Septimaeus
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- Comment on Uses for a SBC (When You Already Have an x86 Mini-PC?) 6 hours ago:
- DNS resolver, like pi-hole, unbound with adguard, diversion, etc.
- RMS server: a lot of Remote Desktop software has the option to install a listener on a low power device elsewhere on the network that can use wake-on-lan to access computers within the network without keeping everything on 24-7.
- Log aggregator: would be useful for anyone who troubleshoots stuff regularly, but historical info of any kind can come in handy to many.
- Simplest form might be a scribe server. Network gear often has an option to send logs to a particular URL, so if you added the scribe server IP/port to the field you’d have historical network logs.
- Additional loggers could also be run on-device, such as a wifi connectivity checker or a Fing server.
- If you have a smart home setup, you could also log state data or energy monitoring history at a particular interval.
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 13 hours ago:
Haha nice
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 13 hours ago:
Whoa lol
- Comment on Haha SO TRUE! 13 hours ago:
Dude smh
- Comment on This technology will change video games forever... 2 weeks ago:
How does Meredith Brooks find the time to be a bitch, a lover, a child and a mother?
- Comment on Ask Ouija is just a very slow distributed LLM 1 month ago:
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- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
The latter, for Roth IRA.^A^ If you haven’t set one up before, it’s pretty straightforward.^B^
^A^: There is such a thing as a Roth 401(k) which if offered should definitely be your top priority up to employer contribution match.
^B^: Vanguard is often recommended for simplicity and low fees. You can pick your funds when contributing. Typical starting funds are VTI and VOO (or the mutual fund equivalents with slightly lower fees, VTSAX and VFIAX).
- Comment on What can I do with US$10K that is a good investment? 1 month ago:
Roth grows tax-free and has more long term flexibility. It’s better for most.
- Comment on English Ivy 1 month ago:
Depends on adhesive and era but today mostly yes
- Comment on Closure of exponentiation of real algebraic numbers. 2 months ago:
ℕ
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 2 months ago:
Not all but most, yes. But TBF, sites that still function with JS disabled tend to have the least intrusive telemetry, and might pre-date big data altogether.
Regardless, unless the extent of a page’s analytics is a “you are the #th visitor” counter, all countermeasures must remain active.
- Comment on Are LLMs capable of writing *good* code? 2 months ago:
Theoretically, I would say yes it’s possible, insofar as we could break down most subtasks of the development process into training parameters. But we are a long way from that currently.
- Comment on How is it that we still cannot combine wifi networks to increase bandwidth, is there someone working on that? 2 months ago:
Mmm, understood. Antiheroics are especially well-regarded. I’ll be sure this is accurately reflected in the report.
- Comment on How is it that we still cannot combine wifi networks to increase bandwidth, is there someone working on that? 2 months ago:
In case you’re wondering about the downvotes, using any search index verbification other than “Google” demonstrates greater techno-activism than pointing out that DDG uses the Bing API. Your effort has been noted, however, and will be evaluated at the next summit.
- Comment on bought a gas dryer thinking we had a gas connection... is this it??? 2 months ago:
(Guessing the entire argument below is based on lexical ambiguity in English)
- Comment on The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster 3 months ago:
- Comment on There should be a semicolon punctuation for exclamation and question marks. 3 months ago:
IIRC “something so damned simple” is a fragment or dependent clause, unless “[it is]” was somehow implied, in which case an em dash may be more appropriate. A simple comma might also suffice, since the clause modifies “this” from the next phrase.
- Comment on Department of Education Sued Following Markup Investigation Into FAFSA Data Shared with Facebook. 3 months ago:
Concur. Most FERPA violations are similarly mundane snafus.
- Comment on LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells 3 months ago:
Droney McTinFoil von Transformer Optimus prime’s HS nickname
- Comment on Forgot to pay my domain for a year and now I have to spend £2200 ($3000) if I want to get it back 3 months ago:
I think you can also register 10 years in advance, or maybe more depending on the registrar, which would cover all other potential snafus like expired card info.
- Comment on What would cause a person to speak in different accents randomly? 3 months ago:
IANAMD but simply using various accents, by itself, is perhaps less relevant clinically than the emotional disregulation and socially maladaptive behavior you describe.
Unchecked, compulsive aggression with fixation that requires coworkers to physically extract themselves (harassment) is certainly diagnosable, but not by us or by you.
This should be addressed formally by a superior, if only so that your coworker has the documentation necessary to get the help they need. Your coworker will not remain so for long if this continues.
- Comment on TeamViewer got hacked 4 months ago:
Three sheets to the wind
- Comment on Chinese startup launching RISC-V laptop for devs and engineers priced at around $300 6 months ago:
Is it unwarranted? Have Chinese tech companies turned a new leaf in their collective InfoSec practices?
Conversely, has Intel had a history of consumer privacy violations?
- Comment on hawt 6 months ago:
Threesome primes
- Comment on The horrors we've unleashed 6 months ago:
Cogito ergo sum gains?
- Comment on NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' 6 months ago:
Yeah I never get into the debates about weapon class allowance, because it always amounts to an arbitrary threshold on the scale of potential kill rate, and grocery shoppers with desert storm kits on their shoulder do all the talking anyway.
You mentioned training. That’s a reg I think my fellow progressives should back. Anti-gun messaging clearly isn’t working. Instead, why not encourage citizens to own guns, just shift focus to the discipline needed to maintain the privilege?
By discipline I mean require training, make it rigorous and free, and make regular shooting mandatory for permit renewal. Require inspections for proper maintenance and adherence to storage safety protocols. Offer specialist certifications for more exotic kits. Basically, make sure would-be gun owners respect the weapon, understand the responsibility they’re taking on, and are equipped to use them safety and proficiently.
Even my most gung-ho 2a friends would be all for this. But they take guns seriously and aren’t contributing to the statistics. I suspect the actual unsafe assholes wouldn’t bother owning a gun if there was work involved.
It’s just a thought. Probably not a popular one.
- Comment on NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' 6 months ago:
(Apologies, got busy at work.) Yes I’d have thought so too. There might be a list which jurisdictions where it’s available.
I suspect the lack of precedent for their incorporation among the amendments binding the states comes down to just the budgetary requirements for expansion. As long as it remains unreasonable or impossible to enforce without effectively being taken over by federal, these exceptions remain.
2A might be similar in principle, since there’s no one-size-fits-all doctrine that can be realistically applied besides either zero regulation or a complete ban, both of which would risk a great deal of legitimacy.
I’m with you re: gun control. Tools not toys. Many tools are dangerous enough to require proof of competency and/or purpose. Guns specifically designed to be dangerous, so it’s not unreasonable to expect those tools have greater oversight.
- Comment on NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' 6 months ago:
We already meet the requirements for 5th and 7th.
States do not because as of yet, 5’s grand jury requirement, 6’s criminal jury trial right, and 7’s civil jury trial right have not been interpreted as binding upon the states.
By default, it doesn’t render it unconstitutional. It means you can’t violate it by restricting rights.
I agree that’s the precedent, but I’m unclear where we should place that threshold of violation. Presumably somewhere on the scale of TX to NY? Perhaps… IL?
- Comment on NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' 6 months ago:
Then we need to overhaul the court systems and multiply their bureaucratic size and process to satisfy the grand jury requirement of 5A and the civil jury trial right of 7A.
And assuming 2a renders state gun control unconstitutional, I presume then we read 2A as a carte blanche guarantee to possession of these weapons to citizens.
This is what we propose, yes?
- Comment on NYC Man Convicted Over Gunsmithing Hobby After Judge Says 2nd Amendment 'Doesn't Exist in This Courtroom' 6 months ago:
Just so I’m on the same page, we’re still talking about the first 10 (not 13-15, 19, etc.) and the question is whether 2A renders state gun control unconstitutional?
