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Re:How to Build Wealth as a Career Person on Sunday October 11, 2026 @03:01PM (#50046633)
These are glorified exceptions and not the norm. Hell, there's no telling what the reality is vs some randos post. But I hear ya, it's hard not to feel the fomo. I do too as a 40y/o that's been in tech obsessively my entire life and hardly have the monetary worth to show for the effort by comparison.
Maybe I'm not the target here but an embedded chat ai window is a huge turn off to me. Having a CLI I can give my own agent to access/query the data, if I choose to do that, would have been preferred but if the target was my mother, then a chat window is probably a better option.
Yasunori Mitsuda's music has had a lasting impression on me. From Chrono to Xenogears and beyond, I had some strong feels associated with his music. Thanks for sharing that link :D
Re:Ask HN: AI Panic, you buying it? on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @03:05PM (#49731462)
No, this all reads as some PR stunt or marketing ploy to me. All news is good kind of thing.
Old Axis cams show up on eBay. Those are pretty standards oriented and easy to work with. Most hanwah and some Samsung are fine too.
I'd say most are hosted first, Milestone, Genetec, Avigilon, etc. They all sell software to host feeds from your own standardized cams (Axis, Hanwah, Samsung, etc) via h.264/mpeg. The cloud hosted CCTV at scale is relatively recent.
Re:CNN Lite on Sunday July 05, 2026 @02:56PM (#48796896)
https://text.npr.org is another, much appreciated accessible option.
Re:Space Cadet Pinball on Linux on Sunday May 10, 2026 @01:01PM (#48085635)
Web based version for those feeling nostalgic

https://lrusso.github.io/3DPinballSpaceCadet/

Re:Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink? on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @02:28PM (#47429482)
United has this on some flights. It's no cost but they force you watch ads in the captive portal. I'd rather pay the $8 and be left in peace, every time.
Re:The IRIX 6.5.7M (sgi) source code on Thursday March 05, 2026 @04:23PM (#47267484)
For those interested, there is a lovely IRIX clone WM called MaXX. I've been using it for a couple months and have been quite happy with it on a remote dev machine. I believe it only runs on xorg currently.

1. https://docs.maxxinteractive.com/

Re:Orion 1.0 – Browse Beyond on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @02:24PM (#46049642)
This looks neat but the biggest question I have and care about... UBO? Not the limited manifest v3 version or whatever it's referred to as, but the full bore block lists like in FF.

Excited to see where this goes!!

Re:Bible and Quran apps flagged NSFW by F-Droid on Monday October 20, 2025 @05:02AM (#45641576)
This seems reasonable. The content includes themes (death, rape, violence, etc) that are generally considered NSFW by most modern day rating agencies. Just because cultures have historically seeded the texts for a long period of time doesn't make them SFW. If ESRB/MPAA had to rate a modern reboot, I don't think it would get a T/PG-13.

Personally, I wouldn't want my kids exposed to this kind of material without at least having a chance to talk to them about it first. Would you want your child getting sucked into something like Scientology without your knowledge?

Re:Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music on Saturday September 27, 2025 @02:15PM (#45398154)
Essential Mix opened my early 2000s teenage world to so much more electronic music. Good memories of downloading sets via Napster and manually recording on to cassettes to listen to in my '95 Saturn. What a weird statement.
Re:Purikura: The Japanese Grandmother of the Selfie on Sunday September 07, 2025 @11:05PM (#45164305)
Silly observation but the avatar 'Jack Frost', the snowman looking character on the attract screen was also used as a character in the early 'Persona' video game series also produced by Atlus.
Re:FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American' on Saturday August 30, 2025 @02:47PM (#45077028)
Definitely, I would hope these kinds of systems become less useful with more encryption. I imagine, these kinds of collections I mentioned above are just one of many angles used in an investigation with this particular angle being for correlation and supporting evidence against a request to bookface, cloudflare, etc.

edit these network devices probably also carry voip/voice trunks from enterprise and possibly carriers such as VZW. No telling if those are encrypted or not. If China is able to tap that using these CALEA systems, I could see how that would be a big deal for stealing IP/secrets.

Re:FBI cyber cop: Salt Typhoon pwned 'nearly every American' on Saturday August 30, 2025 @12:46PM (#45076034)
So what was the actual point of compromise? Was it a CALEA supporting software vendor? My guess is a common MD (Mediator device) vendor was targeted that was used by many carriers but that's speculation on my part.

Context for others, there's a small number of software vendors that make these MD devices that handle initiating a capture of a flow (a wiretapping request) and managing the chain of custody for a pcap. MDs usually sends an SNMP poll to a router/switch to start a (r)span port and the MD device slurps up all data and saves it.

Anyway, what I'm curious about is if it's the MDs that were taken over and if it was one manufacturer but I'm not seeing much technical info on all these reports.

Here's some context for "LI" for those interested: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst9...

Heh glad someone mentioned 1.5, that was my golden version. Pack friends into my parents garage with a hub and play local. No famas/shield and no STEAMing pile of shit (as we called it then). WOL server days iirc too. Scouts and Knives was my level of choice in those days. "Wanna knife this round?" <3
Re:Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code on Sunday August 17, 2025 @03:40PM (#44934302)
Similar request as the parent, my use case is I setup a long prompt/task and like to go for a walk around the block to get my legs moving. Being able to "move the llm along" and make small modifications from my phone would be nice. Personally, I'd never do a long session that way but the chance to move my legs while it does a long task but not get stuck on a simple question in the claude tool would be lovely.
Since this relies on simulating safari as the broswer, I wonder if a conditional access policy enforcing browser selection would help mitigate this.

While only realistic for a small number of users, I've started enforcing users of privileged tools to go through a wireguard instance before being allowed to access Azure hosted tools that rely on Entra auth. Services I publish then have a ingress whitelist of said wireguard VM.

Re:Tuxracer.js play Tux Racer in the browser on Friday June 20, 2025 @06:06PM (#44332551)
This was always a victory to teenage me after fighting with SDL and Nvidia drivers on Gentoo. Getting this to work with good framerate was always so exciting. Nostalgia hit for sure.
Re:Hollow Core Fiber (HCF) on Friday May 09, 2025 @08:21PM (#43942199)
So what's the application for data?

Would this provide for tighter channels in WDM networks (with less spacing between channels) since dispersion is less of an issue? Might be out of my league on this but I thought DCMs were a work around for dispersion at distance.

Maybe faster packets for teleprotection control systems?

Either way, cool to see!

So is this Microsoft account requirement a 'home' version thing? I can't imagine they would force this on pro installations. Unattended installs, kiosks, ATMs, display walls, etc. would be a nightmare to deal with this.
Re:M4 MacBook Pro on Wednesday October 30, 2024 @01:54PM (#41998184)
You can use OSX without an Apple account and paired with a 3rd party host based firewall (Little Snitch), the OS usually stays out of your way (imo). Bundled apps can be removed after disabling SIP (file integrity) but there are downsides/maintenance to that route.
At this point, I just won't go to any event where a Ticketmaster/Livenation/etc is involved. They've taken a lot of the joy out of music events for me.
Re:Linux from Scratch on Saturday October 05, 2024 @12:18PM (#41750936)
Between LFS and Stage 1 and 2 Gentoo installs back in the early 2000s during High School, this gave me a big leg up in my journey of learning about computers and Linux. I can't thank those project maintainers enough for helping me get my footing at such a young age and peaking my interest in computing. I ended up printing out the LFS book in segments on one of the printers in High School and brought it home in pieces to use on the home computer.
I bought one of these from Toys R Us and have such fond memories of Wario Land, Telroboxer, and even Mario Tennis. For as much flack as this system received, I thought it was just coolest thing ever but finding games felt next to impossible. Every now and then I'll still boot it up and play a few rounds.
A 3rd party to deal with the airline on your behalf? Is this a service or an attorney? I'd pay a portion of a refund to handle that mess every time.
GoLang and Azure APIs.

I've been attempting to add a oauth2 device code flow to a Tacacs server with the goal of extending Azure accounts to access network device management planes. Pretty neat, I can get a "enter this device at URI" from the router/switch and let Azure do it's 2fa/compliance etc. Currently trying to get token validation working on the tacacs server =).

Ultimate goal is have a reverse proxy web front end kind of like Apache Guacamole that does the Oauth for the user and when they click on a network device, the JWT is passed through to the network device over SSH and thus the tacacs server which is relatively local to the network device which will validate it and let the user into the network device.

Playing around with GPT4/Opus a lot lately and man... I have feelings. They've been a great learning tool to learn the basics of Go though so I'm thankful.

It's going swimingly /s but I seem to be making progress. Slowly, I'll bake this into my bigger network management tool if it an be secure and make sense to do so...

Re:Why are bidets just now getting popular in America? on Sunday March 24, 2024 @03:17PM (#39809491)
Big fan of the "bum gun" style bidet. Ime, much more control and water pressure compared to what I've used in Japan. I was in Thailand recently and bought a few for use in the states. Use of anything less just doesn't feel sanitary.

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