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fennec-posix··on Simulating Airband AM Radios
Wow this is actually really cool. The interactivity makes it quite easy to understand the theory behind it all. (And yes, the default BMS garble when two stations talk over each other is painful!)
fennec-posix··on Decryp Code U534 P1030680
that's nice dear.
fennec-posix··on Show HN: What if the speed of light was 5 km/h?
This is what it's like with my new glasses
fennec-posix··on Does anyone know if something happened to stallman.org?
Looks like his hosting provider itself is offline.
fennec-posix··on Does anyone know if something happened to stallman.org?
I think the VM hosting his site is just down/offline

PING 216.116.72.174 (216.116.72.174) 56(84) bytes of data. From 69.9.36.2 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable

curl: (7) Failed to connect to 216.116.72.174 port 80 after 2083 ms: Couldn't connect to server

fennec-posix··on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
It dries out your mouth a bit I heard.
fennec-posix··on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
I'm honestly not sure about anything man
fennec-posix··on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
Interesting, will check it out. Cheers!
fennec-posix··on The brain may be about to have its Ozempic moment
If this means I don't have to take Methylphenidate to function 100% all the time and as a result feel tremendously anxious 100% all the time. SIGN ME UP.
fennec-posix··on Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed
Absolutely foul, but the food science part is greatly interesting. Just glad I am unable to smell that place.
fennec-posix··on My car's OTA update broke Android Auto, and it's a indictment of modern software
So glad my car has the dumbest head unit on offer in 2019, does bluetooth, radio, CD, shows a map (slowly) it just does what I need it to.
fennec-posix··on How to sequence your own DNA at home
Funniest thing I read today, thank you!
fennec-posix··on Caught a .git/Config Crawler
"url = git@github.com:richard-nixon/fartpipe.git"

This guy has my sense of humor I see. Good show!

fennec-posix··on Mr. Baby Paint and accidentally discovering a new cellular automata
My parents had me setup on an old MacBook when I was about 1, It was an application called "babysmash" or something. It would pop up shapes and noises as you hit the keyboard. I have no memory of this, there's just a picture of me at a laptop in a high-chair.
fennec-posix··on 45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero
My partner lamented the same thing... Cray was doing this 40+ years ago
fennec-posix··on Sysadmining Like It's 2009
It's happened!
fennec-posix··on Sysadmining Like It's 2009
Hearing what I cut my teeth on as "old computing" sure makes me feel old lmao
fennec-posix··on Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
This, 100%
fennec-posix··on Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
This is a good article with good historical context, my only issue with it is where does this UBI come from? It sure as hell isn't gonna be taxes from large corporations given how things are going.

But yeah, once the buying power dries up, who is left keeping the lights on?

fennec-posix··on The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
These burgers aren't working for the man
fennec-posix··on Just Enough Chimera Linux
Now this is WHY I love UNIX and UNIX-likes, the fact you can chop and change core components like the Kernel, Userspace, Init, etc. and (within compatibility limits i.e. MUSL/GLIBC) run a hybrid system like Chimera.

Would I run Chimera as a daily-drive? Probably not. Is it cool that someone can? Absolutely!

fennec-posix··on Remotely unlocking an encrypted hard disk
Aside from enrolling a token with the TPM to unlock the LUKS volume, this is actually a pretty novel idea. Perfect for older hardware without TPM. I guess it depends on your use-case.
fennec-posix··on Robert Duvall, Oscar-winning actor and 'Godfather' mainstay, dead at 95
He was only briefly in Apocalypse Now, but definitely left his mark. RIP to a Legend.

"Some day this war's gonna end.... [Walks off]"

fennec-posix··on What your Bluetooth devices reveal
Emit at your own peril
fennec-posix··on System calls are slow. Run your code in the kernel
At first, was horrified... But, goes into using eBPF and IO_URING to collect system stats instead of all the huge overhead of userspace calls (ontop of dbus, ontop of Gnome).. This is pretty good.
fennec-posix··on End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git
https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/honeypot/overview The Anubis scraper protection has this as a feature. Just sends garbage if something falls into a trap.
fennec-posix··on The Day the Telnet Died
Not the parent poster, but I also still use telnet. For me it's "Ancient", I have a few retired SPARC and PA-RISC boxes that run their period appropriate OSes as a hobby. Telnet/rlogin is the more reliable method to get into them remotely (just over the LAN).

They're on a LAN behind a NAT Router/Firewall, and I don't always keep them powered up (I'm not that insane) so I really don't have a concern for them.

Some of the more modern/high-performance examples I have run NetBSD with modern sshd and modern ciphers, but you can tell it's a bit of a workout for them.

fennec-posix··on UEFI Bindings for JavaScript
good. god.
fennec-posix··on I built a low-cost CAN-bus sensor for air quality/light monitoring using ESP32
I think this is really neat. Been wanting to create an ESP32-based environment monitoring system for outside to replace the cheap 915 MHz weather station I have. CAN might not be a bad technology to do this with since I don't really want to have yet more things emitting around 2.4/5 GHz
fennec-posix··on I still don't understand this SYN attack, but now I can block it easily
all good, probably just me seeing patterns.
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