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- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 day ago:
Your post made me realize B5 is nowhere near dead. It’s just resting. Lensman series anyone?
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 1 day ago:
What? I have no idea what any of that is. I was thinking of Babylon 5.
- Comment on What’s up with Myrrh being more prevalent? 1 day ago:
It’s mentioned in a well known Christmas carol that is often heard at this time of year. I’m not into it myself. Its bitter perfume breathes a life of gathering gloom. Too emo for me.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
My buddy’s folding Samsung phone is really cool and you might look into it. It unfolds to a single screen of maybe 10" diagonal and square perspective. I think for full page PDFs though, I need something bigger so I’ve given up on pocketability.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
I’m still looking for a good answer myself! There are lots of possibilities but all have drawbacks from my perspective. I guess the 13" Onyx Boox sounds nice if you don’t mind the cost. I haven’t tried it though. Same with the 14" TCL Android tablet if you don’t mind Android.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
This? pine64.org/devices/pinetab/
It’s just 10" and looks like an old design. Micro USB, oops. The Inkplate is 10" ESP32 epaper so it uses very little power. Alternatively there are tablet-style x86 laptops and I almost bought one last year. Now the price is way up due to DRAM shortages and so on, oops. I have some scrounged HDMI monitors so I want to try using one in portrait mode with my raspberry pi 400. If that works I could see getting one of the Waveshare dual screen monitors and maybe a Pi 500+.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Oh hmm, I just use my phone for that. It doesn’t seem worth having an additional, limited purpose device. I assume a 7" e-reader is too big for a pocket.
The Inkplate 10 isn’t pocketable but it’s very light, easy to put in your backpack or whatever. I just wish they had a 13" version. The 13" Ipad Air is really very nice if you don’t mind Apple products.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
pair of 648×480 e-paper displays
Um lol no. I could see using a pair of Inkplate 10’s connected by (at least metaphorical)) duct tape. Doesn’t seem worth mucking with special hardware.
Every affordable e-reader I know of is simply too small though. I mostly want to read stuff like ArXiV preprints (A4 sized pdf’s) so would want at least a 13" screen. Someone a few days ago posted a link to a 14" Android tablet with a semi-reflective display at around $300. It seemed interesting but I’d rather degoogle.
There are some hinged Waveshare displays that look nice but they are regular TFT displays so wouldn’t be great for a portable e-reader with long battery time.
- Comment on Offline TTS in 2026? 3 days ago:
Tbh I generally prefer that robot voices actually sound like robots. I don’t want human sounding TTS since I don’t like anthropomorphized machines. So I’d stay with something low tech.
- Comment on What is the best trategie to refresh ssh keys? 3 days ago:
It’s possible but I haven’t felt the need, and it’s another thing that can go wrong. If I think my key may have been compromised I have much bigger problems. I should assume my whole machine is pwned and trojan’d, so I should replace the disk and reinstall everything.
I can see some benefit in using a special token to hold the key instead of just generating it on my laptop. One of these days.
- Comment on Why do personal knowledge base applications like Obsidian have all these bells and whistles for querying and parsing metadata/frontmatter but nothing similar for the actual content of notes? 4 days ago:
Just use a text editor that can search.
- Comment on Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group 4 days ago:
I’m sure it’s been scraped plenty of times by AI companies who are doing way more damage.
- Comment on Can anyone recommend a logging blood pressure cuff that doesn't require an app or account? 4 days ago:
This looks promising, it lets you collect data from Omron devices. It’s from a quick web search so idk any more about it.
One way this is better than manual logging is that it can run while you sleep. That is, you could have it take your BP once an hour all night or whatever. That’s done in hospitals all the time. It’s uncomfortable so I wouldn’t do it routinely, but it might be worthwhile if you suspect something might be up. Obviously, discuss it with your Dr too.
- Comment on What is the best trategie to refresh ssh keys? 4 days ago:
Are you running a planet-wide server farm from your 20 year old key or what? Just a few machines? If you want to regenerate your key and fixes the knownhosts files and it’s not too much hassle, then go ahead and do it. Do something else later if you want something fancier. Yes there are some hardware key encaapsulation approaches possible, some people like to use jump hosts as gateways (the remote hosts firewall block access to anything but the jump host) etc. Also people rely in part on virtual LSN security in their data centers or ISP’s.
If it’s just a few personal machines you’re probably overthinking this. I just don’t store secret keys on any remote machines, but use ssh-keygen on my laptop and ssh -A from there.
- Comment on How do we know that the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle is preserved across radius sizes? 4 days ago:
In math, it’s a theorem based on certain assumptions and definitions about the distances between points, and what length means. You start with human-made assumptions and follow them to wherever they lead.
Those assumptions are pretty well justified based on local observations of the real world. Are they true on a bigger scale, say at astronomical distances? People began to wonder this in the 1800’s, in the era of Gauss and Riemann. There’s another theorem that the interior angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees, and Gauss (an astronomer as well as a math whiz) actually proposed testing that on astronomical observations. I don’t know if hey tried any experiments though. A deviation from 180 degrees would mean that space was curved.
Lo and behold, it turns out that space actually is curved, in the presence of gravitational fields. That was figured out by none other than Einstein, who became world famous when Eddington did an observation during a solar eclipse in 1919 and saw the apparent motion of distant stars when they got lined up with the edge of the sun. The eclipse was needed for the observation since otherwise the sun would have drowned out the distant stars. But, it was quite a sensitive experiment, maybe not possible in the era of Gauss.
Anyway, the “big” answer to your question is that the ratio being constant is in the end an empirically observed fact, but that on a cosmic scale is only a close approximation, and (even Einstein didn’t foresee this) falls completely apart near very extreme ragions like black holes.
Einstein’s theory (“general relativity”) was still an incredible work of genius. As the saying goes, they didn’t call him Einstein for nothing!
- Comment on what was the worst enemy of feudalism? 5 days ago:
This isn’t my area at all but I thought that the traditional picture involved feudalism eroding due to technological development empowering the merchant and industrial classes. In both cases, the serfs or peons didn’t get much of a say, but it wasn’t really an ideological conflict, more of a natural economic shift.
- Comment on What is the best trategie to refresh ssh keys? 5 days ago:
Do you think they are compromised? Generally you have to invalidate the public keys in any .ssh_hosts file that accepts them, and create new ones instead. I generally install .ssh_hosts on remote machines using an ansible playbook. I don’t have any automation to cycle them but I guess I would also do that with ansible if I thought it were needed.
Ansible may be old school by now, but it works for me. Maybe the cool kids are using something newer now. I want to look into nix or guix one of these days.
- Comment on Bell Labs 'Unix' Tape from 1974 Successfully Dumped to a Tarball 5 days ago:
This is Unix v4 I think. The programs mentioned were also on later versions and I thought not hard to find. V6 sources are all online somewhere. I also expect some of those v4 programs may have been in assembler rather than C.
- Comment on He Built a Privacy Tool. Now He’s Going to Prison. 1 week ago:
Not gonna watch an hour of video but from the blurb,
I had the pleasure and heartache of interviewing Keonne Rodriguez, co-founder of Samourai Wallet, an open-source, non-custodial privacy wallet, who goes to prison this week because of the privacy tool he created.
Maybe some web searches could help figure out what happened. There are certainly tons of bitcoin wallets out there whose implementers didn’t encounter such problems.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The G Play 2024 didn’t have 5g and people say that’s significant. I got the G Stylus 2023 which was $250 at the time, so I’d consider it midrange. It’s fine, I don’t need a fancier phone. NTN (non terrestrial network i.e. satellite) text comms is the next interesting feature. Currently only in flagships so I can wait for it to reach budget phones.
- Comment on Nokia N900 Necromancy 2 weeks ago:
Person rebuilds an N900 to use a battery eliminator and replace the micro usb port with USB-C, and then sets it up as a media player. Ok but why bother?
It’s still useless as a phone, at least in the US, because the 3G network is dead. Sigh. Its UI was also hopelessly slow, as was the later N9’s.
- Comment on Searching for eBook reader solution 2 weeks ago:
I’ve bought most of mine on craiglist but either way you sort of have to know what you’re doing. I’d say just sort by price and scroll through the results in the range you want to pay. You might also filter on “within 25 miles” or whatever, and get a unit that you can pick up in person. Or at least, try to talk to the person on the phone to get a sense that they know what it is that they are selling.
Thinkpads forum is still around and has a forsale section. It has slowed down but is still active:
forum.thinkpads.com/viewforum.php?f=11
I’ve bought stuff from there in the distant past.
- Comment on Searching for eBook reader solution 2 weeks ago:
My sister has a 13 inch ipad and it’s a nice size, 14" should be fine. I have some doubts about the big Lenovo though. My main interest is reading full page PDFs so anything less than 14" will be annoying. Ok I’ll give it more thought. Laptop prices are going to go up because of the dram shortage too. Sigh.
- Comment on Searching for eBook reader solution 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, it is kind of intriguing though I keep telling myself to just use normal Linux stuff instead of Android. I’d want the 14 inch one which is around $300. Is there any trouble installing F-droid and apps from there?
Alternatives I’m thinking of include Lenovo Yoga laptop (16 inch) and a Raspberry Pi thing with an HDMI monitor (that would be plug-in only but I mostly read at home).
- Comment on should I go back to my old job now that several people, some of them more knowledgeable than me have told me they don't understand my decision to quit it? 2 weeks ago:
Just be honest about why you quit and what you’re getting out of it, and that the pay at the new job is almost the same. Say you can think about going back if they offer you a big pay increase and other stress relief.
- Comment on How to deploy a satellite and what are the costs? 2 weeks ago:
Start by joining amsat.org I guess.
- Comment on Would a cheap, used raspberry pi 3 make for a good test server for following random self hosted tutorials? 3 weeks ago:
$25 is too much for a used 1gb pi 3. A new pi 5 with 1gb is $45 and way better. But, most ppl start with a vps.
- Comment on Searching for eBook reader solution 3 weeks ago:
I see, yeah there is something about it in the blurb. How do you like the tablet? Is it responsive? Is it full of Android bloatware? Do you know if it is rootable?
I see there is a 14 inch version that’s about $300 and that starts to get interesting. It’s not “2nd gen” though. And, I had thought of TCL as a lower tier manufacturer with quality issues, but I hadn’t looked into it much.
I like that the tablet has an SD (probably microSD) slot. Don’t like that there’s no headphone jack. There’s plenty of space in those things compared to a phone.
- Comment on Searching for eBook reader solution 3 weeks ago:
If anyone was wondering: www.tcl.com/us/en/products/…/nxtpaper-11-gen2
11 inch display with 60 hz refresh, but it sounds like regular lcd rather than e-ink? It has an 8000mah battery that it says can run the tablet through a full day, so that’s nothing like an epaper tablet.
Anyway, I’ve been using Librera FD for reading epubs on Android. Its blurb mentions annotations but I’ve never tried that feature.
I have an Inkplate 10 e-paper tablet but haven’t been using it.
- Comment on (Hetzner) VPC / VCN & Subnet concepts in Hetzner? Also, a request for referral code :v 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t realize Hetzner had referral codes. I see www.hetzner.com/legal/referrals and think I qualify but am not sure. I’ll see what I can do.