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New comment by zikduruqe in "I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline"

zikduruqe — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:51:22 +0000

I'm just a little bit older, and have to work a little longer due to some personal things.

But, as it stands today, I rarely touch any tech outside of work. Heck, I seldom ever bring my cell phone outside the home.

I long for the day, I can close my laptop lid and not open it again.

New comment by zikduruqe in "Ten Basic Clouds"

zikduruqe — Fri, 29 May 2026 01:16:09 +0000

I have visited this here and there for the past 20+ years.

https://www.cloudman.com

New comment by zikduruqe in "Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data"

zikduruqe — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:16:11 +0000

The real joke is the "Obama Phone" meme from back in the day, is from the Lifeline project that was started by Reagan.

It's funny to see how all the history has been scrubbed from the Wikipedia entry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Lifeline_(FCC_pro...

New comment by zikduruqe in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

zikduruqe — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:17:59 +0000

> To put that in perspective

Star Wars debuted 37 years after World War II

Star Wars debuted 49 years from now

(Now I feel really old)

New comment by zikduruqe in "After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban"

zikduruqe — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:32:37 +0000

Probably. https://deflock.org/foia

New comment by zikduruqe in "SatoshiGuesser – Roll for Bitcoin"

zikduruqe — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:41:05 +0000

https://keys.lol is just as fun.

New comment by zikduruqe in "I aggregated 28 US Government auction sites into one search"

zikduruqe — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:19:38 +0000

Can I finally find a cosmoline packed Jeep in the original crate for $50? /s

I wish I had jumped on those offers back when they were in the back of Boys Life, Popular Mechanics, and SOF magazines back in the day.

New comment by zikduruqe in "Coffee with a splash of physics: how to make the most out of your brew"

zikduruqe — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:53:11 +0000

No doubt. I found a Fellow Ode cheap, and upgraded to the Gen 2 burrs. My coffee went from a little better than 2 am truck stop coffee, to something better than you can get at a cafe.

I am using a Breville precision brewer, but would love to upgrade to a Moccamaster one day.

New comment by zikduruqe in "How does GPS work?"

zikduruqe — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:53:00 +0000

The last time I built my own GPS network, I used a sextant, a watch set to UTC and nautical tables to determine where the orbiting bodies were.

New comment by zikduruqe in "Not buying another Kindle"

zikduruqe — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 17:39:25 +0000

https://kindlemodding.org

Depending on your model or version, it's not hard.

I'm rocking a newer Paperwhite Special Edition, with KOreader installed.

New comment by zikduruqe in "Random numbers, Persian code: A mysterious signal transfixes radio sleuths"

zikduruqe — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:33:48 +0000

And it is faster than the internet. That's why high speed traders are starting to use HF.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wall-street-tries-shortwave-radio-...

New comment by zikduruqe in "An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests"

zikduruqe — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:14:52 +0000

> Forgive me for not looking it up at the moment, but one of them is/was a compenent of rocket fuel, which teenage me loved.

It's hydrazine.

New comment by zikduruqe in "An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests"

zikduruqe — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 13:03:53 +0000

> I'm going out to search for morels this weekend

I don't have any addictions in my life, but one. That's when morel season is in swing, I am in full hunt mode.

New comment by zikduruqe in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

zikduruqe — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 10:19:56 +0000

You might like https://www.howtoinventeverything.com

New comment by zikduruqe in "The Social Smolnet"

zikduruqe — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:41:24 +0000

They are still around here and there.

https://www.telnetbbsguide.com

https://telnet.org/htm/places.htm

Hell, I got a few rounds of Trade Wars in on one of them a while back.

New comment by zikduruqe in "The Soul of a Pedicab Driver"

zikduruqe — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:12:53 +0000

Sheldon Brown's website is to bicycles, as Arch Linux Wiki is to linux.

New comment by zikduruqe in "Home Assistant waters my plants"

zikduruqe — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:45:23 +0000

I run HA on another RPi, so I am familiar.

On the weather station I wrote to the SD card 1,068,266 database records, along with all the nginx logs, etc...

> it's common enough of a problem

It's probably survivorship bias, where everyone complains about SD card corruption, while those with no issues really don't say anything. Well, except my comments today.

New comment by zikduruqe in "Home Assistant waters my plants"

zikduruqe — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:52:59 +0000

> it will kill the card from IO cycles.

It might not. I have a Raspberry Pi 2 that has been running a weather station for over 12 years, and it has been on the original SD card. I have other RPi's doing dumb things around the house and I have never had an SD card failure.

YMMV and all that.

New comment by zikduruqe in "Bucketsquatting is finally dead"

zikduruqe — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 11:22:21 +0000

Yes, I am very familiar with zbarimg and qrencode. But, other people might not be, and that's why just scanning a QR code works. Not everyone has Bitwarden, 1Password, Pass, keepass, etc.... also these tools may not be approved by your security teams.

And we are talking about the root account for your production AWS account. No need to get fancy. Just print the QR code, and put it in a safe hoping you never need it.

New comment by zikduruqe in "Bucketsquatting is finally dead"

zikduruqe — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:56:16 +0000

You print the MFA QR code, and give it to an executive that locks it up in a safe or offsite storage.

In a past life, we printed the MFA QR code and the head of finance put it into a safe.