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Re:Old Online Chevy Manuals on Saturday February 17, 2024 @06:51PM (#39414669)
A similar project has a lot of old brochures as well - https://oldcarbrochures.org/
Re:With Ships, Birds Find an Easier Way to Travel on Friday March 17, 2023 @05:47PM (#35203348)
Re:Inform 7 is now open source on Friday April 29, 2022 @01:44PM (#31208434)
Re:Alpine Linux: Brilliant Linux Distro on Thursday March 10, 2022 @06:14PM (#30633930)
WARNING: Blatant self promotion follows :)

I've recently switched to using Alpine on my laptop, and have written a bit about setting it up using ansible here:

https://www.brianlane.com/post/alpine-laptop/

And when you can't find the apps you need in the distribution there's always podman:

https://www.brianlane.com/post/prusa-slicer/

Re:March 5, 1981: Timex Sinclair ZX81 Launched (2018) on Saturday March 05, 2022 @11:02AM (#30568593)
Mine had the unfortunate 'let out the magic smoke' feature :/ Which fortunately led to the upgrade to an Atari 800 :)
Ha! I've been working on https://movielandmarks.com/ since 2006 or so. It has gone through various changes (started out as a LAMP stack). It is currently a static site built from a pile of json and a go program to assemble all the parts. I'm the only contributor these days, and only work on it when I feel like it.

At the start I had dreams of selling tons of DVDs via Amazon associates. But I'm terrible at marketing :) So these days it's just a simple site with no ads -- just 1258 landmarks from 322 movies. I sometimes announce new additions on twitter from https://twitter.com/movielandmarks but it only gets about 30 or so visitors a day (mostly bots).

Re:Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics? on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @05:14PM (#29913477)
https://goaccess.io/ is nice, analyzes the logfiles instead of requiring it be added to the pages.
Re:Memories of the “Sneakers” Shoot (2012) on Friday January 07, 2022 @12:29PM (#29841908)
Shameless plug for my side project - Sneakers HQ https://movielandmarks.com/#lm-1036
Re:Fixing the Logitech MX Ergo Trackball Mouse Buttons on Sunday December 05, 2021 @01:02PM (#29451223)
I've had to do the same thing with pretty much all of my Logitech trackballs - https://www.brianlane.com/post/fixing-a-few-logitech-trackba...

They do last for quite a while, but eventually one of the switches will go intermittent, depending on how much minecraft the user has been playing...

Re:The Interactive Fiction Archive (2019) on Thursday November 25, 2021 @12:20PM (#29343112)
They link to playable versions on ifdb.org
Re:The pitfalls of using SSH-agent, or how to use an agent safely on Saturday September 18, 2021 @02:06PM (#28578084)
I would also add 'Always set a timeout with -t' both to protect the keys from misuse, and so you don't forget your passphrase when you rarely type it in.
"Methanol, or wood alcohol, is a substance that can be toxic when absorbed through the skin or ingested and can be life-threatening when ingested."

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-u...

Here's the one I've been playing around with, written in go with the SDL2 library - https://github.com/bcl/sdl2-life
For those of you who are new to text adventures you can find images of most of the game boxes here - http://infocom.elsewhere.org/gallery/ and various other resources here http://infocom.elsewhere.org/
Re:First Sednit UEFI Rootkit Unveiled [video] on Tuesday January 01, 2019 @08:01PM (#18803457)
The UEFI payload would work on Linux systems, yes. But the delivery system described would not.
Re:Do I really need to get out the soldering-iron again? on Sunday December 09, 2018 @12:12PM (#18641928)
In the past I've used AP Circuits (https://www.apcircuits.com/home.aspx) and E-Teknet (https://e-teknet.com/) with good results from Eagle CAD pcb files. It has been a few years though, so YMMV.
Re:Wind-powered ships are making a comeback on Sunday October 07, 2018 @02:53PM (#18162061)
Current location and some before and after pictures - https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:73...
Re:Mounting partitions from a dd image on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @03:58PM (#17033425)
You can run parted directly on the image file to make modifications.

    fallocate -l 1G disk.img
    parted ./disk.img
Thanks for catching that, not sure how I managed to screw that up.
Re:Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory on Thursday February 23, 2017 @11:19PM (#13720968)
Here's a simple little Rust app to check a list of domains for CF usage -- https://github.com/bcl/uses-cf

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