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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I view "you might not need tmux" in the same way as "you might not need browser tabs".
Yes, if you only have one or two terminal sessions or open web pages then you can probably live without using them, but anything beyond that leads you into reimplementing features to cope with your desktop's lack of ability to manage dozens of windows.
Comment · 1 year ago
Are the demo servers a good enough example? https://www.traccar.org/demo-server/
Comment · 2 years ago
The whole reason the 737 Max series exists is to avoid having to start over. By maintaining "backwards compatibility" type approval with the regular 737 then the existing massive pool of 737 pilots can jump straight in it and start flying.
Comment · 3 years ago
I attached a cheap IKEA Vindriktning PM2.5 sensor to esphome to get air cleanliness data into Home Assistant [1]. That's also very simple to do - solder some wires and write a few lines of yaml and it shows up in the web UI. I bought two of them and they are accurate to each other, so the sensors appear to be acceptable.
Comment · 4 years ago
Why turn it off? Google are still going to parse your emails and pull out details about bookings to build a better profile of you, no matter what settings you disable. So why not have them do something useful for you while they are doing it?
Comment · 4 years ago
It works in Joplin too
Comment · 5 years ago
I'm a mapping noob, but I've got a half-planned project which will need web based maps, and tilemaker looks great.
The GitHub readme lists "You want the entire planet" as a reason not to use tilemaker. Why is that? Presumably it's excessive RAM/CPU usage during pbf conversion, or when serving tiles from the mbtiles sqlite file.
But how excessive are we talking? How big a machine would be needed to process a planet file? What tools work better with huge input files?
Comment · 5 years ago
Cloudflare's RFO blog posts are incredibly detailed. Each time I read one, I feel reasonably confident that they have learnt from the mistakes that lead to that outage and that it shouldn't happen again.
Comment · 5 years ago
In the UK, lots of real estate descriptions side-step the problem completely and use terms like 'Bedroom 1' for the largest bedroom and 'Bedroom 2' etc for the 2nd largest.
Comment · 5 years ago
This is done in the DNS world too. The unbound[1] resolver can pre-fetch a new record half way through the TTL if enough clients have requested it.
That guarantees that the cache remains hot for records that clients are requesting, but lets unused records expire.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yes. That's what the Open Rights Group are doing, and they want donations to help with it.
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/help-us-protect-your-data...
Comment · 6 years ago
I've used instructions similar to those to get AMT KVM working with a normal VNC client, it works fine. The only catch is that the AMT seems to intercept all traffic to port 5900 coming in through the NIC, not just that addressed to the IP of the AMT. It's only the "legacy" port 5900 VNC which is affected, the other ports such as 16992 for AMT's web admin are unaffected.
Comment · 6 years ago
I've used Startech FTDI based multi-port serial to USB adapters along with a Mikrotik Routerboard to make serial-to-ethernet or serial-to-LTE boxes. The Mikrotik boxes expose the serial port on a TCP port for you to connect to.
Comment · 6 years ago
Yep. I've just picked up a few second hand HP EliteDesk 800 G2 desktops with the intention of turning them into a homelab for k8s learning. They have AMT and the web power control, VNC based KVM and SoL work well.
There is no BIOS serial redirection, so SoL is no use until the OS starts booting, and grub has a bug[0][1][2] which means it can't find the AMT SoL when booting in EFI mode. But SoL works fine as soon as the kernel starts, and the KVM VNC works fine during BIOS and GRUB if I have an emergency.
One gotcha which would catch someone out who wasn't expecting it - the onboard video disables itself when no monitor is connected, so the AMT KVM just shows a black screen. This can be solved by DisplayPort or VGA "ghost" dongle in the back of the machine to talk EDID and pretend to be a screen.
I'm a big fan of conserver, and intend to use it in this project to spawn amtterm processes to connect to the SoL ports.
0: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?42026
1: https://community.intel.com/t5/Intel-vPro-Platform/No-AMT-se...
2: https://wiki.networksecuritytoolkit.org/index.php/HowTo_Head...
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