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simondanerd

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About simondanerd

meet.hn/city/us-Raleigh

Socials: - github.com/lucasburlingham

Interests: Cybersecurity, Climbing, Gaming, Hiking, Networking, Open Source, Outdoor Activities, Privacy, Running, Technology

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    Comment #48700012

    Of course, streammyaudio is by shollz, the same dude behind the croc file transfer tool. This guy is a legend.

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    Comment #48686417

    I'm not a photographer that would use this, but one thing that immediately popped in my head is sun angle at specific times, such as what appears on https://www.mountainproject.com…

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    Comment #48621171

    Do we live in the same town? That's been my experience exactly, many experiences have required walking briskly before a simple question becomes more than a yes or no answer and exp…

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    Comment #48615228

    Love the idea. Could use some filters and stale (sleeping) clients could get removed quicker. Also, it seemed to be disconnecting quite often, maybe a hug of death thing.

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    Comment #48541328

    Fun fact: you can fly through the entirety of the Great Wall of China! Spent a long time as a kid doing so. I still use Google Earth "Pro" today, so much better than the webapp.

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    Comment #47711994

    What's the difference between that and what's in place now? I thought every male had to register within 30 days of their 18th birthday.

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    Comment #47615730

    Location: Bloomington, IN Remote: No (not preferred) Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Linux (Debian, some RHEL) & Windows Sysadmin, TAK, Docker, RF, LAMP development Résumé/CV…

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    Comment #47551092

    Wait long enough and it popped up for me. (Android, also basically Linux but using Vivaldi) Took about 10 secs.

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    Comment #47353415

    Anything to keep ourselves comfortable. That's one of the reasons I see that we have representatives - so the population at large doesn't have to bear the burden of doing dirty wor…

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    Comment #47232310

    I may not be in the business (and this is not an ad), but I could likely build the same site in about 30 minutes and charge a tenth of the price to recover the cost of Copilot in V…

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    Comment #46944240

    In this economy? I'd better start my own! Hope you enjoy the coffee money.

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    Comment #45921904

    The link presented me with a request for access, would you mind opening it to the public so individuals don't have to request access?

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    Comment #45706564

    It usually runs a Debian based image. And you would probably just have to reboot the script, or write a wrapper around the keyboard functions. But yes, it's overkill for an overkil…

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    Comment #45706288

    Sounds like a cool project, but you may find that using SSH or RealVNC to be a bit easier and cheaper. ChatGPT isn't wrong - this sounds like what you need: https://pypi.org/projec…

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    Comment #44489867

    I'd like to point you towards Meshtastic [1]. It's off-grid, decentralized text messaging that allows for encryption, and is inexpensive to get into (a basic node is about $30 or l…

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    Comment #44117599

    Is this not the advantage of an optical sound cable? A 10 foot cable is $8 on Amazon. 1.25% silver doesn't qualify as "solid" in my mind either.

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    Comment #43621912

    I second this, cheap SSDs are in the $35-40 range and won't contain your data, easy enough to swap out. Whenever I buy pre built devices I usually swap out the drives for something…

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    Comment #43551337

    Snook boom five seven supercalifragilisticexpialidocious bum fortnite. This post has been removed by Redact for HN.

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    Comment #43533933

    The Librewolf browser (and I suppose most Mozilla based browsers could as well) does something like this - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Fingerprinting .

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    Comment #43533801

    Also check out rtty and FT8/FT4 for those interested in other "digital over analog" modes.

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    Comment #43512269

    What's ironic is that the document is marked For Official Use Only, and typically shouldn't be distributed without being officially released.

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    Comment #43473151

    Even if all individuals are properly cleared and have a need to know, Signal is not an authorized method of communication for work-related materials.

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    Comment #43418136

    After trying Plex, I found Jellyfin [1] to be a complete replacement when paired with a VPN for remote devices. I haven't had a single issue with a library over 2TB and thousands o…

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    Comment #43384567

    So a bit of background - generally techy young guy who's done a bit of everything from web development to getting deep into LFS/remixing Arch Linux to rock climbing and shooting. I…

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    Comment #43383314

    I've kept every version of Windows and major releases of popular Linux distros, but didn't know exactly what to do with them other than test certain things when I'm teaching someon…