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gear54rus

882 karma · joined May 25, 2014

An engineer passionate about JS and basic tech freedoms (e.g. right to repair, OSS, net neutrality).

I think the web with all its shortcomings is the best thing to happen to tech industry and I want it to succeed. That does NOT mean it should be used for everything.

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gear54rus··on New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only
Perhaps it's time to submit patches that allow building it without IPv6 instead. Countless hours of configuration meddling will be saved.
gear54rus··on So where are all the AI apps?
Sounds more like satire.
gear54rus··on SSH Secret Menu
No they are correct, fish seems to intercept this or something like that. Only works with cat.
gear54rus··on LineageOS 23.2
I run crdroid (now on pixel but before that it was xiaomi). I suggest your check it out.
gear54rus··on How to carry more than your own bodyweight (2025)
I don't think you can unrack a 180kg barbell with your head and just stand there like that as a 90kg male, much less untrained. That is a humongous amount of weight.
gear54rus··on Amazon One palm authentication discontinued
So did you ask any of them about this? These religious lunacy always seem like they are from some other planet to me haha.
gear54rus··on FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations
What is the best hackable drone brand these days? Where you can remove all this bs remote ID and GPS disobedience?
gear54rus··on I Like GitLab
Absolutely the same here. Same journey and same points. One added benefit is that you don't have to suffer through GH actions on GitLab as well.

They sometimes do braindead moves like prohibiting no-expiry-date access tokens but otherwise it's pretty smooth sailing.

And with recent migration to an SPA GitLab feels quicker and quicker.

gear54rus··on Slop is everywhere for those with eyes to see
The only missing piece is hiding the time something was posted :) Why would anyone use any of those crap websites is beyond me.
gear54rus··on I Cannot SSH into My Server Anymore (and That's Fine)
Agreed, this sounds like some complicated ass-backwards way to do what k8s already does. If it's too big for you, just use k3s or k0s and you will still benefit from the absolutely massive ecosystem.

But instead we go with multiple moving parts all configured independently? CoreOS, Terraform and a dependence on Vultr thing. Lol.

Never in a million years I would think it's a good idea to disable SSH access. Like why? Keys and non-standard port already bring China login attempts to like 0 a year.

gear54rus··on Things I learnt about passkeys when building passkeybot
It's absolutely hilarious that someone would think that this passes for API docs nowdays. Still it's good to know what to avoid on the very first glance.
gear54rus··on Please just try HTMX
yeah, I'll try htmx if he will maintain the resulting pile of goo lol
gear54rus··on High Performance SSH/SCP
It could safely be used on public internet, all this fearmongering has no basis under it.

Better question is 'does it have any actual improvements in day-to-day operations'? Because it seems like it mostly changes up some ciphering which is already very fast.

gear54rus··on Using Git add -p for fun (and profit)
SmartGit can do that too
gear54rus··on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
At least we can gather and post an actual solution in the top comment.
gear54rus··on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options
> Buy a cheap smart TV

Why does it have to be cheap? What if I want a killer panel without all the bs?

> Use a small "air mouse" for control

An alternative is something like 'unified remote' on it, then you can even type from your phone without any pain.

> A browser with VPN for streaming in some cases.

There is a missing piece for me here. A magic 'send my PC browser tab to this other PC connected to the TV' button. Not sure if something like this exists. It would be ideal to send all the browser context with cookies etc so that you are logged in too and can just start playing whatever you found on PC.

Any for of cast is not an option, rendering has to happen on the TV PC box.

gear54rus··on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service
this can be fixed by just using random ssh port

all my services are always exposed for convenience but never on a standard port (except http)

gear54rus··on Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive
Most importantly it would actually reveal the lie they are all trying to sell. Why would you need backups if it's so useful and stable? I'm not going to ask it to nuke my hard drive after all.
gear54rus··on WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe
Perhaps you'd be interested in learning that you can initiate chats to phone numbers (regardless of contact status) by going to wa.me/<phone-number>

I've never tested it without contacts permissions though.

gear54rus··on Kagi Hub Belgrade
I thought 'those' common people decided to stop sponsoring the war by leaving.

But surely one can see how adding more idiotic rules and roadblocks for them just might make staying a more attractive option :)

gear54rus··on Kagi Hub Belgrade
Yandex is as entrenched in Russia as anyone could be. It's quickly becoming the state's goto IT company with products for all aspects of everyday life (many of them in leading market positions). It's the 'everything' company in there that is fully controlled by the state China-style.
gear54rus··on Kagi Hub Belgrade
Companies are trying to weasel out of sanctions that target common people and arbitrary kafkaesque visa rules. Shocker, I know.
gear54rus··on The Cities Skylines Paradox: how the sequel stumbled
There definitely were improvements to be made in both KSP (physics of large vessels) and CS (FPS in large cities).

Instead we get this... 0/2

gear54rus··on I finally understand Cloudflare Zero Trust tunnels
Which region were you able to create this in? They seem to be out of capacity all the time in EU.
gear54rus··on Linux on the Fujitsu Lifebook U729
> Some Intel ThinkPads have accelerometers built-in just to throttle your PC to oblivion when it moves

Wtf? That sounds crazy, any sources?

gear54rus··on Human Fovea Detector
How do you know?
gear54rus··on Android developer verification: Early access starts
in short and simple terms, those parasites colluded with hardware manufacturers and put a special chip in your computer and monitor that runs enslavement software

without opening it up physically there is no way to make it stop or get the raw stream before it's displayed

gear54rus··on How to build your own VPN, or: the history of WARP
Definitely. In the age of the internet where stupid 'legal'/commercial/whatever other restrictions are the norm it's the only way to guarantee access.
gear54rus··on You can't cURL a Border
The thing is, only the US can realistically know your worldwide income. And only due to its banking cronies it intimidates into submission worldwide.
gear54rus··on Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time
It doesn't matter. As long as you can spam people with crap like popups and notifications easier than on the web, we will still see all those unnecessary 'apps' that could just be a web page.
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