ChipTuner

https://www.vaughnnugent.com

Building software they don't like. Free, as in freedom.
Low-level and server engineer: libnoscrypt, NVault, vnlib.

Staff @GitCitadel
https://geyser.fund/project/gitcitadel

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2026-01-19 19:06:46 UTC

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I could see like on a college campus, or like a dense apartment building, but even then you'd probably use other apps, or go knock on your neighbor's door if the network is down. That said, even college campus have close circuit networks with redundancy, and we all have cell service. So a lot would have to go wrong, and again to the part where I go knock on the door of my neighbor.
I think I'm simply calling it a novelty and nothing else.

2026-01-19 19:02:31 UTC

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> You're in the middle of nowhere with, presumably, people you trust, and if you're intelligent, you're armed and observant, so what's the issue in those use cases?
In what case would I pull out my smartphone to speak with people within 100 feet of me though? I've never hiked with people far enough apart that we can't shout to each-other.
Still more private and secure to not have the smartphone on me at all.

2026-01-19 18:57:57 UTC

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But all of those use cases are better suited for my voice and hearing sense. Bluetooth at crowded locations further shortens the range to the point id have to be within speaking range. If I was at a campground a wifi hotspot mode its probably even better suited (or ad-hoc wifi network on android devices).
Most of these cases make no sense unless your scared to speak with other humans.

2026-01-18 18:56:35 UTC

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I'm just giving some pushback. I felt your initial claim was stretching the truth. I'm interested in seeing any writeups you have as I'm interested in incorporating cryptographic primitives into noscrypt that may help other devs build stronger applications.

2026-01-18 18:34:43 UTC

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So is everyone else. Unless you're changing the keying material, if either key is compromised you can't prevent data recovery. So are you changing the keying material?

2026-01-18 18:25:41 UTC

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Sure, but for totally different classes and threat models. Bearer tokens are generated after authentication, granted for resource authorization, scoped and short lived. If I gain access to either secp256k1 secret key all data _ever_ sent or ever _will be_ be sent with the same keys is now mine.

2026-01-17 21:23:03 UTC

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Jumble then primal on GC nip05s.

2026-01-17 21:22:38 UTC

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Ooops all jumble. The users that pull our nip05 are skewed, but it's jumble by a long shot.

2026-01-16 20:20:34 UTC

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That was the predicate of the sentence that followed that statement.

2026-01-16 19:30:59 UTC

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Can't be stolen if it doesn't exist. It _can_ be a false sense of security sometimes.
Encryption can't prevent the routers from seeing what devices your transacting with and when. You have to use someone else's network somewhere with some known piece of technology at some point.

2026-01-16 19:29:01 UTC

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2026-01-16 19:28:20 UTC

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Yeah... I know. But it's not social. They get baked and play video games or instagram lol

2026-01-16 18:52:38 UTC

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Your right I should have said 9/10 people you meet will be jelous XD That's normal.

2026-01-16 18:41:48 UTC

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I've talked about this at length. Not a secret. Nothing to hide. Look through my previous replies.

2026-01-16 18:15:44 UTC

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IMO It doesn't matter what level of wealth you have or were born with, if you meet people that have less they will be jealous. It would be inhuman if they weren't.

2026-01-16 18:12:56 UTC

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The reason I couldn't get on a plane 5 years ago without getting a strip search and a groping is the same reason I assume I'm actively monitored by at least one nation state... For what? I wish I knew.
I just try to have things that can't be used against me. I keep a physical receipt from any place I can, incase I ever need to prove my whereabouts. The issue is often that when an agency raids your house they take everything and you have to fight to get it back. Meaning they could easily tamper with your ability to defend yourself. You need multiple copies of things in different places.
It's also useful to be awake between 4-6 AM on routine incase they try to kick your door in XD

2026-01-16 18:02:58 UTC

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Until they are monitored. I never though I did anything that warranted government surveillance, but I found myself in an industry who routinely had their online accounts monitored, devices "tapped", surveillance camera systems monitored, communications monitored (email and phone systems). They simply went to Google, Vonage, and cloud providers and said: "hey company X is under investigation by the EPA, we'll need access to X service, you cannot disclose this to the customer."
They have the ability to monitor employees too. Depends on how big the company is, as to how big of a target your actions are.

2026-01-16 17:55:26 UTC

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I think the common pitfall is many assume you can still have the same level of conveniences simply with more security. I'm here to suggest it's not worth the effort. Finding alternatives to the same things often just complicates your life without adding any net increase in privacy/security. As long as you're working against natural human behavior, you're going to lose.
For example, drinkers can become pot smokers when they want to quit. Pot smokers can become drinkers when they need to get clean for a new job. They substitute one vice for another to get the singular outcome they require for the moment while maintaining a similar level of "relief" but still having the same level of DUI risk. (remember this an example lol)
So long as your device has a radio, I don't care how much nerds will sell you on buzzwords, like linux, encryption, and tor, lora, mesh networks, etc. If it generates a signal, it can be tracked, it just matters how that applies to your life.
It doesn't matter if you cover your face or change your clothes, your gate identifies you no matter where you go. There isn't enough entropy in all human behavior to make it untraceable. If you're too random, you're unique and therefor traceable. If you're too similar you're tracked with the herd, so anytime you step out, you're again unique and traceable.
On the few podcast episodes I did, I wanted to get across to the audience that the human behavior aspect. You could use any anti-tracking tool in the world, but if you open your browser at the same time every day, and look the same stuff up with the same tools, you've once again been identified.
Now some of this is completely true. Some of this is only true if attention is paid to you. Right now... I'm arguing that a future exists where we're our human behavior is monitored by so many metrics, that it doesn't matter what you use, so long as it generates signals you're behavior is identifiable.
I'm suggesting focusing on how you can control your interaction with tech. Limit the information that can be traced. It can be done, not all hope is lost, and not every action is futile, but if you don't understand what's being tracked, you can never fully understand how to protect yourself. You'd just be like everyone else in the cyber crowd that jumps from VPN or Email service every few years when they learn the service had a compromise or a bad privacy policy.
So my advice is, If you're in tech for a living, you should really invest some time into how things really work. If you're not in tech limit your interaction as much as possible.

2026-01-16 17:34:02 UTC

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Please do. I've heard mixed results for different reasons on them. People I know who have ordered them didn't keep them, they had problems with them. Problems I hope they work out eventually. They were power users expecting the functions to work as advertised. They hated the screen, keyboard quality, and lack of just about every other comparable feature for the price. They knew they were going to pay a premium for it, but they felt the price was too high for the usability.
I imagine if you don't rely on it for work in any way, they're probably enough, but again to spend that kind of money on something you'll use once a week for 3-4 years before you throw it out or sell it is kind of nuts too.

2026-01-16 17:19:13 UTC

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I also don't use wifi for these reasons. I disabled the wifi modem in firmware on my laptop and use an ethernet adapter. Id remove it but I hate taking apart modern laptops, I almost always break them.

2026-01-16 17:14:41 UTC

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Yeah price is about right these days. Hopefully it works out, decent cedar should last 15+ years assuming you don't live in a swamp and they use good posts when installing. Id get a friend who is a wood nerd sometime and ask them when to re-treat it. Some will say never, but in my experience it will always rot. So at some point id power wash it good then seal it. Probably get another 5-10 years out of the boards, maybe not the posts.

2026-01-16 17:07:29 UTC

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Also, incase you were wondering, we were close to Washington DC. That project was sponsored, and the students running it were hired to government agencies and defense contractors.

2026-01-16 17:03:14 UTC

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I got into tech from the ground floor, electronics and circuits. Working my way up, I realized unless I write it all myself 99.999% of devs don't see every one of these issues a problem, nor a problem they can solve. It compounds. The only solution I can see right now, is to opt out.
I don't don't want a Google device, I don't like them, I don't want to pay Google a dime. So I'm left with basically no options for a usable smartphone base. That's the TLDR.
In college I worked with a team that was building a device to track packets. What we learned is that so long as a device had a radio in it and the radio/modem was powered on, we could know your physical proximity to a single array antenna within about 2 meters. Since then I realized there is no way out.
I then learned how digital radios work, wrote firmware for them. Any antenna with an amplifier can pick up signals the analog end is tuned to. It's the system (os/driver) developer's job to filter out useless information. Which means that so long as you have a radio tuned to the same frequency everyone else is using (wifi, bluetooth, 4G-5G) the modem sees every packet that matches the preamble and decides to handle it, or drop it. So every wifi device, for example, reads every wifi packet from every device in it's radius. It sees the hardware (mac address) of every device and decides to pass it or discard it.
If you wanted to listen, it's called promiscuous mode, most wifi hardware supports it and most linux and windows network drivers support it. You can install a program right now, on any wifi enabled linux device, and see the approximate proximity (based on rssi) and the hardware address of every wifi enabled device around you. You could record all day long. You can know who is driving by your house, how often, what direction they were headed (and approximately how fast they were going) if they stopped at a red light, or even how much wireless activity was happening and then suggest they were using their phone while parked. No special hardware required.
If you have a radio, it can be monitored.
If you record audio, they can recover the 60hz (and harmonics) noise from the power grid and determine your approximate location and time.

2026-01-16 16:44:26 UTC

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The OP is a prediction to be clear. I also believe it already _is_ a class issue. You will be treated differently by your friends and family, if you don't do things online or carry a smartphone.
When someone asks me for GPS directions, I have to smile and say no, I cant.
When someone asks me to look up when or where something is. Sorry can't do that, give me your phone. Bruh...
Hey can you put on some music. Yeah what radio station do you listen to? Bruh...
Where do you want to eat? Idk grab the phone book? Have any menus in your drawer? Bruh.
It's already done.

2026-01-16 16:34:43 UTC

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Yeah, and tbh I was not ready for it. People who have known my position on modern tech for the last 5 years, now give me attitude like "okay guy, you've protested long enough, time to hang it up, you lost"

2026-01-16 16:32:45 UTC

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Yup. Then lock us in. Can go outside without needing a smartphone.

2026-01-16 16:30:35 UTC

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> I had to go to the office in person with docs, all very tedious.
Not the same office, but similar issue with websites being down, and get this, the office was only open between 1-4pm on Thursdays. It's state government office. They expect everything do be done on their app now. The hold music on the phone is just a voice telling poor people how to get a smarphone, how to get financial aid to pay for the phone service, and how to use their app. It's crazy.

2026-01-16 16:26:49 UTC

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2026-01-16 16:26:27 UTC

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> Poor people don't read books. That is one major reason why they stay poor.
Ding ding ding. They never did, taking their phone away wouldn't make them read more books either, right. They'd maybe play more sports or get drunk more often at a local bar.

2026-01-16 16:24:26 UTC

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> If I have leisure time and spend it reading an e-newspaper or an e-book, then that is low-class, but it's high-class to read the printed version? Well, I suppose. Some books are only available in digital format. I suppose you could order them on CD. But you would need the Internet for that.
This is my point yes. "Rich" people don't have 9-5s. If you can afford to be unavailable, for many hours of the day, because they're offline, that's a different level of wealth. If you can afford a lifestyle that allows you to get in your car and drive to the nearest library, during open hours, (if you still have any) doesn't require a smartphone with nfc to get in, lets you browse for cross-stitching an sewing books, check out, read, then execute. That's your entire evening. Cost wear on the car, risk, insurance, traffic, annoyances, gasoline, and time with your family.
If a IT issue happened at the office, the on call guy gets a call, he wakes up, gets ready and drives into the office, anywhere from 10-60 minutes away lets say. That entire time systems are down. Now, if you're not at your workstation in 5 minutes from the time of the call it's a problem. You have a work laptop in your house, you're logging on from _your_ office.
Also I recently went DVD shopping again at the local thrift stores and they all want between $3-4 for a single CD, DVD or BlueRay. That's insane! I've only gotten lucky at estate sales with lot boxes or auctions. It's far more expensive to use CDs/DVDs than it is to use online services.

2026-01-16 16:14:47 UTC

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This. This is what I mean.
I mean it's going to a symbol of "the rich" if you are able to participate in society without being online. I'm not only talking about "free time" spent online. Jobs that require your time on a screen, also often require excess amounts of tracking and personal information. Just because your using a tool to do a job, or watching videos for leisure, doesn't mean it's not affecting you.
It's a social thing. I already get attitude from family/friends that I can't do things like
- watch a youtube video
- listen to spotify
- scan a QR code
- hell, even web search a thing
People get really upset when you're different. It doesn't help that I have an defiant attitude toward it, but I try not to project it, in person.

2026-01-16 16:10:10 UTC

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And just about every retired person I know (most don't retire till their 70s) spends a significant portion of their time on facebook. They do often socialize, mostly drive around town slowly and cause traffic backups though. Florida got too expensive so they can't afford to leave anymore XD Probably a poor area type of thing.

2026-01-16 16:06:53 UTC

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Also _my_ point. It's nearly impossible to communicate with the outside world without the internet in some form. Even life without a smartphone is physically difficult let alone socially difficult. I'm literally a walking, sometimes talking, edge case.
I carry cash - stores don't have humans anymore.
I don't carry a smartphone - restaurants only have QR code menus, or event's requiring tickets don't use physical tickets anymore.
The local subway/train this year dropped all non-smartphone ticketing systems. They require a smartphone with internet, NFC, and GPS from what i've been told to ride the subway.

2026-01-16 16:01:41 UTC

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A partial point exactly. It's the same conversation I make about influencers. They make their living by paying someone else to run their social media pretending to be them, never opening the apps themselves. They expect us all to play the game without playing the game themselves.

2026-01-16 04:23:47 UTC

Offline is going to be a symbol of the "rich". Those who can afford to be off devices. So many jobs (even blue collar) require interacting with smart phones for the day job. Interacting with banking, ordering food, paying for stuff. Having to pay inflation prices for experiences, travel, etc.
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2026-01-15 22:13:10 UTC

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I appreciate your humble attitude. :) It seems like many nostriches act quite disconnected from the reality of the rest of the "normie" world, and forget people don't get to choose where they were born, and what resources they were born with.

2026-01-15 18:41:23 UTC

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Then that must mean the bridge is generating events with identifiable information. So y'all would be right, the events could be filtered out.
I use an old-ass build of nostrudel most of the time, so I can't see these, or probably don't interact with any bridge folks.

2026-01-15 18:37:15 UTC

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Good question, not sure. But in any case, if any relay federates with the bridge, those event's are spread viraly. So unless the event data itself contains identifiable information it's a waste of resources trying to track down the event source.

2026-01-15 18:34:57 UTC

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I don't disagree, but clean statistics often require a healthy amount of personally identifiable (traceable) metadata. If we can build a statistics chart, we can pretty easily track individual users. I think that's why most client devs should be against this.
My signer, for example, forcibly strips some identifiable information like client tags, before it signs them.

2026-01-15 18:32:34 UTC

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Bridges would have to identify themselves in the events they generate. @npub1kye…sfjk is suggesting that's currently the case.

2026-01-15 18:31:33 UTC

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Yeah nostr.band is gone. The money tree withered. :(

2026-01-15 18:30:38 UTC

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Gotcha, I'm unfamiliar with the event's most popular bridges create at the moment.
For example, neither my client nor yours, generate any client-related metadata. Bridges could just turn that feature off.

2026-01-15 18:28:30 UTC

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Yeah. My goal as well. Seems like the easiest/most logical solution XD

2026-01-15 18:26:55 UTC

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Event's are events. Unless we can determine where they're coming from (assuming clients bridges are announcing themselves) in the signed event data, it can't be filtered.

2026-01-15 18:20:38 UTC

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Where are you guys getting your stats from? cc @npub1kye…sfjk

2026-01-15 18:19:13 UTC

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Alaska is pretty good for this, but it's Alaska. You need a community and/or a large family that participates with the lifestyle and is fairly established.

2026-01-15 18:12:34 UTC

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Oh and you also live in an area with lax construction laws and local by-laws, otherwise break out even more money.

2026-01-15 18:10:13 UTC

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It's not just your own beliefs, it's everyone you interact with as well. Healthcare doesn't care, your landlord doesn't care, DMV doesn't care, your electric company doesn't care.
Sure you can fix many of these things if you find reasonably priced land in the woods, have some really high paying cash or bitcoin based work, don't live in a natural disaster or flood zone, have the tools/equipment to build everything yourself because you can't get/have insurance.
- Cash doctors are thousands of dollars/month (assuming you never need surgery or emergency care)
- Most US states require some type of personal liability insurance if driving a vehicle on the road
- You still owe property taxes, or again, they will come remove you from YOUR property
I know homesteaders that "opt out" but these are the real limitations. The only solution to them is have lots of extra money to pay your fines, pay your doctors cash, hope you and your family stay in very good health, and you have enough physical strength 24/7 to do the work necessary to raise your animals, maintain your crops, dig your wells, have local to trade with, tools to harvest materials to build your buildings and storage etc.
It all hinges on a strong man, an "traditional valued" housewife, and nearly perfect health for every person in the household for decades. OR lots of money.

2026-01-15 17:56:25 UTC

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You don't pay taxes (even if it's not your fault)
- At worst they come to your house with guns, rip you out and throw you in prison
- At best, you can never get a non-cash job opportunity. Your wages must be garnished by employers, which makes you not only a risky hire, but also a complicated one and can often be turned down from a position. Smaller business do this all the time. Ask husbands who refuse to pay child support. You can't take many forms of new debt, difficult to start a business etc. Depends on the agency taxes are owed to.

2026-01-15 17:35:10 UTC

My entire month of December. I missed every deadline. Can't wait to pay even more fines.
Most of the issue is that the local USPS hub got messed up and delayed government mail (only guberment mail btw) by 2 weeks. That's still our responsibility btw.
For one issue I was told they can't help me an I should file a suit if I think the fines are unjust. In the meantime fines will continue to accrue interest and INFLATION surcharges. That's right WE have to pay for inflation, that THEY'RE creating.
I'm confident state and local government agencies are more corrupt (or at least in ways that affect us more directly as citizens) then our federal government.
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2026-01-14 18:10:40 UTC

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So what more is there to say? No is the proper answer.
> Everyone's metrics are going to be skewed based on the algorithms they run
Is a statement of fact, "proper" metrics are a logical impossibility.

2026-01-14 17:01:05 UTC

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Everyone's metrics are going to be skewed based on the algorithms they run. In the past platforms like nostr.band used pubkey activity/interaction, follow lists and so on. Since we can't know who's a real person, or what activity is real (in real-time anyway) we will never have accurate metrics on nostr activity. Just about every metric of nostr can be manipulated. Finally, may users are on "private" relays that aren't federated, outbox/inbox are further decentralizing this activity as well. Those metrics can't be counted either.
The best you could do is work with a largely federated or used relay and apply your metrics algorithm to it. Again still only a portion of the network.

2026-01-13 20:48:53 UTC

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Some people do :)

2026-01-13 15:54:37 UTC

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True.

2026-01-13 02:28:31 UTC

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2026-01-12 16:18:44 UTC

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Found it. IPV6 bites again. On the plus side, I realize how many people are using ipv6 over ipv4 now.

2026-01-11 00:21:43 UTC

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Not in my "datacenter"! We have m.2 and usb3 now! XD

2026-01-11 00:20:35 UTC

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XD Nah I think about that a lot. I have a bag I can quickly throw my hard drives (the ones holding my important backups) nearby incase the worst happens. Then it's cars.
> There's paint warping and the lights are cooked.
That does suck, was he not able to move the car I assume?

2026-01-10 22:52:41 UTC

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HOLY SHIT. +1 on the glad yall are good, but that's nuts.
A few years ago, my buddy bought a house and about a month later a house down the street exploded (propane explosion). Made national news. He had to clean the boards off the whole property. We found pieces on his roof months later.

2026-01-10 22:49:29 UTC

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Critical, not pessimistic XD

2026-01-10 22:36:59 UTC

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Yeah, but what are the odds you're going to bump into him, without seeking it out? lol

2026-01-10 20:33:36 UTC

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That's a 50/50 in my experience. XD

2026-01-10 20:26:28 UTC

It feels really weird owning a server new enough to have native m.2 support and only USB 3 ports.

2026-01-10 04:02:09 UTC

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Seems like a bad idea to answer this question honestly.

2026-01-09 19:11:55 UTC

Just a reminder to have redundancy in your cloud environment. One of my hosting providers had a hardware failure and needed to offline migrate some services. My instance was mostly unaffected, but for maybe 20 minutes. However my service as a whole were completely uninterrupted, users shouldn't have noticed whatsoever, and all I had to do was keep an eye on my logs, everything else was automatic. The server came back online and traffic was restored.

2026-01-09 17:05:18 UTC

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That's rough. Could have been a thousdanare

2026-01-09 17:01:48 UTC

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I don't like to share active hardware, but it's replacing a Dell r330 as a witness.

2026-01-09 16:54:49 UTC

I just traded a 64gb kit of consumer DDR4 for a new server XD. Then I'm about to sell an 8 year old machine for just shy of the price it was new. Hardware prices are wild.

2026-01-08 19:03:32 UTC

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That's where I really wish the OSS devs were moving toward. AI is focused on fast, consuming MW of power just to give you a smart response on demand. I don't need that all the time. I need predictable automation that can run 24/7. I don't care if my server runs all night (that's it's job) automating tasks predictably. Just add things to my calendar, schedule phone calls, import and filter my emails, organize my notes, organize my filesystems, fetch and store relevant extra information. Just automation tasks that require some consistant reasoning that can be written down, and so long as it's reasonably deterministic, and the tools have error checking and correction, shouldn't be a problem.

2026-01-08 18:02:17 UTC

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For coding, I've found qwen 3 coder to be the "best" but even the 27b model is not very useful when things like Claude 4.5 are just becoming useful. It's good for checking for typos, or very basic single file changes, and even with a beefy server it's going to take a few minutes to submit a single patch, assuming it gets the tools correct. I've found the smaller instruct models know how to use the tools a little better, but they're dumb and direct.

2026-01-08 18:00:17 UTC

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I use continue.dev extension in vscode with my OpenWebui server (connected to ollama). I assume you're running locally?

2026-01-07 20:23:18 UTC

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That's the fun part about mono-repos. Lots of things packed together, very few are part of the same application. Could be though I suppose. My CMNext application ships at about 12mb compressed, about 23mb on disk. If you added all the extra bells and whistle features like database support and caching stuff it could probably grow to double that. It's worse during dev. I think the total disk size is somewhere around 5gb, mostly thanks to nodejs

2026-01-07 20:19:03 UTC

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It is over 100k files on the disk in the workspace directory is has to filter. Only about 13k are editable source code files. The rest are binaries and other package related files I suppose.

2026-01-07 20:17:07 UTC

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Worth getting back to pen and paper imo! I'm off an on with it. But I can't use anything electronic, the only thing is the pad I have is a little to large to take with me.

2026-01-07 19:50:45 UTC

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It's only about 13,000 source code files XD

2026-01-07 18:45:06 UTC

vscode really be struggling with workpaces with over 100k files :( I added another repo and it's just tanked to be almost unusable. I've removed all but 2 extensions. Copilot and my theme.

2026-01-06 16:49:01 UTC

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Aww. What happened? Hardware support or software issues?

2026-01-05 18:51:59 UTC

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XD Yeah thanks again for clearing that up. I use AI for software, every time I've tried for electronics I get spun in circles and always end up back in my college textbooks and notebooks lol.

2026-01-05 05:14:53 UTC

This. I've rattled on about this for days here. I'll still run one, but if you need emails to make it somewhere it's impossible to guarantee they make it to their destination.
BTW The rules (enki listed) you're expected to follow, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft don't actually following either because they don't have to, they have reputation. They don't even have working rDNS which you're, by law, in the US required to have to send emails (among other things).
Yes, btw you need permission from the US government to be allowed to send email on US networks. Telcos can be legally responsible for your traffic, which is why most residential connections block outbound traffic with dst port of 25.
There is partially a way around it though. You can pay for an SMTP relay with a good reputation and they have a deal with Google and friends. resend.com supports this and is free for a small number of emails. It's another SaaS so use it at your own risk. But unless you know someone who can get you in the door, there is no option if you need to send emails to user's inboxes. I've also had good luck with Inmotion Hosting email services for commercial use.
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2026-01-04 05:42:02 UTC

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Right on!

2026-01-04 01:55:03 UTC

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I'm sorry to hear it. Thankfully I have not had the displeasure yet. XD

2026-01-04 01:40:11 UTC

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Thank you me too!

2026-01-04 01:39:33 UTC

It's not always DNS sometimes it's SELinux

2026-01-03 20:47:31 UTC

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Yeah thanks for following up. I definitely had a hunch something was off.

2026-01-02 20:06:54 UTC

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My trainer/nutritionist have confirmed that most smart watches (at least apple and garmin) are fairly accurate for cardio, or elevated heart-rate tasks. But for strength training you'll never see the actual calories consumed in rebuilding muscle.
Id have to think, for those with more physical work I can imaging it's probably fairly worthless since it can be a decent mix of muscle breakdown and cardio.

2026-01-02 15:31:50 UTC

According to my watch having a fever burns about 200cal/hour. That's crazy.

2026-01-01 17:01:01 UTC

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GM. HNY

2026-01-01 06:09:31 UTC

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See the IRS was miles ahead of the pleb. Often forgotten that most people get their income tax automatically withheld, so it's not like they can easily stop paying (income) taxes if they wanted to. It's automatic.

2026-01-01 06:01:18 UTC

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GN. HNY!

2026-01-01 06:01:06 UTC

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GN. HYN!

2026-01-01 06:00:42 UTC

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HNY!

2025-12-30 22:10:50 UTC

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Probably not, depends on your definition XD. I still enjoy coding, so when I'm in the mood, I just sit and bang out a thing. Cathartic.

2025-12-30 22:04:13 UTC

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Honey why are you crying? Is everything okay? I gotta whisper cause I can't be too loooud

2025-12-30 21:59:11 UTC

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Yeah I still worry about that interaction. Like what else did I/we say they heard on the mic in the room.

2025-12-30 21:44:16 UTC

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Yeah this is very difficult.
We recently had to remove some tech from an older family member because she kept falling for scams. She called me in a panic once, I raced over to the house and the scumbags had convinced her to enable here video camera. They had been watching her the whole time in her home (for about 3-4 hours). She didn't tell me what was going on. The Indian guy seemingly knew who I was (Ive dealt with many of these Indian scams, almost a dozen now so I have a routine to deal with them) and I was like how TF does this guy know what I look like!?!? Thank goodness I quickly looked at her laptop to realize her camera light was on!
I was like WTF you didn't tell me you were on your laptop.
Anyway that laptop got crushed into a million pieces. We had to migrate her whole financial life because she gave it all away (it was mostly fine thankfully). And we stripped her of most online freedoms. The only one she wouldn't let us take is Facebook, which is worst of them all.
They called me "boy with long hair and ball cap"

2025-12-30 21:37:56 UTC

nostr.band SSL certificates expired on the 22nd?

2025-12-30 21:35:20 UTC

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#nevent1q…6kpy

2025-12-30 21:32:47 UTC

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Some users on HN "clarify" that it's Google's filter enabled by app developers on the store. Bitwarden is flagged by the level HSBC devs specified in their filter settings. So that's a question for Google.

2025-12-30 21:31:23 UTC

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The original post appears to be on mastodon somewhere. Apparently it was possibly the site's owner "neil"? The link does not appear to work.
I found this hacker news thread on it while searching though. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46431453

2025-12-30 21:26:24 UTC

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An change you have a link to the twitter post?