Hacker News: Fb24k

New comment by Fb24k in "Shave and a Haircut"

Fb24k — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 02:05:17 +0000

Illinois also has a Ver-Say-Lees as well as a Kay-row (Cairo)

New comment by Fb24k in "DJI – The ART of obfuscation"

Fb24k — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 09:59:31 +0000

Stuff like this is is part of the reason the US DoD banned DJI drone usage in 2020, looks like the ban will likely extend to all federal agencies this year: https://www.govtech.com/em/emergency-blogs/disaster-zone/fed...

New comment by Fb24k in "Setting up a secondary Pi-Hole on my home network"

Fb24k — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:21:53 +0000

Note that this quite often results in round robin between the two DNS servers, not a primary and fallback as intended.

New comment by Fb24k in "Mad Scientists' Club: The Books"

Fb24k — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:52:32 +0000

Wow, these were excellent. The Strange Sea Monster of Strawberry Lake was a favorite as a kid in the 80s.

New comment by Fb24k in "High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98"

Fb24k — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:43:01 +0000

I still remember connecting two MS-DOS computers together with a parallel cable, that was the easiest way to do "large" file transfers there for a while (used a program called LapLink, iirc)...

New comment by Fb24k in "ESP32-C61: Delivering Affordable Wi-Fi 6 Connectivity"

Fb24k — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 18:00:00 +0000

I don't know what happened to the C5 - still vaporware 18 months after announcement.

New comment by Fb24k in "Now Blocking 56,037,235 IP Addresses, and Counting"

Fb24k — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 14:09:16 +0000

After reading his three part multi-month series about how he can't set up a firewall, I don't think this guy is probably someone who should be providing any useful information on how to use the internet (or anything attached to it).