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New comment by towit in "Show HN: An 'offline' reverse-geocoder API written in Go"

towit — Sat, 07 Mar 2020 15:47:25 +0000

I'll try to make this as short as possible using all the acronyms!

Alpine Linux on a Raspberry Pi with LTE/3G, GNSS, BT and Wifi.

Boot and request Wireguard enrollment over TLS (human acknowledges in Slack to verify inventory), configure WG tunnel, start gRPC producer.

Hop the 2.4 Ghz spectrum at 250 Hz, gopacket sniffs MGT frames for probes and beacons, collects SSID, MAC, RSSI and a ton of other really neat data from the GPS and system itself (temp, procs, load, mem, modem signal strength, carrier, nearby bluetooth peripherals).

Push these events in real-time to gRPC consumer over Wireguard. The ETL aggregates and stores summary data in NoSQL, the raw request is marshalled to JSON and stored in ElasticSearch (in the event of a disaster; also it's fun to use Kibana to find new interesting metrics to report on the customer dashboard).

It's purpose is to determine how many humans are within potential viewing distance of a moving object which may or may not have some form of communique - these devices are installed in vehicles.

Show HN: An 'offline' reverse-geocoder API written in Go

towit — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 17:38:39 +0000

I've recently been working with real-time geoJSON data at a rate of 50+ queries per second.

SaaS solutions can be prohibitively expensive at this rate, thus, I created go-reverse-geo.

Data is pulled from geonames.org and is stored in MongoDB (a requirement of my current project).

It is very much a work-in-progress (I wrote it this morning). Hope someone finds it useful.

https://paranoia.dev/vivi/go-reverse-geo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22505528

Points: 14

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New comment by towit in "Show HN: Download YouTube movies directly to iPhone (with no extra app required)"

towit — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 14:54:01 +0000

It's already a thing : podsync {dot} net

New comment by towit in "Show HN: EasyLDAP – A “Dockerized” LDAP management tool"

towit — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 12:40:54 +0000

This is both LDAP server and management interface. Check out the docker-compose.yml.

New comment by towit in "Show HN: EasyLDAP – A “Dockerized” LDAP management tool"

towit — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 13:11:59 +0000

Disclaimer: This is a weekend-project/work-in-progress.

Configuring LDAP can be a daunting task, this is a drop-in LDAP management tool (and server) I built to easily add / remove users from my LDAP directory.

I've tested it with Gitlab, Redmine, Apache mod_authz and OwnCloud/NextCloud with great success. It will most likely work for any basic auth you may require.

Credit for UI goes to @creativetimofficial on github.

Show HN: EasyLDAP – A “Dockerized” LDAP management tool

towit — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 13:11:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/aster1sk/easyldap/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13819968

Points: 8

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New comment by towit in "Make America Hate Again"

towit — Mon, 30 Jan 2017 13:55:02 +0000

Canada welcomes you.

New comment by towit in "Ask HN: What did your 'Show HN' project turn into?"

towit — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 03:14:51 +0000

Last year we shared https://towit.io - no HN love but we did receive international press and to this day a slow but steady pace of new users.

Was a traumatising year of highs and lows, 6/10.

* Edited for readability.