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implements commented on Using FreeBSD to make self-hosting fun again jsteuernagel.de/posts/usi... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

blablabla123 · a month ago

Somewhat related OpenBSD is the fundament of my self-hosted homelab since it runs DNS, DHCP, a firewall router and a small local web server. Configuration is a dream compared to Linux and probably even compared to FreeBSD. You just need to go through the FAQ and copy&paste the relevant examples and modify them as needed. I don't know why it's so complicated on Linux where you need to appease a handful of daemons and find your way through a labyrinth of config files. I run a separate Linux based KVM host though.

implements · a month ago

Speaking of Linux, OpenBSD’s hypervisor (vmm) supports it so I managed to get docker and containers running on my server via Alpine Linux. Opens the door on all the latest ‘modern server stuff’ running happily on an OBSD box.

implements commented on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

kqr · 2 months ago

Slow down -- sometimes. But for the most part, locks are more like envelopes. They produce evidence of tampering.

implements · 2 months ago

Yep. There’s a safe engineer on YouTube who was explaining the history of dial combination locks commonly used for government filing cabinets, etc. He pointed out that you can drill them in minutes but you’d need several hours to make good the damage such that the break in wouldn’t be easily detected. The combined time is therefore the ‘strength’ of the security. (Also, why it might be a good idea to have open sensors on safes, cabinets, etc)

implements commented on Become unbannable from your email karboosx.net/post/PJOveGV... · Posted by u/bfoks

pzmarzly · 2 months ago

Counterpoint: I lost a domain when a registrar went out of business, and another when a registrar bumped the price 10x and refused to give me authenticode unless I physically show up to their office. Sure, I cheapened out and used shady cheap registrars, and this all happened a while ago so things are probably more regulated now, but for comparison I never permanently lost access to hosted email. (Losing access temporarily is another thing, Google likes blocking me from my own account when travelling.)

implements · 2 months ago

Cloudflare aren’t a bad registrar (imo) - they sell and renew domains at wholesale cost, forward emails, can do website landing pages with a Worker (etc). Understand the product in depth and would seem like a reasonably safe bet. (Not shilling for them, just personal experience).

implements commented on Cloudflare Email Service: private beta blog.cloudflare.com/email... · Posted by u/tosh

SahAssar · 3 months ago

I don't think that is true for email or xmpp. Could you please explain?

implements · 3 months ago

You can roll your own email if you can get your head around setting up an OpenBSD box and configuring OpenSMTPD and the correct domain DNS records - but the issue will be email deliverability. Gmail etc are going to treat as spam most emails that turn up from a residential or VPS linked IP address.

Personal email servers will communicate with each other happily but you need a middleman one for important recipients if you want to be sure it gets into an inbox.

implements commented on Leatherman (vagabond) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lea... · Posted by u/redbell

reader9274 · 3 months ago

"The more I read about this character, the more I don't care for him" - Norm Macdonald

implements · 3 months ago

Don’t want to edit Norm, but a (perhaps British sensibility) alternative is:

“The more I hear about this Hitler fellow, the less I like him”

implements commented on Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator technoblogy.com/show?2AON... · Posted by u/chrisjj

retrac · 4 months ago

There's a lot of cool radio-related things our smartphones could do but probably never will for regulatory/political/commercial reasons like you note.

My pet idea is to make some use of longwave! You know those time signals broadcast around 60 kHz? They cover thousands of kilometres from one transmitter. At 60 kHz the wavelength is 5 kilometres long and the RF tends to diffract around objects like mountains, buildings, etc. that get in the way. Longwave tends to penetrate underground, and through Faraday cages meant for short wavelengths.

Those time signals broadcast, in effect, 1 bit per second. The receiver is dead simple electronically and requires almost no energy to run. What if we broadcast a more modern error-corrected data stream? Every device could be supplied with a receive-only stream of a few hundred bits a second of whatever. I admit it's a solution somewhat in search of a problem. Weather updates? Emergency alerts?

implements · 4 months ago

> My pet idea is to make some use of longwave! […] At 60 kHz the wavelength is 5 kilometres long …

Dim memory from my Ham Radio days that you’d need an antenna length of 1/4 the wavelength, which wouldn’t be very convenient for portable devices, unfortunately.

implements commented on Thai Air Force seals deal for Swedish Gripen jets scmp.com/news/asia/southe... · Posted by u/belter

gerdesj · 4 months ago

"It's able to operate from airstrips that are no more than roads, with modest mobile ground equipment for support."

Nothing is really new. I used to live in West Germany in the '70s and '80s. The UK had an aircraft called Harrier - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrier_jump_jet. At that time I think Sweden was deploying the Drakken (Dragon) and later the Vigen (Lightning). I made models of both as a child and I think both of them were superb in their own way.

Harrier was designed to work out of fields, let alone roads. Rather similar to an Apache. Minimal maint (ish) and so on.

I now live in Yeovil, Somerset and we have recently had several Italian rotary wing aircraft, such as The Seaking doing test flights around here. Presumably airframe testing and proving for VJ Day.

implements · 4 months ago

> The UK had an aircraft called Harrier - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrier_jump_jet …

Also, the French: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEPECAT_Jaguar which was designed to be useable from improvised runways, hence the extremely robust landing gear.

implements commented on Online Safety Act: What went wrong? therectangle.substack.com... · Posted by u/olyellybelly

implements · 4 months ago

Any device with a Government service (eg NHS) or a Banking app knows who and old the primary user is, so seems the obvious technological solution is some kind of securely anonymous attestation that websites can request from the OS.

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pseudosavant · 5 months ago

Very interesting. Relates to conversations I've had recently regarding trans people in sports. Turns out that conversation isn't simple, because gender is way more complex than the binary M/F options society has tried to act like it is.

Between reasons like in this article, or being born intersex, etc, there are definitely people with female chromosomes who have competed in men's sports, or people with female sex organs and male chromosomes that have competed in female sports. I don't know what the "fairness" answer is, but these are real people.

implements · 4 months ago

> Very interesting. Relates to conversations I've had recently regarding trans people in sports. Turns out that conversation isn't simple, because gender is way more complex than the binary M/F options society has tried to act like it is.

Using the word “gender” to refer to the concepts of both “reproductive sex” (chromosomes, gametes, genitals) and also “gender” (socially constructed roles, behaviours, activities, and expectations associated with femininity and masculinity) certainly makes it very complex to reason about and discuss, particularly if it feels socially distasteful to separate the two.

Without getting the soapbox out, it seems to me that there’s an infinite number of possible “genders” as each unique individual can construct whatever permutation of supposedly feminine and masculine coded things that suits them. But broadly speaking, there are two sexes - the one that went down the developmental pathway to produce and ejaculate semen, and the one that went down the pathway to be able to ovulate, incubate fertilised eggs, give birth and nurse with milk.

So in considering sport, given the physiological consequences of reproductive role causes female performance to be on average significantly lower than for males, does it make sense for sporting categories to be gendered (how people look or act) or sexed (how people are constructed)?

There’s a inclusivity argument for “yes” from the point of view of the interests of one group (transgender people), but it seems to come at the cost of preventing female athletes from doing anything other than merely participating in many competitions, rather than being able to win them.

implements commented on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites haaretz.com/israel-news/2... · Posted by u/ahmetcadirci25

Capricorn2481 · 6 months ago

I'm mostly just seeing people discuss what Israel's military is doing, with people on both sides adding historical context. It's sure as hell not a "hate-fest."

implements · 6 months ago

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