trevithick (u/trevithick)

trevithick commented on DIY NAS: 2026 Edition blog.briancmoses.com/2025... · Posted by u/sashk

dewey · 4 months ago

Maybe I'm out of the loop but I've never heard of "Topton". As this brand is being mentioned 16 times in this one blog post I'm just assuming that's a sponsored blog post and not an objective overview.

trevithick · 4 months ago

Topton makes a lot of those router mini PCs. I have an N100 with 4 2.5Gbe ports. It has a serial port too, which is nice. It's been running great for about a year now. Then again, it's from Aliexpress, so who knows if it's even really a Topton.

trevithick commented on PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator picoide.com/... · Posted by u/st_goliath

masfuerte · 4 months ago

I'd never heard of Electrical Discharge Machining. The video is less than two minutes and gives a quick introduction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_discharge_machining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1D5DLWWMp8

trevithick · 4 months ago

Interesting, thanks for posting. I never heard of this either and read EDM as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_dance_music

Which kind of makes sense.

trevithick commented on PicoIDE – An open IDE/ATAPI drive emulator picoide.com/... · Posted by u/st_goliath

trevithick · 4 months ago

This is really cool. I'm glad people are out there making this stuff even if I'll never have a use for it.

What are the use cases for this? I'm guessing retro computing and possibly very old machines tied to very obsolete hardware that can't be virtualized (e.g. manufacturing controls).

trevithick commented on Our investigation into the suspicious pressure on Archive.today adguard-dns.io/en/blog/ar... · Posted by u/immibis

pimlottc · 4 months ago

I’m not sure what you’re referencing, but the principal goes back way back to the Romans: Cui bono? [0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono%3F

trevithick · 4 months ago

They're referencing this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HlZhPuDYqbU

trevithick commented on How to fix subsystem request failed on channel 0 blog.x-way.org/Linux/2025... · Posted by u/speckx

mholt · 4 months ago

Make Error Messages Great Again

(Sorry, I hate that it has a political reference, but it's really how I feel about this. How the heck is that error message supposed to mean anything to anyone?)

trevithick · 4 months ago

Sometimes the message is different. I think it depends on the recipient server. Trying to scp to a dropbear ssh server on a router gives

   sh: /opt/libexec/sftp-server: not found
   scp: Connection closed

The -O resolution works.

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trevithick commented on Baby Shoggoth Is Listening theamericanscholar.org/ba... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

dontlaugh · 4 months ago

Especially with this bleak described future. Why would I want to be one of the few simulated? I’d rather stay dead.

If you think this may be the future, surely the only rational response is to do everything in your power to prevent it.

trevithick · 4 months ago

Yes. I've always planned to stay dead forever after I die. AI is not changing that.

trevithick commented on Baby Shoggoth Is Listening theamericanscholar.org/ba... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

cjs_ac · 4 months ago

The bull case is that when the venture capitalists stop subsidising LLM providers and expect them to turn a profit, the actual end-user costs exceeds the cost of employing a human. I don't know whether this is actually true, but it might happen.

trevithick · 4 months ago

True, my question assumed AI "progress" and adoption follow the hype trajectory. Reality could be closer to the scenario you laid out. The bubble pops, some AI tools maybe improve things in some areas, societal disintegration gets kicked down the road a few years.

trevithick commented on Baby Shoggoth Is Listening theamericanscholar.org/ba... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

trevithick · 4 months ago

I have not heard or read anything about AI that could be construed as positive for an ordinary person. Step one is "lose your job with no possibility of finding another one, but still have to buy stuff to survive." That will also be the last step for a huge number of people. Is there a bull case for some hypothetical regular person with a desk job? I haven't seen one.

trevithick commented on Show HN: Halloy – Modern IRC client github.com/squidowl/hallo... · Posted by u/culinary-robot

Vaslo · 5 months ago

Not sure if this question will get removed but a tangent nonetheless - I’d like to use this but I don’t know what to do with it since the advent of Discord. What do people do with IRC now and where do you find content?

I remember being a high school student and having an amazing physics conversation on IRC that included a description of Flatworld that really fascinated me.

trevithick · 5 months ago

I had the same question. I briefly joined the Slackware IRC a long, long time ago when I had questions, but now I wouldn't even know what to do with this client.

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