Hacker News: archimedespi

New comment by archimedespi in "SDF – Public Access Unix System"

archimedespi — Tue, 18 Apr 2017 00:19:51 +0000

Yep. You can download/verify that script by hand, or hit the endpoints yourself. They just run stuff to provision your user and files and add you to our LDAP directory.

New comment by archimedespi in "SDF – Public Access Unix System"

archimedespi — Mon, 17 Apr 2017 23:16:54 +0000

There /is/ a modern, well-managed open-registration shell and IRC service, similar to what you're talking about, called Hashbang. You can join via https://hashbang.sh.

We're reasonably active, and we have almost 1400 registered users [edited: i was corrected by a hashbang admin as to the amount].

The ultimate purpose of hashbang is to expose more users to a traditional remote UNIX server and command line, as well as teaching people how to use it. We've created a slight barrier to entry with the intentionally obtuse signup flow, as we don't want completely non-technical users flooding the service.

I promise we won't bite :D

New comment by archimedespi in "The end-to-end refresh of our server hardware fleet"

archimedespi — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 23:58:35 +0000

eh, owning hardware is fun and a great learning experience

New comment by archimedespi in "Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014)"

archimedespi — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 04:17:26 +0000

tcc is blazingly fast, at least last time i used it. it's honestly fast enough that you could probably use it as an c interpreter

New comment by archimedespi in "Mirai Botnet Linked to Dyn DNS DDoS Attacks"

archimedespi — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 06:12:47 +0000

Check and see if the Mirai code has default credentials for it, and if so, try logging in with them.

New comment by archimedespi in "I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know"

archimedespi — Sun, 18 Sep 2016 04:28:53 +0000

Mad props to you for creating that and Scanny for taking over! It's helped me automate some really nasty boring stuff that had to be done in Word.

New comment by archimedespi in "Software Freedom Doesn't Kill People, Security Through Obscurity Kills People"

archimedespi — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 16:51:23 +0000

Exactly. I see so many people complaining about the Linux kernel SLOC versus other kernels; it's an unfair comparison because no other modern kernel I know of has such a wide selection of in-tree drivers.

For instance, when I install Windows on a computer, I will often have to install additional chipset drivers (odd USB3.0 controller, motherboard chipset stuff, fan control). When I install Linux, all of that stuff works out of the box, no drivers necessary: it's rolled right into the kernel.

New comment by archimedespi in "Software Freedom Doesn't Kill People, Security Through Obscurity Kills People"

archimedespi — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 16:47:24 +0000

Making modifying stuff a felony still just slows down peoples' efforts, unless there's a reliable way of enforcing it, which is... not really possible.

New comment by archimedespi in "Ardour 5 released"

archimedespi — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 23:35:04 +0000

Thank you for explaining!

If you've contacted GTK about upstreaming your patches, what was their response? I'd be surprised if they didn't want to.

New comment by archimedespi in "Ardour 5 released"

archimedespi — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 20:01:15 +0000

Why would stock GTK+ cause problems?

New comment by archimedespi in "Ardour 5 released"

archimedespi — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 14:37:28 +0000

That's already happening: KXStudio, a Linux distro for audio work, has pre-packaged Ardour binaries.

New comment by archimedespi in "Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more"

archimedespi — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 21:12:13 +0000

It may be retired, but Sparkfun still sells it[1].

If you're looking for other faster microcontrollers with Arduino toolchain support, there's a bunch of stuff out there. See the Wikipedia page on non-atmega Arduino-supported boards: [2].

Additionally, if you're willing to learn how to use the ARM CMSIS HAL and write raw C++, there's the STM32 series of microcontrollers. Those also support Mbed, if you want to learn that instead (it's much easier than using CMSIS with C++, it's basically the equivalent of arduino for many 32-bit ARM microcontrollers).

[1]- https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11589

[2]- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Arduino_boards_and_com...

New comment by archimedespi in "Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more"

archimedespi — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 15:21:28 +0000

The reason someone serious about embedded development would want to buy Arduino boards is that they're convenient Atmel-architecture microcontroller boards. The ESP8266 may be "arduino compatible", but a large number of those Arduino libraries running on it had to be rewritten.

If you want convenience and ISA/peripheral-register compatibility with existing low-level Arduino code, you're locked in to atmegas unless you want to do some fun porting work ;)

New comment by archimedespi in "Intro to modern hardware prototyping"

archimedespi — Wed, 13 Jul 2016 02:42:40 +0000

Just grab a cheap Chinese clone off of Ebay. They're pretty much completely functionally identical in my experience.

New comment by archimedespi in "Voxel art"

archimedespi — Tue, 31 May 2016 17:02:40 +0000

I know several devs who make music. It's not that accurate.

New comment by archimedespi in "How to Build Your Own Rogue GSM BTS for Fun and Profit"

archimedespi — Sun, 03 Apr 2016 02:29:00 +0000

Exactly; without an RF amp you're not going to do any serious damage.

New comment by archimedespi in "Factorio – a game where you can automate basically anything"

archimedespi — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:08:13 +0000

Seconding Zachtronics; TIS-100 is an amazing game.

New comment by archimedespi in "Congressman Ted Lieu Statement on Apple Court Order"

archimedespi — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 02:21:34 +0000

There are 8 engineering majors in Congress (all in the House IIRC), which is pretty suprising.

New comment by archimedespi in "We Need a Better PC"

archimedespi — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 02:17:24 +0000

Yeah, I'd love to get the new Razer[0] that came out this year, but unfortunately they went the way of "thunderbolt3.0 all the things" which is... not going to work with Linux. At all :(

[0] - http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade-stealth

New comment by archimedespi in "SDCC – Small Device C Compiler"

archimedespi — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 03:59:33 +0000

Yeah, I can get that. When I was working with SDCC, I really would have preferred GCC or clang - SDCC has some funky quirks that really pissed me off and introduced some weird bugs.

And yeah, AVR8 (and IIRC 16 and 32) have GCC toolchains as well as avr-llvm, which is pretty sweet.