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Local-heatmap-tile-server v1

c0nsumer — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:55:31 +0000

Article URL: https://nuxx.net/blog/2026/04/07/local-heatmap-tile-server-v1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677268

Points: 2

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New comment by c0nsumer in "Show HN: Flight-Viz – 10K flights on a 3D globe in 3.5MB of Rust+WASM"

c0nsumer — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:17:34 +0000

When zooming in and it switches to the lighter color tiles, the icons basically become invisible.

Updated MTB Trail Mapping Workflow: Thanks, Claude

c0nsumer — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 12:42:55 +0000

Article URL: https://nuxx.net/blog/2026/03/12/updated-mtb-trail-mapping-workflow-thanks-claude/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47349793

Points: 1

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New comment by c0nsumer in "AirSnitch: Demystifying and breaking client isolation in Wi-Fi networks [pdf]"

c0nsumer — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:08:22 +0000

Client isolation is done at L2. You can't add exceptions for IP ranges / protocols / etc this way because that's up the stack. Even if devices can learn about each other in other ways, isolation gets in the way of direct communication between them.

New comment by c0nsumer in "Volatility: The volatile memory forensic extraction framework"

c0nsumer — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:33:34 +0000

Outside of security stuff, over the years I've found this really handy for troubleshooting as well. Being able to extract detailed process info, screenshots, and a bunch of other things from a memory dump have allowed me to get a better idea of what a user was doing when a Windows BSOD occurred.

It builds more a nice picture of what was going on when paired with the users description. Or sometimes, depending on the user, you just don't have anything else to go on besides "it crashed".

New comment by c0nsumer in "The wonder of modern drywall"

c0nsumer — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 01:42:42 +0000

I suspect they are meaning because it's uniform you can easily find the studs through it and fasten things directly into them.

An uneven wall material (plaster on lathe, or even plaster on drywall as we have in most of our house) can be quite a hassle to find the actual timbers/studs behind.

New comment by c0nsumer in "Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018)"

c0nsumer — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:11:41 +0000

Small world!

You're welcome.

Yeah, give borg a look. It's just faster to back up, faster to delete old backups, and just easier to do restores because so long as you have the appropriate credentials you can list the archive from any machine.

I think there's still a place/use for --link-dst and hardlinks, but as a backup system I think borg does it better.

For reference: https://nuxx.net/blog/2019/11/10/using-borg-for-backing-up-n...

New comment by c0nsumer in "Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018)"

c0nsumer — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:53:38 +0000

Hard links are file level dedupe.

And then once all references to the inode are removed (by rotating out backups) it's freed. So there's no maintenance of the deduping needed, it's all just part of how the filesystem and --link-dest work together.

New comment by c0nsumer in "Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018)"

c0nsumer — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 02:53:28 +0000

Ha. That's a throwback.

I did the same thing, but with a more detailed writeup, in 2009: https://nuxx.net/blog/2009/12/06/time-machine-for-freebsd/

It was really handy, but I now use borg as it just works better.

New comment by c0nsumer in "Ode to the AA Battery"

c0nsumer — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:10:10 +0000

A weird flipside is things like... the IKEA Zigbee devices. Many of these do not work right at all with 1.5V batteries and basically require rechargables.

If You Want Different Outcomes, You Have to Do Different Things

c0nsumer — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 00:13:49 +0000

Article URL: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/if-you-want-different-outcomes-you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46760124

Points: 2

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New comment by c0nsumer in "OLED, Not for Me"

c0nsumer — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 16:32:59 +0000

With the advent of new RGB (three column, like most LCD) OLEDs I wonder if Apple's next high-end display is going to use that. It'd be a whole bunch of things aligning for a good ecosystem.

And I know this is a whole lot of personal preference, but I like macOS. It works well for me. It's a good UNIX(-like?) with professional-level apps.

I support/maintain/use Windows systems for a living so I'm comfortable there as well, and I'd be mostly fine on a Linux but the lack of pro-level apps for some of my hobbies (namely, map making) and sufficiently-user-friendly equivalents for a few other apps (eg: rubiTrack, Hazel, Photos.app) is a problem.

(A bunch of years back I made a conscious choice to do less sysadmin-ing at home, even if I have to pay a bit more. It's freed up mental capacity for using computers as a means to an end vs. an end itself. And it means I don't have the flexibility of Linux or other OSS things at times, but I've been able to work within that. But I'm getting way off topic here...)

New comment by c0nsumer in "OLED, Not for Me"

c0nsumer — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 11:16:13 +0000

Yeah, and I'm not terribly interested in getting into the details of how everything renders... I just want a display that works and doesn't make my eyes feel funny.

The PA27JCV (which I don't expect to have back from warranty repair for 3+ weeks) looked fine, and I'm now at day 5 of using the U3223QE and it's fine. So this is my solution to the problem I guess.

New comment by c0nsumer in "OLED, Not for Me"

c0nsumer — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:11:39 +0000

The person who bought mine was a family friend who wanted a large display for her kid to do 3D printing stuff. Since he was just going to be running a slicer and some basic modeling stuff, it seemed perfect. I got a bit of cash, he got a computer with a good display, and it was a general win all around.

New comment by c0nsumer in "OLED, Not for Me"

c0nsumer — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:25:21 +0000

Ahh, here you go then: https://nuxx.net/images/screenshots_for_DiabloD3.zip

New comment by c0nsumer in "OLED, Not for Me"

c0nsumer — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:07:28 +0000

I would send them, but I've already returned the OLED to Costco. Sorry. :\

On the upside, I should have a shiny new U3225QE IPS LCD later this week.

(I just sidestepped the problem.)

EDIT: I should add that the screenshot in my post of a cell from a spreadsheet was Numbers.app.

New comment by c0nsumer in "OLED, Not for Me"

c0nsumer — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:33:33 +0000

Numbers.app, Autodesk Fusion, Adobe Illustrator, and Terminal.app were the first places I noticed it. And in Fusion and Illustrator it's not text that's the issue but lines/graphics.

And high contrast edges in photos in Apple Photos looked wonky.

New comment by c0nsumer in "OLED, Not for Me"

c0nsumer — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 01:56:33 +0000

...yet at 4K native on macOS (OS X) I could see fringing. And it was worse than using a slightly lower resolution, scaled up by the OS.

And it's particularly bad on solid color lines and high contrast borders (not fonts). So... that doesn't work for me. Which was the point of the post; I don't like how this particular subpixel pattern OLED monitor looks and it's not for me.

New comment by c0nsumer in "OLED, Not for Me"

c0nsumer — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:28:53 +0000

Do tell, how does one avoid this problem on macOS when needing to use colored fonts and lines? (That is, flipping to greyscale isn't an option.)

New comment by c0nsumer in "OLED, Not for Me"

c0nsumer — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:23:37 +0000

I actually had a 5K iMac that I sold when I got the Mac mini. As I was deciding on the display I looked at doing that, but I wasn't super keen on the unfinished look. And IIRC it was going to cost about $250 in parts at the time. I was able to get the ASUS for about $700 and sell the iMac for ~$300. So it was really only about $150 more to not DIY it and have a more finished final package.

It is a really neat looking project, I just determined it wasn't for me.