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up-n-atom··on Apple CEO Tim Cook donates $1M to Trump inauguration
The obvious solution is simple if it’s a concern… Act with your wallet and stop using their services and praising them in high regard. It’s harder to distinguish which tech corps abuse the program but you can be assured open source is safe and that colocation/vps services are more than likely to be operated and run by domestic hires than major cloud ops.
up-n-atom··on The Linux Kernel Hit a Decade Low in 2024 for the Number of New Commits per Year
I’d expect the coming years to continue the trend as Intel management are more than likely to cut the Linux devs to further their demise to the delusion of the stock ticker.
up-n-atom··on A Snapshot of My Self-Hosted Journey in 2024
Always a pleasure to reads these posts, If you’re in the 8311 discord give a shoutout.
up-n-atom··on How to Tell If You're Behind a Cgnat
This occasionally comes up in the 8311 discord and as with all answers in live chat, they end up becoming repeatable noise. Being able to link to past discussions or better yet external resources (they’re easier to find with discord search) makes for effortless q&a, so I’ll add this to the link exchange.
up-n-atom··on Holding back China's chipmaking progress is a fool's errand
US has fallen far too behind in STEM education to win long term. Look at the amount of foreign talent around you that has been bought; call it whatever you like. That can be taken away easily with a higher payout and even more so if remote work is permitted. China is in a position to do that, although they’re less likely to need such talent as they have the domestic smarts and population.

The western world is far too busy litigating against one another and scheming with crypto than building technical growth.

up-n-atom··on Canada's First Pirate Site Blocking Order Expires
They run their own fiber infrastructure in Chatham, Ontario. Resell on Bell in Ontario and Quebec. Telus, Aliant and SaskTel have until Feb 2025 to open up wholesale on their Fiber networks which I’d expect TekSavvy to tap that for Western/Maritime Canada.
up-n-atom··on Supporting the software we use, not just the software we see
No thank you. The corporate entities that rely on these projects can support them and should. On a personal level I’d rather support the truly struggling dev who’s just having fun programming with no endgame. I’m not seeing that in this list but it’s not intended for an individual like me.
up-n-atom··on AT&T announces $1B fiber deal with Corning
Corning is best-in-class, so that's going for it. We haven't seen much in terms of newer fiber install uptake on the 8311 discord but maybe this will make an impact in the coming year.
up-n-atom··on Korean women remove pictures, videos from social media amid deepfake porn crisis
Makes sense and I can see this becoming a global trend if it's not already. But the irony of the news agency taking and posting their photo/video is a facepalm.

EDIT: I can foresee a dark future where surveillance video is monetized for such salacious purpose and it becomes inescapable as the cameras are everywhere.

up-n-atom··on The shortest, strangest engineering interview I've ever done
Looks like you somehow signed up for the IRL equivalent of the roast meta and kudos for taking it in stride.
up-n-atom··on The Sodola Multi-Gigabit Managed Switches
They aight. I have a repo on hacking around with them and the firmware https://github.com/up-n-atom/SWTG118AS Includes hardware mods and software for converting the unmanaged variants to managed.
up-n-atom··on Avoid ISP Routers
I don’t want to self advertise but that has been made economical and self attainable since 2018 and we’ve got several communities around the world for guidance if you search for it. You’ll find the discord, telegram, forums, and blogs.
up-n-atom··on Global CrowdStrike Outage Proves How Fragile IT Systems Have Become
They’ll just start to sell newly conjured insurance plans on top of their monthly cloud subscriptions
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And you’re not making a penny off of me with click bait.
up-n-atom··on Ontario Science Centre to close immediately due to risk of roof collapse
As someone who recently took their nephews to the Science Centre, not visiting since high school roughly 25 years ago, it was pretty decrepit and rundown. Regardless of the politics surrounding all this, it’s in desperate need of a rejuvenating both in terms of infrastructure as well as exhibits.

PS not worth the admission, if you want to take the kids on an educational adventure go to Ripley's Aquarium.

up-n-atom··on Slack or Discord?
I successfully moved a small, <100 member, 2 year running, private Slack, to what now is a growing Discord community 3 years ago and haven't looked back.

Administration has been far easier. The bot ecosystem is thriving, both open and closed. Although, the 1 feature I truly miss has been exporting convos.

No doubt, if building community is on your mind, go with Discord.

up-n-atom··on The Cutting Room Floor
Great resource and the community around the site are equally fantastic. I went on spree and contributed most of the WonderSwan[1] and WonderSwan Color[2] content a few years ago. Many titles in the catalog were developed with a handful of engines and a few yara[3] rules made easy pickings.

[1]https://tcrf.net/Category:WonderSwan_games

[2]https://tcrf.net/Category:WonderSwan_Color_games

[3]https://virustotal.github.io/yara/

up-n-atom··on GitKraken Client Is Migrating from Libgit2 to the Git Executable
What are/were Axosofts libgit2 contribution numbers like? If Gitkraken is their bread and butter, why the hell aren't they sponsoring the developement with money and man power on the library they entrust? This post reads like an exploitive expose, ie. we profit on open source.

Or my condescending take is that Copilot/ChatGPT struggles with API generative code and it is far easier for the prompt "engineers" to generate a system call from the git man page.

up-n-atom··on The Mirror (Possible Future of the GObject Type System)
Feel free to correct me but am I getting COM (Component Object Model) vibes...
up-n-atom··on Software Complexity Is Why AI Won't Replace Software Engineers
Keep seeing these types of replies and I often ask myself what industry do they work in? because the Embedded Software Engineering and R&D I am currently apart of is full on NDA on top of NDA. And I suspect that is true for a lot of people working in other software fields. ChatGPT is only a curiosity and I doubt will ever make an impact in the hard/soft world where IP rules the roost.
up-n-atom··on Hammerspoon :  the best Mac software you've never heard of
I get it.. that is, the reasoning for Hammerspoon to exist as an alternative or extension to Automator/AppleScript. Who wouldn't prefer Lua over AppleScript? The best, that's a stretch.

As for the authors original use case.. all the overhead could simply be avoided by correctly setting up their network preferences in the first place!

Step 1. Prioritize your preferred Wi-Fi networks, either by Network Preferences>Advanced... or using: networksetup -addpreferredwirelessnetworkatindex via the command line.

Step 2. Select SushiNet and uncheck "Automatically join this network" via Network Preferences.

up-n-atom··on Ask HN: Best 19“ rack for home use?
I've got both a XRackPro 12U[1] and Hergo Mercury-Deskmate/ApxServer 12U[2].

They're nearly identical and possibly manufactured by the same company, but the build quality of the XRackPro is ever so slightly better. The front and back doors are studier with less flex and the side panel latches have better spring back.

The doors and panels are easily removed for full access.

The casters provide great moveability.

They both were fitted with noise reduction foam, which provides adequate noise levels for home use as well.

I purchased them from auctions so I can't judge them by their steep retail price.

I use the tops as extra storage to house a standard printer on one and a 3D printer on the other. I've even considered adding a little homely aesthetics with butcher block on the top.

At first I stored the vacuum near by to keep the cats away and they associated the server noise as a vacuum and haven't ventured towards any.

[1] http://www.xrackpro.com/v/vspfiles/xrackpro2a.htm [2] https://hergo.com/product/mercury-deskmate/ https://hergo.com/product/apxserver-12u/

up-n-atom··on Electronic Circuit Simulator in the Browser
Been using iCircuit for iOS for a very long time, which is a C# port of falstad's engine. Only recently have I tried the demo of circuitlab; It would be much appreciated to give it a more comprehensive try... Username: up-n-atom

Thanks!

up-n-atom··on Free static websites with SSL for hackers
I suppose https://neocities.org/ could qualify for the author's ideal alternative.
up-n-atom··on 14 year old live coding in Swift for 100 hours
I can't say I understand this live coding craze , but it's always nice to see someone enjoy their passions.

Only advice I wish someone told me at that age would be the importance of ergonomics because by my early 20's I was experiencing the effects of RSI. After college I had to take a 1 year sobatical to recover. It took nearly a decade to subside by changing every aspect of my working environment and abiding to a strict physical regimen.

I lost myself in the code through long hours and I hope this youngster can avoid what I've experienced and I'm certain live coding for hours on end is not the best approach. The old adage 'No pain, no gain' should not apply.

up-n-atom··on Systemd can now pull and update container images from the Internet
It is singular software by implying a plural tense. It may be miss branded as a single monolithic unit but it exist to an extent as separate entities, and yes, some have a hard dependency between each other. It is no different to that of iproute2 which has succeeded net-tools; what were your thoughts on that?
up-n-atom··on PH7 – An Embedded Implementation of PHP (C Library)
A few that I've come around and evaluated are

https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki/Libfast + http://www.clearsilver.net/

http://appwebserver.org/products/appweb/server-side-javascri...

http://duda.io/

http://luci.subsignal.org/

up-n-atom··on Tiny Linux device offers free unlimited DropBox alternative
Looks a lot like http://www.bifferos.co.uk
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