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Head over to http://fallingfruit.org and do a filter for "Freegan". My locale has people marking dumpsters with food that is available. And if dumpster diving isn't your thing, then wild edibles is another option. I personally haven't dumpster dove for food, but based on what I have read, you'd be hard pressed to starve in the US.

http://fallingfruit.org/sharing?c=forager%2Cfreegan&locale=e...

Re:Digital Detox Startups? on Tuesday May 14, 2019 @09:52PM (#19915705)
I've been teaching wilderness survival and outdoors skills for years. I've been thinking of migrating "digital detox" into some type of outdoors settings, environment with a focus on doing nothing. (Plus if your phone doesn't work, you're stuck in the woods anyway...).

I'll be interested in the comments here for some ideas also.

Re:Moms Who Were Extremely Online in 1993 on Saturday May 04, 2019 @09:15PM (#19830483)
If you want to relive your BBS days...

http://telnet.org/htm/places.htm

Re:Jenkins Is Getting Old on Monday April 29, 2019 @03:35PM (#19781829)
Jenkins is to CI,

as Nagios is to monitoring.

As a young man, I grabbed a 6146B tube before it discharged. I felt fine, until the pain started.
Re:5G Is Likely to Put Weather Forecasting at Risk on Tuesday April 16, 2019 @12:14PM (#19674897)
Re:Which American accent do you have? (2007) on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @08:27AM (#19034803)
It said I had a neutral accent...

I grew up in the deep south and make Andy Griffith sound like a northerner.

Re:Ask HN: Is there a decentralised alternative to Slack? on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:46AM (#18726472)
Thanks for saving me the click.
Re:Testing WireGuard with an early-adopter VPN service on Monday December 17, 2018 @06:48PM (#18703363)
I stood up WireGuard on my server this past weekend, and I am totally stoked about it. In fact, I am turning off OpenVPN on it at this very moment. It was stupid easy to turn up.
Re:Wireguard VPN: Typical Setup (2017) on Monday December 17, 2018 @12:18PM (#18700327)
Today was my iPad. But I've ran my laptop before many times. This is an express bus, with only a couple of stops and runs mostly on the interstate for 25 miles.
Re:Wireguard VPN: Typical Setup (2017) on Monday December 17, 2018 @12:08PM (#18700233)
I picked up WireGuard yesterday, and within an hour, I had my server and 4 clients setup. Freaking gravy.

And this morning, I connected to the bus WiFi, I turned on WireGuard, and kept a constant connection throughout my commute to work. It just works so well.

I could never do that with my OpenVPN connections.

Re:ATDT relief on Thursday December 13, 2018 @11:18AM (#18673450)
Our building once leased out a portion to a call center based in India. India's country code is "91" and to get out on the PBX was "9". But this old junky Nortel system would outpluse immediately when it saw the dial string "911". So when ever someone would try to dial "9911XXXXXXXX" it would immediately outpulse to our local PD when the dialed digits equaled 911. And whenever the outbound caller heard the PD pickup, they would get scared and just hangup.

Ugh. Those were good times.

Re:Securing Your Site Like It’s 1999 on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @09:59AM (#18664419)
And there's Shibboleet too.

https://www.xkcd.com/806/

Re:Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo on Wednesday December 12, 2018 @09:57AM (#18664412)
You're making me feel down, Ma' llard.

My wife and I used to breed ducks and have a duck farm. We were quack addicts, and quack dealers. I could go on and on.

Re:LED Strain on Monday December 10, 2018 @02:35PM (#18650540)
> No, the diodes don't, the drivers do. You are speaking to a technical audience ;)

Pulse width modulation. ;)

You can use an el-cheapo radio and sstv software to receive images from the International Space Station also.

https://streamable.com/q9oa0

Do some searching; there are many free or subsidized milkweed organizations.

One example - https://monarchwatch.org/bring-back-the-monarchs/milkweed/fr...

Re:Why you need a password manager on Saturday December 01, 2018 @01:25PM (#18578038)
I've been running Bitwarden for about a year (self-hosted).

Couldn't be happier with it. And it is open-source.

https://bitwarden.com/