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bobmcnamara··on Sharing an X11 Server Across Hosts with FamilyWild
X11TCP is blazing fast compared to X11SSH
bobmcnamara··on Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours
Found the drywaller
bobmcnamara··on Arduino Launches Plug-and-Play Modules for Long-Range Sensor Projects
Consider yourself Qualcommified.
bobmcnamara··on TP-Link Kasa cameras leaked home GPS via unauthenticated UDP for 6 years
Heck I've seen it admins do this, then I rooted the camera and pivoted into their data center and put it into the report, "security contractor told is they needed it"
bobmcnamara··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Probably explains the duck farm OpenAI purchased recei
bobmcnamara··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Who needs stability when you can have a pelican?
bobmcnamara··on Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice?
You're making my point here - this sort of corporatist, bait-and-switch-if-you-dont-opt-out behaviour is illegal in many countries, Netflix got spanked for it this spring.
bobmcnamara··on Anyone else get a vague GitHub shakedown notice?
Christ it's the airport bellhop scam:

Someone appears, gives you a service unprompted(carries your bag of spams some AI code reviews), them later demands payment.

bobmcnamara··on Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_insect_populations
bobmcnamara··on How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
The big USB racks all have separate power.
bobmcnamara··on How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
smartmontools misses data corruption at the drive layer, as it trusts the drives to report faithfully.

"In hashes I trust"

bobmcnamara··on How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
The worst part of either approach is: how do I find disk number 39 out of 48.
bobmcnamara··on How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
What do you dislike about SATA?
bobmcnamara··on GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup
We've already leached too much uranium into the groundwater for many to drink just from the mining alone.
bobmcnamara··on Mapping homes you can buy from the US government for <$100k
How does this work?

I hover the mouse over a dot and a pop-up appears nearby, but when move the mouse away from the dot to click the bubble, the bubble closes.

bobmcnamara··on Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
I ran 2003 on my laptop for ages. Only tricky part was installing the audio stack.
bobmcnamara··on Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
You can fix Windows7/8/10/11 with Retrobar
bobmcnamara··on Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children
That sounds like something somebody hopped up on social media would say.
bobmcnamara··on Linux on Older Hardware: The Complete Revival Guide
Same with pre arm Atom indows tablets
bobmcnamara··on Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches
> does it have to be so convoluted?

Getting strncpy right always has been

bobmcnamara··on Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches
The switch sure sucked though. I doubt Microsoft would risk their reputation for backwards compatibility.
bobmcnamara··on Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches
CRLR is Baudot, predating UNIX by what, a century ?
bobmcnamara··on Linux eliminates the strncpy API after six years of work, 360 patches
Easy - don't
bobmcnamara··on Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
Several of them you can reclock the PLLs to hit 2.5 and 5, but it's a very manual process.
bobmcnamara··on Midjourney Medical
Most isn't 3d, it's hand positioned single slices.
bobmcnamara··on L'Affaire Siloxane
You can't just replace stuff in a sealed environment - if the new stuff is better in one way it might be worse than others. Gotta do the qualification work - remember they're drinking piss up there.
bobmcnamara··on Magnetoelectric antennas could transform how underwater robots talk
Thank Shannon!
bobmcnamara··on OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision
Intel never really improved their memory controller and busses and it shows.
bobmcnamara··on Job: Head of Stonehenge
Experience?

I'm the head of pebble hedge!

bobmcnamara··on Why are so many young people getting cancer?
Not the commenter, but the same tobacco companies came up with many of the highly processed foods
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