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themattresson Building a Simple VPN with WireGuard with a Raspberry Pi as Server

I’ve been using a pi3 for about a year as a full time VPN on my cell phone and laptops.

3 is only 100mbit eth, but I’ve had almost no issues with it. Connects fast, no problem streaming HD video or cloning huge git repos. Maybe when I get home today I’ll take some measurements.... But my biggest issue is the trash Powerline Ethernet between my router and rest of my network.

themattresson Why Canada's cannabis bubble burst

> Police like guards all over, waiting rooms that feel like air locks with doors between the waiting area and the inside. Metal detectors and wands. Cash only with an ATM with yet another line, then a line to the counter

Living in Portland, OR that experience is wild to me. All of the shops I’ve been to don’t have any guards, just an employee during the required ID check.

Wish I didn’t have to use an ATM though.

themattresson WireGuard is in net-next

Ive had a WireGuard install running for about 6 months on a pi and as far as I can tell it hasn’t been a bottleneck. Plenty of spare cpu and bandwidth. And I’m using the 3 which only has 100mbit Ethernet.

Granted I don’t generally watch a ton of streaming video and it’s mostly just me on my network, but no issues watching YouTube or doing anything else.

I really can’t state enough how much I love my wireguard/pi hole setup.

themattresson Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying

Exactly. And daydreaming is death when you don’t have a steel cage around you.

themattresson Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying

The best thing that learning to ride a motorcycle taught me is “always ride like everyone is actively trying to kill you”.

themattresson Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD

Tangential, but it appears openwall.com is on several of my pi hole blocklists. I'm guessing its because of the tools they offer?

themattresson Show HN: Parrot.vc – I forced a bot to read 65,000 VC tweets and it became a VC

> Haha “I have a hard stop” is a great alternative to DUI.

Truth

themattresson The latest version of Slack has a setting to disable the WYSIWYG editor

Thanks to all that ruckus I discovered Ripcord and have been enjoying how snappy it is. Not pretty but works well for me.

themattresson FBI warns that connected televisions can provide hackers a window into homes

I’ve been using a projector as my only tv for years, and even during the daytime it’s still usable. It definitely is better in the dark, but usually I don’t even close my blinds during the day.

I’ve had to replace the bulb once in about 4 years. Or rather the timer went off to warn me and I replaced it — bulb was still working though. New lamp was fairly cheap too IIRC, $40, maybe less?

And I can take it with me, or outside in my backyard for a movie night. I probably won’t ever go back to smart or dumb tvs

themattresson Show HN: DuckDuckGo to Google Escape Hatch

There’s a variety of bang commands, !r for Reddit !so for stack overflow, etc

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

themattresson Ask HN: You're in private mode, to continue reading ” why so many links here?

If it’s interesting content people are willing to put up with some less than user friendly practices, I’d wager.

themattresson The Enterprise Programming Language

Omg that turbo feature lol

themattresson Christians turn to artificial intelligence to stop porn use

After 12 years of catholic school, I don't recall anything specifically, although I bet some would argue the commandment 'you shall not commit adultery' might cover that.

What I do know is there is a ton of stuff the bible recommends that Christians are happy to ignore. At least anecdotally in the Catholic community I grew up in in NE Philadelphia.

themattresson Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

Glad I'm not the only one.

I never had a problem with formatting code in slack until this release. And the hotkey (Shit+Cmd+C) doesn't work for me, although that might be my window manager interfering.

themattresson Trump team has plan for national parks: Amazon, food trucks, no senior discounts

Most of the changes they are touting as improvements sound horrid to me.

Amazon...? WiFi? Every park Ive been to is already crawling with tourists with selfie sticks, or that one guy who thinks I want to listen to his Spotify station.

Now if they were suggesting to surround the parks in faraday cages we’d be onto something!

themattresson Australian universities are accused of trading free speech for cash

It’s very depressing, I also TA’d in college and ended up grading one of the mid terms for a programming class I had the previous semester. I found a group of students who clearly shared some code over gchat or something... weird variable names and unique code structure that was clearly copied among 5 or so students.

I was told by the professor to not fail them, just give them 0 for the question. Cheating was rampant in my program and the institution’s response to push them through was disheartening. We also had a “code of conduct”. These were all US students, I think cheating is just a huge problem in Universities all over the world.

themattresson Toyota is trying to put solar panels on a Prius to charge battery during the day

Very cool, but I wouldn’t want to pay to repair that after an accident. Oof.

themattresson The Cloud

At one of my previous gigs there was a big push to get out of the colo and into the cloud, part of which because of perceived “cost savings” vs running our own hardware. I think most of it was “everyone else is moving to AWS”.

All I know is we never had a $30,000 “oopsie” in the data center because a dev left a bunch of stuff running they should have shut down.

themattresson The Fed is getting into the Real-Time payments business

Yea, sounds like a grubhub competitor.

themattresson Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch

From what I recall from various forums and reddit threads it was not just users who generated sexually explicit content, but any streamer judged to be a “thot”.

themattresson Middle-aged vlogger who used filter to look young caught in live-stream glitch

I think the a bunch of trolls, probably the incel crowd on 4chan and the like got that going: https://nypost.com/2018/11/27/internet-trolls-are-threatenin...

themattresson The Story of the Ping Program (1997)

Looks like it’s fixed. Worked for me: https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/ping.html

themattresson The Washington Post's bestseller lists have been wrong

This was SOP for me when I worked as the receiver in a supermarket from ~2007-2011.

It’s a shame, I must have thrown thousands and thousands of books away, instead of donating them to a library or something.

But then again, I guess the library would only accept so many copies of the same nascar-themed trashy romance novel.

themattresson Lessons from the past, present, and future of animation

Ahh you’re right, that’s what I get for skimming.

themattresson Lessons from the past, present, and future of animation

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mickey-mouse-racial-carica...

While I agree with your sentiment, I don’t know about this case.

themattresson Firefox Now Available with Enhanced Tracking Protection by Default

Not quite the same thing and I know it’s not fully rolled out yet, but I enable u2f support in Firefox and haven’t had any issues with my Yubikey... except when I try to add a new Yubikey To my gmail account in Firefox it makes me switch to Chrome because “u2f isn’t supported”.

At least let me try and if it fails I’ll file an issue with FF so they can fix it and improve instead of locking me out with half-truths.

themattresson The richest 10% of households now represent 70% of all U.S. wealth

Maybe iPhones and flagship androids are considered luxury items, but is the $40 Tracphone from 7-11 really a luxury item?

Or maybe it’s that anyone without a contact number and internet connection is at a huge disadvantage in our society in 2019?

themattresson WireGuard on OpenBSD

I use afraid.org dynamic dns offering and it works great.

themattresson Monty Python’s Terry Gilliam Wishes Comedy Hadn’t Changed

I only recently watched python for the first time this year and really enjoyed most of it, but you’re right. Almost any scene that featured a “Chinese” person made me cringe.

themattresson 540M Facebook Records Exposed

No screaming red banner, but each bucket does indeed get marked with large orange rectangle that reads “Public”. It’s easily noticeable. In my limited experience, a lot of the open buckets problem comes from the fact that access to * is the path of least resistance vs a proper IAM and bucket config. When feature work is on the line ain’t nobody got time for that :/