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burner420042··on Systems that no one will test
It's been awhile since I last checked mine. I noticed my corporate work history was all there, at the level of detail OP mentioned. Where as the warehouse, construction, and bartending jobs were not.

The other one to check is LexisNexus, which covers auto insurance coverage and traffic violations. In the US, gov't tracked traffic citations fall off after 5 years, but last forever in the baby credit bureaus we're discussing.

Also, INTERPOL. You never know...

burner420042··on Modern Object Pascal Introduction for Programmers
Huwstube and Bg-Lazarus-en-CreatingaWeb-s8e are great youtube channels.
burner420042··on BYD Slashes Price of Electric Car and Becomes Cheapest in Australia [video]
You mean the state of Iran?
burner420042··on Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU
Indeed

Robots are logical, but not rational.

burner420042··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
Servers for mining companies?

Just curious if the hospital still exists there. Do you know?

burner420042··on I Made a Non-Wi-Fi Mitsubishi AC Smart with an ESP32
To answer your question, yes you could certainly do that and override what ever the physical thermostat was set to. You could also set max hours per day (kWh)for usage or adjust for variable rate plans. As with anything you'd need to test.

Edit: Looking through the repo and the article I see nothing blocking you. You certainly won't break anything!

burner420042··on Great Lakes sturgeon may be 400 years old:Scientists rethinking how to save them
Columbia River near the dam back in the 90s. A family friend was an underwater diver for the state doing repair work. Very low visibility and deep water along the dam face. He was working down there and something moved. The way he described it was 'I reached out and rested my hand on the wall. Then the whole wall moved, and swam away'.
burner420042··on Shutting down our public encrypted DNS
For awhile I self-hosted adguard dns server. It supports iphone profiles thus forcing iOS DNS. I eventually disabled it due to timeout issues specific to iOS. Issue was something DNSSEC related.

While reproing the issue I noted the average recursor round trip time from my OVH server hosted in Oregon to the default upstream DNS - Quad9 - was around 70ms. When I changed it to Hurricane Electric the roundtrip dropped to a steady 20ms. Later I changed it again to Cloudflare and the roundtrip was a consistent 2 to 3ms.

burner420042··on M5Stack Launches PaperMono
And a RTC!
burner420042··on Figmimic – A bookmarklet to copy any webpage into Figma as editable layers
I use bookmarklets for a number of simple things.

My most used is to copy text where the formatting has been stripped, the bookmarklet prepends formatting instructions, and then I paste the whole thing into claude which sorts the formatting.

Me thinks I've underestimated what can be done with these.

burner420042··on Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
Yes I agree. This idea differs from an OS dependent shortcut in that here the mouse firmware would generate movement data. Not possible before now.
burner420042··on Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
I think that's a myth. I've never gotten it to work repeatedly.
burner420042··on Replacing the Kobo Libra H2O Battery
After my Aura died I bought a 10" Kindle. I never use it. I keep wanting to buy another Kobo but used inventory is minimal and the store is sold out.
burner420042··on AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
I use Tiller. They take the transaction history from your linked bank accounts and store it in a google spreadsheet for you. That's it. $99 a year.

From there I unleashed claude on my spending habits. I'm only a few months in so I'm more focused on financial hygiene.

burner420042··on Keychron announces first open-source firmware for gaming mice
The number of buttons on ergonomic mice is excessive. More than 3 is too much. So I'm sitting there wondering what else you could use them for: a random squiggler to keep the mouse moving and your monitor active when you want a break.
burner420042··on RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB
Replacing components like a phone screen, yeah - but not the kind of thing the OP is talking about. More like replacing a worn USB-C port on a random motherboard using a soldering iron, hot air station, and microscope, or tracking down an unknown failed component on a circuit board, or swapping a random surface-mount Motorola chip in the ECU of your early-2000s car. Sometimes there’s a whole market square where every shop specializes in one of these things.

And it's not that expensive.

burner420042··on Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes
Does the website reference net or gross monthly income?

Edit:

So the numbers are not a direct exchange rate to USD.

Q: How were dollar values assigned to households? A: The households’ door numbers represent the consumption values (US dollars) that each adult in the household has per month. This figure comes from a combination of the household’s self-reported consumption and income levels. We then checked the official cost of living data in each country to adjust the values for purchasing power parity (PPP) and converted the value into US dollars. Read more about how we assigned the Dollar Street values here.

burner420042··on How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
I'm sure there's better options now but the HP ProLiant MicroServers (used).

They support ECC ram, 4 caddies, one extra PCIe slot, and to my knowledge you're not cpu limited for a zfs file server usecase.

Keep in mind though, all you need is linux* support, iDRAC, ECC if you're a snob, and drive bays ... and that's basically any free server.

In my extremely opinionated opinion I would only get used enterprise server gear, because a zfs file server will just work unless hardware fails. And a UPS.

*ZFS will be a more natural choice on FreeBSD. It's better documented, and will meet Linux 1:1 in hardware compatibility for this.

burner420042··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
I don't know why I've never tried just doing it the Cisco way. Thank you for the walk-through.
burner420042··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
Somewhat off topic but since I see people discussing language proficiency using the CEFR system I'll ask.

Which certification language test is most transferrable? I'm most interested in testing for Latam Spanish if possible. SIELE or DELE?

burner420042··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
Documentation for how to set these up without the cisco control platform being present is hard to come by.

You have any docs on how to set these up? I believe a firmware change is required.

burner420042··on New drug 'functionally cures' many hepatitis B virus infections
Is This It

My sister, who is two years younger, was in 8th or 9th grade when this album came out. She's also a Weezer and Radio Head fan. Only a few years difference but I feel this genre came after me.

burner420042··on Texas Adds Another Solar Farm as Ercot Grid Demand Soars
The article mentions 2000 sq ft per home are needed. Ignoring longitude is that a good ball-park number for a DIY'er?
burner420042··on Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek
> PG&E, Oliver de Silva, and a Bay Area foundation provided the rest of the funding to complete the project.

Why was a 'Bay Area foundation' referenced yet left nameless? I never understand the logic behind this convention..

burner420042··on Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek
IANAS but my understanding is they keep going upstream - while there's current to push against them - as an instinctual response. I believe water temperature also plays a role.

Salmon hatcheries also artificially boost the quantity of salmon in the stream.

If a salmon hatchery released salmon at the base of a dam, when the fish return and the dam was now gone, they'd just keep going.

However, there's more to it than this, because dammed rivers lacking salmon hatcheries have seen salmon runs start once the dams are removed.

I don't think the old adage that salmon will only return to their original spawning grounds is the whole story.

burner420042··on Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching
Stop words are filler words?

um, uh, like, you know

burner420042··on BadHost – CVE-2026-48710: Starlette Host-Header Auth Bypass
Notably CVE-2026-48710 hasn't been added into cloud sec vuln catalogs quite yet. Since fastapi ~is starlette, expect the later half of this week / early next to be busy.
burner420042··on Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers
There I go

Turn the page

burner420042··on I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
Same for Seattle! And I got one for the exact same reasons. Once you got used to them, a sleeping mask and earplugs is pure bliss.
burner420042··on Linux Terminal Memory Usage
I generally use alacritty but used rxvt back when. That's a name I've not heard in awhile!

I tried `cat /dev/random` in alacritty, rxvt, and xterm to compare output speed. rxvt and xterm both start 'instantly' on my laptop. With alacritty it's slower. Scroll speed of both rxvt and xterm are very similar though xterm seems to win by a little. Both blow the doors off alacritty though.

I'm not sure if this is a fair test, and hence why I posted, but if it is this is a very easy way to get a feel for the difference.

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