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I’ve been using a pi3 for about a year as a full time VPN on my cell phone and laptops.

3 is only 100mbit eth, but I’ve had almost no issues with it. Connects fast, no problem streaming HD video or cloning huge git repos. Maybe when I get home today I’ll take some measurements.... But my biggest issue is the trash Powerline Ethernet between my router and rest of my network.

Re:Why Canada's cannabis bubble burst on Sunday December 29, 2019 @05:44PM (#21909126)
> Police like guards all over, waiting rooms that feel like air locks with doors between the waiting area and the inside. Metal detectors and wands. Cash only with an ATM with yet another line, then a line to the counter

Living in Portland, OR that experience is wild to me. All of the shops I’ve been to don’t have any guards, just an employee during the required ID check.

Wish I didn’t have to use an ATM though.

Re:WireGuard is in net-next on Monday December 09, 2019 @01:07PM (#21744841)
Ive had a WireGuard install running for about 6 months on a pi and as far as I can tell it hasn’t been a bottleneck. Plenty of spare cpu and bandwidth. And I’m using the 3 which only has 100mbit Ethernet.

Granted I don’t generally watch a ton of streaming video and it’s mostly just me on my network, but no issues watching YouTube or doing anything else.

I really can’t state enough how much I love my wireguard/pi hole setup.

Re:Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:46PM (#21715014)
Exactly. And daydreaming is death when you don’t have a steel cage around you.
Re:Drivers Refuse to Put Down Their Phones. People Keep Dying on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:39PM (#21714925)
The best thing that learning to ride a motorcycle taught me is “always ride like everyone is actively trying to kill you”.
Re:Authentication Vulnerabilities in OpenBSD on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @07:50PM (#21708899)
Tangential, but it appears openwall.com is on several of my pi hole blocklists. I'm guessing its because of the tools they offer?
> Haha “I have a hard stop” is a great alternative to DUI.

Truth

Thanks to all that ruckus I discovered Ripcord and have been enjoying how snappy it is. Not pretty but works well for me.
I’ve been using a projector as my only tv for years, and even during the daytime it’s still usable. It definitely is better in the dark, but usually I don’t even close my blinds during the day.

I’ve had to replace the bulb once in about 4 years. Or rather the timer went off to warn me and I replaced it — bulb was still working though. New lamp was fairly cheap too IIRC, $40, maybe less?

And I can take it with me, or outside in my backyard for a movie night. I probably won’t ever go back to smart or dumb tvs

Re:Show HN: DuckDuckGo to Google Escape Hatch on Monday December 02, 2019 @07:38PM (#21688748)
There’s a variety of bang commands, !r for Reddit !so for stack overflow, etc

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

If it’s interesting content people are willing to put up with some less than user friendly practices, I’d wager.
Re:The Enterprise Programming Language on Thursday November 21, 2019 @09:21PM (#21601893)
Omg that turbo feature lol
Re:Christians turn to artificial intelligence to stop porn use on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:33PM (#21589800)
After 12 years of catholic school, I don't recall anything specifically, although I bet some would argue the commandment 'you shall not commit adultery' might cover that.

What I do know is there is a ton of stuff the bible recommends that Christians are happy to ignore. At least anecdotally in the Catholic community I grew up in in NE Philadelphia.

Re:Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible on Wednesday November 20, 2019 @06:22PM (#21589716)
Glad I'm not the only one.

I never had a problem with formatting code in slack until this release. And the hotkey (Shit+Cmd+C) doesn't work for me, although that might be my window manager interfering.

Most of the changes they are touting as improvements sound horrid to me.

Amazon...? WiFi? Every park Ive been to is already crawling with tourists with selfie sticks, or that one guy who thinks I want to listen to his Spotify station.

Now if they were suggesting to surround the parks in faraday cages we’d be onto something!

It’s very depressing, I also TA’d in college and ended up grading one of the mid terms for a programming class I had the previous semester. I found a group of students who clearly shared some code over gchat or something... weird variable names and unique code structure that was clearly copied among 5 or so students.

I was told by the professor to not fail them, just give them 0 for the question. Cheating was rampant in my program and the institution’s response to push them through was disheartening. We also had a “code of conduct”. These were all US students, I think cheating is just a huge problem in Universities all over the world.

Very cool, but I wouldn’t want to pay to repair that after an accident. Oof.
Re:The Cloud on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @08:32PM (#20640716)
At one of my previous gigs there was a big push to get out of the colo and into the cloud, part of which because of perceived “cost savings” vs running our own hardware. I think most of it was “everyone else is moving to AWS”.

All I know is we never had a $30,000 “oopsie” in the data center because a dev left a bunch of stuff running they should have shut down.

Re:The Fed is getting into the Real-Time payments business on Monday August 05, 2019 @11:03PM (#20621729)
Yea, sounds like a grubhub competitor.
From what I recall from various forums and reddit threads it was not just users who generated sexually explicit content, but any streamer judged to be a “thot”.
I think the a bunch of trolls, probably the incel crowd on 4chan and the like got that going: https://nypost.com/2018/11/27/internet-trolls-are-threatenin...
Re:The Story of the Ping Program (1997) on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @12:54PM (#20566728)
Looks like it’s fixed. Worked for me: https://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/ping.html
This was SOP for me when I worked as the receiver in a supermarket from ~2007-2011.

It’s a shame, I must have thrown thousands and thousands of books away, instead of donating them to a library or something.

But then again, I guess the library would only accept so many copies of the same nascar-themed trashy romance novel.

Re:Lessons from the past, present, and future of animation on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @05:45PM (#20464389)
Ahh you’re right, that’s what I get for skimming.
Re:Lessons from the past, present, and future of animation on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @05:00PM (#20463970)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mickey-mouse-racial-carica...

While I agree with your sentiment, I don’t know about this case.

Not quite the same thing and I know it’s not fully rolled out yet, but I enable u2f support in Firefox and haven’t had any issues with my Yubikey... except when I try to add a new Yubikey To my gmail account in Firefox it makes me switch to Chrome because “u2f isn’t supported”.

At least let me try and if it fails I’ll file an issue with FF so they can fix it and improve instead of locking me out with half-truths.

Maybe iPhones and flagship androids are considered luxury items, but is the $40 Tracphone from 7-11 really a luxury item?

Or maybe it’s that anyone without a contact number and internet connection is at a huge disadvantage in our society in 2019?

Re:WireGuard on OpenBSD on Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:30PM (#19933498)
I use afraid.org dynamic dns offering and it works great.
I only recently watched python for the first time this year and really enjoyed most of it, but you’re right. Almost any scene that featured a “Chinese” person made me cringe.
Re:540M Facebook Records Exposed on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @10:30PM (#19568885)
No screaming red banner, but each bucket does indeed get marked with large orange rectangle that reads “Public”. It’s easily noticeable. In my limited experience, a lot of the open buckets problem comes from the fact that access to * is the path of least resistance vs a proper IAM and bucket config. When feature work is on the line ain’t nobody got time for that :/

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