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New comment by petee in "The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory"

petee — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:13:55 +0000

It sets up the network for services, but it's been a minute since so I don't remember the specifics, just that I needed to make a new file in some deep folder to tell it to use a non-standard port.

To me its just more complexity, and not super consistent, which is fine for enterprise, or automation. I'm used to openbsd, regular shell init scripts go in /etc/rc.d, and my logs are in /var/log. Can't get much simpler than that, but i understand its limitations, and Linux is certainly more of a hodgepodge

Edit: found my notes, first was discovering the "gpsd" & "gpsd.socket" namespaces existence, then needing to do "systemd edit --full gpsd.socket" because without "--full" it makes an override file that didn't actually override anything...my note quality declined rapidly after that due to anger

New comment by petee in "The Fedora 45 Sausage Factory"

petee — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:24:37 +0000

Imho its not necessary for the average user, adding too much complexity.

For example, I tried to config gpsd to use another port, nothing would work; systemd quietly overrides gpsd's configfile and required additional systemd incantations to change what should have been easy. And the man pages are a mess

And journalctl makes me want to pull my hair out; just let me grep a regular file - discovering namespaces is a nightmare

New comment by petee in "PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats"

petee — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:41:02 +0000

> Since 1995, occasional awards for UUOC have been given out, usually by Perl luminary Randal L. Schwartz

http://catb.org/jargon/html/U/UUOC.html

Admittedly its taken me a long time to remember that the file is the last argument to grep, when so many other commands its the first. I'd guess common abuse is due to being easier to type cat x | than to dig up the man page

New comment by petee in "Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs"

petee — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:31:47 +0000

I really love that the source-extension icons are all different, and resemble the files contents - .c indentation, .h mostly linear, .s assembly instructions, ".o" bits

New comment by petee in "TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access"

petee — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:06:30 +0000

Is this what your referring to? https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/WireGuardAllo...

New comment by petee in "Cloudflare Drop"

petee — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 21:23:42 +0000

Yeah I'm very lost on what this is supposed to do -- "Summon your site" is quite vague. "see it live", like a demo? or is this actually published somewhere? Is it forever?

Desktop mode doesn't show any more information either

New comment by petee in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

petee — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:07:39 +0000

Nearly 4 years from last notification and the password is the same; either thats real incompetence, or a hilarious power move

New comment by petee in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

petee — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:44:09 +0000

> If anything, then the 2.5-gig port is overkill.

Or 1 gig is underkill. My original reply was just pointing out that simply adding a 2.5g switch doesn't make it a 5 port 2.5g router, it makes it a 1 gig router with 2.5 internal, at best

New comment by petee in "Why 3D TVs failed and the trouble with 3D in Hollywood"

petee — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:34:55 +0000

I had suppressed my memory of Christmas Carol 3d in theaters apparently - super jumpy, really bad ghosting, let alone the bad animation

New comment by petee in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

petee — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:52:23 +0000

Ok, so your wan is 1gig, and your lan 2.5...handy but not much of a perk. Lets just call this an AP, which would clear up many issues people seem to have with it

New comment by petee in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

petee — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:49:51 +0000

It does raise the question that if it is for developers, what exactly is being developed? Especially if its not representative of hardware that is available or desired; is there some advantage targeting a very particular chipset? This seems to be the only device using it (from what i could find briefly)

New comment by petee in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

petee — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:20:39 +0000

2.5 is the WAN, so your lan is only getting 1g anyway

New comment by petee in "Why 3D TVs failed and the trouble with 3D in Hollywood"

petee — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:47:50 +0000

While glasses certainly sucked (I had a Samsung) I just couldn't stand that most content was essentially a technology demonstration -- throwing objects at the viewer for the sake of it, 4th wall be damned.

The Lion King is an example of good 3d imho, because they used it to improve the storytelling and art -- like adding depth to the water reflection of Simba

Tom Kean got months of paid sick leave – after voting against it for others

petee — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:18:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/04/tom-kean-jr-sick-leave-mental-health-depression

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48785597

Points: 9

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New comment by petee in "Valve open-source the Steam Machine e-ink screen so you can make your own"

petee — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:16:07 +0000

I see some kind of illumination from below/behind the display. Being from Gamers Nexus, I'd be shocked if it was manipulated. Maybe just a really steep sidelite

New comment by petee in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

petee — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:56:48 +0000

I appreciated it for my Google Takeout download - they seemed to cap per file speed, so I could get multiple going. Getting it done quickly was important since google would force 2fa re-auth if you waited literally 30 seconds between files, ~80 4G files

Besides that, my two housemates streaming 4k while I'm downloading an iso can definitely hit the cap. The extra headroom is nice, versus just falling over

New comment by petee in "Free the Icons"

petee — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:01:30 +0000

Even thats slowly being depreciated for gestures as the default option. A bunch of Google's own apps won't play nice with it anymore on the flagship Pixel, drawing buttons underneath

New comment by petee in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

petee — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:55:46 +0000

On mobile this surfaced as trying to download a file called "viewer", couldn't see the url. Def weird

New comment by petee in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

petee — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:11:46 +0000

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/

puttygen.com looks super fishy, the disclaimer:

> Puttygen software is not created, nor supported by Puttygen.com. The program has been tested and is believed to be safe. [...] The use of Puttygen through Puttygen.com is done at your own discretion and risk

Edit: or is that the evil grin?

New comment by petee in "Build Your Own IP Geolocation Setup Without the SaaS Tax in an Afternoon"

petee — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:08:23 +0000

Frankly it reads exactly as a pitch - who you are, why you're the best, and whats wrong with whats presented, followed by 'so use us'.

And there was no misinformation here. You even use the lack of City data in GeoLite as a negative, yet you only offer City as paid. Personally, I'm already paying a VM cost, and I can get 1uS answers hosting locally, so this is a valid solution.

Im trying to be honest with you because I found the project on reddit, where you commented, only to share it here and find the same immediate reply with no constructive input to their project. Do you offer a community or offline version of your db for local use?