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Comment · 21 days ago
As as self-hoster, I recommend vault warden. Supports 2fa, written in rust, works pretty well, is easy to backup, and you can use bitwarden's phone client.

I'm curious why other self hosters think it's a bad idea.

Comment · 1 month ago
How so? Seems like it's a pretty big step in the right direction, sure an attested phone is going to be much harder to compromise than one with custom os, custom kernel, and a user with root.
Comment · 1 month ago
Trick is there's no integrity without the OS. Cheats can ruin games, keyloggers can record passwords, music/movies can be stolen, bitcoins can be stolen, etc.
Comment · 1 month ago
GrapheneOS does everything and more for key attestation, allowing security sensitive applications to test the integrity of the device. Sadly some apps like google wallet not only check for attestation, but check if Google's signed it. Which is against the idea of attestation in the first place.

So google's tap to pay doesn't work, but others do, like garmin pay. Random bank apps are hit and miss.

Comment · 2 months ago
Sounds great, best I found so far is the RAK19007 (30x60mm), then add a GPS (RAK12500). It will be kind of long (60mm + case) but not too wide (30mm + 3d printed case).

Or the Mesh Node T114 Development Board V2 (23mm wide).

Comment · 2 months ago
Looks nice for some uses, but pretty big for a dog collar, almost 3" on a side. I've some long/thin dev boards that I could pair with an 18650 that should be closer to 1".
Comment · 2 months ago
Nice, I have a few mestastic widgets, but do want something small enough for a dog collar. That way my wife and I can carry a radio and keep one in the car so we have a good chance getting in range.

Sad that most of ham radio, which has similar APRS for tracking, doesn't do async or multi-hop.

Comment · 2 months ago
Heh, I used to use bluetooth GPS tracker with my nokia 770. It worked well since I could place the gps where it got the best signal. I could start a track, have it record it, and then check in with the n770 only when I needed to see a map. That way I made the most of my n770's battery life, but still got continuous tracking.

Beware that they take much longer to start since they don't know the GPS coords of the nearest cell tower, nor do they download the GPS almanac over the cell connection. They will however remember the almanac so you can leave it on for 30 minutes and not have to redownload it the next day.

Comment · 2 months ago
How close does another diver have to be for a message to send/received?
Comment · 2 months ago
Maybe, but for today, er 6 days ago:

Public hearing set for nearly 650 diesel generators tied to Amazon data center.

Comment · 2 months ago
Sure. But is your DC funded by AI insanity that will pay top $ to provision ASAP, which requires 100s (up to 800) turbines?
Comment · 2 months ago
Quick google on stuff from the last week:

2 days ago, Inside the Secretive Deal for a $10 Billion Data Center in ... 21 buildings and roughly 600 diesel generators"

6 days ago "Public hearing set for nearly 650 diesel generators tied to Amazon data center"

4 hours ago, Trump’s Vision for A.I. Dominance Comes With Major Air Pollution ... The first 366 megawatts would come from a power plant made up of more than 800 small gas-burning generators bolted to concrete pads.

Trick is money can influence local governments, even without a clear benefit to the local residents. Then result is people end up with more expensive water, less water, more expensive power, and crazy amounts of noise. Similarly DCs often seem to get special deals from the power company, which raises costs to all users.

Similarly they seem to get a pass on permits: Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has installed 59 natural gas turbines for its Colossus 2 data center project in Tennessee without securing federal clean air permits, according to communications between regulators and xAI representatives.

I don't think most people would care if DCs could be hidden by a line of trees, sadly that's not the case.

Comment · 2 months ago
What do you call it when they install 100s of generators outside the building to provide power, create an amazing amount of noise, and a fair bit of pollution, while they claim they are temporary and turn them off 1 day out of 365?

Not to mention consuming quite a bit of water to provide cheaper cooling, instead of using closed loop systems.

Comment · 3 months ago
Sounds like an issue with hardware. I watch ECC errors for 2500 servers and see a few some days, and zero others. Said servers at an elevation of 6,000 feet or so. A few per day for a single machine is crazy high. You likely have a dimm, dimm slot, motherboard, or CPU issue that's susceptible to RF noise, vibration, temp changes or similar.
Comment · 3 months ago
Sort of, often there's workstation chips, like the xeon E3, which is a warmed over desktop chip ... with ECC. Price difference when I bought was $20 CHEAPER for the CPU (at the cost of 100 MHz or so). I did pay $50 more for a motherboard and 10-15% more for ram.

Or just get an AMD Ryzen.

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