Hacker News: gtdawg

New comment by gtdawg in "Archival Storage"

gtdawg — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:49:45 +0000

What is your process for automating this checksum twice a year? Does it give you a text file dump with the absolute paths of all files that fail checksum for inspection? How often does this failure happen for you?

New comment by gtdawg in "Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15"

gtdawg — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 07:21:31 +0000

Can't run various banking apps and can't run PagerDuty on a rooted device due to Google Play API Integrity Check. The ecosystem is closing in on any options to not send telemetry, and Google is leading the way in the restrictions on Freedom.

New comment by gtdawg in "Request for Startups: Climate Tech"

gtdawg — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:06:52 +0000

> * Cheap EV chargers for people who don’t own houses.

https://www.itselectric.us

New comment by gtdawg in "What are your most used self-hosted applications?"

gtdawg — Thu, 05 May 2022 02:41:26 +0000

I ordered a pibox in February. When are they shipping?

New comment by gtdawg in "What are your most used self-hosted applications?"

gtdawg — Thu, 05 May 2022 00:31:44 +0000

Is your mail-in-a-box and Nextcloud totally separate? I know MiaB has an integrated Nextcloud, but their documentation says that they only support contacts / calendaring, so I'm hesitant to use it without fully documented support for all Nextcloud's features.

New comment by gtdawg in "Windows 10 minus the spyware plus added stability and security"

gtdawg — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 18:25:52 +0000

Doesn't Tron solve this the legal way? https://old.reddit.com/r/TronScript/

New comment by gtdawg in "Deta Space – Where web apps are yours"

gtdawg — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 20:01:37 +0000

I found this through the Webcrate HN post and was looking to get more information on this organization. It sounds very similar to what Sandstorm was doing, I wonder if they are using Sandstorm as the base of their platform.

New comment by gtdawg in "Gigabyte Brix Pro: A Compact PC for Basic Computing Needs"

gtdawg — Sun, 16 May 2021 23:31:52 +0000

What hardware profile runs your true nas? I've been looking to build something open source rather than using Synology.

Great Blading Bubble: How Toxic Masculinity Inflated and Burst Aggressive Inline

gtdawg — Tue, 04 May 2021 17:05:08 +0000

Article URL: https://toldandretold1.medium.com/the-great-blading-bubble-how-toxic-masculinity-inflated-and-burst-aggressive-inline-4313e4930714

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27039830

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by gtdawg in "Ask HN: Digital Nomads: What's Your Setup?"

gtdawg — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 21:20:33 +0000

Since you are a long term nomad, I'm wondering what your solution is for Government documents (IRS, Driver License, Car Registration, Jury Duty notification, absentee voting, etc), bank statements (KYC regulations), and other things that need a real address, and not an personal mailbox service? I've had issues with using PO Boxes even with Street Addressing, but I'm not sure a UPS store box would fix those issues.

Services like EarthClassMail sound like it would fit the bill, but I'm wondering if whatever API's these SaaS services use to validate "true residential address" will eventually blocklist these services addresses.

Thanks!

New comment by gtdawg in "Voyagers Detect an Increase in the Density of Space Outside the Solar System"

gtdawg — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 22:08:28 +0000

Thanks for this, years ago when I was on the road and wanted to visit last minute and quickly searched for information on where to go and tours, I didn't find this gem. Really helpful to see they have a visitors center in Barstow.

New comment by gtdawg in "Voyagers Detect an Increase in the Density of Space Outside the Solar System"

gtdawg — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 18:42:48 +0000

Any information on how to visit? I tried visiting there as a spur of the moment thing when I was passing through Barstow. The military checkpoint personnel on the road to Goldstone were not happy and turned me away after a light questioning, checking driver license and license plate against databases, and visually inspecting the inside of the vehicle from outside with the windows down.

New comment by gtdawg in "Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do"

gtdawg — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 21:09:23 +0000

Quite interested!

New comment by gtdawg in "Uber Is Biggest Loser as SoftBank Counts IPO Returns"

gtdawg — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 15:03:37 +0000

Didn't we have something very similar with sidecar, and nobody knew about them? They couldn't compete with Uber and Lyft and went under. That's from vague memory...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidecar_(company)

New comment by gtdawg in "All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert"

gtdawg — Sat, 04 May 2019 04:25:09 +0000

Interesting coincidence, my Ubuntu 12.04 Let's Encrypt certbox-auto updated in March 2019 to a version which no longer runs on Ubuntu 12.04 without major surgery.

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/pip-error-with-certbot-a...

I wonder if this bit Mozilla and caused this issue.

New comment by gtdawg in "Is Slack Down?"

gtdawg — Thu, 02 May 2019 20:10:42 +0000

Yes.

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=news&q=slack&sr...

New comment by gtdawg in "Some Day, You’ll Have a Telephone with a Screen and Be Able To Dial a Book"

gtdawg — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 00:17:36 +0000

Incredible! I've always been fascinated when driving by the Sylmar station (many times in my life) and never knew that I was driving by connecting infrastructure when on PCH in that area.

And even more interesting is they are replacing/replaced it! https://www.circlingthenews.com/terminus-of-sylmar-ground-re...

New comment by gtdawg in "Wealth: The Toxic Byproduct (2013)"

gtdawg — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 17:11:56 +0000

To me, you were describing today's world. Maybe that was the point.

New comment by gtdawg in "IPv6 xmas display uses 75 Internet's worth of addresses"

gtdawg — Tue, 25 Dec 2018 19:43:55 +0000

A solution could be a Firefox browser extension that allocates a huge number of v6 addresses to your computer dynamically from your LAN /64 or /56 and creates fake garbage google usage data, so that google can never build a profile on you based on v6 address (if you are this paranoid).

Or... just stop using google and use uBlock Origin to block all Google domains.

New comment by gtdawg in "CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah legislators told them to"

gtdawg — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:31:00 +0000

True, I did forget about the Qwest acquisition from Centurylink because that was so long ago (to my memory). I do remember the days when routing problems and outages with Qwest in public forums always led to the 'Qworst' name popping up.

I also work for a shop that I recommended Level(3) DIA fiber/Layer 3 services on about 1.5 years ago. Now that it's CL, not much has changed on service or reliability.

The sales people however are still trying to expand their grasp into our organization so it's always a battle there.