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Comment · 2 years ago
OTOH, it'd a fun science project just to built one, for maybe a different set of kids that operate the box.

Just needs motivated teachers, if you ask me. I assume the mothbox is more of a high-school project, building one seems on that level as well.

Comment · 2 years ago
If you're bilingual, it's often useful to read a wikipedia topic in more than one language, as the editorial slant may be different in different languages.

Can at least confirm for German/English.

Comment · 2 years ago
Are the hospital chairs cheap? Genuinely asking...
Comment · 2 years ago
That's a pretty good post-mortem report. I hope they have implemented all the proposed process changes.
Comment · 2 years ago
There seems to be a huge difference between spin-down while NAS is up vs shutting the whole NAS down and restart. When I start my NAS, it takes a bunch of time to be back up: it seems to do a lot of checking on/ syncing off the drives and puts a fair amount of load on them (same is true for CPU as well, just look at your CPU load right after startup).

OTOH, when the NAS spins up a single disk again, I haven't notice any additional load. Presumably, the read operation just waits until the disk is ready.

Comment · 2 years ago
If you are happy to live with B&W printing for your untraceable printing needs, maybe you can fill the yellow cartridge with clear ink (not sure if water is OK).

But then, how do B&W laser printer allow for tracing ?

Comment · 2 years ago
AFAIK, Napalm is illegal against a civilian population. IDK that it is illegal to use against military installations.

Not that I think it is necessarily a smart move on the part of Ukraine, since Russia can play this game too.

Comment · 2 years ago
That looks good.

I'd probably prefer doing this at lower layers like pf, since I know how to reload those configs via cron, and since I want to avoid unwanted or malicious packets to even make it to the syslog code.

I was just surprised to find no recipe online, it's apparently more of a niche case than I thought. Worth documenting, probably.

Comment · 2 years ago
Did anyone here here set up a good rsyslogd configuration where the receiving syslog collector limits incoming logs to only known ddns machines ?

I think I may be able to stitch something together with periodically reconfigured packet filters, but I'd appreciate an existing solution.

Bonus points if running on freebsd.

Comment · 2 years ago
Exactly. Those are also not funny at all.
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Comment · 2 years ago
Not too bad for a 70s book. There's also "Directive 51"
Comment · 2 years ago
That would make a great sci-fi thriller, if it doesn't already exist:)
Comment · 2 years ago
My understanding is that they may not exactly be baseload, but will run only some of the time. Not ideal, but better than the worst case.
Comment · 2 years ago
Since there is so much anxiety about mac-only -- could you provide a small python file to read out the raw photos on any platform ?

It looks like you could just 'dd if=/dev/disk123 of=/tmp/bigrawfiles' and then postprocess with said python script.

Yes, not as good as a polished apple app, but for many people that really like the hardware and don't mind a bit of DIY, it's maybe enough...

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