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I was extremely disappointed to recently learn that visidata(1) phones home, and that this functionality has not been disabled in the Debian package, despite many people requesting its removal:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1001647

https://github.com/saulpw/visidata/discussions/940

Comment · 1 year ago

Can you tell me which emulator you're using? I loved using the open source Wabbitemu on previous Android phones, but it seems to have been removed from the app store, so I can't install it on newer devices :-/

Comment · 2 years ago

I've been enjoying FreshTomato on my home router for a number of years now.

Sometimes, though, there are network environments I'd like to implement which are difficult to configure through the webUI, but which would be relatively trivial from a Linux CLI. For example, I'd like to create an ESSID which is bridged to a tagged VLAN, but on which the router has no layer3 presence. Or, maybe I'd like to setup a wireguard link, but only send selective traffic down it using firewall marks and policy routing.

What I'd really like is a way to use the webUI to setup my initial base configuration, and then flip a switch to turn off the webUI, and implement further changes myself by editing configuration files on the device and calling out to shell scripts when needed to run "ip" and "brctl" commands.

Does anyone know if such a thing is possible with FreshTomato, OpenWRT, or something similar? Am I just thinking about this wrong?

Comment · 2 years ago

Thanks!

I'm a senior developer. Every now and then I'll debug something challenging and think about doing a nice write up about it -- but I don't have any existing online presence. I could throw a simple blog up on a website, but after posting an article there, I'm honestly not sure what to do next. Presumably at some point search engines will scrape it, but it likely won't have any meaningful search rank. I don't use social media. I could submit links to HN after I write each post, but that feels spammy and pretentious.

Any thoughts on what to do with a blog post after writing it?

Comment · 2 years ago

"Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles."

-- Anthony DeBoer

"SCSI is *not* magic. There are *fundamental* *technical* *reasons* why you have to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain every now and then."

-- John F. Woods

Comment · 3 years ago

Agreed, it's curious! I wonder if they would still fuzz it if you changed the URL scheme to include the identifier as part of the URL path, rather than as a parameter? e.g., hxxp://example.com/unsubscribe/abcd1234

Please report back if you try it :-)

Comment · 3 years ago

Perhaps it was only a thing at the Garden State Arts Center (now the PNC Bank Arts Center)? Here's a Washington Post story at the time: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1990/08/28/...

The Garden State Arts Center, which always starts its shows by playing the anthem, gave in to the singer's demand, fearing that a last-minute cancellation would enrage the audience of 9,000, but prohibited any future appearances by the hit singer.

Comment · 3 years ago

One option is to use a voltmeter that plugs into the cigarette lighter outlet. There are a bunch of cheap options on Amazon.

Comment · 3 years ago

Love everyone.

Comment · 3 years ago

What about legal/defamation issues?

In the U.S., Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects the operator of the website.

Comment · 3 years ago

SSH host certificates as somewhat of an abomination

Many would say x509 is the real abomination.

Comment · 3 years ago

I didn't even get three minutes; as soon as the page opened, I couldn't do anything without signing into Google or creating an account. Closed the tab.

Comment · 3 years ago

A common solution is to use an IR Blaster: https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Using_an_IR_Blaster_with_MythTV

I did something a little different. My cable box has a 3.5mm TRS jack to connect an external IR receiver to it. I connected the jack to an Arduino, and send serial commands to the Arduino from the MythTV box to change channels.

Comment · 3 years ago

That's interesting. I setup a new MythTV box two years ago on a Mac mini running Ubuntu, using a Hauppauge HD PVR 1212 capture device connected over USB. I've been able to record HD cable without dealing with any DRM by using the RCA jacks of my Comcast box, which has worked great.

Comment · 4 years ago

I also recently moved back to running Linux (on a Thinkpad) after using macOS for a few years. One of the things I miss terribly from macOS is pinch-zoom in Chrome. Has anyone found a way to easily enable it? Thanks!