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alrs··on Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station
You wouldn't be "broadcasting" with it, you'd just be using it as backhaul.

AREDN users would probably be pretty happy to have a node at 1500' in the Verdugos.

alrs··on Show HN: I'm launching a LPFM radio station
Why do you need a studio?

If this is completely non-commercial and you have an amateur license you could probably use AREDN as a backhaul instead of HaLow. We've gotten wifi going from a panel in Elysian up to Wilson on AREDN.

100w from the Verdugos should be pretty substantial. I regularly make 70cm FM contacts on 446.500 from Elysian Park down to San Diego at 5w.

alrs··on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
One could build up a reputation with a completely anonymous PGP key. That was somewhat the point of USENET ca. 1998.
alrs··on Why I (Still) Love Linux ?
Traditionally it was btrfs RAID5/6 that really sucked. I've not played with it.
alrs··on Google boss warns 'no company is going to be immune' if AI bubble bursts
I can think of several taco trucks that are going to do just fine.
alrs··on A brief look at FreeBSD
FreeBSD has had a hard time supporting Intel Thinkpads, and they're making progress at getting better. Supporting Apple arm64 is a much heavier lift than that.
alrs··on I took all my projects off the cloud, saving thousands of dollars
I'm going to go way out on a limb and offer: whatever it is that you are, it isn't "confused."
alrs··on Walmart U.S. moves to eliminate synthetic dyes across all private brand foods
This is the kind of nerd-snark that makes normal people not trust anything from the mouths of "experts."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovKw6YjqSfM

alrs··on Show HN: Doom port to pure Go – Gore
I feel that it's hard to be mad at Go if you look at it as "python 4.0."
alrs··on Introduction to Unikernel: Building, deploying lightweight, secure applications
Undead, undead, undead.
alrs··on A dive into open chat protocols
I've been running a Prosody server for a month or so. Thus far a positive experience.
alrs··on ZUSE – The Modern IRC Chat for the Terminal Made in Go/Bubbletea
"Modern" is the most passive-aggressive adjective in the history of HN.
alrs··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
No argument from me. I'm not happy that Europe is in this position, I just wish that Europeans were aware of it.
alrs··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
https://old.reddit.com/r/whowouldwin/comments/1aywc5a/europe...
alrs··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
Europe has no say in the matter, short of France using its nukes.
alrs··on Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting
Europe is not allowed to have its own foreign policy, let alone "side with China." All of those US military bases are there for a reason.
alrs··on Dell will no longer make XPS computers
The Taco Bell menu is several permutations of cheese, lettuce, ground beef, sour cream, and guacamole.

The marketing vocabulary includes Pro, Max, Sport, Comp, Light, Elite, XT, GT, Super, and Extra.

SuperMax Pro. Sportmax GT. Sportmax Elite GT. Comp Extra. Etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProMax

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promax_Awards

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_MaxxPro

alrs··on Dell will no longer make XPS computers
Marketing things as "pro" is nothing new. I'm sure others could go back farther than this.

1980 Koga Miyata Pro https://www.speedbicycles.ch/velo/193/koga_miyata_pro_racer_...

1978 Centurion Pro Tour https://vintagecenturion.com/models/touring/protour.shtml

1969 Brooks Professional Saddle https://www.brooksengland.com/en_us/standard-professional.ht...

As for "rip-offs," the design language of every aluminum Macbook has basically been Leica rangefinder.

https://www.rustmag.com/gear/2020/12/16/4-reasons-to-buy-a-l...

Which is a double "rip-off," as the IBM Thinkpad goes back a lot farther and it was intentionally made black-with-red-accents to pay homage to Nikon while having the form factor of a bento box.

http://www.mir.com.my/rb/photography/companies/nikon/htmls/m...

alrs··on Self driving 1993 Volvo with open pilot
As an American, every car I've ever owned was statistically included with an automatic transmission. Strangely, none of the cars I've owned have had an automatic transmission.

Subaru was making CVT automatic cars back then that were even worse than the awful CVT cars of today. That would be my pick if I wanted to do a 30-year-old self driving car.

https://japanesenostalgiccar.com/the-subaru-justy-pioneered-...

alrs··on Qutebrowser: A keyboard-driven, Vim-like browser
I've had good results running alt-browsers behind Privoxy.

https://www.privoxy.org/

alrs··on Adding IPv6 to My Home Network (2024-11-03)
Who cares if the ISP supports ipv6? Figuring out a world without DHCP and subnetting on a LAN is the hard part.
alrs··on The Neuroscience of Resistance to Change
> Imagine walking into your office on a Monday morning, buzzing with ideas from a recent leadership retreat.

Imagine, walking into your office on a Monday morning, and your boss wants to reinvent everything after having gotten drunk and dipped into a hot tub with the HR people.

alrs··on Twenty, a modern CRM alternative to Salesforce
I'm no fan of Salesforce.

Any HN submission with the word "modern" in the title should be shit-canned.

alrs··on Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
It would be great if C# could be discussed as a language on its merits, but Microsoft has been a terrible steward. It's too bad.
alrs··on Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
Assembly is too little abstraction. Go is not.
alrs··on Google layoffs hit Flutter team
I think Go is unique in this list in that the only other language that fills the same niche is Java, and Google can't afford to let the licensing whims of Oracle decide its fate.

That said, I'm actively rooting for the demise of some of the others.

alrs··on XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."
Who cares about scans? Who cares if a scan comes in 4 or 6?
alrs··on America's Drivers Agree: LED Headlights Are Just Too Bright
It's not that bike lights are too bright, it's that they use garbage optics in countries that allow it. US brands have a bias towards off-road mountain bike lights that spray light everywhere. Look instead for bicycle lights that meet the German StVZO standard. Busch and Mueller stuff is good, you can also find generic stuff on AliExpress all day long.

https://www.bikeradar.com/advice/buyers-guides/stvzo-bike-li...

alrs··on Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
You're of the belief that Redis will merge LGPL-licensed commits into their tree?
alrs··on Linux Foundation launches an open source fork of Redis
Yes, the point of open source is to share, so that others can take advantage of a solution to a given problem. Redis does not do that.
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