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BenjiWiebeon The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup

Probably because they don't know any Italians (in Italy), just Italian Americans.

BenjiWiebeon “Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky

Did you know that if you stay up a bit later* than twilight, the satellites disappear?

*The later you stay up the more disappear, until the middle of the night. But they're most obvious shortly after dark.

BenjiWiebeon County with 37 Data Centers Asks Schools to 'Conserve Electricity'

Just to compare it to my rural county: Henrico county: pop 345,000, 237 sq miles, 1455 population per sq mile Marion county: pop 11,600, 954 sq miles, 12 pop/sq mi.

So it might be a small county but it sure ain't rural!

BenjiWiebeon Framework's 10G Ethernet module exposes USB-C's complexity

In fact, just to for single mode fiber. Looking on fs.com, single mode cables are slightly cheaper, and the optics (for 10G) are $30 to MMF's $25.

And you get much better future proofing with SMF. And if you do need a long fast run, SMF is what you want.

BenjiWiebeon 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero

Cameras and screens. /s mostly

BenjiWiebeon We’re making Bunny DNS free

(Before Linode was acquired) I called in and quickly got on the phone with a live human who was very familiar with the product and helpful, and sounded (accent) like US-based support.

At the time I was paying $12/month IIRC.

BenjiWiebeon We’re making Bunny DNS free

Me neither, but I found the $3 option with an even quicker glance.

https://tnahosting.net/hybrid-vps/

BenjiWiebeon Mexican government unveils a prototype for a new homegrown, ultra-affordable EV

You can buy used ICE cars for $10k easy.

Like really really easy.

Apologies if I missed your point.

BenjiWiebeon Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers

I've encountered control systems and PID controls, and I still find PID elegant and cool.

BenjiWiebeon Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)

Print - sign - scan. I've never been told to keep the physical print out.

I've also never had someone refuse my too-perfect digitally inserted signature, but I could totally see it happening.

Oh and I don't like signing stuff anywhere, so I also used my scanned signature and got a custom stamp made. :)

BenjiWiebeon Court Records Should Be Free

$30/quarter, so ~300 pages. Also noticed that the fee is capped at $3/document, but I don't know how often a single document is longer then 30 pages.

BenjiWiebeon Satellite reveals immense scale of GPS signal tampering

Ya I think they meant 'GPS'.

BenjiWiebeon How many of the 170k English words do you know?

I've encountered flibbertigibbet and Brobdingnagian. Never encountered hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia before, at least I don't remember encountering it.

Flibbertigibbet appears in some of the Little House on the Prairie (Laura and Mary) books, if I remember right.

And I've also read Gulliver's Travels which is where Brobdingnagian comes from. Brobdingnag was a land of giants. Pretty sure I've seen the word used elsewhere though.

BenjiWiebeon Car headlights don't have to be this blinding

Tangential - in the case of low profile tires, I've seen pothole damage where the rim itself was broken. That causes a "flat tire" even if the rubber tire itself survived.

BenjiWiebeon EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

Just because it isn't toxic doesn't mean it is edible...? I would not allow my child to eat drywall, but neither do I consider drywall toxic. i.e. if they started chewing on some drywall, I wouldn't haul them to the E.R. in a panic.

BenjiWiebeon Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

Yes it only allows US as the shipping address, and only US/Canada as billing address. The only reason we even allow Canada billing is because some of my relatives (Canadian) will order it and have it shipped to a parcel service on the US side of the border.

BenjiWiebeon ESP32-S31

Also why do you need 1uS for motor control? 1uS is 0.1 degrees of rotation at 16,666 RPM if I did the math right.

I don't know much about motor control, is it normal to need that fast of feedback?

BenjiWiebeon ESP32-S31

The datasheet apparently doesn't say, but judging by their other products' listed 12 bit SAR ADC sampling rates (and assuming this one is similar to what appears to be their standard ADC ) the conversion time will be on the order of 10uS.

BenjiWiebeon ESP32-S31

Looks like you need an external PHY. It can talk to the PHY with RGMII which uses 12 pins, which are muxed with GPIO8-19.

BenjiWiebeon Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

The credit card tester bots go through the checkout process.

PoW wouldn't be a big issue for them though since their volume is much lower.

BenjiWiebeon Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

I would LOVE to be able to use rate limits (well actually, since I'm dealing with fraud not scraping, I'd ban the IP).

I can't, because every request comes from a new IP!!!

BenjiWiebeon Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

Well I administer an ecommerce site, and for the checkout page I block everything besides Canada and USA.

Because those are the only two countries that we've ever in the life of our business, had a legitimate order from.

It prevents the majority of credit card testing, but it is tempting to apply it to the whole site to reduce traffic and server load.

BenjiWiebeon Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

If the bad guys also had to pay $50/month/IP it would probably work.

The bad guys don't pay that much. And sometimes the bad guys actually use the IPs of other people (botnets on residential IPs) and don't pay anything at all.

BenjiWiebeon Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL

Maybe a plain WordPress install. Run something like WooCommerce and install a bunch of plugins to get the functionality that WordPress and WooCommerce should have built-in, and suddenly a cheap VPS can only handle 2 or 3 requests per second.

It's phenomenal how inefficient the WordPress/WooCommerce stack is.

Though the main issue I'm seeing is credit card testing, not scraping.

And I'm ideologically opposed to using a CDN (because it shouldn't be needed for such a small site!) so it's somewhat a self-inflicted problem...

BenjiWiebeon EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products

I'm not understanding your example; as far as I know gypsum/gypsum drywall isn't toxic.

BenjiWiebeon GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits

If the URL was unpublished, isn't that the same-ish as password protected?

All about bits of entropy i.e. difficulty if guessing.

BenjiWiebeon Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes

De-Googling (in this context at least) means not running Google software on your phone. No Google Play Services always running in the background, plus not using Google apps.

BenjiWiebeon Didgeridoo playing as alternative treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea (2006)

You bend over and curl your head towards your body.

BenjiWiebeon I Miss Terry Pratchett

And in a WebView on Android.

BenjiWiebeon Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water

Should work to boil it to drive out the carbonic acid as CO2.