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Re:Why GitHub Won on Monday September 09, 2024 @11:35PM (#41496925)
Google X/X Development LLC is the Google incubator for possible spin-offs as far as I can tell.
The notes section has a brief description of the protocol and the different kinds of sockets involved.
Re:Air Jordan Is Finally Deflating on Sunday January 21, 2024 @01:37PM (#39081327)
Reebok Pumps had the basketball on the tongue.

Nike experimented with inflation methods on the collar, IIRC using external pumps.

Re:Z – Jump Around on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @09:30AM (#39028161)
I used to use z, then z from omz but eventually switched fo zoxide because it also works on PowerShell.
Re:Ethernet Is Still Going Strong After 50 Years on Friday November 17, 2023 @12:39PM (#38307006)
RC vehicles, balls with an eye bolt & string w/ a sling shot, and fish tape/poles were key things for the miles and miles of network cable I ran in a previous life.

To add on to the pull string.. if there is a remote chance you have to run a cable the same direction again in the future, try to leave a pull string in place when you pull all the cables initially.

Older Intel macs stored the SSIDs as UEFI vars, I think even the T2 ones did too but I might be wrong.
Ahh yes, there was that kind of thing as well. SUSE provided us with ways of replacing all packages on a RHEL running system with SUSE augmented CentOS packages. It was often used by people who wanted a cheaper alternative to RHEL, but still wanted CentOS for their random 3rd party apps.
Oh man does SUSE(often via Microsoft referrals) provide support for a lot of Linux distros. If you are willing, they'll pretty much support any reasonable distro.

Ages ago at a managed large hosting company we had 10s of 10000s of RHEL licenses but we also had a lot of people using CentOS for various reasons. Long story short, since CentOS only supported the current point release at the time we had a lot of boxes out there that needed critical patches.

SUSE provided us with CVE fixes for any CentOS release we wanted to support and we were able to distribute them via our internal RHN system to CentOS machines.

It made the auditors happy.

PEC is amazing. We are on San Marcos's service now, but during the nasty winter storm we never lost power with PEC. Where as other friends else where dealt with downed lines for ages.
Oncor is one of, I think 5 delivery companies.

Several cities and coops are their own delivery providers as well, PEC delivers most of their electricity if I remember correctly.

Re:Contiki – OS for networked, memory-constrained systems on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @09:07AM (#34610568)
It looks like the non-ng version has the C64 version.

https://github.com/contiki-os/contiki/tree/master/platform/c...

The national news does largely focus on African American people. I don't attempt to have an explanation for that, but it is noted and acknowledged.

Living in Denver for three years and having great HD over the air TV I'd watch the local news while cooking meals. The local news spent considerable time discussing the issues plaguing the refugees with their relationships with certain local law enforcement agencies, as well as the large Hispanic populations. I spent a lot of time hanging out with some refugees and it was interesting to hear their perspectives versus that of my barber who was Hispanic. Not once was my refugee ever asked to prove they were here legally, but my barber was nearly every time he had any kind of interaction with the police where they had some reason to fish for a reason to ask for identification.

Where I live in Central Texas now, it's largely about Hispanic interactions in the news or the continued coverage of the most recent large school shooting here. A huge complexity added to many Hispanic populations around the US is the ability to comfortably and freely voice their frustration without risk of deportation. A lot of abuse they suffer at the hand of law enforcement goes unnoticed on the national scene because they don't want to take to the streets about it and risk losing literally everything they own including the clothes they are wearing when they are arrested.

I'm only 1/4th Hispanic and while I haven't ever been pulled in Central Texas, in the the Dallas suburb of McKinney Texas, where I lived for about a decade I got pulled over all the time and every time they were baffled when #1 I don't know Spanish at all, beyond basic food names from eating at food trucks, #2 I have a slight southern accent because I grew up in Arkansas and sound like everyone else I was around, and #3 I wasn't some easy score for them.

Of the 30+ times I got pulled over on the east-side of McKinney, not once was I ever given a ticket or arrested me but it came pretty freakin' close and I can't imagine how much differently if I didn't immediately register as "he actually might be white".

I have done the following in McKinney, Allen, and/or Frisco Tx:

* Had to do the stupid human tricks on the side of the road before noon, because they claimed I was swerving and they smelled a hint of alcohol on my breath.

* Blown in a breathalyzer in the parking lot of an elementary school because the law enforcement officer camped out using the school as place to nail speeders said I was driving erratically and was staggering as I got out of my car. The erratic driving was specifically around having issues parking. Due to an injury I needed to be able to open my car door all the way open and when I realized I couldn't, I decided to back up and move over a bit more so I could open it all the way. That was the bad driving. The stagger was actually a limp if I put too much pressure on my left leg.

To add insult to injury, the final kick in the balls, etc. was when he started trying to imply I was there for questionable reasons when I was actually there to drop off lunch to my wife who had taught at the school for several years at that point and I routinely volunteered at the school which meant I had actually passed a more rigorous background check than he did to get his job.

* Been accused of having a fake id drivers license because for whatever reason their inability to find something about me to give me a ticket or arrest me on resorts to petty accusations to attempt to get a rise out of me so that they can escalate it even more till they can arrest me for making them scared, or worse they can use their terrible training and end up panicking and pulling their weapon and firing on the extreme end outcome of things.

Too many times to count I was told in parting words I could avoid these problems staying out of the east side of town because that is where all the problems are, or for the times I got pulled over close to home in the more affluent side of town that I should get a better car so I don't stand out and look questionable.

At the time I drove upwards of 100 miles round trip a day, my daily commute car was a highly efficient but very basic American cross over SUV that I picked up used but with less than 100 miles from a rental car agency that went bankrupt. That car also happened to be one of the most popular cars for whatever reason with Mexican people in many areas of Texas. Strike 1. Because I was in the car so much with the long slow commute, I had the windows tinted to protect the interior from UV damage and to protect the left side of my body from multiple hours a day of exposure to the sun due travel directions. Strike 2. Despite identifying as white, I love Tejano music and many other Hispanic musics for their complex guitar playing. Strike 2.5. Go to rich side of Texas suburb or go to area believed to be plagued with problems with immigrants and I had a pretty high chance of getting that third strike by just driving through with music barely audible beyond my car, and I don't listen to anything with a lot of bass or even loud volume. I'm talking side by side at a red light we'd both need our windows down and you'd still probably only be able to hear it as if it was elevator music in a real elevator.

Just because whatever circles of friends or media you consume doesn't focus on a problem does not mean it does not exist. Many of these strained relationships the communities have with law enforcement are not without complex histories and a refusal largely one sided to hold their people accountable to a degree so that trust is restored and the wall of division is broken down.

I have a very short list of people I would be willing to take a physical bullet for and one of them is a cop and they aren't someone related to me, I didn't know them all my life at the time when they'd gotten on that list, etc. It was their actions and humility that put them on that list.

When the police consider their community to be their community things turn out very differently than when the police have zero vested interest in their communities. When you have law enforcement officers who view themselves as warriors and take jobs in areas where crime, especially violent crime, occurs often because they want to live out some kind of deranged fantasy of being some kind of super hero you end up with vested interest in escalating any encounter with the public.

When the police remember that they serve the public, and not the other way around things are very different. The problem is there are many communities where they are policed by outsiders who look nothing like them, have zero history with the community, and honestly don't care what happens to any of the people in those communities.

This happens all over Texas, because the fact of the matter is being a cop fucking sucks. So all levels of policing recruit from all over the state and country trying to get people to move to those areas with crime.

It is boring as hell 99.9999% of the time, so to fill that time they start figuring out any and everything they can do to fill that time. They pick whatever activities make them sleep better at night, feel like they are earning their keep, ..

The problem is when there isn't much really going on you have some people who will start creating problems just to have something to do. It is what bully's do. The problem is the power balance is very different.

Because of this very difference in power I consider it imperative to ask a question when I make the decision to call 911 for anything where I'm asking for the police, especially if the person I'm calling about is a minority: If I were to go outside with my own weapon instead, would I think their current activity and it's likely progression to be something that is worth killing them over because the minute I go outside with my own weapon visible I am making the decision that I am prepared to use it and live with whatever outcomes happen.

I extend that logic to calling 911 for anything that warrants the police and I highly encourage anyone else to seriously consider using some variation of it when they call as well.

Re:DIY out of band management: remote console server on Sunday August 28, 2022 @12:08AM (#32625673)
If you deal with ordering lots of Dell servers you can have them customize the BMC security settings(nearly any setting actually). I know of many people who have them either turn the legacy root password back on or use a password they tell Dell.

I insist on a certain boot order from the factory and have the initial pxe boot of the server lock down the idrac. It isn't perfect but it beats having someone pull and scan all those tags.

> The police don't know who that man was, or why he was on property that didn't belong to him. They're not mind readers

Exactly. They're aren't mind readers but they made a decision that he was commiting a crime or about to commit one. They escalated it, not him.

I don't know why but using Google Maps on my 6 Pro for navigation there is a chance it will complain about overheating then go into a degraded state followed by finally shutting down. It takes quite sometime before it will cooled enough to be turned back on.

It doesn't happen consistently and it seems to only happen when I'm actually driving with the navigation turned on. It's incredibly frustrating when it happens. I've tried different phone placements, even placing it directly in front of an AC vent but it still occasionally happens.

I usually don't charge it while driving but it has happened twice while charging as well.

All they need to do is claim you are interfering with their law enforcement activity and they can say you can't record your own interaction.
Re:Ask HN: Where can we find the unsexy jobs? on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @12:20PM (#31004711)
A friend runs a small consulting business and he recently took on a customer running NetWare and a bunch of server side software. I'd take .NET/JVM over that.
Re:The Secret History of ATAPI on Thursday November 25, 2021 @12:17AM (#29338423)
To continue the circle of life there is SCSI/ATA translation for tunneling ATA in SCSI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCSI_%2F_ATA_Translation

Real ID has been implemented in every state and most territories. Not all share their databases with each other, but that isn't a requirement for usage for using the ids for air travel in the US.

After a few big delays, the deadline for having a compliant id for domestic air travel is 2023-05-03.

I personally had a bad experience attempting to get a compliant id when I lived in Arizona. At the time you could select if you wanted a compliant id or a non-compliant id. My wife and I both selected on the form to get compliant driver's license. Unfortunately when the physical licenses came in the mail they had they weren't compliant and had text indicating they weren't valid for federal identification.

We tried to get them to change this and they refused. Friends had experienced the same issue at the time, but I've been told they now have valid ones that you can get more easily.

I noticed if you go directly to the page for Nim, it works.

http://static.wiki/en/Nim_(programming_language)

Re:QEMU 6.0 on Friday April 30, 2021 @10:54AM (#26994224)
When viewing a message, you can tap on the '...' below the address information and near the buttom of the menu will be a show headers option as well as an option to show the raw message.
Re:How bad is your Spotify? on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:44AM (#25519440)
> - actively dislike terrible songs (hide it on mobile, hit the no smoking sign on desktop)

I see this suggestion a lot, but for whatever reason I never see an option on desktop to dislike songs. Unless I'm really blind.

Does it show up near the track controls?

I've had the same experience with Hacker's Keyboard. Although I now use it from F-Droid, I haven't noticed any easy to spot differences between the Play Store version and the F-Droid version.
I don't know about git-send-mail, but mainline mutt has oauth2 support for imap4, pop3, and smtp.

I haven't used it but it looks like it pushes the oauth2 token refresh off to an external script.

Re:WD Passport 4TB drives don't support WRITE SAME command on Thursday March 26, 2020 @07:45PM (#22699164)
Yes, it's called "REPORT SUPPORTED OPERATION CODES". If you have sg3_utils instead, sg_opcodes can be used to get the list of operations supported.
Re:Why Not WireGuard on Monday March 16, 2020 @11:33PM (#22601352)
I hadn't ever encountered the word until the early part of the article.

So I looked up the meaning and went on a long ride on the train of distraction.

At first I honestly thought it was some state actor level prank because of how everyone insisted it was impossible to translate.

Most of the sites being sketchy top5 looking sites really played into my suspicion. Or lots of good beer.

Edit: fixed something.

Re:Why Not WireGuard on Monday March 16, 2020 @11:11PM (#22601249)
Totally off topic but this is my favorite article to come across when looking around at various networking related things.

It always sends me down a rabbit hole of watching and listening to recordings of people shouting perkele. I always trying to think of a similar word in US English but never can think of anything.

Re:FreeBSD 11.3 on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @01:49PM (#20404434)
Docker for Mac still uses an intermediate VM, it's just mostly transparent to the user and doesn't require you to manually muck around with docker-machine.

You can even connect to the console of the VM if you run into issues.

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