, mostly i386/amd64 - Soekris or PC enginers but also mips/octeon - Ubiquiti boxes) for the past 20+ years. Mostly because in that area I do not want a
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by vladak 3mo ago
I wonder if the booklet mentioned in the article was also inspired by the Scott McNealy booklet [1]. It would not be so surprising given the history of the Menlo Park campus. [1] https://gist.github.com/vladak/c0abb6856
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by vladak 3mo ago
Makes me wonder if credential harvesting is a thing when all these smart bulbs and other IoT devices get thrown away with the Wi-Fi credentials stored on them.
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by vladak 3mo ago
For the microcontroller use case with Python, the alternative might be to use actual microcontroller that runs CircuitPython/MicroPython. Personally I find it a bit better due to no need to manage/update the Linux distro.
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by vladak 4mo ago
Unrelated question but I see you're probably located in Europe. Are there any places around to get your PCBs treated with conformal paint ? And I mean tiny runs - couple of PCBs.
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by vladak 8mo ago
Cool. I have a modern (not smart) body weight scale and it regularly ruins this way at least one of the 3 GP NiMh rechargable AAA batteries I put in it, so I wanted to hear some ideas what could be done with them given they have been throug
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by vladak 8mo ago
see e.g. Who cares about the Baltic jammer ? https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-who-cares-about-the-baltic-jamme...
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by vladak 10mo ago
One of my colleagues (who has no beard) called this sort of job half jokingly retrocomputing. It has definitely its pros and cons.
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by vladak 1y ago
Naive question maybe: do these AI companies crawl/ingest video/audio yet ? if yes, is that included in the stats ?
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by vladak 2y ago
I know this is not a very helpful w.r.t. protection, however there is https://bikeindex.org/ - recently I was listening to a Darknet diaries podcast https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/153/ which h
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by vladak 2y ago
This feels familiar. I lug my Lenovo laptop, the Logitech ergonomic mouse, aluminium laptop stand and external Keychron keyboard (thinking about buying the Q10 with Alice layout), mostly to have convenient setup on the go, not primarily fo
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by vladak 2y ago
This method is called "packing party" (without the moving) by the [Mm]inimalists.
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by vladak 2y ago
yep, the link in the "some calls to ConcurrentHashMap.get() seemed to be running infinitely." sentence points to HashMap.html#get(java.lang.Object)
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by vladak 2y ago
I have been working for a corporation for number of years however discovered the quotas thing only recently. Even though my motivation comes from elsewhere, this made a dent in it.
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by vladak 2y ago
There is also https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo (Continuous Unix commit history from 1970 until today)
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by vladak 2y ago
The question is what code. In preprocessed languages there can be lots of ifdefs and such for various environments and architectures.
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by vladak 2y ago
It is a strange comparison indeed, esp. with some generations of engineers might not even know what a floppy disk was, let alone imagine how the 1% of the capacity translates to network protocols.
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by vladak 3y ago
Yeah. It seems to me that the main purpose was to show the car queues meeting at the intersection however the vertigo effect is enough distraction not to notice it.
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by vladak 3y ago
Also, the top left graph in fig8 is a snake, so bonus points for that.
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by vladak 3y ago
I (re)found a small brochure at work that contains the company mission statement with rationale from Scott McNealy. This was long time after Sun was acquired, however I found it interesting enough to retype it: https://gist.githu
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by vladak 3y ago
In the company I work for, this is currently in the form of nudging. "Come to the office, we have prepared healthy breakfast for you" (obviously I don't work for FAANG or a startup trying to lure employees with such stuff) an
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by vladak 3y ago
For a project on Github I maintain, I've seen increased amount of low quality PRs in the recent months (changes where it was obvious that the submitter never ran the code or interacted with the project as a user) that seemed to be rais
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by vladak 3y ago
Exactly. Soekris was the first thing that came to my mind after seeing this news, having used various Soekris boxes for home router for many years. Eventually got replaced by Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 4 (which are now also impossible to get via c
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by vladak 3y ago
3-color light ( https://www.adafruit.com/product/5127 ) and associated circuitry ( https://github.com/vladak/workmon/ ) that reminds me to change the position of the standing desk if too long in
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by vladak 4y ago
Yep. Two of my local colleagues were actively working with Open Group until then, fixing UNIX compliance bugs, running the test suites, producing the reports etc.
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by vladak 4y ago
One can buy premium support from OpenSSL for 1.0.x and let them supply patches and releases. This is what the company I work for does. At one point I was managing a fork of OpenSSL 0.9.7 for an OS version and in order to communicate what vu

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