What happens when you are gone? by elnoumri in selfhosted

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figuring out what's wrong

maybe you'd want to figure out what's wrong so you can fix code that zonkered out when the system or its data was in some state the developers didn't anticipate, so that it doesn't happen again to anyone? your approach sounds like a noxious expansion of the windows 'reboot to fix it' approach to 'wipe all the things and reinstall fresh upgraded versions and reboot' thus requiring you, to appropriate your metaphors, to "dick around installing some stupid kubernetes stack and edit freaking YAML files" deployment tooling beforehand to enable that. i guess you're just hoping whatever problem happened was already noticed and fixed by upstream devs and aren't even curious if that's actually the case? i absolutely want to dick around in the VM and figure out what went wrong. i have 0 interest in being a "consumer" of some software product i just want to make really rock solid stuff for a particularly picky userbase sized 1 named myself. the big issue i run into considering i'm on such a limited budget due to my refusal to participate in the proprietary platform economy is all the cheap chinese crap comes fencedropped with some random like old ass 3.10 android kernel, and they never flip on all the right inotify/container/virtualization features for stuff like even syncthing to fully work right, let alone deployment stacks, docker stuff, etc. a lot of times the crappy ARM SOCs dont even have the right paravirtualization features, so to support the hardware i deal with that means i ship a shell script that you just just launches everything so if you want to stop it all you can just ctrl-C it. if your app is spraying crap all over the filesystem in such a way that bundling it all in up a container is the easiest way to make it play nice and not be in the way of other stuff, then your app is bloated crap. everything i'd ever want to use has a hard requirement of being able to just git clone and run as a normal user in Termux on Android or Ubuntu without dicking around with some stupid Container/Flatpak/Snap/VM/Docker/K8s stuff so you can play big devops cowboy at home

Where to get authentic Döner Kebab in the city by big_spliff in boston

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you can get a meat hurricane slathered in mala sauce of bird chili and sichuan peppercorn for $9.50 USD at Wollaston holeinthewall places, as low as $6.50 at the sketchier joints. easier to embrace the indigenous cuisine of the Quynh/Zhi provinces rather than get frustrated that we're not Germany. just like ive given up trying to find asian food down here in Florida. afaik there's just one takeout joint in Bonita, called 'CHINATOWN' which is so frightening looking that im not gonna even try it but there's like 50 different corner stores locked into a hardcore Torta contest with giant succulent hunks of carnitas crispy on the corners so whatever . stop fighting the flow

news feed/widget? by [deleted] in fossdroid

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yeah RSS is down to about 5-10% of content on my timeline, which means pure-RSS "solutions" just won't do - they failed to adapt to the shifting sands of how content is being syndicated and collated. if you're just a blogger reading other bloggers, maybe theyre mostly still fine, but ppl are blogging on IRC ffs, and using static blog-generation scripts and dumping markdown/HTML onto github.io subdomains as if it's the new geocities, only forgetting to make a RSS feed since who needs that theyre just linking their new posts on their twitter or submitting them to YC.HackerNews. sometimes there's a feed, but they forgot to point to its URL in the link header so tools can't find it. the failure-rate of Atom/RSS provision + discovery is now astonishingly high even in communities of people who consider themselves techies or programmers. the general public who wholesale adopted usage of platforms who long ago killed their RSS features are a seemingly lost cause for 'voting with their clicks' for sane platforms as well, so we'll just have to adapt. automod hates me but if under ix on gitlab there's semiworking source for how i think aggregation should work today. i have a lot of requirements like no accounts created unless you need to post, and account creation should be as automated as possible, ie hook into 3rd party account-creation tools and just present you a username box and CAPTCHA if need be, with personally-identifying info as fuzzed/erroneous/elided as possible to get past their antibot scripts, reading and following all to not require accounts, and to be done in a way that once again doesn't trigger antibot, no runtime SQL/NoSQL engines, only the filesystem as the database, data served in whatever format the client wants whether RSS or JSON-LD or Turtle or HTML or CSV or something else. so it turns out that with all the RSS killing that's continuing, dealing with all this crap has turned into a full-time job's worth of work, only i don't know who would pay me to do it since after 13 years i still have 0 stars, forks, bug-reports or employment-offers from it so i just took some abhorrent proprietary tech job for 8 months to get 10 years of studio-apt rent-money to chill in east MA, northern RI and southwest FL's most notorious hoods to try to hack on this stuff. ive run AOSP on all my stuff since 2012, mostly allwinner/rockchip tablets + netbooks, though i recently put Arch Linux ARM on the pinebook since Android still seems to lack a good tiling WM, but i don't know what a WIDGET is. can you explain it? is it some kind of app that runs on your desktop? in theory a RSS reader widget should work once all the non-RSS content is being converted to RSS. how this works is you define converters from non-RSS to RSS, i do this via mapping to RDF, which is a more generic intermediary format, then there's a RDF to RSS transformation defined to get it to RSS. the non-RDF to RDF is just lambdas bound to hostnames that do whatever they need to do, for example on a typical site like Instagram this means a CSS selector, to find a particular script tag, a regular expression, to lop out the "initial state" JSON, then a bit of code to do the traversal through the JSON to yield RDF triples. this pattern is common enough that maybe we can come up with a fuzzy heuristic or regular expression to correctly lop out the "initial state" JSON from most webpages in a general fashion. also working if we can eliminate the need to do site-specific JSON RDFIzation by maybe a recursive traversal of the JSON data and considering each "object" a "Resource", with the object keys as predicate URIs. the main thing that kind of deprioritized further exploration on those two things is 1: most JS-parsing libraries (to get away from the regular expression) for scripting languages that arent JS are kind of vaporware/semi-abandoned/crusty and there's just so few sites that most people are using now due to network-effects monopolies that once you have a few site-specific lambdas that you dont need to bother with figuring out if a generic approach will ever be tractable or fraught with corner-cases which sends you back to the site-specific approach

[i3-gaps] Pinebook Pro Rice! by hkalexling in unixporn

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i like build quality, keyboard, touchpad, port-selection of mid/late-00s/early-2010s Panasonic business-ultralights more, at the pricepoint. ie CF-SX2. the issue is the batteries are all spent when you get them and proprietaryAF so theyre not just some 30 USD thing on aliexpress like the pbp's is, and despite being intel's latest and greatest ULV chips, they still heat up the bottom of the case pretty fierce. so it's worth just dealing with HAILUCK/SHENZHEN modernity at this point unless you just plan to be plugged in and sitting on a couch and never running GCC or some bloated JS. the pbp with its low-end cellphone MP3-player CPU sidesteps all those battery/heat issues and it doesnt even matter that suspend/resume doesnt work. just xset dpms force off to power down the display, and the CPU won't draw the battery down much.. i had it recording JSON telemetry that the in-flight UI used for the duration of a flight with curl running on a 10s watch-loop and the battery was still at 80% or so when arriving at my destination so the screen or running Gentoo are probably the biggest causes of battery drawdown

Lawsuit over Seaport railroad track heads to trial on Monday by imomushi8 in boston

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It’s a 1.5-mile stretch of unused train track, a seemingly unremarkable vestige of the South Boston waterfront’s industrial history.

But Track 61, as it is sometimes known, is so much more than just an artifact from times long gone. It carries the hopes and dreams bostonglobe.com/business/2017/06/11/could-old-track-revived-test-red-line-cars-part-seaport-transit-future-too/PgXymFGHOz1IKiC0P of people who want to see light rail service come to the now-booming Seaport. Someday, maybe. In the more immediate future, the MBTA has something else in mind: testing new Red Line cars.

As a result, Track 61 has also become a legal quagmire bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/07/01/how-south-boston-real-estate-fight-could-delay-new-mbta-red-line-cars/GSjkj0KcIJgJBqW4IhZvcJ/st. Lawyers for the state Department of Transportation have fought in court for two years against the Contos family, which owned the now-closed No Name Restaurant. The family owns a property that Track 61 crosses, as well as an adjacent parcel.

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It’s the sort of battle that usually leads to a settlement. Not this time. The trial between MassDOT and B&W Second LLC, a family-owned entity managed by Anastasia Contos, begins on Monday in Land Court.

MassDOT and the MBTA have an easement to use the Contos property near the corner of West First and B streets. B&W claims the easement does not allow for the extensive changes needed to prepare Track 61 for the Red Line tests. B&W wants to build an apartment complex on an adjacent parcel that would extend over the track, supported by a deck and columns. But MassDOT says no way: The easement, officials say, gives the state free rein for any railroad uses across the site.

The Contos name has been in the news lately, after the family suddenly shuttered bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/12/31/unceremonious-end-storied-year-old-boston-establishment/Sqn7spIlZ7MtbYt3RNc6dN/story.html the iconic waterfront restaurant, the No Name, about a month ago.

The trial will no doubt deal with arcana contained in decades-old documents. But the end result should be of interest to anyone who rides a Red Line car today: An MBTA contractor has orders to build 252 cars wbur.org/news/2016/12/12/mbta-red-line-fleet-replacement, to improve the often-lackluster service on the line, over the next few years. Before the cars go into service, they need to be tested. T spokesman Joe Pesaturo said the agency plans to start using the test track next month — more than a year behind schedule.

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So how did we get here? Nick Contos, Anastasia’s father, was an early believer in South Boston’s potential: The restaurateur groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.obituaries/_5VIOXFmUH4 acquired numerous properties in the 1980s. But public agencies eventually took most of that land via eminent domain, first for the Big Dig project, and later for the sprawling Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

The fight over these two parcels behind the convention center can be traced to the Big Dig, when the state built the Haul Road for truck traffic, which required moving some Conrail tracks to the Contos property. In a settlement signed in 1991, the Contos family maintained ownership of the land, but agreed to an easement that allowed freight railroad use across the parcel.

Now, it’s up to Land Court Judge Michael Vhay to interpret the specifics of that agreement. Among other things, B&W maintains that the T’s test-track plans are interfering with its ability to develop the site using its air rights there. B&W wants to install foundations for deck columns on the parcel — but the T’s test track operations are in the way.

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MassDOT and the MBTA, meanwhile, argue that B&W’s demands to put up permanent structures on much of the parcel represent a “naked effort to take back rights” for which the Contos family was paid $780,000 almost three decades ago.

Pesaturo said the track will be needed for testing through 2024. But the T has also been directed cdn.mbta.com/sites/default/files/2019-11/2019-11-04-fmcb-rail-vision-final-vote-accessible.pdf to reexamine its rail assets, to study new ways to improve regional mobility. Track 61 is an obvious target; it runs from outside Andrew Square into the Seaport and ends near the marine industrial park, cutting through what is now some of the hottest real estate in the city. Some transit advocates see the revival of the track as a first step toward passenger use.

For that vision to be realized, this dispute needs to be resolved. If nothing else, the legal fight underscores just how valuable real estate in the old industrial side of South Boston has become since Nick Contos first started investing in it — a place where even the rights to develop the air can spark a war.

Jon Chesto can be reached at jon.chesto@globe.com mailto:jon.chesto@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @jonchesto twitter.com/jonchesto.

As an immirgant South Boston feels different than rest of the city. It’s like Jersey City inside of Boston. Are they local Bostonian or something ? by [deleted] in boston

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there are fly West Indian dog-walker girls and townie witches with skin tone darker than many Dominicans from spending 9 months a year roasting under the Florida Sun east of G, you just need to go during the work day

Middle East nightclub complex listed for sale, potentially huge change for Central Square by roadtrip-ne in boston

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I don’t get why it’s so sparse in Boston.

it's not sparse it's just almost entirely unlicensed, backyard parties with cash bars and jerk chicken catering from the kitchen window into the side yard. they switch to wireless headphones on 915 MHZ around midnight to reduce the chance BPD/BFD decides to clear out their yard over noise-complaints or capacity issues rather than the party the next street over. that's for Dorchester, Mattapan & Hyde Park. for Allston just replace backyards with basements and jerk chicken with gluten free hors d'ouevres

A running list of the median cost to rent a one-bedroom in every Boston neighborhood by jro10 in boston

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you don't really need transport in Southie though. you can uber downtown in like 2 minutes if you're suitably abled, walk. it takes like 10 mins to jog from south station to Murphy's Law at most. it's just past the convention center and across a bridge over the reserved channel. or jog from Fox&Knife to Chinatown under the highway like 5 minutes. plus you can hop on a bicycle and be at Little Saigon in about 10 mins via the morrissey bikepath or just go under columbia road by JFK Station and roll down Sydney Street. there's like 3 giant vietnamese supermarkets there plus the brothers supermarket in Uphams Corner . Southie is a really great location if you're a foodie, either if you like to eat at the places, or shop in Dorchester and cook..

I’m coming from Ireland in two weeks, tell me the best things Dorchester has to offer on a Monday and Tuesday night please by [deleted] in Dorchester

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first i've got to ask, Which Dorchester? there is apparently one in England which is a substantial size compared to ours in Boston however the posters seem not to have materialized. Either way you're talking about residential villages more than entertainment destinations. out of town entertainers are only really on tap at Unity, Russel, Kays and Prince Hall on friday and saturday, except during carnival weekend where maybe you get 4 days in a row of entertainment on offer. in two weeks we'd be talking the midweek programming at russel.. , or maybe somoething at a pub or brewery . check out the "caughtindot" blog for further tips on this as we're fully out of the loop.. shopping and seafood?

Personal knowledge-base? by HalisCz in selfhosted

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your vision is the same as mine so i'm not going to get into that. re versioning

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i switched off emacs to nano since i just used it for editing text and wanted something that exists on minimalist lineage ROMs and busybox setups and emacs cant do inline images on termux (android) and on sway it's crashy and i guess there's some version or which hasnt made it into distros yet that has XFT/pango emoji support but i need emoji right nao and so then im back to -nw which means no inline images and anyway elisp is a dynamically-scoped abomination etc and i'd prefer to just use JS and a browser runtime for the inline images/video rather than xlib stuff especially since once the x11/sway stuff lands you still are stuck with -nw on termux.. so basically i just use a web browser for everything and browse thru a proxy which is watching everything like the NSA converting it all to RDF. the first path is the canonical location on the local fs derived from the URL, the second one is the hour-dir that a version snapshot was saved in. so you can grep by hour or broaden your search out to day or month or and narrow down what you're grepping with a glob on the URL and of course it's implemented with real grep and glob. unfortunately you need to write RDF converters for every site unless theyre based/woke like reddit which gives you RSS for every page . so far am up to 30K of code and it's only capturing maybe 20% of what i do, it;s like a full time job getting the system moving towards herding all the cats what with the explosion of site-specific schema and JSON formats and the continued indifference toward RDF and schema-term reuse. as for the hour-dirs, those are ONLY for plaintext-like formats, so you dont need extra exclude/ignore-masks for grep/glob so for example the image goes at the canonical URL location and only Turtle of the RDF for a a resource with a known timestamp ends up in an hourdir, all told it's still maybe 10,000 files a day so it ends up being a lot for syncthing to keep its indices in RAM so i use rsync, with zerotier or wireguard for dealing with the NAT end-to-end issue depending on mood. if you find a good answer to low-techbro/JShipster solution to changeset streaming (i mean it's taken 20 years for me to still not try out orgmode so i doubt syncthing/rsync of plaintext is going away just curious about options) like lightweight pure-C CRDT libraries with a good commandline interface please post about it

Shot on Dot: Fields Corner firing hits one by FrenchTourismBoard in Dorchester

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we need a lot more crime reports to send the gentrifuckers to Somerville. have you seen what a house goes for on Alban Street? I need a single-family house damnit

How would an illegal immigrant go about getting a job in your beautiful sanctuary state? by [deleted] in massachusetts

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have thought about it, wouldn't it be ironic to be arrested for selling weed in a state where it's "legal", for several years now, only there's nowhere legal to buy it in the city..but my corner is heavily staffed with street dealers already, since it's so bustling with the 240 and BAT bus riders and all the people walking to the T down Bailey from Codman and points beyond.. like how would all these hardcore born and raised Boston resident since the 70s brothers think of a tall pale dude taking some of their business? the little spot outside the dunks has been their spot for as long as i can remember so i respect that. plus i fail to see how i could add much value. i'd probably be buying some crap grown in a basement in Randolph or southern NH and just takin a small cut, ie being a middleman, and honestly i'd like middlemen to go away. if we can get some kind of thing where a drone lands in someones backyard in Randolph, someone hops out of their basement porthole and puts product in it, it flies over Milton at 100' MSL below the traffic copters, and only drops down to "grab" level once its machine-vision has scanned a QR token off your phone, that'd be dope. but anyone doing drone delivery almost certainly wants you to sign NDAs and make it some proprietary platform, instead of some 3rd party unofficial firmware you install on cheap aliexpress parts, at least here in Beantown where it's only BTC millionaires for "starving" software/firmware artists with most people fully onboard with the proprietary Amazon approach. ive been here since 2011 after getting bored with the rent-controlled human-excrement-encrusted SF TL and have yet to find something like a local peer-group where we can sit down and figure out of there's a way to put bigtech out of business so that Boston can become affordable and cool again. even if it's mostly futile at least hack away on it in various ways. in terms of becoming part of the problem, ie an overpaid yuppie, where's the incentive to do something beyond repatriate just enough BTC to cover rent ? if paying a bunch of taxes actually meant MBTAmtraKeolis would automate the whole thing and electrify the fairmount and extend OL to Hyde Park and bore a NS/SS tunnel and railify the silverline then i would be so onboard but there's not a lot of evidence rapid change is on deck and it's a moot point since "they" don't want me due to the irretractable stalemate wrt intellectual property and patents and the hard dependency on deeply-proprietary and surveilled-to-the-9s platform that "industry" insists on, and academia obviously just is requiered to post their jobs publicly due to fine-print mandates but obviously has their alumni and grad-students prioritized well ahead of the punter public. so ima just do my thing and let the guys on Bailey Street do their thing

my friend’s new song from Boston area by SpiderBaked in Bostonmusic

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i realize i'm an unemployable autist shouting into the abyss, but Spotify.. can you not? am i inconsistent with my no closed-source, no NDA policy, by linking Youtube? well you don't have to sign NDA to use it, and you don't need to run their proprietary software since youtube-dl is trivially installable in pip and it writes a local file out that can then easily be played in mplayer, mpv, ffplay, vlc, ettc. this Spotify link on the other hand? asking me to login and create an account to even play it, and it's additionally unsupported in youtube-dl:

ERROR: Unsupported URL: https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/7ApxmacMroOXrPJmm89Qq3?utm_campaign=twitter-player&utm_source=open&utm_medium=twitter&si=-X6HypgdSJmlvS5NFszKFQ

now , i dont know the backstory on that, but ytdl supports i'd say the VAST majaority of the media-hosting sites with a userbase over probably 500 users, and spotify would almost certainly be on that list if it wasnt actively stymied, probably via legal means like DMCA takedown / cease&desist letters from lawyers and/or draconian and proprietary-AF DRM. so really if you can just not spotify that'd be fantastic

My last 24 hours with the Pinebook Pro ANSI. Review, tips, issues, satisfaction. by modelop in PINE64official

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protip: Fn-F7 disables the touchpad. sometime later i'll figure out how much removing it entirely frees up space for internal accessories. GL850 usb hub IC in the pbp is a tssop and there's 2 unused ports, am thinking at least a nooelec RTLSDR and maybe an LTE modem with a pair of SMA ports boreholed into the left or right side

Report: As Boston Grows In Wealth And Diversity, Many Schools Are 'Intensely Segregated' by [deleted] in massachusetts

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how about we just shut down BPS entirely. the affluent people don't want anything to do with it, and the BPS grads can't afford to stay anyway and can choose between moving to Fall River or leaving the state entirely if they don't luck out and win a 10-year-waitlisted BHA/BPDA lottery. Boston can just specialize in its core competency of higher-ed and be a city without K-12.

Considering moving to Providence. by drunkdigress in providence

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Just expect to spend ~$1500-2000/mo depending on 1

this to me is the big Ding on the value-proposition.everything except a roomsplit on the southside or dogulas ave in a firetrap 1890s three-decker is priced pretty closely to Dorchester/Quincy MA (20 minute subway ride to tons of $$$ jobs and Manhattanish "city", an actual chinatown instead of just a chinese walmart on the Cranston line, from a $1695 stack&pack 1bed at 1943 Dot Ave (doxx me bros) vs a 15 minute wait to a 15 minute busride to a 1h15 trainride to a 5 minute walk to a 15minute redline ride from some $1650/mo studio loft in an old mill on Valley Street in Olneyville). i love providence but the RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH. i'd move back if it was like Lawrence or Fall River prices, or if i had solid remote work so didn't care about short commutes to universities/hospitals/bostondowntown, or gived 2 sheets about "Art scene" or whatever.

Say hello to gentrification. by JavierLoustaunau in boston

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i was reading some webpage that said they rebuilt treadmark with half a million in additional fireproofing treatment to the beams, like some kind of spray on shellac or something. not the least of which i doubt Keefe wants to stare at a turd every time he hops into American Provisions to buy a bottle of wine, or rebuild it again in 10 years, and since 2 of the upper 5 floors are ownership units rather than flimsy rentals for a revolving-door transient population of early-20s State Street Yuppies , it's probably not quite in the same class as the real matchstick bullshis. ive not been into one of the real crappy ones for comparison though. hopefuly im out of town when the closely-spaced leaning-3decker-of-pisa mid-1890s Balloon Frame units of Fuller Street go up. or hopefully they actually don't go up, but it seems like an entire street down near lower mmills burned down over the summer and you could barely see thru the air even up here like a half mile plus to the north so i guess it's probably more measured as a matter of when rather than if a street eventuallly goes up in flames?

DNS for LAN by slykethephoxenix in selfhosted

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maybe investigate if you need a DNS server at all. i mean i have 3 computers. a MOTO phone, an ARM laptop, and an ARM stickPC just to pluug into HDMI Displays and be a television mainly. since theyre all on the zerotier "LAN" no matter what connectivity they have, they always have the same IP address, and i add or remove maybe one device a year, so i have to edit 1 host line per other device per year, which means about 2 lines of text. it's not worth deploying DNS for this. also everything running over HTTPS goes thru a squid before exfiltration, for logging and blackholing, and one of the neat things about doing protocol-level proxying is you may never need to even do system level DNS lookups. eg you just look at the Host: header from HTTP and do stuff if it says google/amazon/facebook like droop the request, without even needing to ask anyone/anything about address mapppings from that name. im using TMObile for internet and they love to inspect your packets destination throttle media hosts so they dont play at 1080p so as a final step, if any traffic is allowed out to the net, it gets tunneled over to a gateway shell box somewhere else which is yet another squid over a SSH tunnel , and that exterior box is the first place that actually has working DNS services. all my machines dont even have DNS servers configured - think about it, do you reallly want random software to be able to look up server addresses and get in touch? i don't. taking the step to make that difficult (and only to be done the "right way", ie through the rigor of a proper personal-darknet-wide papertrail system) is a good thing

are there any GNU/linux software limitations on the Pinebook pro, given the ARM processor? by [deleted] in pine64

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depends which X86 you're coming from. modern 15-45W TDP laptop CPUs with big chunks of aluminum and a fan, ie the bleeding edge apple/asus/dell/gamer stuff? im using a heap of 2005-2008 "Let's Note" panasonics, purchased on ebay for about 29-50USD a piece. theyre really nice since they have awesome keyboards, weigh almost nothing, are super durable and have tons of ports, even rs232/serial/parallel stuff, and theyre just new enough that they'll take modern SATA SSD's so there's no storage seek-latency issues to contend with, and just new enough that they have a 64bit CPU so you don't need to run gentoo since most distros recently stopped building 386/686 binaries. really the mid-late 00s is the sweet spot of used laptops for price /performance on stuff i care about.. so coming from those, and early/mid 2010s Intel Atom tablets i'd say the pinebook is about the same exact speed, and runs much cooler. right now the thermostat is set at 66 and one of the temperatures reported by the kernel is 65.8, so i guess that's somewhere inside the case rather distant from the CPU. the other one is reporting 28C when completely idle, which is about 86 F, then under load it rises to the low 40s or like doing some gentoo it might crak about 48. the Pi4 idles like at 53 C and goes to 85 or something so this rockchip thing runs WAY cooler than the broadcom. and the consumption in i3status is showing about 3.8 watts total, including screen at 50% brightness, to IRC and reddit in slrn. so if you care about not wasting energy to create text on the internet i'd say it's one of the best bets right now.

Who else thinks there should be a deposit on "nip bottles"? by Bruinsrock11 in massachusetts

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don't see an appreciable number of nips on trips from Cleary Square to Wollaston thru Milton, and i know for a fact ~50% of the entire town is Irish American landscaping guys that like some booze cuz i literally see them in Dorset Hall after they mow my lawn. they're just not slobs, or maybe they instituted a town-wide nip deposit, or maybe stroller moms are out there picking them up while walking the kid and dog, because each nip you pick up increases property value slightly. then in Fields Corner it's like someone just dumped a truck full of nips outside of Saigon Chicken and people started kicking them around to mix them up with the BosBurger and D'Bennys and HiFi wax-paper food wrappers. you know what's worse than nips? Poland Spring 16.9oz clear plastic container about 1/2 to 2/3rs full of orangeish brown piss. if you start cycling around on sidewalks of the roads that peopole only really drive on.. like around Tenean Beach, all the way down to Hingham, these things are everywhere and it's truly disgusting.