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Iced Raktajino

@ IcedRaktajino @startrek.website

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I'm beautiful and tough like a diamond...or beef jerky in a ball gown.

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • I'm about that same age but am so glad we've largely abandoned the "www" for websites.

    On my personal project website, I have a custom listener setup to redirect people to "aarp.org" if they enter it with "www" instead of just the base domain. 😆

     nginx
        
server {
    listen              443 ssl;
    http2		        on;
    server_name         www.mydomain.xyz;

    ssl_certificate     /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/mydomain.xyz/privkey.pem;
    ssl_dhparam         /etc/nginx/conf.d/tls/shared/dhparam.pem;
    ssl_protocols       TLSv1.2 TLSv1.3;
    ssl_session_cache   shared:SSL:10m;
    ssl_session_timeout 15m;
  
    ...
    
    location ~* {
      return 301 https://aarp.org/;
    }
}

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • The only one I didn't hate was the jingle:

     
        
🎵 "F-R-E-E that spells "free"
credit report dot com, baby". 🎵

    😆

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • Yeah, but they should take that pissing contest out of the UX.

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • I was an adult during that time, and I don't recall it being anywhere near as annoying. Well, except the TV and radio adverts spelling at you like "...or visit our website at double-you double-you double-you dot Company dot com. Again, that's double-you double-you double-you dot C-O-M-P-A-N-Y dot com."

    YMMV, but it didn't get annoying until apps entered the picture and the only way to deal with certain companies was through their app. That, of if they did offer comparable capabilities on their website but kept a persistent banner pushing you toward their app.

  • I Powered My House Using 500 Disposable vapes

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  • Yeah, I didn't watch this video b/c I'm at work, but I have seen his ebike video so I'm assuming the construction is similarly well thought out.

    It's just that all the fuses and BMSs can't protect against a dodgy cell that decides to self-immolate. For cheap, disposable devices that are only meant to be charged 5-10 times or less and then thrown away, I'm super wary of the batteries that are chosen for those. Have seen too many things burst into flames and even expensive well cared-for devices turn into spicy pillows.

  • Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like

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  • Not that I'd own a smart fridge, but if I did and they started shoving ads on it, it'd look like this later that day:

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • I predate both of those events by multiple decades lol.

    Printers were well established even on the Trash-80 I grew up with. The bloatware drivers aren't really what I'm talking about. I suppose Clippy could be considered prior art to the whole "shoving AI in your face" but at the time I was a WordPerfect fanboy.

  • I Powered My House Using 500 Disposable vapes

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  • "Home Insurance Companies Hate This One Simple Trick"

  • If AI was all it was cracked up to be, it wouldn't be shoved in your face 24/7

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  • I learned a long time ago to never install manufacturer printer drivers. Or, at least, never install them from the provided Setup.exe.

    They've always installed a bunch of bloatware (HP has always been the worst but other brands are just as bad).

    If you look in the setup folder, there's usually the raw drivers you can install from Device Manager. If the driver package is just a single .exe file, you can usually unpack it with 7zip and get at its inner contents.

    If that fails, the system-included HP LaserJet 4200 PCL driver is about as close to a universal print driver as you can find lol.

  • I Powered My House Using 500 Disposable vapes

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  • That guy's got some brass ones, lol.

    I've upcycled disposable vape batteries for lots of projects, but never anything that draws significant amounts of current. Usually powering ESP8266/ESP32 projects that draw a couple hundred mAh at most.

    While I'm all for keeping thing out of the landfill, I would be absolutely terrified to put that many questionable quality lithium batteries into an array let alone try to draw any substantial amperage from them.

  • What is the most hilarious thing you’ve ever seen in a cartoon?

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  • What's the difference between black eyed peas and chickpeas?

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  • This is c/DadJokes though....

  • Anyone have long range 802.11ah / HaLow experience?

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  • I think the point of 11h is to achieve that kind of range without directional antennas. Basically as a higher-bandwidth version of LoRa.

  • What's the difference between black eyed peas and chickpeas?

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  • Took me a second to get that. Gross. But also lol

  • What's a song in a language you don't speak that still gets you dancing and yelling along hyped?

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  • In the 90s, before I learned Spanish, it was Macarena

  • What are some 90s catchphrases you remember?

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  • Talk to the hand! Cause the face ain't listening.

  • Can anyone help me identify this wifi antenna connector. Like U.FL but smaller? [Solved]

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  • Update: Yes! Seems to be. Calipers confirm the diameter. TYVM!

    Thanks. I'll grab my calipers and confirm if the measurements are correct. Specs say MHF4 is 1.13mm.

  • On Wheel Of Fortune final round, they start with the letters RSTLNE. Then they ask for three additional consonants and a vowel. I'd say D, C, K, and I..

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  • Those letters probably wouldn't be very helpful, so it'd basically be a $25,000 dick joke lol.

    (Or whatever the grand-prize value is these days)

  • Probably a good idea to go see how much storage will be necessary...

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  • Ooh, I haven't tried RTL-SDR on it yet, but I think I'm nearing capacity on what it can do at once lol.

    Here's the block diagram for it (in spoiler below). Everything's up and running except the Bluetooth Receiver -> Snapcast (it works on the bench but I don't have the scripting/automation done yet). I'm also adding an SMA connector for an external antenna, but the new base part is still printing. Photo shows it "as is" of this writing.

    SSL for the web apps was a PITA since I wanted real certs. Had to make a wildcard domain under my main hobby domain, so all my apps are like "https://{APP_NAME}.mobile.mydomain.xyz/"

    As soon as I can get the Bluetooth + Pulseaudio scripting done, I'm gonna try to do a write up and maybe a show/tell post.