zikduruqe

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zikduruqe··on Show HN: KidScreen, a finite YouTube shelf chosen by parents

On the webpage - "Learn more in your parent account: About."

So I click About and it asks me to login or create an account.

Instant nope from me.

zikduruqe··on Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor

Maybe HN will like this, 100 Rabbits.

https://100r.co/site/home.html

It is a mix of sailing, low tech, art.

zikduruqe··on Taylor Farms has rewritten its cyclospora statement four times in sixteen days

This is a really good video explaining it. There is a good opportunity for someone more enterprising than I to stand up some infrastructure to support it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R32j6ZA3byI

zikduruqe··on Why does Mail app contact iCloud when sending a non-iCloud email?

For a company who hangs their hat on privacy, it is a dang shame that their native mail client can't support PGP/GnuPG. I mean it'll do S/MIME, but who uses that regularly.

zikduruqe··on Long Range Wi-Fi – Pushing 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi to the limits (2019)

I shot a 2.4 GHz path over 24 miles at 100 Mbps using Ubiquity bullets and their grid pack dishes. It's not that hard.

zikduruqe··on Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

Yep, same here. fail2ban and some http 444 helps out.

zikduruqe··on Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day

Because Steam... /s

zikduruqe··on Cosmic DE's First Seven Months

Cosmic is really good. But whenever they integrate Nightshift (or the like), then it will be great.

zikduruqe··on The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally

> Learning Morse code is like learning a new language.

It is not. Cat is still spelled cat.

I passed my 20 wpm morse code license 30+ years ago, and when I hear code to this day, it sounds just as natural as someone spelling cat as "See Aye Tee".

zikduruqe··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads

> They could gain a shedload of market share by...

... having end user replaceable DDR5 RAM and end user replaceable storage. Even if it is a low end underpowered laptop.

Not everyone needs to render 8K videos in 5 minutes.

zikduruqe··on Commodore Made a Digital Detox Phone That Isn't Dumb

Back when I designed phones, there was a minimum order of 50K units before an OEM would talk to you, and even then, they usually had a like-unit already in the production pipeline so they wouldn't have to retool everything.

zikduruqe··on The Future of Email

I use GnuPG daily and mandate that everyone in our organization do the same. As part of the onboarding process, I have a doc explaining how to install GnuPG, generate keys and how to share their public key in a specific place in our network.

Once you force people to do it, it is not terrible once they get the hang of it.

zikduruqe··on The Future of Email

> Easy

vbezhenar, this is your grandmother. I just got an email from you with a bunch of gobbledygook and I can't read it. /s

If it were that easy, everyone would be doing it.

zikduruqe··on I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

I'm just a little bit older, and have to work a little longer due to some personal things.

But, as it stands today, I rarely touch any tech outside of work. Heck, I seldom ever bring my cell phone outside the home.

I long for the day, I can close my laptop lid and not open it again.

zikduruqe··on Ten Basic Clouds

I have visited this here and there for the past 20+ years.

https://www.cloudman.com

zikduruqe··on Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data

The real joke is the "Obama Phone" meme from back in the day, is from the Lifeline project that was started by Reagan.

It's funny to see how all the history has been scrubbed from the Wikipedia entry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lifeline_(FCC_pro...

zikduruqe··on Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy

> To put that in perspective

Star Wars debuted 37 years after World War II

Star Wars debuted 49 years from now

(Now I feel really old)

zikduruqe··on After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban

Probably. https://deflock.org/foia

zikduruqe··on SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin

https://keys.lol is just as fun.

zikduruqe··on I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search

Can I finally find a cosmoline packed Jeep in the original crate for $50? /s

I wish I had jumped on those offers back when they were in the back of Boys Life, Popular Mechanics, and SOF magazines back in the day.

zikduruqe··on Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew

No doubt. I found a Fellow Ode cheap, and upgraded to the Gen 2 burrs. My coffee went from a little better than 2 am truck stop coffee, to something better than you can get at a cafe.

I am using a Breville precision brewer, but would love to upgrade to a Moccamaster one day.

zikduruqe··on How does GPS work?

The last time I built my own GPS network, I used a sextant, a watch set to UTC and nautical tables to determine where the orbiting bodies were.

zikduruqe··on Not buying another Kindle

https://kindlemodding.org

Depending on your model or version, it's not hard.

I'm rocking a newer Paperwhite Special Edition, with KOreader installed.

zikduruqe··on Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths

And it is faster than the internet. That's why high speed traders are starting to use HF.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wall-street-tries-shortwave-radio-...

zikduruqe··on An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests

> Forgive me for not looking it up at the moment, but one of them is/was a compenent of rocket fuel, which teenage me loved.

It's hydrazine.

zikduruqe··on An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests

> I'm going out to search for morels this weekend

I don't have any addictions in my life, but one. That's when morel season is in swing, I am in full hunt mode.

zikduruqe··on Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline

You might like https://www.howtoinventeverything.com

zikduruqe··on The Social Smolnet

They are still around here and there.

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com

https://telnet.org/htm/places.htm

Hell, I got a few rounds of Trade Wars in on one of them a while back.

zikduruqe··on The Soul of a Pedicab Driver

Sheldon Brown's website is to bicycles, as Arch Linux Wiki is to linux.

zikduruqe··on Home Assistant waters my plants

I run HA on another RPi, so I am familiar.

On the weather station I wrote to the SD card 1,068,266 database records, along with all the nginx logs, etc...

> it's common enough of a problem

It's probably survivorship bias, where everyone complains about SD card corruption, while those with no issues really don't say anything. Well, except my comments today.

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