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173 karma · joined August 25, 2021

I- nvm, forgot what I was going to write

Here's this I guess: https://hackaday.io/awandering.hacker

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wanderer_··on Musk: I'll vote Republicans, the Democrats become the party of division and hate
Okay, serious overestimation. All of these prices are so far out of my budget that I don't make any distinction :)
wanderer_··on Melvin Capital to Close Funds, Return Cash to Investors
Looks interesting, is there a non-paywalled version?
wanderer_··on Musk: I'll vote Republicans, the Democrats become the party of division and hate
You might be surprised how little people actually regard the owner's political opinion of the miltibillion dollar corporation from which they just bought a quarter-million dollar car. I wouldn't even be surprised if a significant percentage of Tesla owners don't even know who owns the company.
wanderer_··on Science Made Stupid [pdf]
My favorite piece of 'knowledge': "'Red shift' shows increasing totalitarian domination of the outer reaches of the universe. Write your congressman!"
wanderer_··on Ask HN: Are there any free Cloudflare competitors?
I read that title and was quite confused, thinking "they do have a free plan..."

Anyway, I understand your concern with this huge monopoly. As far as I know, there really are no competitors. And while I can imagine being worried about the company's future trajectory, I like the way they do stuff now. They are very open about stuff, and they have an interesting blog.

That 20% figure makes some sense to me because a lot of small websites use it because it is affordable (the low, low price of free), and is so valuable to being able to actually get down to the content creation.

wanderer_··on Flying insects splatting on cars have dropped by 60 per cent in UK
Alright... Who paid for this study?

While I know that this decline is probably an indicator of poor ecological health, I personally say good riddance.

wanderer_··on Hot Banana
That picture of the "NYC Banana Fire" was so perfectly random that it is my new favorite picture ever.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/158/nycbananafire.png

wanderer_··on LAPD Veterans’ Harrowing ‘Pokemon Go’ Battle That Got Them Fired
I would love to be serious about this, but I simply cannot.
wanderer_··on Cloudflare Thwarts Record DDoS Attack Peaking at 15 Million Requests Per Second
Seems from this article to have been a pretty standard operation, despite the unusually large scale.

The biggest thing I picked up on was their practice that they mentioned of sampling traffic and analyzing it asynchronously, to avoid latency penalties.

wanderer_··on tcpcp - passing TCP connections between hosts (2005)
Heh, I guess screw them and shut it down anyway - at least that seems to be the policy in my IT department :)
wanderer_··on Ask HN: What do you guys think of Tarot or other metaphysical things?
Those are some sad stories. It's a crazy world out there, with lots of people trying to take advantage of their fellow humans.
wanderer_··on Ask HN: What do you guys think of Tarot or other metaphysical things?
Searching for meaning for these things is a trap. It can be a harmless hobby, but for many people it becomes something more and can tear them apart (e.g. inducing anxiety or obsession with it).

Many (but not necessarily all) people who sell this type of paraphernalia or services are con artists looking to make a buck off of desperate people who are looking to make sense of their lives in places where they won't.

wanderer_··on Linux Hardware Database
Too bad I just gutted mine...
wanderer_··on SoCal man says computer on his Tesla froze, causing it to be stuck at 83 MPH
I imagine this story was worth orders of magnitude more to the news network than the ticket would be worth to the man... I'm sure they could make it worth his while :)
wanderer_··on SoCal man says computer on his Tesla froze, causing it to be stuck at 83 MPH
> non industrial grade (for the lack of a better word) computers on board a Tesla.

Such as the non-volatile memory chips that began to fail after irresponsible logging practices [0]

[0] https://hackaday.com/2021/02/11/tesla-recalls-cars-with-emmc...

wanderer_··on U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow
You guys should read The Cuckoo's Egg by Clifford Stoll. It's a classic.
wanderer_··on The average income needed to buy a home in the Bay Area today: $235,000
You guys should check out prices in the Nashville area...
wanderer_··on Twitter staff ‘super stressed’ over EMusk chaos
I wonder what that would make HN?
wanderer_··on Twitter staff ‘super stressed’ over EMusk chaos
I agree that it seems a little bit over-dramatic, but seeing as an employee said it was a "shit show" (quoting from the article), there must be something going on over there. I can imagine that once the realization set in that Musk wouldn't be joining the board and would in fact just be continuing to criticize Twitter on the platform itself, this caused consternation and people began to wonder where he was planning to go with this.
wanderer_··on Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
I believe I may have seen it in a shortcut editor somewhere, but I suppose I could be misremembering or that could have been a one-off implementation.
wanderer_··on Using Windows after 15 years on Linux
This might be because Word overrides system shortcuts (i.e. the 'paste without formatting' in this case). Google Docs tries to do this in the browser as well, but it happens to support this particular shortcut.
wanderer_··on Raspberry Pi update removes the default user
Now it's just a matter of time before I start losing installs because I can't remember passwords...
wanderer_··on With this latest release, the default “pi” user is being removed
I was worried about the headless setup, but apparently you can create a user in the official imager tool.

I guess I'll go make a fork of the OS that keeps the default credentials. No way am I getting locked out of some stupid robot or whatever because I can't remember the password!

wanderer_··on WordleBot: Daily Wordle Companion
Interesting, but I can't help thinking of it as just another publicity grab by the Times.
wanderer_··on Russia's Nobel winning editor Muratov doused with paint
This doesn't really seem like government action... If they really wanted to silence him, I feel like the wider world would never hear of it. Maybe this is a dramatic way of sending a message?
wanderer_··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
Update: I'm in!
wanderer_··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
Already tried that one... :)
wanderer_··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
Haha cool! I'm going to get inside that building eventually... Does it keep a log of all of the different things that people type in?
wanderer_··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
I'm kind of disappointed it didn't respond to "brute force it" when I got to the keypad.
wanderer_··on Ask HN: Share your personal site
I love how it looks. Please, can I have a hint?
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