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Repurposing Thin Clients

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1 points·by corebuffer·5 年前·0 comments

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corebuffer
·5 年前·discuss
I'm 30+ and I just make insomnia overflow by not sleeping to the next day. Then go to bed at (target - 12h).

I never posted about it because it looks silly, but from many years observing I think the answer will always be very personal and rarely reproducible. So I'm posting it hoping someone will relate.

This is a correction btw, I don't do it very often. Just when the time drifted enough it would require a lot of "sleeping earlier" attempts, which don't work with me at all.
corebuffer
·5 年前·discuss
I don't know if I understood your question fully, but this is a guide on how to backup libgen: https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/comments/6rr71h/for_those_wh...

You can adapt it to run partially only for the things you want, if that is the case. Hope it helps
corebuffer
·5 年前·discuss
F* (f star) too! https://www.fstar-lang.org/

Maybe also ATS, but I'm unsure if it qualifies
corebuffer
·5 年前·discuss
IMO the free software group at least is auditable.

I wish Replicant was able to catch up. Having blobs at the baseband is awful, but having the baseband accessing all RAM is just game over for privacy. There isn't what to trust in that setting.
corebuffer
·5 年前·discuss
Interesting concept. I went ruthless too, but in categorizing and leaving the scene asap instead of discarding. Discarding made me feel bad (because I was really losing things I wanted later).

I used to save everything to "see later" and get lost like you described, but instead I now host a TiddlyWiki locally where I transform what I see in a wiki reference (or discard).

Doing that allows me to filter out things that are temporary (news, opinions, etc) from things that might be useful later (book recommendations, cool projects, etc).

The big trouble remains in timeboxing this practice so it doesn't take a lot and become a problem again.

(I think the biggest lesson I took from that is that most of what we see that is important is time-insensitive. So, doing this work of saving and categorizing over a batch of content in a weekend hour is just fine)
corebuffer
·5 年前·discuss
Related: a defcon talk about it (DEF CON 26 - Christopher Domas - GOD MODE UNLOCKED Hardware Backdoors in redacted x86) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmTwlEh8L7g

Website collecting info on thin clients, which many are VIA, if anyone gets interested in exploring it from a recycled unit: https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/

EDIT: also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17727140 - Christopher Domas: Hardware Backdoors in X86 CPUs
corebuffer
·5 年前·discuss
Yosys and open source FPGA toolchains. I think FPGA are vastly underrated and hard to use because of tooling and this is promising in changing it.
corebuffer
·5 年前·discuss
I like digging for cheap hosts for hobby projects and will try to help from that experience. I never used DreamHost specifically but tried a lot of the ones on MetaDedi[1]. There you will find best dollar-ram, dollar-cpu and unlimited bandwidth.

For bandwidth, I would be careful to read their Acceptable Use Policy and check if it is really unmetered or "fair usage". For completely unmetered and free usage, look for seedboxes (things people host torrent on). Outside of this, I can recommend Hetzner from my experience. Other options are providers from the Tor wiki, used for exit nodes, and so on. Note that the network quality will vary a lot as you go to cheap free unmetered vs restrictive metered. Some of the restricitve metered will also sell plans with 100TB+ monthly, making them great for hosting too.

[1] https://en.metadedi.net/
corebuffer
·5 年前·discuss
honest question: what about throughput?

I see the issue on latency, but suppose this system is being consumed by a large GPU or a traditional out of order CPU or DMA mechanism. If you can start reads and writes over a high throughput pipe on many chips, can't you also get higher throughput to keep multiple parallel operations busy while requests are in flight?
corebuffer
·5 年前·discuss
Have you considered recycling a thin client?

This website gather specs on them and you can find used ones as low as 20 bucks on eBay. Many will draw 10-20 watts, like a Raspberry.

https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hp/t510/