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Naac··on Elfcat: Visualize ELF Binaries
As a visual learner, this is fantastic.

I do wish that that there would be a key explaining the color coding.

Naac··on Start Your Own ISP
> How Much Do I need?

> You probably need less than you think. A 1Gbps fiber connection will easily serve 500-800

No thanks. I was intrigued, but ultimately I don't think my community is better served by having yet another oversubscribed Comcast-like ISP ( even though its run by individuals )

Naac··on Telnet Mapscii.me
I'm disturbed this runs on Javascript, and impressed it runs so smoothly in my terminal.

Props on the Github project page for breaking down all the libraries that helped achieve this.

And props to OpenStreetMap for making this data available.

Naac··on Stacked Git – manage commits as a stack of patches
I'm not saying this shouldn't exist, because I'm sure it was fun to develop, and it helps the author.

But I really don't think this is better than `git add -p`.

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Interactive-Staging

Naac··on Lima: Linux-on-Mac
> MacOS isn't something you should or need to manage swap for

I would 100% agree with you with regards to most macOS users. But as a software dev of course this is something you might have to do every once in a while.

The fact that you can't doesn't seem to align with the fact that macOS is the operating system of choice for software devs.

Naac··on Lima: Linux-on-Mac
That was just an example though. My point was that you're constantly fighting an operating system that's clearly not designed for you ( the developer ).
Naac··on Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
Maybe there's a slash and shoot game with the random generation aspect and pausing/unpausing of a rouguelike?

That would be cool, especially if it was FLOSS.

Naac··on Lima: Linux-on-Mac
It's just a "better integrated" virtual machine: "Lima launches Linux virtual machines on macOS"

This might be a controversial opinion, but I find developers flocking to macOS really bewildering. As a developer, why do you want to fight your operating system to get basic things done? This Lima thing, docker running in a virtual machine, Apple being actively hostile with the default coreutils requiring you to layer multiple third party tools just to get a modern version of awk and grep.

I Just recently I learned you can't add more swap ( creating a swap file and adding it ). That seems incredible to me.

Naac··on Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
I love FLOSS games.

Unfortunately, I'm not a huge fan of Rougelikes. And a significant portion of Linux games are Rougelikes.

I think these types of games are just more fun to build, and possibly simpler as well.

Naac··on Building video chat into my personal website using WebRTC, WebSockets, and Go
...and GCP, and pub/sub/ and...

So a little click baity title. If the backend wasn't distributed the title would be a little more apt.

Naac··on The Unix Magic Poster
Is 80 Euros the standard price for a custom poster?

I see that the .tiff is available, and I'm down to take it to my local print shop, but only if the total print cost is about $20-$30

Naac··on Cars are about to be a software platform, subscriptions and all
I think you're putting way too much faith in these companies.

Just going off of your example, they're most likely just going to provide support for 2 years ( if that ), and then say "sorry, the newest version of lane keep assist isn't available for your model". A la Apple.

Naac··on Light Pollution Map
What is the law? What are people legally required to do?
Naac··on Awesome-Selfhosted
Probably because it's a proprietary service.
Naac··on Proxmox PCI Switcher – Switch among Guest VMs organized by Resource Pool
What does this actually do?

I'm familiar with proxmox, and I think I'm a fairly technical person, but I can't decipher what this means:

"Switch among Guest VMs organized by Resource Pool"

This readme does not seem very well written.

Naac··on Perfect Motherfucking Website
The stylesheet for this website is linked as such:

https://perfectmotherfuckingwebsite.com/fuckingstyle.css?v=0...

And is minified. So not very simple, which was the whole point of http://motherfuckingwebsite.com/

So I would say there is some room for improvement, and calling it `perfect' is premature.

Naac··on Raspberry Pi 2.5 Gbps OMV NAS Performance
Store bought NAS doesn't run open source software.
Naac··on Ubiquiti accused of covering up ‘catastrophic’ breach– and it’s not denying it
Like the other comment said, the brand doesn't matter. It's just a mobo with a 4 port nic and a decent CPU. It might as well be an e-machine.

And they won't be "pwned", unless you're running closed source non-updatable software on them.

Naac··on Ubiquiti accused of covering up ‘catastrophic’ breach– and it’s not denying it
Grab one of these:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01H2QJTM4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glc_...

And put Opnsense on it.

Guaranteed security updates, clean GUI interface, open source. Set it up once then forget it.

If you want an AP there are many options on Amazon. For maximum security prevent the AP from being able to access the internet.

Naac··on Fairphone suggests Qualcomm is the biggest barrier to long-term Android support
People aren't using it because it is no longer receiving updates. 2-3 year old hardware should not be considered "old", or obsolete.
Naac··on Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
Thunderbolt may not matter so much for desktop, but it definitely does for laptops.

Like the other comment mentioned, docks.

Yes you can theoretically accomplish everything with other ports, but I don't want to feel like I'm disconnecting my laptop from life support every time I move around. 1 Wire for Power + 10+ peripherals is awesome, and I can't go back.

Naac··on Pangolin – Mobile AMD laptop with Ryzen CPU and Radeon graphics
It doesn't look like there is a Thunderbolt port ( a 40 GBPS port ). I recall reading that it has something to do with it working on Intel only hardware.

But whatever the case is, lack of Thunderbolt is unfortunately a deal breaker. I've moved on to unifying all my docks and power chords to only be Thunderbolt. It's unfortunate because the Ryzen chipsets are clearly getting to be superior from a price/performance point of view.

EDIT: I am writing this as someone who supports System76, and has only ran Linux professionally and at home for the last 10 years.

Naac··on X0.at: upload files from cURL
Similar sites like http://ix.io/ have been up for many years with no issues. I assume spam can be a problem, but these sites must have figured something out.
Naac··on RegEx Crossword
Any reason why this is implement as a hex instead of the traditional crossword style?

There isn't a technical reason why the traditional crossword format can't have clues in the shape of regex right?

Naac··on How to Get Better at Recursion
Could recursion be ( one of ) the reasons why ML and Scheme ( and lisp, clojure, etc. ) aren't popular as industry languages?

I learned recursion in University, it's undeniably a foundational piece of Computer Science theory. I use recursion when I have to do interview problems. And I think that's about it.

The number of times I actually used recursion in production was maybe twice. And one of those times the PR was rejected. In my experience the overhead of understanding the code outweighs its terseness. This is also how I sometimes feel about macros in clojure. The cons outweigh the pros.

Naac··on An update on Android's audio latency
I've started to. But I haven't done enough research on how all the other applications I use ( Carla, Ardour, soft synths, etc ) will play along with Pipewire instead of jack.
Naac··on The reason Okta spent $6.5B on Auth0
What are some open source self hosted alternatives to Okta and Auth0?
Naac··on An update on Android's audio latency
That was a strange video. It seemed like he started talking about latency between Android and IOS devices, which makes sense given that this article talks about response time of just under 40 ms like you said. The article says this is "well within the range required for real-time applications" if you define real-time applications as non-pro-audio stuff. If you're playing an instrument and it takes 40 ms for you to hear back the sound, that's Not Good.

But then the video takes a strange turn and starts talking about "Stability" of mac vs PC, and I had to turn it off. It made the argument that "I haven't seen any professional producers use anything except macs" as its main argument.

It would have been nice to hear some more technical information like mentioning core-audio, or something else.

Regarding the article itself. I'm excited that Android is target less than 20 ms round-trip latency. I'm hoping that this work can be brought back to the Linux Desktop. Messing around with Jack and dealing with xruns is something I wish I could stop doing.

Naac··on Best practices for REST API design (2020)
What does Hackernews use in this case?
Naac··on Show HN: A browser extension to use picture-in-picture with any website
Using it on i3 I don't see that it "breaks" anything. A new floating window is opened which can be moved around.

On i3 it looks like this add-on essentially automates opening the tab in a new window, and floating it. Which I think has some value.

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