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mmerlin

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mmerlin··on FreeBSD
Good to RTFM again and learn what's new (from a personal perspective)

e.g. Thin Jails

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/#thin-jailh...

mmerlin··on Show HN: mdto.page – Turn Markdown into a shareable webpage instantly
Could add LLM-as-judge function to review new uploads and shadowban spam/scams
mmerlin··on Turso SQLite Offline Sync Public Beta
https://loro.dev/
mmerlin··on IronRDP: a Rust implementation of Microsoft's RDP protocol
RemoteApp is basically RDP for one single desktop app running on the remote server but launched and run to appear like a local app. It's improved a lot over the past decade+
mmerlin··on Ask HN: Modern alternatives to Guacamole as RDP gateway?
Rustdesk web client is currently in beta testing:

https://rustdesk.com/blog/2024/10/rustdesk-web-client-v2-pre...

mmerlin··on Ask HN: How should I divide equity?
The "Slicing Pie" model has some ideas that might help you

https://www.google.com/search?q=slicingpie

mmerlin··on VVV: Virtual Volumes View
This software is excellent for keeping a fast local searchable catalog of the filenames from all your drives, even after they are unplugged or powered off.

I found vvv after looking for something that can replace Sisoft Sandra.

mmerlin··on M4 Macs can't virtualise older macOS
https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM

https://github.com/Coopydood/ultimate-macOS-KVM

https://github.com/notAperson535/OneClick-macOS-Simple-KVM

https://github.com/topics/osx-kvm

mmerlin··on Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#
twinBasic.com is a revamp of VB6 using current tech
mmerlin··on .NET 9 Is Out
The nearest thing is probably a Monaco based IDE that generates self-contained executables (like VB before .Net) with modernization for todays OS ecosystem.

twinBasic https://twinbasic.com

mmerlin··on Spanish police arrest ex-fraud chief after €20M found in walls of his house
Crypto was included in the laundering schemes.

"Part of the money Sánchez Gil amassed in recent years was laundered through the purchase of crypto-currencies and a large fleet of private hire vehicles registered in the name of one of his relatives"

mmerlin··on Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser
Alt-drag from the parent folder... so that's the workaround... thanks for the tip on handling this deprecated feature.

Not only has the folder address icon-drag been lost in the name of progress, so too have dozens of previously useful keyboard shortcuts, plus the core ability to re-dock Windows Start Bar onto any edge of the screen... nowadays in Win11 we are restricted to only docking at the bottom.

mmerlin··on Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser
VB6 fans looking for a modern approach should try twinBasic which after many years is about to release v1.0 https://twinbasic.com/
mmerlin··on Show HN: Sourcetable – AI Spreadsheet and Data Platform
or possibly FortuneSheet which is an actively maintained fork of the original LuckySheet

https://github.com/ruilisi/fortune-sheet

mmerlin··on Inertia.js – Build React, Vue, or Svelte apps with server-side routing
At the Laracon it was estimated the new version 2 of inertia will be released in October with new features like multiple async requests, polling, infinite page scroll with smart background loader, etc
mmerlin··on Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible (2021)
https://www.baeldung.com/linux/ssh-multiple-ports
mmerlin··on We built an open-source UIPath alternative that solves problem in all RPA
Robotic Process Automation (adaptable software automation of a previously human-controlled process)
mmerlin··on Australia out of natural gas, pays gas companies to export its reserves
Trillions lost if you compare Australia with Norway or Qatar resource tax levels.

$4.125 billion per year is one loss estimate between 2012 and 2020.

i.e. $33 billion over 8 years according to this parliamentary document (in the pdf there)

https://www.pbo.gov.au/publications-and-data/publications/co....

In this case the 2012 the Liberal party repealed a freshly enacted resources tax, after being voted back into power with scare campaigns "ax the tax" being one of them, except ironically it was actually income for the country, and a tax on the profits of resource extractors.

$4.125 Billion dollars PER YEAR gifted to extractors by the Liberals.

No wonder they all get given nice "jobs for our mates" at the resouce extractors after they get voted out.

mmerlin··on Australia out of natural gas, pays gas companies to export its reserves
Australia is burdened with ex-PM John Howard's fixed-price gas export deals until 2031.

500% domestic price rises.

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2024/06/japan-and-albo-rort...

"Cheaper" for the state of Victoria to re-import the gas already exported e.g. by Queensland to Japan at a loss (when subsidies and cleanup costs added - no security deposits to cover the cleanup of abandoned sites and offshore drilling rig abandoned offshore).

Liberal petro-lobbyists using their failed policies as a reason to start fracking farmland.

Gross failures in governance, because the entrenched system of post-politics "jobs for our mates" are awarded to the political stooges.

IIRC pretty much every single Australian mining or resources minister post-politics works for the same companies they gifted billions to as a legislator.

mmerlin··on Ask HN: Help me find spreadsheet software I found on HN
Maybe Univer

https://univer.ai/examples

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171216

mmerlin··on Microsoft blocks even more customization apps in Windows 11 version 24H2
Annoying how previous abilities are also being removed e.g. docking the windows start bar vertically on the side of the screen is no longer allowed in Windows 11, but is possible on Windows Server and Windows 10
mmerlin··on Piece of 5,800lb battery pallet tossed from ISS crashes through Florida home
Can confirm, running DNS66 on Android and I don't see any obtrusive advertising on that site at all.
mmerlin··on Kubernetes and back – Why I don't run distributed systems
Load balancers in front of a Proxmox cluster + Ceph storage (managed inside Proxmox) + federated/replicated databases (MySQL/MariaDB/Postgres etc)
mmerlin··on Why is the mouse cursor slightly tilted and not straight?
a recurring peeve of mine is small tooltips becoming unreadable underneath the cursor which blocks them from being read... then you move the cursor away the tooltip disappears from view... this could actually be fixed at some point in the future
mmerlin··on Microsoft actions following attack by nation state actor Midnight Blizzard
Delve could lead to accidental document sharing with peer accounts?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/delve-for-offic...

Microsoft365 is deprecating Delve in December 2024

mmerlin··on Ceph: A Journey to 1 TiB/s
Proxmox makes Ceph easy, even with just one single server if you are homelabbing...

I had 4 NUCs running Proxmox+Ceph for a few years, and apart from slightly annoying slowness syncing after spinning the machines up from cold start, it all ran very smoothly.

mmerlin··on Blood, Guns, and Broken Scooters: Inside the Chaotic Rise and Fall of Bird
SES = Socioeconomic Status

Please clarify your recently self-invented TLA (three letter acronym) at least once in your response to reduce the cognitive load on your fellow reader.

Actually in this case the TLA would be more accurate as a TLA (two letter acronym) because Socioeconomic is just one word only...

mmerlin··on X/Twitter issued with a $610,500 fine under Australia's Online Safety Act
If more countries followed suit with a proportional fine, then X might take notice and remove child sexual abuse content from Xitter, make it somewhat less abhorrently Xitty, and just return to it's original angry place where people can fling Xit at each other.
mmerlin··on How Australians made the early internet their own
We likely also would have had approximately the same reasonably priced symmetric speeds if Abbott had not aborted the FttP rollout at 5%.

Turnbull also helped to butcher the original FttP NBN horrendously and they spent 400% more than FttP would have cost, to get the much slower network we got lumped with...

i.e the munted results of Murdoch protectionism and "stick it up the opposition" bully Abbott politics.

mmerlin··on Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
Beautiful Soup scrapes data for Dubious Soup model training
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