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tangentially related but useful: A while back I vibed up a script that can bit bang i2c on an x520 to reprogram SFP modules without a dedicated flasher. Hopefully this helps save someone a few $$ if they need to reflash something.

https://github.com/dcmc/x520-sfp-flash

Author here: I've never written and posted an article before, and am by no means a writer. However, as far as I can tell this solution doesn't exist anywhere else on the internet and I wanted to share. Enjoy!

I got fiber run to my neighborhood, and for a while, had a 1gb coax connection and a 1gb fiber connection. I used openmptcprouter to aggregate my connections through a droplet and I effectively had a 2 gigabit internet connection. I would have stuck with it, but having a datacenter IP for your home network really doesn’t work.

This is great! I would love to see a passmark/$ metric on here as well.

The Bobbit Worm Chronicles: https://www.michiganreefers.com/threads/the-bobbit-worm-chro...

tldr: a guy spends a LONG time trying to kill a bobbit worm in his fish tank

Yes, this is the conclusion I came to. I assume Netflix was limiting me the same way they would someone on a VPN.

The Linode IP worked for 99% of my home traffic, but I tended to get captchas occasionally and some sites didn’t work at all or said they didn’t work over VPN. It was just bad enough that I wasn’t willing to keep it set up that way.

An interesting anecdote to this:

For a while my home network was running OpenMPTCProuter and I was testing bonding my 500mbps cable and 1000mbps fiber out to a linode VPS. So my home IP was a linode address.

I went to watch the newest season I Think You Should Leave (on an ATV) but only the first season showed up. As soon as I bypassed OpenMPTCProuter, the new season showed up. The same went for the app on my phone on the bonded wifi vs cellular.

Most definitely. A radial reamp DI would improve the tone on this rig noticeably. Even if you didn’t use reamp specific hardware, using 2 direct boxes to match impedance on the input and output of the Pi would help.

The ipod nano lost in the couch was also a funny little easter egg

I discovered TouchDesigner [1] a few months back- it’s an incredibly powerful visual programming tool used in the entertainment industry. It’s been around well for over a decade and is stable enough to be used for live shows. Deadmau5 uses it to control parts of his Cube rig [2]. I’ve seen a few art installations based around it as well [3].

There are some really amazing tutorials and examples here: https://youtu.be/wubew8E4rZg

[1] https://derivative.ca

[2] https://derivative.ca/community-post/made-love-touchdesigner...

[3] https://derivative.ca/community-post/making-go-robots-intera...

OBS Studio has a plugin that enables virtual webcam output on windows. I’ve used it to create a more reliable webcam output from Blackmagic capture cards, as not all software likes to recognize the included webcam driver.

https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/obs-virtualcam.539/

He's an extremely interesting person. He was a longtime engineer for RIM and he holds several GSM-related patents [1]. He's also written a few neat pieces of software, my favorite of which is Bigprint [2].

[1] https://patents.justia.com/inventor/matthias-wandel [2] http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/tech/index.html