schemescape

2 years agodiscuss

How paranoid should I be about routers from companies like Cudy that I’m not familiar with? My intuition is “very paranoid, even if I replace the firmware with OpenWRT”.

Am I being too paranoid?

schemescape

3 years agodiscuss

From member banks:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone...

> No losses associated with the resolution of Silicon Valley Bank will be borne by the taxpayer.

> Any losses to the Deposit Insurance Fund to support uninsured depositors will be recovered by a special assessment on banks, as required by law.

Edit: apologies, I should have included this link and blurb in my original comment.

schemescape

3 years agodiscuss

Member banks made depositors whole, not tax payers…

schemescape

3 years agodiscuss

wxWidgets uses native controls, so just compiling to "WebAssembly" (I'm assuming it's compiled to WebAssembly, plus some JavaScript for DOM manipulation) was probably a significant amount of work. I'm actually curious how it was done!

Edit: the previous submission had a helpful thread on this very topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32689423

schemescape

3 years agodiscuss

> I have a machine with 2GB of ram and a single core CPU. It's a low power rig. But cannot run Windows 10, it just about did when I first installed it. Debian runs better, but a browser kills it. It's a one app only.

I put Alpine Linux on my laptop that has 1 GB of RAM and I can actually have a lot of stuff running at once, especially in the terminal (Emacs, SBCL, w3m, Deno).

But yes, opening Firefox consumes all available RAM until I have to power off the machine, sadly. The lightest weight, but functional browser, I've found is Midori, but I probably wouldn't trust it for, say, accessing my bank account.

It's depressing because I was initially blown away at how fast (and productive) old hardware can be... until I tried to use the web.

schemescape

3 years agodiscuss

Is this on real hardware? And does “boot” mean to a login prompt?

I ask because I’ve never had a computer (no matter how fast) boot in less than 10 seconds on Windows or Linux. Just getting to the boot loader takes a good 3 seconds or more. If I have to FreeBSD to get a fast boot, I’ll do it! (On an old laptop, at least).

schemescape

3 years agodiscuss

I was just looking for something like this. Have you shared either of these publicly?

schemescape

3 years agodiscuss

md2blog: creates a tiny (a few kilobytes per page, with no JavaScript) blog from Markdown files, with two features that I couldn’t find elsewhere:

* Links between Markdown files “just work” (both when viewing the Markdown source on GitHub and in the final HTML version of the site), including anchors

* Posts are automatically tagged based on directory structure (e.g. all files in “posts/linux” are tagged with “linux”)

Bonus: my entire site hot-rebuilds on my 12 year-old netbook in under a second (with a few tweaks that I should probably publish a new build for).

https://jaredkrinke.github.io/md2blog/

schemescape

5 years agodiscuss

The article has a quote speculating on the market’s (lack of) reaction (a quote I find rather horrifying):

> DeFi has survived so many individual hacks and exploits that people are less scared of their assets going to zero as a result.

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