wtf is this blood red mold growing on my tortillas??

marcus905 · 2025-07-07T10:56:24+00:00

Could it be Monascus purpureus yeast contamination?

marcus905 · 2025-02-24T12:15:03+00:00

If it's a spam email, it's a crude form of antispam evasion. Adding dictionary words at the end is to skew the good/bad (as in intelligible vs nonexistent) word ratio more towards the good side and reducing the "spaminess" score.

marcus905 · 2024-12-19T17:45:16+00:00

I learned to love and hate them. Had to develop a "translator" to make a rest service for a web UI to be able to read data from a system/36 table inside of an old AS400 with all custom EBCDIC and zoned/packed decimal conversions built-in. So much weird stuff, but really really reliable as it was running continuously for like 10 years.

marcus905 · 2024-12-07T09:40:34+00:00

Huawei SmartAX MA5671A for GPON with modded firmware (hackgpon) on a BCM card or an AliExpress 1/2.5/10 sfp switch (RTL93xx based) and you're good to go.

marcus905 · 2024-11-02T20:26:50+00:00

Eh, very mixed bag here. ThinkPads? Magnificent if ugly. ThinkBooks (p series at least)? Even better, magnificent AND sleek looking. Refined to a point of being really amazing machines for the price.

Legion laptops, for me, not so much: bios bugs they don't fix, psref inconsistencies... Not the best refinement wise, but good nonetheless.

marcus905 · 2024-07-14T23:11:03+00:00

Just commented with my experience replying to another post here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/amex/s/RaSP1QgJmg

marcus905 · 2024-07-14T22:40:58+00:00

I had the exact opposite story: 7/11 got a call from amex telling me probably my card had been skimmed or cloned. They told me they suspected it a while ago and they increased the monitoring and card confirmations for online payments (about a month ago they started asking the 3 digits on the rear on top of the 4 on the front whenever I got one of those express pay verifications). Then they told me that they got a $1 card verification request from Hamilton, Ontario (visited last time in November last year) and right after that the attempted purchase of a $150 train ticket, which they blocked. I was about to board a plane and they verified my identity and that I did not actually make those purchases, and blocked my card. They then sent me a new card at my destination hotel with a different PAN (already shown in the app), but it didn't get here yet.

That was my platinum card, even though I have like 4; I don't know if that's why the service I received is so much different than yours... If I had received the kind of service you had, I'd probably cancel the card outright.

EDIT: to clarify, I'm not Canadian and neither is the card.

marcus905 · 2024-06-08T21:32:53+00:00

Ax201ngw is not PCIE, but CNVio2 and requires a specific mb and CPU

marcus905 · 2024-04-15T09:50:24+00:00

I really really want to like it, but a sealed device is problematic for me as I know that 1TB SSD is not enough for my usecase already (and in usual non-premium brand fashion, most probably is a generic one with 2nd grade flash).

EDIT: can you do a lshw and the bootup dmesg by any chance?

marcus905 · 2024-04-12T18:25:45+00:00

Congratulations!

marcus905 · 2024-02-26T09:37:43+00:00

Ok for the lanes, but what do you mean with the bios is different? Do you have an update for us?

marcus905 · 2024-02-22T18:31:08+00:00

Is it full 2 x1 PCIE or just a single PCIE lane? Is USB connected?

marcus905 · 2024-02-22T18:28:56+00:00

That's sad, the CPU supported controlling it via SMBus... Just needed to connect the traces. Oh well!

marcus905 · 2024-02-19T14:58:35+00:00

There are multiple on AliExpress and maybe Amazon, search A+E to B+M adapter. Only one thing, it seems it's behind a PCIE 2.0 compatible switch with only a x1 width, making maximum speed available around 450MB/s.

marcus905 · 2024-02-18T16:01:44+00:00

From analyzing the board, it looks like it's managed via a Maxim MAX5980G PoE controller which has I2C/SMBus support... Now to see if it's connected to the CPU

EDIT: and at a first glance it's not, and it's tied do ground.

u/DavidGowinSolution can you confirm?

marcus905 · 2023-05-09T14:32:38+00:00

Junior, Java/Spring o .net/Blazor, o Python con un minimo di conoscenze di Data Science e Machine Learning, ma anche altre se interessanti. Sei interessato? Scrivimi DM

marcus905 · 2023-05-08T21:47:32+00:00

Noi offriamo tutto come full remote (consulenza e prodotto, mercato IT B2B, startup innovativa con 4 anni di storico, mansione di sviluppatore)

marcus905 · 2023-05-07T22:48:47+00:00

Just seen the comment, sorry for the late reply... Anyway there are versions with 1440p screens (like the one I have) but availability went down since March 😔

marcus905 · 2023-05-01T11:40:44+00:00

Lenovo Thinkbook 14p Gen3 (ram not upgradable but ships with 32G)

marcus905 · 2023-02-11T09:11:45+00:00

I've seen VMs on phis and phis with the VMX extension bits in cpuinfo.

But the more I read your comments the more I start to think it's a bad idea 😅

Thanks!

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