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petee··on The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory
It sets up the network for services, but it's been a minute since so I don't remember the specifics, just that I needed to make a new file in some deep folder to tell it to use a non-standard port.

To me its just more complexity, and not super consistent, which is fine for enterprise, or automation. I'm used to openbsd, regular shell init scripts go in /etc/rc.d, and my logs are in /var/log. Can't get much simpler than that, but i understand its limitations, and Linux is certainly more of a hodgepodge

Edit: found my notes, first was discovering the "gpsd" & "gpsd.socket" namespaces existence, then needing to do "systemd edit --full gpsd.socket" because without "--full" it makes an override file that didn't actually override anything...my note quality declined rapidly after that due to anger

petee··on The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory
Imho its not necessary for the average user, adding too much complexity.

For example, I tried to config gpsd to use another port, nothing would work; systemd quietly overrides gpsd's configfile and required additional systemd incantations to change what should have been easy. And the man pages are a mess

And journalctl makes me want to pull my hair out; just let me grep a regular file - discovering namespaces is a nightmare

petee··on PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats
> Since 1995, occasional awards for UUOC have been given out, usually by Perl luminary Randal L. Schwartz

http://catb.org/jargon/html/U/UUOC.html

Admittedly its taken me a long time to remember that the file is the last argument to grep, when so many other commands its the first. I'd guess common abuse is due to being easier to type cat x | than to dig up the man page

petee··on Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs
I really love that the source-extension icons are all different, and resemble the files contents - .c indentation, .h mostly linear, .s assembly instructions, ".o" bits
petee··on TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access
Is this what your referring to? https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/WireGuardAllo...
petee··on Cloudflare Drop
Yeah I'm very lost on what this is supposed to do -- "Summon your site" is quite vague. "see it live", like a demo? or is this actually published somewhere? Is it forever?

Desktop mode doesn't show any more information either

petee··on Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor
Nearly 4 years from last notification and the password is the same; either thats real incompetence, or a hilarious power move
petee··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
> If anything, then the 2.5-gig port is overkill.

Or 1 gig is underkill. My original reply was just pointing out that simply adding a 2.5g switch doesn't make it a 5 port 2.5g router, it makes it a 1 gig router with 2.5 internal, at best

petee··on Why 3D TVs failed and the trouble with 3D in Hollywood
I had suppressed my memory of Christmas Carol 3d in theaters apparently - super jumpy, really bad ghosting, let alone the bad animation
petee··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
Ok, so your wan is 1gig, and your lan 2.5...handy but not much of a perk. Lets just call this an AP, which would clear up many issues people seem to have with it
petee··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
It does raise the question that if it is for developers, what exactly is being developed? Especially if its not representative of hardware that is available or desired; is there some advantage targeting a very particular chipset? This seems to be the only device using it (from what i could find briefly)
petee··on OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router
2.5 is the WAN, so your lan is only getting 1g anyway
petee··on Why 3D TVs failed and the trouble with 3D in Hollywood
While glasses certainly sucked (I had a Samsung) I just couldn't stand that most content was essentially a technology demonstration -- throwing objects at the viewer for the sake of it, 4th wall be damned.

The Lion King is an example of good 3d imho, because they used it to improve the storytelling and art -- like adding depth to the water reflection of Simba

petee··on Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own
I see some kind of illumination from below/behind the display. Being from Gamers Nexus, I'd be shocked if it was manipulated. Maybe just a really steep sidelite
petee··on Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
I appreciated it for my Google Takeout download - they seemed to cap per file speed, so I could get multiple going. Getting it done quickly was important since google would force 2fa re-auth if you waited literally 30 seconds between files, ~80 4G files

Besides that, my two housemates streaming 4k while I'm downloading an iso can definitely hit the cap. The extra headroom is nice, versus just falling over

petee··on Free the Icons
Even thats slowly being depreciated for gestures as the default option. A bunch of Google's own apps won't play nice with it anymore on the flagship Pixel, drawing buttons underneath
petee··on .self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting
On mobile this surfaced as trying to download a file called "viewer", couldn't see the url. Def weird
petee··on A native graphical shell for SSH
https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

puttygen.com looks super fishy, the disclaimer:

> Puttygen software is not created, nor supported by Puttygen.com. The program has been tested and is believed to be safe. [...] The use of Puttygen through Puttygen.com is done at your own discretion and risk

Edit: or is that the evil grin?

petee··on Build Your Own IP Geolocation Setup Without the SaaS Tax in an Afternoon
Frankly it reads exactly as a pitch - who you are, why you're the best, and whats wrong with whats presented, followed by 'so use us'.

And there was no misinformation here. You even use the lack of City data in GeoLite as a negative, yet you only offer City as paid. Personally, I'm already paying a VM cost, and I can get 1uS answers hosting locally, so this is a valid solution.

Im trying to be honest with you because I found the project on reddit, where you commented, only to share it here and find the same immediate reply with no constructive input to their project. Do you offer a community or offline version of your db for local use?

petee··on Wallace the 6 inch f/2.8 telescope, building it, and hiking with it
Beautiful, like I needed a new crossover of hobbies; btw could this fill a 220 format frame?

You also could save a lot of weight by boring out your plywood base and still be plenty rigid

petee··on Build Your Own IP Geolocation Setup Without the SaaS Tax in an Afternoon
There are a few reasons one could chose to not go with saas, but this is someone's small project which was neat; and upgradable to any GeoIP db, I might add...you guys don't need to advertise yourself everytime someone shares it -- https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1oa1pdh/made_a_...
petee··on Choosing a Public DNS Resolver
I was thinking that if you preload your 50k list and override the min-ttl, the prefetch would let you relax the cron schedule a little
petee··on Choosing a Public DNS Resolver
Unbound has "prefetch" which will refresh near-expired cached records, and various other cache/ttl knobs. "serve-expired" seemed to work well too
petee··on A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events
Rebooting could be a mini-game where you dodge the user's BIOS keystrokes a few times before they give up
petee··on Show HN: Recall – Local project memory for Claude Code
Any tricks to get Claude to actually use the CLAUDE.md consistently? Many times now its completely ignored it, despite being short, concise + generated by Claude itself, and I see bug reports about this that are over a year old
petee··on Windows UI evolution: Clicking an unassociated file
On Win 11, if you disable the Vibe Notepad it refuses to let you associate .txt files to any program, and popups an error. Instead you have to go turn off a specific file association toggle elsewhere (as i recall) only then you can you reassign it
petee··on A tale of two path separators
Would you mind sharing a related link? I'm finding it to be impossible to search "¥ path separator", the ¥ is stripped out by like every search engine even when quoted
petee··on Show HN: TownSquare, a tiny presence layer for websites
Clearly you haven't been exposed to much of the underbelly of the internet. Words can translate to physical harm and actions in the real world, and do regularly
petee··on Google Flight Simulator
Indeed nobody should have an assumption this would prepare you for an ATP, that alone should be disqualifying.

The post i replied to was talking about the controls being wrong, which I guess might be a bug. For what it is the controls are correct tho

petee··on Google Flight Simulator
Controls work normally for me on a desktop
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