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4043D

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About 4043D

ex grumpy networking guy. now grumpy farmer living in the Australian outback.

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    Comment #31010658

    having the ability to get an infosec job isnt = intelligence. tbh most of the people ive met in the last 5 years who were working corprate infosec / cyber are not particularly skil…

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    Comment #28755914

    im not op but im an offgrid farmer i use lead carbon batteries they have held up well. on a 5k inverter i run a 70 inch tv, stand alone freezer and a fridge/freezer. my home lab ha…

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    Comment #28754090

    my pihole is rate limiting my partners phone, up 20k + requests last hour to facebook et el. The rest of my non standard dns is holding up so far time will tell though, if the big …

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    Comment #28044533

    The floury or mealy texture can happen regardless of variety, most of the apples you buy for the supermarket are up to a year old. they gas them with a chemical that stops ripening…

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    Comment #24585560

    my cows are too smart for electric fences. i set one up to separate 2 herds with a bull in each herd. the bulls will fight if the ladies are in season. they watched me set up the f…

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    Comment #24585471

    i currently own a small cattle farm in rural australia and you are correct collars really are not a good solution not only do they rub on things but they love chewing on things esp…

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    Comment #23970167

    im currently an off grid farmer i used to work in tech. the current iteration of solar panels are very reliable even the dirt cheap chinese panels will last 10 plus years. the scre…

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    Comment #23912742

    Renoise isn't open source but is Linux native. Aducity is good for recording. And hydrogen is an ok drum machine.

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    Comment #23735579

    the point of the tesla battery in south australia wasnt to provide base load continuous power it was to provide close to instant peaking power to smooth the grid it was directly co…

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    Comment #22487812

    If you are someplace like rural Australia the closest tech might be 1000km away.. if they haven't installed the hacked firmware they can't even service them without a tech or the t…

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    Comment #22185793

    There are huge swathes of rural Australia with non existent or very spotty mobile reception same with broadband band other than sat that is geo stationery which are frankly garbage…

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    Comment #20034800

    Moxie isn't known for bullshiting about stuff like that he's done a fair few things "normal" people would think fairly crazy.

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    Comment #19671138

    Some hft firms are rumored to be using short wave radio. Everything old is new again. https://hackaday.com/2018/05/12/hft-on-hf-you-cant-beat-it-f...

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    Comment #18429057

    I'm not sure where you are in the world but in my country we absolutely do spend the vast majority of profit from harvest or the sale of stock reinvesting in farm infrastructure be…

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    Comment #18428978

    Small scale farming absolutely does work as a business and the vast majority of farms (world wide) are in the sub 1000 hectare range. If you are talking sub 100 acre hobby farms th…

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    Comment #18428124

    Farming as a service won't work for smaller landholders (less than 1000 hectares) people on smaller farms have money to spend 2 or 3 times a year that is when they make investments…

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    Comment #17667965

    For things like this and high end art it's normally stolen to order.